Is Nicole Richie and Joel Madden's unborn baby genetically predisposed to dislike the paparazzi? Australia's Herald-Sun says the stork-expecting squeezes are attempting to get shutterbugs to back off by claiming their spawn is camera shy. Nicole, who's tagging along with Joel as he tours Down Under with his band, Good Charlotte, reportedly refused to pose for pictures as they exited a Brisbane eatery this week. An enterprising pair of radio producers tried presenting the tumescent but still tiny starlet with a big bouquet of flowers in hopes of getting her to say cheese, to no avail. "We handed them to her and she was very nice," one of the guys tells the paper. "She said 'thank you' but still refused to be photographed and Joel told us that the baby 'didn't like the flash.'"

In other ankle-biter news, Pam Anderson's assertion that she's "not pregnant, just happy," seemed true enough Wednesday night, when OK! spotted her whooping it up at a Sin City hot spot with new hubby Rick Salomon. The mag says the cartoonish blonde was drinking champagne while breathing in Salomon's second-hand smoke, behavior that would seem to belie rumors she's in the family way.

Scarlett Johansson and Woody Allen are totally over that whole muse thing. "We've joked about that word," the stacked starlet says in the November issue of Elle. "Woody says, 'You appear and my writer's block is cured.'" But just because she functions as the filmmaker's creative laxative and he's cast her in three of his last four films that doesn't mean she's his artistic inspiration. "This is a stupid phrase that journalists use all the time," the Woodman tells the mag of the muse musings, "a cliché with no meaning and bearing no resemblance to anything in Scarlett's life or my life."

Tara Reid isn't just proficient in playing a big brain on screen (what, you didn't find her portrayal of a genius anthropologist in the craptacular "Alone in the Dark" convincing?), but she's also quite the egghead in real life. Says who? Says Tara. "I think the reason I never ended up in as much trouble as Paris [Hilton] or Lindsay [Lohan] is that I'm not stupid," she explains to FHM, which kindly Photoshopped her scantily clad bod back to its 1999 heyday, "so I'd never do a lot of the things those girls do, and I've always had good friends around me." The aging starlet, 31, whose smarts couldn't save her from a bad breast enlargement, lumpy liposuction or a seminal boob flash that helped usher in the ladyparts-exposing era, simply can't understand her "bad girl" reputation. "I've never been arrested," Tara points out. "I wonder if some people start thinking, 'We made this girl out to be bad just for having a good time.' I don't think I should ever be punished for being happy."

Janice Dickinson's idiotic quixotic quest to become the most lifelike Madame Tussaud's wax figure ever continues unabated. Us Weekly reports the ridiculously refreshed former model, 52, went back under the knife on Monday to get a tummy tuck and "mini neck lift," deciding on the latter procedure in an apparent what-the-hell, two-for-one moment. According to a source, "Janice knows people will think she didn't need a tummy tuck," but she's apparently been complaining about "a lot of extra skin" and longed for "tighter abs." The neck lift was thrown in because she figured "she might as well since she was going under." (And suddenly, the nightmare that is Janice's nip-tucking begins to make a whole lot more sense ...).

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