Early this morning, Victoria Beckham took to her Twitter account to post a photograph of husband David, cradling their newborn daughter, little Harper Seven:

I love this. It seems like a genuine, intimate moment, a candid portrait, a perfect vignette.

Also? Shrewd move. (Sorry, I’ve now ruined the poetic mood I’d just established.) But really. In the past, a lot of celebrities have sold off their own baby photos to the highest bidding tabloid, if only to keep the paparazzi from hounding them. Unfortunately, that practice always looks like shameless profiteering to the rest of us. Solution: publish your own baby photos on a microblogging platform! That’s social media savvy, and it shows that the Beckham family is really protecting Harper, not promoting her.

But never mind. Point is, they are clearly happy parents, and it is easy to share their excitement.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony just announced their impending divorce, but that won’t stop them both from co-hosting a new talent show, ¡Q’viva! The Chosen. (“The Chosen”! So ominous!)

The show hasn’t even begun filming, so it’d be easy enough for either celeb to back out. Nonetheless, “the show goes on!” a spokesperson for ¡Q’viva! confirmed.

Deadline opines—a little cynically, if you ask me—that the couple’s widely-reported split will actually improve their new television show’s marketability. One thing that might make the ex-couple’s co-hosting duties a little uncomfortable, though: a new rumor that Jennifer Lopez is already dating somebody else.

Incidentally! Although the Internet has expressed shock over Lopez and Anthony’s upcoming divorce, a bunch of Evil Beet readers totally called it back in 2008.

Lindsay Lohan smolders in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair Italia, but the accompanying interview raised eyebrows—specifically, the part of the article where Lohan walked out holding a “pink fur jacket” and, also, a gun.

In the interview, Lohan allegedly then explained: “I’ve got a permit to carry a firearm, but it’s not loaded. I keep it in the house in case someone tries to get in.”

I kind of love the Norma Desmond angle Vanity Fair Italia has contrived—I like to picture Lohan stamping around in a fluorescent fur stole, waving a handgun and going, “It’s the pictures that got small!”—but, like my own happy Lohan daydream, it’s all made up.

Steve Honig, Lohan’s publicist, says the quote is fabricated: “Lindsay has never, ever owned any type of firearm in her life. I have no idea why someone would say that.”

Update! You’d probably like to see scans from the Vanity Fair Italia photo spread itself. Photographer Alan Gelati’s interview might be bogus, but his photos? Perfection.

Reactions to this year’s Emmy nominations have run the gamut, from surprised delight to shocked indignation, from shocked bemusement to surprised consternation. Everyone is, in a word, dismayed. (Full lists of the 2011 nominees are over here.)

Here is a roundup of all the Shock, Delight, and Ire accumulated over the past couple days:

The Nice

- Bridesmaids’ scene-stealing Melissa McCarthy had been announcing the Emmy nominations live when she realized she herself was nominated as Outstanding Lead Actress for her role in CBS’s sitcom Mike and Molly. “I could not have been more shocked,” she said. Also: “I was like, ‘I hope I don’t wet my pants.’”

- The LA Times describes this year’s myriad surprises as “both heartening and irritating.” Among the nicest surprises: hard-won noms for Martha Plimpton, Joan Cusack, and Kristen Wiig. The LA Times also underscores that returning nominee Steve Carell has incredibly never won an Emmy for his work on The Office.

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This isn’t a conventional Blind Item at all—in fact, it’s an anonymously-written email, published by an advice columnist. Who could the email be referencing, though?

In the letter, a down-on-her-luck gal claims that back in high school she went steady with a now-successful “recording artist”:

Things were going well between us until his career picked up toward the end of our senior year. He transformed from a level-headed, compassionate guy into someone shallow and self-absorbed. When he broke off our relationship, his words were, “I can’t see you fitting into this kind of lifestyle and the crowd I’m now going to be rolling with.” I was pregnant at the time (I never told him) but ended up miscarrying.

So that happened, and they never spoke again. She never went to college, which she regrets, and she blames both the guy and her own broken heart. Now, years later, the singer’s representatives have contacted the woman because OH MY GOD SHE HAS NUDIE PICS OF HIM. They’re begging her to get rid of the photos. And the photos are still on the old computer in her mother’s basement!

So, she concludes her letter to the advice columnist, should she sell naked photographs of her famous ex to the tabloids?

Signed, “A Woman Scorned.”

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If you are a pretty young starlet, how should you go about your reinvention as a Dramatic Actor?

Well, you could always try going the Hatha Way, absolving yourself of your Disneyness by turning up topless/naked in a “serious” drama (like Havoc, say). Choosing this tack, however, can backfire. It might make you seem easy.

You could establish your rep with a bio-pic—and I mean a serious one, not an Amy Fisher one. If you play your cards right, you might even earn an Oscar! Just like Reese Witherspoon did, for her role as June Carter Cash, or Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, or Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf.

(Please note that this tactic is a career risk that seldom works, least of all for historical characters in period pieces. Nobody watched The Other Boleyn Girl or Marie Antoinette, people.)

OR: Like Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry and Charlize Theron in Monster, you could take the “ugly” route (AKA the Look Like a Dude School of Acting).

Yep. Vanessa Hudgens chose ugly.

Pictured below: Vanessa Hudgens on the set of her upcoming drama Gimme Shelter, currently filming in Newark. Rosario Dawson and Brendan Fraser will also star.