The new promo spot for the MTV Video Music Awards featuring Britney Spears and the show’s host, British comedian Russell Brand, has been unveiled.

Spears and Brand reference the singer’s 2007 VMA performance via an elephant in the room, which the duo make no reference to. The pachyderm performs tricks in the background as Spears and Brand joke about his less-than-household-name status in the United States.

In one spot, Brand jokes with Spears about her not knowing his name, as she calls the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star Russell Brown.

“You will remember that name because I think pretty soon it’s going to be your surname — Britney Brand,” he jokes with the pop star.

Pop Tarts Vanessa Hudgens has obtained documents filed on Monday in the Los Angeles Superior Court in which her former producer/manager Johnny Viera says he wants $5 million of her fortune.

Viera claims that he and Hudgens entered a financial agreement back in May 2005 to launch her career and go 50/50 on her earnings. But after the enormous success of “High School Musical,” Viera says she gave him the boot and although they came to a settlement agreement, Ness hasn’t been paying her way.

But according to her Vanessa’s father, Greg Hudgens, Viera has a “predatory nature” and the Disney dad has been trying to set up a Web site or phone line to stop more “unsuspecting talent” from falling victim to his ways.

Blake Lively says she won’t follow in the footsteps of her party girl peers because she likes the quiet life too much.

She says, “I just think for too many people, celebrity becomes a way of life instead of a job. But I think the thing for me is that I prefer the quieter things in life.

“At the end of the day, I want to go to Dinner, and watch a movie. I don’t want to go to a club and… not wear panties!”

Jessica Simpson is looking incredible in her latest photo spread in Elle magazine this month, she is just a sexy blonde from Texas trying to find love in a harsh world while making some country music for people to enjoy.

Here’s Jessica Simpson in September’s issue of Elle Magazine.

Jessica Simpson - Elle Magazine