Leonardo DiCaprio was out to lunch in Africa with Djimon Hounsou, his costar in the upcoming film “Blood Diamond.” Djimon Hounsou is the hot guy who starred in “Amistad” and played the tormented artist in “In America.” A man approached Hounsou with a gun and seemed to want to shoot him for no reason. Dicaprio stepped in front of the shooter, causing him to run away! Leo earns even more points by refusing to talk about the incident, which only adds to the mystique:

Hounsou remains puzzled as to why the gunman took exception to him while he was filming the new action film in Mozambique, but he’s sure he’d be wounded or dead if it wasn’t for the heroics of DiCaprio.

He explains, “He stood in the way of somebody who was trying to shoot me.”

“We went to eat somewhere and apparently somebody was threatening to kill me there. Leo said, ‘Well, you’re gonna have to go through me.’”

That was enough to make the gunman think twice and he fled the scene, leading a grateful Hounsou pouring praise on his pal.

Modest DiCaprio has refused to even discuss the matter during promotional interviews for the new film. He will only talk about his great friendship with Hounsou.

He explains, “We became like brothers on this movie… We were together for six months.”

Leo, one of People’s sexiest men alive, is also donating to help a South African orphanage where he met a girl who touched his heart. He says he wants to help her and the other orphans but that “he’s not married” and does not intend to have children of his own at this point.

Thanks to Viv for sending me this article.

Leo and Djimon are shown from a scene in “Blood Diamond,” above. Header image from About.com.

From The National Enquirer’s Mike Walker comes the story of an hilarious prank Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio played on player Jack Nicholson. Nicholson was in the hospital to get his salivary glands checked out and they posed as masked interns trying to give him a rectal exam!

That’s a great story that would have been made better by news of an accompany Punk’d video, but I’ll have settle for a mental image.

Matt, Leo and Jack star in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed,” which according to Pajiba is a well-crafted and compelling crime drama with an amazing cast.

All I need to know is that Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are in it. Mark Wahlberg is just an added bonus.

Here’s the trailer on YouTube.

And here are some pictures from the film, courtesy of All Movie Photo.

Leonardo DiCaprio appears in a hot spread in Details Magazine. With two films coming out, there are plenty of quotes from Leo in the press.

There are a bunch of quotes from Leo about his lovelife that were published in News of the World. They sound like bullshit quotes to me, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were made up. Some of them are real doozies:

The Sun has some more likely quotes from Leo, in which he talks about how ridiculous fame is, and how girls started leeching onto him after he hit it big with “Titanic”:

Leo has certainly been successful in only taking on worthwhile projects. With an Oscar nomination under his belt, and more juicy roles in the can, he’s sure to continue to be a box office and critical success.

Leo is next appearing in “The Departed” along with Jack Nicholson, and also stars in the upcoming “Blood Diamond.”

Pictures from JJB.

Leonardo DiCaprio looks like he’s hungover and is trying Cameron Diaz’s grease cure in these pictures of him getting takeout in Hollywood on 9/9. He has bedhead and a few day’s stubble but still manages to look cute while sipping a soda. In one picture I swear you can see him burp.

DiCaprio stars in the film “Blood Diamond,” which will be released this December. It is an historical fiction account of two men searching for a pink diamond that will change their lives, and is set in civil-war ravaged Sierra Leone in the 1990s. It has diamond companies running scared, as it reveals the human suffering that is the backbone of the diamond industry. They’re trying to run a PR campaign to counter the very real revelations in the film:

DiCaprio is well known for his environmental activism, and most likely welcomes the controversy over his new film. Here is DiCaprio getting takeout. [via]

Leonardo Dicaprio, 31, is dating Israeli model, Bar Rafaeli, 20.

Dicaprio was spotted making out with a different gorgeous blonde in South Africa a few weeks ago, where he was shooting a film.

Here is Rafaeli’s swimsuit calendar. [via] and a low-res picture of her out with DiCaprio. [via]

Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted making out with a gorgeous blonde in South Africa, where he’s working on a film:

We reported a couple days ago that the rumor that DiCaprio and Lohan were an item sounded bogus to us. It may have been a brief fling, but if something happened both of them seem to have moved on.

This is not the first time we’ve heard this rumor. DiCaprio was said to have visited Lohan in the hospital back in early January when she had an asthma attack. (Remember to breathe girl. Sorry we couldn’t resist.)

Now the rumor that Linday Lohan and Leonardo DiCaprio are an item is being recycled again:

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Photographers follow Lindsay Lohan around everywhere, so if she’s had even one secret meeting with Leonardo DiCaprio it seems like someone, somewhere would have a picture or more details than this. We don’t buy this story, but it’s hard to ignore it.

Plus we couldn’t find the actual article on the News of the World website, so it’s possible one of the aggregate gossip sites is just reprinting very old news.