I’ve always sort of liked Nicky Hilton, although my general warmth towards is probably because she simply looks normal and well-adjusted compared to her sister. You know what I mean? Stand her next to Paris, I’m always going to pick Nicky. Put Nicky alone, and I’ll barely care about her. Anyway, this story doesn’t do much to make me like Nicky. Nicky has been single ever since she and David Zatzenberg broke up over the summer – I’ve been slightly surprised that she hasn’t relaunched herself with some big new relationship, but once again, she’s not Paris. The Enquirer claims that Nicky was tying to make something happen with Jared Leto, though. Fortunately and unfortunately, it’s a no-go, because Jared couldn’t even be bothered to show up for their “date”.

Ever seen a celebutante seethe?! Sitting in the Chateau Marmont garden waiting for hunky date Jared Leto, socialite Nicky Hilton – after telling the restaurant manager: “Show Jared Leto to my table when he arrives, he’s my lunch date” – sat down and waited… and waited… and then started to feverishly text and dial her delinquent date, who’s managed to show up on time for assignations with glamour girls like Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson – and Nick’s own sis, Paris Hilton.

Shockingsly, Leto was still a no-show after a whipping 90 minutes, and Nicky – looking ready to explode – abruptly grabbed her purse and stormed out!

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

That IS embarrassing. It went down at the Marmont too, which means there were probably some high-profile witnesses to Nicky being stood up. It makes feel bad for her for two reasons: one, she got stood up. Two, she was happy to be going on a lunch date with Jared Leto. Rough. That boy is… rough. Not in looks – in looks, he’s still Jordan Catalano. In attitude, though, it’s all try-hard and sad and uncomfortable. He probably thought it was funny that he stood her up. Gross.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I don’t get Jared Leto. Like, at all. We always get requests for him for Hot Guy Friday, and those requests always make my ass itch. Seriously, ladies? HIM? I mean… I had a brief moment of thinking he was hot back when he was a kid on My So Called Life, but that was a long, long, long time ago. He’s been this douche for so long… don’t you think we can stop with the Jordan Catalano references? He’s not that guy anymore, if he ever was that guy. He’s just some dude who thinks he’s so hardcore – and high fashion – because he’s in a band and he hangs out with John Galliano or whatever.

Anyway, these are new photos of Jared in LA yesterday. I’m calling this his new hair style, but he’s been doing the same color for more than a month now. He’s still using product to get it to stand up like that. This is a boy who has a lot of mirror time, you can tell. He may play that game where he’s like “Oh, I’m a pretty boy, I’m punk, I’m IN A BAND” but you know he stands there for a good twenty minutes getting his hair to do a perfect platinum mohawk or the perfect blonde combover, or this, the perfect “key in the electric socket” style. Or even worse, he pays someone to do that to his hair.

I do like his coat, though. Coat porn isn’t enough to get him on HGF… but I do want it. Also: is he wearing Spiderman gloves?!?

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Whenever I see Jared Leto with a blue mohawk, wearing a skirt and goth makeup, I can’t help but think: this guy is my age. I grew out of my blue hair days years ago. Part of me is a little envious that Jared can be Peter Pan; the other part thinks, “Dude, get a job.” The royalties for My So-Called Life can’t be that great.

He is still gorgeous, though.

And according to Details magazine, he’s a bona fide rock star. He is the lead singer for the band 30 Seconds to Mars.

Q: In concert you wear eyeliner, crazy hairstyles, elaborate outfits. Do you regard it as another acting gig?

A: No, no, no. As a musician, it’s about revealing more of who you really are. I’m not handed a script with dialogue; there’s no cinematographer or editor. I’m not so interested in creating a persona. There have been shows where I’ve been very plain and shows where I’ve worn a dress. I’ve got a skirt on right now. I was in Japan and all the busboys were wearing them.

Q: You’ve gone out in public in drag.

A: I walked down Madison Avenue in a spaghetti-strap tank top and black-fringe wig, and I thought that I would pass with flying colors, but I didn’t. My shoulders were too big. My jaw was too big. I was just trying to disappear. It wasn’t like I was getting in touch with my inner transvestite, which I’m sure is inside of us all somewhere.

Q: You turn 39 this month. Any plans to settle down?

A: I don’t really believe in settling down. That term implies that the current path I’m on isn’t valid. It’s not always about living your life the way people have lived before you.

Q: You and Kanye West recorded a song together called “Hurricane,” which is in part about persecution. Did you bond over all your haters?

A: I see Kanye as a fellow artist. I think there’s a connection there, but I don’t think it’s about feeling persecuted. It doesn’t matter if you’re President Barack Obama or Bono or the Pope — there’s someone out there who wants to f*ck you and someone who wants to kill you.

[Details, print edition, December 2010]

Jared recently pulled a Kanye-style tantrum when he thought MTV was banning the video for “Hurricane.” Silly boy, don’t you know MTV doesn’t play videos anymore?

30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto has lashed out at MTV and then later relented over the “banning” the bands latest video “Hurricane”…

“Hurricane” is a 13-minute mini-movie.

MTV decided to ban the video just hours before the network had promoted its premiere because of “indecent material”.

Jared Leto initially let loose on his blog about the reasons why MTV had made its decision, one being that at “09:17 – Woman’s finger running over other woman’s bottom in G-string and touching anus”.

He later withdrew his criticism of MTV stating that “there are some edits that need to be made, there is some footage that remained in the cut that was, I guess, overlooked”.

MTV released a statement to say they had not banned the video.

[Undercover News]

Jared apparently doesn’t have the same fond memories of My So-Called Life that I have.

Q: As Jordan Catalano on My So-Called Life, you became an iconic nineties crush for sensitive, smart alterna-girls. Was there a downside?

A: I didn’t notice that stuff. I was just grateful to have the work. It was a very short period of time in my life. It was 17 episodes, and I barely spoke.

Q: After that you took darker roles, from a heroin addict in Requiem for a Dream to Lennon’s murderer, Mark David Chapman, in Chapter 27. Did you feel the need to ugly yourself up to be taken seriously?

A: I didn’t want to take on really corny movies that focused on people’s looks, if that’s what you mean. My heroes were Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Sean Penn, Daniel Day-Lewis. Those are the actors I thought, “Wow, those guys are pushing themselves as far as they can go.”

[Details]

At least Jared is keeping true to himself, whether you like his music or not. Whenever I see Claire Danes advertising the eyelash growth medication Latisse, a small part of me dies inside.

Details doesn’t ask the question I’m curious about: Will Jared return to acting? According to IMDB, he has nothing new on his acting plate, but a film he did called Mr. Nobody recently won an award at the European Film Awards.

The other question is what starlet is he currently with? The man has dated Cameron Diaz, Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johannson and probably Paris Hilton, after all. I doubt he’s with a civilian.

Whether those questions get answered or not, this post is really just one big excuse for CB to post a bunch of pics of the still pretty Jared Leto.

Photo note by Kaiser: Header courtesy of Jared’s Twitter. Additional pics courtesy of WENN.

Michael K at Dlisted is happy about this. Jared Leto twit-pic’d this photo of himself with the line “Real Men Wear Skirts”. I have no doubt that real men wear skirts – I’ve known several real men that not only loved the occasional skirt, but liked some eye-makeup too. But my real question: does Jared Leto look good here? Yes, he’s “tight” and he’s got some awesome muscles… but he also looks really, really thin. Like meth-head thin. I’ve been wondering about Jared for a while – lately he’s been looking more and more drawn and more and more cracked-out. Perhaps he’s just really busy. Perhaps he just uses occasionally. Perhaps he’s blitzed out of him mind and he loves to wear skirts, because why not? Ugh.

But I am happy to see his hair a nice shade of brown. That bleached blonde Mohawk crap had to go. He looked like such a poseur. Now he looks authentic… authentically cracked-out.

Header photos courtesy of Jared Leto’s Twitter.

Happy, lucky day! We have more photos of Gerard Butler! Too bad the photos aren’t all that awesome, and that Gerard looks like a homeless mobster (or moobster, if you will). These are photos, bizarrely enough, of Jared Leto’s photo shoot for Hugo Boss – I guess he’s “modeling” – which makes him a SELLOUT. Anyway, Jared the Pretty Boy was shooting somewhere in NYC, and Gerard Butler stopped by the photo shoot to say hello. I swear to God, it looks like Gerard is flirting with Jared. That’s his “do you want to hit this Scottish dong?” pose. I recognize it. Just as I recognize his “trolling for strange” posture.

In other Gerard news, Just Jared has some photos of Gerry out house-hunting (loft-hunting) in NYC yesterday too. I guess he’s getting rid of the NY apartment he already has? The one that is decorated like a Moroccan-meets-English-country whorehouse? The one he showed off to Architectural Digest? The one with all the pick furniture and the killer kitchen. He must have known that it would just be easier for the two of us to start from scratch in a new place, rather than having me come in and try to take the “whorehouse” out of his existing apartment. He’s so thoughtful! Also, Gerard is still out and living large in NYC, because he also stopped by a party thrown for Hilary Swank for Conviction. They worked together on that turn of a film, P.S. I Love You (Gerard’s Irish accent was maybe the worst thing ever). I don’t think there’s anything between them, because neither of them is really the other’s type. But maybe they’re friendly.

Gerard and Jared on October 14, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.

Jared Leto changed his hair again. Thank God. Last we saw, Jared was “rocking” a platinum blonde Mohawk at Dior. Personally, I thought he looked like a douche, and I don’t even have a huge problem with Mohawks in general. Now, even with the hair change, Jared still looks like a douche, in my opinion. What’s with the Kanye shades? Is Jared trying to be a high-fashion rock star? I would have had more respect for him if he just stayed a pretty boy, you know? Oh wait… Kanye and Jared collaborated? Eh.

Anyway, Jared is a rock star now. 30 Seconds to Mars even got a VMA nomination, which Jared is very proud of. He also recently joked about being Justin Bieber’s father. Ugh- watch this interview, he’s disgusting. Whatever. Trying to be too cool for school, and all anybody ever thinks is “Jordan Catalano!” I can’t believe someone wanted him for Hot Guy Friday. This douche is so unworthy.

I know, he looks like hell. But he’s not an actor anymore, you know. He’s a musician of a band I can even remember. Mm… 30 Seconds from Mars. And he’s also something of a trendy fashionista, thus his appearance at the big Dior show yesterday, which drew the likes of Anna Wintour and Blake Lively and Jessica Alba – Alba and Leto were actually sitting beside each other:

Ha! As for the blonde Mohawk – eh. Blonde’s not his color, but I understand what he’s doing. He’s so terribly afraid of being seen as a pretty-boy, as Jordan Catalano Forever. I do love the Inspector Gadget trench, though.

Jessica Alba looks so pretty, doesn’t she? She’s very happy to be at an event where she doesn’t have to pretend to talk about her work. She can just sit there and look at pretty clothes and crack jokes with her honorary gay best friend, who is Jared Leto:

Bad news though – Blake Lively was sitting next to Anna Wintour at the show. You know what that means. Blake will be getting another Vogue cover within a year. Blake has been blessed. She has been deemed worthy. Not like Kristen Stewart. By the way, I think Blake’s original nose is growing back?

Photos from the Dior show in Paris on July 5, 2010. Credit: Fame.

Tony Romo had a bunch of reasons to dump Jessica Simpson: her dad was supposedly interfering in his football career, his career was rumored to be suffering from all the media attention, and she gave way too much information about their relationship in a recent interview with Glamour magazine, calling him her “future husband.” Tony and Jessica seem to have reunited for now, though, because he accompanied her to her sister’s wedding over the weekend.

But the main reason Tony should have dumped Jessica is because she’s said to have been cheating on him behind his back with two different guys. The National Enquirer has a new exclusive claiming that she’s been with both mock-worthy emo rocker Jared Leto, and actor Zach Braff since getting together with Tony.

[Jessica Simpson's] fling with Zach Braff began after a recent party hosted by Diddy, when the mogul received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“They spent that night together and several others,” the source said.

“Then she turned to Jared [Leto] for several more romantic trysts! And this was happening right under Tony Romo’s nose!”

At one point she was juggling all three guys, according to the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 2, 2008]

Jessica Simpson is rumored to have cheated on her ex-husband, Nick Lachey, with several guys including Maroon 5′s Adam Levine, her Dukes of Hazzard co-star Johnny Knoxville, and his friend, Bam Margera. So if this is true it’s not out of character for her. It’s possible her relationship with Tony has had it’s share of splits that have been kept from the public and that if she did hook up with these guys it was at a time when she was estranged from the quarterback.

Simpson just returned from a vacation in Los Cabos, Mexico with her mom, dad, and some girlfriends. Her maybe-boyfriend, Tony Romo, did not go. Thanks to Splash for these photos from yesterday.

Blogger abuser and moody rocker Jared Leto broke his nose when fans rushed him at a concert in El Paso, Texas. He went on with the show, but got checked out by a doctor afterwards. Leto sustained other minor injuries to his face and body:

True chaos ensued Thursday at the Taste of Chaos tour stop in El Paso, Texas, resulting in 30 Seconds to Mars singer Jared Leto sustaining a broken nose and other injuries.

According to a spokesperson for the band’s record label, Leto was injured when he ran into the crowd during “The Kill” and thousands of fans overpowered security and rushed toward him on the floor of County Coliseum.

Along with his nose, which was unintentionally broken, Leto suffered a foot injury and superficial injuries to his face and body.

Leto finished the show and even declared it one of the best of the tour, but eventually checked into a hospital to ensure that none of his injuries would require surgery. 30 Seconds to Mars are scheduled to perform Friday (March 2) in Dallas.

No fans were reportedly injured.

It looks like someone reads Best Week Ever and jumped on the opportunity to punch Jared Leto in the face when it presented itself. There are many stories of this guy generally acting like an asshole and threatening people. He also really hates blogs because they point out how shitty his music is and occasionally pay attention to all the arrogant abuse he heaps on others.