Gerard Butler gave a recent interview to a site called Deadline Scotland. I’ve never heard of this site, but it does seem like Butler gave the interview directly to them, and they got a decent scoop. In the interview, Butler gives up some juicy information on his love life, his career and how much he misses his homeland, Scotland.

Butler has lived, for the most part, in Los Angeles for almost a decade. Even with all of the California sun and all the wannabe actresses he can get his hands on, Gerry is still brooding for Scotland. He also talks about his “longing” to settle down, and why it‘s difficult for him to be in a long-term relationship. You can just tell, he’s talking about me. The only long-term relationship that Gerry could have would be with me, I know we could make it work. More from Deadline Scotland:

Scottish hunk Gerard Butler misses his homeland – despite the fact that he moved away as soon as he graduated in the early nineties. The actor now lives in the US, but says that his heart will always be in Scotland.

He said: “I miss the people and the countryside. Scotland is such a beautiful country and I know that whenever I return and look at that it’s like big therapy for me, everything relaxes, and I’m inspired and relaxed all at once… I also miss the people, the humour. I was out with a buddy of mine in New York who is Scottish and my side was splitting, just the way he said things. I miss that about being in Scotland – that sense of humour, that sharpness.”

But if rumours are true, Butler may soon be back in the country making a new film about the life of Robert Burns – a project he has always been keen to do. His high-flying Hollywood career takes him all over the world from his base in America – and it’s not just his homeland that he’s missing out on.

The 39-year-old revealed that he’s been unlucky in love – although he credits his loneliness with the success he has achieved. He said: “It would be great to settle down but at the same time I sometimes think if anything had happened differently and I was in a long-term relationship I wouldn’t be where I am now in my career.”

“If I’d had to make the sacrifices that a relationship would have required, I’d probably be a lot happier in some respects, but I wouldn’t have been as successful. I wouldn’t have advanced as far in my career.”

“A lot of happiness comes out of the excitement of watching your career progress and jump forwards and there’s also a lot of happiness you can get out of being in love and being in a relationship. The comfort and foundation you take from that is not something you get when you’re being crazy busy and successful and traveling all over the place because at the end of the day you’re not in a relationship.”

2009 sees the heartthrob on the screen in two new films – The Ugly Truth, a romantic comedy with Katherine Heigl, and lending his voice for The Mariner in the animated film Tales of the Black Freighter.

[From Deadline Scotland]

Can’t you just hear the catch in his throat when he talks about love? Like he’s had such success in his career, and now he wants to share it with someone. Swoon!

Jokes aside, I give Gerry a lot of credit for being realistic about career versus love life. I often wonder how some of these couples make it work when the two people in the relationship are traveling in different directions eight months out the year.

It’s also nice to see that the Robert Burns movie is back on – Butler has been trying to get the funding for that film for years. It’s his passion project, and I hope everything comes through.

Here’s Gerard at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars viewing part on February 22nd. Images thanks to Fame.com.

Even a badly-dressed hottie will still get the ladies. One lady in particular, and no, it’s not Hayden Panettiere. The rumor going around is that Gerard Butler and Bollywood actress Privanka Chopra are a hot new item. The two met in Dubai (random, right?) and Chopra has given a couple of interviews saying, basically, that she’s very fond of the Scottish heartthrob.

Privanka Chopra won Miss World in 2000, and her beauty queen status allowed her entrance into the Bollywood film industry. According to Wikipedia, she’s hot stuff in India, but not well-known outside of the subcontinent. She’s very pretty, but I can only think Gerry’s working his way around to me. Please!

Scottish actor Gerard Butler has reportedly found love with a former Miss World.

The 300 heart-throb was linked to a string of Hollywood beauties, including former Friends star Jennifer Aniston.

But he has now fallen for Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra – who was crowned Miss World in 2000 – after meeting her at a hotel opening in Dubai, according to British newspaper the Daily Record.

A source tells the publication, “Priyanka and Gerard hit it off really well in Dubai and have maintained their friendship ever since. They have kept in touch via phone calls and text messages.”

From Contact Music

Oh, text messages! I would “text message” the hell out of Gerard Butler, but I digress. I tend to think that most of the rumors are coming from Priyanka’s side, that she may be using a relatively innocent relationship to try to boost her career. Or, hey, maybe it’s a real love connection. She seems like his type – two legs and a pulse. I joke! Gerry has standards. I think.

Here are photos of Priyana Chopra taken on 2/2/09, 11/20/08 and 12/2/07. Gerard Butler is shown in Philadelphia with his co-stars in the upcoming film Law Abiding Citizen, F. Gary Gray and Jamie Foxx, getting a liberty bell from Mayor Michael Nutter on 1/23/09. Credit: WENN

Gerard Butler has been seen! He’s been taking a break from filming Law Abiding Citizen in Philadelphia to attend some parties and go to Fashion Week in New York. He attended Justin Timberlake’s William Rast show, where USA Today noted that JT is attempting to bring acid-washed jeans back in a big way. So much for GQ’s Most Stylish Man, huh? I wonder if Gerry likes acid-washed jeans.

All of this is barely news, I know, but I wanted to write about Gerard Butler. There hasn’t been any big breaking news about, or even one little interview with Gerry lately, but he has been spotted several times the past week! First was a friendly little appearance at the Victoria’s Secret “What Is Sexy?” show last week, where he was photographed in a friendly way with barely-legal Hayden Panettiere. CB didn’t think it was anything at the time, but I knew better! Now there’s word that Hayden and Milo Ventimiglia have split. I don’t consider it coincidence. Cue dramatic music.

LaineyGossip isn’t a big fan of Gerry (she calls him Spittle, which is totally harsh), but she makes a good point about his absolutely horrible style:

Gerard Butler has been enjoying the sights and sounds of NY Fashion Week and, well, not even his friendship with Anna Wintour can help with his icky cheese.

Like please make him stop.

[He arrived] at Bryant Park with a guest last week and also last night at William Rast, posing in his awkward bulgy bad wash jeans and an inexplicable crop sweater underneath his leather jacket which, thankfully, went missing later on as he caroused with friends when leaving the venue.

Throw it all together with some spittle on top and…

Ew!!!!

From LaineyGossip

See, I don’t love Gerry for his fashion sense. I love him for altogether different reasons. He dresses like a heterosexual man who hasn’t been trained by a long-term girlfriend. Which, I have to say, gives me hope. I really hope he and Hayden aren’t together (doubt it, CB may have been right). But maybe he’s attending all of those fashion shows to get a clue about how to dress? Here’s hoping.

Gerard Butler is shown on 2/13/09 and on 2/16/09 rocking the same outfit. Credit: WENN

Hot Scot Gerard Butler is trying to get back on my good side. After being linked to Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, Naomi Campbell, Shanna Moakler, and, worst of all, Paris Hilton, Gerry is speaking out. He claims that if he was having affairs with all of those women, he would be “exhausted”. Sounds like a non-denial denial to me, but I get very touchy about this guy. Britain’s Sunday Mail has the details.

Movie hunk Gerard Butler has rubbished his reputation as a womanizer. He spoke out after being linked to beauties including Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz and Naomi Campbell.

The Paisley-born 39-year-old said: “Guys take a photograph of me speaking to someone and, apparently, I am having an affair with her. I’m having 10 affairs a day. It would be just too exhausting and I’m not that sort of guy.”

The 300 star hit out while in Philadelphia to shoot psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen. Butler was spotted with co-star Jamie Foxx at a city restaurant.

An onlooker said: “Waiters heard him talking about having to ask his mum for childhood photos for the film.”

From Sunday Mail

Is it wrong that I sort of believe him? Or is this what’s called “denial”? If Gerry had an affair with even one of those women, I don’t really want him. After declaring that he’s “not that sort of guy”, I’m now wondering what kind of guy he is. A romantic, pining away for his one true love? (Me?) Or a wa-wa-womanizer, baby, to quote that pinnacle of denial, Britney Spears?

Unfortunately for all involved, Paris Hilton isn’t through with my guy. She’s fixated on him as her rebound guy post-Benji. According to the tabloids, Paris is “smitten” with the Scotsman she (by my research) has only met once.

Paris Hilton has forgotten all about ex-boyfriend Benji Madden – after falling head over heals in love with Scottish actor Gerard Butler, it has been claimed.

The Simple Life star split from Good Charlotte rocker Benji in November last year after several months of dating.

But Paris is now over the love split – and in the arms of RocknRolla actor Butler, the Sunday People newspaper reports.

A source tells the publication, “Since she met him she has forgotten all about Benji. It’s early days but Paris is quite smitten.”

Paris and Gerard were recently spotted together at Los Angeles night club Deluxe.

From Showbiz Spy

You might remember that Paris allegedly referred to Gerry as her “Braveheart” – a report that seemed like the tabloid equivalent of gilding the lily. I don’t buy that Paris is smart enough to make a Braveheart reference with regards to Gerry, and I hope and pray he’s too smart to have anything to do with Paris or any other woman he’s been recently “linked” to.

Gerard Butler is shown on 1/10/09 at an Art of Elysium benefit. Credit: WENN

Andrew Lloyd Webber is hellbent on composing a sequel to his musical “Phantom of the Opera”. He hopes to have the musical done by 2009, and he’s already got a name – “Phantom: Love Never Dies”, which sounds vaguely like a James Bond movie. People are already rushing to cast the soon-to-be musical, and the two names that keep popping up are Aussie Hugh Jackman and Scotsman Gerard Butler.

Butler played The Phantom in the 2004 film version, singing with a rock n’ roll kind of voice. He sounded a little bit like the lead singer of Nickelback, Chad Kroeger. Hugh Jackman has more of a “musical theatre” kind of voice, probably because that’s his background. One of Jackman’s big breaks was in a theatre production of “Oklahoma” and he won a Tony several years ago for his Broadway role in “The Boy From Oz”.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says the long awaited sequel to “Phantom of the Opera” should be ready at the end of 2009, with a possible simultaneous opening on three continents. Lloyd Webber told The Times of London that he hopes the new musical, to be called “Phantom: Love Never Dies,” will open in New York, London and possibly Shanghai or another Asian city.

“We’ve been into the feasibility of rehearsing three companies at once and opening very fast in the three territories,” he said. “The one which really interests me would be China. I think to open ‘Love Never Dies’ in Shanghai would be an enormous thing.”

He said the locale of the celebrated musical will be switched from the Paris Opera to New York’s Coney Island. The sequel will be set about 10 years after the original, which has been seen by approximately 80 million theatergoers in 124 cities worldwide.

And who will play the Phantom? Lloyd Webber is keeping that secret for now. “We are pretty clear who our Phantom is going to be — I can’t say who,” he said. The Times said possible candidates for the role include Hugh Jackman and Gerard Butler, who played the Phantom in the 2004 film version of the musical.

[From the Associated Press Hosted by Google]

Honestly, I think Jackman has a better chance at it. He’s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he’s at home in musical theatre, whereas Gerard Butler bombed big time as The Phantom. I’ve also got money on Jackman throwing around some song-and-dance numbers as host of the 2009 Oscar ceremony, so perhaps Andrew Lloyd Webber will be watching and plotting for The Phantom’s next incarnation. The only downside is that whichever hottie gets cast, half of their face will be covered.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Hugh Jackman playing with his family at Hudson River Park in New York City on Sunday. Images thanks to WENN.

First comes dinner dates and thigh caressing with Jennifer Aniston. Then the drinking. And now Gerard Butler is *allegedly* making the move on Paris Hilton – or is allowing Paris to put the moves on him. LaineyGossip is reporting that Butler and Hilton were seen at a club together.

Apparently [Paris Hilton] spread her virus all over [Butler] last week at Bar Deluxe in LA. They were spotted getting “cosy” in a corner as she affectionately referred to him as her Braveheart.

Seriously. How hurting is Gerard Butler that he’d have to scrape the bottom of the urinal with that piece of sh-t hanging off his junk?

[From Lainey Gossip]

Her braveheart? You’re kidding me, right? That’s actually the only part of the story that makes me question the accuracy of the whole report. I don’t buy that Paris Hilton is smart enough to make a “Braveheart” reference. Why or why can’t Gerry Butler just find me? (Actually, I don’t want him if he’s been with Paris.)

Paris Hilton is shown on 12/15/08 leaving the Ivy. (Need attention much?) Credit: WENN Gerard Butler is shown 10/6/08 at the Rock ‘N Rolla premiere. Credit: PRPhotos

Something weird is happening. Every time I google “Gerard Butler naked” (every day), I’m finding endless pics of Butler leaving Los Angeles and New York bars. In most of the photos, he looks half in the bag. Eyes puffy and bloodshot, face red and sweaty with either a “happy drunk” or an “angry drunk” look on his face.

What’s weird is that in nearly every profile of Butler cites his alcoholic early days, when he was studying law in Scotland, his early benders and his subsequent swearing off of alcohol and the law to pursue acting. Celebitchy covered the territory in September.

Honestly though, Butler goes “on the record” about his alcoholism very sparingly. Most of the time the profiles of him just mention it in passing:

“After spending so many years in law, I was becoming really disillusioned and I feel as a person I was becoming more and more unhappy,” says Butler, with an expansive sigh. “And I think a big part of that was not even necessarily the law, but just doing something that I knew wasn’t for me.”

He had been drinking heavily, getting his kicks not from legal text books but from playing in a rock band called Speed (with other lawyers, no less), and generally building a reputation as Scots Law’s answer to Jim Morrison.

He took time out, travelling in North America, during which he fell in with an Irish crowd, with whom he spent an entire month drunk, and worked in a carnival. He was still drunk when he came back and went for a job interview as a trainee lawyer. He got it anyway, an early sign perhaps that his future lay in acting. But he could hide his disillusionment only for so long.

“I wasn’t thinking ‘What are you going to do?’, because I couldn’t imagine carrying on as a solicitor.”

[From IOFilm.co.uk]

If he’s not really an alcoholic or a recovering alcoholic, I find it hard to believe his publicist would let so many profiles of Butler go on and on about his early drink-soaked days. So I feel pretty good about saying that, at some point, Butler considered himself “in recovery” from his alcoholism. There’s never any mention about a formal rehab, so it’s more than possible that one day Butler woke up and decided to stop drinking. Much like George W. Bush, minus the spiritual awakening or ultimatum from Laura Bush (“It‘s me or the Jim Beam,” Laura allegedly told Dubya).

I believe experts call this condition being a “dry drunk”. Experts also consider “dry drunks” at a high risk for falling off the wagon. Judging him solely by the number of times he’s pap’ed entering or leaving a bar, I’m worried that Gerry is back on the sauce. Maybe he’s just depressed and unfulfilled again? This time because he hasn’t found his one true love? (Me?)

Picture note by Celebitchy: Gerard Butler is shown on 12/11/08 looking inebriated. I hope he was photographed in his car before he entered the bar and not afterwards. Credit: WENN and Fame

I like a good cheesy romantic comedy, but it has to have some redeeming qualities or I’ll feel like a fool for wasting an hour and a half sitting in a chair watching someone else’s idea of entertainment instead of spending quality time reading random crap on the Internet.

There are too many clichés in this modern twist on Cyrano de Bergerac. There’s the successful career woman who is pining for a man to make her life complete, the tough womanizer who yearns for the love of a good woman, and a stupid contrived scenario that brings them together inevitably in the end. It’s not cute and looks like it will go down like dry toast. Katherine Heigl should be reduced to working on these type of shit films, but I’d like to think Gerard Butler is better than this. He did do that awful dead love letter movie with Hillary Swank, though. Times are tight and actors are working where they can. People also aren’t willing to shell out good money to see rehashed plots that we can watch for free on the Lifetime channel, flipping to better shows and watching amusing YouTube videos when it gets slow.

I asked for feedback on this trailer, and my friends on facebook and twitter are divided. 2/3 agree that it’s annoying. Holly mentions that there’s “no believable chemistry between Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler” and that Heigl only does one Izzy-type character. Agent Bedhead reminds us that Heigl is insufferable and also notes the lack of chemistry between the leads. She says that Butler is heading toward overexposure. While he’s still on the right side of that precipice for me, this film will surely push him off it. Tiffany says the trailer is kind of charming though and that this movie looks good for a typical chick flick despite the fact that she usually can’t stand Heigl. What do you think?

Jennifer Aniston’s love life is a hot mess. Supposedly she got back together with John Mayer after he spent a torturous three months without any paparazzi love. That’ll make any man reconsider his relationship requirements. In the interim before they reconciled Jen was spotted on almost as many dates as John was – and that is really saying something.

Though the pair made a big to do of their rekindled romance for the paparazzi, apparently they aren’t exclusive – Jen was just spotted out with Gerard Butler – for at least the second time.

IT’S good to know Jennifer Aniston isn’t taking John Mayer too seriously. Just days after they had a cozy dinner at LA’s Tower Bar, Aniston was seen eating there with hot Brit (and Anna Wintour fave) Gerard Butler. “They were very affectionate to each other,” a spy said. “There was another man at the table, but he looked like he was a chaperone – or just there to stop tongues wagging. They basically ignored him.”

[From Page Six]

In September the two were reported to have gotten super affectionate at the Toronto International Film Festival, with Lainey Gossip noting that Gerard was all over Jen back then too.

As mentioned yesterday, Gerard Butler loved the TIFF scene so much, he returned to Toronto after leaving on Friday just to extend his experience, showing up randomly to several carpets, and at the Hyatt Roof Lounge on Sunday night.

Jen and her entourage also hit up the Hyatt after her screening on Sunday too. Didn’t take long for the two of them to gravitate towards each other, ending up with their heads bent together in a flirty, intimate conversation, at one point I’m told his hand was placed on that sexy part of the thigh. He was also spotted rubbing her shoulder and back, leaning in close to her ear, and she of course was returning his attraction with that patented hairplay she’s perfected over the years.

[From Lainey Gossip]

It seemed like Jennifer was really into the Mayer romance the first time around, but this time she’s keeping her options open. Instinct tells me she’s just dating him again for attention – she certainly doesn’t seem to be showing him off like she did before. I give it another two weeks, max.

Here’s Jennifer Aniston leaving a friend’s house in Los Angeles on Friday. Images thanks to Fame.

We told you yesterday how Travis Barker recently blogged that ex-wife Shanna Moakler has been MIA since her initial rush to his bedside following a plane crash that left him badly burned. Moakler was quick to release a press statement that employed generous use of the word “we,” implying that the couple was back together, but Travis nipped that in the bud. Now, it seems that Shanna has her sights on a new guy: 300 hunk Gerard Butler.

New couple alert?

Shanna Moakler and Gerard Butler were photographed getting cozy at the Hollywood opening of Shin nightclub on Monday.

Throughout the night, Butler also served guests drinks behind the bar.

At one point, a patron told him, “Thanks,” and he said, “I have no idea what the f–k I’m doing.”

When asked if he’s taken any ladies to lunch lately, Butler recently joked with Usmagazine.com, “Oh, you know, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Cindy Crawford – and I may even get together with a single one.”

His flirty behavior with Moakler comes days after her ex, Travis Barker, blogged that she hasn’t visited him in the hospital in L.A.

[From Us Weekly]

It sounds like Gerard was a little bit drunk here, doesn’t it? Moakler is a former Miss USA and Playboy Playmate with a penchant for dating famous men. Before her marriage to Travis Barker, she was in a relationship with boxer Oscar de la Hoya. So this isn’t all that shocking. I’d be more surprised if I saw Shanna cuddling up with some regular Joe. But I do wonder how much of this flirtation is just Shanna trying to retaliate against her ex. Neither one of them seems very mature, but at least Travis is up front about it. All I can tell Gerard is, put down the martini and RUN!

Shanna Moakler is pictured outside an LA club in June 2008. Photo credit: Fame. Gerard Butler is shown at the premiere of “Rocknrolla” in London in September 2008. Photo credit: Bauergriffin.