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Holy crap, this man is pretty. I thought he was a soap opera star, but apparently he's some British race-car driver named Lewis Hamilton. And here he is at signing for his book (those seem to be popular these days...) about his life's story. The twenty-two-year-old has been surrounded by a media frenzy in his native England, over his decision to relocated to Switzerland. His British fans are in an uproar, saying that the young Formula One driver is turning his back on his fans and his country. Hamilton says it isn't so.

"I love my fans; not only in the UK, but all around the world," Hamilton said. "I love making people happy. It gives me great pleasure to have someone come up to me and ask me for a picture or an autograph. It's a great feeling for anyone. There's no doubt in my mind that I love my fans and I love spending as much time as I can with them. I'm at a point in my life where I have an opportunity to see the world and I've chosen Switzerland. For me, it's not a tax issue because I've been in England for the past few years and I've been paying my taxes and it's really not an issue - you'd have to ask my management about that."

I don't blame him, really. I'd move to Switzerland if I could. That whole country is built on the values I hold most dear--cheese, chocolate and cheese.

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More photos of Lewis Hamilton signing copies of his new autobiography 'My Story' in London after the jump.

Stars of HBO's "Entourage," Adrian Grenier and Kevin Connolly are chilling at Borders, promoting the book about the series at a book signing. I really love that save for the fact that I happen to know that Adrian Grenier is a famous actor, I would have otherwise assumed that he was a friendly-looking young homeless man, who had wandered into Borders, hoping to beg enough change for a coffee and accidentally ended up in these pictures. Seriously, there's a lot of hair on that guy from the neck up and it appears to be slowly, but surely taking over his face.

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More photos of Adrian Grenier and Kevin Connolly promoting "Entourage" after the jump.

Not to betray my queer brethren, but my money's on Fitty. In fact, I fear for Lance's bone structure. Ok, they're not really going to fight. They just had books come out at the same time on Tuesday night and did some play-trash talking. Seriously, I'd like to see them fight, though. Again, not to turn my back on my people, but all I can imagine is 50 coming after Lance while he screams and runs for the knife drawer in the kitchen. Lance Bass' book "Out of Sync" and 50 Cent's coffe-table book "50x50" are stepping in the ring.

"He doesn't stand a chance," Senor Cent told me at the launch of his coffee-table tome, "50 x 50."

"With me, everything's a competition, so I bet you the end of next week, I'll be moving more copies than him," Fitty said over dinner at Philippe. "This is the same competition - this is Kanye West and 50 Cent all over again!"

Twenty minutes later, at Azza, Bass was happy to hit back.

"50's going down, that's all I have to say," he said while promoting his memoir, "Out of Sync."

"50, I don't want to playa-hate, but there's a lot that my book has" that his doesn't.

Lance met his "space training" (remember that attempt to draw attention away from the gay?) and his "relationships with the guys". Which I think he means the guys in N*Sync. I think. Does he mean guys in general? True. 50 Cent's been to prison but he's made it pretty clear in the past he doesn't swing that way and doesn't feel like anybody else should. So Lance has that on him. Seriously, though, if Lance EVEN has a Joey Fatone "bro-job" story - he'd goddamn better tell it or I'm citing the Freedom of Information act. I want size, width, girth, circumference, audio and video. In a report. In a binder. With a multimedia laser show accompanying it.

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I don't know quite what to say about this video that Page Six pointed us to for " The Manny,"Holly Peterson's new novel. The video stars German-born Johannes Huebl as the Manny, along with model/actress Karen Duffy, Cristina Cuomo and Carole Radziwill. It's bizarre, humorous, insulting and childish all wrapped up in one.

While Anna Wintour is running Vogue, making a documentary and no doubt creating image conscious thoughts in women everywhere, she managed to squeeze in time to pen a foreward for the latest fashion must have. The addition to the literature world will be available in October.

A $75 "Style Bible" is set to hit a coffee table near you. The good book, entitled "Stylist: The Creation of Style," was concocted by Rizzoli Books. The top 16 trendsetters will comprise a 272 page dedication. Paul Cavaco, Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, Grace Coddington, Edward Enninful, Lori Goldstein, Tonne Goodman, Andrea Lieberman, Polly Mellon, Camilla Nickerson, Carine Roitfeld, Venetia Scott, Karl Templer, Melanie Ward, Alex White, Brana Wolf, and Joe Zee have all made the cut as the crème de la crème of style. Photos will accompany interviews from the portfolios of Helmut Newton, Steven Meisel, and Annie Leibovitz.

To get back into the swing of things, ease yourself into the calm waters of movie critics. The Famesters movie lounge has a Pirate Lounge for your enjoyment. Was it a thumbs up or down? Or for you NUMB3RS fans out there, you can hang out with many fans of talk about Charlie, Don, or Alan. 25 Point Trivia is also up and running. Test your celebrity knowledge for 25 points to climb the Famester List.

All for the sake of our children. Jada Pinkett Smith has written the forward to a new children's book, "The Great Tomato Adventure." The mother of three drew on her own experience when she wrote the forward, which touches on getting parents to educate their children about the dangers of talking to strangers.

Hollywood mum Jada Pinkett Smith no doubt drew on her experience with her own kids when she helped unveil a new children's book in New York this week. And with her expressive face and gestures Will Smith's multi-talented wife clearly made the story come alive for her audience of pre-school children. She says the book enabled her to talk to the children about the issue. "My kids are constantly around people they don't know, so this book was very helpful," she revealed.

The Great Tomato Adventure, wasn't 35-year-old Jada's first venture into publishing. She has already written and appeared in photo adventure Girls Hold Up This World, and says she's keen to do another - this time with her husband.

"Will and I have a couple of ideas," she says. "We love children and we have a couple of book projects we are thinking about."

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Send a blurb of the most embarrassing situation in your life to contest@socialitelife.celebuzz.com with the subject "This Life Thing" and we will choose the 20 most hilarious to publish on the site (names will be kept confidential) and win! You have until Midnight EST on Wednesday, April 18th to enter.

Author, Lori Culwell, has recently come out with a satirical look at the entertainment industry entitled, "Hollywood Car Wash," and Mrs. Tom Cruise is none too happy with the tome. And despite the fact that Culwell's MySpace page claims that the main character does not intentionally mirror Katie and her life experiences, all of the characters and situations are, in fact, based on real people.

"Someone gave her a copy last weekend, and she's been reading it non-stop ever since," said one of the actress' friends. "She's already having problems with Tom, and now she feels like her private life has been exposed. She's really upset."

"Hollywood Car Wash" focuses on the rise of a young actress on a tv series who is forced to lose weight, takes drugs, is hounded by paparazzi, and gets into a contracted relationship. "Katie can't believe the similarities," said the source.

Ugh, I'm so jealous. I want to write a tell-all book that will upset people and get me a movie deal. The problem is that I have access to all kinds of secrets and information about people that no one cares about. My stupid friends and family need to hurry up and get famous. I have coattails to ride here, people.

Fresh off the presses, the updated version of Anna Nicole's biography is now available on Amazon. I read this book in one night - it was truly the saddest thing I ever laid my eyes on. What a heartbreaking story!

Written by the two people that discovered Anna, the book walks us through the murky details of her childhood (Anna disputed that Vergie Hart was her mother and said instead that her aunt sired her. The only problem with that story is that her aunt was 10 when Anna was born.), to the dizzy days of stripping and J. Howard Marshall, to the moment Anna met the authors and was discovered by Playboy, to her catapult to stardom, and then traces the steps to her tragic demise. Vickie Lynn Hogan (Anna's given name) had a larger than life existence fueled mainly by sheer ambition and her desire for money, drugs, fame, and sex.

Anna Nicole's childhood was marred by not knowing her father, and growing up with a volatile and competitive relationship with her mother, Vergie Hart. Anna was 5' 11", had mousey brown hair, and an A-cup. Admittedly, Anna was not popular in her Mexia, TX high school. Students in the town called her "nerdy" and even "common." After getting in a fight with a classmate that resulted in her expulsion, 16-year old Anna Nicole dropped out and got her first job at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken. It was here that she would meet her first husband and father of her son, Daniel, Billy Smith.

Six months after the birth of Daniel, Anna filed for divorce from Billy on the grounds that he was abusive, and she moved to Houston where the opportunities seemed boundless. Anna moved in with Vergie and tried to get work wherever she could. A brief stint as a waitress at Red Lobster led Anna to realize that she would not make enough money to fund the lifestyle she desired making minimum wage and measly tips. She also realized that living with Vergie was seriously limiting her fun, so she set out to make a better life for herself.

Keep reading about Anna's life after the jump.

The book that will soon replace my copy of JDick's memoirs, "No Lifeguard On Duty," as my favorite trashy celebrity confessional has got to be the as-of-yet unpublished, "BaioWatch: How I Dated and Loved Hollywood's Most Beautiful Women and Ended Up Alone." That's right, Bob Loblaw is shopping a manuscript detailing Baio's romantic history with the various famous women who have come and gone in his life, according to Radar.

Pamela Anderson - "One day Pamela came home and said, 'I'm thinking of getting my boobs done.' Admittedly, I was surprised. My initial response, 'Reduced?' She already had large, beautiful, natural breasts. At that moment I knew our relationship would soon begin to crumble."

More between-the-sheets confessions from Baio after the jump.