Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo have split, reps for both stars tell Usmagazine.com.

"They have amicably split but remain good friends who still greatly care for one another," Minnillo's rep tells Us.

Adds a source: "It was an amicable break-up. They walk away from it still friends."

Says another, "They still care about each other very much. This is what's best for both of them."

Yesterday was a total bummer, what with Ed McMahon dying and Chris Brown not getting his ass thrown in jail, and today we have to deal with this? You know what this means, don't you? This means that each of them is eventually going to find a new person to schtup, and likely that person will be even less famous, and then we'll have two marginally noteworthy boring-as-hell couples to keep tabs on. And then those couples will break up and form news couples and then those couples will break up and so on and so on. The only obvious solution to end this madness is for Vanessa to reveal that she's actually a black widow spider who learned to take human form and after she disposes of a mate she kills him. But that would then make her interesting, so it's highly unlikely.

Madonna is reportedly at the centre of a sex tape scandal. A cameraman claims to have a video of Madonna and baseball player Alex Rodriguez romping on a sofa. He is trying to sell the tape – allegedly shot with a hidden camera in an apartment owned by a friend of the cameraman which was used by the couple for secret liaisons – for £1 million.

The unnamed owner of the tape claims he visited the property and hid a camera, pointed at the sofa which captured the X-rated footage two months ago.

A legal source told Britain's Daily Star newspaper that the implications of the secret filming could be dire for the cameraman, saying: "If footage was obtained in this way it would be an outrageous invasion of privacy. But more than that he would not have had his friend's consent to install the camera and must have entered the apartment without approval to hide it.

"He would be guilty of voyeurism. Instead of making a million he'd be going to jail for a few years."

In similar big-breasted-blondes-with-knuckleheads news, there may also exist a tape featuring Jessica Simpson having God-sanctioned matrimonial sexual intercourse with ex-husband Nick Lachey. Says Showbiz Spy:

Rumours have emerged that a sex tape starring Jessica Simpson will appear online. According to the Daily Sport, the home movie, which features popstar and actress Simpson engaging in a number of sex acts with her ex-husband Nick Lachey, has been acquired by the same people who released Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's holiday sex video.

A source said: "Jessica is horrified her name and 'sex tape' are being mentioned in the same sentence. She's always been a girl of high morals and principles."

The tape will reportedly be distributed online unless Simpson pays an undisclosed fee to keep it out of the public domain.

Listen, Madonna and Jessica. That's all fine and good that you're copulating on camera, but in the last couple of years, the celebrity sex tape bar has been raised quite a bit. We've had golden showers, night vision, wieners on dames, and midgets. If you want to make it in this cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world, you're going to have to step it up. And actually cut throats or eat dogs. Soon to be a Belladonna release, coming to a video store near you.

Jessica Simpson at her sexiest at MrSkin.com.

And Madonna is NAKED at MrSkin.com.

More sexy pics of Vanessa–sans Nick–at MrSkin.com.

ï Hunkosaurus Rex John Stamos blames his recent slurry interview on Ambien. Right now, David Hasselhoff and Paula Abdul are cursing themselves for not thinking of that one first. (Glitterati Gossip)

ï Crack-addicted, clammy, rotten-toothed, smack-shooting, overgrown fetus cheats on beautiful multimillionaire supermodel icon. What? (Yeeeah!)

ï Thanks to Fergie, product-plugging in songs is about to get even more prevalent. We can't wait for Jay-Z to namecheck Palmettos and for the new Avril Lavigne album, "Heartache and Kraft Singles, Which Are Made with 100% Real Milk". (Allie Is Wired)

ï Michelle Rodriguez does public chin-ups, though she probably also does pubic chin-ups. With girls. (Derek Hail)

ï The reason we haven't seen totally naked, total-body, high-def pics of Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo full-on boning in a hot tub? M-O-N-E-Y. That, and the fact that no one really cares about 'em much. (Celebitchy)

ï More Megan Fox. Now, 22% more see-through. (Popoholic)

ï Eva Longoria has a serious problem involving an ass crack, hungry for spandex. (I Don't Like You In That Way)

ï Avril Lavigne, topless. He was a sk8tr b0i, I said see my taters, boy. (Yeeeah!)

ï Mary Kate Olsen slips rib. (Hollywood Tuna)

ï Justin Timberlake flew Jessica Biel and her first-class ass to England for tea and beans on toast. No, for canoodling. Canoodling. (Drunken Stepfather)

ï Ewan MacGregor wears junk-enhancing briefs. Are they 18 hour? Do they lift and separate? (I Don't Like You In That Way)

ï Teri Hatcher has leopard-spotted pubic hair! Or underwear, whatever. (Taxi Driver)

ï Is Vanessa Minnillo humping Nick Lachey's butt in the pool? Because it really looks like Vanessa Minnillo is humping Nick Lachey's butt in the pool. (Derek Hail)

ï Britney Spears hates her mom and did not call her or visit her on Mother's Day, when said mom was in the hospital with pneumonia. Then she tear-gassed an orphanage and crapped on a veteran's memorial. (Glosslip)

ï David Faustino got busted for weed possession for the most convenient headline ever. (Celebitchy)

It’s New Year’s Eve. You’re wearing a pretty, sparkly dress that showcases your ass in a pleasing manner. You are getting ready to kiss the man who made you more famous than you ever should have been (and who, somehow, still clings to an undying fame himself, even without any discernable money-making artistic output). Your only job is to espouse how “tight” and “fresh” that new Gwen Stefani video is and how you can’t believe how “slammin” her body is so soon after having a baby (and you’re getting paid a–presumably–ridiculous sum to do so). But instead you slip in a “fucking.” Welcome to the no-longer-charmed life of Vanessa Minnillo, soon-to-be ex MTV VJ. Even Martha Quinn is laughing at you right now, Vanessa.

You wanna see Vanessa and Nick’s midnight kiss? Bricks and Stones grants your wish.

And get more Vanessa at MrSkin.com.

The alleged X-rated home movie is said to show the 'Dukes of Hazzard' actress and her ex-husband Nick Lachey engaged in a number of sex acts.
A source told Britain's Daily Sport newspaper: "Jessica is horrified her name and sex tape are being mentioned in the same sentence. She's always been a girl of high morals and principles."
According to reports the tape does exist and has fallen into the hands of the individuals responsible for leaking the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex video.
It has been claimed that they are threatening to leak the tape if Jessica does not pay an undisclosed sum of money to keep it out of the public domain.

We've got a few possible theories on how this story started. First, Jessica saw how much attention Britney Spears received with a simple sex-tape rumor, got jealous, and let slip to one of her more gossipy friends (ok, her only friend, Ken Paves) that she was worried sick about the world seeing her sucking abilities. Or, and this may be more likely, Daily Sport got its hands on Joe Simpson's diary and took his richly detailed fantasies of watching his daughter fuck on film to be the God's honest truth. Plus, Nick and Jess? C'mon. You know if there is a Jessica Simpson sex tape it's gotta involve Johnny Knoxville.

Jessica may not have a sex tape, but she is sexy at MrSkin.com.

"I think you're asking for trouble there. I'm not saying I'd never do it, I just haven't done it. If I did, it would be in a very, very safe place."

Like on top of a 700-foot spire guarded by acid-spitting orcs armed with phasers and ninja stars and surrounded by a moat filled with octopi with really bad canker sores? Because that's where we keep our Jessica Simpson sex tapes and, well, so far so good, man.

Dream of Jessica at MrSkin.com.

Vanessa's there too. Swear.

ï Given the choice, Nick Lachey would rather be stuck on a desert island with Satan than with his supremely vile former father-in-law, Papa Joe Simpson. That makes 6 billion of us, Nick.

ï Kate Moss might as well face that she's addicted to Pete Doherty. She wishes she knew how to quit him. Brokecrack Mountain?

ï Another Doherty–Shannen–angrily hung up on a Newsweek reporter after being asked about her fiery, Naomi-Campbell-like, fired-from-Spelling-shows days. God, you run over a boyfriend 15 years ago and you never hear the end of it!

ï "Christina Milian" kind of rhymes with "this tiny little thong". Sorta.

ï The divorce gets ugly: Travis Barker questions his estranged wife Shanna Moakler's parenting skills, booze intake, nail salon visits, and open-door vagina policy . . . on his MySpace blog! We can't wait until she hits back with a string of vitriolic friend comments and some extra-hot profile pics taken in the bathroom mirror.

ï Keith Urban, pre-tooth job looks an awful lot like Limahl of Kajagoogoo fame.

ï Note to Nicole Richie: when size 000 bikini bottoms start to look like droopy adult sumo diapers, it might be time to try a cruller or something.

ï One, two, princes kneel before you/thats what I said, now/princes, princes who adore you/just go ahead, now/William has a cosmo in his hand/that sounds great, now/Harry said he wants to honk your mam, now/aint in his head, now.

In the interview Lachey revealed he still loved Simpson and was "blindsided" and "sucker-punched" by her decision to file for divorce. A source close to the blonde singer tells publication People, "She was devastated, heartbroken. She didn't think he would do that." Friends gathered at Simpson's house the day the article hit newsstands to help console her and she even received a call from Lachey himself. A friend of Lachey's tells the magazine, "He wanted her to hear it from him. He felt bad that she was upset, but Nick didn't apologize, because the things he said (in the article) only demonstrate that he loves her." Simpson's camp believes he is trying to use the publicity to promote his upcoming album, What's Left Of Me, which is set for release May 19. The Simpson source adds, "What really upset her was the timing. Nick waited until two weeks before his album debut to tell a reporter that he loved Jessica. That's not cool. He keeps saying, 'I'm sorry I couldn't make her happy,' but he is not choosing to say why."

C'mon, Jessica, tell us why. What is that you want that Nick couldn't give you? Did you want him to dress up like the Swiss Miss girl and stick a cucumber up your ass and he just said, "Let's try that one position where you're on top. That's wild." We bet that's it.

Jessica causes her own devastation–in your pants–at MrSkin.com.