Good old Brit and her man Jason Trawick were photographed last night out and about in LA, on their way to some nameless, faceless punk show.

I didn’t even know that Britney was into punk music. Who knows. Maybe she thought that she was touring a Cheetos facility or something. You know how ‘punk show’ and ‘Cheetos’ sound so alike when you’ve got extensive eardrum damage from sucking so hard on Starbucks straws. Those things are lethal, y’all.

So here it is, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Unless, of course, you watched the CMT Awards live last night, and then you wouldn’t be so surprised, now would you.

Gwyneth Paltrow, above, performed the title song to her latest movie, Country Strong, which debuts on January 7th, 2011, at last night’s CMT Awards, and received a standing ovation from the crowd. We all know that Gwynnie can carry a tune a little ways, and she’s not a horrible singer, but I think that the majority of the whole standing O thing was smoke. As in smoke being blown up her bum. Because while it wasn’t bad – really, it wasn’t bad at all! – it wasn’t worthy of commanding amazement and astonishment, was it?

Your thoughts.

Kenra Wilkinson bares a lot on the latest cover of Playboy magazine. [Celebslam]

John Mayer’s hooking up with … WHO now? [popbytes]

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig are totally doing it, and that is hot. [Celebitchy]

Whatever happened to Rick Moranis? Apparently, this. [Pajiba]

Brittany Murphy’s mom is selling out her daughter and writing a tell-all book, ’cause that’s the classy thing to do and she can’t afford her house as it is. [Amy Grindhouse]

Kristen Stewart’s racy see-through ensemble! [CityRag]

I think it’s kind of creepy that Emma Watson has a supposed-nude photo circulating, don’t you? [Pop on the Pop]

And speaking of which, are you super-stoked about the latest upcoming release of Harry Potter? [Zelda Lily]

Kylie Minogue rips it up on the X Factor. [OMGBlog]

Portia De Rossi to be on next Dancing With the Stars? [Celebrity Smack Blog]

Of course Bret Michaels denies the Tish Cyrus affair. It’s not like she’s famous or anything. [Earsucker]

When I first saw these photos, I was like, ‘Damn, Ke$ha. You so cutting edge, wearing your matching Walmart bra and panty set to the beach for a day of frolicking.’

Then I realized, no, this time it’s for real. This is Ke$ha’s bathing suit. Her ‘bikini,’ if you will.

It’s all Ke$ha, all the time, in this here suit. That’s about all I’ve got*.

*Psych! No it’s not … How the fuck old is this chick, really?

So apparently, Demi Lovato had much bigger issues than anyone thought. I mean, between the cutting, and the self-esteem problems, it probably wouldn’t have been even remotely surprising if things turned out to be a bit more complicated than they were said to be, and according to Life & Style, there are eyewitnesses coming forward to claim that in addition to Demi’s anger management issues and self-worth problems, drug addiction was a factor in the ‘breakdown’ that resulted in her hospitalization. From Life & Style:

Texas college student Brian Payne clearly remembers the night he spent hanging with Demi in North Richland Hills, Texas, where he saw her firsthand doing cocaine at a mutual friend’s house party on Dec. 28 last year. “She was doing line after line like a pro — and she was 17 at the time,” he tells Life & Style, recalling the wild party they attended after a concert by the band Neon Indian at the Granada Theater in Dallas. “I just remember her doing it as if she had been doing it for a long time. It didn’t seem like something new to her.”

“This is a young girl who got caught up in the fame and fortune of Hollywood and couldn’t see straight anymore,” says another insider. “She had eating issues and emotional issues, and everything else got hitched along with that.”

This is awful, and you know what’s more awful? That people are all like, ‘What do you expect, this kind of stuff happens, it’s Hollywood, she’s famous, everyone does it.’ Why does that bother me? Because the girl is only eighteen years old. And apparently, at least if you believe these ‘eyewitnesses,’ this has been going on for quite some time. A fifteen year-old coke fiend? A thirteen year-old alcoholic? Yeah, it happens, and it’s not ridiculously uncommon, but the way that people act like it’s no big thing just blows my mind. I remember what I was like at seventeen and eighteen years old, and man, I could not imagine going through the stuff that this poor girl has. Adult in age does not necessarily equate maturity and life experience, as you all well know.

Know what I think? I think that if this stuff pans out to be true, that this girl was in much deeper trouble than anyone thought – or admitted – and it was obviously ignored for entirely too long. Demi was the one who hospitalized herself, and Demi was the one who admitted different issues that she’d been experiencing through her rep. Where the fuck was this young girl’s support system through all of this?

Even though Eminem is known for his impressive word usage in his songs, he’s not much of a reader.  In fact, he’s only ever read one book from cover to cover.  Was it one of the Twilight or Harry Potter books?  Perhaps Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle? Maybe some book he read back in school, like Flowers for Algernon or Where the Red Fern Grows?  Perhaps …

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