·The string-and-tin-can phone going up to our treehouse says Katie Holmes has met Tom Cruise's kids and joined the mile high club. [Overheard]
·Entertainment Weekly (still being published apparently) lets you play puppet-master with the American Idol crew. Make Paula say "Don't tell anyone we slept together, okay?" [EW] [Scoop]
·In an interview with Fashion Wire Daily, Project Runway's Jay McCarroll 'fesses to calling the parents of NYDN's Hudson Morgan "fudgepackers," saying he "did not think it was bad." Shame shame, know your name, Jay! [FWD]
—NH