Kate Hudson was on “The View” this morning, and Barbara Walters mentioned that she was having lunch with Lance Armstrong later that day and said “I’m having lunch with Lance Armstrong and you’re not.” She asked Kate if she would care to confirm the rumors about her and Lance and Kate got all flustered and started laughing. She said “I think somebody told me he was going to be on the show next week. You should ask him.”

Kate said “um” a bunch of times, and said “yeah… I try not to talk about my personal life…. I just feel like every time you talk about anything in your personal life it becomes like a headline that becomes a different headline.”

Here’s that section of the interview:

Kate’s response is similar to what she told Ryan Seacrest about how it’s “better to let people speculate,” and seems like a very wise way to handle it.

Kate also talked about her parents’ trip around Europe. She said her mom, Goldie Hawn, and her partner of 26 years, Kurt Russell, (who she calls “dad”) are currently in Greece and that they’ve taken a cooking class and bike trip. She calls them “so cute” and says they send her pictures of their vacation.

Hudson’s hairdresser, David Babaii, came on stage and they talked about their new haircare line, Wild Aid. She said they’ve worked on the line together for three years and tried to make it affordable and with all natural ingredients. Kate said someone she works with developed breast cancer and that inspired her to make sure that she wasn’t using harmful body or haircare products.

Here’s a link to the whole interview, thanks to Redlasso.

And here’s Kate looking cute today in NY, thanks to Splash News.

According to OK Magazine, Owen Wilson isn’t handling his breakup with Kate Hudson very well. The actor tried to commit suicide last summer after the pair broke up for the first time and Wilson saw photos of Hudson kissing Dax Shepard. He went through a lot of treatment and stopped drinking and seemed to be doing really well. Needless to say, their friends and families weren’t so wild about the pair rekindling their romance. When it fizzled out again a few weeks ago, everyone seemed optimistic that the pair could handle it well.

However Hudson immediately started dating Lance Armstrong, who was one of Wilson’s good friends. Owen has recently been spotted drinking heavily in several clubs, causing those close to him to worry that he’s slipping back into his old habits.

Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong are still going strong with their new romance, but one person who’s not as happy about it is Owen Wilson.

The actor, who went officially off-again with Kate a few weeks ago, isn’t taking his ex’s rebound relationship too well, according to clubgoers who spotted him at club G in Philadelphia.

“Owen looked pretty upset,” an eyewitness tells OK!. “He was drinking and sulking until last call.”

Besides drowning his sorrows in alcohol, the 39-year-old, who attempted suicide in August following his split with Kate, has turned to little brother Luke for support.

“Owen’s been spending time on the phone with Luke,” a Marley & Me set source tells OK!. “There are a lot of people making sure they’re there for him.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Several of their friends have said they assumed Owen would break Kate’s heart, and were genuinely surprised that it was the other way around. It makes you wonder if Kate is dating one of his friends out of spite. Though considering their past, let’s hope that’s not the case. By all accounts Owen has a great family and really close friends. It’s good he’s leaning on them. Hopefully they can get him away from drinking and back on the straight and narrow quickly.

Photo Kate Hudson (on the set of her upcoming new movie ‘Bride Wars’ filming in Manhattan yesterday) and Owen Wilson (on the set of ‘Marley and Me’ in Philadelphia) on May 14th. Images thanks to WENN.

Owen Wilson isn’t letting the grass grow under his feet after his latest split with Kate Hudson. Instead of getting depressed, or turning to spiritual pursuits in an attempt to make sense of what happened, he went out to a strip club and blew a lot of money on lap dances. One dancer he took a liking to is said to have borne more than a passing resemblance to his famous ex:

Wilson… headed straight for a Philadelphia strip club last Thursday and partied with a topless Hudson look-alike, sources tell Page Six.

“He spent 41/2 hours at Rick’s Cabaret and was in an upbeat mood,” one spy said. “He watched the Flyers game, drank beer, and when a parade of 75 half-naked girls caught his eye, he asked for dances from several and definitely had a preference for blondes. He tipped at least one with a $100 bill.”

Later, a luscious blonde who resembled Hudson spent some private time with Wilson in a VIP suite. “If he had any problems, you’d never know it. He didn’t seem upset in the least,” the buxom look-alike told us. “People tell me I look like Kate, and it didn’t bother him at all.”

[From The New York Post]

It sounds like Wilson has a type. Many years ago I read those “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” books, and while a lot of author John Gray’s advice is hackneyed and seems to rely too much on gender stereotypes, one thing that stuck with me is his advice for getting through the period after a breakup. Gray claims that men tend to go out and get into another relationship right away while women want to stay home and think about things when a relationship ends. He recommends that men try to take their time before they jump into another relationship and that women should date and play the field after a breakup.

Kate Hudson isn’t exactly sitting home crying over their split, either. She’s been seen out twice with Lance Armstrong, who also dated Owen’s other ex, Sheryl Crowe. You hope Lance didn’t have anything to do with Kate and Owen’s breakup, but since it looks like he started dating her almost immediately after they broke up, it’s somewhat suspicious.

Owen Wilson is shown on the set of “Marley and Me” with Eric Dane in Philadelphia, PA on 5/14/08, thanks to WENN.

It seems like we’re hearing many more chilling stories about stalkers targeting celebrities. Uma Thurman gave emotional testimony on Thursday about a man who stalked and tormented her for two years, often waiting outside her NY apartment for her. 37 year-old Jack Jordan tried to break into Thurman’s trailer when she was filming in 2005. He lived in his car outside her place, and sent her disturbing hand drawn pictures and cards, calling her children an “illusion” and telling her she had no children. Thurman testified that she felt like she was in a “nightmare” and that she was “completely freaked out.” Jordan has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to his lawyer. He faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

Kate Hudson is filming Bride Wars in Boston with Anne Hathaway, and she also has a very mentally disturbed man interested in her. A 44 year-old man was arrested for burglary in Boston and police report that he “had an unhealthy interest in Kate Hudson.” Her security was alerted to the threat, and he’s being held on a mental evaluation for 30 days.

This guy doesn’t seem to have the wherewithal to actually find Hudson, but he’s certainly scary enough. Police found all sorts of brick a brack in his car including axes, lawn ornaments and women’s clothing:

Neil Bergman, 44, of Whitefield, N.H., was arraigned on burglary charges in Boston Municipal Court the other day and was packed off for a 30-day mental evaluation, the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office confirmed to the Track. Other sources report that after Bergman was apprehended, he allegedly ranted to cops about Hudson and her mother, actress Goldie Hawn.

“This suspect made statements to the arresting officers that indicated the individual had an unhealthy interest in Kate Hudson,” Boston police spokesgal Elaine Driscoll told the Track. “As a matter of caution, we alerted her security…”

Sources said the actress’ purported unwanted admirer, who claims to be a bartender at the Mountain View Grand Resort, was tossed out of the fab Four Seasons for “making a ruckus” the day before he was allegedly nabbed with stolen property. It’s unclear if Bergman thought Hudson was staying there. She is not.

BTW, Bergman supposedly posed as a gardener on Beacon Hill while allegedly burglarizing homes. Police arrested him last week near the Boston Common bandstand - he was wearing yellow slippers - and charged him with receiving stolen goods, burglary and other infractions.

In his 2000 Honda Civic, police allegedly found two axes, computer equipment, a copper weather vane, outdoor flower pots, an Elvis plate, a Christmas tree, ahem, and lots of women’s clothing.

[From BostonHerald.com via I’m Not Obsessed]

When you’re famous it’s not enough trouble to have everyone speculating about your personal life, you also have the threat of crazed stalkers looming over your head. You can kind of understand why Renee Zellweger sold her home and now lives in different hotels throughout the world. She probably feels a lot safer that way.

Kate Hudson is shown on the set of “Bride Wars” in NY on 3/31/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

People Magazine used to have fifty “Most Beautiful People” every year. Apparently the population of Hollywood has just gotten too damn attractive, because now we’re up to 100. The thing is, there aren’t 100 hot people in Hollywood that haven’t been in the magazine before, so People ends up recycling the same people every couple of years, and that gets a little dull. Yes we know Clooney and Pitt are hot, can we move on please? There’s really nothing new to say about their hotness.

This year, the most beautiful woman is Kate Hudson. I don’t really see it though. She’s certainly not ugly – she’s got a nice face and a great body. But I don’t think there’s anything unusually gorgeous about her. And after staring at the People cover long enough, I’ve decided that her jaw line leaves something to be desired.

Heading the list of People’s 100 Most Beautiful People is a 29-year-old mother remarkably short on her beauty sleep – for which she lovingly credits her active 4-year-old son. The beautiful, sleep-deprived mom? Kate Hudson, People reveals in its special issue, which goes on sale Friday.

Was she always such a head-turner? Admits the actress: “I was a tomboy. I had three brothers. I was the girl with the dress on that always came back in the house filthy with scrapes and bruises. But I was always very girly. I had to be able to twirl so that my underwear showed.”

Her best time for looking good, she says, comes “at the end of the night, when everything’s soaked in and I’m still up. I like the leftover makeup in the morning. You’ve got to wash your face but there’s always the leftover eye makeup, I love that.”

[From People]

Alright, so some deep thoughts from Kate Hudson there. According to People, Kate will also be talking about Owen Wilson in the article – which isn’t on newsstands until Friday. Something tells me whatever revealing tidbit they have will be something along the lines of, “He’s wonderful/we’re just really great friends.”

E! gives a breakdown of some of the more interesting stats on some of the Most Beautiful.

* Age range: 67-year-old Raquel Welch tops the list in one direction, while 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, who’s probably preparing an apology as we speak for being so darn lovely, caps the other side
* Making her record 12th appearance on the list: Halle Berry
* Musicians/singers: 18
* Athletes: 5
* Career models: 1 (Go Iman!)
* Hot by association: George Clooney girlfriend Sarah Larson; Sean Combs ex Kim Porter; Jessica Alba baby daddy Cash Warren; rock-and-roll muses Pattie Boyd (George Harrison and Eric Clapton), Marisol Thomas (hubby Rob Thomas) and Vanessa Marcil (Prince’s “Most Beautiful” girl in the world)
* Made even hotter because of how funny they are: Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Ellen Page, Isla Fisher, Heidi Montag (although that last one might be unintentional)
* People singled out just for their neck tattoos: 12, including Kelly Osbourne and Pink

[From E! News]

I didn’t realize neck tattoos were such a big things – certainly not to the point of twelve percent of the Most Beautiful People having them. Maybe that’s what I’m missing. Alright, well I’m off to the tattoo parlor, where I’ll be reading about beautiful people and feeling really, really inadequate.

Here’s Kate Hudson with Matthew McConaughey at the “Fool’s Gold” London premiere on April 10th. She’s definitely cute and spunky, I’ll give her that. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Neither Kate Hudson or Matthew McConaughey was looking their best at the London premiere of their adventure caper Fool’s Gold last night. Hudson was swimming in a sea green silk John Galliano kimono-like dress while McConaughey’s hair looked more suited for a sock hop than a 2008 film premiere. He must be in that awkward stage between clean cut and scruffy, desperately trying to grow his hair out but unable to style it other than to poof it up.

Hudson gave an interview at the premiere last night and explained that she has green eyes and really hates it when she sees them airbrushed blue on the covers of magazines. From the way she phrased her answer, it sounds like someone specifically asked her about airbrushing:

“I just tend to let those things go. I can’t tell you how many covers of magazines I’ve been on when my eyes were blue.

“I don’t have blue eyes. I have green eyes. So, you just kind of go with it, you know, it’s like it is what it is and that’s what people do, you know.”

[From InTheNews.co.uk]

Hudson also said that she drives McConaughey crazy when she’s late for interviews they’re doing together, and McConaughey said that they’re good friends that drive each other crazy:

“He can’t stand it when I’m late,” she explained. “It drives him crazy when I’m late. And every time I come to an appointment he just looks at me and he tells me I’m tardy.

“Every time I’m, like, ten minutes late, he pulls this little face.”

But Hudson’s lack of punctuality will not prevent McConaughey from making a third film with her, the Texan actor said at the premiere at London’s Vue West End cinema.

“We are super close and we just, for some reason, really connected from the first movie we did,” he revealed.

“It continues and, like any good relationship you have with your friends, it can drive you a little crazy… We drive each other crazy, but in a good way - in a sort of loving way.”

[From InTheNews.co.uk]

I wouldn’t mind it if I was a starlet who had my fat and fine lines smoothed out for magazine covers as long as it wasn’t too obvious, but you can see how Hudson gets annoyed that they make her eyes blue. Why would they do that? Aren’t green eyes pretty too? I zoomed in on Hudson’s face and her eyes are lovely but the color isn’t that deep. Maybe editors think that the eyes should “pop” more to sell copies. It looks like no body feature is immune on the covers of magazines. The results are just an ideal version of an already gorgeous person. The emotional part of me sees those magazine covers and thinks I need to get my teeth bleached, get botox and lose 15 pounds while my logical mind fights to tell me that it’s all the magic of Photoshop. It’s hard to escape those fake images of women staring back at you perfectly, accusingly.

Also doesn’t McConaughey seem like the person most likely to be late among these two? I’m kind of surprised that mr. laid back natural smell is punctual enough to care if someone else is ten minutes late.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Kate and Owen last year
The currently on-again romance between Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson may be getting serious. The couple is reportedly apartment hunting in New York City and looking to move in together as soon as Owen is done filming “Marley and Me” with Jennifer Aniston. There’s even talk that Kate wants to have Owen’s child.

Kate Hudson is apartment- shopping in New York with an eye to living here part-time with her rekindled flame Owen Wilson, according to a pal.

“She is ready to nest and has even been talking about having more little ones,” a friend of the actress tells me.

The pal says she credits getting back together with Wilson for ending a wild period in her life, during which she was linked with Justin Timberlake and Dax Shepard.

“She is relieved to be more settled again,” says the friend. “She really felt as if she were testing her limits going out while she and Owen were separated.”

Hudson is in New York shooting “Bride Wars,” about best friends who fall out over setting the same wedding date, with Anne Hathaway.

But that doesn’t mean Hollywood’s most famous blond couple are ready to make Manhattan a full-time home.

“Kate is a great businesswoman,” says the friend. “If she bought an apartment, it would be to sell [later].”

[From NY Daily News]

So…which is it? Is Kate a good businesswoman, currently working in NYC and seizing the opportunity to buy an apartment while the market is in a lull, or is she all lovey dovey and nesting and looking for a place to lay another egg? These so-called “friends” and “insiders” never give away anything good. Personally, I’d like to see Kate Hudson go a few months between boyfriends. Girlfriend must have a revolving door on her bedroom. However, Owen does seem to be much more upbeat, post suicide attempt, since getting back with Kate- I just hope they don’t go rushing into the whole “let’s have a kid” thing.

Kate Hudson continues to wear loose clothing which makes it look like she’s trying to hide something. She is shown in the header image out at Nobu on Wednesday night, wearing a loose short dress that is puffing out in the right places.

At the dance studio on Wednesday she wore a big ‘ol red sweatshirt, which may have been just a comfortable cover-up.

But she was also seen at the dance studio the day before, and even though she held her sweater out in front of her she couldn’t hide something that seemed obvious to us.

We were calling her pregnant earlier in the month after she made several appearances for Fool’s Gold wearing loose clothing. It could just be her fashion sense and the fact that she’s gained less weight than I have the past year (I’m not going to lie to you, I have been hitting the gym trying to move some of that into muscle) so if we’re wrong on this one we’re very sorry. Kate didn’t look like she wasn’t pregnant on the Regis and Kelly show, but it was hard to tell.

If she is pregnant, people are wondering who the father might be. There’s a story that she’s been secretly seeing Owen Wilson again, but Life and Style also reports that she was seen out to lunch with an old hook up, Justin Timberlake. This could get interesting, or Hudson could just slim down in two weeks and we’ll be feeling stupid, but I don’t see that happening.

The National Enquirer ran an item a short while ago claiming that Owen Wilson had fallen off the wagon and was calling Kate Hudson and trying to win her back. Now they say that he spent the night at her house and that they’re back together but are wisely trying to keep it from the public.

Owen spent the night at Kate’s Pacific Palisades home recently before jetting off to Hawaii, The Enquirer has learned exclusively.

“Owen has been secretly meeting Kate since the beginning of the year - at first for 20 minutes here or there, but the visits gradually became longer, revealed an insider.

“Then Owen ended up spending the night at her place.

“Owen and Kate are back together, but they’re not ready to take their relationship public.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, February 18, 2008]

The Enquirer adds that “insiders” are speculating if Kate Hudson is pregnant, and we were all over that on Friday. Hudson hasn’t been seen out in a form-fitting dress in some time and it seemed like something was up. Commentors pointed out that she did wear a fitted dress and skirt to an appearance on the Regis & Kelly show, and she wore a lovely tight gown to the BAFTA Awards this weekend, which seems to put a rest to that rumor.

According to The Enquirer, Owen’s drinking is under control now despite his relapse, and they say that Kate is helping him work through his issues. The article’s supposed source claims that “they are taking things slowly,” but that Kate “is the one true love of his life.”

We’ll have to wait and see if this one is true, and the evidence is sketchy. These two had an on and off relationship and were very low key about it until Kate showed up at an after party for the premiere of Owen’s movie with his brothers, “The Wendell Baker Story,” last Spring. They broke it off shortly afterwards. Although you want to hope they can make it work, those type of relationships rarely do unless one person makes a major change in their life. It seems like Owen had a transformative experience after the trauma he went through last year and maybe he has changed enough to make it work with Kate - if he even hooked up with her again.

Kate Hudson is shown below at the BAFTA Awards yesterday, not looking pregnant. Owen Wilson is shown in the header at the premiere of “The Wendell Baker Story” in March, 2007, and Kate is shown in the header outside the Late Show on 2/7/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

I have never understood what the big deal is with Justin Timberlake. I think he’s surprisingly talented, but what the hell is so irresistibly sexy about him? It seems like he’s considered the ultimate celebrity to date. He’s cute, but I wouldn’t exactly call him the cat’s meow. He’s more like that plaintive cry they make when they see a bird at the window. It’s kinda cute, but entertaining for only so long. When Justin first started dating Jessica Biel, everyone seemed to act like she was so lucky to get to be with him. She’s gorgeous! He’s certainly a bigger celebrity, but it’s not like an upside down Beauty & the Beat situation. But apparently Justin didn’t realize how lucky he was. According to Star, he recently cheated on Jessica with Kate Hudson. Jessica was in England filming her new movie “Easy Virtue.” Indeed.

JT flew VIP class on Virgin Atlantic Airways and was first off the plane when it arrived at Heathrow Airport. He dashed to a waiting Range Rover for the 30-mile, 110-mph trip to 16th-century Englefield House, where Jess is working on the romantic comedy Easy Virtue. And he arrived not a moment too soon. Jessica, 25, was furious, insiders tell Star, when she got wind of the reports that he had hooked up with Kate Hudson at Hollywood club Villa on Jan. 11.

…Justin spent an evening flirting with Kate, 28. While reps deny the hookup, an eyewitness said, “They seemed to be so into each other.” By the end of the evening, Justin was “full-on kissing her. They barely came up for air!” That’s all Jessica need to hear to go ballistic.

[From Star, Feb. 11th 2008, print edition]

According to Star, Jessica claimed she couldn’t trust Justin. Shocking. Several people on the movie set said the reunion seemed stiff and uncomfortable, and Jessica wasn’t exactly throwing herself back into Justin’s arms. The mag goes on to say that Justin wined and dinned Jessica and won his way back into her heart in less than 36 hours.

“After dinner, Justin “waited until he was in the back of his Range Rover, then cupped her face in his hand,” an eyewitness reveals. “Jessica brushed the hair out of her face, and he moved in for a kiss. It was a very romantic gesture.”

[From Star, Feb. 11th 2008, print edition]

You know what else is a romantic gesture? Not making out with other women when you’ve got a girlfriend. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but that always works for me. Flying to London and driving 110-mph to get to me is really sweet, but certainly less so when you’ve been shoving your tongue down other girls’ throats.

Picture Note by JayBird: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake in happier times this past summer.