Hey, you gotta beat the crowds.

The Hollywood Gossip Celebrity of the Year finalist Suri Curise decided to go shopping this weekend, and dragged along her usual baggage - her mom Katie Holmes, who has recently been noted for adopting Suri's bob hairstyle.

Then again, when you've got the cutest celebrity baby on the planet, why not try to ride her coattails a little! We're eagerly awaiting Suri's major movie debut...

Suri Cruise with Kate, as Tom Cruise calls Holmes, shoppin' 'til they drop.

Mom and daughter hit the Grove shopping center in Hollywood, Calif., where they scored some goods at (fittingly) Pottery Barn Kids on December 7.

Amy Winehouse's estranged mother, Janis Winehouse, penned an open letter to her daughter, 24, urging her to come home and seek help. She writes:

"We want to help you, but we know that unless you want to be helped, unless you come to us â€" anything we tried would be in vain. So this letter is my way of making sure you know ... that all you have to do is come home to us, Amy, and we'll do everything in our power to get you well again. After all, you are still my baby and you always will be. So just pick up that phone and tell me what's troubling you... Wherever you are, whatever you need, we're here for you day and night."

The full version of Amy's mother's letter was published in the UK's News of the World. It's very nice, heartfelt and, of course, likely to fall upon deaf ears.

Amy Winehouse looking pretty coherent... relatively speaking of course.

The singer has faced some hard times lately. She nixed her tour to support her incarcerated husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is being held without bail after allegedly trying to buy off a witness in a pending assault case against him.

Winehouse was recently spotted wandering the streets of London in the middle of the night in just a bra and jeans, looking for her dealer having been asleep.

In a recent statement, Amy Winehouse â€" who nabbed six Grammy nominations in spite of her personal woes â€" apologized to fans for the recent troubles.

"Thank you for all your kind letters and emails," she said. "I am grateful for all your support."

A few weeks after her infamous porn shop thievery, the incomparable Britney Spears continued her five finger discount shopping Friday.

As we discussed over the weekend, the alleged singer made a pit stop at a Sherman Oaks, Calif., Chevron gas station, where she bogarted a lighter.

"I stole something," Britney Spears sarcastically told photographers as she walked out of the station with a $1.39 lighter. "Ohhhh, I'm bad!"

Manager Sham Bahia laughed off the incident.

"If I see her, I'm going to ask for the money," he told Us Weekly. "She's a thief. I don't know if she really wanted the lighter or just wanted to make a story."

The goods and services Britney Spears wants, Britney Spears takes.

Alas, Britney Spears was left off the hook when a someone returned to the scene of the crime Saturday and paid the man for it. No, it wasn't Osama Lutfi tapping into his vast coffers, but rather someone from a celebrity photo agency.

"[The manager] didn't want me to pay for it at first," said photographer Shane Partridge. "I told him it was no bother. I just felt like I should, you know?"

We know. Perhaps, in the future, maybe Britney should be a little more grateful to the celebrity news photographers who frequently come to her rescue.

The seventh season of American Idol kicks off next month.

But a poster on Idol Forums named "Joesplace" claims to have inside knowledge of the top 50 contestants that heard the magic words: "You're going to Hollywood!"

MTV reports that the obsessed fan "has listed the names, ages, home cities and MySpace pages of contestants fortunate enough to actually make it to Hollywood, where judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson will whittle the top 50 down to the top 24. And it appears that the list may be legit, based on information contained within the MySpace pages of the supposed [American Idol] contenders."

According to "JoesPlace," he started compiling the list a couple months ago and found the contestants "through media and word of mouth."

So take this with a grain of salt the size of Lucy Pinder's boobs, but the following names are supposedly part of the top 50 on American Idol this season:

• Lorena Pinot
• Teresa Anello (pictured)
• Jason Castro
• Ashley Robinette
  
• Charity Daw
• Lisa Aukerman
• Syesha Mercado
• Michael Preston
• Jermaine Paul
  
• Kevin Boyce
• Brooke Helvie
• Brandon Green
• David Archuleta
  
• Cardin McKinney

Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere was in Washington, D.C., on Friday, speaking to 22 students from across the country who were honored for environmental achievements as part of the Forecast Earth Summit, sponsored by The Weather Channel.

As her comments showed, our girl seems to be developing quite the activist streak... and we must say, she's quite the natural holding that Weather Channel mic!

We'd get our weather forecasts from Hayden Panettiere if we could. Every morning would be bright and sunny with a 100 percent chance of sweltering heat!

If you know what we mean. Today's forecast was overcast the last time we looked, but got about 10 degrees hotter since we saw these Hayden Panettiere photos!

What happens in Mexico doesn't stay in Mexico.

Especially when you bring a slew of entertainment news reporters with you.

Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian took their asinine names, along with a handful of photographers, to Cabo during a recent vacation there.

Here's a look at two pictures from the outing, accompanied by the thoughts of Khloe and Kim, respectively:

Got my drink on... next, just gotta find my Mexican version of Ray J and a video camera... here I come, celebrity gossip world!

Phew! The giant boobs are still present... I was afraid my career was gone there for a second.

We can't say with certainty that Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend are built to last, but they sure looked cozy on some recent nights out.

Braving snowy N.Y. weather while out for a walk in the SoHo neighborhood with beau of at least a year, Rupert Friend, Keira Knightley was somehow able to keep warm despite her thin frame. Phew.

The next night, the couple, dressed in hip attire, snuggled up together at a Chanel Beauté dinner at the N.Y. eatery, Balthazar, to celebrate the actress' new film, Atonement.

A source at the party tells us that Rupert "More Than A" Friend kept his arm around his girlfriend all night, adding that they were "very sweet together."

Looks like someone is trying to keep Keira Knightley naked all to himself. Can you blame him? Now if he'd just get her to eat a cheeseburger every so often, we'd be set.

With Jessica Simpson cozying up to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, can we expect double dates with her BFF, CaCee Cobb, and boyfriend Donald Faison?

Faison, the star of Scrubs, recent addressed that pressing issue.

"CaCee and I prefer to keep our relationship away from the glitz and cameras," the actor told People at Hollywood Life magazine's Breakthrough of the Year Awards on Sunday. "But [Tony Romo] is a great guy."

The friendly foursome did log some quality time last week, when they helped CaCee Cobb celebrate her 30th birthday at Teddy's nightclub.

As the bash wound down, Simpson and the NFL star, both 27, were spotted kissing in public - according to some onlookers, it was a big-time PDA.

Impressed that he's led the Cowboys to a 12-1 record and found a new tight end in Jessica Simpson, Tony Romo gets a pat on the back from receiver Terrell Owens.

We know Jessica's pimp already approved of the relationship, so it's good to see that her friends are also on board when it comes to the Cowboy gunslinger.

"I think he is really, really, really smart," said Donald Faison, 33, of Tony Romo. "[He's a] really genuine guy."

How proud Zac Efron and Nick Cokas must be of their women.

In the picture below, Vanessa Hudgens sings a tune alongside American Idol alum Katharine McPhee. Ne-Yo is the lucky gentlemen who graces the stage alongside these talented beauties, as they gathered over the weekend to film TNT's Christmas in Washington 2007 at The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

Vanessa Hudgens and Katharine McPhee represent High School Musical and American Idol, respectively. Ne-Yo? He just represents pure sexiness.

Other artists slated to perform on the special, which airs December 12, are: Alan Jackson, Andrea Bocelli, Colbie Caillat and Heather Headley.

Shockingly, the event did not ask another past American Idol finalist to take part on in it. Jessica Sierra must be crushed. And in jail.

Tila Tequila is dead set on proving that she's attracted to both genders.

The MySpace queen recently blogged about A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. She had the following to say in her entry entitled: "Why I Hate Watching A Shot at Love:"

"I just finished watching the 2nd to last episode of A SHOT AT LOVE and I must admit to you all that I hate it! Why do I hate it? Well because it always makes me cry! UGHHHHH! I was so emotional throughout the entire experience, as you can see, but watching it all over again puts me right back into that place.

It's really hard to fall in love with more than one person at the same time...and when you're dealing with the heart's matter, then nothing comes easy....especially on me to have to make that decision!"

The main problem? Tequila can't pull a Tiffany Pollard and just date lots of the contestants at once:

"I can only be with 1 person you know? If I could, I would date them all! hahahhahaa! God, I only wish right???? But that wouldn't be fair for everyone and at the same time it would really kill me....."

We can't all date her, but we can all see Tila Tequila naked in Playboy and Penthouse.