Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav was arrested early Thursday morning following a traffic stop in Las Vegas, Nevada, on suspicion of DUI and a litany of other offenses.

Celebrities, the objects of our obsessions, pretty faces for whom we pine, hot bodies of both the male and female variety. But they're more than just the sum of their parts.

They're actually pretty darn smart, too. Well, some of them are.

What's in a name? As it turns out, maybe everything.

Since Shakespeare first posited the question in Romeo and Juliet, actors have been using fake names to land professional roles. Not only did it allow them some semblance of privacy before the dawn of Wikipedia, but let's face it, some people just aren't born with great names.

Rappers are the new rockstars when it comes to having their pick of models, actresses and pop signers who are itching to hook up with a guy who can sell out an arena tour.

Flavor Flav was in too much of a hurry to mourn yesterday.

The rapper, whose mother passed away on New Year's Eve, was pulled over on the Long Island Expressway for driving 79 in a 55 mph zone.

Liz Trujillo, Flavor Flav's fiance and the mother of one of his kids, reportedly overdosed on VH1's Couples Therapy. And not, presumably, on love.

Sources connected with the show tell TMZ that Liz agreed to appear on the show together to work on their relationship, only to OD on painkillers.

Flavor Flav threw his fiancee to the ground, ripped out her earring, then chased her teenage son around the house while wielding two knives, according to police.

Flavor Flav was arrested this morning in Las Vegas.

The alleged crime? Assault with a deadly weapon.

Flavor Flav needs to cough up $111,186 in child support payments to the mother of three of his seven kids or face jail time, news sources say.

“It was declared a willful violation,” an official said of his failure to pay child support ... which can't be good. He faces up to 180 days behind bars.

Flavor Flav says his daughter, Dazayna Drayton, is getting a bad rap after her arrest this weekend, claiming she didn't lay a hand on him ... which she is accused of.

The whole thing was just a family dispute that got out of hand, Flav says.