● Miss Info confirms that Chris Brown will in fact be contributing a verse to and appearing in the video for Rihanna’s "Birthday Cake" remix. [MissInfo]

● Stephen Colbert has perhaps gone off air this week so that he can spend time with his 91-year-old mother. [People]

● Josh Duhamel and Shia LaBeouf will not be returning for Transformers 4. "They haven’t called me," says Duhamel. [Us]

● Bodyguard co-star Kevin Cosner, Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin, and Tyler Perry are among the handful of guests who will pay tribute to Whitney Houston at her invite-only funeral on Saturday. [Us]

● Gael Garcia Bernal has signed on to star as the Spanish swordsman in Zorro Reborn. [Variety]

● Pete Doherty is cleaning up for his "English rose" of a girlfriend. "I’ve stopped injecting," he says. "The only way I can see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit. When you’re banging up all day you can’t really have someone else in your life." [NME]

● "I drink, at times, too much," admits George Clooney in an unusually vulnerable interview with The Hollywood Reporter. But he adds, "I’m not a big druggie, not at all. Blow is absolutely a nonstarter." [NYDN]