I often think that I don’t really like Anne Hathaway. Probably because she has such a shady boyfriend. Though she often seems nice, she also seems a little lacking in personality. Though she could just APPEAR that way because she’s one of the few Hollywood starlets that doesn’t go out, get wasted, and act like a fool every other night. So by comparison, she’s a lot more sedate. But I can’t help but like anyone who compares making out with Steve Carell to “the yummiest lollipop.”

Hathaway is making the rounds on the media circuit, promoting her upcoming film Get Smart with Carell and Duane “The Rock” Johnson. She was asked what it was like filming the movie almost entirely with men – and how she felt about getting intimate with Carell.

Before the movie ends, the two of them become drawn to each other emotionally and physically. That leads to the inevitable question: What was it like to “make out” with Carell?

“Making out with him is like the yummiest lollipop,” says Hathaway who is a big fan of Carell’s TV series, The Office. “You are so full of it,” protests Carell, who’s sitting next to her. “Dipped in sunshine!” Hathaway continues. “Stop it!” insists Carell, who’s now starting to break up. “And wrapped around in a masculine wrapper,” she adds serenely. “That’s the only way I can think to describe it.”

Actually, Hathaway has more to say about these amorous scenes. It seems she wasn’t at all well at the time. “OK, so you’ve got to hear this,” she chortles. It seems a certain contact lens solution had ended up giving her conjunctivitis.

“And I had a sinus infection at the same time, so I had to go up to Steve — my eye is red, puffy and dripping green, I am just snotty — and I’m like, ‘Come here!’ The worst thing was we didn’t know I had conjunctivitis at the time, so I had to call our producer, Alex Gartner, that night and say, ‘You might want to let Steve know I had pink eye and my tears kind of got in my mouth, so he might want to worry about that.’”

[From Canada.com]

Wow, that’s incredibly gross. As flattering as Hathaway is about making out with Carell, I can’t help but doubt that he felt the same about her. What with the snot and the pink eye and all. Hathaway claims that the final version of the make out scene came out “very glamorous.” They must have some really good editors at their studio.

Here’s Steve Carell, Brad Bird and Anne Hathaway at the Academy Awards on February 24th. Images thanks to WENN.

Anne Hathaway’s boyfriend Raffaello Follieri seems like he may very well be a totally skeevy jerk. Rumors about his terrible money mismanagement have been circulating for years, and he was sued several years ago by L.A. billionaire Ron Burkle, who claimed Follieri mismanaged funds meant for his charitable foundation and instead used the money to finance his lavish lifestyle with Hathaway.

Follieri settled the lawsuit earlier this year, and was then arrested for writing a bad check – for $215,000. Now that he’s gotten that little issue taken care of, New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating the children’s charity Follieri runs – for a plethora of financial misdeeds.

Cuomo’s investigators in recent weeks served subpoenas seeking financial documents from the Follieri Foundation, which is headed by Hathaway’s beau, 29-year-old Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri, the AG’s office confirmed yesterday. Cuomo’s office refused to reveal why it was eyeing the Manhattan-based charity, which says its programs include vaccinating Third World children.

Confirmation of the probe came after Cuomo’s office was asked whether it was aware that the foundation might have failed to file tax-disclosure forms required of nonprofit groups. A check of an online database that collects the “990″ IRS forms showed that the Follieri Foundation is required to file the form, yet has never done so.

Hathaway, who also starred in “The Princess Diaries,” served on the foundation’s board until at least last year, when she traveled to Central America with Follieri for a charity-funded vaccination program. “She was on the board, but is no longer,” Hathaway’s spokesman said. “I don’t remember exactly when she ceased to be a board member.” Asked whether Hathaway, 25, knew about the probe and its focus, he said, “Since she is no longer associated with the foundation, why would you expect her to be familiar with all of this?”

Follieri’s spokeswoman, Melanie Bonvicino, said, “Raffaello Follieri and his attorney, Cyrus Vance [Jr.], have been cooperating fully with the Attorney General’s Office to satisfy their routine inquiry. Furthermore, Mr. Follieri looks forward to concluding this matter in a timely and expeditious manner . . . so that he may continue to fulfill his ongoing philanthropic endeavors worldwide.”

[From the New York Post]

Given Follieri’s excessively long record of financial misdeeds, it seems perfectly likely that he’s done something illegal with his charitable foundation. He always manages to buy himself out of his troubles, which is odd because you’d think that if he had that money, he should have just done the right thing in the first place. Which makes it seem like he’s not simply bad at managing money and/or making some dumb financial choices or mistakes. It seems like he’s trying to swindle people. Follieri and Hathaway have been dating since 2004, and there are no signs that she’s wising up to this guy.

Here’s Anne Hathaway and Raffaello Follieri at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on March 13th. Images thanks to Splash.

29 year-old Actress Anne Hathaway’s boyfriend, Italian cad Raffaello Follieri, won’t be charged for writing a $250,000 bad check in March. The guy he wrote the check to has dropped the charges after he eventually got paid by Follieri.

Last year Follieri was sued for $55 million by billionaire Ron Burkle for spending company money from a charity he set up with Hathaway. Burkle accussed Follieri of “wilfully and systematically misappropriating” around $1.5 million to keep Hathway in a lavish lifestyle that included private jets, a penthouse apartment, and five star restaurants and hotel stays.

Follieri settled that lawsuit last month for around $1.3 million.

He may be in the clear, but this probably won’t be the last time this guy is shady with money. Bang! Showbiz notes that he’s been dating 25 year-old Hathaway for four years and that she said “I love Raffaello with everything, and I don’t know how I could ever be with anyone else, ever.” Open your eyes, girl. You’re a beautiful successful actress and deserve an honest devoted man. Follieri looks charming like a snake while it circles its prey.

[Story details from Bang! Showbiz found on AZCentral via Fark]

Anne Hathaway and Raffaello Follieri are shown at the Oscars on 2/24/08, thanks to WENN.

Anne Hathaway’s boyfriend, Italian businessman Raffaelo Follieri, is in hot water over a bad financial deal again. It seems Follieri, who is quickly becoming the new Stephen Belafonte, wrote a $250,000 check to a PR agency- and it bounced. Shad-y.

Anne Hathaway’s Italian stallion was just arrested by NYPD for allegedly bouncing a real big check his ass couldn’t cover. Follieri went willingly with police officers — no handcuffs — to work out the check fiasco. His lawyers, we hear, are sorting it out and he is now out of police custody.

Police tell us Zac Braff-alike Raffaelo Follieri was popped for one misdemeanor count of issuing a bad check — he’s still in police custody, being booked. A source tells TMZ that the check was written for around $250,000, and when the bank said insufficient funds, it wasn’t even close. Apparently, the devil wears knock-offs!

That’s hardly the end of the bad news for Follieri. A DC court just ordered him to pay almost $250,000 to a PR firm that he still owes for work they did.

[From TMZ]

If you recall, Follieri, who is quietly disliked in Hollywood for apparently living off his A-list girlfriend, was sued last May by a supermarket mogul for mishandling $55 million of his money, and was accused of mismanaging funds from a charity foundation he set up with Hathaway. Anne, honey, take my advice and run far, far away from this clown before you end up Amy Winehouse to his Blake. The dude’s bad news.

Anne Hathaway and Raffaelo Follieri are shown outside the Waverly Inn on 3/9/08, thanks to WENN.

Anne Hathaway is so darn purty at the premiere of “Becoming Jane” in New York last night. (I’m sorry for the hackneyed spelling, but it takes some of the sting out of it for me if I write it like that.) She’s the perfect mix of minx and girl next door in that tight dress. Despite how low cut it is you know she won’t ever fall out of it, and that what makes it so kick ass. Her fashion in the past has been hit or miss so it’s nice to see her get it perfectly right. I would like to see Hathaway get more attention from the paparazzi and press, but maybe she realizes what a double-edged sword that is and deliberately stays away from the Hollywood scene.

Hathaway has a clean cut image and she’s capitalizing on it with a recent endorsement campaign. The 24 year-old actress is going to represent Active Estates, a planned retirement community! I wonder how they’ll explain her involvement. Does she have a grandparent that she’ll be visiting?

Despite how drama-free she seems, there is some scandal in Hathaway’s life. Her longterm boyfriend, 28 year-old Italian property developer Raffaello Follieri, has been accused of misusing corporate funds to keep Hathaway in the lavish lifestyle to which she’s become accustomed.

Becoming Jane is the story of novelist Jane Austin’s romance with an Irishman before she became famous. It is out in theaters on August 10. Here’s the trailer. The music sounds straight out of Sense and Sensibility:

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Sometimes I just need to escape from the ANS Circus and Britney… as does Anne Hathaway who for some reason was in People Magazine on Tuesday stating,

You know, Lindsay [Lohan] and I have a lot more in common than people think.We’ve all done things we shouldn’t, it’s just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I’m not a saint.

Yeah sometimes I have that problem as well, so when I feel people are treating me with respect, I show my nips too! But people don’t care when I do it though. I’m just some college student too, it’s to be expected!

I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I’m healthy and I’m grounded.

I wonder what Anne’s motives are for saying this… is she sick and tired of being portrayed as the nice sweet girl and is she is tired of others getting headlines? It seems like Anne is really trying hard to dispel the “myth” that she’s a nice girl. I had to give her kudos for admitting that she battled depression because it takes a lot of humility to admit that you have an illness in Tinseltown.

But where is she going with this, “Oh I sowed my wild oats and I curse and I’m just like you” crap? To me, it sounds like she is just trying to stay relevant and newsworthy.

And I leave you with this last quote of hers:

I wasted so much time. I was just annoying and narcissistic and smelled bad.

I guess some things don’t change, Anne.

We reported back in June that Anne Hathaway revealed that co-star Stanley Tucci elbowed her repeatedly in the chest while they were filming “The Devil Wears Prada” and then blamed her for his sexual harassment.

Thanks to justaguy at Saving Face Forum for posting the picture above from September 9th, which reminds everyone what an asshole Tucci really is.

If that creep worked in an office he would get fired, demoted or sued for such obvious sexual harassment. Instead, Hathaway has to resort to telling her story to magazines. Let’s hope that Hollywood bigwigs take note of it and that his career suffers as a result.

A lot of the crap that happens on movie sets would be a fireable, sueable offense in any office anywhere. Celebrities tell stories about their co-stars messing around and sexually harassing them during filming, and although they try to play it off, they’re saying these things because they want people to know what they went through.

Case in point: Anne Hathaway. She was totally harassed by Stanley Tucci on the set of “The Devil Wears Prada.” She says Tucci elbowed her in the chest repeatedly and she had to tell him to stop. The asshole didn’t just do it once, he did it again and again and it was painful and probably embarassing to her:

What an asshole! I would kill the guy - after I sued him for sexual harassment. I’m serious, there’s no way I would tolerate being treated like that by a coworker.

There shouldn’t be different rules for performers and office workers - when you’re on the job, you’re not supposed to grab people. Tucci should know better.

Sure some of the sexual harassment guidelines are a bit strict, and some people like to talk smack, but sexual jokes and comments - if they’re not directed at someone or threatening - are much different than elbowing someone in the chest and telling them they’re “flinging their melons” around.

Stanley Tucci does not have a fabulous career, and he does not deserve one if this is how he treats women.

Another actor who probably deserves his career slump is Ben Affleck. Director Kevin Smith said Affleck engaged in the bizarre practice of sneaking up behind him while he was sitting and putting his balls on Smith’s bare neck while they were working. Christina Applegate also said that Ben put his “junk” on a suitcase during filming for “Surviving Christmas.” Maybe now that he’s a father he’ll keep his “junk” in his pants where it belongs.

Here is Hathaway outside Nobu restaurant on 6/12 with her boyfriend, real estate developer Raffaello Follieri. She is also seen in InStyle Magazine, and in one candid at “The Devil Wears Prada” after party on 6/19.