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Here at Scandalist, we love a good showbiz scrap, especially when it’s between a couple of blokes. (They’re as bitchy as the ladies, you know.) Hence proved by British film star Simon Pegg, who’s laid into fellow countryman Ricky Gervais by dubbing him an “idiot” and “fat”. Ooohh!

In an interview on UK radio station Heart FM, the How to Lose Friends and Alienate People star (sounds prescient, right?) grew testy when asked if he was feeling the pressure of the LA lifestyle, like Gervais. “He says a lot of things, that man. He said there’d been no good British films since 1950. What an idiot.” Pegg, who also starred in last year’s Run, Fatboy, Run, continued his verbal assault by calling The Office star Ricky “one of the fat people in LA.”

We think that deserves a round two. Ricky? — Becky Howard

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Brad Pitt has signed on for Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino’s long-planned World War II movie, with comedic actors Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz and B.J. Novak in talks to play other key roles. So where does this leave the chatter about Britney Spears‘ sapphic psychotic in Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, the other Tarantino project everyone’s been talking about? With Inglorious finally on its way, is Faster on the sexy trash backburner along with Robert Rodriguez‘ much-awaited Sin City 2? This better be one hell of an epic, QT! [Variety]

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Update: Britney has denied any interest in the Faster Pussycat role. Sigh! It was too good to be true.