Jenny from the Block rather lends herself, and her similarly significant-sized ego, to comedy rip-offs. But when Jennifer Lopez recently appeared in an interview with Jay Leno, the famous funnyman went easy on her.

Still, he did get her to admit that she reads the rags.

"Yes, I do [read gossip mags]. And anybody who says they don't is a liar!" insisted Lopez. "Not all of it [is true], but where there's smoke there's fire!" You mean, for instance, the smoke around that reported sex tape with your ex? Leno kindly didn't go there in his chat with J.Lo.

Claire Danes is another star who's just owned up to sneaking a look at the tabloids.

The 'Romeo + Juliet' actress confesses: "I totally read gossip magazines if I'm at the gym or having my nails done." But, she says, "I don't like them. I'm not for them because I don't like being chased by paparazzi."

"But they satisfy a kind of id-like, grubby, nosey part of ourselves. But I'm wary of it because it's laced with meanness. Especially with the anonymity of the internet, it's a reflection of our less appealing selves that wouldn't be so apparent if we were all in the same room together." Certainly true.

Something I wish weren't true: the number of newly-minted young 'Gossip Girl' celebs who're setting their sights on the music industry.

Little Jenny Humphrey is getting to rock out in real life, in the form of actress Taylor Momsen — and the off-screen Blair Waldorf, Leighton Meester, has just released her trying-a-little-too-hard-to-be-sultry single, though I have to say that, vapid as it is, it's plenty fun and catchy.

Now Penn Badgley (who plays Dan Humphrey) is getting in on the act... though his musical ambitions sound rather more modest, and bearable, than his co-stars'.

"My dream is to play live shows with a small orchestra — strings, horns, an organ," says Badgley. "I'd play keyboards and guitar and sing. But I wouldn't be the frontman." Actually, that sounds pretty good, Penn.

And, finally, I leave you with news about the delightful Ashlee Simpson, who's just started her turn on Broadway as Roxy Hart, in that perennial favourite 'Chicago'.

Ash has already reportedly managed to piss-off her co-stars with her party behaviour at New York's Time Hotel, where they all went to celebrate after Simpson's debut performance.

Apparently, Ashley commandeered part of the party space to construct a "makeshift VIP section" for herself, her husband Pete Wentz, sister Jessica Simpson, and their dad Joe.

One of her uncharmed fellow cast-members commented to the New York Post that, "It's not like this is a club in LA. She has to perform with us for two months." And super-fun months they promise to be, at this rate!

More celeb subtlety and sensitivity — in next week's Bitch and Famous! And, if you want more gossip before then, just friend me on Facebook.