• Hold the phone: Britney Spears has dark hair again. [CS]
• Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox might be porking each other. [BS]
• Everyone wants Michael Jackson’s babies. [BB]
• Lindsay Lohan looks like hell again. [IDWYL]
• I hope they make hillbilly babies together. [GB]
• Diane Keaton was rushed to hospital yesterday after she got a sumo smack-down. [GH]
• Billy Mays likely died of heart disease. [HMG]
• Another ridiculous “Bruno” premiere. [INMF]
• Mariah Carey films yet another music video. [PB]
• Solange Knowles has a major package. [SOW]
• Please stop talking, Joe Jackson. [TB]
• Mischa Barton is so gorgeous. [WIMB]
• More from the making of the 2010 Pirelli Calendar. [YH]
• Britney Spears isn’t dead, despite what Twitter may tell you. [AG]
• BET Awards 2009 red carpet photos. [POTP]
• Melissa Rycroft is engaged. [AS]
• Is it required that you must dress like an asshole at the Glastonbury Festival? [AY]
• Finally. [TS]
• Leighton Meester is busy filming season three of “Gossip Girl.” [PB]
• More from Kendra Wilkinson’s weekend wedding. [AIW]
• The Kardashians celebrate Khloe Kardashians birthday. [BST]
• Michael Jackson’s autopsy results were supposedly leaked. [DS]

Perv-a-holic Terry Richardson shot the Gossip Girl kids for a spread in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Being the depraved individual that he is, Terry photographed co-stars Blake Lively and Leighton Meester sucking on various objects, as well as each other, which I’m sure wasn’t totally awkward.

Leighton Meester’s mother isn’t keeping a low-profile since news of her prison stint hit the media. Last week, Star Magazine reported that the “Gossip Girl” star’s mother, Connie Meester, served time in a federal penitentiary for operating a drug ring. Now, Connie is ready to tell her side of the story, including her experience giving birth to Leighton in a Texas prison.

Connie’s manager Loch Powell confirms that Mama Meester has penned “a memoir,” about her family life, which began as a screenplay “3 or 4 years ago,” but that she has yet to find a publisher.

The book will reportedly tell Connie’s life journey from drug ring co-conspirator to suburban real estate agent to author and, of course, to the rearing of her TV star child.

As for Leighton’s reaction to it, Powell says the star is supportive. “Leighton and her mom are very close,” he says. “Connie has had a spectacular life.”

I don’t care about her spectacular life, I just want to know if “Leighton” is a stage name. I’m obsessed with “Gossip Girls’” goofy star names.

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According to Star Magazine, Leighton Meester’s mother gave birth to her while serving a federal prison sentence in Texas. The Gossip Girl star managed to keep that bit of info on the d-low, until the tab dug up some unfortunate facts about her jailbird family.

[Leighton's mom] was allowed to stay in a halfway house for the birth, but had to return to prison on the day Leighton turned three months. The future star was raised by a relative while mom served out her sentence for her role in a major drug-running ring.

None of those details appear in the actress’ bio, which falsely lists the young star as being born in Marco Island, Fla., where her parents moved in the late ’80s.

The tab claimed most of Leighton’s family served major jail time as well: her father, grandfather, and aunt also served lengthy jail sentences at federal penitentiaries for drug-related offenses.

OT: I’ve always wondered if “Leighton Meester” was a fake name an agent gave her. Now that I know her mom is a druggie, I’m convinced her real name was something trashy like “Brandeee Wine.”