Michael Phelps does love him some surgery-related jewelry. (Photo by Alex Loc Thieu)

Jewelry line Skeletal Metal — which fashions rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets based on reconstructive plates used to mend broken bones — holds its launch party just in time to cash in on maximum Halloween-induced creepiness tonight at Simon at Palms Place.

Swimmer Michael Phelps will be at the pool-side restaurant, as will UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin, gold-winning Olympic swimmer Eric Vendt, volleyball silver medalists Stacy Sykora and Nicole Davis, soccer player Abby Wambach, beach volleyball’s Nicole Branagh and volleyball gold medalist Rich Lambourne along with Reed Johnson of the Chicago Cubs, Skeletal Metal founder Dr. Michael Crovetti, and partners Marty Cordova, formerly of the Minnesota Twins and Anthony Bonifazio.

If you’re lucky, maybe Phelps will break a bone just for you, so you can get your very own unique piece of jewelry. Ask him nicely — we’re sure it’ll be fine.

By Jason Scavone

Bass says bye, bye, bye to pasty skin.

Lance Bass — everybody’s favorite boy band cosmonaut — was at Sunset Tan inside Palms Place yesterday for a custom airbrush job. He was there with Dancing with the Stars partner Lacey Schwimmer. Michael Phelps-dater and Director of Mobile Operations Amber Peterson was also there. Now he can get back to the important work of his long-running personal space race with O-Town’s Dan Miller, who recently made significant strides in his partnership with the European Space Agency.

Later in the evening, Bass dined with friends at Lavo inside The Palazzo. He moved upstairs to the club after dinner.

By Jason Scavone

Not pictured: The tail that Michael Phelps has instead of legs.

One more bit of Michael Phelps-related news: The swimmer got himself a custom airbrush job at Sunset Tan inside Palms Place Friday night prior to his dinner at N9NE Steakhouse. Look, the man spends most of his time soaking in a puddle of chlorine indoors. It’s a wonder he doesn’t look like Gollum. Included in his gang of 44 for dinner was Sunset Tan’s Director of Mobile Operations, Amber Peterson.

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Maybe he’s looking for property around here or something. (Photo by Ray Alamo | SpyOnVegas.com)

So, Jamie Foxx is still in town, huh? A week after he was working the mic at the Palms Place pool, last night Foxx was — working the mic at the Palms Place pool during the Addicted to Quack party. We hope someone’s picking up his mail for him at home.

For the full breakdown in pictures, check out SpyOnVegas.com.

By Jason Scavone

Jamie Foxx sings the Duck Tales theme song. (Photo by Ray Alamo | SpyOnVegas.com)

Last night’s Addicted to Quack party at the Palms Place pool saw Jamie Foxx rip off a couple of songs for the crowd, including “Golddigger.” The Truth About Cats & Dogs star likely spent yet another night fending off questions about Janeane Garofalo.

Foxx was with his sister and friends, and had dinner at Simon prior to the party. SpyOnVegas has the full gallery here.

By Jason Scavone

You know, they kind of DO make bath time so much fun. (Photos by Melissa Reese | SpyOnVegas.com)

Last night’s second installment of Quack! at the Palms Place pool outside of Simon saw not just the addition of thousands of rubber ducks to the water, but DJ Samantha Ronson, fresh off her jewelry-shopping spree, spinning for the crowd.

Chuck Liddell was among the cabana set, as were Palms restaurateur Kerry Simon and co-owner George Maloof. The idea of Liddell hanging out amid all the rubber ducks is pretty solid, but we’re really holding out hope he’ll hit up a Chuck E. Cheese for the ball crawl. SpyOnVegas.com caught all the action here.

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(Photo by Melissa Reese | SpyOnVegas.com)

And that’s when Gerardo finally learned how to identify where boobs go.

By Jason Scavone

FACT: Samantha Ronson’s favorite duck is Dewey.

Rubber ducky is the one again tonight at Simon inside Palms Place. The restaurant kicks things off with happy hour from 6 to 8 p.m. before Quack! starts up from 8 to midnight with a pool chock full of ducks bearing fabulous waterfowl-approved prizes outside of the restaurant. Samantha Ronson DJs. We can only pray “Disco Duck” makes an appearance. (Seriously, if you ever doubted how truly awful the ’70s were; or what the tragic consequences of abundant cocaine use were for the music industry, do yourself a favor and suffer through three minutes of sweaty Rick Dees.) Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Britney, much like the Mona Lisa and superstitious natives, was not allowed to be photographed. (Via myspace.com/britneyspears)

It’s not like Britney Spears is new, fresh and exciting. Lord knows anyone who got a good look at her Saturday night at Simon inside Palms Place for the CineVegas 10th anniversary party could see that plain as day. (Let’s just say the words “terrible extensions” may have been thrown around several dozen times.)

It’s not like a packed house of film industry folks should be that easily impressed by celebs. Yet gawker after gawker crowded around the cabana Spears shared with Palms co-owner George Maloof Friday night to catch just the merest glimpse of the li’l blonde minx.

Surrounded by security posted outside the cabana trying desperately to keep the crowd moving along and stop people from snapping photos, Spears, wearing a little black dress and a deer-in-the-headlights look seemingly made everyone’s night just by showing up. Well, maybe not the fire-dancing entertainers working their gasoline-soaked mouths off to hold anyone’s attention with a bona fide tabloid queen in the house, but most everyone else. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

“George, is Hulk getting you the green on time? No? Perfect.” (Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

Linda Bollea has hit Hulk Hogan with a steel folding chair of debt. A foreign object of litigation. A flying elbow to the financial and criminal records. Oh, don’t you worry. We can keep this up all day. We’ve seen a Wrestlemania or two in our time. We haven’t even gotten to any Andre the Giant stuff.

Bollea, it seems, wants the Hulkster to be held in contempt of court and thrown in the hoosegow for failing to pay his share of the couple’s $4.2 million Palms Place condo — in the same jail, incidentally, as son Nick.

It seems drastic, sure, but the idea of Nick and Hulk together in jail sounds like the greatest reality show VH1 hasn’t yet sent into development. Hulk should be OK though, if he can secure a loan from cartoonish rich guy Ted DiBiase.

By Jason Scavone