Oooh, drama on the Gossip Girl Facebook page! Well, not exactly, but some bloggers over at Blackbook were able to sleuth out the aliases of some of our favorite (read: not favorite) actors on the CW teen drama, and read the private goings-on of Ed Westwick, Jessica Karen Szhor (Vanessa) and Chase "Caprin Crunch" Crawford.
So what did these wall musings say, exactly? Were the trio as eloquent (well, Chuck Bass is eloquent, Chase is eye-candy, and Vanessa is just superfluous) as they are on the show?
DENY, DENY, DENY • "Yankees star Alex Rodriguez commented for the first time on his relationship with Madonna. 'We're friends,' Rodriguez, 33, says. Asked if there is any romance between them at all, Rodriguez reiterates, 'We're friends – that's it.'"
The latest entry in Freaky Friday: Sexuality Edition a.k.a. Lindsay Lohan's relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson comes via Facebook, where under her pseudonym "Bella Vita" she posted a topic in the "Lindsay Lohan & Samatha Ronson" group over the weekend, titled "not breaking up". Her message read:
GOTTA RESPECT LOYALTY Rosie O'Donnell fans are angrily responding en masse to this MG Celebrity Encounter, which O'Donnell says "never happened." She also says she'd never be caught dead in Uggs, which is something we can agree on.
There's a new obnoxious celebrity duo on the loose: Anonymous sources (who are always reliable) spilled the beans that Kanye West and Aubrey O'Day were making out recently at NYC's 1Oak. "Either they actually kissed, or Aubrey was just telling people they kissed." Here's hoping it's the latter, and Kanye offers up an amazing caps-locked blog post about how he was too busy icing his knees at the airport to be making out with the former Danity Kane nightmare.
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You're the world's biggest pop star, in the middle of a global tour, and all you want to do is avoid the press so you can spoon with your new Major League Baseball playing boyfriend. Such is the thicket of Madonna's life. Except standing in the way of these grand plans is the obnoxious press, filled with their anonymously sourced items painting you as the self-absorbed persona you practically branded yourself from the beginning. So just who is leaking all your personal details to the media?
Hero merman Michael Phelps is rumored to be dating Barbara Walters' assistant, with whom he went to college. The young lady's very accordant name? Marina.
TOM CRUISE NOT DEAD IN NEW ZEALAND "Tom Cruise is alive and well, his agent said on Thursday, denying Internet reports that the actor had fallen to his death in New Zealand. This is completely not true. Tom is not in New Zealand nor has he been there recently. This is erroneous and unreliable Internet garbage,' Cruise publicist Jeff Raymond told Reuters. Claims that the star … had plunged to death from the Kauri Cliffs circulated on the Internet on Thursday and were even picked up by traders on the Singapore oil and foreign exchange markets. A similar erroneous report two years ago claimed that actor Tom Hanks had died after falling from the same cliffs."
WHY THE INTERNETS EXIST "… how can we possibly explain the seemingly useless interest that we have in the lives of reality-show contestants, movie stars and public figures of all kinds? One possible explanation may be found in the fact that celebrities are a recent occurrence, evolutionarily speaking. In our ancestral environment, any person about whom we knew intimate details of his or her private life was, by definition, a socially important member of the in-group. Barkow has pointed out that evolution did not prepare us to distinguish among members of our community who have genuine effects on our life and the images and voices that we are bombarded with by the entertainment industry. Thus, the intense familiarity with celebrities provided by the modern media trips the same gossip mechanisms that have evolved to keep up with the affairs of in-group members. … Research published in 2007 by Charlotte J. S. De Backer, a Belgian psychologist now at the University of Leicester in England, finds that young people even look to celebrities and popular culture for learning life strategies that would have been learned from role models within one’s tribe in the old days. Teenagers in particular seem to be prone to learning how to dress, how to manage relationships and how to be socially successful in general by tuning in to popular culture."
Time to distract ourselves from the sad state of America yet again: There's a Hills love triangle! Way more important than that stupid bailout.
So Audrina moved out of the house she shared with Lauren and Lo, and nobody really knew why, but A and LC insisted they were still on good terms. Enter Ted Casablanca, quite possibly the world's worst gossip, who decided to spin a tale of Audrina and Lauren fighting over the same man. Believable enough … until he decided to make the Casanova none other than Justin Bobby, the knowledgeable hobo who occasionally creeps onto the show and pretends to like Audrina for some camera time. We love him because he regularly spits out nuggets of wisdom like, "Truth and time tells all." Lauren, however, does not enjoy him.
Ted, who is much like a child making up a bedtime story, said that Lauren and Justin Bobby hooked up behind Audrina's back, but JB later spilled the beans while LC denied it. Don't believe Ted? Here's proof: The girls removed each other from their MySpace top friends. Gasp!
Oh wait, hold the phone: Ted just changed his mind: CONTINUED »
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN Rumor has it that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are in the market for yet another adopted child. This would be their fourth adoption and seventh kid total. They don't want this one to be American, either.
BLIND ITEMING "Married with children and a high-flying Hollywood career, this A-lister was known at his New York performing school as 'Two Tricks', and was famous for once giving blow jobs to eight men consecutively in a closet." Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.
'ALL MY SONS' STRIKES BACK "Producers of the Broadway revival of 'All My Sons' are countering rumors that co-star Katie Holmes is not selling tickets by announcing advance sales of $3.5 million. … Since box office opened for the play, speculation has appeared in the press that Holmes may not be the draw producers had hoped. … However, if the advance figure released by producer Eric Falkenstein is accurate, 'All My Sons' looks to rank alongside 'Equus' as one of the fall season's biggest nonmusical box office performers."
John Mayer sure knows how to treat a girl. We can reveal the cad singer dumped poor Jennifer Aniston by text.
A friend told us: "She is so intent on getting married and having children, he felt hemmed in. After a 20-minute phone conversation, he just said, 'I can't take it any more,' and hung up. Then he texted, "That's it - the end."
Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard on rumors she is dating eary merman Michael Phelps:
Eww, that's nasty. I have never, ever hooked up with Michael Phelps. Come on, I have really good taste … He's really not my type.
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