So remember the story about the stage manager that stole set props from Lipstick Jungle and put them up on eBay? Well Brooke Shields claims the he also stole her wallet according to Gatecrasher.

“[Arthur Moreira] is the same guy who stole my wallet out of my dressing room last season, right out of my purse!” Shields tells us. Last week, reports surfaced that Moreira took more than $30K worth of designer duds.

Says Shields: “He’s not very bright, because the purse was worth more than the wallet.”

Poor Brooke because that totally sucks, but I love her response to it.

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Jessica Simpson had her first concert last night since she made the mistake of wearing high-waisted jeans with a double belt and people started calling her fat. While yes she has put on weight, she is not fat. Her biggest fault is whoever is styling her. Those belts make her look even bigger than she is. Seriously who wears belts as thick as the ones she has been wearing? I betcha if she went without those thick belts she would look she lost at least size in pictures.

OK, I can’t resist how did she get in to those pants and how the heck is she going to get out of them.

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The cast of How I Met Your Mother got together last night to talk about the show and Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders showed off their baby bumps thanks to Neil Patrick Harris!!! While Alyson’s is visible I wasn’t able to see Cobie’s until NPH lent a helping hand! Seriously how cute are the future mothers! That set is going to be so much next season with both babies running around.

BTW People is reporting that Cobie has some new Robin Sparkles on her left hand, she is engaged to her baby’s daddy Taran Killam!!!

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“Twilight” fans waiting to read Stephenie Meyer’s latest vampire novel had better not hold their breath: the author is still pouting about her unfinished manuscript being leaked online — and hasn’t touched the book since.

“I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on ‘Midnight Sun,’ so it is on hold indefinitely,” Meyer wrote on her Web site, stepheniemeyer.com. However, she posted the incomplete draft on her own site, reasoning, “I’d rather my fans not read this version … the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes. But how do I comment on this violation without driving more people to look for the illegal posting?”

To the chagrin of “Twilight” followers, Meyer has no further plans to resurrect the would-be juicy read. “Midnight Sun,” the fifth tome in the series, was being written from bloodsucking heartthrob Edward Cullen’s point of view.

“Nothing’s changed,” a rep for the author confirms to us. “Stephenie has no plans to move forward with ‘Midnight Sun’ at this time.”

But Meyer fanatics can anticipate an upcoming novel. “Stephenie is working on something else at the moment,” the flack reveals. “But she hasn’t announced it yet. It isn’t ‘Twilight’-related. When she’s ready to reveal it, she will. This has been an intense three years for her, and currently she’s just focusing on being a writer.”

As for how Meyer plans to protect her works in the future, her spokesperson says, “She’ll just have to be very selective about where she sends her manuscripts.”

While Edward Cullen may not get his time to shine in print, the man who portrays him on screen — British hottie Robert Pattinson — isn’t relying on Meyer’s writing skills for his income. R-Patz is taking on the role of a young Salvador Dali in “Little Ashes,” which comes complete with some steamy male-on-male scenes.

The film, which will hit theaters in March, is rated R for “sexual content, language and a brief disturbing image.” Of course, we can’t really imagine anything more disturbing than a vampire with teenage angst, either.

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Oh, what’s in a number? When that number is a celebrity dress size – a lot.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has come out swinging against those in the media who have taken note of big sis Jessica Simpson’s fuller figure.

“How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size two figure?” Simpson-Wentz wrote on her MySpace Celebrity blog on Wednesday.

But she seems to be a little … off when it comes to gauging her sister’s current clothing size. A size two?!

Simpson is one of the many curvaceous stars who claim to be able to squeeze into the teeny size.

Kim Kardashian came under fire in September after telling OK! magazine that she’s a two – meaning she could swap clothes with svelte “Regis & Kelly” host Kelly Ripa and tiny Christina Aguilera.

And, of course actress Jennifer Love Hewitt famously used the petite size as a shield against critics of her bikini body declaring, “a size 2 is not fat!”
We think Love Hewitt (and the others mind, you) looks just fine – but they can’t all be a size 2.

“Clearly there’s a psychological piece to clothing size,” says Lynn Grefe, CEO of the National Eating Disorder Association. “Sadly, people believe that you are your size, that the size is a reflection of how good you are or how successful you are.”

Size is definitely a mental thing, agrees FIT professor and fashion designer George Simonton, but there’s no set manual with dimensions for “real” sizes - unless you consult the military.

“There are statistics with the U.S. government,” he says. “For strict measurements you have to go to the Army and Navy for [proper] bust, hip and waist measurements.”

But for non-military duds, sizes are open to interpretation.

“Each designer - believe it or not - fits a little different,” he says. “That’s why there’s always confusion with women.”

High-end designers tend to skew more toward “vanity sizes,” Simonton says, which run larger than, say, their T.J. Maxx counterparts.

Translation: A size two designer dress is more like a size four or six in a department store.

“A lot of women don’t really want to admit what their true sizes are,” he explains. “The only ones that do true sizes are J.C. Penney and Sears. They have certain measurements that their customers demand.”

Those who don’t get the size they want tend to “fib” about it, he says.

But understating one’s size can have negative repercussions for fans, says Grefe.

“For women and celebrities especially to be playing this game … it’s painful when I know people are dying to be these size zeros and twos,” she says.
Grefe adds: “I get disappointed that these women are doing [this]. Do they understand the implications? I don’t think that they do.”

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The couple, who married in 2004, divorced in 2006 and have gotten back together and broken up umpteen times, are taking a break. “They still love each other madly, but this is just the nature of their relation ship,” says a friend of Moakler, adding, “I bet they’ll be back together soon enough.” Moakler’s rep, Lizzie Grubman, tells Page Six, “We never comment on the personal lives of our clients.”

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Kelly Rowland says she will always be a part of Beyonce’s family, but she no longer will be managed by the superstar’s father. Rowland and Matthew Knowles announced Wednesday that he is bowing out as her manager. He’s guided her career since she was kid, when he put her in Destiny’s Child along with Beyonce. He even helped raise her.

Both Rowland and Knowles - who still manages daughter Beyonce - called the split amicable. Both say they will always be family.

Rowland has sold millions of records as part of Destiny’s Child, but her solo career hasn’t matched that success.

Rowland - who turns 27 next month - did not say who her new manager will be.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player Billy Powell, who played on such hits as “Sweet Home Alabama” and survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members, died Wednesday. He was 56.

Powell called 911 in this Jacksonville suburb saying he was having trouble breathing. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead about an hour later, Orange Park Police Lt. Mark Cornett said.

Powell, who had a history of heart problems, missed a Tuesday appointment with his doctor for a cardiac evaluation, and a heart attack is suspected as the cause of death.

The Jacksonville-based band was formed in 1966 by a group of high school students - famously, it took its name from a physical education teacher they disliked, Leonard Skinner. Powell joined the group in 1970 and became its keyboardist in 1972, the year before they released their first album, “Pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd.”

It became one of the South’s most popular rock groups, and gained national fame with such hits as “Free Bird,” “What’s Your Name” and especially “Sweet Home Alabama,” which reached the top 10 on the charts in 1974. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

The band was decimated on Oct. 20, 1977, when their chartered plane crashed in a swamp near McComb, Miss.

Six people were killed - lead singer Ronnie Van Zant; guitarist Steve Gaines; Gaines’ sister, vocalist Cassie Gaines; as well as an assistant road manager, the pilot and co-pilot.

Powell received facial injuries in the crash, but eventually recovered. He was the only band member well enough to attend the funerals of those killed in the crash.

Two years after the accident, Powell and fellow members Allen Collins, Gary Rossington and Leon Wilkeson formed the Rossington-Collins Band. It broke up in 1982.

In 1987 Johnny Van Zant - Ronnie’s brother - and a new Lynyrd Skynyrd Band went on a tribute tour, and Powell was on hand again in 1991 when the revived version of the band put out a new album, “Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991″ and started a tour in Baton Rouge, La., where the band was headed in 1977 when the plane crashed.

Fans who kept their tickets from the canceled 1977 concert were admitted free.

The band’s last album, “Vicious Cycle,” was released in 2003.

Johnny Van Zant was devastated by Powell’s death. Hearkening back to the deaths of other members of the band, he said: “Maybe it is just the destiny of Lynyrd Skynyrd. We’ve played before millions and millions of people and it’s been a wonderful ride and a bumpy one too.”

Van Zant said Powell had been a roadie for the band when his brother heard him playing the keyboard.

“Nobody knew he could play the keyboard,” Van Zant said.

Earlier this year, Powell and the band took a four-day cruise on a ship out of Miami with “4,000 crazy Skynyrd fans,” said Van Zant.

The band had recorded several songs for a new album and had upcoming gigs, which will be canceled, Van Zant said.

Howard Kramer, curatorial director at the Rock and Roll Hall, said Powell “was a phenomenal piano player. The band may be able to get another piano player, but they will never replace Billy Powell.”

“He was one of the best piano keyboardists, rock ‘n’ roll keyboardists, of our lifetime,” said Ross Schilling, the band’s manager.

Hank Williams Jr. said: “I will truly miss Billy. We have all lost one of our best rowdy friends.”

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