It seems that a child star these days is worth about $295,000. Not per film, but for the actual child.  At least that is the supposed price asked for by nine year old Rubina Ali’s dad when an undercover journalist tried to buy the little girl, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire.

In negotiating the deal with the undercover News Of the World journalist, the little girl’s father said, “The child is special now. This is NOT an ordinary child. This is an Oscar child!”

Daddy Dearest thought that selling the little girl to a rich man would be the best thing for him and Rubina. 

The best thing for him is to go to jail and be sold to his bunkmate Bubba. 

Madonna wasn’t injured seriously when she took a recent tumble off of a horse, while riding in the Hamptons. 

Seems the Material Girl’s horse was startled when a group of paparazzi jumped out of the bushes to take a picture of Madonna.

Too bad the photogs didn’t get trampled.

According to perezhilton.com, the NY Post says that paparazzi weren’t the cause of the fall and that Madonna managed once again to fall off a horse all on her own:

“The Material Mom, who suffered broken bones in a similar accident three years ago, was leaping over hurdles on a brown steed on the East End spread when she bit the dust just before 4:30 p.m.”

“In the wake of the titanic tumble, more than 10 people, including her Brazilian boy toy Jesus Luz, 22, rushed to her side.

“Rescue workers, who arrived minutes later, scooped up the “Like a Virgin” songstress and gingerly carried her on a backboard to a waiting ambulance, which raced to Southampton Hospital.”

Kudos tor French Elle for making us jealous not of how beautiful their models are airbrushed and done up, but for how beautiful the women in their latest issue are au naturel.

The April issue of French Elle will feature eight well known European stars without any make up on, something that has never been done before.  The pictures in the magazine are also not airbrushed, giving readers a chance to see beauty in its true form.

Hats off to French Elle for taking fashion in the right direction.

Surprise, surprise, Brooke Hogan is defending Daddy Dearest and taking offense to the backlash from his recent O.J. comments.

“I cannot believe how blown out of proportion one small part of a seven-page article has become. It’s a classic case of a quote being taken out of context. I look up to my father in every way. He has been through so much and has taken the high road through it all. The idea that he would condone the O.J. situation is just outrageous.”

Um, has she even read the quote? What’s outrageous is that she is actually sticking up for her Dad after he basically said he could have gone all O.J. on ex wife Linda.

But perhaps even more outrageous is that Brooke thinks any cares what she has to say.

In an attempt to make former wrestling star Hulk Hogan sound like he isn’t a complete douchebag, his PR people are working overtime. 

In a recent, the Hulkster actually empathized with O.J. Simpson, claiming that he can totally understand why OJ did it.  In a comment about ex wife Linda and their messy break-up Hulk said he “could have turned everything into a crime scene, like OJ, cutting everybody’s throat”.

Classy Hulk, real classy.

In a bid to do some damage control, his reps issued the following statement:

“Hulk in no way condones the OJ situation. As part of a larger conversation, he referred to it to exemplify his frustration with his own situation.” 

Yeah, right.  

The karma gods are at work and it seems they have a sense of humor!

Rapper Lil’ Jon went and got himself a new cell phone number.  Thing is, turns out it’s Miley Cyrus’ old number.  Which can only mean Lil’ Jon has been inundated with calls for the ‘tween Disney star.

As any self respecting rap star would do, he dished about it on Twitter:

HOW COME I JUS GOT A NEW PHONE NUMBER AND ITS F-IN MILEY CIRUS OLD NUMBER!!! STOP CALLIN ME LIL DAMN GIRLS!!!! TRUE STORY!! NO BS!!

The cell phone company employee that gave Lil’ Jon that number?  Yeah, they deserve a huge raise. 

Lindsay Lohan should give her PR people a serious raise!  In a bid to address all of the recent craziness surrounding her, Lindsay has posted a fake eHarmony video profile on funnyordie.com.  In it she mentions everything from the supposed restraining order out against her to her DUI. 

Besides being hilarious, it’s pretty smart of her, too.  Could Lindsay be on the road to saneness?

You won’t be hearing any Lindsay Lohan jokes from Kathy Griffin anytime soon.  In a conversation with popeater.com last week, the comedian said that she was laying off the Lilo jokes for a bit.

“I’m more likely to make fun of Lindsay Lohan a year ago. She was clubbing every night with the girlfriend and, like, DJing – but now it seems like she’s in the throes of real trouble. It feels like kicking her when she’s down. Believe it or not, I might kind of take her out for the time being. That’s a little hard to find the comedy in.”

The decision not to joke about Lindsay right now was an one for Griffin who says, “The line is always so clear to me. People often say that I have no boundaries, but the line is crystal clear to me.”

So, while Billy Bob Thornton refuses to apologize for being such a twit during an interview with Canada’ CBC radio, he does want to clarify one thing:   his reference of mashed potatoes without he gravy wasn’t meant to insult Canadian audiences, but rather the host of CBC’s Q, Jian Ghomeshi, who was interviewing Billy Bob and his band, the Boxmasters, who were opening up for Willie Nelson.

Oh, so you weren’t insulting a nation, but merely one of the stars and a respected Canadian musician.  Well, that makes all the difference in the world, doesn’t it?

Apparently not, Billy Bob, because you still had your ass booed will performing in Toronto.

Oh and the rest of the Canadian dates?  Yeah, Billy and his band won’t be playing them.  An official statement on Willie Nelson’s website says the reason is than one of the band members and several crew caught “the flu”.

Yeah, right.

According to a perezhilton.com following, Katy Perry snarkily took aim at John Mayer during a recent concert in NYC.  Fan Bethany emailed Perez to tell him that Katy changed up some of the lyrics to UR So Gay:

“I’m so mean ’cause I cannot get you out of your head. I’m so angry ’cause you’d rather TWITTER instead. I can’t believe I fell in JOHN MAYER!”

Apparently the audience went wild.  Betcha it put a bit of a smile on Jennifer Aniston’s face, too.