That Kanye West just CAN NOT LET IT GO... Mid-gig at New York's Bowery Ballroom last night, he stopped to have a wee rant about everything and nothing, in which he brought up the usual (that being that Bush comment, and Taylor Swift): "We need to blame someone at all times. For me to be considered a racist for stating a blatant truth, an obvious truth, but the nuances of my words, because I am very particular with my words, and the emotion I felt at that time wasn't worded exactly right - but everybody came and said 'Oh my God!' - I'm talking about five years ago, not a year ago, I’m talking about five years ago, I’m talking about Katrina - and everybody said, "Oh my God, Kanye, I love you so much, I hated you until you said that. But now I see you’re speaking for me. I always thought you were an asshole but now you said something that represents me, but the whole time, whole time I’m thinking in my mind I was thinking that’s not exactly what I wanted to say, I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to say, I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to word it, but I wrote it, I rode it, just as Taylor never came to my defense in any interview, and rode the waves and rode it and rode it, that's the way I rode the waves of the Bush comment. I rode it. It’s not about popular opinion. It's about when you look in your heart, and know what’s right and what’s wrong"... And it goes on, and on, but life's too short... That Kelly Osbourne chose to share that she nearly wee'd herself on Ellen, and was rewarded with, well, a Wii: "I'm always happy to appear on Ellen DeGeneres’ show, she's one of my favourites - but she loves scaring her guests. We were chatting about stuff when somebody dressed up as Donkey Kong snuck up and scared the s**t out of me. I screamed and I think I even weed a little! But because they properly terrified me everyone in the audience got a Nintendo Wii. Ellen even gave one to me"... That some dude who appeared a few times on Ugly Betty decided to decapitate his mother as he was "stressed": "Michael L Brea has reportedly been charged with second degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. TMZ reports that the actor, who had starred in Ugly Betty and Step Up 3D, was charged after being taken into custody in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Brea is alleged to have stabbed his mother Yanick to death in her apartment in Brooklyn, NY, and was initially taken for a psychiatric evaluation after emergency service personnel attended the scene... We're told Brea is not suspected of using a samurai sword - as initial reports suggested - but rather another type of blade, roughly 3 feet in length... 'Michael had many money problems and couldn't pay his bills,' his longtime friend and barber Sylvan Benoit said Wednesday. 'I think this happened because of stress over money'"... That's something of an understatement... The New York Post, 'cause it's such a conscientious publication, has "graphic photos" from the murder scene... That Lisa Snowdon is in hospital with a bout of viral meningitis... That Ke$ha is still banging on about fancying hairy men with bags of quarters, cause she's soo kooky: "I like the rugged, mountain-man beard, personally. I won't discriminate, but my favourite kind of beard is one that could potentially be a homeless beard. Like, you actually have to discover if they're un-groomed for a reason. I like a really unkempt beard. They would also have to have a big d**k"... Not to mention a high tolerance for twattery... That, after seeing Ke$ha's unimaginatively lewd performance on Sunrise, one of The Veronicas tweeted: "If this is what is selling records these days, I think I'd rather be a starving artist"... That one or two Corrie cast members turned up to some charity event or other last night in Manchester... Sadly one can only see their outerwear as the photographer wasn't permitted inside... That Cameron Diaz is still a sucker for punishment: "slugger Alex Rodriguez and Cameron Diaz are rekindling their romance in Miami following a split. We reported that the pair had gone their separate ways in October after he started spending more time with a yoga instructor. But they've been repeatedly spotted together in Miami in the past few days. A-Rod and Diaz were seen working out at a gym before sunbathing together on a boat ride around Biscayne Bay"... That the two turkeys President Obama got to pardon (not sure, it's some American Thanksgiving tradition...) were given their own rooms in Washington D.C.s swanky W Hotel before their trip to the White House: "A rep for the turkeys - yes, the turkeys had a rep - told us each bird had their own separate room at the hotel... with bottled water and good, clean beds"... That I'm out of the office for a few days, therefore Alicia will be throwing you gossip until Tuesday...

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