According to sources on the set, Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi often indulged in a joint on the set every now and then — or, you know, “fairly regularly.” As the Best Week Ever folks point out, this explains a lot, like how she usually seems only marginally involved in whatever’s going on, how she speaks very slowly, and how she married Salman Rushdie.

It’s also disappointing, though, because we could have pushed this storyline much further. Pot brownies have been done — can we see someone attempt a duo of Mary Jane foie gras and sirloin? With pot potatoes on the side? Can Marcel make a foam out of it? Or mix it with xantham gum? I can’t believe no one thought to try that. It would have made for one hell of a judges table.

Nicole Kidman is carted off to the hospital after an on-set car accident, but she’s so badass she comes back later in the night to resume filming. Thankfully, someone got the accident on tape. [Celebslam]

Jessica’s pouty expressions and hair-twirling may be more for the camera than for John Mayer. [Cele|bitchy]

Kate and Owen take another shot at their non-relationship. You know, for the sake of the little Ryder. Oh wait. [Celeb Warship]

Pics of Carrie Underwood shooting her new music video. [Celebrity Smack]

Wrap your head around this: Paul Reubens, incapable of draw the line at masturbating in a public place, also smoked cigarettes on set. [Defamer]

Black Snake Moan is characterized as “bad Ricci-porn.” Count me in! [Pajiba]

Even fast food employees are loathe to be associated with Kevin Federline. [Agent Bedhead]

Justin Timberlake’s only been single a matter of weeks, and the classy and talented Jessica Biel has already made herself available to him for whatever it is he may need companionship for — snowboarding, dining, what have you. Biel made a special trip to Sundance, where she is not promoting a film, to spend time with Justin, who appeared in “bad Ricci-porn” Black Snake Moan on Wednesday.

According to Perez Hilton’s source, “Jessica was picked up in her chauffeur-driven Volkswagen Touareg car and instantly went to visit Timberlake when she got into Park City,” which begs the obvious question: why hasn’t Volkswagen’s PR team contacted me for a plug? The two spent time together snowboarding on Thursday and probably also doing any number of things I can’t write about here.

Biel, who recently split from baseballer Derek Jeter, was spotted backstage at a Timberlake concert earlier this month, and was rumored to be the cause of a Cameron/Justin blow-out at the Golden Globes.

Blech! Justin! If you want us to take you seriously as an actor, maybe you should stop hanging out with someone who read the script for Stealth and thought, “Here’s a can’t-miss premise.” Next thing you know, you’ll be starring in bad Ricci-porn!

PS — Check out the JT magazine cover in this old-school Jessica photo!

Dude, I’d be depressed if I was wearing an orange jumper too. Can we please talk about those shoes? Mandy, you are a young woman. I know that you are really mature for your age but that doesn’t mean that you can wear granny shoes. I know it is cold in Sundance but the “Frigid Bitch” look is so 2002.

This sounds like the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of. Some kids at a college in Texas decided that it would be cool to get a bunch of KFC, some 40s, a chick dressed as Aunt Jemima, and wear some “gang clothes” to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.

They stupidly put the photos up on Facebook and they obviously ended up on The Smoking Gun.

Bad idea kids. This day and age you need to be just a little politically correct. Also, what have we learned from famous people like Paris Hilton…when you do something stupid don’t put it on your MySpace or Facebook page.

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Supermodel-turned-reality-show-host-turned-talk-show-queen Tyra Banks spoke with People magazine about the weight she’s put on since she retired from modeling in 2005. When a tabloid posted these pics of Tyra looking a little hefty in a swimsuit with some disparaging headlines, Tyra’s feelings were understandably hurt. “I get so much mail from young girls who say, ‘I look up to you, you’re not as skinny as everyone else, I think you’re beautiful,’ ” she says. “So when they say that my body is ‘ugly’ and ‘disgusting,’ what does that make those girls feel like?”

Continues Tyra, “I’ve made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where’s the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there – the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those (horrible) things.”

Tyra’s long been a proponent of a realistic body image for young women, and she always encourages the girls on Top Model to eat healthy and take care of themselves. The competition used to regularly include a token “fat model,” but producers must have realized the hopelessness of that cause, because the more recent cycles have been all thin girls. Last year, Tyra announced that she would no longer allow photo shoots of herself to be digitally retouched before being used in magazine, again emphasizing that this sends a message promoting unrealistic beauty to women. Because, you know, every woman can look like Tyra Banks if she just exercises and eats right.

But is there an additional motive to Tyra’s weight gain? “(TV execs) think it’s better when I’m at 155 lbs. – at 145, they feel I’m not as relatable,” she says. Perhaps Tyra’s trying to discard her supermodel image and adopt a look that Midwestern housewives will be more comfortable taking advice from.

Check out these adorable pics of Cameron Diaz — still in Hawaii — with buddy/love interest(?) pro surfer Kelly Slater. It’s good to see her happy again. But this isn’t going to stop Us Magazine from releasing new deets about her Golden Globes war with Justin:

“Cameron was across the room giving them the evil eye,” says a party source. “It was like high school.”

Another witness says that pal Drew Barrymore even attempted to distract Diaz from her ex’s hookup-in-progress with Biel, “grabbing Cameron to dance, trying to make her have fun.”

What Diaz did next, barely five days after announcing an amicable split with Timberlake, her boyfriend of nearly four years, shocked the whole room.

“All of a sudden she just lost it,” says one of the many witnesses to the tantrum of Diaz. “She came up and started yelling at Jessica.”

According to a witness, Biel, 24, stepped away, leaving Diaz, 34, to unleash her fury on Timberlake, 25, who moved with her into a hallway.

Says a guest, “First she started saying all these nasty things to him about Jessica like, ‘What is she? Your new f—king girlfriend? Look at her!’ And then she insinuated things about other guys that Jessica has been with.”

The tirade went on for 45 minutes, until Barrymore finally intervened. Says a source, “Drew had to grab Cameron and say, ‘It’s enough.’”

I can’t say I blame her. Jessica Biel’s kind of a dirty slut. But I do wish I had her ass. Whatever, it doesn’t sound like Justin hit that anyway. Good lookin’ out, JT!

At least there’s one constant in Anne Heche’s life: the crazy. The actress, who dated Ellen Degeneres during her “yeah I’m totally into women since I can’t land an A-list man” phase, has left her husband Coley Laffoon, a camera man. The two met, ironically, while working on a documentary about Ellen’s return to stand-up comedy. They have one son together, which they opted to name Homer — you know, so that he’ll get beat up a lot.

Why the split? Apparently Anne has fallen for her Men in Trees co-star, James Tupper, who has — of course — a wife and child. There should really be an “Anne Heche Ruined My Life” support group. A twelve-step program even. And Anne Heche should attend meetings regularly.