In the Big Fat Rumor of the Day, we were supposed to see Chris Brown perform in a dedication to Michael Jackson at the BET Awards. Well, that rumor was supposedly a reality until the last minute. All because of Jay-Z. Due to his relationship with Rihanna, he wouldn’t permit Chris in the theater. Not even for Michael Jackson. But Jigga put the stop to Chris Brown doing anything at the BET Awards because he didn’t want him anywhere near his close friend and his label mate. Now, I don’t know if Jay-Z truly has that sort of power over BET. Another theory seems a little more realistic. BET just didn’t want the controversy of Chris Brown, who just plead out to felony assault, to be the hallmark of their event. I think it’s the future that BET had to look out for. The final word on this rumor really seems to be that Covergirl, the show’s most involved sponsor was about to withdraw their support if Breezy was involved. As you know, Rihanna is a spokes person.

Drea De Matteo, who played Adriana on “The Sopranos,” has joined the cast of “Desperate Housewives”. She’ll be a regular cast member next season, playing the mother of an Italian family that moves to Wisteria Lane. Her character is being described as a “vixen” so it’s probably safe to assume she was brought in to replace Nicolette Sherian. She arrives from New York with a husband and 19-year-old son in tow. Season 6 premieres September 24th.

Melissa Rycroft is finally headed down the aisle. She’s engaged to Dallas insurance agent Tye Strickland. They dated on and off for more than 2 years. No wedding date has been set. He was in the audience while she competed on “Dancing With the Stars.” The “off” time must have been while she was hunting for a ring from Jason on “The Bachelor.”

“Dancing with the Stars” judge Len Goodman has announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer back in March, but fortunately, he says it was caught early and he’s now feeling, “right as rain.”  Even though the cancer was discovered months ago, Len decided to postpone surgery until he finished this past season of “Dancing with the Stars”. He says, “I could have said ’sorry’ and not done the show, but the doctors felt I wasn’t riddled with it and it wasn’t so far advanced that it was a life-or-death scenario. It takes a few weeks to get everything set up for the operation anyway, so I went ahead and did the show. I had the surgery done as soon as I got back from America.”

Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine was granted temporary custody of Michael’s three children, 12-year-old Prince Michael, 11-year-old Paris Michael Katherine and 7-year-old Prince Michael, II. They’ve been staying at the Jackson Family home since Michael died on Thursday. There will be a hearing on August 3rd to determine whether or not she gets permanent custody. Katherine and her husband Joe also filed a separate petition yesterday, seeking control of Michael’s estate. She was named a, “temporary special administrator” of the estate, meaning that she’ll have power to control at least some aspects of it for the time being. In their petition, Katherine and Joe expressed concern about unnamed “third parties” that had control of certain aspects of Michael’s estate, and could potentially mishandle them. As for custody, we still don’t know the intentions of Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of the two eldest kids. Especially since that interview of hers that we heard about yesterday turned out to be bogus. In the interview, conducted by Britain’s “News of the World” tabloid, Debbie supposedly said she had no interest in the kids, and that she was basically just a womb to them, and nothing more. Well, Debbie’s attorney, Marta Almli, now says, “The interview did not occur. The article is a complete fabrication.” But Almli wouldn’t speak about Debbie’s actual intentions. She said, “Ms. Rowe’s only thoughts at this time have been regarding the devastating loss Michael’s family has suffered. Ms. Rowe requests that Michael’s family, and particularly the children, be spared such harmful, sensationalist speculation and that they be able to say goodbye to their loved one in peace.” The big question that everyone is pondering in terms of custody is whether or not Debbie will come after the kids if it looks like she might benefit financially from having custody of them. A team from the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office went to Michael Jackson’s rented home yesterday and confiscated various prescription drugs.
There’s no word what those drugs were, but investigators reportedly left Michael’s house with, “two large plastic bags” full of stuff. You may have heard about this. They claimed that Michael was almost completely bald, had nothing but pills in his stomach, had broken ribs from CPR, and had needle marks all over his body, including four right near his heart. Well, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office says that report is bogus, and, “It is not accurate. Some of it is totally false.”