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The clock is ticking, the event-planners are bustling and maybe, just maybe, a fetus is growing.

After saying their respective farewells to the single life on Thursday night—which, aw, ended with the duo recoupling at the Roosevelt Hotel—Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are primed to swap vows sometime Saturday.

Sources once placed the nuptials at a friend's house in the tony beachside town of La Jolla, Calif., but now all signs are pointing to a Valleyfied affair at parents Joe and Tina Simpson's Encino home.

Party preparations started taking place Thursday as Simpson family employees, an SUV full of balloons—and, at one point, Jessica Simpson herself—were spotted bustling in and out of the Royal Oaks Colony, the gated community where Joe and Tina live.

And, thanks to telephoto lens-toting paparazzi, a tent was spied going up in their spacious backyard.

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If you've got some Benjamins riding on a David, be warned: Only one of them is Cooking. At least according to the bookies.

The online oddsmakers at BetCRIS.com have unveiled the favorite to take the American Idol crown...let's just say Papa Archuleta may have to be restrained.

Former bartender and Missouri's favorite rocking son David Cook is the odds-on pick to succeed Jordin Sparks during next week's finale, given a 74 percent chance of winning the whole shebang, per the online bookies.

Despite starting the season as the overwhelming favorite, tween dream David Archuleta has just a 32 percent possibility of becoming Simon Cowell's newest protégé, per the betting line.

Of course, last we checked, Gambling 101 was not a part of a grade-schooler's course load, meaning the actual voting demographic might not jibe with the oddsmaker's pick and it still could be anybody's contest.

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Lauren Lee Smith can see dead people.

At least beginning this fall.

Looking to fill the void left by the departures of Gary Dourdan and Jorja Fox, The L Word veteran is joining CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as a series regular, the network announced today.

The 27-year-old Smith will play Bryce Adams, described as a "smart, flirtatious and witty nonconformist" obsessed with the underbelly of society, who got into police work to rebel against her disapproving psychiatrist father. She joins Gil Grissom's crack squad working the night shift.

The Vancouver-born thesp had a recurring stint on Showtime's The L Word as sous chef Lara Perkins. Her film credits include last month's thriller Pathology, as well Art School Confidential and alongside Casey Affleck and Zach Braff in The Last Kiss. She teams up with Ashley Judd and Goran Visnjic in the drama Helen, due out in October, and will appear in next year's horror anthology Trick or Treat.

Fox and Dourdan both decided not to reup with CSI after failing to hash out new contracts. With Smith in place, producers still must fill the role of Ray Santoro, billed as a "handsome, smart and athletic" CSI who takes on the graveyard shift at the crime lab.

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Welcome to the justice system's new nightmare.

Pauly Shore has filed a motion in L.A. Superior Court opposing horror meister Wes Craven's request to have the Jury Duty star's lawsuit over damage to his Hollywood Hills property dismissed.

Craven sued Shore last summer, claiming the funnyish-man failed to take neighborly precautions while renovating his backyard in 2006 and that runoff from Shore's new pool and spa contributed to slope failure in his yard.

Shore countersued in February, alleging the Nightmare on Elm Street director didn't properly maintain his own hillside vegetation and landscaping, thereby causing a landslide on Shore's lot in December 2006.

Craven subsequently claimed Shore waited too long to file suit, and now the actor has responded by arguing that he didn't know the root of the outdoor evil until he had his and Craven's respective properties inspected and tested. Then, he says, he took action right away.

A hearing on Craven's motion to dismiss is set for May 28. Otherwise, both cases are scheduled to go to trial Oct. 15.

It's probably safe to assume this is not part of a new Disney ad campaign for the happiest place on earth. It's probably a lot closer to the strangest place on earth.

"Rehab" crooner Amy Winehouse and equally troubled pal Pete Doherty appear in this disturbing new collaboration. But it's no music video, despite a feeble attempt to improvise a little ditty. Instead, the trainwreck twins pick up a container of newborn mice and put on a creepy little show, giving each of them a "voice"—including one with a message for Amy's Blake Incarcerated.

Yeah, this is all gonna end well.

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It’s time to sing another chorus of “America the Beautiful (And Eva Ain’t Too Shabby Either”). Ugly Betty star America Ferrera continues to contradict her Ugly series moniker (shown above before an appearance on Letterman) while making herself nearly as glamtastic as Eva Longoria Parker (seen on the red carpet at the Golden Globes).

If you ask us, it’s time for these twin sisters of different mothers to star in crossover episodes­—or maybe even a new hybrid show: Ugly Housewives. Oh, the sweet irony.

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T.I. may want to start saving up for some therapy sessions right about now.

The hit-making hip-hopster and girlfriend Tameka "Tiny" Cottle (formerly of the R&B vocal group Xscape) welcomed their second son together at the stroke of midnight this morning.

"God has blessed us with another miracle," T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, told People. The rapper, who is facing prison time after pleading guilty in March to federal weapons charges, celebrates the birth just months before he drops another baby: his new album, Paper Trail, is due Aug. 12.

The baby is his second with Cottle and his fifth offspring overall.

Checking in at 5 pounds, 15 ounces, the newborn was christened Major Harris—not so unusual in the greater scheme of celebrity baby names, but a far cry from his royally named big brother, King Harris.

At least he won't have to worry about suffering from delusions of grandeur.