Entertainment News 831

Katie Couric, who is about to take over the C-B-S Evening News, has suddenly dropped about 20 pounds. Diet? Exercise? Nerves? Nope -- Photoshop! An internal C-B-S magazine just published a photo of a slim and trim Couric -- but it's the exact same picture the network sent to the media last month showing a noticeably chunkier anchor. A C-B-S spokesman admits, "The picture was retouched without the knowledge of Ms. Couric or C-B-S News management."

Nicole Kidman's rep has a theory about all those tabloid pics showing a baby bump -- photo doctoring! With the latest baby bump pictures showing up exactly a year after tabloids first reported that Kidman and Keith Urban were expecting, the Oscar-winner's mouthpiece tells M-S-N-B-C, "I'm virtually certain paparazzi are distorting photos to make her look pregnant." Nic's publicist adds that her client wouldn't be "shooting a film, traveling to Rome for another film, then shooting another film if she were" pregnant.

Lindsay Lohan isn't planning to show up at tonight's M-T-V Video Music Awards thanks to the sobering influence of boyfriend Harry Morton. The non-drinking, drug-free Hard Rock Hotel heir has been trying to save everybody's favorite party animal from herself, according to the New York Post. A spy tells the paper, "Harry, [who] has told her not to drink so much and is trying to calm her down...told her not to go" to New York for the festivities. Also helping the 20-year-old chill out is a new pal, deejay Samantha Ronson, who doesn't drink either. Of course, technically, Lindsay isn't supposed to be drinking for another 10 months -- when she turns 21.