I don’t mind Natalie Maines, and I typically agree with the things she says, but her big mouth does tend to get her — and her bandmates — in an awful lot of trouble. Exhibit 8000:

A man whose 8-year-old stepson was killed in 1993 has sued all three members of the country-pop group for defamation, singling out frontwoman Natalie Maines for her comments suggesting that he played a role in the boy’s death.

Maines, whose outspokenness has won her lifelong friends and mortal enemies alike, appeared last December at a rally in Little Rock, Ark., for the three men, tagged the “West Memphis Three” by their supporters, who were convicted as teenagers of killing the plaintiff’s stepson, Steve Branch, and two other 8-year-old boys.

According to the six-page complaint filed Nov. 25 in Pulaski County Circuit Court, the “Not Ready to Make Nice” singer told the crowd that new DNA evidence from the crime scene implicated Steve’s stepdad, Terry Hobbs, and that Hobbs’ behavior following the boys’ death was suspect.

I wonder how the rest of the Chicks feel about being dragged into Natalie’s battles.

Is anyone else strangely attracted to the Jason Alexander mug shot?

Britney’s 55-hour husband is doing a few days in the LA slammer after he failed to meet the conditions of his DUI release.

But, like, DAMN, I’m getting a little tingly looking at this. I’m so weird.

And this is one of those sentences you don’t ever expect to be writing, but you do you guys think he had a little plastic surgery done between the time he married Britney Spears and this mug shot? I mean, for comparison, a Britney-era photo of him is below. I’m thinking nose job and the ears got pinned back. What do you guys think?

Word on the street is that the CW is looking at a Gossip Girl spin-off for next season.

CW entertainment president Dawn Ostroff said the network is in discussions with the show’s producers as to how a new show could be done. But she said nothing has been finalized and there’s no imminent announcement.

“Nothing really tangible yet, but we’re talking about it,” Ostroff told the Hollywood Reporter after her speech at the WWD Style + Media conference in Manhattan.

“If it’s the right idea, we’d all embrace it and be enthusiastic,” Ostroff added. “But nobody more than (executive producers) Josh (Schwartz) and Stephanie (Savage) want to make sure there’s the right idea that they can wrap their arms around and really be excited about.”

Oooh!!!

If they did do a GG spinoff, what do you think it should be about?

Jenny? Eric? Vanessa? One of the parents??

Who would make a good spin-off?

Not bad, but I liked it better when it was called Fiona Apple.

Does this mean Keri will get really, really wasted at the VMAs next year and go up on stage and be all like “This world is bullshit. And you shouldn’t model your life — wait a second — you shouldn’t model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself” and then stumble off?*

No?

Then I don’t care.

Oh, and the pic where she’s wearing the big black hat?

Total nipple peekage.

* How the fuck is that clip not on YouTube? Life is totes unfair.

Update: Evil Beet readers rock!!! Thanks Natalie for sending this! The fun starts around the 2 minute mark.

What do we think?

Looks like it’ll be a great photo shoot, if nothing else.

“There’s a misperception about me that I just became this wallflower, this woman who doesn’t have any control of her life,” says Katie in the issue hitting newsstands Sunday, which includes a feature on TomKat’s life. “And that’s pretty wrong. From the very beginning, I’ve made choices in my life that have been very strong.”

It is certainly very cool to look at the evolution of Katie Holmes — from this girl-next-door TV starlet to this glamorous, untouchable woman of mystery.

More pics of Katie here.

This is a weird story.

Britney’s original husband — of 55 hours — is doing some time in jail, because he refused to look at dead bodies.

[The] reason Brit’s 55 hour first hubby is behind bars in L.A. is because he blew off two court ordered appointments at the county morgue.

After Alexander was busted for DUI back in 2006, the judge ordered the 27-year-old to go to an alcohol education program, which required him to visit the local morgue. When the judge learned Alexander had ditched his first 2 appointments, he refused to give him a third chance and promptly chucked him in the slammer.

Jason is scheduled to be released on December 9th — and after he serves his stint behind bars, Jason’s obligation to check out the dead bodies will officially be dead.

Wow, does the LA system really make you look at dead bodies for getting a DUI? That’s kind of creepy. I don’t know how I feel about that at all.

Also, does anyone know what this uber-douche is doing in LA anyway? I thought he was one of Brit’s friends from Louisiana. If he’s living in LA with some sort of manager on the premise that he was the dude Britney married in Las Vegas, that’s just tragic.