Here’s news that won’t surprise anyone that watched even one episode of the first season of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Insect thin, slug-lipped social climber Taylor Armstrong and her socially inept husband of six years, Russell, have split up according to US Weekly. The last we heard of Russell he and Taylor were having serious “cash flow issues” after having filed for bankruptcy five years ago. They also live in a rented house and Russel has been sued multiple times for bilking investors along with being convicted of felony tax evasion. So much for those elaborate parties that Taylor is always throwing. Well now that Taylor is making her own money she can kick Russell’s ass to the curb and look for a new guy to support her. They’ve supposedly separated.

A source tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on stands now) that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star has secretly separated from her banker husband of seven years.

“They’ve had huge marital problems related to finances,” the insider says of the pair, who were seen together with daughter Kennedy, 5, at a May 7 Lollipop Theater Network event in Burbank, Calif.

The couple’s marital problems are nothing new: Bravo viewers watched them bicker constantly during the show’s first season, and Taylor even likened their marriage to a business arrangement.

Still, the recent split is taking a physical toll on Taylor. “She’s emaciated — down 10, 15 pounds,” a source tells Us.

The Real Housewives drama doesn’t end there. New cast member Brandi Glanville, 38 — Eddie Cibrian’s ex — and Kyle Richards, 42, have been “going at it” since filming began on season 2. “They got into a fight and Brandi lunged at Kyle,” a source says. “They had to be separated by producers.

[From US Weekly]

That last paragraph is the real story here. Brandi Glanville is a new cast member, she was announced late last week and she’s already fighting with Kyle. It makes sense. Kyle is trying to bring down the new member and establish herself as the alpha bitch. It doesn’t seem like Brandi’s personality to go after her, though, and I bet there’s something more there. I guess that means Robbie Williams’ wife didn’t join them, which is a shame although I’m happy for Brandi. Kyle wouldn’t dare go after Robbie Williams’ wife, she’s so much richer and higher status.

Photos are from 2/11, 3/13, 3/26, 3/30. Credit: WENN.com

The more Jesse James talks, the more we come to know the narcissistic selfish creep he truly is. Yesterday we covered some segments of his new memoir, in which he generally made himself out to be this cult figure who came from a rough upbringing and whose incredible betrayal of Sandra Bullock was somehow excusable in light of his childhood. It wasn’t anything new from the guy and it won’t do much to bolster his image. He never admitted how many strippers he slept with or discussed all the dumbass text messages and e-mails he sent them before screwing them on the coffin couch in his office. It was all “poor Jesse” and how he was just this wounded soul who never felt worthy of Sandra’s love.

Well Jesse also said yesterday that he didn’t really give a crap about how Sandra might feel now that he’s revealing intimate details of their relationship in that twisted “me me me” way of his. He said “I think I’ve spent a good chunk of the last five or six years worrying only about her and what she thinks and what I should do and, you know, controlling all my movements and everything else and I think it’s time to worry about Jesse, and making sure Jesse’s happy. God or whoever you believe in must have thought I was pretty f*****g strong to lump that on me.”

So someone else brought this on Jesse, not himself, and he showed how much he cared about Sandra for six by trying to hide his many affairs with random tramps he picked up in strip bars and on MySpace.

Jesse went on Howard Stern yesterday and called his new fiance, heavily tatted Kat Von D, “100% better” in bed than Sandra. I hope he met his match in that woman, and that she rakes him over the coals and cheats on him every which way to Sunday. You know she has it in her, unlike Sandra. Maybe they have an agreement that they can see other people anyway:

In a raunchy appearance on Howard Stern’s Sirius satellite show today, James gave a thumbs up to fiancée Kat Von D for her prowess in the sack.

He then alluded that Sandra Bullock lacks talent in [bed]

Motorcycle guru James, star of Monster Garage, was on the show to promote his new book, American Outlaw, but of course the conversation inevitably turned to his bedroom antics.

“That one is an easy no-brainer,” Stern said after wondering who’s better. “Kat Von D.”

“One hundred percent,” James replied. “She’s a vixen. If she cheated on me, I would forgive her and still love her.”

The tatted-out James told Stern he was famously unfaithful to the stunning Oscar-winning Bullock because he never felt comfortable in her world.

“She could stand there in front of the world and say she loved me, but in my mind I was thinking, ‘Yeah? Bulls**t. You don’t love me. I’m just some biker kid,’” he confessed, adding that he began straying from the Blind Side star two years after their 2005 wedding.

James is convinced that he will have better luck with his fourth marriage to Von D, telling Stern why she is the one: “When everybody kind of turned their back on me and . . . and totally persecuted me and, like, nobody wanted to be my friend. She was there for me through all of it. Who would imagine that one year later I would be happier than I’ve ever been? There’s only one now, and one forever. I’m devoted to this chick and she’s rad.”

[From Radar]

I’ve actually heard this same story before. Douche boyfriend (or girlfriend) cheats, tries to get ex-lover back, is rejected and then claims the new lover is better in bed than the old one anyway. I hope that he marries Kat and that she takes him to the cleaners. This will be his fourth marriage and he thinks he has it right this time. He deserves what he’s about to get.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I bought Jesse James’ memoir American Outlaw on iBooks yesterday and read the first 150 pages or so. Then I skipped to the part where he met Sandra Bullock and tried to explain and justify his terrible treatment of her. The beginning of the book has him telling the story of his childhood and teen years. It reads like fiction and it probably is. Jesse is always the hero, and he has a ton of tall tales about how he boosted cars, robbed restaurants, beat up rivals who had it coming, but still was the star player on the football team and won the girl. Of course the crimes that teenage Jesse was finally busted for were stealing a candy bar and lifting some cameras from a photo store. It’s actually a decent read, if you think of it like a work of fiction told from the protagonist’s point of view.

The part where Jesse describes how he met Sandra and wooed her at first through e-mail is actually pretty sweet, I’ll admit. There’s his self centered douchiness permeating his writing, but he seems to really care about her and you can tell that he loved her. He had a good ghostwriter and the story flows well and is pretty interesting. It really didn’t change my opinion of him at all though. Here are some of the parts that stood out for me.

On his attraction to Sandra Bullock
Maybe it sounds like a load a crap, but the truth is, from the start, being around Sandy made me want to be a better guy. Whereas with Janine I was always riding that wave of her attention, watching myself reflected in her eyes, with Sandy, I saw her watching the world, and wondering how she could contribute. The better I got to know her, the more I wanted to be by her side, doing the same thing.

On how he cried to Sandra about his childhood
“I… I grew up in a really hard situation,” I said. “I don’t tell people about it very often.”

Sandy looked at me deeply, with real sympathy in her eyes. “I promise you, if you want to confide in me, I will never judge you for it, Jesse…”

“I grew up scared shitless of my dad,” I continued. “He punched me and blacked my eye. When I was fifteen years old, he accused me of burning down our house and I got into such a big fight with him that we would have literally killed each other if we hadn’t been pulled apart.”

“Oh, Jesse.” Tears were starting to well up in Sandy’s eyes. “I had no idea.”

On how he asked her to marry him
“Hey,” I said to her, “I’d like to talk to you. Do you have a second?”

“Sure. What’s up?”

“Well, I… I just wanted to… I wanted to know if you’d marry me.”

She looked at me, amazed. “Are you… serious?…”

“Oh my God,” she said. “I… wow. This is a surprise. Yes… I will marry you. I love you.”

On how he ended up cheating
You’re trapped, I thought suddenly. It came out of nowhere, but you’re trapped pretty good, aren’t you?

Before I met Sandy, I’d romanticized the stable, calm married life: the idea of me finally growing up. But now I missed… talking shit, cracking jokes with my no-good friends. Too many people knew me now. I couldn’t escape…

Mentally at a loss, desperate for something to make me feel like I had some sense of freedom, I ran through the list of things I could do to assert independence over my life. Infidelity, unfortunately, was at the top of my list.

Glosses over all the skanks and strippers, doesn’t get into details
I’m into sex, but contrary to whatever biker stereotype got built up around me, sex is mostly a cerebral experience for me. If there’s no personal connection there, then it’s sort of pointless.

But with that said: I still did it. I screwed around behind Sandy’s back, and the whole world came to know about it.

Tries to justify his behavior, says he was a mismatch with Sandra
I can’t go back, and I can’t save my marriage. What I can do is try to understand why I did it….

As [Sandy and I] got to know each other better, I think we both came to realize that we really were a bit oddly matched. Sandy wasn’t rich [growing up], but she came from a middle class family – she’d grown up singing in a choir with her mom. I’d grown up with a dad who sent me hookers in the middle of the day…

The more important factor, though, was the fact that I’d grown up in an environment where love hadn’t been shown to me on a regular basis. My dad had torn me down every time he could, and my mom had been pretty absent. Now I had a great woman who was telling me she loved me, but that didn’t mean I was in any shape to believe her. Sandy was an actress, after all. I think in the back of my mind, I always told myself she was pretending…

I never really trusted Sandy… I felt like sooner or later, she was going to see the real me. And then she’d leave me. Well, figured, if I was going to be left, then I wanted to make the first break.

Acts like it didn’t matter if he cheated once or a bunch of times
I transgressed against the vows of my marriage, and it doesn’t really matter whether I did that ten thousand times or just once. Once you’ve lied, there’s no taking it back. There’s no way to erase the deceit that you’ve created.

Explains his Nazi salute photo
The photo had been taken at a party at my house ten years before: I’d been given the cap by a buddy of my dad’s, Barry Weiss. Barry rented a building in Gardena to a guy whose job it was to make costumes and uniforms for films like Schindler’s List and Band of Brothers. The cap was a reproduction, something he’d given to me as a joke. In a moment of stupidity, I’d put a couple of fingers over my top lip to form a Hitler mustache, and had thrown up a Sieg Heil. You could tell by the goofy expression on my face that I was anything but serious.

[Transcribed from American Outlaw by Jesse James]

Radar has some quotes from the book where Jesse admitted to Sandra that he cheated. When he broke the news to Sandra before it was about to come out in the tabloids he only owned up to one affair, not the handful of women who came out of the woodwork afterwards. She walked out of his office crying and he didn’t see or speak to her for weeks afterwards. I have nothing but respect for Sandra.

You know, I see this guy’s appeal, I really do. He’s the wounded bad boy looking for a savior. Only his stories are trumped up and he’s a lying S.O.B. To him it doesn’t matter if he cheated once or a bunch of times, and he never owns up to any of that anyway. He’s either the poor victim or the hero, just behaving as he knows how and never really admitting the things he’s done.

Photo credit: WENN

Some publisher made the decision to release Shania Twain’s memoir yesterday, the same day as Jesse James’ memoir. I realize that they don’t have the same target audience, but I hate that publicity for Shania’s memoir could be overshadowed by Jesse’s drama. (I got Jesse James’ memoir on iBooks and we have a story coming up with quotes from it in just a moment.)

Parade has some advance quotes from Shania’s memoir, From This Moment On. She discusses how she dealt with the shock and pain when she found out her husband of 12 years, Mutt Lange, was cheating on her with a good friend of the family. Shania ended up hooking up with her husband’s mistresses’ estranged husband (it makes sense if you think of it like a partner swap) and it was a trade up for the both of them. She just remarried in January and seems blissfully happy but still wounded and affected by what she went through. She’s also back in the spotlight now after a long career hiatus. In these excerpts she’s almost poetic when she describes going through that ordeal and falling in love again.

In her revealing new memoir, From This Moment On, the 45-year-old star takes readers through the events that have made her who she is. In the excerpts below, Twain opens up about the impact of her mother and stepfather’s abusive marriage and the devastation of her husband, rock producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange’s affair.

On the devastating discovery, in March 2008, that her husband of 14 years was having an affair with her friend and confidante, Marie-Anne.
Twain describes it as “the most shocking and painful truth of my life since the death of my parents twenty years earlier….For the first week after finding out about the affair, I was ready to die–to go to bed forever and never wake up. Or to hurt someone. I was ready to do something desperate, but in reality, there was nothing to do but to suffer through it. Fortunately, when you’re a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

“Denial can have multiple layers, and rationalizing is common when you’re trying to absorb something you just don’t want to believe. I thought: Okay, so maybe they made a mistake. My husband and my friend will come to their senses and realize that. I was ready to forgive, and forget, make things right , move on, and get on with our lives. Not like nothing had happened, but like something had happened that I thought was fixable. But his was not to be.

“Despite everything, I still loved my husband. And I still loved my friend. I put myself in their shoes with the understanding that accidents happen, we’re all human, and we all make mistakes….Eventually, I came to the point of accepting the end of my marriage.”

How she came to fall in love with Frederic Thiebaud, the ex-husband of the friend who betrayed her.
“I describe what happened to Fred and me this way: we were two people who had been jettisoned from our lives as if we’d been shoved off the edge of a high cliff. Thankfully, we managed to grab onto each other on the way down in midair, and break each other’s fall.

“I spent months shutting myself off from any thoughts of a relationship, but Fred loved me and was brave enough to come out and say it, even though I had made it clear that the thought of ever being in love again scared me out of my wits….It’s true I swore I would never allow myself to love again, but Fred is impossible not to love.

“Three years after our hearts were broken, together, I feel more love now than any other emotion I’ve felt since that time. I consider myself the luckiest woman on the planet that I have Fred to share the rest of my life with.”

Twain also describes the intense domestic violence and spousal abuse she witnessed as a child. In the book, she recalls one particular fight between her stepfather and mother.
“My mother was a featherweight and so easy to push around. Jerry had her on the bathroom floor by the toilet, and, grabbing her hair, he slammed her head against the side of the basin, knocking her out cold. I could see Jerry repeatedly plunge my mother’s head into the toilet bowl, then pull it out again. I remember wondering, ‘Why is he trying to drown her when she’s already dead?’ I wanted to scream, ‘Stop, you already killed her!’ I wanted to stop him, but I was too afraid…The enormity of that helplessness transferred to me, and I felt as limp as she was.”

Despite the violence, Twain says she felt “sorry” for her parents, and while she hated the violence, she “didn’t hate them.”
“The guilt and shame they clearly felt after each incident, I sensed, weighed a ton; knowing us kids were watching must have been awful. I felt sorry for their shame and didn’t have the heart to hold it against them even at that very young age. Each time, I just wanted it to be over, behind us and forgotten.”

Twain rose to fame in the early 1990s with her debut album. She describes the difficulty in dealing with her newfound celebrity, loss of privacy, and pressure to live up to the public’s expectations.
“I had moments of sheer desperation over these years, and although I never contemplated suicide, I was looking for an escape. I wished for an illness that might force me in the hospital so I could rest, or for the album suddenly to lose steam to it would be time to get off the road and pass my hours with my guitar just writing in peace with a few friends around a fire.”

[From Parade]

Shania was on Oprah yesterday and I read through the recap on Oprah’s site. You can also read highlights of her interview on People and Popeater. It sounds like she still sort-of blames the other woman, but that’s understandable because her then-husband’s mistress was her best friend and assistant. She told Oprah that when she asked the other woman if her husband was acting strange, she was all “I think he’s fine.” She hasn’t seen the mistress since, but she wrote her a letter asking her to leave her family alone that she shares in her book. Shania explained that we all have very low moments in our lives, and that was hers.

Shania strikes me as such a feeling person and someone who is fragile but ready to be back in the public eye. I admire her
and think she handled this all so well. To Oprah, Shania revealed that she suffers from a medical condition called dysphonia that squeezes her vocal chords, but says she hopes that she’ll be able to sing again soon. She has so many fans that feel the same.

Shania is shown on 3/27/11 at the Juno awards. Credit: WENN

I don’t watch Teen Mom 2 and have guilt about that as I enjoyed all the sad too-real drama on the original Teen Mom, but there are only so many shows I can keep up with. I’ve seen a little of it though, and from what I’ve heard Leah is the “good girl” on the show and tries to do the right thing and keep a sunny disposition. She has twin daughters and reunited with her babies’ father Corey and married him six months ago. That lasted a hot second, because Leah just filed for divorce and there are photos and footage to document it. The tabloids have been all over this lately, with In Touch claiming in late February that she was seeing another guy and OK! reporting just this week that she was dumped by Corey. Whatever happened, she’s going to get the maximum publicity out of it. Here’s a report from US Weekly about the divorce:

Six months after Teen Mom 2′s Leah Messer wed Corey Simms, the 18-year-old mother of two has filed for divorce, Us Weekly has confirmed.

Though the MTV star filed papers in Kanawha County between April 8 and 15, fans of the show shouldn’t be too surprised to see the two split. “Everything Corey and I have done has happened so fast,” Messer recently told Us.

After all, the pair dated for one month, found out they were expecting, split up just after the 2009 birth of their twin daughters, then reunited six months later. From there, it took just weeks for them to move into together and for 20-year-old Simms, a certified water-distribution operator, to propose.

“I didn’t want to jump into something else and be like, ‘Oh, s**t! What did we do?’” Messer told Us. “Three years ago, back before I was pregnant, I never thought I’d be married now. I was scared because a lot of people who marry young end up divorcing within a year.”

After all, Messer had seen it happen within her own family. “My mom and dad married, divorced, remarried and divorced again,” she said. “I don’t want my girls [Aliannah and Aleeah, 16 months] to go through that. My mom talked to me because she wed at 16 and didn’t want me to go through a divorce like she did.”

Despite the divorce proceedings, friends of the couple hope to see the newlyweds reconcile.

“They are not in a good place right now,” a source tells Us. “Their friends are hoping they find a way to make it work.”

[From US Weekly]

It sounds like they were too young and moved way too fast, maybe just out of a desire to do the right thing for their daughters. It probably didn’t help at all that they were in the spotlight on MTV. They’re going to have to be in each other’s lives as long as their daughters are minors so they need to work out a way to peacefully coparent.

There are photos of Leah walking around with the divorce papers, reading them to a friend and crying as MTV cameras film her. I think that just about says it all. Her wedding just aired on the show and we saw her October wedding photos three weeks ago and now she’s calling it quits.

Last night was the big premiere of Scream 4, and exes David Arquette and Courteney Cox posed together and seemed more than comfortable to be around each other. (A photo of them together is here.) We’re used to seeing acrimonious splits in Hollywood and to hearing vague unconfirmed reports about how people are sniping behind the scenes. David and Courteney have been more than open with the press, though, and have issues gracious statements about each other throughout. So this latest comment from David, about Courteney’s vacation with her co-star Josh Hopkins, isn’t unexpected. He previously told Oprah that he “thought she was having an affair with someone” when the tabloid stories came out about Courteney and her other co-star, Brian Van Holt, but that it was “not true at all. She could relate to members on her cast and she could talk to them in a way she couldn’t talk to me.” I would say he sounds just as in-denial here, but he adds that things are good between him and Courteney, that “we’re still separated” and “there’s no scandal.”

“We’re best friends,” Arquette said of Cox on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show Monday morning. “We’re not together. We’re still separated.”

“And you know, there [are] horrible articles right now,” he said. “She went away to St. Bart’s with Coco and her best friend and Josh from the show, and I know about all of this. But these tabloids make it like there’s some kind of scandal going on. But there’s no scandal.”

A rep for the actress at the time said her relationship with Hopkins was “strictly platonic.” And Cox and Arquette reunited to take daughter Coco to Walt Disney World in Florida days after her Caribbean trip.

In fact, Arquette, 39, says their relationship is built on strong communication. “We’re really honest and open,” he said. “Our relationship right now is actually better than ever.”

[From People]

Well good for the two of them if they’re able to be at peace with each other and successfully co-parent. I think Courteney met some hot guys at work, had an emotional affair with one of them, asked for time out on her marriage so she could screw the guy, and then David went into a tailspin. Things went south with the first guy, so Courteney moved on to another and made quite a few visits to her plastic surgeon in the meantime to get new boobs and freshen up her face. She’s looking more like Cher now than like herself. I imagine the process was gradual and that she didn’t think it would make her look like a puppet head. She probably even likes the results.

Look at Courtney’s dress – it’s a little black mock turtleneck sleeveless dress with a lace hem. What was she thinking? She also has some kind of sparkly stuff on her legs that makes her knees look like they were dipped in glitter. I’m not loving Neve Campbell’s little pocket frock, but it’s better than what Courteney is wearing.

Photo credit: WENN and Fame

Back in December, we found out that Elizabeth Hurley is still pretty sleazy (Sleaz-E, her nickname). It seems Liz torpedoed her marriage to millionaire Arun Nayar when her affair with Australian womanizer/cricketer Shane Warne went public (photos below). The British tabloids caught Liz and Shane frolicking at some hotel, and shortly after the photos were published, Liz got all sanctimonious and released a statement saying that she and Arun had been separated for a while, and she was basically just out getting hers and we shouldn’t judge (to read more go to our Liz Hurley archives, I wrote a lot about it). Anyway, Liz has now officially filed for divorce, and she’s making Arun sound like the bad guy. In the divorce filing, she cites Arun’s “unreasonable behavior”. What could that be, Liz? It was so “unreasonable” for Arun to think Liz would NOT screw around? It was “unreasonable” that Arun’s family treated Liz like some British tart (which, obviously, they were right about)? It was “unreasonable” that Arun wasn’t as rich as Liz originally thought? Or, Liz thinks it’s “unreasonable” that Arun is moving on with a 25-year-old – while Liz and Shane Warne continue their very public affair? WTF?

Four months after announcing their split, Elizabeth Hurley filed for divorce from estranged husband Arun Nayar yesterday. The model/actress filed papers at London’s High Court citing the Indian textile heir’s ‘unreasonable behaviour’. The decision to formally end their union comes after just four years of marriage and amidst her burgeoning romance with Australian cricketer Shane Warne.

Hurley, 45, disclosed her split from Nayar, 46, in December after she was photographed kissing Warne, 41, in a London hotel. The Estee Lauder spokesmodel insisted she and Nayar had separated months earlier, but her husband was said to be upset by the photos.

However, Nayar has already been spotted dating model Kim Johnson, 25, in recent weeks. The Austin Powers star insisted this week on Twitter she would not be marrying Warne. She Tweeted: ‘Apparently I’m getting married & moving to Australia. Wow, my fictional tabloid life is exciting! Breathlessly awaiting next instalment…’

Hurley’s legal moves comes just days after she returned from Los Angeles, where she spent the past few weeks filming new TV series Wonder Woman. During her trip Stateside, Hurley has been spotted out and about with Warne – the first time she had seen him since her Valentine’s Day visit to Australia in February. The pair were first linked in July after Hurley was photographed chatting to Warne at the Glorious Goodwood Festival. Over the next few months, they exchanged flirty text messages on Twitter.

After the couple were photographed kissing in a London hotel in mid-December, the former actress decided to go public with her marriage breakdown from Nayar.

She announced she had split from Nayar on her Twitter page, writing: ‘For the record, my husband Arun and I separated a few months ago. Our close family and friends were aware of this.’

Around the same time, Warne confirmed he too was no longer with ex-wife Simone Callahan, having split up two months earlier despite continuing to live together in Melbourne with their children.

He wrote on his website: ‘Sadly and unfortunately, Simone and I split up a while ago, our close friends and family were informed at that time. It is a private matter so we did not make it public. We remain friends and will continue to be good parents.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I doubt Liz is foolish enough to think that she and Shane Warne are going to live happily ever after. First, Liz is not a “happily ever after” kind of woman – she’s a drama queen, and Shane is good for drama. Second, Shane is still screwing anything with two legs and pulse, so it’s not like Liz is coming into this junk with any expectations of Shane’s fidelity. But is Liz just getting her rocks off? I might respect that, in general, if Liz didn’t come across looking so dumb. She’s dumb to get involved with such a notorious, cheesy, man-slut (with highlights). And she’s dumb to try to play the divorce like Arun did something wrong – she was the one outed, having an affair. Ugh. Sleaz-E.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

*Tony and his third wife Lhotse, in 2009.

I was looking to see if we’d ever covered anything to do with Tony Hawk, and I don’t think we have. So our inaugural Tony Hawk-as-a-target-of-salacious-gossip story is here, and it is intense. As you probably know, Tony Hawk is a living legend in the skateboarding community, and he’s also built an incredibly wealthy empire out of skateboarding, and his own celebrity branding. I knew that Hawk had been married a few times, but I thought that his current wife, Lhotse (in these photos), was around for the long haul. I was wrong! According to Page Six, Tony and Lhotse, his THIRD wife, are currently divorcing, and Tony is likely hooking up with the wife of his best friend. SCANDAL. Seriously, that’s rough.

Wealthy skateboarding legend Tony Hawk dumped his third wife, Lhotse Merriam, for his best friend and business partner Matt Goodman’s wife, Cathy, sources told Page Six.

Sources said Merriam found out about her action-sport-star husband’s new relationship in December after she found a plane ticket for Cathy that Hawk had booked for her to join him in San Francisco — despite his being lifelong friends with Matt Goodman.

Hawk filed for divorce in San Diego from Merriam on Feb. 11. They have one child together, Kadence Clover, and Hawk has three sons from two previous marriages.

“We remain deeply committed and loving parents to our daughter, and out of respect for that responsibility we ask that people honor our family’s privacy during this important time of transition,” the couple said in a statement at the time.

Hawk married Merriam, his former publicist, in 2006, two years after divorcing his second wife, Erin, his former nanny.

Cathy was married to Goodman for nearly 20 years, and they have two kids. Sources said Goodman and Cathy have now separated.

Hawk — who’s credited with putting skateboarding on the map and who became a multimillionaire from his Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games — and Cathy were recently spotted in New York together, sources said.

Hawk and Goodman had been friends since childhood. Sources told us Goodman stood as a groomsman at every one of Hawk’s three weddings.

Goodman and Hawk also together founded action-sports movie company 900 Films. Goodman is now working with media company Bandito Brothers.

Merriam had no comment when we called for a response, and neither did Goodman. A rep for Hawk said, “We do not comment on the personal lives of our clients.”

[From Page Six]

This is why there are Guy Codes. Guy Codes dictate that that your jumpoff cannot be your best friend’s wife. That’s just all kinds of wrong. But I will say this – if the Goodmans had been married for 20 years, chances are pretty good that Tony Hawk just fell for some 40-something mother of two… which in my mind is more interesting than Tony falling for the standard-issue, young, blonde, vapid jumpoff. I’m not saying it’s a good situation or anything, I’m just saying that at least the jumpoff isn’t some 22 year old. Silver lining?

Also – married and divorced three times? Tony is 42 years old – it’s time to stop marrying them, you know? Marriage is obviously not his thing.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

When a celebrity’s boyfriend or girlfriend gets a “five things you didn’t know about” or a “get to know” segment in People, you can bet it’s been signed off on or even planted by their publicist. In Ryan Reynold’s case we’ve been hearing plenty about his estranged wife Scarlett Johansson’s strange relationship with king curmudgeon Sean Penn, so it’s time for him to say “see, I’m dating a hot German model!” He is, and his people want us to know that she’s more than just a pretty young thing:

Two months after they announced their split after more than two years of marriage, Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson are both moving on – but with very different types of people.

Johansson has been spending time with Hollywood heavyweight and activist Sean Penn, while Reynolds has been spotted getting cozy with a more low-profile lady, model Agnes Fischer.

Reynolds, 35, and Fischer were recently seen together in South Africa, where he’s filming Safe House. And while Fischer is relatively unknown, the size-six German model has an impressive resumé. Here are 5 things to know about her.

She’s Diverse
The 5’8″ blonde has been in ads for Bebe, Reebok, Sure deodorant and Adidas sportswear. She also graced the cover of Shape magazine in 2007, the U.K.’s Health & Fitness magazine the following year, and has appeared on several covers of South Africa’s Runner’s World magazine.

She’s Outdoorsy
Fischer stays in tip-top shape by participating many sports. “I do running, cycling (race & mountain bike), scuba-diving, climbing, snowboarding, skiing, inline-skating, yoga, aerobics,” she writes on her Web site.

She’s Been Banned by MTV
Reynolds isn’t the first celebrity to brush elbows with Fischer. Last year, the model appeared in 30 Seconds to Mars’s 13-minute bondage-themed music video for “Hurricane,” which was banned by MTV in December for being too explicit. In the video, Fischer stabs, handcuffs and kisses Shannon Leto, brother of the band’s lead singer Jared Leto.

She’s a Small-Town Girl
The beauty often works winters as a model in South Africa – where she was spotted with Reynolds – but Fischer is German, born in the small Bavarian town of Furth im Wald (population only 9,045).

She’s a Pisces
Fischer reportedly turns 25 this week, on Friday, March 11.

[From People]

I was initially confusing this blonde short-haired German model Agnes with that very tall blonde short-haired British model Agyness Deyn. Obviously they’re different Agneseses.

See – Ryan Reynolds has a girlfriend too, he’s not pining for Scarlett. The more he tries to convince us the more it looks like he is. Can you imagine if you went through a public divorce like this and saw photos of your ex on vacation with someone else? Even if you were glad to be rid of them it might sting. You’d want to get a new partner and parade them around too, so I can’t blame Reynolds for this Poor rejected Ryan Reynolds has to console himself in the arms of a hot 25 year-old German model. Do you think he’s going to jump right back into another long term relationship? I do.

This might be the one for Ryan too. She looks a lot like him, doesn’t she? We’re attracted to people who look like us, and there’s even a new website coming out that helps match users with people who share the most facial characteristics.

Some photos credit: PRPhotos and WENN.com

Ashlee Simpson has been linked with a few guys since the news of her seemingly shocking split (to those who care) with Pete Wentz. She’s been rumored to be hooking up with heavy tatted drummer Travis Barker, which would be a dumb move considering Barker’s history of fighting and reuniting with his children’s mother, Shanna Moakler. Ashlee also tweeted a photo of herself out to dinner with the former guitarist for her band, Ray Brady, right before she filed for divorce. (They were there with Ashlee’s friend, stylist Natalie Saidi.) And she’s reportedly been hanging out and partying with some pro skaters. Now Ashlee has been linked with yet another guy, a rocker friend of Pete’s named Craig Owens who is signed to Pete’s record label. They were photographed together and Star Magazine claims that Ashlee somehow seduced this guy, as if guys need seducing usually. Here are two reports on this, from Star and In Touch via Jezebel’s tabloid roundup.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has been seeing Craig Owens from the band D.R.U.G.S., which just released its first album on — DUN DUN DUN — Pete Wentz’s record label. The mag has three pix of Ashlee and Craig hanging out together, and apparently they were seen holding hands at the Beverly Center Mall, and they even kissed on the lips. (There’s a lot of teenage behavior in the tabloids this week.) But Ash & Owen better watch out. A family “friend” says Ashlee’s dad Joe is “looking for a professional athlete for his little girl to date.” – In Touch as told by Jezebel

Ashlee Simpson is having a “revenge romance” with Craig Owens, a longtime friend of Pete Wentz. “She played the part of the temptress, getting Craig to ignore his friendship with Pete,” says a source. “She loves that it worked.” Craig has been Tweeting subtle messages like, “When you wake up to messages from someone special… knowing you’ll look at them over & over throughout the day… Smiling really big each time” and “the faith I have in us will keep you near.” There’s a chance that these are song lyrics, but whatever. “Ashlee’s determined to move on first,” the source says. “She won’t tolerate being seen as ‘the poor ex-wife who got dumped. It’s just not an option.” In Touch as told by Jezebel

[From Star and In Touch via Jezebel]

Star is really phoning it in lately. They have a nice twist on this by claiming that Ashlee somehow tempted the dude, but from most all accounts Ashlee is the one who dumped Pete, not the other way around. She’s not seen as “the poor ex wife who got dumped,” and Pete was supposedly begging her to reconsider. These two were 24 and 29 when they got married. Ashlee is just 26 now and she’s playing the field. She may be dating one of Pete’s friends, but it’s probably just because the guy is convenient and her type, and not necessarily because she wants to hurt her ex. Pete is probably pissed off about it though.

Photo of Ashlee and Pete is from 10/18/10, Credit: PRPhotos. Photo of Ashlee alone is from 11/2/10. Credit: WENN.com. Owen is shown performing (color photo) on 8/23/09. Credit: WENN.com. Other photos are from his Facebook page.