I have already gone on and on about how sad the Katy Perry/Russell Brand split is. It is so depressing.

This bears repeating, though: I think the couple is crazy-in-love with each other. Whatever ongoing fight they are in is so stupid.

But this? This is so much worse. The UK Mirror has the deets:

In a bizarre twist of events [Russell Brand,] the Brit comic, 36, has been mysteriously uninvited from a star-studded awards show to avoid a confrontation with estranged wife Katy.

Katy, 27, is collecting a gong for her hit album, singles and tour at the People’s Choice Awards in LA on January 11 where she’s up for seven awards, including Favourite Female Artist.

It will be her first official job since Russ filed for divorce after just 14 months together and both her and Russell had initially been invited.

A source said: “It will be Katy’s big night, a prelude to the Grammys, and now Russell has been strangely left off the list of attendees for the high-profile event.

“It was always going to be awkward for organisers in any case after their shock decision to split. But in order to avoid any awkwardness or confrontation Russ is no longer on the list.”

This. Is. So Awkward. Seriously. This whole thing used to be depressing; now, on top of being depressing, it is awkward! This has become high school crap. What is even going on, here?

I mean, how is disinviting somebody’s still-husband less awkward than simply letting the two people organically run into each other? People, am I wrong?

I just don’t ‘get’ some people. Take Kelsey Grammer, for instance. I just don’t understand how his third wife—you know, the Real Housewife, the stinky one—ever managed to incur so much ire and wrath from Kelsey Grammer.

But somehow she did, and even these days, even when Kelsey Grammer is trying to say lovey-dovey things about his latest wife, he invariably manages to end up talking about Wife #3, too, if accidentally. In October, he told Piers Morgan all about his divorce, all about how Real Housewives was his “parting gift to her.”

Most recently, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Grammer copped to going on his first date with Kayte Walsh while he was yet a married man. He didn’t word-for-word say “I started dating my current wife six months before I filed for divorce from my last wife,” but it’s all in there anyway. Why? Why would this ever be a thing you would decide to share on television, even?

The Daily Mail:

Kelsey Grammer has confessed that he began an affair with his new wife Kayte Walsh a full six months before splitting with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Camille.

The Frasier star, 56, spoke out on Jimmy Kimmel Live about how he met and fell for the British flight attendant when she served him on a plane in December 2009.

He claimed that after meeting on the flight they spent a “magical night” together in London.

He told the chat show host: “We actually met in the air on a plane to England.

“It was very romantic, she was working on the plane.

“We went out for coffee several days later and had this magical night in the snow in London around Christmas time. It was two years ago.”

He did not tell his now ex-wife Camille, 43, who still goes by the name Grammer, that he wanted a divorce until June 2010, after a friend had informed her he was intending to leave.

The reality star claimed that Grammer then sent her a text message officially ending their relationship.

That’s, uh. That’s all really awful, actually. Not only did Kelsey Grammer probably cheat on Camille, he probably cheated all over Camille. Yuck.

What really ruffles me is how heroic Grammer lets himself feel about all this. “Oh, I decided to do the right thing and let Camille go. I let her go, but also I’d been seeing this flight attendant I met on a plane one time, and I married this new lady seven months after I filed for divorce.” Yeah! Affairs are totally OK when the marriage is “already over.” Hooray! That’s so heroic I could scream.

(Image via New York Daily News.)

What I like most about these photographs of Christina Aguilera is the way Celebuzz posted them in the middle of the night without adding any “color commentary” whatsoever:

Christina Aguilera was smiley onstage at The Voice panel during TCA’s in California on Friday.

Wearing her trademark red lipstick, Aguilera donned a purple leopard print dress for the press conference.

Earlier today a report said that Kelly Clarkson would be making a guest appearance on season two as well as…

Miranda Lambert, Lionel Richie, Jewel, Babyface, Ne-Yo, Alanis Morissette and Robin Thicke.

The successful show is coming back for a second season and will premiere after the Super Bowl.

No mention! They made no mention of how cute that dress is. Apparently it is by Thomas Wylde. I actually am really into it; the monochrome leopard print really looks so nice against all the orange. I used to have seatcovers in my car with that exact print, and I had an orange steering wheel cover, and I just really liked the orange and gray together, y’know? (Yes, Celebuzz claims that the dress is purple, but I’m not buying it.)

I also love how flowy and, um, summery the dress is. Other things I like: the shoes, the hair. Yes, the hair. To quote the fictional Fran Fine, “Big hair makes the hips look smaller.” I wish my hair could hold a color like that. So vibrant!

Also, her skin is so smooth, so perfect and unblemished. There is such a fine line between ‘radiant’ and ‘radioactive,’ and a classy lady always knows just how much bronzer to apply to a collarbone.

I’m not quite as sure about that makeup—false eyelashes, yeeeesh—but I guess the idea is to be able to see it from the stage. These photos do Christina no favors, however: her legs are crossed in all of them, and the fabric’s pattern makes it hard to see where the actual dress stops and starts.

And I think that’s it! I think I covered everything! What do you think, you guys? Am I missing anything?

Here is some breaking news: LeAnn Rimes was spotted on a beach yesterday. This time she was in Maui, though!

Apparently she is staying at a resort with her husband, and she is actually visiting Maui for work. I know! I forgot that she still works sometimes. Did you know she used to be a prolific country singer? That was before we became so distracted by her string bikinis and started reading about those instead.

Here is Radar with more on this riveting story:

The country singer, who showed off her assets on Wednesday in a peach-colored Acacia skimpy swimsuit, managed to wear an even sexier suit on Thursday, rocking a pink and black tiny triangle top with cheeky string bottoms.

The star took a bathroom break and headed into the hotel’s restroom, without any shoes on!

“Cheeky”! I see what you did there, Radar. Because, LeAnn’s butt. Her butt.

Sometimes I wonder what the inside of LeAnn Rimes’ closet looks like. I imagine that it is a large walk-in closet, and there are all these hangers everywhere, and a tiny bikini is tied onto each one. And that’s all. That’s it. Somewhere else there might be a drawer containing all her sweaters and pants, but that drawer is probably in some locked room upstairs, as in a ghost movie.

(Image gallery via Radar.)

When fading celebrities do low-budget commercials for local car dealerships, it’s usually funny to me.

And don’t get me wrong, these ads are funny, too, but good grief, it’s Gary Busey. Gary-freaking-Busey. Oscar-nominated Gary Busey.

And I mean, sure, that nomination was a little while ago, OK, but “Scare up a Kia with Gary Busey in Houston”?!

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I don’t know whether you guys already know this about screen legend Gary Oldman, so I’ll just tell you: the man supplies his voice to a lot of video games. Like, a lot of video games.

Like, Medal of Honor and a couple Call of Duty games, for instance. Like, Gary Oldman has participated in almost as many video games as Tim Curry has. Which, like, OK, that’s a lot of video games.

This said, I don’t think you really have to be a fan of Call of Duty: Black Ops to really, really, really, really enjoy this video of Gary Oldman shouting at/near Conan O’Brien:

OK, FOR REAL: If you didn’t finally crack and break out into either giggles or guffaws right around 1:16, there might be something wrong with you. I think the real humor maybe has to do with the way Gary Oldman breathes from the diaphragm.

(Photograph by photographer Ian Derry; see also.)