Jeret "Speedy" Peterson -- who won a silver medal for freestyle skiing for the U.S. in 2010 -- has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Utah ... officials have confirmed.
Salt Lake County Unified Police told KTVB ... Peterson called cops to tell them where he was before he shot himself. His body was discovered late Monday night.
Peterson was arrested last week in Idaho for speeding and DUI.
Jeret was a 3-time Olympian -- competing in 2002, 2006 and 2010 in Vancouver.
He was 29-years old.
Jeret was famous for his sick signature move called "the Hurricane" -- 3 somersaults and 5 twists.
Evan Lysacek is ready to use his ice skates as a weapon -- targeting the guy making death threats against "Dancing with the Stars" co-star Erin Andrews.
We got the two contestants leaving Industry after the show last night, where the Olympian said he'd "take him down with my skating blade" if he ever came face to face with the man who said "Somebody should shoot her [Andrews] in the face."
Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno supposedly skated off in a taxi that a woman called dibs on this weekend forcing her to take the low road as she branded the short track master a "stupid idiot."
Here's Olympian Shaun White flashing his pearly whites and his gold medal in NYC last week (left) -- and a suited up Julia Roberts with her Golden Globe award back in 1990 (right).
Lindsey Vonn is the only chick with better bling than Jay-Z, Flavor Flav, Lil Wayne and Lil Jon combined ... and she's not afraid to show it off.
The U.S. gold and bronze medalist was out in L.A. yesterday, where she proudly showed off her new heavyweight jewelry and proclaimed, "That's the real bling."
As for partying like a rapper -- she'll leave that to the Canadian women's hockey team.
Scotty Lago -- with the help of Michael Phelps -- has hatched a conspiracy theory about those not-really-salacious pics that got Scotty booted from the Olympics ... but it doesn't hold up to us.
Lago told us that Phelps told a friend of his about the time when an Asian journalist tried to kiss Phelps on the cheek for a photo. That journalist was Lainey Liu, who runs a site called laineygossip.com -- and she wrote about the encounter with Phelps about a week ago and posted the photo above (left).
Lago's run-in was infamously documented (right) and a quick comparison of the two women shows very little similarity to us -- except of course for ... well, you know.
Scotty Lago thinks the woman who got down on her knees in Vancouver and simulated kissing his crotch -- the infamous photo that got him kicked out of Vancouver -- was a set-up, because she tried to do basically the same thing to Michael Phelps.
The bronze medal-winning snowboarder was super chatty on his way into "Jimmy Kimmel Live," claiming the chick who kissed his medal and then went South had also approached Michael Phelps and tried dragging him into a make-out session.
As for the Olympic Committee making him leave Vancouver before the closing ceremony -- Scotty says he's pissed.
Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres flat out don't get along, and the tension is building ... this according to multiple "American Idol" sources.
Our insiders say Simon and Ellen aren't even trying to hide it. Ellen can't stand what she believes is Simon's cruelty toward contestants. And, we're told, Simon actually enjoys pissing Ellen off with his blistering critiques.
People working on the show last night tell TMZ ... it was apparent on and off camera ... Simon's tolerance level for the contestants was at an all-time low, and he knew it was making Ellen uncomfortable but clearly didn't care. As one insider put it, "He was intentionally pushing her buttons."
It all started badly ... as Deadline Hollywood first reported .. when Simon showed up late for Ellen's first week of "A.I." taping and made her wait around. Producers separated the two -- who began the season sitting side-by-side -- but the tension has gotten worse.
But business is business. "A.I." is beating the Olympics, and ratings for Ellen's show skyrocketed last week. In Hollywood, contempt has its upside.
Before the 2010 Winter Olympics, the sport or curling was just some dudes with beer bellies throwing frozen rocks -- but the 2010 women's teams have opened our eyes to a new breed of babe.
Snowboarder Scotty Lago is gonna have to wait an extra day to receive the key to his hometown in New Hampshire ... but the delay has nothing to do with that racy photo that got him booted from Vancouver.
A parade for Lago was originally scheduled for this Saturday in Seabrook, NH -- but according to the parade coordinator, Shaylia Marquis, it had to be moved to Sunday because Lago is appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Friday in Los Angeles.
Marquis said the parade is set to go down at 1 PM, and will end with a private ceremony in which Scotty will be handed a key to the town.
Wearing "Eyes Wide Shut" party moose binoculars, Keith Urban and his entranced wife Nicole Kidman watched the ice dancing competition at the Olympics on Monday.
Snowboarder Scotty Lago is gonna have to wait an extra day to receive the key to his hometown in New Hampshire ... but the delay has nothing to do with that racy photo that got him booted from Vancouver.
