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Michelle Money, who was sent home after her amazing SI Swimsuit Issue mauling of Brad Womack on The Bachelor this week, has no hard feelings toward Brad.

Nor does she harbor any ill will toward Chantal O'Brien, her biggest rival.

That said, she's definitely pulling for Emily Maynard to win it all.

"[Brad] needs someone soft-spoken and feminine. She's just a Southern belle, ladylike and sweet. Emily will be the one who ends up with him," she says.

"If that's what she wants. It'll be more about her choosing him."

Emily Maynard, of course, has had her own struggles opening up.

As for Chantal? "I don't have anything against her," Money swears. "She's a beautiful, smart woman. It's unfortunate everyone only got to see the catty side."

"Chantal was hard to know. She keeps her distance from women. I ever saw her, I'd give her the biggest hug, [but] I still don't think she's right for Brad."

What do you think? Who's better for Brad?

We really wish we were making this up.

But an opera based on the life, and premature death, of Anna Nicole Smith has opened in London. Titled "Anna Nicole," it premiered at the Royal Opera House last night and features Eva-Maria Westbroek in the lead role.

Anna Nicole Smith Opera

The New York Times actually referred to the performance as "deeply moving," while Mark Swed of The Los Angeles Times called it "a tawdry, if entertaining, opera... it was not until a beguiling orchestral interlude in the second act, and too late, that 'Anna' finally seemed worth taking seriously."

Talk about a surprising critique. The only thing we take seriously out of the sad Anna Nicole Smith drama is how much of a douche Larry Birkhead is.

Marysol Patton is off to a stellar start as a reality star.

The Real Housewives of Miami cast member was busted on suspicion of drunk driving in January 2010, according to the Florida State Attorney's Office. She avoided jail time by pleading no contest to a lesser charge of reckless driving.

What makes this story even better? Her mother was arrested for the same crime a few months later!

Elsa Patton was busted for DUI in October.

The 76-year-old's case was dismissed in December, however, when her arresting officer failed to show up in court to testify. Still, the result is our first-ever set of parent/child mug shots! It's very exciting.

Michael Lohan has just reached out to fellow embattled celeb dad Billy Ray Cyrus in an open letter. We have no earthly idea why, so don't even ask.

Billy Ray raised eyebrows earlier this week when he told GQ that Satan and daughter Miley's star-making gig on Hannah Montana ruined his family.

He says he's desperate to get his famous offspring "sheltered from the storm." Those words clearly hit close to home for the father of Lindsay Lohan.

If anyone knows what it's like to become estranged while in prison, then resort to ridiculous stunts like booking her on Letterman without her consent ...

Okay, Billy Ray didn't do that. But there are some similarities, people!

They're spelled out in Michael's open letter to the Cyrus patriarch ...

Relax. What happened between former lovers Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson last night isn't necessarily what our headline leads you to believe.

Or maybe it is. Sam's Twitter really makes you wonder!

Mystery still surrounds Lohan’s early morning impromptu visit to the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood after the troubled star departed in Ronson’s car ...

There you have it. Sam watches Grey's Anatomy still? LOL. That's beyond bad!

The part about Lohan lying next to her is equally baffling. Back track to six hours ago, Lindsay was seen driving her Porsche to Teddy’s nightclub at the hotel.

She then left as passenger in Ronson’s black BMW around 45 minutes later. Lohan says the two are just friends ... you buying that after the above Tweet?

Either way, at least her walk of shame was probably the shortest in history.

Man. For a few days there, everything was fine between Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett.

They posed on a tabloid cover, they claimed they were expecting another child, they put to rest rumors of a divorce. But something went terribly wrong in the past week, forcing Kendra to tell her man, in loud, upper case letters: IT'S OVER!

What happened? It's difficult to say.

But in one of the funnier quotes in recent memory, Kendra - the woman who concocted a story about a miscarriage and who misleads the public every chance she can profit from it - apparently said she is "tired of pretending."

Next, Michael Lohan will say he's tired of caring more about publicity than parenthood.

Laurel Kagay said Brad Womack popped the question to her before going on The Bachelor. He said reports of a marriage proposal were just "embellishment."

So who's telling the truth?

One of her friends, furious at Brad's "lies" and his decision to paint Laurel as "some crazy who invented it all in her head," wants to set the record straight.

"If Brad Womack didn't propose to Laurel Kagay then I'm the Queen of England," Laurel's pal wrote in a series of scathing posts on her personal blog.

In one text message to his sweetheart, which Laurel Kagay shared with Us, Womack vowed: "You're my future, Roo. Nothing is going to change that.

"Laurel, I'm serious about this. Please marry me?"

The friend said Brad even took Laurel ring shopping at a Cartier boutique - and even asked her parents for their blessing to marry their daughter!

We're very sorry to report that Justin Bieber has been shot and killed...

... on the hit CBS show CSI, that is!

The 16-year old continued to expand his resume by appearing on that drama last night in the role of troubled teen Jason McCann. Near the conclusion of the episode, his character was taken out in an exchange of gun fire. It was the most adorable death in the history of television. See for yourself:

Justin Bieber Shot!

Whitney Port and Lauren Conrad are so in a fight. Unfortunately, it was not caught on tape, nor does is it involve any pajamas and pillows.

Though close pals on The Hills, the two have gone their separate ways.

Why!?! "Whitney is upset because she thinks that The City was canceled to make room for Lauren's new reality show," a source tells Us.

"Whitney feels like she got the shaft," from LC, insiders say.

If that's true, it's ironic, as Conrad's latest MTV reality venture was scrapped as well after the network deemed it too high brow for its current lineup.

Basically, Jersey Shore brings in the ratings and the network thinks the former Hills duo is apparently too boring, or at least their fashion careers are.

Either way, Whit skipped Lauren's birthday party. Make of that what you will!

WOW!! Where do the mags come up with this stuff? And claiming exclusives? Come on now. - Kourtney Kardashian, in response to OK! Weekly claiming she and Scott Disick were engaged, the proposal to be featured on the season finale of her reality show.

It's important to note: nowhere in that Tweet does Kourtney deny the report.

Rumors of Kourtney's engagement - a source says she "wears the ring at home" all the time - is now fueled by a second tabloid covering the same story, although its credibility must be questioned because it also states Kim Kardashian is engaged to Kris Humphries. She's not.

By now, we can only hope consumers are catching on:

The Kardashians rake in MILLIONS by letting magazines plaster their faces on the cover. No harm is done, the sisters can speak out against the reports, thereby bringing attention to publication and raising sales figures. Everyone wins.

Except the ignorant patrons who purchase these rags.