Drea de Matteo seems more suited to star on The Real Housewives of New Jersey than ABC’s hit show Desperate Housewives. But since they killed off Nicolette Sheridan they need a hook to keep their viewers.

According to EW, Drea will play the matriarch of a new Italian family and they are still searching for the perfect Italian Stallion to play her husband.

These pictures of Michael Jackson’s very last concert rehearsal at the Staples Center this past Tuesday were published today by photographer Kevin Mazur.

“I am devastated by the sudden loss of ‘The King of Pop,’ who I have photographed numerous times since the Victory Tour in the ’80s. When he hit the stage at rehearsal, I was thrilled that the magical Michael Jackson was BACK!!! I felt the same adrenaline rush as when I photographed him the first time moonwalking. I was so looking forward to shooting the O2 Arena performances with the amazing production that Kenny Ortega and AEG put together with Michael for his fans.” –Kevin Mazur, Celebrity Photographer

Look how hot 54 year-old Eddie Van Halen is looking! I guess there is something truth to that whole ’sober living is better’ thing.

Eddie married the pretty Janie Liszewski in front of 100 guests (including his ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli) over the weekend in Studio City, California. They had organic food and a candy bar complete with wax lips and pop rocks.

Eddie’s son with Valerie, Wolfie Van Halen, walked the bride down the aisle.

At the non-alcoholic reception, the pair — who have been dating for three years — toasted with sparkling French apple cider and sparkling pear juice. Guests also snacked on a candy bar that featured Pop Rocks, wax lips, candy necklaces and Lemon Heads. Deuce Events catered organic appetizers, including mini cheese burgers, garlic parmesan fries with chipotle ketchup and mini corn dogs.

SJP and the very grey-haired Matthew Broderick introduce their new twin girls to the world.

World, meet Marion and Tabitha.

The New York Post posted the details of the Michael Jackson autopsy today ..and as awful as the details are it’s not a far stretch of the imagination to believe it. As soon as the details were posted, his family went to work claiming it was a fake…but I’m not buying it.

According the NY Post’s story MJ has wasted away to 112 pounds and that at the time of death there was nothing in his stomach except for pills. The report also claims that his body was riddled with needle marks and scar and his head was pretty much bald

His hips, thighs and shoulders were covered with needle wounds, believed to have come from shots of painkillers, and he was wearing a wig when he was found because his hair had been reduced to a “peach fuzz” on his scalp, the report said.

“He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out, and he had been eating nothing but pills when he died,” a source close to the singer’s entourage told the paper. Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he’d been in terminal decline for some years.”

A former aide to the sleazy – cheatin John Edwards is blowing the whistle on a sex tape he accidentally stumbled across while in the middle of covering up for his boss. This story is so twisted it must be real.

Former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, once made a sex tape, according to someone who has seen Young’s book proposal.

St. Martins Press just inked a deal with Young, who also says in his proposal that, contrary to his public statement last year, he is not the father of Hunter’s infant daughter — Edwards is. Edwards has denied that.

Young says that his belief in Edwards ran so deep that he agreed to take the fall for the candidate, inviting the pregnant Hunter to live with him, his wife, Cheri, and their three children. Later, after Hunter delivered the baby, Young and his family moved to a different home in California.

While he was unpacking, Young discovered a videocassette, according to the book pitch. Hunter had been hired by the Edwards campaign to videotape the candidate’s movements, but this one is said to have shown him taking positions that weren’t on his official platform.

So where’s the tape? Hopefully Elizabeth Edwards can get her hands on and take him down. Politicians are waay sleazier than celebrities.

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Of course any woman who would marry and have babies for Michael Jackson can’t really be right in the head, but Debbie Rowe is shocking the world by announcing that she does not want custody of the two kids she bore for MJ.

Debbie – mother of Prince, 12, and Paris, 11 – said she was artificially inseminated by an anonymous donor. And she told how, despite Jackson’s death, she does not WANT custody of the children and NEVER expects to see them again.

The world was amazed 13 years ago when Jacko announced he was expecting his first child with Debbie, a receptionist at a Beverly Hills dermatology clinic where he regularly went for skin treatments.

Speaking exclusively at her home Debbie said: “Michael was divorced, lonely and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, ‘I will have your babies’. I offered him my womb – it was a gift. It was something I did to keep him happy. After second birth he wanted no more to do with me.”

Debbie said she was “impregnated” like one of the thoroughbred mares she now keeps on her property, adding: “I was just the vessel. It wasn’t Michael’s sperm. I got paid for it, and I’ve moved on. I know I will never see my children again.”

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Maybe Britney Spears boyfriend/manager dude Jason Trawick likes brunettes. The pair went shopping at Bed, Bath & Beyond this weekend and that big ol’ diamond ring is still on Brit’s left hand…so what’s going on. Are they just playing house?