Is our favorite Harajuku Barbie done with her days on “American Idol?” Say it ain’t so, Nicki Minaj! According to reports, the sassy singer won’t be returning to judge on another season of the reality competition show. And with numbers dropping quicker than Lindsay Lohan’s IMDB Star Meter, this isn’t exactly great news for the show…

PepsiCo, the company behind popular soda Mountain Dew, has announced they will no longer run advertisements featuring rapper Lil Wayne over “creative differences” over a controversial line in his song “Karate Chop.” Lil Wayne has been a commercial staple for Mountain Dew for the past year, as advertisements featuring the rapper began running in early 2012. But PepsiCo made the choice to cut the cord to it’s relationship with Wayne due to a song lyric containing a vulgar reference to the beating to Emmett Till, a young boy who died after to a violent attack in the 1950′s. This horrific occurrence became a significant event in the American civil rights movement, and is still widely discussed and relevant today…

Are we ready to see a girl we just watched give birth on TV get it on with a porn star? According to Vivid Entertainment, the answer is yes. MTV’s “Teen Mom” alum Farrah Abraham, is really milking her 15 minutes of fame by selling her “private” sex tape with porn star James Deen to Vivid Entertainment. According to TMZ, the 21-year-old mom closed a 6-figure deal with the adult entertainment company for the 70 minute movie titled, “Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom.”

Any legit doctor will tell you that there are a lot of downsides to packing on the pounds. But stretch marks, diabetes, and cellulite are the least of Rob Kardashian’s weight gain worries. In a tell-all interview with Ryan Seacrest, Rob didn’t just “tell-all,” no sir. He went straight for the mother of all embarrassing things that you probably never want to share on national TV, revealing that he cries every time he takes a shower because his ween looks so small due to his recent weight gain.

When Justin Bieber does, well basically anything, it’s documented by zillions of paparazzi, fans, and of course entertainment journalists. And when it comes to hard-hitting news, nobody’s got the inside scoop like Jared Rudolph. When the Lindsay Lohan-Paris Hilton feud erupted into full blown drunken warfare, he was on the scene at the first uttering of “firecrotch.” At the sound of the first lamp fall on that fateful night when Charlie Sheen trashed a New York City hotel room, he was staked out in the elevator for that first exclusive interview. When the latest reality show train wreck checks into rehab, he’s there…with them. He even put the “fun” in Michael Jackson’s funeral. Jared Rudolph doesn’t mess around when it comes to breaking entertainment news. True to form, here he is with an exclusive clip from the set of Justin Bieber’s latest music video for a top secret song slated to hit airwaves next week. For those of you who can’t wait, here’s Jared Rudolph’s exclusive for THEPOPFIX.

This is how it works over here: You ask, we deliver. When you guys started to inquire about all the “hows” and “whys” behind all the cupcakey guts, glory, and goodness that went down during the making of THEPOPFIX Episode 3, we knew it was time for a behind the scenes photo blog. Here’s an exclusive look at the baked goods we loved and lost in the course the 90 minutes it took to shoot this video. And yes, both Erin and Nicole survived. The cupcakes were not so lucky.

Who are we kidding? With two girls, it’s never just one. This week on THEPOPFIX, Erin Darling and Nicole Aimee discuss scientific breakthroughs in obesity prevention, over a plate of cupcakes. Naturally. See all the love, sugar, and chaos below on this installment of THEPOPFIX.

If you get the joke in the headline, we judge you. But if you laughed at it, we’re okay with it. In this week’s episode of THEPOPFIX, we’re taking an investigative look at the case of the see-through pants recall from athletic wear titan, Lululemon. You think if you paid 60 bucks for some stretchy pants, they’d at least come with a guarantee to cover your ass. Not so, my friends. That’s the day and age we’re living in…