Yesterday, CB reported the shocking (not so much) news that Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish had split. The report seemed very reliable – it came from People Magazine, and Abbie’s rep confirmed the split, saying “Abbie ended the relationship with Ryan and she moved out of their home.” What’s a little bit funny is that one sentence has set off a pretty interesting and funny bitchiness from Ryan. Ryan’s rep contacted People and had them rewrite and republish (online) a new version of the breakup article with a new quote. Ryan’s rep told People: “Ryan ended the relationship and asked her to move out of his house.” Hm… I love a little he-said/she-said bullsh-t.

Obviously, the bulk of the Cornish-Phillippe post-breakup fight won’t be done in the pages of People Magazine, because People isn’t going to pick sides… yet. OK! Magazine was game, though. They published a “What Really Happened” account of the split, and included a little dirt that Abbie was concerned that Ryan and Reese might still be hittin’ it! That’s good gossip, right?

As news surfaced this morning that Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish have called it quits, Hollywood has been left asking — who brought about the break-up?

Sources close to the couple say both sides are claiming they are responsible for the split. “Ryan ended the relationship recently while she was in Australia and asked her to come and remove her items from his residence,” a pal of Ryan’s tells OK!.

“She was gone for seven months in production and they basically grew apart,” the source adds. “They’d broken up a few times prior. There was no cheating or roving eyes.”

Over on Abbie’s side, a friend tells OK! the starlet was concerned over Ryan’s fidelity — especially since his ex-wife Reese Witherspoon recently ended her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal.

“Abbie has always questioned Ryan’s loyalty. How could she not? When she began dating him he was married, she’s a smart girl,” dishes the insider. “She knows men don’t change, she hoped he would but she always knew deep down this wasn’t forever.”

However Ryan’s pal insists that there was no other woman involved — including Ryan’s ex.

“He will always care about Reese, she is the mother of his kids and his first big love,” claims the source.

During the course of Abbie and Ryan’s romance, Abbie became close to his kids with Reese, Ava and Deacon.

“She is very sad about not seeing the kids regularly,” Abbie’s pal tells OK!. ” She loves them, adores them and will miss them terribly.”

Now that Abbie has moved out of Ryan’s home, where will she go next? Looks like the native Aussie might be heading back to her roots!

“She is seriously considering moving back to Australia before the summer. She moved here for Ryan, and now doesn’t really think she could stay in L.A. without him,” Abbie’s friend dishes to OK!. “She still hasn’t grown comfortable with living here and is just much more comfortable with family back in Australia. Her mother really wants her to come home.”

[From OK! Magazine]

So, they don’t come right out and say “Abbie was concerned that Ryan might still be slipping Reese a little something-something” but it’s all in the subtext. However, even though I love a great piece of juicy, dirty gossip, I don’t think it’s true. And if it’s true that Abbie had those particular concerns, I think girlfriend needs to wake up. Ryan and Reese are no longer bangin’. He’s been bangin’ other women, but not his ex-wife.

Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish have broken up after four years together. Ryan and Abbie’s relationship is thought to have hastened the end of his marriage to Reese Witherspoon. They met on the set of Stop Loss in 2006, when Ryan was still married. Perhaps proving the old adage “if he cheats with you…,” it was rumored back in December that Ryan was cheating on Abbie and macking on random women in clubs. It’s possible they were broken up back then, or that they were having problems and that Ryan was dealing with it the only way he knows how. Abbie’s spokesperson confirmed the breakup to People:

It’s over between actress Abbie Cornish and boyfriend Ryan Phillippe, her spokesperson confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

“Abbie ended the relationship with Ryan and she moved out of their home,” the rep tells PEOPLE. On Sunday, the actress was spotted removing her belongings from the house she shared with Phillippe while he visited a friend with children Ava and Deacon.

The split follows months of tabloid speculation that Phillippe has been unfaithful to Cornish – regularly hitting the nightclubs and being linked to other women. When asked about the cause of the break-up and whether Phillippe cheated on Cornish, her rep replied, “No comment.”

Cornish, 27, and Phillippe, 35, met in 2006 on the set of the film, Stop-Loss, and survived intense media scrutiny following Phillippe’s divorce from Reese Witherspoon. Cornish has been in Vancouver for the last seven months shooting the film, Sucker Punch.

Reps for Phillippe could not be reached for comment.

[From People]

This story makes it sound like Abbie had to go out of town for work and just naively expected Ryan to be faithful to her while she was away. These two are very private, so maybe they called it quits a while ago and Abbie’s PR people convinced her she needed to let the public know about it. Ryan and Abbie were photographed at an event together at the end of January, though, so I would assume the breakup was recent. I’m thinking Abbie got fed up with Phillippe’s passive aggressive behavior and cheating. Sounds just like what Reese had to deal with.

The fairy tale romance between 51 year-old Madonna and 23 year-old model/DJ boyfriend, Brazilian Jesus Luz, may be over. Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun Times reports that Jesus broke up with Madonna, but that it was “totally amicable” and Madonna was ok with it. You know that Madonna’s camp did not leak this news if it was Jesus that did the dumping, not her. Here’s the brief report on their split:

While it’s true that Madonna and Jesus Luz, her boytoy of the past year, have gone their separate ways — it not only was totally amicable, but it was Luz who initiated the split. Apparently, the 23-year-old Brazilian realized their age difference (she’s 51) and overall lack of mutual interests nixed a long-term relationship.

[From Sun Times]

Last week we heard that Madonna had a secret weekend hookup with her ex, Alex Rodriguez, in mid January. Maybe Madonna was “cheating” on her younger kept lover, or maybe she was consoling herself in the arms of an ex, fantasizing of sweet centaur loving.

It’s good news that Jesus has cut Madonna lose. He may miss out his allowance, but he’ll be able to forge his own way in life without answering to a girlfriend as old as his grandmother. And we won’t have to read any more speculation that Madonna and Jesus are trying for a baby.

There’s a story that Madonna has taken up with an “a retired Wall Street exec” and Kabbalah devotee in his mid 70s. The two were supposedly seen making out, but this story originated with “Brangelina” author Ian Halperin. There’s less than a 50/50 chance of a story from Halperin being based on more than his imagination.

Jesus and Madonna are shown with Mercy and David on 8/17/09. Credit: Fame Pictures

About a year ago, there was some major rumblings that Charlize Theron and her longtime partner/boyfriend Stuart Townsend were on the verge of splitting. The couple has been together since 2001, and they are generally considered one of the most solid, low-key couples in Hollywood. So any sort of gossip about them is generally juicy – however, last year’s report was false, as Charlize and Stuart spent most of 2009 being pretty solid like always. Well, any year, another breakup rumor. Unlike last year’s rumor, this one does not involve Charlize being a bitch and Stuart having enough. This time it’s Charlize who allegedly had enough, and Stuart is maybe desperate to get back with her. Here’s more from The Daily Mail:

For a lad from the outskirts of Dublin, Stuart Townsend seemed to have it all – a long-term relationship with one of the most stunning women in Hollywood, whose box-office clout brought in the millions. But now his nine-year romance with Oscar winner Charlize Theron, previously considered one of the most stable unions in showbusiness, has come to an end.

The stunning 5ft 11in South African has told close friends that she decided to split from the Irish actor following a Christmas trip to Mexico and has since stopped wearing the antique ‘commitment ring’ that Townsend gave her as a symbol of their relationship.

A friend of the actress said last night: ‘Stuart is gutted but Charlize said that she realised during the Mexican holiday that the relationship was over. They had become more like brother and sister than lovers. It was she who ended it.’

While Ms Theron can command more than £8million a movie, 27-year-old Townsend’s career has been less successful. Even amid his relationship break-up he left the cast of Kenneth Branagh’s blockbuster Thor because of so-called ‘creative differences’. It was his second big-budget movie setback, after being dumped from the career-defining role of Aragorn in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy in favour of Viggo Mortensen.

‘Charlize has remained in their main home in the Hollywood Hills, which is in her name, and he’s moved all his stuff into their Malibu beach home that they own together,’ the source said. ‘They are sorting out their finances at the moment, as they have been together for so long that many of their financial affairs are intertwined. Charlize has never made a big deal of it, but the truth of the matter is that she has been the major breadwinner. She truly loved Stuart but the relationship ran its course. He is heartbroken but she is insisting it is all over.’

To underline the point, the 34-year-old has ditched the Victorian ring depicting forget-me-nots that Townsend had given her.

She previously described it as ‘very, very precious’, adding: ‘Stuart gave it to me as a sign of our commitment to each other. I never take it off.’

But she was not wearing it during last weekend’s Hope For Haiti telethon, nor when she arrived at the Spago restaurant in Los Angeles on Wednesday night to celebrate her mother Gerda’s 57th birthday. As she arrived at the celebrity restaurant, she refused to answer questions about the relationship.

And when a Mail on Sunday reporter approached her at her £2.5million four-bedroom home and asked about the split, she snapped: ‘That’s crazy.’

But the source added: ‘Charlize said she was surprised the story hadn’t come out yet. But she didn’t confirm it because she wanted to break the news in her own time.’

Charlize – whose latest film The Road opened in the UK this month – once said: ‘Living with another actor, you always feel guilty if things are going your way and it’s not going that way for the other person.’

In a recent interview Townsend said he considered Charlize to be his wife, even though the two never had a wedding.

He said: ‘I’m married. I didn’t do a church wedding or anything but we consider ourselves husband and wife. We love each other and we want to spend our lives together. I don’t need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise.’

He added: ‘I found this old Victorian ring with little forget-me-nots. I gave it to her as a sign of our commitment to each other. She’s never taken it off.’

Last night a spokeswoman for Ms Theron said: ‘I never comment on her personal life,’ while Townsend’s spokesman did not respond to calls for comment.

[From The Daily Mail]

I know I’m crazy, but there’s part of that thinks that this might be partially true. I could see Charlize and Stuart breaking up simply because they had grown apart, and not because of some kind of major scandal. I also noticed that for the past few weeks, Charlize has been photographed a lot solo, or with her mom – much more than she usually is. I’m not sure what that means, but it could mean something. She looks upset in many of the photos too – although, that could just be her normal face when the paparazzi are photographing her. So… does this mean Charlize and Stuart are back on the market? I call dibs on Stuart. He’s lovely.

Charlie & Stuart at the LA premiere of ‘The Road’ on November 4, 2009, one of the last times they were photographed together. Credit: WENN. Charlize and her mom leaving Spago in LA on January 27, 2010. Credit: WENN and PER/Fame Pictures.

I’ve never really been into the whole Hogan thing. I get why people like to talk about them and everything, and I have formed an opinion about the whole family (family = gross), but usually I can’t work up the energy to care. Not today, however. Because it looks like Brooke Hogan and her boyfriend Stack$ have broken up. That’s it, people, this is the day the music died. Who would have thought that a girl with an Adam’s apple and a dude named Stack$ couldn’t make it work? What is this world coming to?

It seems that things have cooled off in Miami Beach for one music couple. Brooke Hogan exclusively confirms to Life & Style that it’s completely over between her and aspiring rapper Yannique Barker, a.k.a. Stack$.

Brooke’s rep, Janice Lee, confirms to Life & Style, “Brooke Hogan and Stack$ have split but remain friends. He was a big part of her life for a very long time, and she still cares about him and his family dearly. Brooke would like to thank her fans for their kind words and sensitivity during the breakup.”

The two were first spotted as a couple last April in Miami Beach, where Stack$ was helping Brooke shoot her music video for her song “Falling,” in which he was featured.

Stack$ was also seen on Brooke’s reality show Brooke Knows Best.

[From Life & Style]

You know what this means, right? Brooke Hogan is back on the market! Who’s available? Is her dad single? I just mean that her dad has a type, and his type seems to look an awful lot like Brooke. Ew… I just grossed myself out. But seriously, who would be good for Brooke? Bradley Cooper? Gerard Butler?!? How about Courtney Love? Courtney wouldn’t be so bad, actually. I could see that.

Here’s a nice one of Brooke, Hulk and Hulk’s girlfriend. Yeah. This isn’t weird at all.

Unlike the other weeklies’ obsession with all things Uncool Bermuda Triangle, People magazine decided to run with Elizabeth Edwards for their cover this week. The whole thing – I would assume, since People hasn’t released their cover story online – is that Elizabeth is going to admit that she and John are pretty much split up, especially now that John has finally publicly admitted that Rielle Hunter’s daughter is his. So, Elizabeth has reached her “breaking point” and “finally sends him packing”. Eh.

Meanwhile, the National Enquirer continues to be all over this story. They reported yesterday that John Edwards was being a cheapskate about paying for daughter Quinn’s medical care, and there continue to be rumors about that John-and-Rielle sex tape. And now today they released a story about Elizabeth Edwards’ “suicide attempt”. Although, not really, she was just thinking about taking an overdose of pills when she heard about John‘s affair, which I can kind of understand. I mean, I can understand thinking about it, I am in no way advocating suicide, for goodness sake. Here’s more:

“I’M GOING TO KILL MYSELF!” John Edwards’ distraught wife Elizabeth screamed those horrifying words during a suicide attempt after finding out her husband’s mistress was pregnant with his love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

Pushed to the brink by the disgraced two time presidential loser’s cheating, lying and cover-up, the long-suffering breast cancer patient was finally shoved over the edge when she learned that campaign “worker” Rielle Hunter was carrying the ex-senator’s baby.

In the latest shocking revelation from the Edwards scandal, sources disclosed to The ENQUIRER behind-the-scenes details of the hushed-up 2007 incident – breaking their silence after Edwards on Jan. 21 finally confirmed the paternity of his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Frances Quinn.

After impregnating Rielle, the ex-senator concocted a bizarre cover-up involving Andrew Young, a trusted campaign aide who falsely claimed to be the father. A very convenient patsy, say political insiders.

And now Young has revealed this heart-wrenching confrontation in his tell-all book The Politician. But when Elizabeth learned the truth, she felt “completely betrayed,” disclosed an insider. She was so upset she became suicidal, say sources close to the couple.

“Elizabeth locked herself in their bedroom and shouted at John from behind the door, ‘I’m going to kill myself!’” disclosed a friend. “She added: ‘It’s ALL your fault!’

“Elizabeth later confessed she was going to swallow an overdose of painkillers to end her tortured life. She apparently ran to the medicine cabinet and emptied some pill bottles in a fury. She confessed that she actually had a handful of pills in her hand and was about to ingest them when she suddenly broke down in tears.”

The heart-wrenching suicide attempt was the climax of several painful blows inflicted by Edwards on his gravely ill wife – who had considered taking her life in the past, say insiders.

“Elizabeth once confessed that she first thought about suicide after John initially told her he cheated with Rielle,” the close source divulged. “Elizabeth said her cancer was killing her slowly, but John had broken her heart beyond repair.”

[From The National Enquirer]

For a while now, I’ve had very mixed feelings about Elizabeth. I didn’t care for the way she handled John’s affair initially, when she was basically giving John a free pass in public, while bashing Rielle Hunter as “pathetic” and giving the impression that she (Elizabeth) put most of the blame of the affair on Rielle. Now… I still have mixed feelings about all of that, but I do still have sympathy for Elizabeth. She’s been having a horrible few years, and she doesn’t have much time left. I think she’s just now realizing what a piece of sh-t she was married to all of these years, and she doesn’t really know what to do.

People cover courtesy of CoverAwards.

There’s a lot of inevitable speculation as to whether Hollywood’s golden couple with the six kids will stick it out or call it quits. Of course the tabloids have been running breakup stories about these two for years, but this latest rumor seems to have more teeth than the average split story. This one originated in British rag News of The World, which claimed that the two visited an LA-based divorce attorney to disentangle their fortunes. Whether that was true or not remains to be seen, but The NY Daily News quotes a “source” that says that Brangelina did consult a lawyer, but that it’s just customary given their wealth and that they’re just preparing for the future:

After days of speculation about a possible breakup between Mr. Pitt and his other half, Angelina Jolie, word is surfacing that the power couple did indeed visit a high-powered L.A. lawyer last week – but only to cover their assets.

“They aren’t married, so they need to protect their children and property in case there’s a rift in the future,” a source says.

That certainly makes sense, considering the two are worth a whopping $330 million combined.

So why are rumors of a breakup running rampant?

“People hear ‘legal papers’ and assume it means a divorce,” our snitch continues. “But it could mean exactly the opposite. Either way, they’re making sure to get their ducks in a row, which they’ll need whether they split or stay together forever.”

That’s not the only reason for so many whispers: Rumors started swirling when the couple was a no-show to a pair of recent award programs.

“There was a lot of talk when they didn’t attend the Globes or the SAG awards this past weekend,” says the insider.

“But that’s not entirely out of the ordinary for them. Although ‘Inglourious Basterds’ was nominated, Brad wasn’t up for anything individually, and neither was Angelina. Besides, they’re Brangelina. They can do whatever they want.”

[From The NY Daily News]

So, according to this story, they did see an attorney but it was just to protect their assets. Why aren’t there impending marriage reports then? Couldn’t they have been drawing up a prenup? It just seems like the longer these rumors go on the more likely they are to be true. I know that’s faulty logic though, especially when we’re talking about Brad and Angelina. These two, and the overhyped triangle with Brad’s ex Jennifer Aniston, have helped keep the tabloids afloat for years. Gossip rags will make up the most outrageous, libelous stories about Brad and Angelina just to move copies.

Yesterday Kaiser reported that the split stories may be some kind of payback to Brad and Angelina for not making the rounds at the awards shows this season. Neither are nominated, but Brad’s film Inglourious Basterds is doing well and would be a sufficient reason for them to get decked out and to show up and smile. People are wondering whether Brad and Angelina will show up at the Oscars to help quell some of the breakup rumors.

E! Online reports that while Brad and Angelina are still a maybe-happy couple, they’re not going to attend the Oscars together. They write that “multiple sources close to the couple tell E! News that the unbroken Brangelina will not, despite a report to the contrary, be attending the Oscars on March 7.”

There’s at least one media personality that is convinced that Brangelina is kaput, though. Howard Stern told Rosie O’Donnell on her Sirius show that he’s sure they’ve broken up based on his sources.

And in one more piece of Brangelina news, The Daily Mail reports that Brad Pitt bought a bachelor pad complete with it’s own cave. This may be technically true, but it’s not a new story. We heard a couple of weeks ago that Pitt purchased another home adjacent to his Los Feliz property. The Real Estalker confirms that the particular home shown on the Daily Mail (there are more photos here) “is actually adjacent–as in next damn door–to Mister Pitt’s longtime compound in The Oaks.” It’s the same home. The Real Estalker also reports that it’s not likely that Pitt bought the place as a “bachelor pad” because it’s right next to his mansion and is a real fixer upper, by his standards.

Over the weekend we heard the maybe-shocking news that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s split was imminent. Notorious British tabloid News of the World claimed that the couple contacted a divorce attorney in Beverly Hills in early December to hash out the legal details of their breakup and that “An announcement of their separation is expected to be made soon.” Brad and Angelina are not married but they do have six children together and a massive fortune including multiple real estate holdings.

As Kaiser reported, News of The World pays good money for stories, but they’re definitely not known for their integrity and it’s possible the story was made up. People Magazine quotes “sources” who claim that Brad and Angelina are fine and that both are now based in LA working on their upcoming films. They were apart recently when Angelina went to NY to do a Vanity Fair photoshoot. One very interesting tidbit in People’s story is that pre-production has started on Brad’s film The Lost City of Z, in which Pitt plays a British explorer at the turn of the 20th century looking for a lost city in Brazil. The explorer, Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, sported a long goatee just like the one Brad Pitt is wearing. As of earlier this month, there was still no script for Lost City, but now that the movie is in pre-production, Pitt has the perfect excuse for his unkempt facial hair.

While reports are swirling that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are headed for a split, multiple sources close to the family tell PEOPLE that the rumors are false.

“Everything is fine” with the couple, who are parents to six kids, a source says.

Another source says the split reports, which were first published in a British tabloid, are “totally false.”

In recent weeks, it’s been business as usual for the busy couple – movie shoots, family outings, charity work – and several observers say they saw nothing amiss.

On Jan. 2, Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34, shared a romantic dinner for two at the French restaurant Le Perigord. “You could tell they wanted to spend time alone and didn’t want to be bothered by anybody else,” says a source. “It was wonderful to see a couple so much in love.”

With filming wrapped, the two headed back to Los Angeles to work on pre-production for their upcoming movies: Jolie’s The Tourist and Pitt’s Lost City of Z. On Jan. 16, Pitt took their eldest son, Maddox, on a boys’ trip to the New Orleans Saints’ playoff game, while Jolie was spotted grocery shopping and dropping by an Apple Store in L.A. with daughters Zahara and Shiloh.

In the last few days, Jolie reportedly jetted to New York City for a Vanity Fair photo shoot, while Pitt stayed in L.A. to participate in friend George Clooney’s Hope for Haiti Now telethon. (Both Pitt and Jolie made major donations to the relief effort.) Pitt didn’t attend Saturday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, where his Inglourious Basterds picked up the award for best ensemble cast.

[From People]

I think these two have problems like everyone else. They have six kids, they’re both juggling a bunch of career obligations and even with all that money and help it can’t be easy. I wouldn’t be surprised if they split up because they have a 50/50 chance like just about every other married/committed couple. If it was easy a higher percentage of people would stay married/together. Maybe it was smart of them not to make it official and more complicated than it needed to be.

Still, we don’t have a window onto their home life and have no idea what’s it’s like. There’s a whole industry built up around trying to squeeze out the details of the lives of the rich and famous. When there’s not much information there, the tabloids make it up. As the most famous couple of all, Brad and Angelina are subjected to the most false reports. This one had a whiff of truth to it to many people, probably because these two don’t take pains to deny tabloid stories unless they’ve reached a fever pitch.

This whole thing seems to have been started by Britain’s The News of the World, which has gotten some things right, but not so much on others. So, you know, it could be total bullsh-t, or it could be a big scoop. The News of the World is claiming that Brad and Angelina have split for good, that they’ve been in contact with a divorce lawyer to work out the child custody and financial arrangements, and that they will be announcing their split any day now. Here’s part of the report (full report is here):

HOLLYWOOD golden pair Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have seen DIVORCE lawyers and signed a £205 million split deal, we can reveal.

The world’s most famous couple legally agreed how to divide their fortune and who gets custody of their six kids. The megastars have agreed to equally divide their vast fortune – and to SHARE their six children.

Dynamite legal papers secretly signed by the couple this month detail how all their homes and assets will be carved up. The agreement gives them joint custody of the kids – but all six will actually live full-time with their mum.

Preparations for a split began in early December when “Brangelina” visited a top Los Angeles divorce firm to begin thrashing out the deal. An announcement of their separation is expected to be made soon – ending months of speculation that the five-year relationship is on the rocks.

A source told the News of the World: “The document was signed in early January. Both Brad and Angelina had signed it. The contract was like a tailor-made version of a pre-nuptial agreement except for an unmarried couple’s split. It seemed clear they want the world to know they’ll both play a part in the upbringing of the children. But Angelina will actually be the one who lives with them full-time.”

The divorce lawyer they consulted is based in Beverly Hills and has worked on a string of celeb divorces and splits. He is widely regarded as “the best in the business”.

Our source added: “There’s no date for when the contract would come into effect. But the paperwork is already organised for a break- up – and for it to be as unmessy for them as possible. It is clear it’s a case of when they break up rather than if.”

The troubled couple have not been photographed together in public in recent days. On Friday night, Brad, 46, was snapped backstage at the Hope For Haiti concert in Los Angeles without Angelina, 34. His ex-wife Jennifer Aniston was there – although not with him.

Her joint fortune with Brad of $322 million (£205 million) includes mansions in France, California and New Orleans. But rumours have been circulating for months that the couple’s relationship is doomed.

Last week they failed to show at the Golden Globe Awards even though Brad’s film Inglourious Basterds was up for a several gongs. Instead he went to watch the American football team New Orleans Saints, while Changeling star Angelina stayed in California. Also last week, Pitt bought the mansion next door to the family’s LA home for £800,000.

His pals Guy Ritchie and wife Madonna famously bought their next-door pad in London before their split so they could share living space with their kids but keep away from each another.

Earlier this month, Angelina was snapped looking tense with an unsmiling Brad in New York. And last month she said fidelity was over-rated – and if she or Brad had an affair it would not be a problem.

She told German magazine Das Neue: “Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means to be chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other. I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship. It’s worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards.”

We asked Brad, Angelina and the legal firm for their comments but they did not respond.

[From News of the World]

Reasons this could be bullsh-t: they quote that dumb fake interview Angelina did not do with Das Neue, which does not do much for anyone’s credibility; even the American weeklies haven’t picked the report up, as of Sunday morning – People Magazine and Us Weekly don’t have anything, and they would report it if they could confirm it independently. Other reasons: the tabloids have had them splitting every week for five years, and isn’t everyone tired of this crap? Oh, and apparently Brangelina’s reps have denied it, according to Perez. (I know, I know.)

Reasons this might be true: many media outlets are picking this story up, even the more legitimate newspapers like The Telegraph; News of the World does get some stuff right; if Brad and Angelina do split, I would imagine they would come up with some custodial and financial arrangement just like this; Brad’s horrible goaty beard (which is a legitimate reason).

Brad and Angelina on August 10, 2009 in LA, in Cannes on May 20, 2009, at the Oscars on February 22, 2009, at the 2009 BAFTAs, and out in New York on January 6, 2010. Credit: Fame Pictures & WENN.

Hugh Hefner has dumped two of his three “girlfriends”. He “let go” of the 20-year-old Shannon twins, Kristina and Karissa, who have been “with” Hef for about a year. They aren’t going to be thrown out with the trash, though – Hef is allowing them to move into the Playmate House, which I think is a separate residence than the Playboy Mansion…? The Huffington Post has more… Hef announced the whole thing on his Twitter… because Hef tweets (how did I not know this?):

Hugh Hefner, 83, is down 2/3 of his girlfriends.

Late Tuesday Hefner tweeted that, “The Shannon Twins are growing up. They’re moving to the Playmate House with my blessing so they will be free to do other things.”

Kristina and Karissa Shannon, known as ‘The Shannon Twins,’ are 20 and have been dating the aging Playboy mogul for over a year.

They tweeted, “Were looking forward to moving to the Playmate House, But we still love Hef & want to remain close.”

This means he is down to just one live-in girlfriend, December 2009 playmate Crystal Harris.

[From Huffington Post]

E! News actually got an interview with Hef, and he explained the situation in a bit more detail… apparently, he’s getting more serious about the other girlfriend, Crystal Harris, and “the twins” want to travel and get away from checking in with Grandpa every two hours:

Hef explains that while his relationship with girlfriend Crystal Harris has been getting “more serious,” the twins have expressed a lot of interest in doing more Playmate-related promotional work for the company…

“They’ve been hanging out with a lot of the other Playmates and they see these girls traveling across the country to do promotion,” he said. “They would like to be doing that, too.”

In fact, Hefner, 83, said he was the one who initially suggested the move, which will take place within the next couple of weeks. “When they thought about it, they thought it was a good idea,” he said, adding, “They will now be friends, but they won’t be defined as the girlfriends.”

As serious as things may be with 23-year-old Crystal, Hef says we shouldn’t start listening for wedding bells. “I haven’t had a lot of luck with marriage,” he said. “I don’t have a good track record and I don’t want to screw this one up.”

The twins’ departure doesn’t mean the end of Girls Next Door.

Hef says if his hit E! reality series gets picked up for another season, we’ll not only see some of the twins work with the Playmates, but of course, “how my relationships are changing romantically and how that relates to Crystal.”

[From E! News]

Okay, I have a confession: I actually like Hef. And I think even though he’s an old fool for all of these girlfriends and stuff, I like that he’s not throwing them out, that he’s still looking out for them and helping them. Hef treats women better than many, many men. You just have to know what you’re getting into with him. Like, you have to monitor his prescriptions and don’t interrupt his naps.