Jason: 'I'm Not Proud of What I Had to Do'  —  He had no choice.  —  That's Jason Mesnick's explanation for publicly dumping his fiancee, Bachelor winner Melissa Rycroft, in favor of runner-up Molly Malaney on Monday night's finale.  —  Jason says he would have preferred to have delivered …

Usher to Chris Brown: “Have a Little Remorse”  —  Usher is slamming Chris Brown over weekend photos that show the troubled 19-year-old singer smiling and riding around on jet skis in Miami.  —  In a video for Jermaine Dupri's “Living the Life” series, Usher is seen around a laptop talking …

Britney Spears Has “Nervous Energy” Before Tour Kick-Off Tonight  —  Britney Spears kicks off her world tour — her first concert tour in fives years — tonight in New Orleans.  What can fans expect?  —  “You can expect spectacular-ness,” her manager Larry Rudolph said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday.

Oprah Adopts a Puppy!  —  Oprah Winfrey has a new puppy!  —  The talk show host and her longtime beau, Stedman Graham, adopted an 8-week-old blonde-colored cocker spaniel on Sunday, the rep for PAWS Chicago shelter, Lisa Nowak, confirms to Usmagazine.com.  —  “[The dog] is really cute,” Nowak tells Us.

First look: ‘Salt’ gives a grain of truth about Jolie's spy  —  The most recognizable woman in the world is going undercover.  —  Angelina Jolie begins work today on Salt, a spy thriller about a rogue CIA operative who tries to clear her name after she is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent — perhaps falsely, perhaps not.

Rihanna Bikini Pictures Can't Be Beat.  Get It!?  —  These Rihanna bikini pictures are actually from last Friday, but we couldn't put them up until today without paying an arm and a leg, and what with the economy in crapper, it's best to save a buck where you can.

Katherine Heigl Slammed for Bad Attitude, Diva Demands  —  Katherine Heigl is quickly earning the reputation for being one of Hollywood's most difficult divas.  —  The Grey's Anatomy star has come under fire on the set of her latest movie Five Killers for being “extremely unprofessional,” …

AnnaLynne McCord Goes Bananas  —  90210 starlet AnnaLynne McCord chomps down on a banana as she takes a break from filming her hit TV show on Tuesday (March 3) in Los Angeles.  —  The 21-year-old Fired Up actress plays Gwyneth in the comedy which opened on Feb. 20.

Pete Wentz: ‘Someone is going to murder me’  —  In an interview with the Daily Mail, Pete Wentz reveals a deep-seated fear that someone he knows is going to murder him.  Even more crazy is the second sentence that has to make Ashlee Simpson feel so awesome about birthing this dude's child:

‘Prince Caspian’ star Ben Barnes cast as Hamlet in ‘Ophelia’  —  EW has learned that Ben Barnes, best known as the British Johnny Depp lookalike in Prince Caspian, has been cast as Hamlet in Ophelia, an independently financed retelling of the story of the tormented young Dane from the perspective of his long-suffering girlfriend.

OctoMom Probed by Child Services  —  Before she had the octuplets, Nadya Suleman was investigated by the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) ... and that's just the beginning — cops have been called to her homestead a slew of times.

Woman Falls, Can't Get Up, Sues Paula Abdul  —  When a woman falls and injures herself, and Paula Abdul is somehow involved, nine times out of ten the woman that fell is Paula.  This is not one of those times.  —  A woman is suing Paula Abdul — along with Bravo Television, NBC Universal …

Lindsay wants to convert  —  Lindsay Lohan at Westminster Synagogue in London (2/28)  —  Lindsay Lohan supposedly wants to convert to Judaism to prove that she's committed to girlfriend Samantha Ronson.  Lohan and Ronson were seen at London's Westminster Synagogue last Saturday for Ronson's half-brother Joshua's Bar Mitzvah.

Lawmaker Pushes to Block Future Octomoms  —  Nadya Suleman with one of her babies  —  First, the birth of Nadya Suleman's octuplets inspired awe.  Then dismay.  And now?  New laws.  —  One month after Suleman, a single mom from Whittier, Calif., gave birth to eight babies …

Miley Cyrus Says Cleavage Baring Pic Is No “Big Whoop”  —  Miley Cyrus says she wasn't trying to give photographers a show when she wore a cleavage-baring top during a weekend jog with her shirtless older beau Justin Gaston.  —  “I don't get the big whoop, but whatever,” she said Monday on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show.

A McNuggets “Emergency”  —  Floridian called 911 three times over McDonald's chicken shortage  —  Angered that her local McDonald's was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food “emergency.”  Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called police …

Billy Crudup Bares All  —  Billy Crudup has the biggest role in a very big movie.  He's the towering Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen, which has devoted fans counting down the days until its release.  —  Playing the blue and often conflicted superhero in the adaptation of the popular graphic novel …