There are plenty of shirtless boys and drama in the new extended trailer for New Moon, the second film in the Twilight saga. The three stars of the series, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and Kristen Stewart, premiered the extended trailer to screaming fans at the MTV VMAs last night. We’ve already seen some brief shirtless clips of both Robert Pattinson (Edward) and Taylor Lautner (Jacob) from the film as shown at Comic Con, along with a shirtless Lautner in the first trailer. Now we get to see much more of Jacob’s hot werewolf buddies from La Push and more of the characters who play the vampire elite, The Vulturi. Dakota Fanning is evil young Jane with glowing red eyes and too much makeup.

Mild spoilers for New Moon that you can figure out from watching the trailer
I’m definitely going to go see this movie, but I really disliked the part of New Moon where Edward just up and leaves Bella. (I’m labeling this a spoiler, but it’s pretty much in the trailer above.) Bella’s depression is kind of hard to deal with as a reader and I wanted her to realize what a jerk Edward was for not sticking by her instead of working so hard to contact him somehow. It will be an entertaining film, and it looks a little overwrought in this trailer, but that’s Twilight for you, and that’s part of the reason we love it. The car scenes with Alice look really cheesy and fake though, right?

New Moon is out in the US on November 20th and is sure to be a hit. Its predecessor Twilight has taken in $383 million so far.

Oh, the Video Music Awards. Where bad fashion goes to die, where pop music goes to celebrate itself. I remember when the VMAs used to be edgy. I remember when they were a huge deal. Now it just seems so… corporate. Maybe it was always corporate, and I was just naïve back in the day. Note: CB is covering the Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident, in which Kanye made a rather spectacular ass out of himself. Anyhoodle, here’s a rundown of the nights biggest winners and losers, both from the actual awards, and from the fashion:

*Winner: Lady Gaga’s “Mistress Dark Feathers” ensemble. According to Us Weekly, it was “a black lace Jean Paul Gaultier dress with Dragon print silk underlay from Gaultier’s fall/winter ready to wear collection. She accessorized the look with a Keko Hainswheeler neck brace and Kiko jewelry.” Later, in the press room, Gaga was wearing some grey-silver puffy leotard that was not attractive.

*Loser: Gerard Butler. He’s my boyfriend and everything, but he had no reason to be there, and he looked extremely grumpy. He needs to stop going to every event, you know? I love him, and I love seeing pictures of him, but I can only think that he was there to hit on the young 20-year-old reality stars. Or poor Taylor Swift, who had a rough enough night without Gerard Butler trying to put the moves on her.

*Winners: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart looking like they could eat each other up in every damn picture. The two of them, plus Taylor “Third Wheel” Lautner, were there to introduce a clip from New Moon. Poor (hot) Taylor. I bet he even had to go in the car with Pattz and Kristen, and they probably couldn’t keep their hands off one another. Kristen wore a really pretty beige-gold party dress, and her hair was super-cute. Sparkles is a mouth-breather, and he looked smug. Like “Yeah, I’m finally nailing Bella” smug.

*Loser: Perez Hilton and his “demented gardener/proctologist” look. And for being Perez.

*Losers: Pink and Shakira wore the same black Balmain mini-dress. Maybe I could understand if the dress was really, really cute, but it’s totally plain. The real loser is the House of Balmain, who should have been better organized than to send the same dress out to two pop stars for the same event.

*Winner: Beyonce, for winning Video of the Year, for her cute red outfit, and for being so classy to Taylor Swift.

*Loser: Jennifer Lopez, for whatever the hell she was wearing. She’s trying too hard, and it’s painful.

*Losers: All of the dumb, interchangeable MTV reality stars who all looked like hot death.

*Actual VMA winners:

Video of the Year: Beyonce, Single Ladies
Best New Artist: Lady Gaga, Poker Face
Best Hip-Hop Video: Eminem, We Made You
Best Male Video: T.I. featuring Rihanna, Live Your Life
Best Pop Video: Britney Spears, Womanizer
Best Rock Video: Green Day, 21 Guns
Best Female Video: Taylor Swift, You Belong With Me
Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman): Beastie Boys, Sabotage
Breakthrough Video: Matt and Kim, Lessons Learned
Best Art Direction: Lady Gaga, Paparazzi
Best Choreography: Beyonce, Single Ladies
Best Cinematography: Green Day, 21 Guns
Best Direction: Green Day, 21 Guns
Best Editing: Beyonce, Single Ladies
Best Special Effects: Lady Gaga, Paparazzi.

What can I say? Meh. Any award show that celebrates Eminem’s video “We Made You” as the best anything is a pretty crappy award show. Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” rocks though. I’m going to have that song stuck in my head all day.

Photo credit: RAM/Fame Pictures; WENN.com

OK! Magazine’s cover story this week is a lot like last week’s “Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are getting engaged (but not really)!” story. In this week’s episode, we learn that Sparkles is all up on Kristen’s grill, like, to the point of exhaustion. To the point of Kristen saying, “Seriously, Sparkles, my vadge does not need to be occupied at all times… you’re giving me a rash.” But the epic romance between Pattz and Kristen has to be kept hidden… because they are misunderstood… and tragic… and sparkly. In actuality, their romance could jeopardize the tens of millions of dollars being poured into the Twilight franchise for two reasons: Twihards won’t like that their sparkly romantic hero is actually interested in bangin’ his girlfriend 24 hours a day; and the studio wants people to actually buy the Jacob (Taylor Lautner)-Bella love story. Apparently, in the fragile minds of Twihards, all of this is not fiction.

In less than a year Robert Pattinson has gone from “that handsome guy who played Cedric Diggory” in the Harry Potter films to the world’s most desired movie star.

But now, on the cusp of even bigger success with the impending release of New Moon and Eclipse currently being filmed in Vancouver, it may all slip away from R-Pattz, thanks to his recently accelerated romance with his on-and-off-screen girlfriend Kristen Stewart.

Because it’s not only his legions of female fans who might be disappointed to see Rob taken off the bachelor block by Kristen — there’s also the folks behind the Twilight films.

A real-life romance between the two would subvert New Moon’s entire story line, in which Bella falls for hunky werewolf Jacob Black, played by 17-year-old Taylor Lautner, and the studio brass want the Bella-Jacob spark to appear equally as plausible as the Bella-Edward relationship.

“The producers took Rob and Kris aside and told them to keep their relationship under wraps for a few more months,” an insider tells OK!. “But they’re so much in love, they can’t keep their hands off each other.”

It’s made life a bit of a pressure cooker for the two young superstars. “They’re crazy about each other, and they want to shout it from the rooftops,” says an Eclipse set insider. “But they’re also part of this massive machine called Twilight and producers have this thing timed with scientific precision. They don’t want Rob and Kristen to tell the world about their relationship until the time is right.”

Adds the source, “Rob’s whole world is Kristen. I’m surprised he even knows his lines because he’s so absorbed with her. He has no time whatsoever for his guy friends and has cut virtually everyone off so he can spend every waking moment with Kristen. He’s all about his woman.”

Regardless of whether he’s jeopardizing his career by moving toward marriage with Kristen, Rob is clearly ready and willing to take the risk. “Trust me; he generally does what he’s told by producers,” one source tells OK!, “but this kid has a strong will of his own, and if he wants to walk around Vancouver with Kristen in front of the world, he’s going to.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I buy some of this. I do think the studio people probably feel a mix of emotions – they want to sell the Bella-Jacob story line in New Moon, but they’re also probably thrilled that the real life romance of Pattz and Kristen can be used (“exploited”) to sell magazines, television shows, et cetera. Their real-life romance is a free-publicity bonanza. Now if we can just Kristen to wipe that “Yeah, I just nailed Sparkles, and it was hot” look off of her face.

Header image via CoverAwards. The image below is a picture of Robert and Kristen trying to hide after a concert in Vancouver on 9/8/09

OK! Magazine’s cover story this week is “Twilight Wedding: Rob & Kristen Engaged!”. It’s a total waste, though. The cover promises that “weeks” after Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart “moved in together” Pattz proposed. Unfortunately, the actual story is based on the theory that “life might just imitate art.” Because SPOILER Sparkles wants to marry Bella or whatever. Oh, and apparently Kristen has been joking around on the set of Eclipse, calling Pattz her “husband”. Dude… she’s 19 years old! And she’s hardcore! Kristen’s not going to marry Sparkles, hand to God:

Devoted readers of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga know that Eclipse is the volume in which conflicted vampire Edward Cullen and reluctant virgin Bella Swan finally get engaged.

That means, of course, that at some point on the Vancouver set of the novel’s big-screen incarnation, Robert Pattinson will whip out a ring and ask real-life love Kristen Stewart, “Will you marry me?”

Life might just imitate art.

As if their millions of fans collectively willed it — the blistering-hot young actors are truly, madly, deeply in love. So much so that, as OK! reported last week, they’re spending nights together in Rob’s suite at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre. And things have gotten so serious that on-set sources say the young superstars are even playing up their romance on set.

“If Kristen is looking for Rob, she’ll say, ‘Has anyone seen my husband?’’’an insider tells OK!. “And Rob loves to say, ‘Have you met my lovely wife, Kristen?’ It’s cute. They’re like a couple of love-struck teenagers.”

Amid intense are-they-or-aren’t-they speculation, Robsten had kept their relationship under the radar in recent weeks — but then burst out of the closet with an unabashed make-out session among legions of fans at the Aug. 15 Kings of Leon concert held in Vancouver’s GM Place arena.

But since that public PDA, they’ve been sneaking around after dark like — well, like a couple of vampires. “There are those subtle pats and glances on set, but they save the real kisses for after the sun goes down, late at night, when you see them disappear into their hotel,” another source tells OK!.

Why so shy all of a sudden? To paraphrase another sprawling screen saga (The Godfather): It’s business. Twilight’s producers have told Robsten to keep their love on the down low — at least until after the November release of New Moon, the second film of Stephenie Meyer’s series, in which Bella gets involved with hunky werewolf Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner.

It’s all about suspension of disbelief. The studio bosses “fear that if a romance between Rob and Kristen is confirmed,” the insider says, “Twilight fans won’t buy into the screen chemistry between Taylor and Kris.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Uh… yeah. I don’t think Kristen really gives a crap what the studio bosses want. I think she’s trying to keep her relationship with Pattz on the downlow because she feels that he’s beneath her, I really do. She seems slightly embarrassed about the whole thing, in my opinion. And besides that, if Kristen and Robert were truly and totally in love (it could happen), neither of them are the shouting-from-the-rooftops kind of kids. My guess is that they’re keeping their relationship as quiet as possible because they don’t want to be attacked by roaming gangs of hormonal Twihards.

Everybody’s favorite werewolf BFF Taylor “Jacob” Lautner is the cover boy for October’s Teen Vogue. The photographs are gorgeous – he’s a really cute kid, and his body is insane (slideshow here). He’s still got that baby face, though, which quickly ends whatever naughty sexual fantasies I might have about him. The Teen Vogue site has an excerpt from the interview, but there are some other quotes floating around that aren’t included in the excerpt. Taylor talked about his career goals, saying: “I really look up to Denzel Washington as an actor. I’d love to do a film with him one day in the future. That would be my dream come true. And I love the action-drama films like Matt Damon and Brad Pitt do.” Here’s more from the interview:

According to Taylor, there is a very specific sort of girl who’s going to sign up for what’s become known to Twilight fans as Team Jacob. “If she likes having a really close friendship with a guy,” he begins, “being able to tell him anything, and then having that friendship slowly transform into something more….” The seventeen-year-old stops himself and laughs. “I find myself using the word transform a lot lately,” he explains, “because that’s what Jacob does.”

It’s not exactly a spoiler to say that Taylor’s character in November’s New Moon is going through some intense changes. As everyone who’s seen the movie’s trailer or read the books knows, Jacob Black is now a werewolf. And the changes that Taylor himself underwent in order to keep the part—as he says, “hitting the gym, hiring a personal trainer, eating the right foods, and eating a lot of them”—were equally evident. When that first trailer premiered at the MTV Movie Awards, the live (and apparently largely female) audience responded to a two-second shot of Taylor, shirtless, by screaming like they were on a roller coaster. Not that he’s about to let all that adulation go to his head.

“I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob,” he says mildly, when the reception is mentioned. “I’m just lucky to be the one who got the chance.”

Taylor got into acting via a somewhat circuitous path. As a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he started competing in a sport called Xtreme Martial Arts—which he describes as “almost like gymnastics, in that you do a routine, but there’s a lot of kicks and punches and flips”—and he found that he was pretty good; by the time he retired, at thirteen, he was a four-time world champ. It was his Hollywood-based karate coach (a onetime blue Power Ranger) who suggested that Taylor give show business a chance.

“At first,” he recalls, “I wasn’t interested, but he said I could stay at his house for a few weeks, meet with some agents, go on auditions. ” By the end of that month, Taylor says, “I liked it. Taking on roles that were the opposite of what I could be in real life? That’s still my favorite thing.”

Now Taylor lives with his family an hour outside Los Angeles, although the distance does little to dissuade the paparazzi. “There are twelve cars that camp outside my house,” he marvels. “You can’t ever really get used to it, because it’s not normal to have people snapping pictures of everything you do. You just have to try not to let it affect you.”

Tabloid attention and spurious rumors are the norm for the Twilight cast right now—Taylor and his costars are already hard at work on the third film, Eclipse. And he seems quite capable of taking it all in stride: Asked about his alleged early summer romance with Disney star Selena Gomez, he says, quite unperturbedly, “She’s a great girl.” Asked whether Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are indeed entangled in a torrid love triangle, he just laughs. “It’s crazy,” he admits, “but the fans help. They’re a big part of the motivation.”

As if on cue, a pair of wide-eyed young sisters approach his table, looking ecstatic. “We’re all Team Jacob in our house,” their mother says. Taylor does have a point when he insists that people are reacting, in part, to the character he plays—these two are each clutching one of author Stephenie Meyer’s dictionary-size tomes for him to autograph—but he’s also being too humble. The girls are definitely old enough to understand that Taylor is a rising star, not a teen werewolf, and they still look pretty starstruck.

[From Teen Vogue]

What does Taylor mean when he says “the fans help” in response to a Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson question? Hmm… is he saying their relationship is all in our heads? Doubtful. Although I do think Taylor has a little crush on Kristen, so maybe he doesn’t want to answer those Pattinson questions because he’s a bit heartbroken? Maybe. A few weeks ago, Entertainment Weekly put Kristen and Taylor on the cover looking very lovey-dovey, and in the interview Taylor seemed to be quite taken with her. For her part, Kristen said “I love that kid… I would do anything for him. I would kill for him, literally. We have that [best friend] relationship. It’s lamely cute.” EW also put up the video of Taylor and Kristen being interviewed, and it was clear he was trying to impress her and flirt with her. When he was showing off, he asked if she thought he was hardcore enough. To which Kristen replied, “I think you need a little more growing up to do. You need to grow into your cojones.” This poor kid. He seems like such a sweetheart. Ten bucks says that Kristen breaks his spirit, just like she did with Pattz.

Here’s Taylor in Teen Vogue.

Despite the fact that Megan Fox always claimed a vehement disinterest in Robert Pattinson – dismissing him as “just too pretty, with the big hair and the suits” – people are still trying to make something of the non-relationship. I guess it’s because Pattinson and Fox have shown up to many of the same awards shows and events, and they don’t go out of their way to ignore each other. At the Teen Choice Awards, they even posed for a couple of pictures together, because they were both crowned “Choice Hotties” at the event. They had their arms around each other politely. Which is what sent Kristen Stewart through the roof! According to the Enquirer, Kristen has something of a jealous temper tantrum when she saw Pattz and Megan together:

Sexy Vampire Boy ROBERT PATTINSON’s moaning to pals that “Twilight” co-star KRISTEN STEWART’s on-again-off-again feelings for him really bite – but a backstage explosion of jealousy over MEGAN FOX at the Teen Choice Awards totally SUCKED!

Although Pattinson and Fox have dated casually at least once or twice, the hunky star was absolutely floored when Kristen – suddenly in-his-face after he went onstage with foxy Fox to accept their “Choice Hotties” awards – bared her fangs and hissed: “You’re into Megan Fox!”

Said a Pattinson pal: “Rob couldn’t believe it at first. Kristen plays hard-to-get with him, then gets jealous over Megan? And she really ripped into him, saying, ‘I saw how you put your arm around her waist…I saw the way you touched her!’ Rob thought it was ridiculous. He told her: ‘Oh, for Pete’s sake! She’s just a friend. We were onstage together…that’s it!’”

But Kristen refused to let up, hammering him relentlessly about Megan. Said the source: “Rob’s getting tired of the constant drama with Kristen. She keeps going back to her boyfriend, but then comes back to Robert – over and over again. She pushes him away, then has the nerve to complain about other women. It’s ludicrous. The girl needs to grow up!”

[From the National Enquirer]

Or perhaps Pattz is rethinking the whole Kristen Stewart thing because he finally got what he wanted (sex with Kristen) and now he’s done. After playing hard to get for more than a year, Kristen finally gave in – so does she still have the ability to make Pattz an utter wreck? Or will her jealousy and high-maintenance destroy the fantasy relationship?

Speaking of, it seems yesterday’s interview with Pattz was a total fake. Pattz never claimed he was single, and his spokesperson released this statement: “I will only comment on matters regarding Robert’s professional life, but in order to set the record straight, Robert did not speak to the Mirror, and their claim that they spoke to him a few days ago is manufactured along with any information that they claim to have as an exclusive directly from him.” So… Pattz is not single. So he’s still happily hittin’ it with Kristen. That’s the only answer!

Robert Pattinson is still trying to convince us he’s just a lonely, sparkly, little tragic figure that needs us to believe in him. Paatz is claiming in a new interview that he doesn’t have a girlfriend, and he doesn’t know why. Aw… poor little Pattz. It’s like he thinks we don’t know he and Kristen spent a naughty weekenda t the Chateau Marmont. It’s like he doesn’t think we saw those pictures of him and Kristen making out earlier this week. Either that, or this interview was done before he and Kristen were back “on” – which could be the case.

Pattz also says that he doesn’t really have a type. Which means that he’s no longer putting “chiseled abs” on his “perfect date” list. He doesn’t have a celebrity crush, and he thinks the Twihard mothers and daughters are “funny”. Is he just playing with us and our unrealistic expectations of a romantic hero?

Good news, Robert Pattinson fans: He’s not dating anyone.

At least that’s what the Twilight star, who only days ago was seen getting cozy with costar Kristen Stewart, wants Britain’s Daily Mirror to believe. “I don’t have a girlfriend,” claims the apparently lonely actor. “I don’t know why.”

Currently filming Eclipse – the third in the vampire series – Pattinson, 23, appears surprised at this turn of events. “You always think you’re going to get more girls after you’ve made a movie and it never happens,” he insists.

“You sit there and you’re like, ‘I’m a big movie star and I want to go out with some models,’ but I don’t know why that doesn’t happen.”

For those hoping to snare him, Pattinson offers a tip: He doesn’t really “have a type.”

“It’s especially different in L.A. Most of the women there are actresses and by default that makes them a little bit nuts – not that that’s a bad thing,” he observes. “Whenever I get asked who my favorite celebrity crush is, I have no idea.”

When it comes to the attention he does manage to receive, Pattinson says, “Most of the girls are all pretty young, so it’s just kind of funny. But then you get the Twilight Mums who love you like mums! And you can take that too far. I mean, it could be ‘Edward breaks up Twilight family.’ ”

Frankly, the sex-symbol image surprises him. Originally he aimed to become a politician, though he did model, despite his lack of shape.

“I always looked like a girl up until a few years ago, and because I never did any sports or anything I was always kind of gangly,” he says. “I was never really a good model.

In fact, he concedes, “I was terrible at it. I wasn’t skinny enough to be a little waif and I didn’t want to work out to be a beefy guy, so I was always stuck between two things and so I never got any jobs.”

[From People]

I’d argue that Pattz is still pretty girly. Yes, he has an awesome, sexy jawline – but some girls have that jawline too. He does have lovely shoulders though. The shoulders save him. They’re nice and broad, but with the cool-boy slouch. But here’s the thing – I’m a huge fan of his body type in men, so it’s not like I’m some impartial viewer. I love tall, gangly guys. I love broad, slouched shoulders. I love a good jawline. Sigh. I’m like a Twilight mum, only my dog is my kid.

Robert Pattinson is shown at the Teen Choice Awards on 8/9/09. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

The September issue of Dazed & Confused Magazine features Kristen Stewart in some sort of faux-trippy triple image of the star. The cover story is called “Kristen Stewart Steps Out of the Shadows”. Blech. I get that Kristen is a Real Actress who wants to be taken seriously and all of that, but I would kill to see her styled beautifully by Vogue or Elle magazines. Put her in a couture dress. Get her makeup done up and her hair twitched. But no, we get yet another image of Kristen (who is a beautiful girl without all of that other stuff) looking tired and half-baked. Sigh.

Dazed and Confused Magazine hasn’t put the interview online yet (they probably got high and forgot), so I only have interview excerpts via Radar to give you. Here’s Kristen describing her process of coming across as a funny, snotty bitch in interviews:

After being hounded all day and night by fans and photographers, can you really blame Kristen Stewart for having a little bit of a chip on her shoulder? The actress gave a candid interview about her feelings on fame and why her public image may just be all wrong

“The fact is, the paparazzi and most interviewers, they want your soul,” she said to British magazine Dazed & Confused. “It’s so scary because your persona … and I guess I now have one, because people think of me in a certain way … is all based entirely on quick snippets of crazed moments in your life. And that is what people then base their entire opinion of me on!”

Often coming of as ungrateful, brooding, or even snippy in interviews, Stewart defended herself and attempted to explain how sometimes things get lost in translation.

“Anything you say can come and bite you in the ass,” Stewart said. “It’s not even like you say things you don’t mean, it’s just that sometimes they come out wrong.”

[From Radar]

That being said, Kristen also confesses to rehearsing her interviews, saying “Practice helps a lot. I just get so nervous in interviews. I don’t prepare it. I just do it. It’s gotten easier with experience. It’s like you realise that even if you totally botch it completely, it’s not that bad. Even if it turns out horribly and everyone thinks that you’re a totally incapable human, it’s like ‘Well, God, OK, never mind.’” I kind of think that I was a little bit like Kristen when I was younger too – when I was a teen, I was really shy and neurotic (I’m still pretty neurotic, but not really shy anymore) and people always told me I came across as snotty or bitchy, when really I was nervous about talking to new people.

As for the Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart romance, it still seems very much “on”. OK! has a bunch of sources all claiming that Kristen and Pattz are all over each other up in Vancouver. Apparently, they are “very much in love” and “they plan to explore their relationship even more while they are filming.” They even claim Pattz loves Kristen’s Joan Jett hair, which, I mean, bless his little sparkly heart. Everyone in Vancouver seems to be in on their private relationship, because Kristen “is walking around with a smile on her face all the time and when Robert walks on set she smiles even more.” Sparkles found the G-spot, everyone! Congratulations, Pattz!

Kissing or just talking?

The cast of Eclipse was seen taking in a Kings of Leon concert on Saturday night in Vancouver, British Columbia where they’re currently filming the third installment in the Twilight series. In case we need any more confirmation that stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are an item – the two were photographed maybe kissing and looking cuddly during the show. It’s hard to tell because the photos are so dark. It’s possible they’re just so close to each other so that they can talk above the noise, but I doubt it:

New photos have surfaced of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse cast taking in a Kings Of Leon concert Saturday night in Vancouver–featuring costars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart insanely close to one another.

Pattinson’s profile is visible leaning in dangerously close to Stewart–they could be chatting about the King’s hit Sex On Fire, or they could be making their own beautiful music.

Also visible in the shot, taken inside the General Motors Place, is the now brunette Kellan Lutz, texting away, and Victoria 2.0 Brynce Dallas Howard.

[From Radar Online]

As a Twilight fan, it makes me a little giddy to see Pattinson and Stewart together. It seems kind of inevitable, like they can’t escape this fictional love story that’s captivated so many. Is Kristen toying with R-Pattz’s heart, though, as Kaiser suspects, or is she in it for keeps? I don’t think she’s as much of a player as Kaiser does, and I would guess she’s into Pattinson. I bet that she’s holding her own and isn’t getting all wrapped up in the relationship, as it should be. These two seem like they’re trying to keep things under wraps, but they just can’t help it. There’s not much they can do to hide their hot romance given the public’s interest in them.

In related Twilight news, the cast got to screen the sequel, New Moon, over the weekend. The film doesn’t come out in theaters until November 20, which is kind of a shame because they really should have released it on Halloween. They’re trying to take advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday crowd, but New Moon will be a hit regardless. Twilight grossed over 383 million worldwide.

I have to say that I’ve started watching Twilight’s hottest competition, “True Blood,” HBO’s original series based on series of books The Southern Vampire mysteries, and it’s more mature and a lot more intriguing in some ways than Twilight. I’m starting to root for team Bill over team Edward, but it’s not like I’d skip watching the Twilight films because “True Blood” is so good. I’m looking at Twilight with a different eye though. The stars of “True Blood” aren’t chicken about going public with their relationship, at least.

Photo credit: INFDaily.com

There might be trouble in Twihard Paradise. By the way, I believe Twihard Paradise = a full minute sniffing the heavenly aroma coming out of Robert Pattinson’s mangy hair. But I digress. It seems that there might be something brewing between Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who plays werewolf Jacob Black in the films. Star Magazine has more:

Just as things are heating up again between Kristen and Rob, could their costar Taylor Lautner throw a wrench into their romance?

“Taylor definitely has a crush on Kristen,” a source tells Star. “But she just treats him like a little brother.”

Still, Taylor, 17, has grown a lot since filming the first Twilight – literally and figuratively. The 26 lbs of muscle he added to play werewolf Jacob Black have given him new confidence with women. He recently romanced Emma Roberts and Taylor Swift on the set of Valentine’s Day and now he’s set his sights in Kristen.

They were inseparable at the Teen Choice Awards on Aug. 9, while Kristen hardly spoke to Rob. “Rob is really nervous that Kristen will fall for Taylor’s charms,” says a source.

Adds another: “He likes Taylor, but once they’re all up in Vancouver, he’s going to make it clear that Kristen is off the market.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 24 2009]

Would you like further evidence? Behold, this week’s Entertainment Weekly cover! Not only are Kristen and Taylor looking very cozy, in the interview Kristen admits her true feelings for him: “I love that kid… I would do anything for him. I would kill for him, literally.” Ruh-roh. EW has more:

New Moon, a far different beast than Twilight, is steeped in heartbreak, focusing on the recovery Bella (Stewart) undergoes after Edward (Pattinson) breaks her heart and her new feelings for her friend Jacob (Lautner). Pattinson couldn’t be happier with his downsized role: “It was a stress-free job for three months,” says the actor. “All the pressure was on Taylor.”

There were some minicontroversies surrounding the set – director Chris Weitz replaced Twilight helmer Catherine Hardwicke, Lautner had to publicly campaign to keep the role of Jacob, and actress Rachelle Lefevre was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard for the soon-to-be-shot third film in the series. Lautner ultimately secured the spot thanks in part to Stewart.

“It’s completely understandable why they wanted to make sure he was right,” says the actress. “He was so young, 16, so I got it. But I knew he had [to do] it. Just because of how I felt around him.”

And how did the Bella-Jacob best-friend chemistry play out on set? “We have that relationship,” she says. “It’s lamely cute.”

Taylor trained hard to bulk up for the role of the budding werewolf. “My body fat got so low that we actually needed to increase it a little bit,” he says. “My trainer would be like, ‘Go have a huge milk shake just so I can get a thousand calories into your body.’”

Stewart thinks the new film will be beefier, too: “[Making Twilight] was much more of a fight,” she says. “We needed to make something commercial but stay true to the book. We didn’t have enough money. It was all very impulsive, and that’s what I love about that movie…But I think New Moon is gonna be even better.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

God knows I love riling up the Twihards (cough cough CB cough), but I don’t think this hook-up is going to happen. Kristen would rip that poor kid apart. Pattz has barely survived her, and he’s six years older than Taylor. Plus, there was this little interesting part – EW has a cute behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot, with Kristen and Taylor talking about how well they get along. Kristen is asked what’s the difference between Edward and Jacob, and she says “I smile more with Jacob.” Then Kristen and Taylor are talking about whether he’s hardcore enough, and she tells Taylor Lautner : “I think you need a little more growing up to do. You need to grow into your cojones.” Taylor: “Okay…. I’m not sure if that was a compliment.” Dude… that was not a compliment. Kristen really does think of him as a kid brother if she’s mocking his cojones.

And yet! The National Enquirer has yet another report about how Kristen is basically breaking Pattz’s soul. Apparently, “Pattinson got really depressed when he offered to whisk Kristen off on a romantic three-day vacation anywhere in the world before filming starts on the third “Twilight” flick, but she answered emphatically: NO!” Kristen’s reasoning? She thinks Pattz is “pressuring” her for a “serious relationship”. This girl is so f-cking hardcore. I bet she laughs at Pattz when he cries.

Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart at shown at the Teen Choice Awards on 8/9/09 and at Comic-Con with Robert Pattinson on 7/23/09. Credit: WENN.com. Header image thanks to CoverAwards. EW has a quick clip featuring Kristen and Taylor, but it’s not embeddable, so here’s a link