Holidaze

Back home from her whirlwind world tour, Britney Spears has decked the halls of her brand new L.A. mansion with boughs of holly ... and tons and tons of colorful Christmas lights.

The 30-year-old singer has spared no expense to get into the festive light-everything holiday spirit -- casting a bright glow across her stuffy ultra-exclusive San Fernando Valley neighborhood.

All Brit Brit really wants for Christmas is ... a huge electric bill. Clark Griswold would be proud.

Fa la la la la la la la laaaa.

No one's going to top San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini's Christmas card this year -- that is unless your family's pose is more exciting than a leopard devouring a gazelle! Yeah, didn't think so.

It was definitely Scotty McCreery's voice this morning during a special performance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- but there was one big problem ... Scotty's lips weren't moving.

It's no shocker singers lip sync at the big parade -- but this morning, the newly-minted "American Idol" winner made it painfully obvious ... when he started "singing" one of his songs just a tad too late.

We have no idea what the hell they're trying to make ... in fact, it kind of looks disgusting -- but one thing's for sure ... Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Love Hewitt look damn good in a pair of aprons.

Forget waking up at the crack of dawn to beat the Black Friday crowds -- Joni Meyer-Crothers from TLC's "Extreme Couponing" plans to kick things off the night before with an 11-hour shopping spree ... and an entire team of expert bargain hunters.

Joni tells TMZ, her plan goes into effect nearly immediately after her 25-person Thanksgiving dinner today -- starting at midnight ... her husband Jamie, armed with shopping list spreadsheets, will hit Game Stop with 2 friends. While they're there, 2 other friends will hit Toys 'R Us, and 5 will go to Walmart.

While they're all busy, Joni and her 2 daughters will head to Kohl's. The entire team will then rendezvous at J.C. Penney's, and march through Target, Meijer, Learning Express, Costco, and then ... the mall.

If all goes to plan, Team Joni will have all its shopping completed by 11am.

A newly freed T.I. gave thanks in Atlanta yesterday ... in the form of 300 delicious turkeys -- which the rapper generously handed out during a charity drive for children in need.

The photos were taken at The Carrie Steele-Pitts Home -- a childcare agency for abused and neglected children -- and sources close to the rapper tell TMZ, T.I. chose to give back at the institution because he had a rough childhood himself ... and wants to instill a sense of family in the kids.

T.I. has a lot in common with Michael Vick -- especially the part where they spent a couple of years in prison -- but last night T.I. paid tribute to the guy who's proven it's possible to bounce back.

T.I. and his wife Tiny hit up a Halloween costume party at the Gold Room in Atlanta -- T.I. dressed as Mike Vick... his wife dressed as a ref.

Sources close to the rapper tell TMZ ... the costume was his wife's idea, but T.I. agreed because he's been an MV fan since the Atlanta Falcons days ... and has a ton of respect for the guy.

So, we gotta ask ... is T.I. trying to make a statement??

10:23 AM PST -- Mike Vick LOVES the tribute!!!

Lindsay Lohan has become so comfortable around dead bodies ... that she partied at a Hollywood cemetery last night.

Lohan threw on her finest "slutty nurse" costume and hit the Hollywood Forever Cemetery ... where she attended a HUGE Halloween party with the likes of Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera.

Whenever she wakes up this morning, Lohan is expected to return to the L.A. County Coroner's Office ... to continue cleaning up after some fresh corpses.

Death never looked so good.

Charlie Sheen's Halloween costume is WAYYYY more expensive than yours ... and the crazy part is, he's going as himself.

Sheen was in L.A. earlier today working on a new Roman Coppola project ... when he bragged about an unbelievably lifelike Charlie Sheen mask he got from an artist in Colorado.

We're told Charlie heard about the mask a few months ago, and told the artist, Landon Meier, that he would give his stamp of approval ... if Landon gave him one for free.

The artist came through ... and Charlie wins again.

Lindsay Lohan's been a very naughty girl ... and this weekend, she dressed the part ... to kick it at the annual Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion.

Seemingly inspired by her cleaning duties at the morgue, Lohan donned her sexiest French maid uniform Saturday night ... and hung out with a bunch of other ladies who've bared all in the mag.

TMZ broke the story ... Playboy shelled out nearly a million bucks to get Lindsay to strip down to her birthday suit. Still no word on when the spread is expected to hit the shelves.

It's been several weeks since Harvey's pet fish died a mysterious death in the TMZ newsroom ... and on this All Hallows' Eve ... the creature from the deep returned to wreak havoc!!!

Check out all the cool costumes the TMZ staff rocked into the office today -- Cher and Chaz Bono, a black Justin Bieber ... Fro-Jay Simpson ... and one MASSIVE radish!!!

We know ... Frankenstein wasn't the name of the monster ... it was the name of the scientist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child grabbed a massive sword and a leather loin cloth ... and sent one helluva Halloween message to his dad -- by dressing up as Conan the Barbarian.

14-year-old Joseph Baena hit up Frightfest at Magic Mountain in California last night ... donning the costume made famous by the father who kept him in the dark for more than a decade.

Cool tribute? Cry for attention? Both?

Less than a month after being released from an Italian jail, Amanda Knox was spotted heading to a Halloween party in Seattle this weekend dressed as a cat burglar.

David Spade went to Kate Hudson's Halloween party this weekend dressed as "The Human Centipede."

His costume's the s***.