AfterElton Briefs: Jamie Oliver Gets Sued, "Nurse Jackie" Loses a Mo(-Mo), and Craig Ferguson At Gay Strip Clubs

Beloved homosexual and his Christmas tree. Norman Rockwell moment.

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious.

• It's a slow news day, so we have unnamed sources telling Popeater that Warner Brothers is angry with Robert Downey, Jr. for insinuating Sherlock Holmes might have gay feelings for Watson. Yeah, good luck with that, Downey is one of the hottest stars on the planet right now. And if this is true? To the insider: Making Brokeback jokes is still not cool in Hollywood.

• Showtime has dropped the character of Mo-Mo from the upcoming season of Nurse Jackie without explanation. Not that he had a ton to do in the first place, but that's one less gay for us to talk about around here.

• Thanks to the New Civil Rights Movement, we discover this great CNN interview with Gareth Thomas, which we love. What we don't love is that CNN originally titled it "Thomas relief after admitting he is gay" "Admit"? Seriously? In 2009, you're going with "Admit"?

• I'm going to risk interpreting some British terms here, but if I'm reading this correctly, Boy George, who wants to be on Celebrity Big Brother, is petitioning the court to allow it, even though it violates his probation terms (license terms is throwing me).

• The Village People are threatening to sue sexy British chef Jamie Oliver over his promo shot with him dressed as the Village People, sort of. I think if there's a crime here, it's that Jamie got to call himself the "Naked Chef" for all those years and wear clothes. I felt so cheated!

I don't actually get the joke for Jamie's American Road Trip

• BuzzFeed has a list of 2009's Most Ridiculous Uses of Photoshop, and Adam Lambert's album cover comes in at #10. Just like his performance on Leno last night comes after this piece.

• Gay-fave (don't ask me why) Joan Rivers has air-kissed and made up with E! to host their Fashion Police specials after the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards. She doesn't get the Red Carpet pre-shows back though - Ryan Seacrest keeps those.

• From the teaser photo, Betty White stopped by the Craig Ferguson show last night dressed as Santa, and I think she was hawking the DVD release of The Proposal, but her discussion of leather, ball gags, and Craig as a stripper in a gay club were what caught my ear. And no, I am not promoting Salvation Army here. I think they'd actually be horrified.