Zach Braff has been forced to deny rumours he’s dead after a prankster mocked up a fake internet page claiming he committed suicide.

The ‘CNN page’ quickly circulated on Twitter.com, alleging the Scrubs star had been found with “an empty pill bottle by his side”.

It prompted Braff to post a message on Facebook, declaring himself “very much alive”.

He then posted a video from the set of Scrubs, saying, “I would never off myself with pills. If I had to do it, I ‘d do it the way everyone else would do it – by hitting myself with pots and pans.

“I just want to say to the douchebag who started this: You win my first every douche of the day award for making my mum upset.”

Nick Lachey is astonished he’s being linked with his ex-wife Jessica Simpson, now they’re both single again.

Astonished and thrilled,we’d imagine.

He insists, “I think it’s fun storytelling, but there’s very little truth to any of it. I certainly have heard about her breakup and I wish her the best, as I’ve always done. Aside from that, there really is nothing to say.”

Not that the gossip is doing him any harm — his career has hardly flourished since the pair divorced in 2006, and nobody seemed to care when he split with Vanessa Minnillo.

Not that we’re suggesting he made up the ‘reunion rumours’ himself… Celebrities never do that kind of thing.

Johnny Depp’s choice of clothing accessory during a stroll through New York yesterday raised eyebrows among the city’s gay community.

The happily-attached (to a woman) actor sported his usual gypsy-themed attire on his way to a taping of David Letterman’s talk show — including a pink handkerchief tucked into the pocket of his trousers.

WENN’s expert on such matters reliably informs us that this colour hanky is code in the gay community — and suggests Johnny is a fan of… dildoes.

Read into that what you will…

Megan Fox of Transformers — and of the famously on-again off-again relationship with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’s Brian Austin Green — is on the record as claiming that Hollywood’s casting-couch culture still exists.  She insists that several top directors have tried to bed her since she got famous, saying that she’s attended a number of meetings with leading filmmakers to discuss roles, but had to turn down their advances.

Fox refuses to name names, though, telling Britain’s GQ magazine, “Any casting couch s**t I’ve experienced has been since I’ve become famous. It’s really so heartbreaking. Some of these people! Like Hollywood legends.

“You think you’re going to meet them and you’re so excited, like, ‘I can’t believe this person wants to have a conversation with me,’ and you get there and you realise that’s not what they want, at all. It’s happened a lot this year actually.”

Fox also has to fend off the flirting of male co-stars, which she handles by embarrassing them in front of witnesses.

Fox says, “There are some guys, talking about actors who have been in the business for a while, who are very egocentric and have been able to sleep with a lot of girls for whatever reason, and because they don’t know me they think I’m going to be this little cupcake, this Marilyn Monroe type who’s going to bat my eyes and be like a receptacle for them.

“I just shut them down immediately, right in front of people. It’s been so long since someone has told them no, they don’t really know how to deal with it. Because of this non-reality they live in, they’re f**ked up, psychologically.”

R&B singer Kelis ripped on two-timers on her Twitter account — thereby hinting that her estranged husband Nas cheating on her, leading to their split.

The former super-couple shocked the entertainment world when the “Milkshake” star — rocking blue mascara at a MoMA party in New York City last week — filed divorce papers at the end of April, citing “irreconcilable differences” for the bust-up after nearly six years of marriage.

Kelis is expecting the couple’s first child together; speculation ran rampant in the days after the court filing as to what could prompt such a serious move during a pregnancy.  And the fight over child support and custody has already begun, with Nas urging a judge to deny Kelis cash for the child before s/he’s even born.

Now Kelis has taken to the internet to imply the reasons behind her break with Nas, and while she doesn’t name names, speculation is that the commentary is aimed at her former husband: “This lovely day I would like to touch on cheaters. Super brief! Why be cowardly why not go after what you really want? Do people know what…They want? [Probably] not which just goes into know and respecting ones self.

“Also we can discuss whores I mean the nasty sub par tricks that… participate in the cheating. Well let me say this, both parties that [sic)]are gross. And in reality they deserve each other.”

Ouch!