All I Know Is That There Were Rumours...

That The Stig off Top Gear has been revealed to be 33-year-old Ben Collins... According to The Sun, Collins "accidentally let slip his alter-ego in an art shop in Bristol after trying to get a print of The Stig done...  BBC are yet to comment but an annoyed Beeb insider has been reported as saying: 'You wouldn't write a piece saying that Santa didn't exist'"... That's 'cause Santa does exist, hello?... That The Sun are reporting that Kelly Brook is to get her "full £100,000 fee for being a judge on Britain's Got Talent - despite getting the boot after just THREE DAYS of work", while The Mirror stipulates that she's getting "£33,000 for each of the six Britain's Got Talent shows she did before being axed. The 29-year-old walks away with her full salary, thought to be nearly £200,000 after boss Simon Cowell agreed she was entitled to it"... That I don't know WHO to believe anymore... A source told The Mirror: "Kelly is feeling down. It was a shock when she got the call on Monday morning telling her she was out. It seems Cowell is embarrassed by the whole affair and wants it to go away, hence why he’s giving Kelly the cash"... To quote a close friend of mine: "If her publicist is trying to induce some kind of sympathy for an individual who receives a HUGE f*ckin' payoff in a time when Banks are collapsing is a f*ckin' JESTER OF THE HIGHEST ORDER"... That Kelly needs to take her wedge of cash and head to Africa to gain some perspective... That Uncle Monty's cottage, which was deemed "uninhabitable" by Withnail and I (I being Marwood), is on the market for £145,000... That Forest Whitaker will reveal this year's Oscar nominees tomorrow afternoon... That Katie Price said: "If someone rapes a girl he should be bent over and the same thing done to him. I'm sorry, that's just the way I feel. I'm very strict... And if someone steals they should have to wear a dye on their skin, like a tattoo on their ear or somewhere it can be seen - like across their face. That would stop people stealing"... That Shia LaBeouf has been banned for driving for a year after his DUI incident last July... That rugby player Jerry Flannery was seen brawling in the pews at the UFC 93 event held in Dublin's O2 Arena over the weekend... Here are some pictures of the latent homo eroticism/birds in bikinis which were on display... Truth be told, the only reason there's a gallery in Celebrity Gossip is so Mike and John can link to it from their UFC features... That Marcia Cross's husband has been diagnosed with cancer... That Robert Pattinson turned up at an open mic night in London's SoHo to croon out a tune on his guitar... That he "silenced the room"... That Paris Hilton has been blanking her new BFF, Brittany Flickinger, in the Sundance festival... A witness said: "Paris kept ditching Brittany for Aubrey (O'Day)... Friday night, the two left Flickinger at the Eldridge and went across the street to Tao, where the former Best Friend Forever found them at 2 a.m. She was crying and screaming, 'Paris, stop leaving me!'"... That 12 British eejits have signed up to appear in the English version of the show... There's one male; 19-year-old Samuel - "a professional ballerina and a pole dancer"... That, of Joaquin Phoenix's performance at LAVO in Las Vegas over the weekend, a New York Post source said: "He was waiting for Casey Affleck and when the film crew arrived late, Joaquin flipped out"... Phoenix yelled at the crew, "Thanks for being late and f**king everything up." He then threw a CD on the floor and stormed out. "He came back five minutes later and did the sound check... Nobody can tell if he is for real or if this is all a big joke"... That it's the only logical explanation... That Lily Allen said: "I convinced I'm not talented at all, and I’m sure people are just about to figure it out. I'm not very good, am I? I don't think what I do is any good. I think I'm awful. I'm not a musician. I don't play an instrument. I write nursery rhymes"...