● Not-yet-officially-divorced Ashlee Simpson was caught kissing a new boy in New York yesterday, Boardwalk Empire star Vincent Piazza. [People] ● James Blunt earned himself the attention of some 5,000 angry Polish Facebook users yesterday after posting a picture of himself in front of a building at Auschwitz with the caption, "Err this is my hotel in Poland." They swarmed his page, calling him culturally insensitive. And then, things got personal: "You look even worse than the 'hotel' behind you. Your voice has always been one of the ugliest sounds in the world," someone wrote. [HR] ● Roger Ebert apologized on his Chicago Sun Times blog for tweeting about Ryan Dunn's death too soon, but he maintains that his message was well intended: "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive." [Chicago Sun Times]

● Bob Dylan will perform alongside Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers at this year's Grammy Awards, reminding us that what's old is new but there's nothing new under the sun. Or something. [LAT] ● Pete Wentz was totally blindsided by Ashlee's call to end things: while she was drawing up divorce papers last weekend, Wentz was busy in Dallas posing for pictures with fans atop livestock. [TMZ] ● Three-months after its release, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday has climbed its way to the number one spot on the Billboard charts, the first female rap record to hit the top since Eve's 1999 Let There Be Eve and the first non-debut album to do so since Ray Charles' 2005 Genius Loves Company. [VV]

● Great news for fans of Ashlee Simpson divorces: After three years of marriage, Ashlee Simpson is parting ways with Pete Wentz. Expect custody battles and two very sub-par breakup albums. [LAT] ● Miley Cyrus opens up to Marie Claire about her infamous bong video. "It was a bad decision," she said, not referring to her father's haircut. [Marie Claire] ● This is fun. Victoria Beckham's iPhone background is a topless picture of husband David Beckham, but what concerns us more is her disturbing lack of apps. It's called Shazam, try it some time. [Gawker]

New York Knicks fans showed Justin Bieber their true colors last night, booing the 16-year-old pop star when his image graced Madison Square Garden's JumboTron. For Bieber fans, it must have been a shocking, WTF moment. But for everyone else, it was solid, clean fun. Who doesn't enjoy watching someone who's used to the adulation of millions try and smile through the humiliation of a mass public rejection? We sure do, whether they deserve it or not. In fact, we love it so much that we'd like you to join us as we relive the five best instances of famous people facing the wrath of an anonymous crowd.

● Kanye West can be blamed for a lot of things, but spreading homophobia in hip hop is not one of them. According to Fergie, West is “completely gay-friendly ... he did a great thing for hip-hop and made it very mixed and open." [MTV] ● Robert Pattinson is embarrassed about those Megan Fox dating rumors because the fake details of their date were so “cheesy.” [OK] ● Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is taking a page out of her sister’s handbook and starting a clothing line that will show off her “preppy and punk rock” style because she thinks she can “really succeed in fashion.” [DigitalSpy]

As a rule of thumb, the words "promising" and "Ashlee Simpson" should never be situated within close proximity to one another. Unless it's to form a sentence like "Ashlee Simpson is promising to leave showbiz and entering a convent." That said, getting ejected off-screen could possibly be the lift that Simpson's career requires. Especially if it means she'll be tap dancing back to Murderess Row to reprise her role as Roxie Hart on Broadway's Chicago. In fact, for a popstrel who has branded herself with tepid tunes and an unimpressive bit parts on-screen, the relative ease with which Simpson shines as the firecracker is surprising. Somewhere within her is a performer who could always easily transcend poor showmanship. But she was weighed down with substandard material. Sounds like another former pop star-turned-primo performer we all know and hold dear to our hearts.

● That report of Lindsay Lohan and Gerard Butler getting it on in Morocco was shot down by Lohan, and Butler is threatening legal action against the British papers who printed the story. [GossipCop] ● Where do you go after getting publicly fired from your show? Disneyland! Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and husband Pete Wentz took little Bronx to the happiest place on earth to lift her spirits. [PopSugar] ● Rihanna says of all the media attention she received after the Chris Brown incident: "I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears." [USA]

● Heather Locklear proves she’s still Queen B by getting Ashlee Simpson fired from the new Melrose Place. Evidently Locklear saw through her “wanna-be diva” ways, oh and “her lack of talent didn’t help” either. [PopCrunch] ● Jessica Simpson is looking for one of those intellectual boys because she can “bore out pretty easily.” [Us] ● You can’t say Nadya Suleman doesn’t have a sense of humor; the octo-mom dressed up as a pregnant nun accompanied by her octuplets dressed as little devils. [TheSun]

● Ashlee Simpson and Colin Egglesfield's Melrose Place storylines will be wrapped up by January, leaving them to pursue other soap operas. [EW] ● Lourdes Leon shows her vampire love by wearing a pair of fangs on a walk around London. [JustJared] ● Jodie Sweetin realized she was an alcoholic at 14 when she passed out drunk in a restroom at Full House costar Candace Cameron’s wedding back in 1994. [FoxNews]

Oh, them of silvery wit at The CW's marketing department! You see what they've done here? They've taken "ménage à trois," which essentially means, "A domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household," and transformed it, as if by some kind of genius bit of sorcery ... into ménage à Tues. And while we could LOL, ROFL, WTF, and OMG over the onomatopoeiaic brilliance between such a phrase-turn, we would be wise to take it as a subliminal message from the network. I mean, really, all they're saying is the new Melrose Place will have love triangles! Or perhaps we can look into the literary significance of such ad art.