I’m constantly amazed by the seemingly random hookups between celebrities, single or otherwise attached to other people. The young celebrities seem particularly prone to in-dating, which makes sense because they’re the ones who are less likely to settle down.

Kirsten Dunst, 26, was spotted out looking bleary eyed and walking hand in hand early in the morning with Justin Long, 30, whose separation with girlfriend Drew Barrymore was just announced. It’s assumed that since Kirsten and Justin - that has a cute ring to it - were together in the morning that they spent the night together. And they were holding hands and kissing so it’s not likely that one of them just crashed on the couch because they were two drunk to drive home.

“Justin was holding Kirsten’s hand while walking around downtown NYC in the SoHo area,” an eyewitness tells OK!. “They looked like they had stayed out all night and Justin had bloodshot eyes, but Kirsten was all over him and kept leaning in to kiss him.”

Perhaps they were heading to the 30-year-old’s new digs — Justin recently purchased a $2.4 million bachelor pad in the Big Apple.

The scene was in stark contrast to Justin’s disposition less than a week ago when he was still reeling from his split with Drew. While out at Westside Tavern on July 12, the actor looked “heartbroken,” a source tells OK!.

[From OK!]

Dunst was most recently casually dating a 25 year-old DJ/actor named Matt Creed. In Touch reported last week that they were seen eating out one day and out at a bar together a few days later.

Kirsten tends to hold her relationships close to her chest so it’s not likely that we’ll be hearing gushing reports about how great Long is or seeing the two of them hit the paparazzi targets like he did with Barrymore. It seemed like Barrymore was the one who wanted to announce her relationship with Long to the world and that he just happily went along with it. He seems like a great guy and he doesn’t strike me as the grungy rocker type that Dunst seems to usually date. Maybe he’s just the kind of guy that she needs now. I think I see the faintest hint of a smile on her face in these pictures.

Kirsten Dunst is shown out in Soho on 7/9/08. Credit: Anthony Dixon / WENN. Justin Long is shown out at Villa on 5/24/08. Credit: WENN

It seems like rehab clinics are the new spas. Kirsten Dunst said she went to rehab for depression treatment while Steven Tyler is claiming that he went to rehab this month in order to have peace and quiet while he recovered from foot surgery:

“The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time,” Tyler says in a statement released Thursday. “The ‘foot repair’ pain was intense, greater than I’d anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic. I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet. Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There’s a new album to record, then another tour.”

According to the statement, Tyler was treated at the center after a series of surgeries and post-operative physical therapy “to correct long-time foot injuries resulting from his trademark athletic performance onstage.”

[From People]

According to the website for the Las Encinas hospital where Tyler was treated, they treat addictions and chemical dependency, but it’s of course possible that he decided to go to rehab when he could have just as easily checked into a resort or spa.

It wasn’t his first stint in rehab this year, though. The National Enquirer reports that he sought outpatient treatment in another facility starting in February for an addiction to prescription painkillers, which he was taking to cope with the pain from hepatitis C.

These celebrities should just keep quiet about rehab and go about their business afterwards. They don’t have to give bogus excuses. Maybe they consider it insurance in case they fall off the wagon. Getting drunk at a club is no longer a bigdeal after rehab, since they already gave the excuse that they were there for the great food and seclusion.

In related news, Kirsten Dunst was said to have been “wobbly” after being out at a bar in NY last weekend.

Steven Tyler is shown at a MusiCares benefit on 5/9/08, thanks to WENN.

Kirsten Dunst told an E! News reporter that she made the decision to go to Cirque Lodge rehab in Utah because she was depressed, not because she had any problems with drug or alcohol abuse. She claims she needed to get away and her therapist recommended it to her:

“I didn’t go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse,” Dunst tells me exclusively during a lunch break on All Good Things. “I went there for depression.”

The 26-year-old Hollywood veteran makes a point of explaining that while she consulted doctors along with family and friends about treatment, it was ultimately her decision to make.

“It was a good six months before I decided to go away,” Dunst says. “I was struggling, and I had the opportunity to go somewhere and take care of myself. I was fortunate to have the resources to do it. My friends and family thought it was a good idea, too. But I didn’t know where to go. My doctor recommended Cirque Lodge.”

[From E! Online]

The Cirque Lodge website is all about addiction treatment, and doesn’t mention depression treatment. Their “admission” page lists “Drug Addictions, Alcohol Addictions and other Substance Abuse issues” under what they treat and doesn’t include depression or other psychiatric issues other than addiction.

Dunst wouldn’t be the first celebrity to say she went to rehab for treatment for depression, though. Ashley Judd revealed two years ago that she received treatment for emotional issues at a facility where her sister, Winona, was being treated for a food addiction. Judd said “My behaviors were treated like addictions. And those behaviors were killing me spiritually, the same as someone who is sitting on a corner with a bottle in a brown paper bag.”

If it worked for her that’s great. You just assume there are better ways to treat depression. Maybe Dunst had more traditional depression treatment with the therapists there and was able to stay in a relaxing setting. This might explain why Cirque Lodge officials completely denied that she was there rather than issuing a standard “no comment” - she may have been sequestered from the other patients.

Dunst says she’s speaking out to end the speculation. “There’s been a lot of misrepresentation about what is going on in my life, and it’s been very painful for my friends and family. Everyone feels like they have to defend me. They hear the rumors, and it puts them in a defensive position. Now that I’m feeling stronger, I was prepared to say something.”

Last week we reported on a story from Star Magazine in which Kirsten was said to have fallen off the wagon after she was photographed out at a bar. A new commenter with an IP address from California, Sammy, said:

“You will never know her and never know her reason for ‘rehab’…but I can assure you it’s never been drugs or alcohol despite what you all want to make up and believe.”

Dunst also categorically denies dating her co-star in the film she’s working on, All Good Things, Ryan Gosling.

Kirsten Dunst is shown after a hair appointment on 9/27/07, thanks to WENN.

Kirsten Dunst has been keeping a low profile after her stint in rehab earlier this year. She bought a $3 million apartment in Tribeca and has been filming All Good Things in NY and Connecticut with Ryan Gosling. Kiki was seen out at lunch with Gosling, which set the tabloids’ tongues wagging, but it wasn’t that impressive to me since they were probably just taking a break from work. Other than that there hasn’t been much news about her, and you hope she’s doing well.

This week’s Star has exclusive photos and a story about how Kirsten was knocking back rum and cokes at a bar. She doesn’t look falling down wasted in the photos, but she does look a little out of it. Star’s armchair psychologists (it takes one to know one, I’ll admit) say that she’s not over her three year-old breakup with Jake Gyllenhaal and that she was flirting with different guys all night. They also say she was there with friends, so she was probably just talking to them:

Kirsten Dunst has fallen off the wagon - hard! The actress took a break from the Connecticut set of All Good Things to belatedly celebrate her 26th birthday at the New York City bar Bowery Electric, where an eyewitness saw her slamming a whiskey shot and knocking back rum and Cokes…

But [Kirsten’s] hard work in rehab seemed to be the last thing on her mind and she drank and dance with a group of friends, including Ryan Michael Gentles, the manager of her ex Fabrizio Moretti’s band The Strokes.

Pals say part of Kirsten’s probably is her troubled love life. She’s still stinging over her 2005 split from Jake Gyllenhaal, and working side by side with short-lived flame Ryan Gosling on All Good Things isn’t helping. Now, sources say, Kirsten may be seeking solace in the bottle - and the arms of other men! “She got worse as the night went on,” says the witness. “She started out pretty chill, but hours later she was dancing and jumping around like a crazed animal!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, May 26, 2008]

The article goes on to say that Kirsten was there with a guy with whom she “kept touching” and “snuggling with,” but that whenever he wasn’t around even for a moment she “indulged any guy who gave her attention” and “went up to several guys and started flirting with them hardcore.”

This is Star, so my money is on the fact that all they have are the photos of her talking with a guy at a bar looking pretty normal. A lot of people struggle with alcohol abuse in their mid to late 20s. It’s that weird in-between period when you’re supposed to take on more responsibility but you’re not quite sure what that entails yet, and you’re still kind of holding on to the wild past. Maybe it isn’t as bad as Star claims and Kirsten just indulged for her birthday. AA recommends that people abstain entirely, and you hope Kirsten knows when to say when. As long as she’s still able to do her job and isn’t driving or flashing the paps, that seems to be her business.

Thanks to Splash News for these photos of Kirsten on set yesterday.

Kirsten Dunst is out of rehab and living in a new $3 million apartment in Tribeca. She’s also in NY to film the movie All Good Things with hot Canadian actor Ryan Gosling. Star Magazine likes to make humping mountains out of acquaintance molehills and says that Ryan and Kirsten were “acting like they were on a date and lingering for hours” when they were spotted out at lunch together in Manhattan. Considering that they’re working together presumably in that area and that it was just lunch, it probably wasn’t more than just a friendly colleague outing:

The couple were spotted “acting like they were on a date and lingering for hours” while lunching at Freeman’s restaurant in Manhattan. But if Kirsten - who dated Jake Gyllenhaal for almost three years - has any ideas about starting a long-term relationship with Ryan, who split last year from actress Rachel McAdams, she may want to think twice! Says an insider: “Ryan likes Kirsten as a friend - but that’s as far as it goes.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, April 28, 2008]

Ryan Gosling already lost most of the weight he gained for the role as a middle aged dad in The Lovely Bones that ended up going to Mark Wahlberg. I liked him better with a few extra pounds because he looked old enough for me not to feel pervy fantasizing about him. Now he’s just another hot up and coming actor and not the helpful neighbor guy who fixes the sink when my husband’s away.

Star Magazine last linked Gosling with Michelle Williams before the untimely death of her daughter’s father. Williams and Gosling were seen out at dinner and taking a walk in late December, but her rep said they were just discussing a potential project.

It all sounds like bullshit, but since it allows me to think about Ryan Gosling I’ll report it. It’s better if I don’t believe that Ryan was out on any dates, because then he’s free to fix my sink.

Note - I wrote this story and then realized that this is old news that was reported two weeks ago by another unreliable source, The NY Post. My gossip skills are low today because I’m exhausted from working on the site. I’ll just put it out there anyway.

Ryan Gosling is shown at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on 1/29/08, thanks to WENN. Kirsten Dunst is shown at the Spiderman 3 premiere on 4/30/07, thanks to PRPhotos. Gosling has lost more weight since this photo was taken.

Everyone was all atwitter with the news that less-than-beloved Spiderman actress, Kirsten Dunst, 25, was reported to have checked into the same rehab facility in Utah where Lindsay Lohan received treatment, Cirque Lodge. Eva Mendes was even there, and it seemed like she provided some circumstantial evidence that Kirsten may have shown up by taking a break from rehab right around the time Kirsten was reported to have arrived.

The news originated on the Star Magazine website and then was picked up by other outlets, including People, which said that a source confirmed the news, adding that she’s been weepy and unhappy lately. She was said to have been encouraged to go to rehab but People’s source stated that no one close to her staged an intervention.

Dunst’s rep has not commented on this story to any outlet, but did say that “Kirsten is Fine” when an earlier story on the NY Post had her about to have a breakdown at Sundance. E! Online reports that they contacted the Cirque Lodge, who denied that Kirsten is there. While you might think that they’re just trying to protect a high-profile client, it sounds like a categorical denial because the Lodge director specifically said that it’s not a case of trying to preserve a patient’s confidentiality and that she really isn’t there. That was stupid, because now you know when they say “we don’t comment” that it means that someone is there.

While reports are running rampant that the Spider-Man heroine has checked into the Cirque Lodge treatment center in Park City, Utah, a rep for the facility has denied to E! News that the actress is being treated by the facility.

“Nope, not true,” said Gary Fisher, the lodge’s director of operations. He added that while the facility prides itself on refusing to comment on the comings and goings of celebrity patients, Dunst is definitively not, and never has been, at the center.

[From E-Online, thanks to Virgina for the tip]

So if Kirsten Dunst isn’t at Cirque Lodge is she at another rehab? You can’t put much faith in Star’s stories, but if it isn’t true at all, then People seems culpable too because they claim that the story is supported by a source. But you think if Kirsten was home and fine she would have either gone somewhere public to show the world she’s not in rehab, or she would have released a statement through her rep saying that the story was false. It seems like something is up with her, but at least we know that she can’t be blamed for Eva Mendes’ furlough.

Dunst is shown on 10/5/07 at Paris Fashion week, thanks to PRPhotos. I feel bad for her so I’m using pretty pictures.

It seems that Kirsten Dunst has been having substance abuse problems as she has checked into the same rehab where Eva Mendes is staying:

Spider-Man’s Mary Jane made the decision to follow in the footsteps of Cirque patients such as Lindsay Lohan and Richie Sambora — after a week of wild parties at last month’s Sundance Film Festival. Fellow actress Eva Mendes is also in the mountaintop facility right now. Mary-Kate Olsen was treated at Cirque for food issues.

“She desperately needed help,” a source in Utah tells Star. “She seemed to be intoxicated when she checked in because she was acting really erratic. She was extremely emotional, constantly breaking down in tears.

“She not in a good place right now, but thankfully, she’s getting the help she needs.”

Star Magazine

This isn’t the first we’ve heard about Kirsten’s drunkenness, she gave this revealing interview in 2005.

The stunning actress is alleged to have arrived on the red-carpet of the New York premiere looking “dishevelled” before drinking herself into an aggressive stupour at the exclusive post screening bash. According to one fellow reveller, who was quoted by America’s New York Post newspaper, Dunst was “drinking a lot and got very loud and obnoxious. She was very pushy.”

She told American talk show host Jay Leno: “I stock up on Veuve Cliquot champagne. I buy it from Costco - cheap there I have lots of alcohol and no food in my fridge”. When asked by Leno whether she was worried about her drinking habits, the screen beauty added: “Well, maybe in a few months you will see me in a rehab clinic.”

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I’m pretty sure her ‘maybe in a few months you will see me in a rehab clinic’ comment was meant to be a joke, but maybe she sort of knew she was falling off the wagon. Then again, isn’t drinking something everyone does in their late teens and early twenties? The legal drinking age in America is 21, but in other countries it is 18. Maybe this is why is has take her so long to admit she might have a problem, because everyone else is drinking to excess at parties. Which I think your liver and brain can cope with for a short period of time, although it always seems to feel very badly the next morning.

The again, the report is a Star Magazine exclusive, and they’ve been known to be wrong a few times. 25 year-old Kirsten only has one movie coming out this year, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, and another coming out in early 2009.

Note by Celebitchy: There were rumors that Kirsten was “in a bad place” at Sundance, but her rep denied that there was anything wrong. She was also seen publicly making out with Josh Hartnett there.

Kirsten Dunst is seen out at lunch with a friend on 1/17/08, thanks to Splash News.

It never ceases to amaze me the celebrity couple combinations that are possible. In a way it seems like a massive incestuous free-for-all, but maybe that’s because there are only so many famous people in that age bracket along with the fact that the tabloids like to act like two people of the opposite sex are together whenever they talk to each other at an event.

I was trying to figure out if Josh Harnett and Kirsten Dunst were ever supposedly together, and they did play lovers in the 2000 film The Virgin Suicides along with being spotted making out over three years ago at a club. Everything old is new again, or at least smooch-worthy, because Josh and Kirsten were seen swapping spit at a Sundance party:

Josh Hartnett - showed up at Hyde-Sundance with his old Virgin Suicides co-star Kirsten Dunst on his arm. The two took over a couch in the lounge and proceeded to make out like crazy! They remained in an almost-perpetual liplock until 4 a.m.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Hollywood After Dark section, February 4, 2008]

Making out on a couch for hours at a club strikes me as either something you’d do when you lived with your parents or were cheating on your live-in significant other. You would also presumably not have the time or money to rent a room. So these two have little or no excuse apart from inebriation, laziness, and/or exhibitionist tendencies. Just go to the hotel already. Or not, so we can gossip about how you carried on in public. Horny bastards.

Kirsten Dunst is shown having lunch with friends on 1/17/08. Josh Hartnett is shown in Park City, Utah on 1/23/08. Thanks to Splash News.

Kim Cattrall sure wasn’t kidding when she said that she was just doing the Sex and The City movie for the money. Not only is she being paid the hefty fee of $6 million to do the film - her salary is three times the amount that her fellow supporting actresses Cynthia Nixon and Kirsten Davis are being paid. Davis and Nixon, who were always on board for a film version of the hit HBO series and didn’t hold out for more money and perks like Cattrall did, are receiving just $2 million a piece. That hardly sounds fair, does it?

[Kim Cattrall will] get a whopping $6 million to re-create her character Samantha Jones for the film version of the hit show, while Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte York) are walking away with only $2 million each, The Enquirer has learned.

“Kim has had the last laugh on her co-stars,” said a source close to the highly anticipated project.

“For years she was the odd girl-out while Cynthia and Kristin sucked up to Sarah Jessica Parker and snubbed Kim.

“But this time Kim’s calling the shots. She’s letting everyone in the world know she was the cast holdout and she demanded triple was the other girls got.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, November 26, 2007]

According to The Enquirer, Sarah Jessica Parker had plenty of incentive to reward Cattrall for driving a hard bargain. She will make nearly $10 million for playing Carrie Bradshaw and will earn another $5 million for producing the film.

What I fail to see is how Cattrall is technically more valuable to the cast than Nixon and Davis are. If someone has a more central role, like Sarah Jessica Parker, they should get more money for it, but Cattrall certainly isn’t worth three times the amount her costars are. It sounds like they were so desperate to make this already-overdue film that they just dealt with Cattrall and met her demands. Meanwhile the actresses who played fair and just wanted to do their jobs are the ones who got screwed.

This is the woman who put out two how-to sex books and deliberately went without panties (NSFW link) to pull a “Basic Instinct” crossing-legs maneuver while promoting the second last November. Maybe she won’t have to resort to such desperate measures to revive her career now that she has some cash in the bank.

Life is imitating long-gone television for Kim Cattrall. 51 year-old Cattrall has been dating 28 year-old Canadian chef Alan Wyse since 2004.

Cattrall and her co-stars are shown on the Sex and the City set on 11/7/07. Thanks to Splash News.

Kirsten Dunst not only suffers from babycorn teeth that she refuses to fix, saying they’re an essential part of her, she also has wicked body odor. Maybe she thinks that personal stink is part of her unique essense and shouldn’t be washed away with soap or warded off with antiperspirant.

[Kirsten Dunst] smells! “Kirsten’s friends have nicknamed her ‘Stinky,’” says an insider. “She always has the worst body odor!” But [stylist] Weiss says that’s an easy one to fix. “She should make sure to always wear tank tops so she can wash her underarms often when she’s out.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 22, 2007]

Why does this not surprise me? She probably smells like stale pot smoke and patchouli too.

There’s an hilarious critique of Dunst’s style by a columnist for the Tufts University student paper. He says he used to see her appeal but that she annoys him now, and represents all the lame hipsters who dress scruffy and refuse to bathe despite having enough resources to clean up and look decent. Contrary to being lazy and unwilling to clean up, the author bets that she plans her outfits and doesn’t shower to achieve that perfect state of grungy hipster chic, and that’s stupid. He also hates Ray Bans, and I have to say I find them pretty hideous myself.

All right, so I hate them. Why? For the same reason everyone else besides hipsters hates hipsters: the condescending sense of posed entitlement and nonchalance.

First off, isn’t it a little ironic to be well off while simultaneously dressing like you’re some underground scenester from Allston? How can you wear $200 Sevens and have it represent anything remotely punk?

The calculation is what really offends me. Kirsten Dunst, along with - I’m just guessing - most of the hipster population at Tufts and in Boston, can afford to bathe at least once a week. Is there some appeal in looking dirty? Is that some unsanitary form of rebellion? It takes calculation for Ms. Dunst to leave her mansion in Hollywood looking like a hobo, albeit with a real Chanel bag instead of some (played) faux Balenciaga motorcycle bag.

Thank God hipster style is nothing but the most transient of trends. How long can obnoxiously uncomfortable skinny jeans last? Fashion pundits are already calling for the death of the Wayfarer (me too!). I’ll take anything that doesn’t force me to look at the campily ubiquitous shades. I swear they flatter no one.

That, for me, is the deal breaker. I cannot stand ubiquity. I realize it’s almost hipsterish to be the asshole constantly talking about how much hipsters suck but, really, I would hate any kind of uniform dress code that only leaves room for prescribed idiosyncrasy.

With the glut of hipster culture we are currently in, what with movies like “Marie Antoinette” and “The Darjeeling Limited” (2007), it looks like we’ll have to deal with a period of mass marketing before its inevitable death.

[From Tuftsdaily.com]

There’s nothing wrong with having your own style, but when it’s everyone else’s style of the moment and involves smelling bad too, there’s no excuse.

Here’s Kirsten Dunst in a grungy t-shirt, cut offs and Ray Bans out on 10/8/07 after lunch in West Hollywood. Thanks to Splash News.