Crunch time ...

According to a caller to a Chicago radio station, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn were seen smooching at Chicago's Gibson's restaurant. Apparently Aniston was calling Vaughn "honey." The photo was supposedly taken the same night, but who knows.

So since I last updated, The Simple Life is ... back on? Paris Hilton is said to have written an apology to one-time pal Nicole Richie. According to sources, The WB and NBC are in talks to pick up the fourth season of the show, since FOX can no longer "see a place" for it in their schedule.

Paris' boyguard got the two in a somewhat awkward situation outside LA nightclub Mood. A photographer got too close to him, so he attacked and yelled, "Don't ever touch me." I guess Paris felt a little bad about it all, because she started signing photographs. Maybe, after all we've been through, Paris is starting to grow on me. It's all Perez Hilton's doing, I tell ya. Why does Paris look so damn cute in those photos!? And feel bad about using the word "bullshit?"

Must. Stay. Away. From. Perez. Hilton.

Aaron Carter needs new friends. And family, too, but we'll save that for another day (when I'm married to his older brother Nick). So anyway. Little Carter's friends are talking trash about him to the tabloids, AGAIN. Now they're building on the hookah/marijuana story they sold earlier this year and saying that they're concerned about his drug abuse. One particularly honorable friend told New York's Daily News: "He has been hanging out with a bunch of older guys in Los Angeles, and smoking way too much weed ... He's been missing appointments, not showing up to things. It's gotten out of hand, and people are worried." I think this "friend" is just jealous he's not a big boy himself. Then again, if I were Aaron, I'd be in far worse shape than he is. Poor kid.

Mischa Barton has reportedly been asking for a raise for her work on The O.C. People, surprisingly, are being sympathetic. Maybe it's because they all think her new beau, Cisco Adler, is a jackass and that she should go back to Brandon Davis (I, for one, am!). Well it's a point for Team Davis, because everyone's saying that the only reason Barton's been asking for a raise is because Adler's a tightwad. But that's no need for a six-figure-per-episode salary! Save that for the fourth season.

And lastly, some stupid Laguna Beach "news." Recently at the Boost Mobile Celebrity Surf Weekend in southern California, the cast was "so hung over they couldn't catch a wave." That's sad. These kids have nothing better to do all day but to drink, smoke pot, snort cocaine and sleep with one another. They can't even do that right!? I'll bet it was Alex Hooser who gave it away when she ran by Stephen and Jason yelling, "It's a fiiiiieeeeeessssstaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"