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Trying to drop your weight from, say, 150 to 120 pounds is so last year for celebs -- and even regular civilians. Getting from Chuck Norris to Goldie Hawn -- now that sounds like real motivation.

TMZ found an interesting listing on EntertainmentCareers.net, for a part-time job at the Dr. Phil show. The kicker is what the job entails, and how much he is willing to pay this employee. The ad offers positions available for weekends (Saturday and Sunday), or the graveyard shift (11PM - 7AM).

The job is for a transcriber and requirements to gain employment are: previous experience and typing speed of 60 words per minute. The best part is the starting salary, a whopping $8.00 an hour, or roughly $16,000 dollars a year.

Now we can't help but compare these numbers to those that Dr. Phil just spent on his son's wedding. Let's assume that the good doctor spent $400,000 on the reception (which is pretty low by celebrity standards) and he had 400 people attend. That is $1000 a head. His new employee would have to work over 3 weeks just to sit down at the table! Plus, if this person tried to throw the same kind of fab wedding soiree, they would have to work for 25 YEARS! That means the average 22 year-old applicant would be 47 before they could cover the cost of the wedding.

Nicole Richie's friends have devised some creative ways to shield her from photographers. Sunday night, one pal leaped onto the hood of her black SUV and used his arms and legs to block the windshield.

So it should come as no surprise that even marginally famous "stars" are getting in on the couture craze.

Samaire Armstrong briefly starred on "The OC" and "Entourage" as well as in the Lindsay Lohan flop "Just My Luck." Now the aspiring B-lister is branching out to exercise her design chops. Samaire, who started designing by making Halloween costumes and prom dresses, has named her line Naru. Originally only available at exclusive stores in Hawaii, the line will soon expand to stores across the country.

Motley Crüe glam rock relic Nikki Sixx, whose probably more used to taking clothes off women than designing for them, has partnered with Kelly Gray - the former spokesperson for St. Johns Knits who was replaced by Angelina Jolie - to launch a contemporary sportswear line called Royal Underground. Their line will sell in high-end department stores.

So you thought you had seen it all when it comes to celeb memorabilia? Sure you heard about Britney's chewing gum selling on eBay, but we've found a website that takes selling stars' personal junk to a whole new level.

At BlackPitchPress.com you can find such items as celebrity fecal matter, skin cells and bacteria. We wish we were joking, but we're not. You can get your hands on Jack Black's waste for the low price of $92.00 dollars. Gary Busey and Robert Downey Jr are also among the list of fecal sample donors.

Despite the fact that the two were just laying it on one another thick and heavy at New York's Butter nightclub the other night, Nick and Vanessa barely looked at each other during Lachey's appearance on the show, and no physical contact between the two was noted even when Vanessa passed just in front of Nick on the way to look out the window. What's more, their one moment of banter, when Minnillo made the observation that Nick is "everywhere," inspired a deeply awkward response from Nick.

Indeed, Nick, who was premiering his new video, left Vanessa (and the audience) wanting, much as he did Monday afternoon at a Manhattan restaurant, when, despite her best efforts, she couldn't get Nick to give her a kiss.

Ten years after sauntering down runways and into magazine spreads, heroin chic has finally made it into the dictionary.

While waifish models like Kate Moss were criticized for promoting the gaunt look over a decade ago, the term has been dusted off and included in the latest update of the Oxford English Dicitonary.

Other phrases to belatedly garner legitimacy by the language lexicons include 401(k), counterterrorism, pin code, air kiss and, in another apparent nod to 90s nostalgia, Macarena and yada yada.

Love those paparazzi photos of your favorite celebrity? Now you can go one step further. Gallery of the Absurd features paintings of today's most talked about celebrities, in drawings that portray the scandal that often surrounds them.

The humorous paintings feature illustrations like Tom Cruise with a pre-nup, Nicole Richie as an example of the human skeletal system, Britney Spears on a Cheetos bag, and Brandon Davis sweating in self disgust.

TMZ contacted the talented artist who calls herself 14, to see if any celebs had contacted her about her work. 14 says that a girlfriend of a famous celebrity commissioned her to do a piece on her boyfriend, but she can't reveal the name.

Public interest in her work has grown so large, her originals are going for upwards of $2,000 and she has an upcoming art show in Chicago to feature all her work. 14 is currently painting a huge canvas of George Clooney eating a hotdog, and she wants him to buy it.

Dousing not one but two groups of photogs yesterday, "Simple Life" star Nicole Richie is a repeat offender. Richie unleashed her first Fiji while arriving to a Beverly Hills gym and then again after eating (or more likely watching someone else eat) at Baja Fresh in Hollywood.