OK! Magazine quotes a handwriting expert who analyzes Brad Pitt’s scrawled message on the bottle of Kiehl’s soap he’s endorsing for an environmental charity. The results are surprisingly controversial, considering that you don’t often hear people jumping to debatable conclusions when it comes to Pitt and the mother of his children. The “handwriting expert” calls Brad “this writer,” but considering the content of the message she was reviewing you can be sure she knew who she was referring to. She says that Pitt is someone who feels things deeply, but keeps his emotions hidden, and that he needs to have his space and spend time alone.

Writing expert Wendy Carlson analyzed Brad’s longhand note and signature from the bottle of the Kiehl’s “Aloe Vera” biodegradable liquid body cleanser he helped create. All the profits will be donated to 44 year-old Brad’s own environmental charity JPF Ecosystems. “This writer is a person of emotional reserve, not showing his feelings easily,” Denver-based Carlson says, “although his feelings may run deep.”

This father of six might also want to rethink expanding his family. “This writer enjoys spending time alone, enjoys his privacy, and probably prefers working alone,” Carlson says. “He needs his space!”

[From OK! Magazine, print edition, September 8, 2008]

Handwriting analysis is inexact to say the least. There is no certification required to become a handwriting expert, and there are only four colleges in the world which provide graphology degrees and they’re located in Italy, Spain, and Argentina. It’s inadmissable in court, and handwriting evidence is only allowed when it’s forensic, which is when someone testifies if signatures or writing are roughly similar to other writing by a suspect. It is not admissible in court as a way to interpret the mental state or personality of a writer. [Details from Wikipedia]

So take this for what it is - creative interpretation of someone’s handwriting that may or may not be true. Maybe horoscopes are more accurate. Here’s Brad Pitt’s birth analysis. He’s a Sagittarius and is said to value personal integrity, freedom and faith. Maybe his handwriting analysis isn’t that far off. I usually don’t put too much faith in horoscopes, but a relative sent me an extended horoscope analysis for my son when he was born and so far a lot of it has proven to be close to the personality he’s grown into.

Those blabbermouths at Petit Tresor are getting press again by revealing maybe-fake celebrity purchases at their overpriced baby boutique. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes sent the LA store a cease and desist in May for telling Life & Style that they’d blown over $350k on baby goods for Suri. The Holmes-Cruise’s lawyers said it just wasn’t true and that it violated their confidentiality to even reveal they’d shopped there. The letter read in part “We also understand that you have informed other tabloids that our clients have purchased various items at your stores that they have not in fact purchased, and that they have shopped there at times that they have not.”

So take this latest news as either true and questionable on Jamie Lynn’s part or rather desperate on Petit Tresor’s part. Supposedly Jamie Lynn Spears, herself a famous young mother at 17, sent her latest teen pregnant tabloid replacement, Bristol Palin, also 17, pink burp cloths from the boutique. Does Jamie Lynn know that Bristol is having a girl? It seems more prudent to send blue stuff if the baby’s sex is unknown since Bristol has a little five month-old brother. Bristol is five months pregnant and due in December, so she could know the sex of the baby already. If this story is true, and that’s a giant IF in bright yellow sans serif, then maybe Jamie Lynn knows something the rest of the world doesn’t:

If there’s one person who gets a pregnant teen, it’s Jamie Lynn Spears.

Britney Spears’ little sis is reaching out to Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, John McCain’s vice presidential pick.

A source close to the Beverly Hills baby store Petit Tresor tells CelebTV.com exclusively that a gift from Plain Mary was sent to Bristol Palin on behalf of Jamie Lynn Spears.

An insider says it was actually Lynne Spears, Jamie Lynn’s mom, who called about the gift, and requested the gift come from her daughter.

“It was ordered by phone, and they asked what could be done for under $100. They spent $60 on pink burpcloths,” said the source.

[From CelebTV.com via WeSmirch]

Burpcloths should not cost $60. I was kind of flabbergasted at that price, but then I looked up burpcloths on Target.com and see that even at Target a nice set can run up to 1/2 that cost, which sounds about right if you’re looking at the cost of regular vs. designer goods.

How would Jamie Lynn Spears know Bristol Palin anyway? Could she maybe feel sorry for her because she knows what it’s like to be in the spotlight as a pregnant teen? Surely some pink burpcloths aren’t the way to express that kind of remote solidarity. She might not even be able to use them for all we know.

Update: According to Jamie Lynn’s rep, this story is not true at all. That was lame, Petit Tresor, although you did get a lot of press out of it.

Much ado is being made out of Halle Berry’s engagement or wedding-looking ring that she was spotted wearing yesterday when she was out to lunch in LA with friends. It’s the same ring she was seen wearing in mid-May, though, and she denied at the time that it was an engagement ring. There were stories that her gorgeous model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, 31, had proposed and that the ring was in his family for generations. Her rep said it was a new ring from a modern designer and she bought it for herself.

If Halle, 42, is engaged and/or already married we may not hear the real story for a while. She’s had little Nahla five months ago and the only glimpse we’ve had of the baby are faraway photos taken when she was in her backyard, which she threatened to sue over.

All that said, Halle looks great and at least ten years younger. I wonder what Tim Gunn would say about her style, though, because it looks pretty comfortable, casual, and simple - kind of like something Jennifer Aniston would wear.

Photo credit: Fame

Jessica Biel on 8/16/08 not looking pregnant at all. This article is in reference to a video on TMZ. Photo credit: WENN
TMZ has video of Jessica Biel, 26, walking across a parking lot, and she looks pretty pregnant. It’s possible her dress was just blowing out, though. In photos taken on 8/11/08 and 8/16/08 she has a perfectly flat stomach.

Biel is said to be fighting with her boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s mom. Justin’s mom is rumored to be trying to convince the 27 year-old singer not to propose to Jessica with the justification that he’s too young to get married. If that’s the case she might be livid if Jessica got pregnant at this point - or elated at the prospect of having a grandchild. It’s hard to tell with those controlling moms because sometimes grandma mode sets in and all is forgiven. It seems a little premature to say that Biel is pregnant judging from other recent photos, and it just looks like she was wearing a loose dress in that video. Maybe celebrity women of childbearing age should wear only tight clothes and belly-baring outfits to ensure that we don’t speculate about the state of their womb on slow news days.

All that said, I would like to see these two have a baby. They keep a pretty low profile and aren’t likely to do a whole magazine spread if they have have a kid - or two, but I can see Timberlake becoming a pretty devoted dad.

Photo credit: Fame and WENN

Pitt and Aniston at the Independent Spirit Awards on 3/22/03. Credit: Glenn Harris / PR Photos
Both Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have films out that premiere at the Toronto Film Festival later this month, and US is breathlessly reporting that the ex husband and wife might run into each other - gasp! Aniston , Pitt and his girlfriend Angelina Jolie were sort-of supposed to meet at a charity dinner they were all listed as co-hosting during the Oscars in February. Aniston went to the event for an hour, but Pitt and Jolie were no-shows, which wasn’t surprising as there were 10 other hosts listed and not all of them came to the event. Brad and Angelina went to the Independent Spirit Awards instead, where Angelina first showed off her pregnant belly in a tight black dress.

Now exes Brad and Jennifer, who split up in January, 2005 after four and a half years of marriage, might see each other again at this film festival. I’m sure they’ll be cordial to each other if they end up even speaking. Maybe someone behind the scenes will work to ensure they don’t cross paths though:

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston could reunite at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, when the exes are debuting their new flicks just two days apart.

Pitt, 44, is among the stars who will walk the red carpet gala at the festival for the North American premiere of his Coen Brothers’ flick Burn After Reading on Sept. 5. (Pitt is also expected to attend the Venice Film Festival, where his film screens on August 27.)

Meanwhile, Aniston, 39, is scheduled to attend the Toronto fest to promote her romantic comedy Management — about a traveling art saleswoman fighting off the advances of a flaky motel manager — which is premiering Sept. 7.

[From US Weekly]

I would bet this meeting never happens and Brad blows in and out of there before Jennifer’s film premieres. He does have six kids at home now and probably can’t be away for several days at a time.

It also seems like they’ve both moved on despite the tabloid’s unwillingness to let go. Last week a columnist at the Chicago Sun Times reported that an insider claimed Jennifer “still is hurting from losing Brad [Pitt] to Angelina [Jolie] — even after all this time.” How true do you think that is, though? Maybe she thinks about it once in a while, but surely it doesn’t consume her like it still seems to dominate the press. Three years isn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, but it’s enough time to carve a new life for yourself, which Aniston has surely done - even if she hasn’t found a lasting love. She’s living single, and it looks like she’s living damn well. A lot of happily attached women would love a taste of that healthy carefree life. They’ll just have to settle for slugging some of that Vitamin water she endorses.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are shown below at a screening for “The Good Girl” on 8/7/02. I’m pretty sure that beard was for a film.

TMZ says that they have a source that says that 19 year-old Casey Aldridge didn’t cheat on his fiance Jamie Lynn Spears with that 28 year-old woman who is featured tongue kissing him on the cover of the latest In Touch. The photo was supposedly taken before he was with Jamie Lynn. The woman’s claim that she was with Casey as recently as March when Jamie Lynn was six months pregnant is also said to be false. Casey’s accuser is supposedly doing it for the money and infamy that come along with the tabloid coverage:

Casey Aldridge is hotter than fish grease.

Our sources connected with Casey and Co. say he’s ballistic at reports that he had an affair while Jamie Lynn was six months pregnant.

As for the picture of Casey with Kelli Dawson (the Sienna Miller of the South), he claims it was taken before he even hooked up with J.L.

Casey has called the Spears clan to vent and they believe his story.

And Casey has a point … where he lives, there are just a bunch of one horse towns, so everybody knows everyone else’s business.

Casey says it’s all about Southern Sienna trying to make a buck.

[From TMZ]

You can see this random older chick claiming to have a thing with Casey just to get some notoriety and cash from a tabloid. On the other hand, people are willing to believe Casey was cheating on Jamie Lynn because he’s just 19 years old and no one expects him to settle down at this age. There have been rumors that he’s been fooling around on her for some time. Whether they’re true or not we may never know, but when this woman came out of the woodwork everyone believed the worst. The story was “confirmed” by Britney’s first 55 hour husband, Jason Alexander, who also needs some cash and whatever publicity he can still squeeze out of his brush with Britney.

OK! reports that Jamie Lynn and Casey are planning a fall wedding to take place in the backyard of their new home in Liberty, Mississippi. OK! said the same thing about a fall backyard wedding for Jennifer Aniston, so it’s possible that story is false. Jamie Lynn seems to have be taking her role as a new mom seriously. She’ll be responsible for that little girl for quite a while, she doesn’t need to get tied down into a marriage at the age of 17. Many people think that Casey, 19, and Jamie Lynn, 17, shouldn’t get married at their age even though they have a two month-old baby. They’re not though to be mature enough and they haven’t had enough life experiences. Other young couples have made it work though and stuck together through the hard times.

If this “Casey cheating” story is fake, hopefully that older woman trying to get some mileage out of her past relationship with Casey will be exposed as a fake. Unfortunately once these stories are out the accused gets branded a cheater and has to live with the rumors, which get much more coverage and attention than the corrections to the story.

Header photo credit: In Touch Weekly. Photo below of Jamie Lynn and Casey is from 4/4/08 and was taken on her 17th birthday. Credit: Fame Pictures

Disclaimer: As with all recent Jennifer/John stories, take this with a huge grain of salt.

Jennifer Aniston is reportedly crazy in love with musician John Mayer, but he has one habit she could definitely live without.

Before she hit it big on Friends, Jennifer’s first movie was Leprechaun, a cult horror classic starring Warwick Davis as the vengeful wee title character.

According to Star, it’s a role Jennifer would rather forget, but John won’t let her — he plays the movie over and over.

“It really irritates her,” says a source. “It’s like nails on a chalkboard.” But Jen doesn’t say anything because she can tell it amuses him, says the source. Still, “Jennifer doesn’t understand his fascination with it. She says it’s weird.”

[From Star, print edition, August 18, 2008]

Jen’s right. It is weird. The source doesn’t specify what exactly amuses John — the film itself, the fact that Jennifer is in it, or that it annoys her when he watches it.

Maybe John is longing for a younger version of soon-to-be-40 Jennifer. Maybe he’s doing it because he knows it bugs her.

Or, since Jennifer still has her old nose in the film, maybe John just doesn’t realize it’s her.

Note by Celebitchy: May I add that you can have that salt you’re taking this story with on top of a cold margarita glass? This is a joke and is most likely completely made up. Props to the people at Star for coming up with it, though, and it does give us the excuse to post a lot of pictures of Aniston from the 1993 film.

Hugh Jackman is buff and hot and witty, and, according to Mike Walker in the National Enquirer, acted like a real-life superhero while promoting his superhero alter-ego Wolverine at Comic-Con in San Diego recently.

Enquirer reports that Hugh saw two female fans in the parking lot dressed as X-Men characters Magma and Storm. To his surprise, the woman playing Magma then set her arm on fire. The stunt went awry because “Storm” wasn’t able to douse the flames fast enough, and “Magma’s” hair caught on fire.

Moving like a real superhero, Jackman swiftly yanked her costume’s cape over her head, smothering the flames as he yelled for security.

[From National Enquirer, print edition, August 18, 2008]

Medics treated the woman, who luckily only received superficial scalp and head wounds.

Unless I see video or phone-cam pictures or at least a fan’s blog report on this, it sounds like fiction, but it’s still better than the plot of X-Men 3.

Not that I doubt Hugh could pull this off. Anyone capable of believably portraying both Wolverine and Peter Allen can certainly put out a flaming fan-girl in his down time.

Hugh Jackman’s next film role is in Australia, opposite new mom Nicole Kidman. X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens May 1, 2009.

Note by Celebitchy: Since this is alleged to have taken place at Comic-con, which I would venture to guess is filled with tech-savvy people who would be eager to spread the news of such a fantastic story, I doubt it’s true. Mike Walker’s column in the Enquirer is the only place I’ve seen this news at all and google searches turn up nothing. Here’s a video of Jackman on stage at Comic-con and when they pan to the audience about every third person is taping with a video recorder or their cell phone. This is alleged to have taken place in the parking lot, but wouldn’t we have heard of it already?

Either way, Jackman is a hero to me. Watching that video of him speaking to the audience at Comic-con, he is super grateful to his fans. Plus he has that cute accent.

Hugh Jackman is shown filming Australia on 8/11/08. Credit: ICON/Fame Pictures

OK! Magazine claims to have an exclusive story with all the details of Jennifer Aniston’s planned backyard wedding to John Mayer. They claim it will be the “WEDDING of the YEAR” in that bright yellow font the tabloids love to use. Judging from the quotes that are included in the teaser article posted on OK!’s site, it’s probably one of those stories that is entirely based on “insiders” and “sources,” and it sounds like it will sell a lot of copies even if it strikes me as completely fabricated at first glance:

In the coming months, Jennifer Aniston will be celebrating two major milestones in her life: turning 40, and marrying the new love of her life, John Mayer.

“She’s at an age where she is thinking with her head not just her heart,” a source close to the actress tells OK!, adding that the event will take place this fall. “No way would she still be with anyone if marriage wasn’t a real option.”

When Jen married Brad Pitt eight years ago, they spent $1 million on the ceremony, which featured a gospel choir, four bands, fireworks and an estimated 50,000 flowers!

But this time around, Jen wants something entirely different. “She doesn’t want anything elaborate or showy,” one friend tells OK!.

With best friend Courteney Cox as her matron of honor and godchild Coco Arquette as her flower girl, Jen will have all the attendants she needs or wants.

With both of them sharing the same laid-back and down-to-earth lifestyle, friends say Jen and John, 30, are made for each other.

“They are just a perfect match,” says a friend. “And everything about that will come through in this beautiful wedding.”

[From OK! Magazine]

You know those inspirational e-mail chain letters that Snopes calls glurge? They usually focus on stories of questionable origin like a terminally sick child getting his hospital bills paid by someone he once talked to in a restaurant. That’s what OK! Magazine is like at times. They’re one of the nicer celebrity glossies, and they never give us grief about using their exclusive photos, but it’s part sickly sweet fiction with enough details added in that you might be inclined to believe it if you don’t dig any deeper.

The bulleted details that OK! includes on the cover to add legitimacy to this article are:

• Intimate Beverly Hills I Do’s?

• Strapless Vera Wang Dress
• Matron of Honor Courteney Cox
• Orchids, Oysters and Champagne
• Honeymoon in Greece!

Ten to one these are just suggestions for Jen and John on their special day and the rest of the article is filled with quotes from a source, but we’ll have to see. I know I’ll be buying this issue to find out what all the fuss is about, and so will countless other people. OK! couldn’t afford the photos of Knox and Vivienne, but they can help us imagine what Aniston’s dream backyard wedding would be like. If she were actually engaged and planning to marry that guy she’s been with for about four and a half months.

Update: Aniston’s annoyed rep calls this story, along with another one that ran in Star about how Aniston wants Mayer’s surly baby “complete fabrications”

But her rep tells Usmagazine.com: “She is not getting married.”

See what a body language expert had to say about Jen Aniston and John Mayer.

Meanwhile, Star claims in its latest issue that she is going to have Mayer’s baby “as Brad and Angie’s twins wow the world.”

Says Aniston’s rep: “Both headlines are complete fabrications.”

[From US Magazine]

He forgot to add - “but if she was getting married again, it would be just like OK! describes, and she’s always wanted a honeymoon in Greece. That sounds so dreamy.”

Star Magazine has a new cover story that Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband of 11 years, Matthew Broderick, 46, had a now-over affair earlier in the year with a 25 year-old “youth counselor” he met in a bar. Star has plenty of details and supposedly has “sources” to support their tale, but they have been busted making up supporting information for completely bogus stories in the past and this isn’t necessarily accurate or even based on any eyewitness accounts. It’s worrying, though, and you wonder if there’s any truth to it:

In the new issue of Star — on newsstands now — we report that while the beloved actress was frantically searching for hubby Matthew Broderick one night earlier this year, he was having sex in the city with a gorgeous redhead half his age, the young woman told a friend.

After meeting in a bar, Matthew began text messaging the 25-year-old youth counselor, says the woman’s pal. Soon after, the insider claims, they began seeing each other and things got passionate quickly when they met at the Manhattan townhouse of a showbiz friend.

Sources say the woman felt conflicted with her relationship with Matthew, whom she nicknamed “Matty Cakes.” She tried to end it, say insiders, but that didn’t happen and over the next month — when Sarah Jessica was filming Sex and the City: The Movie in Los Angeles — multiple eyewitnesses say they saw Matthew make late-night visits to the other woman’s apartment building.

During one tryst, they arrived at her friend’s apartment after a night of heavy drinking, says a source. She dragged Matthew into the friend’s bedroom, then shut the door. “A half hour later, Matthew opened the bedroom door, mumbled ‘Well… ‘bye!’ and walked out. The friend found her passed out on the bed in her panties.”

[From Star Magazine’s website]

There are rumors that Broderick plays for the other team, but those seem to be based on the fact that he does a lot of theater work and has gay friends as a result. Parker and Broderick have been married for over ten years and those rumors have little merit.

Maybe some fan girl made up a story and told Star she has a friend who had a fling with Broderick. Remember that crazy story that a French prostitute told X17 about how she had an affair with Eva Longoria’s husband Tony Parker? That wasn’t true at all and the woman even tricked a “Germany’s Next Top Model” contestant into reading from a script and recording videos claiming she had an affair with Tony.

This is Star, though, so there might not even be a woman who claims to have a friend who had an affair with Broderick, or she might work in their mail office and happened to have agreed to the story after a few cocktails. MSat reminded me today that a photo Star ran on their “ANGIE COLLAPSES!” cover was just Brad helping pregnant Angelina up after she was sitting on the beach.

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are shown at the Sex and The City premiere on 5/27/08. Credit: Michael Carpenter / WENN