Really, you're nobody these days until you have a YouTube channel where you post inane video blogs whenever you so desire. Jermaine Dupri? He's somebody. He posted a video this week of himself and Janet Jackson, who has recovered from her vertigo and thanks you for all of your kind wishes. They're cute together at the end of the short video, when she tries to put makeup on him and they joke about how he threw up on her at the club a few weeks ago.

• It's tough being a child star and a college freshman. So far, Lil Romeo has had three high-priced bikes stolen at USC. [EUR]

• Tsk tsk tsk. Jermaine Dupri didn't exactly rush to Montreal when Janet Jackson got sick Monday. [E!]

• By the way, that "illness" that sent Jackson to the hospital and is causing her to cancel shows is rumored to be pregnancy. You're not really famous if someone, at some point, doesn't start a rumor that you're pregnant. [NB]

• The court will forgive Game for his involvement in a post-funeral brawl with his cousin if he will take 36 hours of anger-management classes. Good call. [TMZ]

Jermaine Dupri, infamous record producer/exec, sometimes rapper, and boyfriend of Janet Jackson, actually grew up in the music industry — his father was a concert promoter and managed rap and R&B groups. That probably explains why he got a (little-known?) three-year gig as a dancer for Whodini, and why a 12-year-old Dupri appears in the "Freaks Come Out At Night" video. Check for the Jheri-curled child around 00:35 and 1:55.

• He's 36 years old, but Jermaine Dupri hasn't yet learned how to cut himself off before he throws up into his superstar girlfriend's lap. [SOHH]

• 50 Cent requires filet mignon, cognac, and equal numbers of white and black towels in his concert rider. I've seen worse. [LS]

• Timbaland's thinking outside of the box might not have worked so well for him this time around. [NYer]

• Rihanna and Chris Brown spend an inordinate amount of time in KFC. Weird. [E!]

• Michelle Obama: mother, future first lady, …and blogger? [BH]

• First dunking then brawling — are WNBA games turning into NBA games? [HP]

• Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri love each other again. Awww? [MTV]

• Ashanti is now the tourism ambassador for Nassau County in Long Island. Uh, good luck with that. [SP]

• Wax Amy Winehouse looks so much better than real Amy Winehouse. [People]

Janet Jackson, looking simultaneously comfortable and uncomfortable, walked the red carpet at last night's LA launch of the Cartier Love bracelet. She was joined by Jermaine Dupri and many others, including Ashanti. Is it wrong to say she's been looking really good lately when it's a known fact that she starves herself to look this way? I mean, at least when stars pretend like they eat hamburgers (or healthy servings of fish, chicken and veggies) for every meal, we can pretend, too.

THIS STINKS Jermaine Dupri has joined forces with TAG Body Spray to launch a record label under Island Def Jam. It will be called TAG Records. I don't understand how they'll synergize. JD's artists will provide the soundtracks for TAG commercials? TAG product placement in music videos? According to Billboard, TAG artists will receive $10 million in marketing dollars, which is a huge sum by industry standards. This is smelling like the death knell of the music industry as we know it.

JANET JACKSON'S HEALTH PROBLEMS Why does everyone want Janet Jackson to get married so badly? She and JD seem more than content. Plus, she's allergic.

"If it's [meant] to happen, it'll happen," she says. "I like where we are, and I'm happy where I am. I've done it twice before. I'm afraid I might be a jinx. I might be allergic to marriage."

As for children, she admits: "We both would love to have kids. Someday I know it's going to happen. Exactly when, I don't know."

• Trying to extract news during the week of Christmas is like trying to get Michael Jackson to admit how many plastic surgery procedures he's had. Or how many little boys he's shared Jesus Juice with. [TMZ]

• Sometimes they really do go back… [BV]

• I don't know if this one's gonna pull I Am Legend numbers. [YT]

• Jermaine Dupri and Damon Dash's names are being mentioned as possible replacements for Jay-Z at Def Jam. [RTNY]

It will be a while before the episode of MTV's My Super Sweet Sixteen starring Quincy Brown, the unofficial stepson of Diddy and the actual son of Kim Porter and Al B. Sure, airs. But rest assured that Diddy allowed no stop to go unpulled for the party, which happened this weekend and featured guests like Lauren London, Bow Wow, Omarion, Chris Brown, Hurricane Chris, Crime Mob, and Jermaine Dupri. No Cassie, though. Rev Run brought little Diggy, who posed on the red carpet with Justin and Christian Combs. I hope they don't corrupt him. More pics after the jump.

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Blinded by love for her insane family, Janet Jackson might have agreed to add her bright smile and brighter vocals dance moves to the rumored Jackson 5 reunion tour, but her boyfriend is saying no, no, no.

A music industry insider told Page Six, "Janet said she would be willing to participate in a few select shows next year, but [her fiancé] Jermaine Dupri is holding her out of it. He wants Janet to go back in the studio and record another album, and he's also wary of having her be associated with Michael because he's gotten such bad press and is just freaky."

It's always nice to get a reminder that somewhere, somebody has some good sense. [PS]

Here are Da Brat and JD in simpler times — he had hair and no Janet, she hadn't been arrested for smashing a bottle of rum into a waitress' face. Back in 1994, "Funkdafied" was my song, and I never ever would have predicted Da Brat would one day become a regular fixture on VH1 reality shows. I'm glad I didn't predict that.