For those of you having trouble selling your house in today's market, here's something to investigate.

Has a famous person ever lived in your house? If the answer is yes, did they do anything memorable while living there?

We bring all this up because a real estate agent in New Jersey is selling the Jersey Shore cottage where Bruce Springsteen supposedly wrote the entire Born to Run album in 1974 and 1975. You can read the listing here.

"Bruce has spoken publicly about living there," the listing notes, "... how he would sit on the porch or sit on the edge of his bed, writing Thunder Road, Born to Run, Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, Backstreets, She's the One and Jungleland."

The asking price for the 828-square-foot two bedroom, one bath cottage is $299,000. The comps are in the mid-$200s, but the listing notes that surely you can't put a price on a piece of history like this.

"What's it worth?" the listing asks. "It's priceless."

It seems worth noting that said cottage seems quaint when one considers the typical stage that The Boss performs on these days.

Okay, now go ahead and find out if Clay Aiken got his start in your living room.

One of the most delightful surprises on television recently was last month's "30 Rock" season finale, featuring an all-star sing-along on a faux-anthem called "Kidney Now." Elvis Costello served as ringleader, opposite Mary J. Blige and even Raleigh "American Idol" star Clay Aiken. Costello will bring an acoustic band to Cary's Booth Amphitheater for a show on Sunday; and if Aiken were to turn up wanting to crash the party, Costello would probably just roll with it -- the man is used to unusual collaborations, after all.

"Maybe your local boy might want to sing some country?" Costello asked with a laugh during a recent interview. "He can hop on up and do some harmonies with us; maybe some gospel. You never know what might happen!"

Well, probably not. But as to what might really happen at Sunday's show, complete with lots of talk about Costello's new album, check out the interview in Friday's paper.

Adrienne told us yesterday about how Clay Aiken slammed fellow "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert on his blog Thursday. If you didn't click through to the Gawker site to read the entire rant (which has now been deleted from Clay's blog), you may have missed some juicy backstory about Clay being tossed from the "American Idol" set when he showed up there recently to meet Lambert.

According to The Chicago Sun-Times, Aiken showed up at the "American Idol" set and . . .

Our guest bloggers shared what they thought of this season's "American Idol."

Now we can share what Clay Aiken thought.

Apparently, he wasn't pleased, and he posted negative remarks on his official blog about presumed frontrunner Adam Lambert, calling his performance of "Ring of Fire" "contrived, awful and slightly frightening!"

Not sure how much screen time Clay Aiken will get tomorrow night on 30 Rock's season finale, but here's a sneak peek of the episode featuring Clay, Elvis Costello, and Mary J. Blige. Jack tries to convince Clay to participate in a charity concert, revealing that he's NBC page Kenneth's cousin. Surely they let him talk later on, right? A scene with Kenneth, please!!

30 Rock airs on NBC at 9:30pm Thursday night.

That's the question in this New York Times article. And  yes, they're alluding to maybe/maybe not Adam Lambert.  And yes, Clay Aiken comes up.

Clay Aiken was the guest judge on America's Next Top Model last night, helping the ladies out with their acting skills.

It was almost a "blink and miss it" appearance for Clay. He got not quite 4 minutes in the first half of the show, playing a fashion designer in quick scenes with each model.

When he was introduced, the girls squealed like, well, like little girls. Model Fo noted that Clay has been on Broadway and "the guy's pretty much a genius."

Get ready for a diva-fest, Claymates!

American Idol star Clay Aiken is appearing as a judge tonight on the Tyra Banks modeling competition show, America's Next Top Model.

Aiken is judging the "acting" competition on tonight's show (remember, he was in "Spamalot" on Broadway). He told People Magazine that he and Tyra are tight, and that "for some reason we just clicked when we first met."

Nowadays more than ever, there are no guarantees in the record industry. For example, we have Raleigh's "American Idol" star, Clay Aiken, who was doing multi-platinum numbers just a few short years ago. And now he's reportedly without a record deal, having parted ways with RCA Records. His departure comes in the wake of last year's "On My Way Here," which sold a fraction of what Aiken's 2003 debut moved.

But even if Aiken's recording career isn't going so great, his celebrity-gadfly career is still doing just fine. He'll make a guest-judge appearance on "America's Next Top Model" on April 8.

Dedicated Claymates allergic to sleaze should probably avoid their
televisions at 9 p.m. Friday, when "Clay Aiken: The E! True Hollywood Story" has its premiere.