Real Cupcakes of Las Vegas. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna. Additional photo by Bryan Steffy.)

Jill Zarin, one of the innumerable stars of Terrible People with Money Real Housewives of New York City was at the Miracle Mile Sugar Factory Saturday along with husband, Bobby, and daughter, Ally to dish out gelato and brownies to fans.

She was in town to push her book, Secrets of a Jewish Mother, and said that she could see a Vegas edition of the Real Housewives going down by offering “an inside peek at the Las Vegas Strip.” When, in actuality it would be “an inside peek at drinking at noon in Seven Hills.” Actually, we’d probably watch that.

Zarin turned up at Surrender that night with friend and Rao’s Executive Chef Carla Pellegrino. Wynter Gordon was there after performing at Blush to go over to the sister club and do “I Feel Love” and “Toyfriend.”

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(Photo by Cody Boor. Additional photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

The City’s Whitney Port brought younger sister Paige to Vanity at the Hard Rock Hotel Saturday night to celebrate her birthday, along with their brother Ryan and older sister, Ashley. We’re still not sure how you get off the set of The Hills and somehow spin off into a world that’s even more boring than just being the idle rich, but there it is. The crew hung on to shut down the club at 3:30 a.m.

On Sunday, Port made an appearance at the Miracle Mile Sugar Factory to pick up a gift basket for her sister, then took a turn serving gelato.

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This is a lot of ceremony to move a few $30 lollies off the shelf. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Today is National Lollipop Day and Saturday is National Tequila Day. You can probably guess which made-up holiday we like better. Regardless, Holly Madison helped debut three Vegas-themed lollipops outside the future location of the 20,000-square-foot Sugar Factory at Paris Las Vegas. (And this is where we should note Mayor Goodman got his Proclamation notebook out again to name today “Sugar Factory Day.”) What makes them Vegas-themed lollipops? They have little dice or Vegas signs dangling off the stem. Of course they do. It would’ve been a lot harder to make a lollipop that tasted like cheap gin and gambling debts.

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Proof that CO2 cartridges make everything better. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

The Sugar Factory put out a limited-edition Miss USA Couture Pop — pink for breast cancer awareness — and brought in the current Miss USA, Kristen Dalton to show it off yesterday at the Miracle Mile location. This year’s Miss USA will be picked at Planet Hollywood May 16. The hopefuls made a pilgrimage to the Monte Carlo outpost of The Cupcakery, where all 10 of the girls who visited got a cupcake with their picture on it. In a related story, the Miss USA contest is now being sponsored by the American Diabetes Association.

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MTV owns the patent on this relationship. (Photo by Carlos Larios)

Audrina Patridge and Ryan Cabrera grabbed lunch at Cabo Wabo and were making out and holding hands inside the new Sugar Factory at the Miracle Mile Shops, which officially moves the candy store square into the realm of sugar overload. The two bought lollipops, chocolate bars and … chocolate body paint. We’re just going to throw it out there. There’s no one from The Hills who we want to see drizzled in chocolate body paint. Ever. Especially you, Spencer and/or Heidi.

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Romance, Jersey style. (Photos by Erik Kabik. Additional photos by Kabik, Scott Harrison | Retna)

The Situation didn’t have a Valentine. So he found himself a few targets at the Sugar Factory opening at the Miracle Mile Shops yesterday. His method? It’s the new GTL: Gotta Throw Lollipops. He was tossing heart-shaped pops into a crowd of eager ladies — some with “Fist Pumping Champs” T-shirts, some in it just for the free candy.

“I’m definitely looking,” he said of his hunt for a girl that didn’t stumble upstairs from the boardwalk. “You’ve seen me looking.”

Us, most of Seaside Heights and all of America have seen him looking. And we’ve seen him have the same weird cloth-repelling skin disorder that Dave Navarro has, where he has to shed his shirt at every opportunity. The Situation was on full display yesterday — as was his curiously Vanilla Ice-y fade (check the close-ups in the gallery) — as a crowd that stretched well past Hawaiian Tropic Zone and spilled out onto the casino floor gathered ahead of his autograph signing session at the newest of the Factory’s boutique candy shops. Click for more words and pictures »

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Is it us or does the girl on the right look like she’s embarrassed to be caught in a pic with The Sitch? (Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

Ladies, now’s your chance to make that Valentine’s Day complete. The Situation is signing autographs at the new Sugar Factory at the Miracle Mile Shops (right next to Hawaiian Topic Zone) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Mel B and Kendra Wilkinson are also going to be there, but, you know. It’s just not the same. The Sitch is also rumored to be turning up at Eve tonight. Let’s just go ahead and rename the thing Situationtine’s Day. Click for more words and pictures »

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That is the look of a man indulging someone. (Additional photos by Isaac Brekken)

Jon Stewart did his Valentine’s Day shopping at The Mirage’s Sugar Factory Friday night, where he was performing for the weekend. We’d say something about how out-of-character it seems, but apparently the pricey lollipops were good enough for Randy Couture, too. He celebrated his win over Mark Coleman in UFC 109 at Eve inside Crystals with a lollipop for dessert after he and his crew had dinner at Beso. Friday night at Eve saw 2008 Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole in for her birthday.

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Fill in the blank time! Kim Kardashian never goes anywhere without sticking one of these in her mouth. (Photo by Erik Kabik)

Sugar Factory, the lollipop-maker to the stars, is expanding beyond its Mirage boutique to a full-blown restaurant at Paris Las Vegas, taking over the space currently occupied by Ah Sin. The 15,000-square-foot restaurant and retail space is slated to open in the fall.

And you know what that means. The place is going to be overrun with Kardashians. Harrah’s had better start stocking up on traps before they get in the food.

The restaurant is going to offer breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night menus, but dessert will be the specialty — including a gelato bar with special “celebrity” flavors, chocolate fountains, fresh-baked waffles and crepes — giving Harrah’s a stranglehold on whimsical, upscale dessert joints, between Serendipity 3 at Caesars Palace and now Sugar Factory.

For an additional tweak, Sugar Factory will do their windows seasonally, to give it a little New York City vibe. To complete the vibe, they’ll need to get a surly vendor to push crappy pretzels on unwilling tourists from a cart outside.

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“Like a Britney in a candy shop.” That should be an expression. For what, we don’t know. But it should be.

It’s candy, bitch.

Britney Spears brought sons Sean Preston and Jayden James along with manager/boyfriend Jason Trawick to the Sugar Factory at The Mirage Sunday morning where they scoped out the sweets. The boys were interested in the Halloween baskets. (Who wouldn’t be? We are 100 percent behind anything that has a chance of involving candy corn.) So much that she had the Factory deliver $2,000 worth of candy and T-shirts to Britney’s Mirage Villa. She also ordered 300 lollipops to have delivered to her concert. How many lollipops have you eaten in the last 15 years? Eight? Six? We would need to live to roughly 784 to eat 300 lollipops.

The Sugar Factory was also on catering duty for Khloe Kardashian’s wedding to candy-fiend Lamar Odom, delivering champagne glasses filled with gumballs and lollipop bouquets among other things. If this means we can custom order a caramel Kim Kardashian, we’re taking donations to put in an order. There are some fetishes you never think you’ll be able to work out, and then news like this comes along like a ray of hope.

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