1.) Synergy
Jon Gosselin's answer when asked for his thoughts on the Balloon Boy hoax:



We're thinking that Balloon Boy might give the same exact answer when asked for his thoughts on Jon Gosselin wiping out his family's bank account.

2.) Tricia Walsh-Smith threatened to walk off The Insider.
She didn't understand that people were telling her that she is smart.

BTW, why does The Insider consider Marla Maples part of "The Real First Wives Club"?

3.) "Tardy for the Party" is based on a true story.

Kim might have another hit on her hands, thanks to Jimmy Kimmel.

4.) A different type of tardy at the party
I love Kim's wasted face.

5.) The best excuse for tardiness
Courtesy of Bridezillas

6.) Spry seniors
Larry King's promo picture for his blog is awesome.

And this week, Elizabeth Taylor took Paris and Prince Jackson to Universal Studios theme park.

7.) Courtney Cox was a menstruation pioneer.

8.) What Al Reynolds is up to now
Musical theater-y things, regurgitating, and not being normal. His words, not mine.

9.) Tyra colonic
Last Friday, Tyra featured a colonic on her stage, which the host claimed was the First! Ever! Televised! Colonic! Except it wasn't. I remember Dave Navarro getting one on his reality show about his marriage to Carmen Electra. Tyra also said that a colonic was "the opposite of diarrhea." In fact, a colonic is the opposite of that. It is diarrhea, and it drips down your leg.

10.) A lesson on life from Judge Judy

I'm sure I angered Tricia on Monday, when Philip Smith - still dapper and, dare I say, smoking hot - jokingly asked me to marry him.

"Are you available?" said Philip, when I asked if he'd wed again. I'm not, but don't tempt me.

Then, on Tuesday, Tricia's trained attack Chihuahua, Joseph McCaffery, a pony-tailed loser who hails from Aurora, Ill. - remember "Wayne's World"? - yelled at me outside Trish's soon-to-be-ex home. So I called him an "asshole."

I was holding back.

So, what's the problem here?

[NYP]

• Heath Ledger's father proceeded with funding a nautically-themed bar in Greenpoint, in which Ledger had been a silent partner. The guy who designed Beatrice is involved. [Down By The Hipster, P6]
• Oh, hey, the Post has some John ; gossip! He wants to make a movie about poverty! Oh. Really? That's your John Edwards gossip? At least go for the obvious joke about how there will almost certainly be scenes in the film focused on the problem of unwed mothers, and Edwards sure knows a LOT ABOUT THAT, har har. [P6]
• Eliot Spitzer goes to Barton Gym on Upper East Side, people snicker, sad Spitzer leaves. [P6]
• After losing an initial court ruling, the crazy YouTube divorcée, Tricia Walsh-Smith, implied that her ex-husband Philip Smith and others at the Shubert Organization are behind a bunch of death threats. She's really inhabiting this role! [Post]
• The new backstory behind the Christian Bale assault allegations: His mother and sister wanted him to loan $200,000 to his sister, supposedly for her kids. He didn't want to give the money, and there was a fight, and the mom may have said some unkind things about Bale's wife. Then, the women say, Bale pushed and shoved them. The headline? Batman and sobbin'.
• Brad Pitt said the paparazzi BETTER stop taking pictures of his kids using their fancy "telephoto lenses." Situations involving the baby twins are private time, and will stay private time until he auctions them off to the highest bidder for celebrity magazine purposes. [LA Rag Mag]

Beeler indicated he might not granted Smith the divorce if not for the videos.

"Had defendant not posted her videos on YouTube, a case could be made that her previous marital misconduct did not rise to the level of cruel and inhuman treatment, a claim that ironically she herself made on YouTube," Beeler wrote.

Tricia-Walsh Smith plans to appeal. But odds are the videos will be on hold for a while.

[Post]

• Tatum O'Neal, recently busted for buying cocaine, is now attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. But Showbiz Spy reported the actress was spotted with "what looked like white wine" at a New York ballet gala. Showbiz Spy attributed the sighting to People.com, but any mention of the wine has been scrubbed from the People.com report. We found this picture of the event from Getty Images — totally looks like iced tea. Click the thumbnail for a larger shot.
• Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is in a fight with Sarah Jessica Parker over who recognized who outside the Bloomberg Building, and which one of them bummed a cigarette. Dignified. [P6, NYM]
• Michael Madsen, the actor from Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, fought so loudly with his wife in a London hotel room that police were summoned. He ended up leaving in an ambulance with "cuts and bruises." [R&M]
• Tricia Walsh-Smith, famous for ranting at her estranged, rich husband on YouTube, is now raging at her videographer. [P6]
• NBC is supposedly close to paying $2 million for footage of Farrah Fawcett being treated for anal cancer. [P6]
• Mariah Carey? Greedy about wedding gifts. [P6]

• Her first husband ran a nightclub for Hilton hotels, then was sidelined by open-heart surgery. They had a kid, she had to work, he tried to leech her money, it turns out he was hoarding a small fortune in a safe.
• "A string of quashed engagements and entanglements:"
• Canadian businessman
• UN official
• Bristol entrepreneur
• Son of a Spanish Count (three hours)
• Missed court-ordered therapist appointments, lost custody of child, tried to overdose on sleeping pills. Child starting hanging up on her.
• "The Face," a cute California surfer who lied about owning a yacht and turned out to be very dumb.
• Runs off with a "sooo dangerous" Italian yachtsman who proposed the night they met. Relationship wrecked by Hurricane Seymour.
• Becomes engaged to perfume manufacturer in New York, 30 years older. Goes into rehab. Decides she's a "man addict," attends Emotions Anonymous, forswears romance.
• Meets Smith, he of the YouTube video.

When they met, Walsh-Smith liked Smith's "sexy radio voice" but there was no sex, ever, except maybe for one time in Palm Beach (" I did candles"). She pushed him into marriage after two-and-a-half years of dating. They broke up for a year, he took her back, but insisted on the now-infamous prenup in which she has to move out within 30 days of a divorce filing and is guaranteed only $750,000 — none of his earnings during marriage.

As with her first husband, Walsh-Smith felt unable to spend as freely as she would have liked. She got to fly on the Concorde, but did not like having to shop at Nine West. She said he blocked her attempts to write for theater, saying it violated conflict-of-interest policies at his company, which owns various theaters.

She's already gone through two different divorce lawyers. The first she fell out with over her propensity for talking to the press; the second because he allegedly wanted some of the spotlight for himself (she claims he pressed to go on Today with her).

All of this — the breakups, fights, messing around — is fairly torturous and pedestrian. Walsh-Smith deserves credit, at least, for somehow making it fascinating to millions of people on YouTube and conjuring at least the possibility of a reality television payday. As embarrassing as her antics are, it is easy to imagine her arriving at a sadder, less celebrated life station had she lacked her particular, err, pluck and dramatic flair, let's say.

[New York]

(Photo by Tricia Walsh-Smith via New York)

"Now Bravo producers are looking to capitalize on her kookiness for the next season of 'Real Housewives of New York City.'

"'They're approaching Trisha for the second season,' our source says. 'Nothing has been confirmed yet, but they think she would make a great addition to the show.' Officially, Bravo reps say, 'As for Season 2, we've announced we've been picking it up, but no other decisions have been made so far concerning cast.'" [NYDN]

Some lawyers willing to talk to the L.A. Times are all "OMG this is new" as if people aren't already blogging messy divorces or years-long custody battles.