Star is reporting that Angelina’s mom Marcheline Bertrand’s dying wish was for Angelina to marry Brad. How they would know what went on in the private conversations between Angelina and her mom in the hospital is up to question:

Star can reveal exclusively that before succumbing to her illness, Marcheline, who was 56, shared tender last moments with each of them. “Marcheline was heavily medicated, but she was conscious for a lot of the time,” says the source. “Marcheline asked Brad to take care of Angelina and the kids [their adopted children Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 2, and their biological daughter Shiloh, 8 months],” says the source. And she made a similar, equally impassioned plea to her headstrong daughter.

“She spent the most time with Angelina — she told Angelina that her dying wish was for her to marry Brad,” says the source. “Even during her darkest days over the past months, Marcheline [had urged] Angelina to marry him. Marcheline adored Brad and believed he was an angel sent into their lives to take care of Angie.” So now, adds the source, despite Angelina publicly vowing in the past that she and Brad would not marry, “there is no way Angelina’s going to let her mom down.”

I guess the source could have been a nurse or something, but it sounds more likely that Star made it up. US Weekly ran a quote from Angelina’s mom before Shiloh was born saying , “I love Brad. He is wonderful. I am very, very happy and very excited for them,” so it doesn’t sound like that much of a stretch to say she told them she loved them on her deathbed and asked them to get married.

Brad Pitt was seen pleading with the paparazzi outside his Hollywood mansion to leave his family alone in their time of grief. It predictably was ineffective. He must have tried to switch strategies after being understandably a little grumpy with photographers a couple of days ago.

And this time its not bitter resentful sex with Jude Law, but hot on-screen sex with Baby Darth Vader

Tongues are wagging, knickers are twisting and rumors are flying that Sienna Miller’s sex scenes with Hayden Christensen in her new movie … are … drum roll …the real thing.

The hot and steamy sex scenes between actress Sienna Miller and actor Hayden Christensen in their new film Factory Girl are getting all kinds of press and not just because they’re so intense, but because an alleged insider says that the intensity comes from the fact that the sex wasn’t simulated. A source told The New York Daily News, “It’s not simulated. They’re really doing it.”

[via Actress Archives]

Sienna is playing Andy Warhol’s tragic muse, Edie Sedgewick and HayC plays a thinly veiled Bob Dylan. The film Director’s quite evilly dropped a non-comment guaranteed to boost box office:

On Monday, at the premiere, director George Hickenlooper was asked about the controversy about if the sex was real and he said “I can’t comment. You’ll have to ask Sienna about it.”

Unless she’s in on the joke/PR strategy – I suspect Sienna is gonna cut Hicken a brand new looper …

A burnt Sienna hasn’t turned out to be exactly an angel of vengeance in the past – she certainly let Jude Law hang around long past his sell by date. It’s still what she’s most famous for … no great achievement … it’s a rather sad, footnote flavored way to live.

Hanging with Puff Diddly over the weekend might have been an attempt to amp up her weak Street cred – sadly no shots were fired although apparently many were drunk.

Still Factory Girl is the first film Sienna’s carrying as a lead – definitely a make or break moment in a film career and coulda, woulda, shoulda questions will only drum up extra excited coverage. Of course a tad more coverage of the extra excited during the actual shoot — and it alll could have been avoided.

I realize this story keeps getting recycled and sounds old, but there’s a story in the National Enquirer this week that Jennifer Aniston plans on adopting up to two babies.

I beileve the Aniston adoption story originated from what’s safe to assume was a complete bullshit story in Britain’s Grazia magazine about two weeks ago which claimed that a friend and a relative of Aniston’s said she’s planning to adopt and is using an LA adoption agency.

The article said that she was encouraged by Oprah (somehow all these fake stories involve allmighty Oprah) to take in an African baby, but that she was set on an American baby and even wanted two of them for double the fun.

Here’s the Enquirer’s take on Aniston’s adoption, and it sounds so similar to that Grazia story that I would say that’s the source and doubt that The Enquirer has any insider information:

The 37-year-old star decided she’s running out of time, and has spent the past several weeks consulting adoption experts – and looking for a newborn American baby girl, The Enquirer has learned.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, February 5, 2007]

Grazia:

Grazia can exclusively reveal the 37-year-old has spent the last five weeks instructing different lawyers to make approaches to adoption agencies on her behalf. Two sources close to the star – one a friend, the other a relative – told Grazia that Jennifer hopes to find a newborn baby through a private agency in Los Angeles.

[From Grazia print edition, date unknown. Online posting date of January 22, 2007]

Both articles also say that Aniston is using a private agency which would make it possible for her to adopt directly from a mother, and repeat the Oprah advice story. Aniston is said to want a daughter first and then a son soon after if possible.

The reason I’m repeating this is that Aniston was said to have bought a bunch of baby stuff from that popular LA kids’ boutique Petit Tresor. It could have been for a friend’s shower, and since she got stuff like a baby basket, diaper bag, and blanket, it sounds like a gift, not something you would use to outfit your house for a baby.

I don’t think she’s pregnant or planning to adopt. One thing she does seem fond of lately is plastic surgery, because she is said to have had her “deviated septum” fixed and her boobs do look slightly bigger.

This sounds like fake news, but it’s a cute story so I’ll repeat it. An old woman at The Golden Globes spotted Angelina Jolie’s tattoo on her left shoulder and tried to wipe it off, thinking it was newspaper ink:

At the Golden Globes, Angelina Jolie cracked up when an elderly lady spotted the Cambodian tattoo she sports on her shoulder and offered to help her wipe off the “newspaper ink.” The well-meaning woman whispered: “That newspaper ink gets all over the place – especially if you’re wearing moisturizer. You must have leaned up against it. See? The letters are all backwards.” Jolie explained that it wasn’t ink, but a permanent tatoo – a magical incantation writter in Khmer, the language of the land where adopted son Maddox was born. “My mistake,” said the woman. “I’d love to get one just like it.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker's column, February 5, 2007]

They must be referring to Angelina’s tatoo on her back left shoulder blade, not the one on her left shoulder. The one on her back is a magical Khmer incantation which is said to read:

May your enemies run far away from you.
If you acquire riches, may they remain yours always.
Your beauty will be that of Apsara. (a celestial dancer from Khmer mythology)
Wherever you may go, many will attend, serve and protect you, surrounding you on all sides.

The tattoo on Angelina’s left shoulder is a recent one and contains the coordinates of Zahara and Maddox’s birthplaces. It’s in the place where a tattoo with the name of her ex, “Billy Bob” used to be, and appears above a black dragon, which looks like its in the process of being lasered off.

The woman has a shitload of tattoos. I mean I have a couple from college that I’m not too ashamed of, but it was a phase I went through and wear on my body forever. I had a friend who was addicted to tattoos, though, and had them all over her legs, back and shoulders. The process was just too painful for me to go through it more than twice.

This story is cute, but it doesn’t seem likely to be true. If the old woman spotted Angelina’s back shoulder blade tattoo she must not have seen the other one on her shoulder if she mistook it for newspaper ink.

Not content to just show up everywhere while Mayer is on tour in Florida, Jessica Simpson and John Mayer are set to walk the red carpet of the Grammys together on February 11:

How can Jessica Simpson, 26, and John Mayer, 29, possibly top their recent and very public, week-long lovefest in Florida (where John was touring)? Easy, says a source: She’ll accompany Mayer to the Grammy Awards. The event will take place on February 11 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

“For once in John’s life, he’s going public with his love life because he thinks Jess is it!” says a source.

Jessica was seen rocking out at a John Mayer concert at the University of Miami on Friday. She hung out with Billy Joel and his wife (who is younger than Jessica at just 25), danced around and took pictures of herself and the crowd.

I’m so still not buying this. Let’s put it bluntly: Jess is kind of a dumb ass, while Mayer is a psuedo-intellectual gadget-loving music geek. These two can’t have much more in common other than their love of music and Jessica’s willingness to submit to kinky sex.

I’d really like to be wrong, and for them both to find happiness in the other’s unlikely arms. (Eye roll.)

Nearly 85% of the people polled on the Star website said Jessica and John’s relationship is not for real.

Here are pictures of Mayer and Jessica getting on his tour bus yet again. Thanks to SweetKisses for these pictures.

Well it turns out I was probably giving John Mayer too much credit yesterday when I tried to dissect his character by reading too much into his stoner blog.

Page Six, which I always trust unquestioningly, is saying that Jessica and John’s romantic paparrazi-witnessed date at Nobu was little more than a photo op for the two singers. Guess Jessica is using John for some much-needed companionship, and he’s milking the publicity for his new tour:

Spies at Nobu in South Beach told Page Six that, despite the ruckus caused by their entrance, the two barely spoke on their Tuesday night date. “John was extremely quiet and didn’t speak a lot,” said a source, while Jessica “just gave a lot of puppy-dog looks and twirled and twisted her hair.” The two were seen holding hands, but Simpson left Mayer for 20 minutes while she “fixed herself up for the camera” before heading back to their hotel. The couple’s yoga-and-sushi- filled weekend in Miami marked the first of many planned trips together. Sources say Simpson plans to join her boyfriend on tour – but if she’s booking the hotels, they won’t return to any of the spots she frequented with ex-husband Nick Lachey.

People noted in the comments on yesterday’s article that John Mayer is rumored to be into peeing on chicks and Jessica Simpson seems like a more than willing participant.

I just thought about that too much for comfort. Well, Mayer and Simpson are certainly getting a lot of press for their supposed relationship, whatever is going on. There was a story on the main page of Yahoo! about them yesterday, and that must mean that their ploy is working.

Look, in these latest candids they’re both wearing striped shapeless tops. That must mean they’re into each other, right?

Pictures from SweetKisses.

The National Enquirer’s recent cover story claims that Katie Holmes is a shadow of her former self and has all aspects of her life controlled by her pint-sized cult-loving husband, Tom Cruise. They say he limits her phone calls to fifteen minutes, controls her extracurricular activities, and makes sure she approves all of her outfits before she is permitted to leave the house.

Pals of the 28 year-old actress are terrified that Tom and his fellow church members have virtually taken over eager-to-please Katie’s life, reducing an independent and free-spirited young woman to a submissive shell of her former self. Some insiders have even started calling her “The Stepford Wife” behind her back.

“It is like she obeys him like a pet or robot,” said a family insider. “It’s really creepy…”

Raised Catholic, she’s now dutifully following Tom’s lead and has immersed herself in Scientology, severing nearly all ties with her past.

“Any friends that Katie calls, and there are very few left since she hooked up with Tom, are cleared by him,” claims the insider.

Whats more, she spends only about 15 minutes per phone call, even when she’s speaking with family members….

Tom also approves his wife’s wardrobe, banning anything he considers too sexy.

“Tom doesn’t want Katie wearing anything flashy – and nothing too revealing either,” added the insider. “He’s very specific about what she wears – and if it’s not to his liking, she changes before leaving the house.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, January 29, 2007]

To me, this sounds like a re-tread of an In Touch story from two weeks ago, in which they basically said the same thing about Katie. In fact, this Enquirer story even went on to repeat the anecdote about Tom overhearing Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom invite Kate to Hyde and putting the kibosh on their plans.

There’s not much new information in that Enquirer story, and it seems likely that the insider is just a person who read the In Touch story and filled in some more details. Of course it ‘s probably true that Katie doesn’t have a lot of freedom under the evil watch of the Scientology cult, but she could also just be tired or worn out from being a mom or whatever.

A jucier story is the one that Tom and Katie were seen celebrating what looked like little Suri’s birthday while out at a restaurant recently. The catch is that it’s January, and they claimed Suri was born in April of last year. This lends some credence to all those “conspiracy theories” about Suri not being Toms or being older than they claim. It’s not a conspiracy if it’s true.

Here’s Katie at the opening of Georgio Armani’s shop in Paris yesterday with Victoria Beckham. She dresses a bit frumpy, and maybe that’s why The Enquirer is saying Tom approves her outfits, but it could just be her style. She looks pretty happy and normal here.

Update: Oh No They Didn’t! has before and after photographs that suggest that Katie Holmes had a recent nose job. It looks like it to me.

Pictures from KatieHolmes.com

Paris Hilton is proving once again that she has a near endless ability to spin any news into good news. Following revelations that her lazy left eye is the result of a botched eye lift the heiress has cut a deal with The Spinach Growers of America (SGA) to appear as their new Paris ‘Popeye” Hilton Spokesperson. That ain’t just spin … it’s a salad spinner.

Miss Hilton has controversially refused to follow Doctor’s advice and cease her near constant use of the zombie blue contact lenses, which are reportedly aggravating her condition. One source close to her medical team reports: “That eye has been drooping like the backend of a lazy hound dawg for years … let me tell you … she keeps up like this — that dawg won’t hunt much longer!”

But in yet another example of Hilton hubris turned savvy Paris has transformed her permanent wink from a medical problem to a financial asset. “Popeye” Hilton will be launching a multi-media, vitamin rich, international advertising campaign to bring Spinach back from it’s recent troubles with E. Coli — which recently killed one and sickened 187 other spinach eating unfortunates .

Feeling uneasy about their industry’s future, and not knowing what it might take to win back public confidence. The SGA was thrilled to hit upon the Parisian solution.

“Nowadays when the public thinks Spinach they think fecal-matter borne, deadly bacteria — with Paris as our spokesperson we have turned that into a positive. Everyone knows she’s America’s number one Petri dish and all the more popular for it.” said SGA Media rep Alice Goon ‘” and given that our previous Popeye was a Sailorman we look forward to Leno, Letterman and Stewart doing endless seamen jokes.”

or why Rexy Aint Sexy …

Keira Knightley is suing the Daily Mail for running a story implying she’s in denial about her anorexia … and also for misrepresenting her clearly striped bikini as polka dot with their failed attempt at a clever Headlline.

It’s itsy bitsy teeny weeny Keira Knightley.
She wasn’t exactly curvy to start with, but Keira Knightley seems to be shrinking daily. On a Pacific island holiday with lover Rupert Friend, the 21-year-old actress cut a waif-like figure on the beach.
Miss Knightley was accused of being in denial about her condition by the mother of 19-year old Sophie Mazurek, who died from anorexia last month weighing four stone. …

The pictures don’t make much of a supporting argument, as both she and boyfriend, Rupert Friend (I guess she can probably call him her boyrupert at this point … boyfriend is a little formal … I’m sure they are on a first name basis what with all this beach romping ) appear firmly ensconced in the pale, slim, but muscled and fit school of youthful looks. I mean they are both sporting abdomens I’d love to serve a six course meal on.

However, it’s always up for debate these days … it’s a thin line indeed.

The rexy or not rexy wars are pretty much a staple for the tabloids these days (often with good cause) – they certainly add a dash of instant morality to beach paparazzi shots – all the skin you like and its for the social good. The Daily mail laid it on extra thick with the grieving mother – how can you not feel bad … but the connection to “Miss Knightley” was a bit … I need another word than thin here … tenuous …. weak … padding for a three line article to go along with the bikini shot.

This is a cute commercial. I think it’s Dutch. Can you guys let me know and has anyone seen it on television?

There’s a rumor that Aniston wants to adopt, and that she’s looking for an American kid despite Oprah urging her to adopt an African infant. The source is Britain’s Grazia magazine which makes up a lot of shit, so I doubt it’s true. The last thing Aniston would want to do is follow in Angelina’s footsteps.

Thanks to SmitHappens for finding this. [via]

Update: readers in Singapore and Australia say that this commercial is old and has been around for at least a couple of years.