Rumor has it, Britney Spears will once again blow our minds with a half-ass VMA performance. If we play our cards right, Ms. Spears will hopefully lip-synch her favorite song and awkwardly bumble across the stage.

Britney has also been nominated in the category of Best Female Video for her hit single “Piece of Me,” competing alongside some women who actually sing. Out loud. MTV’s full list of nominees in the category is scheduled for release on Friday.

Spears’ 2007 performance at the VMAs was the most-talked about performance off all-time — and not because she looked banging in her bra and panties outfit, or because of her stellar dance moves. What will happen this year

Madonna and Britney Spears are set to perform a bondage routine together.

The pop superstars - who caused controversy when they shared a kiss at the MTV Music Awards in 2003 - will appear in bandages which they will remove to reveal tiny bondage pants and knee-high boots.

The footage, which will include the pair gyrating against each other, will be screened to fans on Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet world tour via giant video screens.

A source said: “It is classic Madonna, probably the raunchiest stuff she has ever done. It leaves nothing to the imagination and it will be very controversial.

“Britney and Madonna are unwrapped like mummies to appear together almost naked apart from tiny leather bondage pants and knee-high boots. They then dance closely together, pressing their hands and bodies together.

“There will be big rows over whether it is sexy, shocking or both.”

The pair will perform a mix of Madonna’s track Beat Goes On and Britney’s Piece of Me.

Britney will also dance to Madonna’s 1995 hit Human Nature, which will include one scene where she loses her mind after getting stuck in a lift.

The source added to Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “We’ll see her going crazy in an enclosed space - screaming, pulling her hair and banging her fists against the lift’s walls as it gets stuck between floors. She really loses it.”

Well, as MTV Networks Music Group president Van Toffler put it: “Everyone deserves a second or third chance, right?”

Yes, despite the debacle of Britney Spears writhing half-heartedly in a black bikini at last September’s Video Music Awards, MTV has said that she’s welcome back to perform at this year’s show in Los Angeles. Although, erm, Van Toffler was apparently “sorta” kidding.

“Who knows?” he said. Cryptically. Men, eh?

According to OK! magazine, producers and crew members are already planning the awards night - but Van knows they have their work cut out for them.”I’m not sure how we top Britney opening the show,” he says. ”We are working on it every minute of every day.”

Well, if you can’t top Britney - sounds like it has to be Britney. Doesn’t it? Or do I not quite get showbiz?

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are married, at least for now. The couple tied the knot Saturday in an intimate ceremony, according to People.com. Simpson, 23, wore an ivory lace wedding gown by Monique Lhuillier accessorized with a diamond necklace and earrings by Neil Lane as she and Wentz, 28, exchanged vows in front of 150 guests at Simpson’s parents’ LA home. Her father, Joe Simpson, performed the nondenominational ceremony, while the bride’s sister Jessica served as maid of honor. Wentz’s English bulldog, Hemingway, was the ring-bearer. Guests included Jessica’s boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo; Nicole Richie and Joel Madden; and actor Donald Faison with girlfriend CaCee Cobb. The Alice in Wonderland-themed reception featured a wedding cake with a top hat, teapot, stopwatch, and a pot of flowers on top. Simpson, who’s pregnant with the couple’s first child, and Wentz, the bassist for Fall Out Boy, have been together since 2006. They announced their engagement last month.

Reality TV star Brody Jenner is set to star in another reality TV series entitled “Bromance” on MTV.

It’s still unclear on who will be featured alongside the 24-year-old, but former best bud Spencer Pratt could jump in for a ride.

A source was quoted by E! News saying it’s “possible Spencer could appear on the show.”

Jenner’s 10-year friendship with Pratt had suddenly ended when Pratt asked him to choose between him and Lauren Conrad, who is Pratt and girlfriend Heidi Montag’s worst enemy.

The source adds, “Spencer had been calling and texting for a long time, begging to make up, but Brody was just blowing him off. Spencer was relentless.”

Jenner, along with his brother Brandon, starred in the short lived reality series “The Princes of Malibu,” which only lasted for two episodes. He currently appears in “The Hills” and he occasionally shows up in another reality series “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” where his dad Bruce and his new family are featured.