Rosie O’Donnell is no longer with that single mom to six kids that she dated in the wake of her breakup from her longterm girlfriend, Kelly Carpenter. I remember reading that they had broken up, but Rosie claimed they were back together afterwards. She said in April that “We didn’t really break up. She just has six kids… And I have four. It’s insanity.”

It looks like Rosie has stopped the insanity, because she now has a hot new girlfriend who is presumably childless. Rosie brought her new girlfriend, a corporate headhunter whom she claims to have met at Starbucks, to an event over the weekend. Then she put an announcement about it on People:

Rosie O’Donnell has a new girlfriend – and they met at Starbucks!

O’Donnell, who returns to TV Oct. 10 with a new talk program, The Rosie Show, on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network, introduced her new girlfriend Michelle Rounds Monday night at O’Donnell’s annual Rosie Theater Kids Gala in New York City.

“They met at a Starbucks a few months ago,” a source tells PEOPLE. “They are adorable together and are very, very happy.”

An upbeat O’Donnell, 49, joked onstage at the gala that she had just bought a new red bra “with the underpants that match and everything.”

Rounds is a corporate head hunter for an IT company in N.Y.C. O’Donnell has four children with former partner Kelli Carpenter, whom she married in 2004. They separated three years later.

[From People]

I bet these two met over the Internet, not at Starbucks, but good for Rosie. She’s got a new talkshow with Oprah, she’s no longer a rage-aholic, and she’s got herself a new girlfriend. Rosie’s show premieres on OWN on October 10th, and this news seems timed just right to coincide with that. Rosie may be rich and famous, but I bet she’s a royal pain in the ass to deal with on a daily basis. This chick has her work cut out for her.

Rosie is shown with Fran Drescher, Natasha Lyonne, Gayle King and Cynthia Nixon on Monday at “Rosie’s Building Dreams for Kids Gala.” Credit: WENN.com

Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper were spotted out on a “romantic date” over the weekend, and it seems like all the big outlets, the ones that get their stories straight from the publicists, were running the details. First we had TMZ reporting it like they heard it from a source (J.Lo’s people) and then US Weekly ran the story and made it sound like Cooper was chasing after J.Lo. Their “source” claims “It was a date.. [he] has been after her for ages – calling her for a while.” Then after that, People Magazine claimed it was strictly business, not personal, and that they were “in discussions regarding a project.”

So what’s going on? It seemed like some kind of pre-arranged PR stunt at first, and like both J.Lo and Cooper’s people were complicit in it. He’s been linked to enough high profile women to make it seem suspect, and like his people are trying to sell us a ladies’ man image that doesn’t mesh with reality. (I don’t think he plays for the other team, but a lot of you do. I just think he’s kind of bland and metrosexual.) Then the People article happened and it sounded like both parties weren’t on the same page. Well Popeater/Huffpo’s gossip guy, Rob Shuter, claims that J.Lo set Cooper up by inviting him to a business dinner and then leaking the details like they were on a date. That sounds totally likely, and as Shuter reports she did the same thing to Ralph Fiennes when they were filming Maid in Manhattan.

Bradley Cooper was shocked after a private dinner with Jennifer Lopez was leaked to the press as a romantic date, but he isn’t the first or the last celebrity who will fall into the diva’s trap — just ask “Schindler’s List” actor, Ralph Fiennes.

In 2002, Lopez had a casual dinner with Fiennes, around the time they were filming “Maid in Manhattan” together, only to find pictures from their joint meal splashed all over the New York Post saying ‘deny this.’ Fiennes later went on to say, “I had dinner with her and her producer and her manager who’s in the background of the shot as well. That didn’t upset me because it was just so not true and so badly set up.”

“It was a business dinner that’s all,” a media insider tells me of Cooper and Lopez’s “romantic” evening. “They went to Per Se, which is an amazing low key restaurant in New York and the next thing you know it’s in the papers. No one who eats in that restaurant is calling in tips to gossip sites. Most of the people that go there are so rich they wouldn’t couldn’t care less about actors. They are more impressed by business players than Hollywood types.”

[From Huffington Post]

I totally remember those photos of J.Lo and Ralph Fiennes hugging goodbye on the street after having dinner. They looked like friends being nice to each other, not like they were on a date. That was back in 2002 when paparazzi weren’t as common so I can believe that Lopez set Fiennes up, especially since he seems to have said as much. As for Shuter’s story, he could be basing it on People’s report that it was business-only and the fact that the restaurant is generally low-key. He might not have an actual source, is what I’m saying. I believe it, though. Lopez is pulling some tricks to keep her name in the press and to make her ex husband jealous.

TMZ is reporting that Jennifer Lopez was spotted out on a date with none other than serial dater Bradley Cooper. The way they phrase this makes it sound like they heard it from a “source” (aka a publicist) trying to get the news out. It’s hard to remember all the women that Bradley Cooper has allegedly dated. Of course he was in a long term relationship with Renee Zellweger, but since splitting with her earlier this year he’s been linked with his sort-of ex, Jennifer Aniston, he seems to have dated Olivia Wilde, and we heard rumors about possible flings with Zoe Saldana and Jessica Biel. I’m probably forgetting someone in there.

Anyway Bradley was seen out in NY having a romantic dinner with Jennifer Lopez. There’s no doubt that it wasn’t a group situation or something like that, and it sounds like a temporary match made in publicist heaven.

Jennifer Lopez might be moving on from hubby Marc Anthony in a big way — because last night she went out on a date with Bradley Cooper … TMZ has learned.

We’re told the two hit up Per Se, a restaurant located at Columbus Circle in New York City. We’re told the dinner was “romantic” and was just the two of them.

[From TMZ]

In no way does Lopez seem like Cooper’s type at all, especially if he was almost ready to settle down with Zellweger. Renee is shy, humble and kind and has talked about how she hates fame. (Although she definitely seems to be warming up to it recently.) J.Lo is basically a flashy “look at me” famewhore and a diva. Still, there are plenty of men who don’t seem to have a type. If Cooper really is the ladies’ man that his people would have us believe, I could see him willingly going on a date or two with Lopez. They seem like such a mismatch to me though. This is Lopez wanting to make her ex jealous, and Cooper’s people wanting to keep his name in the press. They’ve been trying to make him happen since he was first linked to Jennifer Aniston in 2007. Judging from the success of Limitless, it seems to have worked.

Here’s Bradley Cooper at the US Open final yesterday with actor/director Ron Rifkin and Ron’s wife, Iva. He’s shown in the header on 9/6/11 at the GQ Men of the Year awards. What’s up with that hair? Credit: Fame. J.Lo is shown on 7/9/11. Credit: WENN.com

NO. Nonononono. I don’t want to talk about this. But I will, if only to defend My Scotsman’s Honor (re: his dong). Life & Style reports exclusively that Gerard Butler had a “steamy makeout session” with Brandi Glanville, ex-wife of Eddie Cibrian and current “slut pig” of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I don’t really have any doubt that Brandi is the source behind this exclusive story, but I have to ask… did it happen? Is Gerard sticking his tongue in Brandi Glanville? Oh, God.

Love is in the air in Malibu! Life & Style can exclusively report that Gerard Butler and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville engaged in a public and steamy make-out session on the beach in Malibu on Aug. 27.

“They were at a private beach party — drinks were flowing, and one thing led to another,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style. “Next thing you know, they’re dancing together to some music, hands started getting frisky and it was a full-on make-out! Everyone saw it. One girl tried to snap a photo of it on her phone, but Gerard politely asked for privacy.”

Gerard, who has been busy preparing for and filming the surfing movie Mavericks in Malibu, has been linked to Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Biel and Naomi Campbell in the past.

Brandi split with ex-husband Eddie Cibrian in 2009.

Reps for Gerard and Brandi had no comment.

[From Life & Style]

Gerard “…has been linked to Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Biel and Naomi Campbell”… and Cameron Diaz, and Shanna Moakler, and Lindsay Lohan, and Ashley Greene, and half of Bollywood, and various street performers, Carnivale-revelers, French journalists, random drunk women in NYC, LA, Europe and probably Africa too. My point? Gerard Butler basically has no standards. He’s a whore – that’s his (negligible) “charm”. He’ll put it in anything and anyone, but he’s MY whore. And the fact that Brandi only got a makeout session and not a full-on Scottish bang in the bathroom? Well, I think he just greets women with his tongue at this point. It’s his way of shaking hands.

But if this gets serious with Brandi… oh, girl. I’m going to start getting all protective of My Scotsman, and it won’t be pretty.

Here are some photos of Gerard in Malibu over the weekend with his puppy Lola.

Photos courtesy of WENN and Pacific Coast News.

How small is the pool of women in Hollywood? We always seem to be hearing about the same hangers-on. After splitting with Courteney Cox late last year, David Arquette hooked up with a waitress named Jasmine Waltz who subsequently blabbed to Life & Style about their very brief relationship. Waltz has dated plenty of other semi high-profile men including Doug Reinhardt, Ryan Seacrest, Jesse McCartney and Chris Pine. (Which of these four does not belong?) Waltz also reportedly tried to shop her own sex tape with some random ex boyfriend. So I think it’s safe to say that Arquette has not shown the best judgment after Cox told him she wanted to see other people.

Now Arquette was spotted out with Joe Francis’ ex wife (of a whole two months), Christina McLarty. At least McLarty has aspirations of marriage and fidelity, even if she has piss poor taste in men. She could do worse than Arquette, and she has.

Has David Arquette moving on from his estranged wife Courteney Cox?

The actor, 39, popped into the Camp Playboy event at Comic-Con last week with Joe Francis’s ex-wife Christina McLarty.

Although approached by wrestler Alicia Fox – who invited him to a party – a chatty Arquette eventually made his way back to McLarty, and the duo “danced the night away together” on Friday, according to an onlooker.

The fun didn’t stop for the pair. On Saturday night, the duo hit up the Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con party.

A rep for Arquette says McLarty was among a group of people with the actor at Comic-Con and that they are not dating.

[From People]

Well I hope Arquette is happy and that he’s staying relatively sober, although recent photos suggest that’s not the case. I found his Oprah interview earlier this year so sad. He seemed very vulnerable and like he was still trying to figure out his place in the world.

You know how they say when you sleep with a new partner you sleep with all their old partners and so on? Arquette has been with two women now whose ex partners have slept with Paris Hilton. He needs to date outside of Hollywood, and to wear a condom.

Ryan Phillippe just upped his douche factor 10 fold. Rumor has it that he’s been secretly (until now) seeing 18 year-old singer/actress Demi Lovato. Ryan, 36, is working on being the next Wilmer Valderrama, who just happens to be Demi’s ex. Except Wilmer is five years younger younger than Ryan and doesn’t have any baby drama with an ex girlfriend. According to both E! and US Weekly, Demi and Ryan have been dating for two months. The story makes it sound like they’ve fizzled out already, though.

E! News has learned exclusively that Lovato has been quietly dating Phillippe, the actor and divorced dad of three (including 2-week-old daughter Kai with ex-girlfriend Alexis Knapp), over the last couple of months.

A source says Phillippe and Lovato started seeing each other casually, but it quickly heated up, with the source revealing that things have cooled a bit since the birth of Phillippe’s daughter.

“It was really hot and heavy for a while,” says a source close to the casual couple, adding that Lovato didn’t know for sure that Phillippe was going to be a father again “until it basically happened. It kind of threw her for a loop.”

But the reason for slowing things down with the former Mr. Reese Witherspoon wasn’t all about the new baby, but also about Lovato’s baby of her own. The promotion of her new single “Skyscraper” and video, which premiered last week on E! News, has been consuming most of her attention in the last few weeks.

In other words, only time will tell if these two will eventually evolve into a full-fledged item.

Reps for the stars have not yet responded to E! News’ request for comment, though a source close to Phillippe denies that any relationship with Lovato took place and says that the actor is currently “totally single.”

[From E! Online]

US Weekly is also running this story with a source who confirms it and adds “they were just hooking up” and “it was nothing serious.” Demi is technically legal at 18, but that’s still so young. How a 36 year-old father can find anything in common with a teenage girl is beyond me. Plus Demi has admitted she’s been really troubled, and she just got out of rehab for emotional issues earlier this year. She does seem mature in interviews, but a lot of guys Ryan’s age would know not to go there. Not Ryan, though. This makes me think even less of him.

Demi Lovato is shown on 7/19/10 (Leger dress, Credit: PRPhotos) and 9/23/10 (Fuschia top, credit: WENN) Ryan Phillippe is shown on 6/12/11 (Credit: PRPhotos and WENN.com)

The last we knew of Annalynne McCord of 90210′s love life, she was on-again with her lunk of a self-involved douche, Kevin Lutz. She has crap taste in men and didn’t know when to say when with Lutz. (She was with a model named Aaron O’Connell after Lutz, but we barely heard about it.) It looks like she’s moved on, though, as she was spotted during a break from filming arm in arm with Dominic Purcell of Prison Break. I found this guy very hot on Prison Break, but he’s grown a huge moustache and a soul patch and now he’s dating McCord, who is 18 years younger than he is. It just seems immature. He does look to have color coordinated his beanie and white t-shirt with McCord’s 90210 outfit, though, so maybe he’s sweet on her. This wasn’t their only outing. People has details and a photo of another:

Life’s a beach for new couple AnnaLynne McCord and Dominic Purcell.

A month after they were first spotted laying on the P.D.A. at a Beverly Hills lounge, McCord, 23, and Prison Break’s Purcell, 41, enjoyed each other’s company Tuesday on the beach in Los Angeles.

The two linked arms as they walked along the sand, McCord wearing a black cover-up over her bikini.

Purcell was previously married to Rebecca Williamson, whom he split from in 2007.

[From People]

At least they were both single when they got together. I know that sounds like it should be a given, but with Hollywood relationships it deserves praise. He seems too old for her, but if they’re happy good for them I guess. I kind of love that Kellan Lutz’s ex is with a new man who could easily kick his ass.

Photo credit: Perkins, Shirley/PacificCoastNews.com. McCord is also shown filming a scene for 90210 where she gets water bombed or something. That photo is credit: Gaz Shirley, PacificCoastNews.com

Amanda Seyfried had a very pap-friendly moment with a gorgeous preppy guy who was so similar-looking to her that I had to make sure she didn’t have any brothers close in age. She doesn’t, she just picked a new man to roll out who looks just as pretty as she does. He reminds me a little of Prince William too.

Amanda looked deep in conversation with the guy over lunch, and they later went for a romantic walk on the beach. She told the paparazzi that her date’s name was “Nathan,” but we don’t know anything else about him. It’s safe to assume he’s not a construction worker I guess.

Nathan looks comfortable with the paparazzi but also like he’s really happy to be with Amanda and is into her. He doesn’t seem to mind that they’re getting photographed, but it’s not like he’s mugging for the cameras either. I hope he’s a nice guy. She likes the squirrelly types.

Update: A lot of you are commenting that this could be a gay friend. I bet you’re right, and I should have noticed!

Photo credit: Smith, Steinberg, Pacific Coast News

Paris Hilton must be desperate to get us to watch the tail end of her flailing reality show, The World According to Paris. Either that and/or she’s trying to make her very recent ex boyfriend, Cy Waits, think she’s moved on already. Paris has been spotted out with Hangover director Todd Phillips. In case the club makeout pictures on TMZ weren’t enough to convince us, she arranged a pappable moment with Phillips, who looked kind of annoyed to see that their outing was being photographed.

It must be love! Paris Hilton and Todd Phillips have now been spotted together THREE times!

The unlikely pair began showing up together almost immediately after Paris confirmed she’d split from longtime boyfriend Cy Waits.

She was caught kissing The Hangover producer/director at a nightclub on Thursday, and Sunday the new pair was out for lunch in Malibu.

Paris & Kathy Hilton Have A Mom & Daughter Dinner Out – See The Photos

Phillips has several films in development, including Hangover 3. Don’t be surprised if Paris pops up in one of them.

[From Radar]

I hope Radar is wrong and that Paris doesn’t get cameos in any of his films. She could play herself I guess, but it’s not like she has a fraction of Diddy or Mike Tyson’s acting ability or charisma.

I’m not buying this relationship. Paris dates pretty boys like Doug Reinhardt, Alex Vaggo, Stavros Niarchos III, Paris Latsis and Cy. She did declare her love for Benji Madden, though, so maybe she likes to mix it up when she needs the publicity.

In other news about Paris, her stalker was arrested outside her Malibu beach house on Monday. This was the same guy who attacked her then-boyfriend, Cy Waits, outside a court hearing for another stalker/intruder in April. I think the problem here is that Paris is just way too easy to find.

Here’s Todd Phillips without his shades. He’s much better looking here.

Photo credit: Fame Pictures and WENN

All of Jennifer Aniston’s past words to kind of clumsily explain her ex husband’s infidelity are coming back to her – “uncool,” “lacking a sensitivity chip,” “pity party,” I think I covered the most popular ones. We’ve heard recently that Aniston’s latest boyfriend, her upcoming costar Justin Theroux, had a longterm girlfriend and that she just moved out of the house they shared last weekend. This wasn’t just a rumor, either, the ex girlfriend’s rep confirmed it, and her mother told the press a few weeks ago that it wasn’t true that Aniston and Theroux were more than friends. So these two moved fast, they did it under the nose of Theroux’s girlfriend of 14 years, and they’re going full throttle to the press. Hence these latest photos of Aniston and Theroux wearing matching gold watches – and matching chunky gold rings on their left ring fingers. (We don’t have access to those pictures, but you can see them here, on Radar. Update! Oh snap, Radar took those photos down, but they do have a new glowing piece on Theroux’s career.) It could be a cheeky nod to the press that they’re together, but it does come off as insensitive, for lack of a better word, to Theroux’s very recent and blindsided ex.

US Weekly has a whole piece on Aniston and Theroux’s romance, and it reads suspiciously like a publicist-planted story. It’s hard to tell, though, because US hasn’t been kind to Aniston in the past and they basically admit that Aniston and Theroux were cheating together, although they downplay it. It could be an attempt to revamp her image as the wronged woman, I have no idea. It’s not like she’s been making smart PR moves lately.

After a brief on-set fling last fall, they reconnected in March. And now? “He’s living at her place in L.A.!” says an insider. “And she’s introducing him as her boyfriend…”

But an Aniston source says friends – including pal Courteney Cox – have no worries about the speedy romance: “They like him, and they like seeing her happy.”

Aniston had her eye on Theroux as soon as she met him in September on the set of Wanderlust in Georgia… She was taken by his sense of humor, says a pal, adding “He’s sweet and funny and so easy to be with.” One thing she ignore? His live-in girlfriend, costume designer Heidi Bivens, 35. “Jen went after him,” a Theroux source says, adding that she set the scene for seduction at her rented lakeside home, hosting intimate parties for the cast. “They drink and play games, and they started hooking up.” However, nervous that word would get out – or perhaps that comparisons to Angelina Jolie would be made – they soon cooled things off.

But by March, after Theroux finally split with Bivens, they reconnected in L.A….

And the whirlwind continues: Conveniently, Aniston just bought not one but two NYC apartments near Theroux’s (she’s combining a $5.9 million pad with an $1.8 million one), and a pal says he’s mulling a stay in L.A. through summer, telling Us, “He really likes Jennifer. He’s like a new man.” As for Aniston? “She’s very hopeful,” says a source. “She’s excited for a fun summer.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, June 27, 2011]

This reads like a PR piece, doesn’t it? Theroux and his girlfriend broke up in March, according to this account, even though the girlfriend’s rep kind-of said that it wasn’t over until last weekend. (It’s hard to tell as their statement is vague, but that’s heavily implied.) It’s all about how much fun they’re having and how happy they are together. They admit that Aniston was cheating, but that’s downplayed and supposedly they didn’t get serious until Theroux broke it off “in March,” but his girlfriend stayed at the house they shared for three more months anyway. Aniston just hooked a guy who is more than happy to trade up to a movie star, but who didn’t cut his longterm girlfriend loose until he was absolutely sure that he had another warm bed to roll into. Douches like that are a dime a dozen, but not to Jen. She needed someone to help her promote her latest films and this guy fit the bill. I’m sure her people convinced her to play it for all it was worth.

Rather than explore this mess any further, I think I’ll back up a little and impart some wisdom that someone told me ages ago about dating people you work with. I think it also applies to Hollywood. “You don’t sh*t where you eat.” With this latest romance, Aniston just got a toilet installed in her kitchen yet she keeps whipping up boxed mac and cheese and expecting the public to eat it.

In the photo above Theroux is shown on 4/26/10. Aniston is shown on 5/5/11. Credit: WENN. In the photo below Theroux is shown on 6/4/11. Credit: Fame