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Some parents in Virginia just pulled the ultimate "mic drop" on everyone else trying to impress their kids with "Elf on the Shelf" setups this year ... creating a Drake-inspired "Hotline Bling" display.

For those out of the know -- "Elf on the Shelf" is a recently started holiday tradition -- in the weeks leading up to Christmas where parents pose a toy elf overnight for their kids to find in the morning. Kristen Dipini from Dale City, VA tells TMZ she and her husband got extra creative for their 3 kids this year.

She tells us all of her kids love Drake and the "Hotline Bling" song so she set up "Elfis" just like his music video Sunday morning.

The pic has been going viral all day and it's no surprise ... Drake's just got it this year.

Teresa Giudice's Christmas as a free woman will be spent the Italian way ... with lots of family and antipasto.

The 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' star will be released from the big house on Dec. 23rd after serving a little under a year for fraud ... and we're told she doesn't want a big coming home party.

Sources tell us Teresa's going straight home once she's out to Joe and the kids.

On Christmas Eve, they'll make the trek over to sister-in-law and fellow 'RHONJ' star Melissa Gorga's house and Christmas Day will be spent with Joe's family. Teresa's hubby will begin his 41 month prison sentence soon ... so it's the last time they'll all be together for Christmas for a while.

We're told the plan is to capture everything on camera, but Bravo's still working out contracts and logistics so nothing's set in stone.

Selena Gomez didn't pull a Justin Bieber when she posted a pic of a smoking hot dude, 'cause she's not trying to get with him ... she's just promoting her new music video.

We're told the Wilhelmina L.A. model in the pic is Christopher Mason -- Selena slapped him up on her IG Thursday, and fans immediately thought she was either trolling Justin or trying to holla at some random babe.

Truth is, Christopher plays Selena's love interest in her "Hands to Myself" music video which drops next week. We're told there's no hooking up going on -- in fact, Chris is in a relationship. He also has a daughter.

That doesn't mean Selena's blind -- we're told she hand-picked him to be her co-star. Smart chick.

A couple of Arizona State football players got busted for burglary, and the excuses they gave cops live up to every ASU student stereotype you've heard.

Campus police say they caught Jayme Otomewo and Deonte Reynolds in the hallway knocking on an apartment door on Sunday afternoon. A female student had called police to report 2 unknown black men in her entryway without permission.

When police questioned Otomewo and Reynolds they admitted entering a couple of rooms, but said they were merely looking for a vacuum. Y'know how college kids love to clean.

Police suspect they used a butter knife to jimmy the doors because Otomewo had a bent one in his pocket. He told police it was there from the night before. He had no explanation for why it was still there the next day.

Cops say the guys also had several credit cards -- not in their names -- a Beats Pill portable speaker, 2 iPods and 1 iPhone. They claimed the cards belonged to friends. As for the speaker, cops say they were blaring music from it as they went room-to-room, and Otomewo admitted pilfering it.

Reynolds was booked for 2nd degree burglary, and Otomewo for theft and 3rd degree burglary.

Gooooo Sun Devils!

The Game can finally settle his beef with Stitches without risk of ending up in jail -- he has an offer to step into a boxing ring ... and Stitches has already signed on the dotted line.

Damon Feldman is promoting the celebrity boxing event and tells us the fight would be 3 rounds, each being 90 seconds long. After the Miami K.O. of Stitches ... Feldman thinks there's enough interest that the purse could be as high as 7 figures.

Game has said the fact he's on probation is why his pal Wack 100 stepped in to take down Stitches the first time, but a celeb boxing match would keep him on the right side of the law.

No date yet for the fight, and no word if Game will bite.

It's hardly a rematch since Stitches barely got a step in, much less a punch -- but we're told he's taking the opportunity seriously, and might hire ex-champ Bernard Hopkins as his trainer.

He'll have his work cut out for him.

Conor McGregor's movie career is officially ON -- 'cause we're told the UFC's 13 second knockout king has agreed to a role in the new 'xXx' movie.

The Irish superstar has said that Hollywood has been knocking on his door for a while -- and Vin Diesel is a huge fan when it comes to putting fighters in his flicks (like Ronda Rousey in "Furious 7").

In fact, Diesel posted on Instagram Monday suggesting Conor was on board for "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage."

Now, our sources connected to the situation tell us ... Conor HAS verbally agreed to play a role in the flick -- though it's unclear how big of a part it will be.

Of course, things happen in Hollywood and Conor could always pull out -- but for now, we're told it's a go.

As we previously reported, Mark Wahlberg is also interested in the Notorious one for an upcoming project.

DMX has a perfectly good explanation for missing his latest court date -- he thought it was changed so he could party in Vegas.

An arrest warrant was issued for DMX after he missed a court hearing on Monday to address child support issues with his ex-wife Tashera Simmons and their 4 kids.

A rep for DMX tells us they believed they got the court date changed in advance because they had an event booked. X performed "DMX-Mas" in Las Vegas on Sunday night.

In October, the same NY judge let him out of jail so he could perform and make money for child support. Sources in the court tell us the judge now thinks he was too lenient with the rapper.

We're told X’s attorney is contacting the court to work out the details, and they believe the warrant will be lifted.

St. Louis Rams WR Stedman Bailey is making tremendous progress after being shot twice in the head last month -- walking and talking again and "getting back to himself" ... his agent tells TMZ Sports.

We spoke with Tony Fleming ... who tells us Bailey is out of the ICU -- but is still hospitalized ... recovering in a special physical therapy facility in Florida.

"He is getting his strength back and just taking it one day at a time. He is scheduled to be released out of the hospital on the 23rd."

Fleming tells us the 25-year-old has been extremely grateful for the support of his team ever since the Nov. 25th shooting.

"The Rams are great. They have been talking to the doctors like once every few days staying on top of it."

Fleming also says several team officials have come to visit.

Nelly has 86'd his upcoming UK tour because of terrorism.

The 02 Ritz in Manchester just put the word out Nelly's concert is cancelled "due to unforeseen circumstances."

The venue didn't elaborate and at first it seemed the cancellation might have something to do with the rapper copping a plea Friday in his drug possession case.

But Nelly's people tell us he bowed out of the 4 dates because of the threat of terrorism following the Paris attacks.

An attorney for Nelly confirms the singer had safety concerns relating to venue security preventing terrorist attacks. We're told the shows will be rescheduled.

Lisa Vanderpump and husband Ken Todd hosted a unique dinner at their restaurant -- an awesome reward for at-risk kids who excelled in school and in their community.

LV teamed up with outreach group DEAP in Love to give the kids their 1st fine dining experience ... with a few criteria set up by the Covenant House. To be eligible for the tasty prize ... teens had to have perfect school attendance, keep a clean room, and volunteer at the shelter where they live.

14 kids made the cut and dined at Sur in West Hollywood. They got to order whatever they wanted off the trendy menu, including ahi tuna, steaks, premium burgers and even fancy drinks ... virgin only.

Each one got a special send-off including a fancy box of chocolates and makeup for the girls. Ken and Lisa donated shoes and clothes as well.

Derek Carr didn't run out of gas Sunday during his huge win over the Broncos -- his wife, not so much.

While the Oakland Raiders QB was leading his team to victory in Denver, Heather Carr (who's pregnant) was driving home with their kid and dog in the car ... when they ran out of gas on a freeway off-ramp.

The Dublin PD tells TMZ Sports ... an officer in the area noticed Carr's car on the side of the road and stopped to check out the situation -- and ultimately got her enough gas to get her to a gas station.

We're told the officer tracked down a gas can and had it filled -- then brought it back to Heather ... and by the way, the officer had no idea the woman was the wife of an NFL quarterback.

"In this day and age, we do a lot more than catch the bad guy," a spokesperson for the PD tells us.

Stitches should change his name to Punches -- the rapper got slugged less than 24 hours after The Game's manager laid him out, and now there's video.

A source close to the rapper says the people delivering this smackdown were all current or former members of Stitches' crew. We're told one guy thought Stitches was setting him up to get robbed -- so he arranged a meeting last Saturday at a Florida barbershop.

When Stitches showed up, it was on. You can see in the video ... he tried to run, but ended up catching a few solid shots to the face. Remember, he was just coming off a night in jail and the K.O. at the hands of Wack 100, Game's manager.

No one brags about an ass whupping better than Stitches.

Boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez is in the middle of a nasty lawsuit filed by another famous boxer -- who's suing Canelo for $9 MILLION over a street fight in Mexico back in 2011 ... TMZ Sports has learned.

The man behind the lawsuit is Ulises Solis -- a former IBF light flyweight champ -- who claims Alvarez beat him up during an altercation in Guadalajara.

According to the suit, Alvarez punched Solis in the face so hard -- he knocked out a tooth and fractured Solis' jaw.

As a result, Solis claims he was stripped of his IBF championship belt because he couldn't defend his title with a broken jaw.

Solis claims he was simply outsized in the fight -- with Canelo coming in a 5'9", 160 lbs and Solis at 5'3", 108 lbs.

In his suit, Solis claims he suffered more than $4 million in damages -- plus he wants another $5 mil in punitives.

We've learned trial proceedings have begun -- jury selection started on Monday -- and the trial could wrap by the end of the month.

2 Chainz beat ol' St. Nick to the punch this year by hooking up a young fan's family with a house full of new furniture.

A disabled vet named Deirdre Plater is raising 2 kids on her own near Atlanta, and one of them is a die-hard fan of 2 Chainz ... the kid even learned "I'm Different" on piano and trumpet.

The family had fallen on hard times, and didn't have any furniture. 2 Chainz caught wind of this from Mark Barnes, who runs the local Boys & Girls Club and mentors one of Deirdre's kids.

2 Chainz didn't only buy them furniture ... he showed up at their home to surprise them with it. New bedroom set, new dining room table and new living room suite!

Chainz says he's also paying the family's rent for the next year! The surprise reveal was one of those major holiday warm fuzzy moments.

Time to step up yo' game, Santa!

Plaxico Burress pled guilty to tax evasion in New Jersey Monday -- but will NOT spend one second behind bars ... TMZ Sports has learned.

As we previously reported, officials in Mercer County, NJ charged the ex-NFL star with two tax crimes for failing to pay $48k in state taxes ... each count carried a maximum 5 year prison sentence under NJ's new ultra-strict tax laws.

But Plax's rep tells TMZ Sports ... Burress struck a plea deal with prosecutors in which he agreed to plead guilty and in exchange he'll serve no jail time.

Instead, Plaxico will do community service and pay penalties -- in addition to repaying the money he initially owed. In fact, we're told Plax has already paid off his financial debt.

Burress' rep tells us the whole thing was a giant misunderstanding -- explaining Plax screwed up when initially tried to pay his taxes online.

"He messed up. He knew he messed up. Everyone cooperated, and Plaxico paid the fine," Plax's rep says.

A female fan bit "The Walking Dead" star Norman Reedus on his chest at a zombie convention this weekend ... but the biter is now off the hook according to law enforcement sources.

Cops tell TMZ, Reedus -- who wasn't hurt during the attack -- declined to press charges against the biter since it was only a nibble.

A rep for New Jersey's Walker Stalker Con says event security was standing a couple feet from Reedus when the fan opened her mouth and tried to take a chunk out of his chest.

Cops and event security jumped into action and booted the biter from the convention. The rep says the woman has been banned from all future Walker Stalker conventions and other sponsored events where Norman is present.