As Britney Spears continues to strive to get her personal and professional lives back in order, OK! has learned she’s turned to a familiar face for help — former manager Larry Rudolph. Though the pair had parted company a year ago, sources confirm exclusively to OK! that the “Toxic” songstress has once again been taken under Larry’s wing.

Larry and Brit share a long and bumpy history. He was the visionary who discovered the young star Britney and shepherded her career from teen pop tart to international superstar. And when her life began to spiral dangerously out of control in the weeks and months following her Oct. 2006 divorce from Kevin Federline, it was Larry who Britney’s parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears, turned to for help getting her into rehab.

After her brief stint at the Promises clinic in Malibu, Brit went public with her ill-feelings toward Larry, chastising him on camera in a bizarre, disjointed rant, for what she viewed as siding with her folks against her.

However, Brit’s dad has always been open about his positive feelings toward Larry, even publicly thanking Larry for his efforts. And now Jamie, who has continued to think the world of Larry both as a manager and as a friend who has Britney’s best interests at heart, has finally convinced Britney to let him take over the reins of her recently resurgent career.

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After much hoopla and ballyhoo on the internet Saturday night, it looks like rumors that Brad Pitt, who famously once said that he would get married again when everyone in the United States could also do so, had said “I do” to gal pal, and mother of his children, Angelina Jolie in a ceremony in New Orleans, are just that — rumors.

“Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were not married in our chapel, period,” Reverend Anthony “Ambassador of Romance” Talavera, proprietor of the French Quarter Wedding Chapel in New Orleans, where the couple were rumored to have tied the knot, tells OK! exclusively. “I’ve never even met them.”

The good reverend goes on to say that one particular media outlet really wants this story to be true. “Star magazine offered me $3000 for an interview, and I turned them down,” he explains. “I would never divulge any information about any of our clients for money.

Reverend Talavera did say, however, that he is, “delighted that Brad and Angelina have chosen to live in our beautiful city, and I wish them all the happiness in the world, whatever their marital status.”

While there’s been no official denial from the Brangelina camps, when reached for comment on the rumors, Brad’s rep would only say to OK! that she had “no idea” if they were true or not.

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Want to know the hardest part about maintaining a relationship with Kim Kardashian? She thinks it’s putting up with the paparazzi.

Kardashian, 27, admits to SI.com that her boyfriend, New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush, 23, hates the pesky paps but is managing to cope – just as she’s learning about football.

“We try to be super low key,” Kardashian tells the Extra Mustard column. “We know if we go to an event, we’re gonna be photographed, but he’ll still say ‘ugh, I don’t want to go.’ ”

Besides, she says, “He really only gets annoyed when we’re out and about and we get followed.”

Part of the Job
Since part of Kardashian’s job – starring on the second season of her reality show, Keeping up with the Kardashians – is being trailed by cameras, she says they’ve kept his involvement in the show to a minimum.

“He’s such a big part of my life that you can’t not be on the show if you’re in my life,” she says. “I’m glad we filmed the show during his season, because he was only on every now and then.”

As for her supporting his career, she reveals the sport is new to her. “I’m a Saints fan and I’m a Reggie fan. I’m just becoming a football fan,” she says. And she doesn’t mind that the gridiron is his No. 1 priority.

“I definitely think we get along because my work is so important to me right now and football is so important to him,” she says. “We both know what’s important.”

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Is Katie Holmes preparing to swap playdates for the Great White Way? Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that she’s in talks for a role on Broadway.

Respected showbiz writer Baz Bamigboye reports that Holmes is “in final negotiations” to make her professional stage debut in a revival of All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s heartbreaking, post-World War II family drama.

While the Mail reports the actress has committed to participating in a workshop of the play in May, a rep for Holmes tells PEOPLE that she is in discussions but also says, “nothing is set.”

If she does take the role, Holmes would play a woman who visits the family of her former lover, a missing pilot. It would be her first play since high school and Holmes would be on stage six nights a week.

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Miley Cyrus had slime on her mind Saturday at Nickelodeon’s 2008 annual Kids Choice Awards.

The teen superstar begged not to get showered with the green stuff while she accepted the award for Favorite Female Singer (she also won for Favorite TV Actress). “I don’t want to get slimed but I am glad to be here,” she told the screaming crowd.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull star Harrison Ford, who presented the award for Favorite Voice for an Animated Movie, got the green stuff dumped on him instead, adding his name to the list of slimmed celebrities, which includes Justin Timberlake, Nicole Kidman, Pink and Johnny Depp.

Later in the night, Cyrus was back on stage to rock the house with her tune, “G.N.O. - Girl’s Night Out.”

Jack Black showed off several green outfits while playing host, but Jessica Alba, who took home the award for Favorite Movie Actress, outshined him in a deep green gown.

Cameron Diaz, who was introduced by Ashton Kutcher, said winning the Wannabe Award was even better than winning the Big Burp Award, which she took home a previous year. “Oh wow. And when I say wow, I mean, Wow!” she said. “This is the biggest honor in my entire life.”

Things got messy when Heidi Klum used darts to burst green slime balloons that filled the Mighty Slime Vat with a record-breaking amount of the oozing green stuff, which eventually ended up all over Black and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl star Orlando Bloom in a climactic ending to the show.

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Miley Cyrus isn’t frantic to find a boyfriend, but that doesn’t mean the Hannah Montana star doesn’t check out eye candy online.

Denying rumors that she’s been searching the Net for a new beau, Cyrus, 15, told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS FM show, “I’m not that desperate yet” – but she did joke that she “might go on the Abercrombie [& Fitch] Web site” every once in a while for a good look.

Cyrus also came clean on sometimes thinking of ways to punk the paparazzi Ashton Kutcher-style. Calling the frenzy that surrounds her “pretty insane,” Cyrus said photographers just sit outside her house all day.

Asked about reports that the paps have more interest in her than they do in Britney Spears, modest Miley almost sounded apologetic, telling Seacrest, “I kinda I feel bad, ’cause I’m a lot more boring than Britney Spears. We don’t do anything. We just go to Coffee Bean.”

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Casting has begun for Paris Hilton’s upcoming MTV reality show, “I Wanna Be Paris Hilton’s BFF.”

So what does it take to be tight with the heiress?

According to L.A.-based Doron Ofir Casting, the heiress, 27, is looking for a “hot bitch” or “fabulously fierce guy” who is at least 21 and appears to be under 30.

“Are you sick and tired of envying social icons?” the casting director asks in a new email. “Will you be the next pop-arazzi obsession and quintessential star of the red carpet? Prove it, bitches!”

To apply, go to www.doronofircasting.com and click the link in the Paris Hilton BFF section.

A casting tour kicks off next week in the following cities:

Houston - April 3-7
Orange County - April 4-6
New York - April 7-10
Miami/Fort Lauderdale - April 10-14
Kansas City - April 11-13
Chicago - April 11-14
Las Vegas - April 11-15
Los Angeles - ongoing by appointment

To set up an appointment, email Parisbffcasting@gmail.com and include your contact info and a picture; put the city in the subject line.

Be warned: A source tells Usmagazine.com the new show is “going to be full of good chick drama, and you will see a side of Paris not seen on Simple Life.”

Tell Us: Would you want to be Paris’ BFF?

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Madonna wants the media to leave Britney Spears alone. “They need to step off,” she told the Yo on E! satellite radio show. “For real… Let’s go save her.”

Madonna, 49, said her daughter Lourdes, 11, feels the same way.

“She knows Britney, but she doesn’t really watch TV or read gossip stuff,” the pop queen said in the interview. “I think she sort of gets the drift of what’s going on, and I think she feels very protective of Britney.”

Madonna, who also has a son, Rocco, 7, with hubby Guy Ritchie, are raising a Malawian boy, David, who they hope to adopt. “He’s the life of the party,” she said of David, who she brought home from Africa in 2006. “He loves music, he’s an amazing dancer… he’s a character.”

When it comes to caring for David, Madonna says it’s no different from raising her biological children. “I thought it was gonna be, but it feels the same to tell you the truth.”

And as for those rumors that her marriage is on the rocks? Madonna says, “It is ridiculous… I don’t pay much attention to it.”

Madonna, whose new album Hard Candy, arrives April 29, told Yo on E! that she plans to spend the summer in New York, and that she might kick off a tour this fall.

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Comeback? What comeback?

Although Britney Spears’ appearance on How I Met Your Mother was a ratings hit and media outlets keep using the word “comeback,” sources tell Star that Brit’s three-day stint on the set was nothing short of a nightmare!

Her demeanor was so erratic that from one moment to the next she’d go from hot to cold, says one insider. “Her mood changes are so sudden, you don’t understand where they’re coming from.”

At one point, Brit got into a screaming match on the phone with her pregnant younger sister Jamie Lynn because the pregnant teen had called Brit’s ex, Kevin Federline. Standing in a hallway, says a source, Britney was heard shouting into the phone, “You’re turning on me like everyone else. First Mama wanted to sleep with Kevin and now you’re calling him. And you live in a house I paid for!”

Minutes later, she was asking people on the set if they liked puppies.

Yes, we said puppies.

“It was a pain having her on the set,” the insider tells Star. “She made everything take so much longer because of all the drama she caused. Almost no one wants her back!”

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OK! has learned that earlier today, Jamie Lynn Spears, the pregnant 16-year-old Zoey 101 star and little sister of pop superstar Britney Spears, made the trip from her home in Kentwood, La., to pay a visit to a Babies ‘R’ Us store in Baton Rouge. The reason? To put together her registry for her upcoming baby shower!

Wearing a huge ring — on her left hand — and sporting a shirt that says “The Rumors Are True,” Jamie Lynn, who is reported to be engaged to her 18-year-old boyfriend Casey Aldridge, and a female friend made the nearly 80-mile trek in an SUV to the baby supply mecca, where eyewitnesses spotted the pair putting together the list of items to be registered as potential gifts for the yet-unnamed child, who is expected to be born in the early part of the summer.

In December, Jamie Lynn famously revealed her shocking pregnancy in an exclusive interview with OK!. Since that time, she has finished her high school education and generally laid low in Kentwood while spending as much time with Casey as possible.

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