Gossip Roundup: E! Finally Pushes Star Jones Off Red Carpet
• After a year of tolerating her presence as their red-carpet representative, E! finally musters the courage to not renew View co-beast Star Jones' contract. We expect Jones to retaliate the only way she knows how: by beating the crap out of her emasculated "husband" Al Reynolds. [Page Six]
• How to make the upcoming season of the Simple Life, in which Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie will attempt to be surrogate mothers in strange families, all the more compelling? By intentionally seeking out husbands who'll try to cheat on their wives with the skanky starlets. [Scoop]
• Rush & Molloy spoil Jodie Foster's Flightplan, but only for the sake of pointing out how stupid flight attendants can be. [R&M]
• More rehab fun: Us Weekly marketing head Gary Armstrong heads off to a nice white room to deal with his drinking problems. [Page Six]
• Just a mere 18 months after ex-Nets player Jayson Williams was acquitted on charges of aggravated manslaughter, he's throwing a book party for his lawyer's new crime novel. [Lowdown]