McCARTNEY GETTING MARRIED AGAIN!

Paul McCartney is ready to take another shot at marriage. People magazine reports that the 68-year-old Beatle has gotten engaged to his girlfriend of four years, 51-year-old Nancy Shevell.  This will be Paul's third marriage.

ABDUL AND JONES JOIN X FACTOR!

There was a lot of stuff going on over the weekend with regards to Simon Cowell’s new Fox talent search The X Factor.  Most importantly, it was down to the wire, but just before the first day of production began in Los Angeles, Paula Abdul signed on the dotted line to become the fourth and final judge on the show, along with Cowell, L.A. Reid and Cheryl Cole. In addition to the Abdul news, it was announced that Steve Jones, a well-known UK TV presenter, had been hired to co-host of the series, alongside Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger.

BECKS INVOLVED IN CAR CRASH/POSH HAS BABY SHOWER.

Soccer star David Beckham was involved in a minor car accident over the weekend. Becks was behind the wheel of his Cadillac when he rear-ended a Mitsubishi that was stalled in the carpool lane of the 405 Freeway in Southern California. Beckham was not hurt in the Friday accident, although the driver of the Mitsubishi was hospitalized after complaining of neck pain. (We smell lawsuit.)

SHEEN TAKING TOUR OVERSEAS!

Charlie Sheen announced on an Australian radio station last week that he's revamping the Violent Torpedo of Truth tour, renaming it An Evening with Charlie Sheen, and taking it global, kicking things off in Australia the first week in June.   The former Two and a Half Men star will be Down Under for about two weeks, hitting six or seven cities, and he'll then take the show to several cities in Europe and Asia.

IS LINDSAY BECOMING A SCIENTOLOGIST?!

TheNational Enquirer reports that John Travolta is making it his mission to turn Lindsay Lohan around, and he plans to do it by converting her to Scientology. The tab claims that producers of Travolta's upcoming John Gotti movie were reluctant to hire Lindsay for the film, until John "assured them he'd take her under his wing." Adds a source, "John introduced Lindsay to one of the church's top counselors and…she's assured him she'll attend the series of induction classes that will make her a Scientologist."Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan is featured in a sexy new spread for Blank magazine, where she's seen puffing on a cigarette and cupping one of her breasts.  

JERRY LAUNCHES WEBSITE WITH OLD BITS!

Jerry Seinfeld is reliving the old days. In conjunction with the 30^th anniversary of his first national broadcast appearance, Seinfeld has launched www.jerryseinfeld.com, which will feature daily video clips from his entire career of TV stand-up performances. "Somewhere out there are ten year olds just waiting to get hooked on this strange pursuit," said Jerry about why he started the site. "This is for them. I'm just hoping somehow it will keep the silliness going."