Juicy

We all have our guilty pleasures - Ben and Jerry's ice cream, a melodramatic MTV show, Monday Night Football. They're good for the soul. Without my daily fix of perezhilton.com, Access Hollywood and Extra, my day would be incomplete. What can I say? I thrive on the latest celebrity gossip. On that note, here are the five juiciest stories of the week:

It's official - Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are tying the knot. Perezhilton.com reports that the couple is set to wed on Oct. 13, in Laguna Beach. Sources are also telling tmz.com that the Wedding Fairy, a wedding planner in Orange County, Calif., will be coordinating the intimate ceremony. At least Richie is looking healthier. But then again, she has no choice - Richie will be a mom in a few months, and unless she wants to jeopardize her child's health, she has to stay on track. Let's hope she doesn't follow in Britney Spears' footsteps.

On the newest cover of US Weekly, the headline reads "Plastic Surgery Revenge," and featuring Heidi Montag. Montag, of MTV's No. 1 series "The Hills," speaks out against the shocking cover. She told Access Hollywood, "It's a headline and that's what sells magazines. It's not like, 'Let's get plastic surgery for fun.' It was something that was really painful and tormenting for me throughout my life."

As "Grey's Anatomy" title character Meredith Grey would say, "Seriously?" Montag had a great figure before the plastic surgery, a figure that many would kill for. But let's be serious for a moment. Montag craves the publicity and for those of you who don't already know, she is in the midst of recording a pop album that is sure to shock the music world ... in a bad way.

We know that Kanye West is one of the most arrogant, but also most talented rap moguls in the industry. We also know that he is accustomed to saying what he wants whenever he wants. To refresh everyone's memory, Kanye went crazy on MTV after they announced that Spears was opening the 2007 VMAs. However, in an Access Hollywood interview with Shaun Robinson, West said he may have been out of place in his recent Video Music Awards tirade.

"I think that I have a powerful voice and I might have misused it on that night," West said during the interview. "I think I said a lot of things that were true but maybe it wasn't my place to particularly call those things out." Wow, Kanye admitting that he was wrong? That's almost unheard of. So, this is a big step for West to semi-apologize for his childish behavior.

This next story is just too good - kudos to David Letterman. Paris Hilton was the guest star on "The Late Show With David Letterman" on Friday evening. You can only guess what he wanted to talk about. Letterman grilled Hilton on every aspect of prison, from her traumatic experience to the "jail mystery meat." Hilton, clearly irritated and only on the show to promote her new fragrance, Can-Can, and her upcoming movie "Repo! The Genetic Opera," gently told Letterman, "I don't really want to talk about this anymore." Relentlessly, Letterman kept pushing.

"This is where you and I are different," he said. "Because this is all I want to talk about."

After more than five minutes of badgering, Hilton put her foot down.

"There's other stuff to talk about Dave," Hilton said. I didn't come here to talk about this."

I don't blame Letterman. I wouldn't want to discuss "Repo! The Genetic Opera" either.

Now here's a subject that every struggling college student wants to read about: money. E! Online reported that Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld topped Forbes' annual list as the two richest Americans in television.

Seinfeld, whose classic NBC series ended in 1998, took in $60 million last year, according to Forbes. Syndication is a beautiful thing.

Winfrey, who also made Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans, earned an estimated $260 million, courtesy to her talk show, O Magazine and Harpo Productions. Gotta love Oprah!

Contact Samantha Gannon at

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