Oops, she did it again. Anne “Mellons” Schroeder, the recently-wed gossip columnist of The Politico, has referenced the reporting of columnist Lloyd Grove in the context of her own reporting for the dozenth time today since she started writing for the paper in late January. Grove, you’ll recall, is Schroeder’s former boss at the Washington Post. Don’t get us wrong, we talk about other reporters’ work all the time — but we’re just curious, does Grove send her tips to point out about his work, so she’ll then shill it, or does Schroeder just always have stars in her eyes for Mr. G? If that’s the case, she’s a whole lot different than Hud Morgan, who worked as Grove’s beleaguered assistant at The New York Daily News.

Related: Some Lady Had a Dream About Anne Schroeder

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Lloyd Grove, one of the best WaPo tattlers who ever lived (there’s only been a handful, after all), has begun contributing a column called “The World According To…” to the much gossiped about Conde Nast business pub Portfolio. He must be on staff, too, since he’s got his own caricature on the site and everything. Fancy!

He’s holding his cards close to his chest regarding the Washington power players he’s bound to cover, telling Big Head DC that he “wouldn’t want to spoil the drama” by sharing any of his future column plans. (Maybe he’s just worried about how many columns he’ll be able to pen before Portfolio folds!)

One person you can expect Grove not to cover: His former gal pal Amy Holmes, a one-time Reliable Source source who went on to become a GOP strategist, a former aide to ex-Republican Senate leader Bill Frist, and a talking head often seen on FOX News. Boy, his back must have been sore after she stepped on it!

Good luck, Lloyd. But just don’t let them pull a New York Daily News-type trick on you!

Earlier: Lloyd Grove Was Sexier in Washington?

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In-the-know Washingtonians may recall a sassy young lass named Julia Baugher, a former Georgetown University sex and dating columnist who disgraced the school’s student newspaper The Hoya because she plagiarized portions of a column from iVillage. But give the go-getter gal a few years in New York and, suddenly, she has a spiffy new name, “Julia Allison” and will now be earning upwards of 100K per year as the editor-at-large of the well-known Star tabloid/magazine.

“Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I remember back when being outed as a plagiarist carried the stigma of getting charged with rape,” a DC journalist familiar with Allison’s past misdeeds told Big Head DC. “It would ruin you. Now you have Baugher a budding celebrity…”

So, did Baugher change her name to avoid being known as a plagarist?

Perhaps fortuitously, there will be little journalistic prowess involved with Allison’s new job: “She won’t be editing or writing, but she will be appearing as a talking expert whenever TV comes calling for someone to go on air to comment on the latest celebrity gossip or scandal,” according to the NY Post.

Allison has said in the past that she much prefers doing TV to writing because it takes less effort.

Unless you just copy and paste, that is!

Bonus fun fact just because it’s Thursday: Back when Allison was still Baugher she had a scandalous relationship with politico Harold Ford, Jr., (and current FOX News talking head), which was first reported in WaPo’s Reliable Source column by the paper’s ex-gossip Lloyd Grove. Later, Allison had a not-so-discreet affair with - you guessed it! - Lloyd Grove.

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Amy Holmes - a GOP strategist, a former aide to ex-Republican Senate leader Bill Frist, and a talking head often seen on FOX News - made a couple of surprising revelations while co-hosting The View today: She is registered as an Independent and is adamantly pro-choice – even though she’s said she’s Republican in the past.

So, why does the Black Entertainment Television personality tout conservative values, while espousing some pretty liberal views in private?

“Because she quickly learned as an African American woman today what would be the quickest route to air-time,” an associate of Holmes told Big Head DC this morning. “She definitely wouldn’t have been hosting The View today, if she was a liberal.”

No party line, it seems, will hold the 33-year-old Holmes back in her quest for fame. She’s said in the past that she’d like to have her own television program like Charlie Rose, has appeared as one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful,” and, we’re told, worked her sources hard to score an appearance on Bill Maher’s program in April.

“I love photo shoots,” Holmes, who once dated the former Reliable Source writer Lloyd Grove, told her alma mater’s newspaper in 2000. “I understand now why celebrities get addicted.”

But who knew that becoming addicted to the GOP would get a gal everything she ever wanted?

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From the AP wire: 

We also learned that Lloyd Grove, former columnist for the New York Daily News, had attempted a much longer Paris Hilton blackout. He began it a year into his “Lowdown” column and stuck to it, he says, for two years until the column was discontinued last October — except for a blind item (no names) about Hilton crashing a pre-Oscar party.

So was Grove attempting to raise the level of discourse in our society by focusing on truly newsworthy subjects?

Well, not really. “The blackout was a really heartfelt attempt on my part,” he says, “to get publicity for myself.”

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