That Brody Jenner sure knows how to keep his name in the papers. In July, the Princes of Malibu star (well, he was the star for all two episodes that aired) broke up with Laguna Hills demon Kristin Cavallari, and the nation breathed a sigh of relief, thinking we’d never see or hear from him again. But we were wrong. He quickly hitched his wagon to the galloping publicity horse that is Nicole Richie. She ditched him last week.

Uh oh! How will the 23-year-old rich kid ever be relevant now? Hm. Maybe if he decided to hook up with Kristin Cavallari’s longtime nemesis, Lauren Conrad. Yeah, that would probably do the trick. Might even come with a guest spot on LC’s latest reality show, The Hills. Good thinking, Brody!

Update: BWE just totally called the parallel between Jenner’s Laguna Beach double dipping and Adam Duritz’s Jen Aniston/Courtney Cox fuckfest back in the day.

Not much today, kids. Not much at all.

• Gawker’s backstage reporting from the VMAs is worth a read.
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• You know how you can tell it’s a really slow news day? Pictures of Jamie-Lynn Spears.
• Ashlee Simpson may or may not be dating Pete Wentz. “Who is Pete Wentz?” exclaims America.
• Pre-VMA report from Page Six: Ryan Seacreast hanging with his gays; Jason Wahler makes Lauren Conrad cry; Brandon Davis may (shhhh) be on drugs.

The Hills’ Lauren “L.C.” Conrad and her boyfriend, goofy-lookin’ Jason Wahler, had the good sense to end their relationship just as filming for the show had gone on hiatus, sending film crews scrambling to catch the drama they’d been waiting around to catch for the past six months. Production staff are depressed in part because their summer vacation ended practically before it started, but mostly that a 20-year-old FIDM student from Laguna Beach has the power to do that to them simply by dumping her boyfriend.