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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Leona Lewis arrives at the VH1 Divas concert, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
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A young man punched singer Leona Lewis in the head as she signed autographs and posed for photographs at a book signing session in central London on Wednesday, her spokesman said.

Our guess is he didn't end up getting that autograph.

Stuart Bell said Lewis, 24, was meeting members of the public at Waterstone's book store in Piccadilly in central London for about 90 minutes when a man from the line came up and hit her. He was immediately led away by security guards and later arrested by police.

Bell said Lewis, who was launching her new autobiography "Dreams," was shaken up by the incident and went to see a doctor as a precaution.

Lewis shot to fame after winning the "X Factor" reality show in 2006, and her powerful voice has led to comparisons with Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. London's Metropolitan police said a 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault and is being held in custody.

ANNA NICOLE'S BODYGUARD SPEAKS: Anna Nicole Smith's bodyguard has testified he saw her lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern inject her with medications at least five times.

Mo Brighthaupt said Wednesday he saw Smith injected with medications after her son Daniel's death in 2006. He also testified that he saw Dr. Khristina Eroshevich inject Smith.

Brighthaupt's testimony came during a preliminary hearing to determine if Stern, Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor will

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stand trial for conspiring to illegally provide Smith with controlled substances,

All three have pleaded not guilty.

According to TMZ.com, Brighthaupt also said Smith was high on Ecstasy just before her bizarre appearance on the 2004 American Music Awards ceremony. Stern's lawyer claimed Wednesday Anna actually was suffering from seizures and that when she looked drunk and whacked out she was really reacting to anti-seizure meds.

TRACY MORGAN RIPS FORMER CO-STARS: While recording the audiobook for his forthcoming memoir "I Am the New Black," Tracy Morgan blasted some of his former co-stars from "Saturday Night Live."

"I can remember being on 'Saturday Night Live' and feeling like I was on the bottom of the totem pole," he says in the clip obtained by Gawker. "I could remember when people like Cheri Oteri and Chris Kattan would probably look down upon me. I could remember those two, especially those two, people treating me like I was the invisible guy. Now look where they at. Cheri Oteri, she can't even get arrested. Where's Chris Kattan now?"

Waiting for Tina Fey to get him a job, too?

"They're never gonna host 'Saturday Night Live,'" Morgan said. "And that's not even mean, but that's what happened to me over there. They never treated me well. There were people that treated me beautifully, like Will Ferrell and Colin Quinn and Molly Shannon. I love them. But Cheri Oteri and Chris Kattan, I never cared for them either. (Expletive) 'em."

MORE BILL KILLING: In 2005, Quentin Tarantino told MTV News that he'd wait a decade before revisiting "Kill Bill" territory to bring Uma Thurman's Bride back for a third film in the series. "Uma's got to get 10 years older, the little girl has to grow up and everything," he said.

Apparently Tarantino can't wait. "The Bride will fight again!" he recently told an Italian TV station. And Thurman told MTV she and the director are discussing another "Kill Bill."

"We did chat, we did chat," she said. "He has not yet finished the script. I don't even really know if he's really started it, although I got a taste of some of his ideas and they are really good."

Quick question: How can they make a third "Kill Bill," if they already killed Bill?

Thurman said she couldn't give anymore details. "I can't tell you!" she cried. "I'm sorry! He has started to share with me what he was thinking, and it's awesome."

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2009. There are 77 days left in the year.
  • 1860: Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by letting his whiskers grow.
  • 1917: Dutch dancer Mata Hari, convicted of spying for the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris.
  • 1945: the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason.
  • 1946: Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
  • 1964: It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office.
  • 1976: In the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.
  • 2003: Eleven people were killed when a Staten Island ferry slammed into a maintenance pier. (The ferry's pilot, who'd blacked out at the controls, later pleaded guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.)
  • 2008: Republican John McCain repeatedly assailed Democrat Barack Obama's character and campaign positions on taxes, abortion and more in a debate at Hofstra University; Obama parried each accusation, and leveled a few of his own, saying "100 percent" of McCain's campaign ads were negative. The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 to win the NLCS 4-1 for the team's first pennant since 1993. Pop star Madonna and movie director Guy Ritchie announced they were divorcing after nearly eight years of marriage.
    BIRTHDAYS
    Former auto executive Lee Iacocca (85), singer Barry McGuire (74), actress Linda Lavin (72), actress-director Penny Marshall (67), baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer (64), singer-musician Richard Carpenter (63), singer Tito Jackson (56), actor-comedian Larry Miller (56), actress Tanya Roberts (54), Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, (50), chef Emeril Lagasse (50), actress Vanessa Marcil (41), singer Eric Benet (39), R&B singer Ginuwine (39), R&B singer Keyshia Cole (28), actor Vincent Martella ("Everybody Hates Chris") (17).