I told you a couple weeks ago about Simon Cowell’s monstrous new salary of  $144M to do one more season of American Idol.  Now, Ryan Seacret has hammered out his own deal which will bring him $15M a year for the next three years just to insult Simon Cowell host AI.  This figure obviously makes him the highest paid reality television host on air. 

If American Idol isn’t on the air for another three years, Seacrest would be obligated to host another reality show produced by AI‘s parent company, CKX.

Based on these huge salaries, administrative assistants who work in the office of American Idol must make, like, $250,000 a year.

I’ll admit that I’m a bit tough on some of Lindsay’s “fashion” choices, but I must say, I think these boots are hot!  What do you think of them?

Pics in the gallery, including a close-up. as Lindsay left Samantha Ronson’s house yesterday.

Oh, man!  Tony Romo dumped Jessica Simpson on Thursday – the night before her 29th birthday!

Originally, Jess planned to have a Barbie and Ken party, but ended up Tweeting “Barbie party didn’t happen, but I turned 29 and feel like I am on top of the world yelling I LOVE GETTING OLDER!”  Another Tweet on Sunday read “Everyone needs to know that hope floats … grab the strings and pull it back to you.”

A source spoke with People and said “She is heartbroken.  She loves Tony. But it’s been difficult lately. He’s busy with his career and she’s getting ready to shoot her show (The Price of Beauty). They decided to part ways.”   Tony’s training camp starts in two weeks.  I wonder if this break will improve his on-field performance.

First Vanessa and Nick.  Now Tony and Jess.  The ex-Newlyweds are not having a good time of it.

Ayman Abu Aita appears in Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest movie Bruno – see clip above – as a terrorist group leader.  And Aita is really mad about that depiction.  “[Baron Cohen] said this was a film going to help the Palestinian cause.  When I heard (four days ago) what this film was about I really didn’t believe it.”

Last week Cohen went on Late Show With David Letterman and explained how he tracked down a terrorist and met him at an undisclosed location to interview for his movie.  Aita called SBC a “big liar” after hearing Cohen’s account and is preparing a lawsuit against the actor who “make me big damages.”  Clip of Cohen on Letterman is after the jump.

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Oksana Grigorieva, knocked up girlfriend of Mel Gibson has released a video for her newest single, “Beautiful Heartache.”  When I wrote a not completely defamatory post about her last song, she Facebook friend requested me within ten minutes of publishing.  I expect to be blocked after she catches wind of this post.  But …

What the hell does this video (and song) mean?  All I can interpret is “I love you, (I love the way you wear your skin,) I’ll do anything for you, even if you want to throw knives at me, (I love the way you wear your skin,) even if it means I have to play this piano while it’s on fire.”

The video took seven days — seven days — to shoot and was directed by Mel Gibson.

Normally, I don’t believe anything The Sun reports, but in my heart of hearts I’m hoping this story is true. 

It seems that Lindsay tried to bed Russell Brand — or get “the dinkle treatment” as the British tabs like to call it — over the past few weeks that she’s seen him on the party circuit and he’s been … declining.  A source said, “He finds her constant craving for attention and her heavy drinking a turn-off. It’s not like he is short of female attention anyway.”

Now, you may be thinking “Who cares?  Maybe he’s gay.  Maybe he doesn’t like coked-out redheads.”  And normally, you’d be right, but this is Russell Brand I’m talking about.  He has sex with a different woman approximately every eight hours.  Russell Brand’s penis is like Ellis Island, literally processing thousands and thousands of citizens each year.  So, you know, “discriminating taste” isn’t exactly his calling card.

Aw, Linds.  You can’t get work.  You can’t get even skin tone.  You can’t get laid.  How many more signs do you need?  It’s time for rehab.