The one-time tourists are itching mad at the New York luxury hotel, claiming that they got bedbugs during their stay, took them home with them, then had to evacuate their house for six weeks. Hopefully they're suing for comped suites.

The Waldorf might have bedbugs. Yes, that Waldorf, the schmancy hotel that invented a salad, where rooms cost $730 a night. But the itchy menace has penetrated every vaunted institution in America! No building, palace, or visiting dignitary is safe!

Paris Hilton took the Wall Street Journal on a tour of her childhood home, the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. She manages to do this without stepping foot in the building—and talking only about herself.

A tourist who recently dined at the Bull and Bear restaurant inside the Waldorf-Astoria claims that he found something foreign inside of his steak, something so vile and revolting that we can't even bring ourselves to say what it is.

• Katie Couric hires crisis manager Matthew Hiltzik to manage her "charity endeavors." Though this can't possibly have anything to do with Couric's rumored talks with CBS, we're having a hard time imagining what sort of charity work necessitates a crisis flack. [Page Six]
• Is George Clooney possibly banging Teri…