I don’t want to leave y’all high and dry while I’m mingling with celebs so consider this my giant hug to you, the internet faithful.

Hello, lovely readers!

I’m taking off in the wee hours of tomorrow morning (read: 10 a.m.) for fabulous Park City, Utah, where I will be covering the Sundance Film Festival for Film.com through Monday. I’m taking Spiteful Lars with me, because he makes me laugh and he’ll carry my bags.

This means we are leaving The Beet in the very capable hands of Miss Evil T, who will be popping in every now and then to make you laugh and to keep you updated on the very latest gossip on the five celebrities who will not be with me, snorting cocaine off Christina Ricci’s ass-cheek in a predominantly Mormon state whose bars close at one in the morning.

Film.com will be covering all aspects of the festival, with regular video updates, film reviews, photo galleries and staff diaries. You can check it all out here. So read it, watch it, look at it, link to it, live it with us and love it the way we love you.

Breaking news.

Ewan McGregor is now rumored for the part of Kurt Cobain in the story about the Nirvana frontman’s life.

I’m a fan of this idea, not because I can see anyway in hell the story will be worth watching but because Ewan seems like a pretty friendly guy. And friendly guys deserve shots too. I’m sick of all the rewards going to heartless bastards like me.

Also, he played a guy who chased the dragon in Trainspotting so he has some experience there.

The cast of Grey’s Anatomy continues their love-fest, with T.R. Knight appearing on Ellen to formally recommend Isaiah Washington for sainthood. [Defamer]

Even into the sixth season, the American Idol auditions continue to hold a strange power over America. Film.com’s live-blogging it. [Film.com]

Breaking: Paris Hilton treats another human being like crap for no discernable reason. [Celebslam]

Larry Rudolph shocks the world by announcing that Britney Spears is actually not pregnant. [Hollywood Grind]

Meanwhile, a definitely pregnant Tori Spelling knocks back a few glasses of wine. [DListed]

Hugh Hefner generously agrees that he will maybe possibly at some point consider allowing Holly Madison to demand child support from him once she ages out. [Celebitchy]

Gasp! Aniston confidante Courteney Cox was spotted fraternizing with the enemy at the Golden Globes. [The Blemish]

Pam Anderson parties at the Playboy mansion, narrowly avoids a crotch shot. She is not fast enough, however, to evade the ginormous Wynonna Judd lookalike who’s grabbed her by the leg and is now threatening to lick something. [TBYLTH]

Things have not been going well for Cameron Diaz lately. For starters, she and longtime boyfriend Justin Timberlake split early this month. When Justin left, he apparently took with him all of Cameron’s ability to choose dresses and hair colors, as she’s looked like hell since. Her People’s Choice dress looked like it might eat her, and her Golden Globes ensemble gave Bjork’s swanfit a run for its money. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Cam totally lost her cool at a Globes after-party when she saw JT chatting up Jessica Biel (whose relationship with baseball star Derek Jeter is rumored to be “open.”

According to Page Six,

Sources say the temperamental star “blew up” at Biel after she saw Timberlake flirting with her. Diaz followed Timberlake to the In Style party at the Hilton Oasis, where “they had an awkward conversation.” The “Charlie’s Angels” star then trailed Timberlake to the Beverly Hilton rooftop for the Universal party, where she found him chatting up Biel – and screamed at the “Illusionist” star. “If that’s how she wants to get him back, it won’t work,” said our insider. “She’s desperate.”

Looks like it’s going to be interesting to have these two back on the singles scene.

When I watched the Access Hollywood thing I thought to myself, well if Isaiah is denying (calling his castmate the f-word slur regarding sexuality) what does this T.R. Knight fellow have to say? It seems to me that if you’re innocent you get the alleged victim to defend you, especially given you’re on the same show and good PR is needed at this point.

It’s now clear that Knight didn’t rush to Isaiaiaiah’s aid because he was lying. Allegedly of course (full article here).

Knight says… Washington referred to Knight, who was around the corner, using the slur. “Everyone heard it,” Knight says. At the time, Knight had not gone public with his sexuality.

So there you go. I’m not sure why you would deny something months after the fact if there was a chance you actually said it. Mel and the other guy just said sorry and moved on. They’re still jerks but at least no one is talking about it right now.

Maybe he just forgot he hated our gay brothers for “one night only.”