Is a burger just a burger when it's sliding down the seemingly underused gullet of Nicole Richie? Just days after the shriveled starlet insisted to Tyra Banks that she doesn't eat "for the cameras," she was snapped by paparazzi chowing down on a beefy, calorie- and carb-laden meal in Malibu. "Nicole gobbled lunch as if she hadn't eaten for a week," a spywitness tells the London Mirror. "But it was good to see her tucking in." Amen to that. Richie, who "one-hundred percent" denied to Banks that she has an eating disorder but said she's seeing a nutritionist and a therapist to help her gain weight, was accompanied on her burger banquet by beau Brody Jenner.

Looks like those rumors that Britney Spears and Kevin Federline would opt for another sunscreen-inspired tot moniker were true. Insiders confirm to People that the déclassé duo has indeed christened their newest offspring Sutton Pierce Federline, a genteel label that gives him the same initials as his big brother, Sean Preston. Sutton made his debut at an L.A. hospital a little after 2 a.m. last Tuesday, just two days before Sean P. celebrated his first birthday. The family has reportedly returned home to their Malibu compound.

Did Tara Reid go back under the knife in a bid to get closer to her dream of winning an Academy Award? That's the word from In Touch, which claims the punchline-prone actress, 30, has gone down a cup size or three in hopes that a less hypermammiferous look will land her "meatier roles" and "help her to be taken seriously." She reportedly had her cantaloupe-like cleavage reduced during a Sept. 7 procedure, although there's no word on which fruit it now resembles. Reid's distended décolletage has been the subject of intense scrutiny ever since her accidental exposure while posing at Diddy's November 2004 birthday party, an incident that later prompted her to kvetch, "People act like it was the worst crime in the world. It was a mistake, you know! But you would think my boob had popped out and shot Gandhi!"

Hayden Christensen is taking a healthy approach to whispers about his love life. In a sit-down with V Man magazine (no, we've never heard of it, either), the actor says he pays no mind to Internet chatter positing whether he's playing for the other team "because it's fun, entertaining and a bit of a joke." Same goes for reports linking him to his "Factory Girl" costar Sienna Miller, whom he was spotted locking lips with earlier this year. "When people catch a picture of Sienna and me, they can speculate, and I don't do anything," he explains. "Rumors are more fun than reality." For now, Christensen prefers to plug his piehole about his preferences ("People I relate to know what I am"), vagueing things up by adding, "To me, masculinity is the ability to flirt with the effeminate."

"I actually hate comic book movies, like [bleeping] hate them, they just bore me [bleepless] and they're just dumb." That's Heath Ledger, who's set to play the Joker in the forthcoming "Batman Begins" sequel "The Dark Knight," biting the hand that feeds as he reveals his lack of enthusiasm for men in tights (via DarkHorizons.com). At least he takes pains to point out that he thought the first Caped Crusader flick "was actually really good, really well directed, and Christian Bale was really great in it." Ledger, who's not exactly known for bringing the funny, says he plans to take a different approach to the character than Jack Nicholson did in his scenery-devouring turn in "Batman." "He's going to be really sinister," explains the thespian, "and it's going to be less about his laugh and his pranks and more about just him being just a [bleeping] sinister guy."