So sad! Leonardo DiCaprio has broken up with his latest Victoria’s Secret model girlfriend, Erin Heatherton. Poor Erin. She made a go of it, and the tabloids tried to convince us that poor Erin was finally (!) the girl to make Leo settle down, but it was not to be. Leo began dating Erin a few months after Blake Lively broke up with him… I mean, that’s according to Team Lively, although I tend to believe it more as time passed. I think Blake dumped Leo when she saw an opening with Ryan Reynolds. And now Leo dumped Erin less than two months after Blake’s surprise wedding?!?! If Leo was a girl, we would be talking about how pathetic he is. I’m just sayin’. Both Page Six and Us Weekly got tips about the split, which makes me believe it really went down:

Leonardo DiCaprio and Erin Heatherton are letting go. After about ten months of dating, the Great Gatsby star, 37, and the American supermodel, 23, are going their separate ways.

“They split a few weeks ago,” a source close to the couple tells Us Weekly. “There’s no bad blood -– they still care about each other a lot.”

DiCaprio and the Victoria’s Secret stunner first stepped out in December of last year, a few months after he and Blake Lively ended their spring and summer romance. At issue in this relationship?

“They’re both just really busy, they had crazy schedules,” the source explains.

Indeed, DiCaprio traveled the globe in 2012, shooting Great Gatsby in Australia, then Django Unchained in New Orleans, and then the Wolf of Wall Street in NYC. “They still love and respect each other very much,” the source says. “It was just time to move on.”

Heatherton isn’t DiCaprio’s first supermodel love: He dated Gisele Bundchen from 2001 to 2005, and Bar Refaeli from 2006 to early 2011.

[From Us Weekly]

Page Six says the split happened last week and a source tells Page Six, “Erin wanted things to get more serious between them, but Leo is not ready to settle down. While it would seem amazing that he wouldn’t want to settle down with one of the world’s most beautiful women, Leo leads a charmed life. A few months back it seemed like he was really into Erin. She’s smart, beautiful and, importantly, got on with his mom. They are still friends. the timing just wasn’t right for them. They still care about each other and remain friends.” Yeah. Leo dumped her because she mentioned marriage, I bet.

Page Six also notes that Leo has been living it up in NYC while he films The Wolf of Wall Street with Martin Scorsese. Apparently, Leo and Jonah Hill have been partying together and last Wednesday, Leo went to a Halloween party with “a gaggle of 15 girls.” A “gaggle”? Not a “flock” or a “herd” or a “pride”?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

I don’t even know what to do with Demi Moore anymore. If I were in her shoes, I think I’d look for a successful businessman in the financial sector or the hotel business (not Andre Balazs) to date. Someone who would appreciate and cherish a woman like Demi and who would encourage her to embrace her experience and maturity instead of grinding on 20-something young things in nightclubs.

But that’s not what Demi wants. She desires a new coupling that would, in her eyes, be equal to or even better (again, in her eyes) her union with Ashton Kutcher. We’ve already heard that Demi finds Ashton’s new relationship with Mila Kunis to be quite hurtful, and People magazine even saw fit to print a cover story about Demi’s jealous and frustrated attitude about the situation. So I guess it would be a logical extension to believe this new Enquirer story about how Demi wants to one-up Ashton with her own new power coupling. Her intended target? Grumpy chihuahua Leonardo DiCaprio. Really:

Demi Moore is so desperate for love she’s trying to woo back one-time lover Leonardo DiCaprio — but he wants nothing to do with her, say sources.

The 49-year-old actress, who’s still reeling from her painful split from “Two and a Half Men” hunk Ashton Kutcher, has been e-mailing and calling Leo, hoping to reignate the spark they shared more than 15 years ago, the sources add. And she apparently doesn’t even care that he’s in a serious relationship with sexy Victoria’s Secret model Erin Heatherton!

As The Enquirer exclusively reported in 1997, Leo spent the night with Demi in her and former husband Bruce Willis’ Malibu home during a time when the couple’s marriage was on its last legs. But insiders say Demi is making WAY more out of it than it was — and Leo has no desire to visit the past.

“Demi is so lonely and hungry for love,” a source revealed. “After all these years, she’s romanticized what really amounted to just a fling. She’s infatuated with Leo becoming Hollywood’s hottest power couple. She’s lonely and facing her 50th birthday this month, so she’s looking to rejuvenate her love life and career.”

According to the source, Demi has been spending more time in New York recently, where 37-year-old heartthrob Leo is filming The Wolf of Wall Street. Unfortunately for Demi, Leo is giving her the big-time blow off,” continued the source. “He won’t even get together with her for coffee!”

Demi has been struggling since her six-year marriage to Ashton fell apart last November, and she’s devastated that he’s moved on to a hot-and-heavy marriage with his “That ’70s Show” co-star Mila Kunis. She entred rehab in early 2012 for prescription pill and eating disorder-related problems following a physical and emotional meltdown.

“Demi’s dream is to find a young, successful guy who can help elevate her back to her past glory,” added the source. “But she’s barking up the wrong tree with Leo. He idolized her when he was in his 20s and fresh off the blockbuster success of Titanic, but now Leo thinks Demi is too old. He doesn’t want to get tangled up in her messy life.”

[From Enquirer, print edition, November 12, 2012]

Oh, Demi. One must wonder whether, in addition to all of her insecurities, there might be a bit of an ego raging below the surface if Demi really thinks that Leo would forsake the Victoria’s Secret catalog while deciding whmo to sleep with. Demi must realize that she’s not a basketball-loving model. Leo likes young, blonde models who don’t smother him and simply follow him whenever and wherever he deems appropriate.

Meanwhile, TMZ is reporting that Demi and Ashton have still made no movement towards divorce even though they’ve been separated for a year. They’ve not given their lawyers any reason to think they want to file, and there have been no discussions on how marital assets shall be divided. This all supports the theory (already discussed by Kaiser) that Demi and Ashton were never married in the first place. It makes sense.

Photos courtesy of WENN

These are some photos of Leonardo DiCaprio filming scenes for his new Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street. We covered some of the first photos from the NYC set a month ago – in those photos, Leo didn’t look all that cute, but he did look younger. In these pics, Leo is on a yacht, and at various times he’s arguing with Kyle Chandler’s character and “making it rain” by throwing money off the deck.

I have something horrible to confess: I find Leonardo very attractive in these photos. You know I’m usually not into Leo. I don’t find him hideous or anything, I’ve just never seen the appeal… I mean, except for Romeo + Juliet, but that was back when I was a teenager. As an adult, judging Adult Leo, I don’t really get hot for him. But something about the dark hair, slicked back… and he’s wearing a crisp white polo and pants that fit. And he’s making it rain! Leo looks good.

By the way, you know how Leo had reteamed with his Romeo + Juliet director, Baz Luhrmann for The Great Gatsby? They filmed that movie last year, and everyone was really excited about its release over Christmas… until we saw the trailer, and many people were like, “Eh.” Well, the late-year releases have gotten firmed up and this year’s awards season is going to be missing Baz and Leo. The Great Gatsby’s release has been pushed back to May 2013. Is that rough? I don’t know. Leo will have Django Unchained with Tarantino coming out this year, and that will probably be a contender during the awards season. Maybe Leo is trying to spread the wealth. Or maybe Gatsby was scared of a Hobbit.

Do you want to watch the trailer for Gatsby again?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

These are some newish photos of Leonardo DiCaprio filming in New York City over the weekend. Leo has joined with his favorite director once again, Martin Scorsese, for The Wolf of Wall Street. The film is about…well, apparently it’s based on the true story of Jordan Belfort (who is played by Leo) and his rise and fall on greedy, seedy Wall Street. Allegedly, the story has a lot of “sex atop piles of money” and “cocaine”.

I guess this is a period film too, judging by the dated, oversized suit Leo is wearing. Is he supposed to look like a kid wearing his dad’s suit? Because that’s what he looks like. I can’t even decide if Leo is wearing a wiglet, either. I don’t think that’s Leo’s natural hairline, but if it is a wiglet, they got a good one. I mean, John Travolta should really look into getting himself something like this. I also don’t know if Leo is wearing prosthetics on his face, or if his jawline is really that… mushy. While his face doesn’t really look bloated and carby to me, his neck and jaw definitely look weird.

So, would you hit it? I don’t think I would. But I haven’t wanted to “hit it” with Leo in years and years. I had a brief moment of wanting him again in The Departed, but for the most part I haven’t wanted him since Romeo + Juliet.

Would you like to know who else is in the movie? Because I was surprised to see this list: Matthew McConaughey (he plays Leo’s boss), Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Kyle Chandler, Jon Favreau, and voice work by Gene Hackman. Can you believe that list?! I’m incredibly proud of Jonah Hill – I can’t believe that boy managed to get himself onto a Scorsese movie! With LEO! Good for Jonah.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

There’s no nice way to say this. Back in the 1990s, when Leonardo DiCaprio was the hottest thing going, he and his buddies used to hit up clubs all over the world, hooking up with randoms and doing crazy, crazy things. They used to call themselves… The P-ssy Posse. The Posse included at various times: Tobey Maguire (for real!), Lucas Haas, Kevin Connolly, Harmony Korine (he dated Chloe Sevigny for a bit), and magician David Blaine (FOR REAL). Also-ran members of the Posse: Jay Ferguson, Josh Miller, Ethan Suplee, and Justin Herwick. For a great piece about what f—king brats Leo and his Posse were back in the day, go here to read an old NY Mag piece. Why do I bring this up? Because contrary to popular belief, the Posse still lives. Some members have dropped off to get married and become fathers (Suplee and Maguire), some have simply outgrown such antics, but there is a still a core group of dudes that drop everything (“everything” not being much) to hang with Leo when he calls. They still go to Lakers games. They still party. And now, The P-ssy Posse wants Robert Pattinson. JEAH SPARKLES!!!

Robert Pattinson’s love life is looking up – thanks to new buddy Leonardo DiCaprio! Sources say Leo invited Rob on a guys’ getaway after Kristen Stewart was caught cheating.

“Leo has been one of Rob’s role models for years, and Rob was totally taken by surprise when Leo called him,” said a source. “Leo invited Rob along on a getaway he’s planning when he’s in Puerto Rico for the wrap party on the movie he’s producing, ‘Runner, Runner’. Leo wants to book a mansion at a secret location on the coast so he and his pals can party in private.”

Leo got in touch with Rob through Reese Witherspoon, “who Leo met during a Haiti fundraiser two years ago… Leo’s kept an eye on Rob’s career ever since people started calling him the next Leonardo DiCarpio. Leo figured it would be great for him to hang out with a bunch of laid-back guys. Leo joked they could compare baseball cap collections – and told Rob before he knew it, he’d be dating a model, just like him!”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

Robert Pattinson would be an excellent member to the P-ssy Posse, which is exactly why it probably won’t happen. Rob in 2012 is very much where Leo was circa 1999. Would Leo be able to handle seeing some version of that again with some other dude? Would Leo go along with it knowing that Rob could probably pull in the crème de le crème of ladies? Well, it’s not like Leo is really hurting there. He goes from one supermodel to the next, and I could see him preaching his “How To Date A String of Supermodels” philosophy to Rob. But… I’m just not sure Rob would be down for it? We’ll see.

Hilariously, In Touch Weekly claims that Leo has given up his P-ssy Posse ways… for his girlfriend Erin Heatherton. Because why not? In Touch says that Leo and Erin have moved in together (in his NYC apartment) and “He’s told her he’s more serious about marriage and finally settling down. He’s even told her she’s the one.” But that was before he realized how many young women he could pull with Robert Pattinson at his side.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I enjoy how the tabloids are always trying to make Leonardo DiCaprio “happen” as a scandalous celebrity. I have no problem believing that Leo does some (many?) scandalous, gross things, but I just think the tabs pick the wrong stories to push. A few weeks ago, The Enquirer ran a story straight of Bar Raefeli’s Dream Journal, all about how Leo was super-bored with Erin Heatherton and how he longed to be back with Bar. Note to tabloid editors: Leo does not date 23-year-old Victoria’s Secret models because he wants witty conversations and a partnership of equals. He really is looking for the youngest, most easy-going blonde model he can find. And according to Star Mag, he’s found that girl in Erin. Star claims that Leo grows more and more “quirky” (my word) with age, and Erin puts up with it. Probably because she’s an easy-going 23-year-old model whose life-aspiration is to be Mrs. DiCaprio?

The first rule of dating Leonardo DiCaprio is this: You do not talk about Leo DiCaprio! Leo fanatically prohibits his girlfriends – including current squeeze Erin Heatherton – from discussing him or their life together with anybody and everybody.

“Leo is a control freak,” an insider reports. “He doesn’t want people to know anything about his life – not what work projects he’s considering or who his friends are or even what he eats.”

Just like Howard Hughes, Leo is becoming strangely secretive with age, friends say. He reportedly dumped Blake Lively because she told relatives too much about their life together.

“When he met the Livelys at a family get-together, one of Blake’s sisters knew ahead of time that he didn’t like ketchup – and it freaked him out,” a friend explains.

Erin, 23, is apparently so accepting of his bizarre demands that she even avoids being phtoographed with other guys because it upsets her leading man, says another source.

“She’s the first girl who seems to fully accept his eccentricities.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Yeah, I’m not sure if I believe Leo dumped Blake. Blake’s big mouth might have freaked him out – I’ll buy that – but I think Blake did the dumping, and I think it was the first time in a long time that Leo got dumped. As for Leo’s control-freak nature… it wouldn’t surprise me. Leo is somehow able to fly further under the radar (when he wants) than Tom Cruise. How does that happen? Because Leo is a control freak who values his privacy to a really hardcore degree. And I could totally see him telling Erin to STFU about any and all details of his life.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

This is one of oddest pieces of pro-Bar Refaeli propaganda ever. The Enquirer did some pro-Bar pieces when Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar were doing their break-up-and-make-up cycle early last year, but it’s never been like this. Once Bar and Leo were finally done, both of them seemed to “move on” quickly – Leo to Blake Lively, and Bar to a series of bikini-clad photo-ops (to show Leo what he was missing, presumably). I always got the impression that Leo screwed around on Bar all the time and she just turned a blind eye because she liked the career boost of being “Leo’s girlfriend” and she hoped to become the next Gisele Bundchen. I also felt like Leo dumped Bar – I think he was screwing around with Blake on and off for a few months, and then he decided to make it official with Blake, so he dumped Bar. So… all of that colored my opinion on this story about Leo secretly pining away for Bar while he’s with poor Erin Heatherton.

Leonardo DiCaprio might look like a man in lust with Erin Heatherton, but insiders say he’s still hung up on his ex, supermodel Bar Refaeli.

“Leo is using Erin,” said a close pal of DiCaprio. “She’s nice and all, but she’ll never win his heart. He hasn’t gotten over Bar, and in many ways he never will. She’ll always be the one who got away.”

Leo and Erin cozied up in Hawaii recently, and while she’s reportedly madly in love with him, DiCaprio’s pals say she’s headed for heartache.

“Erin’s playing the perfect low-maintenance girlfriend, but Leo’s going to get bored with that fast,” predicted another source. “He loved Bar’s feistiness and her ability to stand up to him. She was the only girl who was able to drag him home to play dutiful boyfriend. He wanted to marry her and even considered converting to Judaism for her.”

Bar finally called it quits with Leo in May 2011, and “Leo didn’t quite realize it was for good because they’d split so many times… and when he heard she’d started seeing other men, he reacted by going on a womanizing rampage.”

“Unfortunately for Leo, Bar wouldn’t touch him again with a 10-foot pole… she’s moved on after making the mistake of thinking she could change him. But Leo will always have his ego and his roving eye. Don’t feel sorry for him, though. He brought it on himself. The one who deserves sympathy is Erin. She’s a really sweet and genuine girl, but she’s just another notch on his bedpost.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

“Bar wouldn’t touch him again with a 10-foot pole”? Again, is he begging her to come back? Although it grosses me out, I have to admit that Leo has his pick of whatever Victoria’s Secret model he wants. If he does break up with Erin (which will probably happen), he’ll just move on to yet another 22-year-old with no cellulite and a great rack. Easy.

Also: In a weird piece of gossip counter-programming, In Touch claims that Leo and Erin might be headed for some baby-making. Erin told In Touch (at a charity event) that “having children makes more sense than what I do now. My mom was a preschool teacher, so I’ve been around kids. I’ve always loved them.” Maybe that’s not so much “counter-programming” as “the reason why Leo is going to dump her.” Even though Leo is on the record as saying he wants a wife and babies, do you think he’ll actually marry this girl and knock her up? No. I do not.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Erin Heatherton have been together the same amount of time as Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling. It’s been about eight or nine months since Leo basically thumbed through the Victoria’s Secret catalog and ordered her. But eight months is nothing to scoff at – it’s a decent amount of time with a man who at best is a serial monogamist (ha) and at worst is a stinky, non-deodorant-wearing, womanizing commitment-phobe. Leo does seem pretty low-key with Erin – they even stepped out for a bike ride photo op last week. So is Erin “the One”? HAhahahahaha. I mean… hahaha. Oh, that was a serious question. Is she the One? Star Mag thinks she might be – because she loves basketball and so does Leo. OMG WHAT AN AMAZING CONNECTION.

Leonardo DiCaprio has certainly dated his fair share of gorgeous models in the past, but Leo is currently putting a full-court press on his latest love, Erin heatherton. Leo and Erin first hooked up last winter in NYC, after he spotted her at a Victoria’s Secret fashion show, and they’ve been an item ever since. But might she actually be The One?

“Up until now, Leo’s ladies have been prissy, girly types,” says a source. “But when he met Erin, he realizes he had found not only a beautiful woman but a talented athlete as well! Erin loves sports and in fact was headed for a career as a basketball player when a modeling agent approached her on a Miami beach seven years ago.”

Erin played basketball in high school, and she planned to attend college on a basketball scholarship before a career in modeling came calling.

“Leo is also a huge basketball fan,” says the source. “he has a full court at his home in LA, and is a Lakers season ticket holder. Whenever he and Erin are together they are always doing something physical, like hiking in nearby canyons, riding their mountain bikes or playing ball together. They never run out of fun activities to do.”

“Leo has been a real holdout when it comes to getting married,” says the pal. “But with a girl like Erin, who has beauty brains and can shoot hoops… he may finally have found his future wife!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Yeah, I really don’t think the biggest problem in all of Leo’s relationships up to Erin was that the girls didn’t give a crap about basketball. But far be it from me to pontificate on the importance of sports in a man’s life – I really couldn’t care less. I’ve considered dumping my imaginary husband Michael Fassbender because I find his hobbies (cars, racing) boring. We don’t have to share everything, you know? That’s how I rationalize it. Anyway, about Leo and the possibility that Erin is “the One”. I want to give that girl a hug. Poor Erin.

PS… We really need to discuss Leo’s creepy wax figure. OMG IT’S SO CREEPY. There, we discussed it.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Confession time, y’all: Quentin Tarantino is my favorite director in the entire universe, and I was very ashamed for doubting his judgment after the commercial failure of Grindhouse when he really pulled off Inglourious Basterds on a (near) masterful level. For quite awhile, I was really nervous about how Basterds would turn out, but once I saw that movie’s teaser trailer, all fears were immediately dispelled. So I was pretty pumped for the eventual arrival of a trailer for Django Unchained, but now I find myself somewhat deflated.

The new teaser trailer for Django Unchained debuted last night even though the movie doesn’t come out until Christmas Day. First off, it seems way too early for a teaser trailer because — just last month — QT was still attempting to resolve some casting issues left by the void of Sacha Baron Cohen. Granted, Cohen was slated for a role that’s something of a cameo in the vein of Mike Myers’ part in Inglourious Basterds, but it still seems like a big rush to the trailer altar to get something (anything?) ready to play in front of the big summer movies. Promotion is everything these days where movies are concerned, but I just don’t know here. Indeed, this trailer seems like a rushed product, which would make sense because, according to Paste Magazine, this trailer is essentially “an edited version of the ten minutes of footage Tarantino premiered at Cannes” just a couple of weeks ago. Dare I say that the tragic loss of QT’s long-time editor, the amazing Sally Menke, has already had a signficant effect on QT’s output? Check out the trailer, and we’ll discuss below:

For those unfamiliar with the plot of Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx plays the titular Django, who is a freed slave that discovers his wife (Kerry Washington) has been captured by slave owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Django is aided by Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz, actually playing a sort-of-good guy for once), a German bounty hounter. The trailer’s declaration of “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of vengeance” certainly will satisfy many fans of QT’s style while allowing him to also make a mark upon the Western genre with a Southern twist. Honestly, I’m not sure whether I like this trailer or not, but I’m hoping that Tarantino will prove me wrong again. Part of the problem is that I’m not much of a DiCaprio fan and have always found his acting to be overrated. Here he’s mugging it up so much for the camera that it’s hard to take the entire trailer seriously, and I think QT has been a bit too obvious with his choice of music as well. Hopefully, the film’s further promotion will be more promising than this mess. Don’t break my heart, QT!

Oh and … Christoph drinking a very important beverage at a very important table during an obviously important scene in the movie? Oh Tarantino, you so crazy.

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For whatever reason, my expectations for Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby were quite different than the realities presented in this new trailer, the first for the film. I guess I thought Baz’s acid-trip-style had mellowed with age and that this was going to be an impeccable costume drama, authentic in every way. But… from the first few seconds of the trailer, I was instantly reminded of the party scene in Romeo + Juliet, and how much Baz Luhrmann likes to churn up the psychodrama of a party scene. In the end… I’m kind of disappointed.

Some nice things: the scene with all of Gatsby’s shirts – that looks like it’s done really, really well. It was always my favorite bittersweet scene in the book, and I love the look of Gatsby’s two-story closet. I guess I should say something about the actors? Carey Mulligan is such a fine actress. She’s one of my favorites of the new girls, and I think she was a splendid choice for Daisy, and maybe one of the best actresses to portray the Daisy character ever. It seems a bit like she’s in another movie, though – like she thought she was making a more sedate, period, costume drama.

As for Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby… um, he looks really good. I don’t see any bloated face, and he manages to avoid looking ratty too. Probably because Leo as Gatsby is kind of perfect casting too – who else could really play Gatsby amongst today’s actors? Only Leo, really. I didn’t catch sight of Isla Fisher at all, right? She’s not in the trailer? She plays Myrtle. Joel Edgerton plays Tom Buchanan, and Elizabeth Debicki is Jordan Baker (incidentally, when I first read the book, I thought “Jordan Baker” was THE most sophisticated name for a woman ever).

Anyway… it looks okay. I do want to see it, but I think I need to lower my expectations a bit.

Poster and stills from ‘The Great Gatsby’.