What happens when you were was famous but are no longer famous? Can you still hang out with your old friends who still happen to be famous—much more famous than you are now? Here are two stories that suggest: no!

Great week for Lance Bass! After spending a decade trying to escape Earth's orbit, the former 'NSYNC member reunited with his old group at the VMA's and then got engaged to boyfriend Michael Turchin.

Britney Spears (or her imposter) might be a big stoner. Halle Berry's boyfriend gets in trouble with the law. Charlie Sheen tracks down his hooker-snatched watch. Saturday Gossip Roundup is backing over paparazzis like it's Grand Theft Auto IV.

Today at Gawker.TV, James Franco weighs the pros and cons of his Oscar hosting duties, Lance Bass gabs with Andy Cohen about other famous TV gays, and Jon Stewart analyzes Sarah Palin's twitter account (and the media's obsession with it.)

On last night's Watch What Happened Live, Lance Bass was no match for Andy Cohen's alcohol-fueld round of questioning. He admitted to briefly dating Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Cedric and tried to dodge questions about The A List's annoying Reichen.

Miley's eighteenth birthday party features bumping and grinding with her mom. Jay-Z shot his brother at age 12. Charlie Sheen's hooker gives an interview. Lenny Dykstra's dog could get repossessed. Just another manic Monday gossip roundup.

Kim defies her former BFF and sensei. Lindsay Lohan could get out of rehab this week. Lance Bass gets a drink tossed in his face. Lil' Wayne eats prison beef stick. Monday gossip faces consequences.

Professional homosexual and scuttled cosmonaut Lance Bass is apparently digging through Marc Jacobs' compost heap. The NSYNCer has been seen canoodling with the fashion designer's ex, Lorenzo Martone, at various fashion events and trendy restaurants. Somewhere, Joey Fatone broods jealously.

[Former NSYNC'r and current man of leisure Lance Bass (in the yellow) having brunch in the West Village yesterday; image via Bauer-Griffin]

She will throw in a make-up consultation for free. Lance Bass is dating one of the Queer Eye guys. Kendra Wilkinson's sex tape has "multiple partners." Jill Zarin (accidentally?) teases Bethenny's baby. Monday's gossip is surprising at first, then obvious.

A mystery celebrity will be coming out of the closet on the cover of People on May 5 and lots of people are talking about who it's going to be. Well, it's time to toss out names and respective odds.

Since all the real power gays refused to be on the show Logo's "gay housewives" project got the one guy who wouldn't say no: professional arm candy and reality TV vet Reichen Lehmkuhl.

There's usually a lag time between when everyone knows a celeb is a "friend of Dorothy" and when they finally come out. Starting with Ricky Martin the lovely ladies at Autostraddle have graphically charted the road out of the closet.

It's a sad world, but there are things to make us happy, like births and newly-single male models! Look for birthing, dying, and marrying info about Ellen DeGeneres, Erich Segal, Pernell Roberts, Octomom, and a host of others.

CNN decided it was going to enlist Kathy Griffin, Lance Bass, and Anderson Cooper to give them a New Year's Eve as big and sparkly as the crystal monstrosity in Times Square. They got what they wanted, which they hated.

The eight-guidos-in-a-house reality show is MTV's biggest hit in years, but this year Christmas and New Year's Eves land on the show's Thursday night slot. Should they air a show no one will watch or risk further cast overexposure?

CNN Exec.1: Since our usual audience of crotchety senior citizens will be asleep, how will we attract viewers for the NYE countdown? CNN Exec.2: I know, let's get Anderson to call some of his cool gay friends, for a party.

The collective desire to find something to blame for Brittany Murphy's untimely death channels itself into autopsy results and prescription obsessing; Posh Spice does "the robot"; Lance Bass gay-boyfriends for Jamie-Lynn Sigler; porn star hates sex. Tuesday gossip anon.

Emmy Rossum and Adam Duritz hanging out in Washington Square Park on Saturday ... Leighton Meester and Sebastian Stan kissing in the street in front of Five Points ... Hugh Jackman playing in the snow with his kids as Cate Blanchett's sons played nearby ... Rachel McAdams walking with Jude Law's assistant, Ben Jackson ... Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick walking home from a play ... Ed Westwick shopping at Armani Exchange ... Sienna Miller walking downtown ... Catherine Zeta-Jones leaving the Walter Kerr Theater on West 48th Street ... Howard Stern and wife Beth Ostrosky watching a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden ... Amanda Seyfried walking her dog in the meatpacking district ... Britney Spears and boyfriend Jason Trawick arriving at JFK ... and Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Lance Bass taking a stroll in the meatpacking district.

December 14th: Lance Bass at Kiss & Fly Sunday to celebrate Malik So Chic's bday. He was flirting with a half-naked waiter, who turned out to be straight. (Plus: a reminder on the new ways to submit Stalker sightings)