• The weird couple of the year award, if it's true, would go to Lance Armstrong and Ivanka Trump. In an off-beat way, though, it actually kind of makes sense. [Page Six]

• How brave is Derek Blasberg? Seriously. He braved rain and cold to get to SoHo Grand's 10th birthday party. After four hours of drinking free champagne he had to take a ferry. Man. What a trooper. [FWD]

• When we saw that Martha Stewart was getting "a hip replacement" we thought they were looking for a younger, hotter homemaker to host her show. But the rumor is that her actual hip bone may need to be replaced. Just to clarify. [Lowdown]

• Somehow, miraculously, Katie Holmes manage to shed all her fake baby weight in like five minutes. [Scoop]

• Isn't this exactly how they found George Michael last time he was arrested on drug charges? Maybe he should try being a bit more well-rested before sparkin' a doobie. [AP]

Is working for Page Six losing its appeal? In today's Off the Record column in the Observer (which we knew was coming but had to do a little searching for it) we learn that a sleu of bloggers, freelancers, and even Observer staffers themselves have turned down an offer to work at the Page.

According to sources familiar with all or part of the search, people the Post has approached include Jacob Bernstein and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz of WWD, W’s Marshall Heyman, Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen, Us Weekly blogger Noelle Hancock, Christopher Tennant of Radar and 24-year-old freelance writer Derek Blasberg, who was among the young men profiled in an April 23 New York Times Sunday Styles story about New York’s new tribe of “Boldface Men.” Mr. Johnson has also contacted at least three New York Observer staffers.

The article suggests this collaborative "no" may be the result of the Ron Burkle/ Jared Paul Stern "shake-down" or because of the fact that this new full-time staffer will have to take on the partying of both Fernando Gil and Jared Paul Stern combined (a nearly impossible feat).

Whatever, we don't really care why people don't want to work there, we're just wondering if this means the Chris Wilson/Jessica Coen spat has come to an end? Oh, and what exactly is Derek Blasberg writing?

Times’ Siegal Imprinted Invisibly on Newspaper [Tom Scocca and Gabriel Sherman, New York Observer (2nd Item)

The "It boy" article has been done. Dozens of times. So what lead NYT's Sunday Styles along the path to revisit the archetype? We're not sure, exactly, but it seems scribe Peter Davis got his hands on a "new" term: male socialite — always an excuse for a Styles piece. So there Davis goes, traversing the charity party circuit in search of an explanation for the XYs in Gotham's party pages.

The job description was codified: those usually gay men accompanied women whose husbands abhorred the black-tie circuit; the men were well dressed and cultured and knew to step aside when photographers raised their cameras. After the party, they escorted their dates to their front doors, and no farther.

Davis then goes on name drop codified examples of male socialites: jewelry "exec" Luigi Tadini, Derek Blasberg (seen here uncomfortably close to the also-straight Men's Voguer Hud Morgan), and, of course, Fabian Basabe. The new male socialites, you see, are not gay.

(In the interest of fairness, both Tadini and Basabe have explicitly expressed their heterosexuality to us. Blasberg – who we've never had the chance to meet – needs no explanation.)

The Socialite Wore a Black Tie [Peter Davis, NYT]