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Sideshow | 2 weeks later, still married

Her marriage to Josh Kelley is barely a fortnight old, and Katherine Heigl's already like "I can't stand Josh!" Nah, she's said nothing of the sort.

Julian Schnabel is up for a best-director award. (See "Let the battle begin.")
Julian Schnabel is up for a best-director award. (See "Let the battle begin.")Read moreMATT SAYLES / Associated Press

Her marriage to

Josh Kelley

is barely a fortnight old, and

Katherine Heigl

's already like "I can't stand Josh!"

Nah, she's said nothing of the sort.

Katherine totally loves her man.

But, as K.H. told celebrity news show

The Insider

, she has developed some quick pet peeves about Josh.

"He loves to narrate what's happening on TV while it's happening, while you're also watching the same show," Heigl tells

The Insider

for a report due to air last night. " 'OK, you know what? I'm actually watching the show. It'd be great if you shut up right now.' "

Not that we're trying to manufacture conflict where there isn't any, but did you know that Katherine's man Kelley is such a goof he lost his wedding ring - on the couple's wedding day? (Cue the Freda Payne song.) Heigl and Kelley confirm there was a wee bit of a panic that day. But two helpful guys and a metal detector later, the gold band was recovered.

Why Britney lost it

"Unimpeachable sources" tell TMZ.com that they know the real reason

Britney Spears

allegedly went loco Thursday night in a bizarre episode that ended with her strapped to a gurney. And it wasn't too many Frappucinos.

TMZ says Brit was mightily tiffed that she had to be deposed by

Kevin Federline

's attorney since that was her day with the kids. Brit felt so put out she demanded to be given "make-up" time with the kids that night to compensate for the time she missed with them.

But TMZ notes that Brit's logic is faulty: Her depo, which was moved to Thursday because

she

failed to show up for it on Wednesday, was scheduled to end at 11:45 a.m., while her visit with the kids wasn't supposed to start till noon. So what did set her off?

What's with the accent?

Celeb TV show

The Insider

says in a report set to air last night, that Brit "spoke with a British accent during her stay at Cedars-Sinai hospital last Friday."

Does this mean Brit suffers from

Megalomania Anglophilialis

- the same complex

Madonna

developed when she adopted her preposterously pretentious Brit accent? Maybe she had just seen

that

Mary Poppins

DVD one too many times.

Call him Chubby Shady

Tell me it ain't true,

Eminem

!

TMZ.com claims that the 35-year-old hip-hop megastar, who was rushed to a Detroit-area hospital over the holidays with severe pneumonia, has gained so much weight, he's pushing 200 pounds.

The Motor City rapper's rep,

Dennis Dennehy

, yesterday confirmed that

Marshall Mathers

was treated at a local hospital for "complications due to pneumonia." Denny said Em "has since been released and is doing well recovering at home." He did not address the weight issue.

Dressing down, way down

Mr. Blackwell

, that

Matthew Arnold

-ian guardian of all that is sartorially sacred, has released this year's list of those sartorial sinners who dared dress badly in '07. Number one on B.'s list goes to Lalaland's latest high-profile soccer mom (and soccer wife),

Victoria

"

Posh Spice

"

Beckham

.

"Forget the fashion spice, wearing a skirt would suffice! In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty Posh can really wreck 'em," B yesterday said with venom.

Let the battle begin

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Directors Guild of America Awards prez

Michael Apted

yesterday announced nominations for this year's best director awards. The vaunted few include

Paul Thomas Anderson

for

There Will Be Blood

,

Joel

and

Ethan Coen

for

No Country for Old Men

,

Tony Gilroy

for

Michael Clayton

,

Sean Penn

for

Into the Wild

and

Julian Schnabel

for

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

.

This year's winner will be named at the 60th annual DGA Awards gala scheduled to take place Jan. 26 at the Hyatt Century Plaza in Century City. Regrets only.

ESPN radio comes and goes . . .

. . . and comes back again.

Local sports radio channel ESPN 920, which has been off the air for the last few days, is coming back by Feb. 1 - but it won't be back at 920 AM

or

have local programming.

Huh?

Here's the story: ESPN Radio is killing off its local radio station, ESPN 920. Beginning on Feb. 1, the network will simulcast ESPN's New York station to folks in our area at 1040 on the AM dial. The signal at 1040 will cover much of the same area that received the 920 signal.

- Michael Klein

The 'Cocaine Variations'?

The Orlando Sentinel reports that famed pianist

Tzimon Barto

, of Eustis, Fla., who has played with numerous world-class orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, was arrested Saturday and charged with cocaine possession and tampering with evidence.

According to the arrest report from the Lake County sheriff's department, a deputy saw Barto exchange items through the window of his white Jaguar convertible in front of a known drug house. Later, when the deputy stopped Barto for a traffic violation, the officer "observed several white flakes on [Barto's] lower lip." Tests showed the substance was crack cocaine. The pianist was released after posting $7,000 bond.

"We love him very much, but he's made some mistakes," Barto's mother,

Evelyn Smith

, who is a longtime Eustis city commissioner, told the Sentinel. "He's under medical care."

She would certainly agree

"Now and for the foreseeable future, virtually everything involving

Britney

[

Spears

] is a big deal." So says Los Angeles Associated Press assistant bureau chief

Frank Baker

in an internal memo issued yesterday - a copy of which was posted on Gawker.com.

Boy, that qualifies as an understatement.

His greatness will last

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association yesterday announced that it will honor

Steven Spielberg

with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille award at the 2009 Golden Globes. The honor was to have been bestowed at this year's Globes show, which was canceled because of the Writers Guild strike.