Mena Suvari picked up a new pair of earrings — straight from the ears of a stranger. The "Factory Girl" actress was dining at Cipriani downtown recently, when she admired the baubles on Lulu Frost designer Lisa Salzer. "She literally took the earrings out of her ears and Mena put them in her handbag," laughs a snitch.

Haylie Duff's blink-and-you'll-miss-it relationship with AJ Discala (the former Mr. Jamie-Lynn Sigler) is kaput. Life & Style reports that she is now hooking up with bad boy (and Paris Hilton ex) Nick Carter, after the pair were spotted making out at Hollywood hot spot, Les Deux.


*"I bet this will end up on the worst-dressed list," cracked Brooke Hogan when asked by photographers to unbutton her coat on the red carpet of the T.J. Martell Foundation annual Family Day, honoring Monte and Avery Lipman of Universal Republic Records. n Scott Speedman, ex of the newly married Keri Russell, is dating "Jericho" actress Ashley Scott, reports In Touch Weekly.