Wasn’t Surivor host Jeff Probst supposed to leave the show, like, years ago? Well, he’s not. Leading up to Sunday’s big finale of four gals, Probst, who just signed on for another four years, takes some time to reflect about dangling a million dollars in front of men and women who will eat bat meat for the chance.

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• Tom Cruise joins the long list of celebrities at war with the paparazzi. After photogs followed Katie Holmes’ impregnator to the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles, a security guard whipped out a camera to snap pics of the paps “for the safety of … parishioners.” Then, depending on who you believe, the guard made a citizen’s arrest when one of the photogs jumped through his passenger window while idling at a stop light. [The Scoop]

• Another season of Lizzie Grubman’s PoweR Girls on MTV? That’s fine by us, so long as it’s not aired back-to-back with Seventeen’s Miss Seventeen. We can only take so much back stabbing at once. [Gawker]

• A year after going public with their romance, Survivor host Jeff Probst and Survivor: Vanuatu contestant Julie Berry are still going strong as a twosome. Meanwhile, Probst isn’t sure he’ll be renewing his contract when it expires at the end of the 12th season. World travel just isn’t as much fun with a camera crew in tow. [AP]

• On the set of Twins, dumb blonde-playing Melanie Griffith is having trouble remembering her lines supposedly due to last minute script changes, not the fact that she’s, uh, a dumb blonde. [The Scoop]

• Victoria’s Secret only caters to women, not men. But they’ll have to check and get back to you on that. [Page Six]