Welcome to The Hollywood Gossip’s Week in Review.

Below, we take a look back on the last seven days in the celeb world. Visit us daily and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest gossip, rumors, commentary and humor 24/7/365. Now, for the big Hollywood news of the past week …

• Mel Gibson’s daily rants against Oksana Grigorieva - during which he threatened her life and made countless vile slurs - shocked and appalled us. The actor has serious problems, but is he also the victim of an extortion plot?
• The View turned back the clock a few decades with some views on HIV that have to be heard to be believed. Let’s just say GLAAD isn’t exactly pleased.
• With her sentencing looming, Lindsay Lohan checked into rehab in a last-ditch bid to win over the judge. Can her new lawyer, Robert Shapiro, save her?

Oksana and Mel aren’t smiling much these days.

• Vienna Girardi’s ex says he hit that while she was engaged.
• These two peeps were convicted of extorting John Stamos.
• Bristol Palin announced she is engaged to Levi Johnston.
• Devon James really wants some of Tiger Woods’ DNA.
• Robert Pattinson referred to Courtney Love as a d!ck.
• Is the world ready for a Justin Bieber movie?

It’s Justin Bieber’s world. We just live in it.

• Tabloids really want to make Jennifer Aniston pregnant.
• Crista Flanagan is going retro … and not on Mad Men.
• Pamela Anderson and PETA are too hot for Montreal.
• Jessie Lunderby’s Playboy shoot was too hot for jail.
• Danielle Staub causes country club, real life chaos.
• Tila Tequila got kicked out of Celebrity Rehab.

The Hills cast celebrates six seasons of mostly contrived drama.

• The Hills ended its six-season run on a controversial note, basically admitting that it’s all fake … oh, sorry, we mean “open to interpretation.”
• The Bachelorette is down to just three guys, but in upsetting news, it looks like another betrayal is still to come soon: By Frank Neuschaefer.
• Couple news: The-Dream and Christina Milian are divorcing; Kelly Osbourne and Luke Worrall split, Audrina Patridge may be back with Corey Bohan, Ashley Greene is dating Brock Kelly, Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner may be back with ex-GF Sarah Hicks, and Kim Kardashian stepped out with Miles Austin.
• Wedding Bells: In one of the busiest weeks for celebrity nuptials in recent history, the following couples wed: Mike Fisher and Carrie Underwood, Martin Lawrence and Shamicka Gibbs, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, Carmelo Anthony and LaLa Vazquez, Vanessa Marcil and Carmine Giovinazzo, and Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Congratulations to all!

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Welcome to The Hollywood Gossip. Click to enlarge some of our favorite photos from the past week. Dozens of additional images that accompanied our stories these past seven days are in our gallery of our celebrity pics and after the jump …

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One is 16, the other is 19.

One is shaggy-haired, the other closely-cropped.

One raps and sings pop songs, the other prefers ballads.

But there’s one thing Justin Bieber and David Archuleta have in common: an adoring fan base of teenage girls.

Both these artists have been in the news this week - Bieber for breaking a YouTube record previously held by Lady Gaga; Archuleta for announcing the release date for his new album - and it got us thinking: Could you choose between these young stud muffins?

Between Justin and David, who would you rather… date?

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Just a few hours before she took took the stage for the American Idol finale in May, Crystal Bowersox and her boyfriend broke up.

In an extensive interview with the August issue of Redbook, the singer wants to make one thing very clear: don’t point any fingers at her ex, Tony.

“I want to make clear how amazing, kind, and generous a person he is, and that he truly considers my son his son and little Tony loves him,” Crystal said. “He’s been there since my son was about 3 months old. And in a lot of ways, he’s the perfect man; he really is.

“But ultimately, we both knew it wasn’t going to work out, considering the different lives we were leading. And it’s better to come to that realization than to have an unhappy relationship. Mommy and Daddy need to be happy in order for baby to be happy.”

Bowersox, who fell to Lee DeWyze in the finals of the competition, touched on a number of other topics, as well. To wit:

On almost quitting Idol: I did go talk to Ryan [Seacrest] at one point because he works 24/7 and I knew he would understand. He gave me the best advice: He said the best thing I could ever do was work hard enough now so I could take care of my family. And it’s true. Sometimes you have to work really hard and make sacrifices so you can provide for the people you love.

On her hospitalization: You want to forget you’re diabetic for a while, and maybe you don’t watch yourself as well as you should. I ended up getting sick in March, and they told me I was off the show. I wasn’t going to take that. I begged, I screamed, I pleaded. I said, ‘I want to meet with the head honchos. I need this so bad for my kid. I’ll go home if I’m voted off, but not because of this.’ That’s the one time I threw a huge fit, and thankfully, they gave in.

We were big fans of Crystal throughout the show and we wish her the best of luck.

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Lauren Conrad is going rogue.

The L.A. Candy author says that for her next work of literary mastery, she’s planning a darker spinoff of sorts featuring one of her current characters.

“I’m going to take Madison from the book and do a darker series,” she said at The Hills finale party. “I already wrote a little bit and it was really fun.”

L.A. Candy focuses on Jane Roberts, a young woman who moves to Hollywood, gets a job with an event planner and eventually lands a reality show.

That all sounds vaguely familiar …

For Lauren Conrad, L.A. Candy is art imitating life. Or The Hills.

Like LC, Jane isn’t always happy with her fame and the attention it brings, while her friend Madison takes the opposite approach and just eats it up.

Again, feels like we’ve heard this somewhere.

“I think it would be really fun to do it the other way, with someone who loves it,” Conrad said. “Someone who loves fame and plays the game well.”

She certainly has enough real-life material to draw on.

Lauren is still working on the third book in the Candy series, but we’re already looking forward to reading the exploits of crazy Heidi Montag … er, Madison.

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