you didnt hear it from me {11}

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\nyou didnt hear it from me...by nikkib    issue no. 11 on popbytes \nHey ya'll! I'm having such a great summer. Not only has it been a good\ngossip season, but did you see Fox's Trading Spouses: Meet Your New\nMommy It was seriously priceless. I missed Amish in the City on\nWednesday, but you can bet I'll watch it next week. I've been hooked on\nthe Democratic Convention all week and my husband hasn't hooked up our\nTiVo yet - so I've missed all the good shows! I've missed nip/tuck 2\nweeks in a row! Will someone please tell me what happened?! \nSo, in case you needed proof that the world has gone crazy, Target is\nnow selling Kabbalah Red String bracelets. (update - target is no longer selling em!) I think this definitely puts\nthe Kabbalists ahead of the Scientologists.\n

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\n\nI predicted this weeks ago! \nBen Affleck has been romantically linked to\nhis 'Daredevil' co-star Jennifer Garner. Affleck, who was reportedly\ndating TV executive Enza Sambataro after his split from 'Gigli' co-star\nJennifer Lopez, is now at the center of media claims he and Garner have\nbeen enjoying romantic outings in Canada. Garner - rumored to have\nrecently split from her 'Alias' co-star Michael Vartan, who's currently\nmaking the movie 'Monster-in-Law' with J.Lo - is staying at a rented\nprivate home in Vancouver, Canada as she makes her 'Daredevil' spin-off\nElektra. And while Affleck has mostly been in Los Angeles, sources tell\nAmerica's Star magazine he's made at least one three-hour flight to the\nCanadian city to visit Garner. A source says, '(They were spotted in)\ndowntown Vancouver kissing and holding hands. They were also seen\nkissing and hanging out in between set-ups at her trailer.'\nRepresentatives for both stars deny there is any romance. - {imdb.com}\n\n

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\n\nCan't you just imagine JHo's mom (who, for some reason I picture looking\njust like Lupe Ontiveros) sitting at a blackjack table bitching about\nMarc Anthony? Jennifer Lopez's mother Guadalupe reportedly prefers her\ndaughter's ex- fiance Ben Affleck to her new son-in-law Marc Anthony.\nFormer teacher Guadalupe has always supported J.Lo's many marriages and\nengagements, but told casino punters she missed Affleck's companionship\nas a fellow gambler at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey\non Friday. According to American gossip site Pagesix.Com, Guadalupe\ndined at the Old Homestead restaurant following her gambling spree and\ntold staff she loved to bet alongside poker fanatic Affleck - who ended\nhis engagement with Lopez in January. A restaurant employee says,\n'Guadalupe said she doesn't like Marc Anthony and said she far preferred\nBen Affleck.' - {imdb.com}\n\n

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\n\nI don't have anything funny to say about this. I love Donatella! \nDiva designer Donatella Versace is in rehab for cocaine addiction. The\nperpetually tanned queen of the fashion world recently quietly checked\ninto a center for the drug-plagued at an undisclosed location, a top\nindustry source told Page Six. Friends said the 49-year-old designer of\nthe family's famed clothing line has been privately battling a drug\nproblem for years. A Versace family spokesman confirmed the designer has\nnow been relegated to rehab, adding: 'The family views this as a private\nmatter. We hope the press will respect this as such.' The blond-maned\ndesigner had failed to do her usual couture show in Paris for the first\ntime this year, setting tongues wagging that drugs may have already\ngotten the best of her. But the family rep denied the couture no-show\nwas because of Versace's drug woes. He said it was simply a company\nbusiness decision. - {PageSix.com}\n\n

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\n\nOk, ok this story is funny, but I can't see Nicole Kidman talking about it like this. Can you? \nTroubled superstar Michael Jackson begged Hollywood superstar Nicole\nKidman to be his date at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards - but she\npolitely declined. The singer, 44 - who is facing trial on child\nmolestation charges - got his people to call single Kidman to arrange\nfor the Oscar-winning beauty, 37, to accompany him to the annual music\nevent. But he was left red-faced when she snubbed his advances. Kidman\nexplains, 'There was a call from his people to mine asking if he could\ntake me to the Awards. 'I had never even met him, it was a little\nstrange. Kidman, whose romance with rocker Lenny Kravitz ended earlier\nthis year, admits she doesn't feel tempted to start a relationship with\nJackson. She adds, 'I did decline but, hey, the way my love life is I\ntook it as a great compliment. 'I keep thinking of those photographs of\nMichael in a shocking wig at Disneyland looking ridiculous. 'So call me\ncrazy but it just didn't tempt me to want to accept.' - {The Daily Dish, SFGate.com}\n\n

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\n\nI can't do better than one Gawker.com came up with: Kimora Lee: Asian Woman Arrested For Driving While Black \nIn today's Rush & Molloy, the gossipers try to explicate the arrest of\ndesigner Kimora Lee Simmons this weekend. Kimora was handcuffed, booked,\nand charged on Sunday night in New Jersey: the charges were reckless\ndriving and 'possessing marijuana.' Yow! Supermodel busted with dope! Or\nis it? This is 'another example of a prominent member of the hip-hop\ncommunity being made an example of.' said Stacey Richman, her lawyer.\nUh...Then her husband, mogul Russell Simmons, invokes racial profiling:\n'I just want to be treated fairly.' Am I losing my mind here? Did cops\njust pull over one of the richest Asian women in New Jersey, and the PR\nand legal defense is that she got pulled over because she's culturally\nblack? - {Gawker.com}\n\n

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\n\nLindsay and Hilary maybe? \nIt seems to start snowing inside nightclub bathrooms whenever a teen\nqueen steps inside to 'powder her nose' these days. Our spys at Avalon\nin L.A. say that one very famous underage starlet, who regularly gets\nsoused at party promoter Brent Bolthouse's Friday night celebfest, was\nsnorting disco dust in the bathroom before she was cut off from ordering\nany more drinks from the club's staff. Meanwhile, here in New York,\nanother teen star this one with a squeaky-clean image was doing her\nbest anteater impression inside the bathroom at P.M. - {PageSix.com}\n\n

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\n\nUgh, poor Tara Reid. What a joke. \nTara Reid was well on her way to transforming herself into a Paris\nHilton clone, but she's been ordered to rein it in by her unhappy\nmanagement. Reid, who recently had breast implants, also had \$2,500 hair\nextensions put in and dyed her hair white-blond at Vered, the same L.A.\nsalon Hilton frequents. But apparently her agent didn't like the results\nand last Wednesday marched her back to the salon to have her hair dyed a\nmore natural blond. - {Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, NYPost.com}\n\n

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\n\nTell me who this is!!! \nCould it be that a certain newbie nighttime star has a secret? Not for\nlong, if some smarmy producers have their way. Picture it a hot boy\nout at a drunken party in New Orleans over a year ago (when he was a\nnobody) allowed someone to videotape him 'pleasuring' himself. Nothing\nunusual there. Except now he's got that big network gig, and the\nfootage has made its way to the producers of 'Guys Gone Wild,' the male\ncompanion to that successful series of tittie videos! What to do, what\nto do? - {Filth, Filth2go.com}\n\n

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\n\nEw. And OW! \nMore on Marlon Brando's circumcision at age 60, which we reported on\nlast week. 'It's 100 percent true,' a reader e-mailed us. 'My mother\nworked in surgery at St. John's Hospital at the time and was there for\nit.' St. John's in Santa Monica was the hospital to the stars for\ndecades until it was eclipsed by Cedars Sinai. 'My mother worked there\nfor 40 years, and boy, did she have some scary stories to tell about the\nterrible acne scars on Richard Burton's back!!' As for Brando? Our\ncorrespondent denies the star converted to Judaism it is inconceivable\nhe could have learned Hebrew since he had so much trouble remembering\nhis lines in English. Our tipster divulges: 'It seems the surgery was\nnecessary for medical reasons an infected gunky mess.' - {PageSix.com}\n\n

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\n\nDo you think there's a violin following ol' Jake Gyllenhaal around these days? \nKirsten Dunst broke Jake Gyllenhaal's heart when she broke up with him,\npals of the heartthrob actor said. 'Kirsten at first told Jake she just\nwanted a trial separation,' one friend said. 'She's making some serious\nmoney thanks to 'Spider-Man 2,' and she's reached a level of success she\nnever had before and she said she wanted to try doing it on her own. At\nfirst they had a two-week split, and Jake thought they would get back\ntogether. But once the press started calling and her rep confirmed the\nsplit, he knew it was over and she wasn't coming back...They come\nfrom very different worlds. Dunst's rep, Stephen Huvane, and\nGyllenhaal's rep, Annett Wolff, declined comment. - {PageSix.com}\n

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\n\n'Fruitcake!' Who says that anymore?!?! \nFriends of Nancy Moonves, ex-wife of Viacom co-head Les Moonves, are\nconcerned. Nancy is said to be so bitter about Les leaving her for CBS\nmorning show anchor Julie Chen, she won't even watch CBS anymore and\nnow she's insulting others. On Saturday, while shopping at Barneys in\nBeverly Hills, Nancy ran into a Hollywood heavyweight who left his own\nwife two years ago after he fell in love with a man. The producer was\nshopping with his daughter when he ran into Nancy, who approached the\ndaughter while ignoring him. When the producer told Nancy she was being\nrude, Nancy shot back, 'You're a fruitcake!' and walked off. - {PageSix.com}

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