These are photos of Goldie Hawn, her daughter Kate Hudson, and Kate’s boyfriend Matt Bellamy after an event in London last night. They were leaving the launch party for the Hawn Foundation in the UK. Lainey has the detail that it was after 4am when Goldie left the party! Now I’ve never heard of the Hawn Foundation, but from what I gather from their website it’s a non-profit founded by Goldie for teachers and parents aimed at helping children achieve. It sounds awesome and like a good cause. Goldie even has a book coming out this month about how to be a more mindful parent and caregiver to children. It’s called 10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children–and Ourselves–the Social and Emotional Skills to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happy Lives. This news is of course being overshadowed by Goldie’s kind of messy appearance outside the event. She was so toasted she got into her car butt-first and fell over inside. You know she’ll get some tabloid coverage for this, but at least it’s also bringing awareness to her organization, which is news to me. So Goldie gets her drink on, and she gets publicity for her cause. Here’s more:

We love Goldie Hawn. She’s always giggling, smiling and having a lovely time. Yesterday was no different. She looked like a twenty-year-old whippersnapper at the party for her charity, The Hawn Foundation, at Annabel’s members’ club in Mayfair. (She’s actually a 66-year-old grandmother).

(We could make a bad joke about going Overboard with the booze, but we’ll restrain ourselves…Okay, we can’t – she blatantly went a bit Overboard with the booze!)

She shuffled to her car waiting outside and then got in backwards. Amazing. We love this woman. “Why can I see the trunk of this car?” she was probably thinking as her bum slid down the back of the front seat.

Earlier in the day she’d been at a signing for her new book on meditation ’10 Mindful Minutes’. It’s a self-help book said to offer “the social and emotional skills to reduce stress and anxiety for healthier, happy lives.”

Her daughter, Kate Hudson, and Kate’s fiance, Muse frontman Matt Bellamy, came along to the evening do looking very glam. Goldie’s manager Alan Nevins tweeted, “So proud of @goldiehawn for her work with children. And Kate so generous in coming to london to support the Foundation and her mom! Luv U!”

[From Mirror.co.uk]

Kurt Russell wasn’t there, so it was nice that Kate and Matt came out to help support Goldie. Goldie sure knows how to let her hair down. It looks like Kate had a few too, but she was maintainin’, as Kaiser says. Check out Kate’s “I’m not that drunk” face. I do that too! Look at that gorgeous coat. You can see Kate and Goldie inside the party in photos on The Mirror’s site.

And here’s Goldie earlier in the day signing copies of her book:

Photo credit: Spiller/WENN.com and FameFlynet Pictures

I’m rather perplexed about these pictures of Kate Hudson (with boyfriend and baby daddy Matt Bellamy) on 9/15 that feature Kate hiding the lower part of her face from the photographers. It isn’t as if she’s pulling her entire face under a hat, just the lower portion. Not that this necessarily means anything, but it’s slightly odd. What’s she hiding?

Speaking of various shades of privacy, Kate’s father, Bill is still leaking excerpts from his upcoming memoir, Two Versions: The other side of fame and family. Last time, we discussed his claims that Kate has done really “awful” things and that Goldie hasn’t helped matters due to her alleged pattern of parental alienation. Both sides seemed truly pathetic, but many of you agreed that Bill was the douchier party because he’s the one airing the family’s dirty laundry in public for some cash. The whole vibe was geared towards selling a book that no one would otherwise want to read at the expense of dragging out decades-old trash to the pop culture curb; and my assumption was that he was only in it for the money and not that he was pulling a Billy Ray Cyrus by emotionally blackmailing his daughter into rebuilding their lost daddy-daughter relationship. However, the latter notion is exactly what Bill claims to be hoping for after the release of his memoir. Yet the fact that he’s completely calling out Goldie as a cheating wife and slutty bed-hopper and declaring that Kate’s going the same slutty way, well, that doesn’t bode well for Bill’s self-declared good intentions. Unsurprisingly, there’s lots of drug-related stuff in the memoir too:

Kate Hudson may have inherited more than just her megawatt smile from mom Goldie Hawn. In an explosive new tell-all, Kate’s estranged father, Bill Hudson claims that Goldie was a drugged-out absentee mother who passed her bed-hopping ways along to her A-list daughter.

In a Star world exclusive, Bill, 61, is releasing excerpts from Two Versions: The Other Side of Fame and Family, due out by Nov. 1. He recalls falling for Goldie by their second date at a Rolling Stones concert in 1975, despite her drug use. “A joint got passed to Goldie, and she took a giant toke. A large plate of cocaine came by, and she took a huge snort. We headed back to her house…had some wine, and both smoked some pot. We spent most of the night getting high.

The pair ultimately wed and had a son, Oliver, in 1976. But Goldie’s focus soon changed. “Her priorities shifted when she filmed Foul Play with Chevy Chose, and our kids were her [second] priority,” Bill writes, revealing that by the time Kate was born in 1979, he felt like a sperm donor. “It was very businesslike,” he writes. “The attitude was to basically have this baby, get it done, and keep moving. It felt like another project.”

But it was Goldie’s insistence on an “open” relationship, not her ambition, that doomed their marriage, he claims. “She was more into show business than I ever was, and I could live with that, but not the infidelity,” Bill says.

Notorious ladies’ man Warren Beatty came between the couple after he costarred with Goldie in Shampoo, but the last straw was her fling with french actor Yves Renier, whom she met while filming Private Benjamin. Bill filed for divorce when Kate was just a year old.

His ability to bond with his daughter was hampered even more by Goldie’s new man, Kurt Russell. “The lack of visitation meant many knock-down, drag-out fights [with] Goldie,” Bill writes. “[The kids] didn’t realize that I was slowly but surely being replaced as their father figure.” As the fighting intensified, so did the distance between Bill and his children. Finally, he simply gave up: “I will honestly regret that decision until the day I die,” he admits.

Bill still harbors some hard feelings against Kate, who he says is doing the same thing as her mother. “Kate was married to Chris Robinson and then divorced him to be with Owen Wilson. It closely mirrored my situation with Goldie.”

Bill hopes that his memoir will serve as an olive branch and lead to a reconciliation with his children. “I realize there’s nothing I can do to fix it, but I hope there is eventually a resolution.”

[From Star, print edition, October 3, 2011]

Part of me wants to feel sorry for Bill if he was truly pushed out of his children’s lives, but I also think that if he really wanted to be involved, he wouldn’t have given up in the face of any amount of pressure. Also, Bill makes quite the assumption that Kate divorced Robinson just to be with Owen Wilson. Exactly how does he know the inner workings of his daughter’s romantic life if he hasn’t spoken to her in decades? Even if Bill is unconsciously projecting Goldie’s alleged ways onto Kate, it’s still out of line for a father to say this in public about his own daughter. I mean, we all know that Kate is a serial monogamist and can’t be without a man for even a moment, but seriously, “Dad,” shut your mouth.

Photos courtesy of Fame

Goldie Hawn told a potentially embarrassing story at an event honoring her daughter, Kate Hudson, earlier this week. Hudson was being honored at Elle’s 17th Annual Women In Hollywood Tribute. Goldie gave a little too much information about Hudson’s birth in her speech, but it could have been worse. She explained that her daughter was feisty even in the womb and that influenced her decision to call her “Kate” instead of “Rebecca” as she planned. (I could never name a girl Rebecca after seeing that creepy Hitchcock movie!) Goldie also said that doctors thought Kate was a boy when they first got her out after the c-section but that she knew intuitively that her baby was a girl. To me Goldie’s speech is a sweet reminder of how fast time goes and how precious and unique our children are from the day they’re born. It’s also a little weird.

At ELLE’s 17th Annual Women In Hollywood Tribute Monday in Beverly Hills, Goldie Hawn honored daughter Kate Hudson.

During her introduction, she recalled Hudson’s raucous birth in 1979.

“I was on the 405, and she was inside me, and I was fooling around, and I felt really good, about 8 months [pregnant], and I was going to name her Rebecca because it was biblical and romantic and gentle. All of sudden, she punched me so hard in my you-know-where,” Hawn, 64, told the audience. “I screamed and I said, ‘Oh my God. This is a Kate, not a Rebecca!’ She is a Kate!”

On delivery day, Hawn continued, “I was lying there and they were slicing and dicing or whatever, I had a C-section, I had my nails done … and all of sudden, out she comes and they said, ‘It’s a boy!’ And I said, ‘No it’s a girl!’ And, by the way, I didn’t know what it was. I just felt that it was a girl. And then they said, ‘Oh, no it’s a girl!’ And I said, ‘What part of her anatomy were you looking at?!’”

Hawn said Hudson, now 31, was “a voracious eater. She is a voracious human being and she still likes to eat. And she is also voracious about life.

“I will say, I am very proud,” Hawn continued, looking at her daughter. “I am deeply proud of your character, and I am very proud of your tenacity. You stick to your guns … and I am proud of your talent.”

When it came time for Hudson to speak, she said she was “emotional.

“I don’t know how I am going to follow my mother!” she went on. “I have learned so much from the people that I have been blessed enough to work with, and I can’t wait for more,” she said. “I have grown up watching my parents, and I have watched them in their incredible ability and their professionalism, and their body of work is also so inspiring to me. I only hope that I can live up to that in a way, or at least try as hard as I can.”

As for being a woman in Hollywood, Hudson said no one can top her mother. “I have this stunning, iconic mother … I have a grounded, aspiring, and philanthropist mother. She is not just a talent and crazy and gorgeous and beautiful. She is truly an inspiring mother. Again, I can only hope that, as a mother, I can live up to that.”

[From US Weekly]

I don’t get the part where Goldie says she was on the highway and she was “fooling around” and felt really good when she was pregnant. It sounded at first to me like she was having sex, but that makes no sense if she was in car. She was famous back then (remember Foul Play from 1978 with Chevy Chase? I love that movie!) so maybe she was in a chauffeured car with her boyfriend in the back. I don’t want to think too much about it, but it’s probably worse for Kate.

Speaking of Kate and making out, she was spotted with her new beau, British musician Matt Bellamy, at the event. The Huffington Post has a lot of pictures of them looking super cozy there. They look very much in love and it’s sweet. Maybe Bellamy is the one for her. I was surprised by how short-looking Bellamy is! Kate is just 5′ 6″ and she was noticeably taller than him in heels.

Here’s Kate and her mom at the Elle event. I think I know why Kate looks like such a hot mess. She probably took a page from her mom’s book and had sex in the limo on the way over. That is JBF hair if I’ve ever seen it. Credit: Fame Pictures.

Generally speaking, I’m not a huge Goldie Hawn fan. When I was a kid, I loved Private Benjamin, which I saw again recently and thought, “Damn, I was a dumb kid if this amused me.” But one film of Goldie’s stands the test of time, and has been considered (in my mind at least) Goldie’s bid for the one of the best comedies of all time. That film? Overboard. The story is contrived, of course, but somehow the combination of Goldie and Kurt Russell and enough odd-balls characters makes it work, and work well. Anyway, say goodbye to your childhoods, and say hello to your sense of “Stop screwing with the classics, dumb Hollywood.” Because Hollywood is going to remake that sh-t. And they’re going to cast Jennifer Lopez in the Goldie role. UGH.

Jennifer Lopez will likely play Goldie Hawn’s role in a remake of the classic 1987 rom-com Overboard, in which a rich spoiled woman falls in love with a carpenter.

In the original comedy, directed by Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall, Goldie’s heiress falls off her yacht, only to hit her head and forget who she is.

Her carpenter (Kurt Russell) gets his revenge on her by collecting her from the hospital and convincing her she is his long-suffering wife and mother to his unruly children.

Will Smith is producing the reboot, says The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile J. Lo’s movie comeback The Back-up Plan opens on April 23.

[From OK! Magazine]

For the love of God, make it stop! It’s not even that I hate Jennifer or anything – who is photographed here looking very pretty at Showest yesterday. Jennifer can act, sort of. She’s funny, sort of. But Jennifer is not good enough to redo Goldie in one of Goldie’s funniest performances. Ugh, this is just a bad idea from start to finish.

By the way, doesn’t it seem like Jennifer still has her amazing figure when she’s not jammed into some yeast-infection-y leather catsuit? She really does look amazing when she dresses with sophistication.

Jennifer at Showest in Las Vegas on March 18, 2010. Credit: WENN.

A few days ago, the sketchy breaking news was that Alex Rodriguez had spent the weekend in Miami, hitting on every woman with a pulse. That begat reports that he and Kate Hudson were “over”. This was confirmed a day later when Us Weekly ran a story about A-Rod feeling “smothered” by Kate, and how Kate just wanted to get married or move in together, and that A-Rod did the dumping. Later reports were split on what exactly happened in the end, and who exactly ended it. People Magazine reported that both Kate and Alex “wanted things to die down… and they decided to move on” and that they both are “fine” after the split. People also notes that “They may not be done working it out though.” Ever optimistic!

Meanwhile, Star Magazine seemed to get the bitchier sources, of course, and one person claims: “They started having problems about a month ago and tried like crazy to work through their differences. Unfortunately, they kept realizing they were on different pages and it was never going to work out, especially on Alex’s end. Alex just wasn’t ready for the things Kate wants.” Star points to Kate’s insistence that they move in together, into a New York penthouse, and Alex decided at that point that he “needed to cool things down and take a step back.”

I will say this: Kate really does seem to be doing well. She’s never been one to weep on cue for the press or throw herself a little pity party, and when she went to New York Nine premiere (with her mom), she looked great and happy. So that makes the two reports of Kate’s alleged sorrow seem like bullsh-t. But still, it’s good gossip. My favorite is this one, from Page Six - Madonna (also A-Rod’s ex) consoling Kate at the Nine premiere:

Kate Hudson, upset by her breakup with Alex Rodriguez, found a sympathetic ear at the local premiere of “Nine.”

At Tuesday’s after-party at M2 in Chelsea, Hudson was seen chatting quietly with Madonna, who dated the Yankee slugger last year. “When the cameras were on Kate she was all smiles. But privately you could tell she has had her heart broken,” a witness said.

Humiliated Hudson, who was reportedly dumped by A-Rod because he felt she was hogging the spotlight, also flew in her mom, Goldie Hawn, to support her. Mother and daughter drank dirty martinis at M2 “and hung out all night,” a spy told Page Six. “It was her big premiere, and she was upset Alex wasn’t there to support her.”

Hudson’s friends Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer tried to be supportive, but couldn’t make it through the aggressive crowd to congratulate her. The couple gave up and slipped out the back entrance into their waiting SUV.

While Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” became a Yankees anthem during the World Series victory, it was hardly music to Hudson’s ears. “When the song was played at the after-party, Kate looked at her mom and did a fake scream,” our source says.

Still, there’s hope for the relationship. A pal of Hudson told us they’re trying to make up.

The source said, “They had a huge fight in London at the premiere of ‘Nine,’ and Alex flew to Miami to hang out with his friends. But in the last few days he and Kate have started speaking again on the phone. She hopes they can work things out. But they are both very stubborn.”

[From Page Six]

Oh, give me a break. “Humiliated Hudson”? Kate is a lot of things, but I seriously doubt she’s “humiliated” by the split. If anything, she should be humiliated by the fact that she dated him. As for the Madonna stuff – well, Madge has gristly arm muscles bigger than Kate’s lithe frame, so I doubt Madge had much time for whatever Kate was saying or doing.

Page Six isn’t the only one playing the “Humiliated Hudson” card. Life & Style reports that Kate was being consoled by her mom Goldie Hawn just a few days ago. An “onlooker” to the conversation told L&S: “Kate began talking about the Tiger Woods situation. She was saying that she knows what it feels like. It sounded like she was talking about how guys have such a sex drive, they just can’t help it. It was clear Kate and A-Rod were fighting or had broken up from the way she was speaking about him. At one point, Goldie told Kate, ‘Just take the high road. Lead your own way.’”

One of Kate’s friends confirmed, sort of, telling L&S: “Kate has some trust issues with A-Rod. She doesn’t know for sure if there is another woman, but there’s a girl she thinks he has a crush on. She’s been worrying about other women for a while and is definitely the jealous type.” Yeah… I actually wouldn’t doubt that A-Rod was cheating. He seems like the type to have girls on the side. Didn’t he screw around on his wife with lots of women? Ugh… Tiger Woods Syndrome.

Kate Hudson at the New York ‘Nine’ premiere on December 15, 2009. Credit: WENN.

Last night was the New York premiere of Nine, and the entire cast (minus Sophia Loren) turned out to support the film. There was some good fashion, some bad fashion, and there was Daniel Day-Lewis is damn fedora. After the Madonna and Lourdes appearance, the biggest fashion statement of the night was probably Nicole Kidman.

Nicole decided to forgo the dust ruffle and opted for a rather gorgeous black strapless knee-length dress. I love, love, love the dress, but I have two complaints: first, Nicole should has gotten a better fit on the bust, because it’s cut so tight, her breasts are nearly being sliced in half. Second point: powder much?

As far as the other cast members went, there was really no one that special. Daniel wore his fedora and trench coat, Fergie and Marion Cotillard wore pretty white dresses, Dame Judi looked regal and lovely, and Penelope continues to bore the hell out of me. Kate Hudson did bring her mom to the premiere, and they both looked like they had been drinking.

Also, last night the Nine cast appeared on Larry King Live, and only three interesting things happened. One, Daniel Day-Lewis still rocks my loins. Two, Judi Dench said her 12-year-old grandson is “in love” with Fergie. And three, when Larry asked Kate Hudson about Alex Rodriguez, she said he was doing fine, and smiled, not denying or admitting that the two had broken up. Fascinating!

Nicole Kidman and the cast of ‘Nine’ on the red carpet for the New York premiere on December 15, 2009. Credit: WENN.

Kate Hudson has been often seen watching from the stands as her boyfriend, Alex Rodriguez, plays for the Yankees. She’s attended games with her mother, Goldie Hawn and stepfather, Kurt Russell, so it’s safe to assume that A-Rod has met Kate’s family. She’s also been seen posing happily in the player’s wives’ section. According to In Touch, Kate is so serious about Rodriguez that she’s pressuring him to have a baby. Kate has son Ryder, 5, from her marriage to Chris Robinson and Alex has two children: Natasha, 4, and Ella, 16 months, with his ex-wife Cynthia. This story comes from In Touch, so it’s just as likely to be wishful thinking on their part. I could see Kate asking for kids, though. She moves fast and they’ve been together three months already.

Kate Hudson has only been dating New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez for a few months, but she’s already hoping to start a family with him. The actress has a son — Ryder, 5 — with ex-husband Chris Robinson, but a friend of hers explains: “She just turned 30 and she’s ready to have her second child. She wants Ryder to have a sibling, so she brought up the idea to Alex and told him that they would make a beautiful baby together, and that she would assume all financial responsibility.” But the pal adds that A-Rod, who has daughters Natasha, 4, and Ella, 16 months, with ex-wife Cynthia, is just not ready for more kids right now. That hasn’t stopped him from getting closer to Kate. Last week, the couple stayed at a Hyatt in Toronto together when Alex was there for a game. “Kate loves Toronto and has friends in town,” explains an insider, but it doesn’t sound like she spent much time apart from her boyfriend. “Kate and Alex had a major romantic dinner date at the Bymark — a very high-end restaurant,” explains the insider. “After dinner they went straight back to their suite at the Hyatt, and she didn’t surface until 2 the following afternoon!” Kate has even introduced Alex to her mom, Goldie Hawn, and Goldie’s partner, Kurt Russell, who accompanied her to Yankee Stadium on August 8 to watch the Yankees play the Boston Red Sox. “They cheered when Alex was at bat and he smiled at them when he was on third base,” says an onlooker. Kate has become a fixture at Alex’s games, and she was recently joined by mom Goldie and Goldie’s partner, Kurt. “Alex was flirting with Kate” in the stands, says one baseball fan.

[From In Touch received via e-mail]

Kate seems so kind to me, but just totally clueless when it comes to guys. It’s like she’s needs her friends to tell her to play hard to get. If this is true, and that’s a big if, I would tell her to skip a few games, go out on the town with friends, and spend some time at home – not calling A-Rod. Let the guy have his freedom and come back when he’s ready. Rodriguez is only 34 and he’s just coming out of a divorce. By most accounts the guy was a big player both when he was married and in the wake of his separation. You don’t pin those kind of guys down by pressuring them to have kids and being available all the time.

Whatever Kate’s doing, Yankee fans credit her with improving A-Rod’s game. Kate and Alex were photographed kissing in late July at a Yankees picnic. The NY Daily News reports that since that incident A-Rod’s batting average has improved 25 points. I have no idea if that’s a large amount or not, but from the big deal they’re making out of it, it sounds like it is.

The Yankee slugger’s latest girlfriend, movie star cutie Kate Hudson, loves to cheer him on from the stands – and he’s been on top of his game ever since they went public.

His batting average since their first public smooch on July 25 is running almost 25 points higher than his season average. And he’s socked two homers in the last three games – including a two-run blast that ended the marathon Friday night/Saturday morning game against the Red Sox.

“It’s gotta help him out a little,” said baseball fan Mike Grassi, 20, from Long Island. “I would definitely play a lot better if I had her as my girlfriend. Now he’s got a beautiful girl and he’s hitting home runs again.”

“He’s got a hot girl on his side,” agreed Erik Vesper, 22, a big Yankees backer from South Plainfield, N.J. “It’s making up for all of her terrible movies.”

The bubbly blond Hudson, 30, has been rooting for Alex Rodriguez all summer, laughing and waving from a front row seat at Yankee Stadium.

The News caught up with Hudson last night at Los Dados restaurant in the Meatpacking District and she declined comment – but smiled – when asked if she’s helped A-Rod’s game.

The two made their relationship official at the team’s family picnic day, cuddling and smooching for the cameras. Ever since, he’s been batting .283 – hitting two homers over the weekend and striking out less. He was 1 for 3 in last night’s game and his season average is .259.

Rodriguez, 33, told reporters Saturday he feels much “freer” and “liberated” this season, after admitting in February to using steroids in the past.

Over the weekend, Hudson brought mom Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell to root for her new boyfriend. Meeting the parents is a nice-guy turn for A-Rod, who was linked to Madonna and a Vegas stripper before divorcing his wife Cynthia last year.

Hudson also went with the Yankees on their last two road trips, cheering on her man in Tampa Bay and Toronto.

[From The NY Daily News]

I love that guy’s quote, “It’s making up for all of her terrible movies.” Most of Hudson’s films are chick flicks and that guy was probably subjected to a few. Sports fans are so superstitious, aren’t they? If the love of a good woman is working for Alex, good for him. I would still tell Kate to back up and start thinking with her head instead of her heart for a little while.

Goldie Hawn is all over her daughter Kate Hudson’s love life. It seems Goldie knows Kate’s man-eating habits well enough – but now Goldie is afraid Kate is just going to get her heart broken. Kate’s with Alex Rodriguez now, in case you haven’t been keeping up with her ever-changing boyfriend status. Kate and Alex began dating about a month ago, and of course Kate is moving too fast and is probably ready to get married by now (it’s been a month, after all). Goldie is trying to talk her daughter out of getting too serious with A-Rod – and yet this Daily Mail report indicates that Goldie thinks Kate should be “settled down and [leave] the dating scene behind for a while.” I guess they mean “settled down” as in “not having a boyfriend and chilling out for two seconds.”

Goldie Hawn is urging daughter Kate Hudson to put the brakes on her burgeoning relationship with American baseball star Alex Rodriguez.

Goldie fears Kate, who has one failed marriage behind her, could have her heart broken by Rodriguez, who is known as ‘A-Rod’.

Kate, 30, who previously stepped out with actor Owen Wilson and cyclist Lance Armstrong, has been dating A-Rod for a month.

She was introduced to the 33-year-old last November by Gwyneth Paltrow when he was still dating Madonna.

Kate apparently fell for the star there and then – but they started dating only last month and Kate has already introduced him to her five-year-old son Ryder.

‘Goldie feels it’s high time Kate settled down and left the dating scene behind for a while,’ says a source.

‘Kate’s had a string of boyfriends since her divorce from Chris Robinson and it’s always the same pattern – she falls hard and fast, then gets bored or has her heart broken. Goldie hates the idea of seeing Kate getting hurt again.’

The relationship has also caused tension between Madonna and Kate.

The source adds: ‘Gwyneth stayed away from the Veuve Clicquot polo in New York recently as Madonna and Kate were there and Gwyneth didn’t want to be caught in the middle.’

Needless to say, Madge and Kate remained at opposite ends of the VIP tent.

[From The Daily Mail]

Goldie and Kate alleged went through a similar push-and-pull with Kate’s neverending on-again-off-again drama with Owen Wilson. At the time, Goldie thought Owen had emotional issues, and would be a bad influence on Kate’s son Ryder. Personally, I’d think Owen Wilson would be a better influence on a kid than A-Rod, but what do I know. I will agree with Goldie on one thing though – it wouldn’t be the worst idea in the world for Kate to just chill out and not have a boyfriend for a little while. Or Kate could just try dating someone normally, and letting a relationship go at its own pace. What am I thinking? That’s not the Kate Hudson we know and love.

No one really knows the current state of Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson’s relationship. Are they on-again or off-again? Are they living together, partying together, are they engaged or are they not speaking? Last I heard, they were still seeing each other on the downlow, and may be getting engaged at some point, sort of. But The National Enquirer is claiming that Owen and Kate are totally over. Not just that, but Kate’s mother Goldie Hawn was the one to break them up.

It seems Goldie isn’t the free spirit many would imagine – which I totally buy. I think Goldie’s probably pretty shrewd, and a half-decent judge of character. When Goldie saw Owen Wilson, she saw trouble. Goldie sat Kate down and told her that Owen was and is too big of a “risk” for both Kate and Kate’s son Ryder:

Goldie Hawn fought hard to break up the rekindled romance of daughter Kate Hudson and troubled star Owen Wilson, reveals an insider – finally convincing Kate just before her 30th birthday that it was time to face her future honestly and understand that a man who’d attempted suicide by slitting his wrist was a bad risk for her and little Ryder, Goldie’s grandson.

In a tear-filled, one hour-plus sit-down, Goldie pulled out all the stops and warned Kate that life with Owen would be a disaster, and she needed to pull the plug – immediately!

Kate fought back, says the source, but Mom’s love and logic finally overwhelmed her. Days later, she broke it off with Owen, once and for all…

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, May 11, 2009]

Goldie has a point. Even though I think Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson probably care about each other quite a bit, Owen needs to work on his problems by himself before he can be really committed to someone, especially a single mother with a young child. The reporting was pretty consistent that Owen’s friends thought Kate was a bad influence on Owen, though. They thought she was a love ‘em and leave ‘em type who would break Owen’s heart and leave him devastated and suicidal yet again. I’m not sure if I buy that Kate is such a maneater, but perhaps a timeout for the relationship will be a good thing.

Katie Hudson is shown last night at the Cartier 100th anniversary party. Credit: WENN.com. Owen Wilson is shown out having a drink on 4/22/09. Credit: Fame Pictures

When I first saw this picture set I thought “holy sh*t, these two went to the damn Ivy.” The Ivy, on Robertson Boulevard in LA, is the place where celebrities go to be photographed and there’s always a swarm of paparazzi outside. It’s an ideal place for lesser-known celebrities and reality stars to get some much-needed publicity because the photographers will take just about any semi-famous person’s picture. Kate Hudson, 29, and her new boyfriend Lance Armstrong, 36, were at “The Ivy on the Shore,” though, which is in Santa Monica and isn’t as much of a paparazzi target. It’s the first place that the paparazzi snapped a photo of Kate with Owen Wilson after news of their rumored affair hit the press, though.

Kate, Lance, her mom Goldie Hawn, 62, and an unidentified man dined at the Ivy starting around 2 pm yesterday, and sat out back so they could supposedly avoid photographers, but it didn’t work. People Magazine reports that they looked like they were having a great time.

Casually dressed in a gray Nike T-shirt and matching pants, the cycling champ, along with Hudson and her mom, actress Goldie Hawn, met for a late lunch Tuesday afternoon at Ivy at the Shore in Santa Monica, Calif.

The trio, along with an unidentified male, arrived just before 2 p.m. They got some privacy from fellow diners and the throng of paparazzi camped out front by sitting on the patio at the back of the beachside restaurant.

“They looked like they were having a great time and enjoying each other’s company,” says an onlooker. “Goldie was all smiles. Lance was sitting next to her and they were chatting while Kate was laughing. They were all just really happy.”

[From People]

You think they would avoid the place, but maybe Kate and/or her mom have dined there relatively undisturbed in the past and the food is really good. At least they weren’t at the main Ivy, but maybe next time they’ll be a little more creative with their restaurant choices and will be able to keep photographers at bay.

A lot of you say these two aren’t going to last, and you could be right. Both have sketchy recent relationship histories, but maybe now that they’ve found each other they’ll settle down. They certainly seem intent on getting involved in each other’s lives, and Lance has even met his maybe future mother in law. He should watch out, because the in-laws seem a lot different once you’re married – or so I’ve heard.

Photos by Clint Brewer at Splash News.