On the town

• Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson were hurried out of Tom Ford's Madison Avenue store when they arrived close to closing. "Well, are you going to buy anything?" the manager asked, not realizing who they were.
• Hilary and Haylie Duff stocked up on Missoni shoes and Tom Ford sunglasses in Miami over the weekend - and actually paid for their loot.
• Verizon Wireless has withdrawn its sponsorship of Gwen Stefani's tour after opening act Akon was videotaped performing simulated sex onstage with a 15-year-old in Trinidad.
• Sex & the City alum Cynthia Nixon will kick off the ninth season of Law & Order: SVU, appearing as a woman with multiple personalities thought to have abused her baby.
• Lawyers for Lindsay Lohan are demanding that the British newspaper News of the World produce the videotape they claim shows the actress snorting coke.
• Rosie O'Donnell has her eye on Bob Barker's gig at The Price is Right, but the outgoing host "is adamant that Rosie not get the gig," according to a source.

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Commotion at Hilary's Toronto appearance

Police were on the scene of Hilary Duff's appearance at MuchMusic yesterday in Toronto after a man in the crowd allegedly threatened to kill the popstar. During Duff's interview, an unidentified man started shouting in the crowd outside the studio and, according to a witness, threatened Duff's life. "The cops slammed his face into the pavement," said a photographer. "He was bleeding." A rep for the TV station said today that police told him the incident "was totally unrelated" to Duff and her appearance on Much and that although the man was shouting, he did not actually threaten the Dignity singer and no arrest was made.

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