Conan O’Brien has announced that he will pay the salaries of his non-striking staff next week, out of his own pocket.

NBC had been paying their salaries through this week.

How else to explain the eleven minutes the two spent in a first-class bathroom on a flight from Frankfurt to LA?

Three hours into the flight, Reese reportedly got up from her seat and walked forward to the toilet. Two minutes later Jake got up and allegedly walked into the same bathroom. “I started timing them - they were together in there for 11-minutes,” the witness told Star.

Jake came out of the bathroom first, and Reese reportedly followed him three-minutes later. “When they each walked by, it seemed like everyone in their entourage took pains to look away.

Seriously, I’d be grossed out, too. It’s really hard to thoroughly wash your hands in those airplane bathrooms!

I had no idea she was even pregnant.

In fact, I’ve known basically nothing about her since Ad got killed off on The Sopranos (my apologies to those of you who are still making your way through the DVDs). I guess she was on Joey, but I think I speak for the entire nation when I say, “Who cares?”

She and her boyfriend, Shooter Jennings, just had a baby girl on Wednesday. Her name is Alabama Gypsy Rose.

Congrats to Drea and Shooter!

The Spice Girls tour kicks off this weekend. [Cele|bitchy]

Britney Spears went to a bookstore … to get coffee. [DListed]

Even more proof that John Travolta’s gay. [Celebrity Smack]

Why are we still taking pictures of Kristin Cavallari? [Drunken Stepfather]

Lindsay Lohan is concerned that her little sister is growing up too fast. [INO]

Do you think it’s way weird that Chyler Leigh once kissed her brother on camera? For a job? [Mollygood]

Kristen Bell is finally starting to figure out how to get attention. [DH]

Give me a break.

So earlier in the week, InTouch magazine ran some story saying J.R. Rotem claimed Britney Spears was pregnant with his baby. We didn’t run the story on here, because it was bullshit.

J.R. denied making those claims in a formal statement, and now InTouch is striking back, by putting images of their text message conversations with J.R. on their website. This proves everything!!! It’s like they pulled the pregnancy test from the urine themselves!!!

Here at Evil Beet, we’ve employed a similar technology to prove, once and for all, that Paris Hilton is a huge, herpes-infested turd.

Which pop star - known more for the rocker she’s dating than her own vocal skills - has visited the ER several times after partying too hard on her BF’s tour?

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Gwyneth Paltrow and her hubby, Chris Martin, haven’t been seen photographed together in months.

When asked about the rumors of an impending split, Paltrow’s rep said they “are absolutely not true. They have been completely together and barely separated. Chris was with her in Los Angeles during the shooting of ‘Iron Man,’ and then with her in the Hamptons during the summer, and in London for September and October. She’s been in New York for the past week, but he is joining him soon in a few days. This stems from the fact that both Chris and Gwyneth make a deliberate effort not to be photographed together. She does not take him to any events where there will be press - or if she does, they enter separately. It is their policy not to put their relationship out there for public consumption.”

My, my, my.

A simple “not true” would have sufficed, darling.

This is what we have to look forward to as the writers’ strike continues.