Sideshow: No butts about Clarkson concert

Should cigarette makers be allowed to advertise at pop concerts?

Sure, said Kelly Clarkson recently when protesters pointed out that the American Idol champ's April 29 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, was sponsored by tobacco maker Djarum.

Fans were angered that posters for the show were emblazoned with the logo of the popular Djarum cig brand, L.A. Lights.

And they have prevailed!

Concert promoter Adrie Subono said Thursday that his company, Java Musikindo, had persuaded Djarum to pull out of the show.

"There will be no [L.A. Lights] media promotion at the Kelly Clarkson concert," Subono told the Associated Press. He said it would take a couple of days to take down all the billboards and pull other cig-stained ads, including those on TV.

This put Kelly in an awkward position: On Wednesday, the warbler wrote in her blog (http://iamkelly.wordpress.com/) that she would go on with the show. "I refuse to cancel on my fans," she said, adding she was unaware of Djarum's sponsorship. She insisted she is a nonsmoker and does not advocate smoking.

Kelly has yet to comment on the latest developments.

Simon Cowell

, who is about to make

American Idol

makeup artist

Mezhgan Hussainy

the happiest woman alive, is the most desirable man in the United Kingdom. In a sense.

The good women of Britain have voted the Idol misanthrope the No. 1 man they "shouldn't but would" bed. Si got 64 percent of the vote in a poll of 1,264 women conducted by U.K. consumer goods outlet Groupola.com. The top five include foulmouthed cook Gordon Ramsay at No. 4 and President Obama at No. 5.

We all know

Idol

's resident Darth Vader is so darn irreplaceable that Fox's talent show will collapse once he leaves. But will it?

That redoubtable home of award-winning investigative journalism, the National Enquirer, reports that the show may be saved by Idol alum Adam Lambert! The tabloid says Adam so impressed Idol suits with his recent guest performance (he crooned "Whataya Want from Me"), they want to hire him as a judge.

No official word from Fox.

The

Jon

and

Kate Gosselin

custody fight has been taken out of the courts, Jon announced Thursday. Jon, who had filed for sole custody of the couple's eight kids, says he has fired his attorney,

Anthony List Sr.

, and has joined with Kate to "work out things privately and amicably." Jon had argued that Kate was neglecting the kids because all her energies went into her TV show,

Dancing With the Stars

. But Kate this week was ejected from the talent show.

Melanie Griffith

, 52, says her dreamy husband,

Antonio Banderas

, helped her battle the "monster" that is substance addiction.

"He did everything," the Working Girl star tells People. "He has been an amazing man."

Last August, MG, who says she has battled addiction for 30 years, did a third stint at rehab, following previous stays in 1988 and 2000.

Antonio says Mel's "entire family participated in the process of rehabilitation."

The family includes Mel's mum, Tippi Hedren, 80, and Mel's three kids: Alexander, 24, by first hubby Steven Bauer; daughter Dakota, 20, whom she had with Don Johnson; and Stella, 14, her daughter with Antonio.

Christina Aguilera

, 29, told an Atlanta radio show Tuesday she has undergone a sexual renaissance since she gave birth to her 2-year-old son,

Max Liron

.

"I'm more confident and comfortable in my own skin," the "Dirrty" singer said. "I think [I'm] even a more sexual Christina . . . it's just something that's happening inside of me at this point in my life." I admit it is sexy to hear celebs refer to themselves in the third person.

CA said she continues her tradition of "naked Sundays" - her name for alone time with hubby Jordan Bratman. The singer says she is raising Max to appreciate the naked female form.

"I think it's only weird whenever you shame [the female body] and raise your child to look at it in a weird light," says CA, whose fourth album, Bionic, is due in June.

Sex and the City

author

Candace Bushnell

, 51, says she had a blast going back in time with her famed protagonist Carrie Bradshaw in her new novel,

The Carrie Diaries

. Released Tuesday, the book is a prequel to

Sex

, the mega-seller that so far has yielded an HBO series and two films starring

Sarah Jessica Parker

.

"I think it's always fascinating to go back and see the things that formed a character," Bushnell tells USA Today. "And I've always wanted to write a book about a young girl who comes to the big city. That's partly my story." Bushnell was 19 when she moved to the Big Apple.

But don't go thinking the book is a roman à clef: "There's actually nothing that happened to me that happens in the book. It's completely fictional."

Bushnell isn't done with Carrie: She will release a second Sex prequel next summer.