Timberlake denounces Britney, discusses his drug use

Justin Timberlake is waging a minor squabble of words with ex-girlfriend Britney Spears. In an interview with GQ magazine, the former 'N Sync singer has branded the princess of pop--now married to Kevin Federline and pregnant with her second child--disloyal.

"When we initially parted ways," Timberlake said, "I felt like she had a couple of opportunities to just sort of stick up for me, and she didn't."

It was another public outing for the now-solo singer. Timberlake, now dating movie star Cameron Diaz, recently told the Observer Music Monthly that he dabbles with the occasional illegal drug--just in private.

"I've never been arrested...though that's not to say I won't. I get plastered, I've done my fair share of drugs, and I've been caught with my pants down," he said.

"I just make sure there are no cameras around. I try to live my life in a well-rounded manner."

Spears sells New York apartment

Timberlake's ex-beau was in the news herself today. According to media reports, the singer has sold her 4,440-square-foot, three-bedroom Manhattan apartment--in the famous Silk Building, located in New York's NoHo area--for $4 million. Spears paid $3 million for it in 2002 but was recently seeking to sell it for about $5 million, according to the New York Post.

Spears is the latest in a long list of celebrities who have occupied the Silk Building. Former tenants include the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, singer Cher, and actors--and former couple--Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.

Canadian rockers Lavigne, Whibley wed

Without much fanfare, Avril Lavigne and her fiancé Deryck Whibley, the lead singer and frontman of pop-punk band Sum 41, were married Saturday in Montecito, California, according to People magazine.

The Canadian couple, who had been dating since 2004 and were engaged in Italy in June 2005, tied the knot in front of 110 family and friends. Lavigne, 21, wore a Vera Wang gown and carried white roses. Sum 41 drummer Steve Jocz played the part of best man for 26-year-old Whibley.

The rockers' wedding was a casual, "classy" affair, and Mendelssohn's classic "Wedding March" played as Lavigne walked down the aisle with her father, according to media reports.

"It was a short, classy ceremony with the sound of helicopters droning overhead carrying photographers trying to get a shot of the newlyweds, and most of the people there were friends and family...They both seemed really happy," an anonymous source told the Canadian Press Association.

McPhee: I will come back

Katherine McPhee is telling her fans to not believe the hearsay.

This year's runner-up on American Idol, who has missed the first few dates of the cross-country American Idols Live tour due to a persistent bout of laryngitis and bronchitis, recently said that rumors that she's missing the entire tour are untrue.

"I am looking to join the tour around the 21st [in Rochester, New York]. That is the doctors (sic) orders, not mine," she wrote, according to a letter posted on one of the singer's fan sites.

"I am NOT bed ridden. I'm no longer contagious. I don't have to be a prisoner in my L.A. home."

The McPhee-less Idols Live tour, meanwhile, has been less friendly to media coverage: Two New England newspapers complained last week that the concert's organizers were making unreasonable demands--namely, that the papers approve any photographs with the organizers before being published.

West, Sting head up Stockholm festival

A series of outdoor European concerts are being headed up by American rapper Kanye West and English pop maestro Sting. The Stockholm Jazz Festival begins tomorrow in Stockholm, Sweden, but the two mentioned stars don't hit the stage for a few days: Grammy-winner West on July 20, while former Police bassist Sting takes over July 21. Organizers expect to reign in more than 25,000 people to the annual festival, which is in its 23rd year.