Selena Gomez told Regis and Kelly that the way she gets through a breakup is by eating junkfood and singing along to Taylor Swift's music with Taylor Swift. That sounds just like us! Minus the latter part.

Why did Paris Hilton suddenly become so famous a few years ago while other ditzy fameseekers with no discernible talent—like, say, Tara Reid—fell off the map so quickly? Elizabeth Currid-Halkett breaks it down in her new book.

[Excerpt from Starstruck by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett. Republished with permission]

Gawker.TV Trivia, a daily question & answer game that tests your knowledge of television—past and present. Do you think you that you've got it? The answer to today's question, inside.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the downtown musical about American history that transferred to Broadway this season, will close January 2nd. Ironically, its biggest song is called "Populism, Yea, Yea!" Hey Benjamin Walker, if you need a shoulder to cry on...

The Situation has a workout DVD coming out soon! It wouldn't be complete without a blooper reel. Inside, listen to him ask for a "Situation Special" and call a dude "butter" instead of "brother." UPDATE: now with more boner!

Flo Rida must be having a really hard time competing with Kanye West and Eminem's new albums, if he is willing to give out his number to millions of strangers. Take sympathy on him, and send him a text!

Last night on Jimmy Kimmel, Magic Johnson announced not only his intentions to buy an NFL team, but also that he's assembled an ownership group that's primed and ready to go... simultaneously, fans in Jacksonville and Buffalo collectively soiled themselves.

All 42 Senate Republicans have signed a very strongly worded letter pledging to block all legislation until George W. Bush's tax cuts are renewed. Suck on that, people whose unemployment insurance expires today! And who will name the post offices?

Glenn Beck is so sick of poor people. Why can't they just go back to how they were in the Great Depression? That's real "Poverty in America." Nowadays, Glenn expounds solemnly, things have changed: Poor people are just plain obnoxious!

Unaccountable mercenary firm Blackwater had a big plan to get into the Somali pirate-fighting business a couple of years ago, according to a newly released Wikileaks document. The problem: Blackwater actually sounded worse than the Somali pirates.

Tom sneaks mascara and facials behind Katie's back. Jim Carrey likes kissing Ewan McGregor. Brad Pitt's nose hair secret revealed! Gwyneth Paltrow has a filthy sense of humor. Wednesday gossip ranges from superficial to superficially sordid.

By way of a few postcards from Finland, it came to Conan's attention that his show doesn't air in the great herring nation. His plea: Finland, air Conan or the herring get it. Ok, so it's more of a threat.

Her parents are warring over who gets control of the show. This actress gave out meals on Thanksgiving and this actor doesn't keep using the bathroom because of a coke problem, just a faulty bladder. Sometimes the truth is worse!

A while back, we filed a Freedom of Information Law request looking for e-mails between New York Gov. David Paterson's flacks and a bunch of reporters. The governor's office tried hard to keep them secret, but we finally got them.

As a reward for their success, The Walking Dead's show-runner Frank Darabont has fired his writing staff. Because their ratings were too good? Always weird when that happens! Darabont might not hire a new staff for next season.

This is fun: Greenpeace is suing Dow Chemical and two of its PR firms, claiming that they hired private investigators "who stole documents, tapped phones and hacked into computer networks between 1998 and 2000." They have lots of documents!

Dubbing diplomats as "anti-war top mongers" with unfair parking privileges, Colbert makes an argument for government transparency. His guest, former assistant secretary of state under Clinton, disagrees. Watch, inside.

Courtney Love showing her ass is hard to follow. But Aubrey O'Day, talking about her own new reality show on Running Russell Simmons, took butt showing (and booty discussing) to a pole-dancing-y 11. See also: Brett Ratner's bathroom.

Utterly unwatched CNN newsgimmick show Parker Spitzer is getting some much-needed publicity today, in the form of a rumored threat by cohost Kathleen Parker to leave the show. Oh no, they wouldn't want to lose Kathleen Parker, ha ha.