From A Socialite's Life: "Little Hilary Duff is growing up fast, and seems to be taking the very public relationship of her ex-boyfriend, Joel Madden, and Nicole Richie in stride. However, she does admit that she was confused by his behavior after their break-up.

"All of the going out he did after we broke up sort of shocked me," Duff told Seventeen magazine. "Like, that's just so out of character for him, and when we were together, he hated stuff like that, so I felt like I didn't really know him as well as I thought I did."

However, it looks like Hilary's been up to some partying of her own, hitting the town with her sister, Haylie, and Brody Jenner. But don't be fooled, Hilary says. Her hopes and dreams are still squeaky-clean.

"I still want the cookie-cutter American dream," Duff insisted, "to get married, have kids, and have a house with a picket fence. I still believe that marriage can work."

I so rarely give young starlets the benefit of the doubt, but Hilary seems like a nice girl with her head on straight, so if she's partying a little bit here and there, more power to her. I saw her stuffing backpacks with food at an elementary school for goodness' sake! She's a good girl, who just needs a little more meat on her bones."

Kate Hudson, 28, and Owen Wilson, 38 (whaaa?) have split over the Memorial Day Weekend, according to a source at People magazine. While reasons are unknown, we've watched the low-key couple begin in denial that they were even seeing each other, then develop into public handholding, and my personal favorite, "nuzzling." Gross. Seeing the Butterscotch Stallion with anyone is creepy in and of itself, but together, they looked a little too much like brother and sister. They originally hooked up on the set of "Me, You, and Dupree" while Kate was still married to the Black Crowe's Chris Robinson, also known as dirty hobo. Owen, slut that he is, apparently didn't mind the ring on her finger. Alas, another Hollywood romance down the shitter. Never saw it coming.

Their publicists tell us that Denise Richards and Richie Sambora have broken up. But look whose sneaky--they did break up, TWO MONTHS AGO! The reasoning behind this is that the couple each went through nasty divorces (to Charlie Sheen and Heather Locklear, respectively) and knew the pain that publicity causes, so they wanted some privacy. Know why it worked? Because no one cares that they broke up, or that they were even together. For two months, no one said, "Hmmmm, I haven't seen Denise and Richie together in a while. I wonder if there's trouble in wonderland?" No. No one wonders about them, period. The closest I got to reading something about Denise Richards was when she threw that laptop at the paparazzi. But...here I am, re-reading this paragraph....about Denise Richards. Oh well. Break-ups are what happen when you date someone whose first name is like a nickname of your last name. That'd be like if I married someone whose first name was Skerry. I hope my dreams come true.