This just in: a couple you probably completely forgot about is over! Did you remember that Emmy Rossum and Adam Duritz were dating? I had forgotten. Apparently, they went out for a year, and now they’re over. Actually, they’ve been over for two months already, which is probably why I didn’t even remember that they were going out. Well… at least Emmy didn’t gush about him over and over publicly, you know? Just a step up from Jennifer Love Hewitt, I guess. Nevermind, I just found an interview where she gushed about him… sigh. Do you want to know the age difference? She’s 24, and he’s 46. YIKES.

Emmy Rossum has heard it before: “People say that, ‘Where have you been?’ It’s so weird to me.”

Rossum, 24, tells USA TODAY’s Olivia Barker that she’s been waiting for the right role — and finally found it with her gritty new Showtime series, Shameless, which premieres Jan. 9. She plays Fiona, the oldest of six children of a narcissistic, alcoholic single parent (William H. Macy).

“Hollywood doesn’t provide you with tons of opportunities if you’re a woman,” she says. “I don’t want to go run around in my underwear and be chased by a guy with a knife. When you’re 22 and 23, there’s not much that’s not either, like, silly teen comedies or horror movies.”

Instead, she’s chosen “to work on material that inspires me — where I feel like I can add something to world, even if just little bit.” Getting cast on Shameless, “this is happiest I’ve ever been in my whole life.”

Rossum, who divorced her music producer husband Justin Siegel last year, also reveals that she’s single again: She and Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz split two months ago. Nonetheless, “we’re still very close friends,” she says.

[From USA Today]

Sure, there’s totally some of the Jessica Biel/Alba stuff in there – is it that Hollywood is such a difficult place for women in general, or is Hollywood difficult specifically for a less than amazing actress? Put it another way: if you don’t really have the acting skills and you don’t really have the “let me writhe around in my panties like a budget Megan Fox”-ness, you’re not going very far. Plus, there’s no shame in doing television.

Speaking of, they keep showing ads for Shameless before Dexter, so I’m not unfamiliar with Emmy’s latest role. She’s basically playing some kind of trashy, promiscuous, grifter daughter in a family of grifters and ne’er-do-wells, headed up by family patriarch William H. Macy. I was honestly surprised to see her in the ads – I had a moment of “one of these things is not like the other.” Here’s the trailer:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Actress Emmy Rossum (Phantom of The Opera, Poseidon), 23, is dating scruffy Counting Crowes frontman Adam Duritz, 45. While Emmy has happily posed together with Adam at several events she won’t actually confirm that she’s dating him. Emmy gave some nice quotes to People about Adam, but basically said she doesn’t talk about her “love life” to the press. Smart woman. Emmy made headlines a couple of months ago with the news that she was getting a divorce from a guy that no one knew she was married to. Her estranged husband, a music executive, was much closer to her in age at 27. So what does Emmy see in Adam? According to Emmy he’s a great guy.

Emmy Rossum “really can’t say” whether Adam Duritz is officially her boyfriend, but she will happily dish on why women love him.

“I get why chicks dig him,” Rossum tells PEOPLE at the grand launch of the W Hotel in Washington, D.C. “He’s extremely kind, incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, creative and respectful.”

Rossum, 23, who filed for divorce from her husband last month, has been seen recently on multiple dates with Duritz, 45, who has previously dated Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox Arquette.

“I don’t discuss my love life because it’s always misinterpreted or put under the microscope,” she says. “It’s especially annoying when you’re dating someone else who’s well-known, which is why I normally would never go out with a famous guy.”

Has the actress, who just attended the American Ballet Theater Fall gala in New York with Duritz, broken her own rule?

“Let’s put it this way,” she says. “I’d be flattered if someone hit on me tonight, but I really can’t say if I’m available or not.”

After partying in Washington, Rossum will head to the Hamptons International Film Festival to promote Dare, a independent movie she describes as “an edgy art house film exploring the sexuality, awkwardness and loneliness of teenagers – because life really is awkward and funny, isn’t it?”

“I used to be an artsy, quiet, kind of chubby kid – which no one believes,” she says, “but now I’m really comfortable with my body and my sexuality. I can be naked with the lights on.”

[From People]

I was enjoying that little article up until the part where she talked about getting naked with the lights on. I get that the quote is about her new movie, but now all I can picture is her with Duritz – with the lights on. The Huffington Post had a cute slideshow featuring Duritz’s ex girlfriends a couple of weeks ago. He’s had relationships with Courteney Cox, actress Monica Potter, Mary-Louise Parker, TV actress Joanna Going, Jennifer Aniston, Winona Ryder, and Samantha Mathis. They write “Duritz’s latest catch is no fluke for the 45-year-old Counting Crows frontman who has bedded some of the hottest women in Hollywood, all while resembling a pineapple.” That’s a little harsh, but I do see the pineapple resemblance. He’s a respectful, thoughtful pineapple at least.

Header and thumbnail gallery of photos are of Emmy and Adam out in NY on 9/12/09. Credit Pop/WENN.com. Other photos credits are viewable on mouse-over.

What’s your first thought at the mention of Emmy Rossum? Mine is “Budget Anne Hathaway”. My second thought is “Lainey hates her.” I’m not sure why Lainey hates her – Emmy seems pretty harmless. She’s not a particularly good actress, but she’s not the devil or anything. Basically, I just think that people barely care about her. I know I get a little sleepy when her name is mentioned. Yawn… where was I?

Anyhoodle, it seems that Emmy announced that she and Justin Siegel had split a few weeks ago. This was barely news, and if I wasn’t staring at this report, I wouldn’t know anything about this guy. Apparently, he’s 27 years old, he’s in the music industry, and they were dating since 2007. I just googled him, and I’ve noticed two things – first, his only claim to fame thus far is “dating Emmy Rossum”. His second claim to fame might be that he looks kind of like a Budget Raffaello Follieri, that con man who duped all of those people when he was dating Anne Hathaway. This just reinforces the whole idea that Rossum is a Budget Hathaway. But I digress. It seems there’s a twist to this breakup story! According to Perez Hilton (via the NY Daily News), it seems like Emmy and Justin might have gotten secretly married at some point. The NYDN even sources a report from E! that claims that Emmy and Justin got a marriage license at one point.

Emmy Rossum is calling it quits with her husband, but who knew she was married anyway?

According to PerezHilton.com, the 22-year-old “Phantom of the Opera” beauty is parting ways with longtime love, Justin Siegel, 27, the man she married in secret two years ago.

Though the couple made no mystery of their relationship, a source said they kept their marriage under wraps.

“Emmy and Justin decided to keep that part of their relationship a secret and out of the media spotlight,” the source said. “They wanted to keep it private in order to prevent their marriage from coming under scrutiny.”

The couple even went so far as to pay to keep all records of their nuptials confidential.
Nonetheless, a source from the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder’s Office confirmed to EOnline.com that a marriage license was issued to the couple, though the date was not released.

The low-profile starlet and her music biz hubby went public as a couple in 2007.

[From the New York Daily News]

So is this report true? Did Rossum hide her marriage? Is so, for what reason? It’s not like Rossum is Janet Jackson or something. People barely care about her. It’s not as if she has people beating down her door wanting personal information. Even though it doesn’t really make any sense, that’s kind of why I think it’s true. Emmy does seem like the kind of person who would take her “celebrity” so seriously that she “hide” her marriage, for fear that the ambivalent hordes would clamor for information.

Here’s Emmy Rossum and Justin Siegel heading to Jay-Z’s post-Grammy party at Katsuya in February. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.

Phantom of the Opera star Emmy Rossum spent some of her summer in the Bahamas kissing dolphins and blogging about it.

The actress, 22, blogged about the experience at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas on her MySpace page. “The dolphin’s skin is so smooth and soft,” Rossum writes. “They are the sweetest, most intelligent creatures. It was an awesome, albeit a little man-made, experience.”

People.com

It would be fun to swim with dolphins, even in a “man-made” situation…

Ok, I’ll be honest, that’s not really why I’m telling you this.  Emmy Rossum isn’t why I’m telling you this, either.  It’s really just an excuse to show you this amazing dolphin clip a friend emailed to me yesterday.  The Rossum story just served as a celebrity segue.

If you haven’t seen it, take a minute and enjoy!

The video is of dolphins playing with silver colored rings which they have the ability to make under water to play with. It isn’t known how they learn this, or if it’s an inbred ability.As if by magic the dolphin does a quick flip of its head and a silver ring appears in front of its pointed beak. The ring is a solid, donut shaped bubble about 2-ft across, yet it doesn’t rise to the surface of the water! It stands upright in the water like a magic doorway to an unseen dimension. The dolphin then pulls a small silver donut from the larger one. Looking at the twisting ring for one last time a bite is taken from it, causing the small ring to collapse into a thousands of tiny bubbles which head upward towards the water’s surface. After a few moments the dolphin creates another ring to play with. There also seems to be a separate mechanism for producing small rings, which a dolphin can accomplish by a quick flip of its head. An explanation of how dolphins make these silver rings is that they are ‘air-core vortex rings’. Invisible, spinning vortices in the water are generated from the tip of a dolphin’s dorsal fin when it is moving rapidly and turning.. When dolphins break the line, the ends are drawn together into a closed ring. The higher velocity fluid around the core of the vortex is at a lower pressure than the fluid circulating farther away. Air is injected into the rings via bubbles released from the dolphin’s blowhole. The energy of the water vortex is enough to keep the bubbles from rising for a reasonably few seconds of play time.

[From E-mailed description posted on YouTube by user lacrosselover647]

Update by Celebitchy: This is really amazing and according to Snopes it’s not an isolated incident where these particular dolphins learned how to make bubbles, it’s common across many dolphin populations, both in captivity and in the wild, and has been documented by scientists for years.

Photo from Emmy Rossum’s myspace

Have you noticed that there are much fewer stories about Lindsay Lohan lately? A story in People made it abundantly clear that she’s completely fallen off the wagon. While the gossip magazines and sites covered it, it was barely a blip on our radar. She’s living with a woman and we covered a story that she yelled at Ashley Oslen for trying to talk to her girlfriend, saying “Get your 15-year-old Full House ass away from my girlfriend,” but it only got 7 comments. It’s not like anyone really cares about her at this point. Good for her for staying in a relatively long term relationship even if she’s insanely jealous and drinking again.

The stars of faux reality show “The Hills” get more press coverage than Lohan, and that’s really saying something. Over the weekend there was a story that she drink Shirley Temples and seemed to abstain from alcohol while at a gig her girlfriend, DJ Samantha Ronson, played in Las Vegas on Friday, but with Lohan you never can tell if she’s sneaking vodka into her drinks. Nor does anyone particularly seem to care.

Here she is at the Launch of the Scarlet HD TV Series yesterday, looking rough and awkward in that dress. Also shown are Heidi Montag and Spencer Prat, Emmy Rossum, Kristin Cavallari, Lauren Conrad, Tila Tequila, Vanessa Marcil, Bai Ling, and Travis Barker. Thanks to PRPhotos.