We heard some mutterings about this last week, but now Page Six is declaring it official – Bar Refaeli and Leonardo DiCaprio have officially split up. Honestly, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard split rumors (or confirmations), but this time, I do think it’s real. I think Leo is in the market for a new girlfriend. Coincidentally, we’ve also heard some stuff about Leo and Blake Lively. So… is the split really as amicable as Page Six wants to think?

Leonardo DiCaprio and model Bar Refaeli have officially called it quits, Page Six has exclusively learned. The pair broke up late last week after going through a rough patch.

“It was amicable, they’re still friends and they are still talking,” said a source close to the couple. “They just grew apart and went their separate ways,” the source said, adding that there was no one else involved in the breakup — despite Refaeli being pictured flirting with a mystery man at a dinner in Berlin this week.

She and the Hollywood star dated for four years before taking a six-month break back in 2009 and then rekindling their romance last year. The source added: “Neither were ready to settle down, and both have busy careers that have been taking them in different directions.”

Rumors of an impending split began when DiCaprio had a boys’ weekend with Bradley Cooper and Ryan Kavanaugh in Mexico last month. DiCaprio and Refaeli were then seen going in opposite directions at separate events around New York the night of Anna Wintour’s Met Ball on May 2 — he hit the Standard Hotel and she partied at the Crown. A rep for DiCaprio had no comment.

[From Page Six]

Yeah… boys weekends, Blake Lively, and Leo being one of the most in-demand actors in the world make me think that he simply outgrew the relationship with Bar. However, I’m not saying Bar is sitting at home with her Boyfriend Pillow, eating ice cream. She’s been photographed a lot in the past week, and she even has been spotted on a “mystery date” (it could have been one her gays though – the dude looked like a hairdresser type).

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

Bar Refaeli was at the Met Gala two nights ago, although she barely got any attention because of all of the A-listers there (sidenote: CB and I were discussing the craziness of the Met Gala, and I noted that they got a much better turnout than the Oscars… it’s SO TRUE). Maybe Bar would have gotten more attention if she had shown up with Leonardo DiCaprio. Unfortunately for Bar, it seems like Leo wasn’t interested. Not interested in the event, and not interested in Bar as a girlfriend anymore, maybe:

Leo DiCaprio and Bar Refaeli could be heading for a more permanent split after they went their separate ways after the Met ball on Monday. While Refaeli attended the gala and the after-party at Crown, DiCaprio partied at the Top of the Standard with his boys, dressed casually in jeans and a baseball cap. The actor avoided fotogs and kept a low profile while mingling with Naomi Watts and Carmelo Anthony, among others. Sources say Leo and Bar have been “going through a difficult patch,” but they are trying to work it out. A rep for DiCaprio declined to comment. Refaeli’s rep was not available for comment.

[From Page Six]

Any other day, and I would state my allegiance to Team DiCaprio, just because I think Bar is kind of skeevy, especially with the way she’s been Single White Female-ing Gisele for years. Leo has a type, sure, but does he have to shack up with the Budget Gisele? That being said, LaineyGossip had an interesting tip today – perhaps Leo is getting a little Blake Lively action? There’s a rumor, a random eyewitness report or something. As you might remember, Blake was trying to get with Leo professionally and sexually when The Great Gatsby was being cast last year Blake lost the role of Daisy, but did she win the role of “Leo’s Girlfriend”? There was a report about Blake and Leo in January too – interesting.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I can’t help it, I saw these photos of Leonardo DiCaprio on set and immediately started thinking about how hot he looks now. I like his hair all slicked back like that even if he looks like Eddie Munster. I’ve always found the guy attractive and I love the little shade of a goatee all around his chin. DiCaprio does it for me, he’s a real man and he’s a hell of an actor. He’s definitely going to be on Hot Guy Friday this week and while we’re at it do you guys have any other requests? We like to get started with it around Wednesday as that post takes hours. (Kaiser does most of the work!)

I was thinking we’d only featured DiCaprio once or twice on HGF, and that’s accurate but he also made it into our top ten hot guys of 2010. I would suggest you revisit that story if you’re feeling the same kind of early week doldrums that are setting in on my end. There’s definitely a kick to be gained out of staring at hot men, particularly into DiCaprio’s baby blue eyes. He looks like he could hold you down with one arm and take a swig of scotch from a highball glass from the other. He also looks to have lost a little weight recently.

Getting back to reality, DiCaprio was filming a commercial for “Chinese telecommunications company China Mobile” in Paris today. I was going to say that Brad Pitt did commercials for them too, but that was Softbank. These A listers make a lot of bank doing commercials overseas. Kaiser pointed me to this article on E! that says he was paid five million dollars to do this commercial. I will be overjoyed if I make that amount in my lifetime.

DiCaprio is currently filming J. Edgar, where he plays J. Edgar Hoover in a biopic based on the FBI director’s private life. I hope that some dressing in drag is involved. (Kaiser will love that.) He’s also slated to star in a remake of The Great Gatsby. Only the best for DiCaprio, except for these little commercials he makes on the side.

Photo credit: Fame Pictures

Currently, Leonardo DiCaprio is filming the J. Edgar bio-pic with director Clint Eastwood. I’ve been hearing various stuff about the filming, mostly controlled leaks about potential plotlines and that kind of stuff, but I hadn’t heard anything about tempers flaring. Until now! The National Enquirer’s gossip guy Mike Walker claims that Clint and Leo got into a little tiff while filming in Washington, D.C. one day. Clint, a famously reserved and fast director, got the take he was looking for and called it a day. Leo did not agree, and pitched a fit. I mean… you know Clint has turds bigger than Leo, right?

FEELIN’ LUCKY, PUNK?… WELL, ARE YOU? You coulda heard a pin drop when LEONARDO DICAPRIO suddenly got feisty with Oscar-winning director CLINT EASTWOOD on the set of “J. Edgar” and demanded a retake on a scene where he reacts to a bomb explosion on a Washington, D.C., street.

Clint loved the take, called it a wrap and told everyone to go home – but Leo felt he hadn’t looked shocked enough in the scene, and insisted on a redo.

“No,” said Clint, “I’m happy with it.”

Said My On-Set Spy: “Leo got upset and demanded that Clint reshoot the scene. Stunned by Leo’s challenging manner, everyone got real quiet. Then Clint turned to the cameraman and said, in a quiet Dirty Harry rasp: ‘He can shoot it again – but make sure there’s no film in the camera.’”

Instantly, Leo lost his temper, screamed: “FORGET IT!” – and stormed off the set. Shooting resumed the next day, but sources say the air’s thick with tension.

[From The National Enquirer, print and online editions]

Seriously, don’t mess with Clint. He’ll cut a bitch, and has, often. The only thing that makes me not believe this story is that Clint is supposed to be one of the greatest directors of actors. Actors love him. They worship him. It’s always a love affair between Clint the director and his cast. But… I’ll tenuously believe this story because although Leo fronts like he’s the King of Hollywood, he still has moments where he’s a punk.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Okay, maybe these aren’t really the “first” photos from Clint Eastwood’s latest film, J. Edgar, the J. Edgar Hoover bio-pic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer, but these are the first photos we’ve had access to. And they’re good too! We’ve got Leo (as Hoover) in a snazzy tuxedo, Armie Hammer also in a tux, and even little Judi Dench, magnificent and resplendent in some kind of fur. I didn’t know Judi was in this film! She’s playing Hoover’s mom, and in my head, Judi and Clint Eastwood get along really well. I hope that Judi and Clint adore each other, don’t you? I wish they would make a movie about the two of them sitting around and drinking together. I would watch that.

I’m a little out of my element trying to figure out who various actors are playing. Naomi Watts is in it, as is Ed Westwick and Josh Lucas. I think Armie Hammer is playing Hoover’s lover? Maybe? Armie recently discussed the film:

Armie Hammer isn’t nervous about kissing Leonardo DiCaprio in new movie ‘J. Edgar’ as he knows the scenes are vital to the movie. Armie Hammer isn’t nervous about kissing Leonardo DiCaprio in new movie ‘J. Edgar’.

The actor will play Clyde Tolson – an associate and rumoured gay lover of Leonardo’s character, FBI director John Edgar Hoover – in the Clint Eastwood-directed biopic but says he isn’t worried about the scenes because he knows they’re important to the film.

He told E! Online: “It’s not a kissing scene. It’s a ton of kissing scenes. I actually just met him for the first time Saturday at the DGA Awards. He’s a talented actor. I’m not nervous or afraid of it being awkward. The script is great. The scenes are in there for a reason.”

As well as Armie and Leonardo, Naomi Watts will star as Hoover’s secretary of 54 years Helen Gandy, who after his death destroyed his personal file containing incriminating material that he used to control powerful political figures.

Dame Judi Dench is set to star as Hoover’s mother, while ‘Gossip Girl’ star Ed Westwick is also part of the cast. The film is set to be released at the end of 2012.

[From Contact Music]

From what little I know about Hoover’s personal life, I don’t think he had just one lover, you know? I thought there were orgies with lots of nubile young bucks (or as John Travolta calls it, “Tuesday”). That being said, I love that Clint is making this movie, and I love the idea of Armie and Leo making out. It’s not as hot as Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy making out, but it’s still a pretty good homoerotic fantasy that’s got me smiling (in my pants).

Photos courtesy of Fame.

A few months ago, Blake Lively was one of the contenders for the role of Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s remake of The Great Gatsby. We know this because Blake’s publicist made sure that everyone knew she took a meeting with Baz, and that Blake was spending some time with Leonardo DiCaprio, who will likely be playing Jay Gatsby. This Leo connection would be good for Blake professionally and sexually – after all, Blake is kind of Leo’s “type” for a girlfriend, and Blake could perhaps be someone’s budget idea of Daisy Buchanan. Fortunately for filmgoers, Carey Mulligan won the part of Daisy in the end, and so Blake’s only need for any Leo-time was as a potential sexual partner.

So, on Saturday night, Jeremy Renner threw himself a massive 40th birthday blowout, and it quickly morphed into one of the better industry parties ever. Lots of A-listers were there – Leo, Colin Farrell, Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson, and Renner’s The Town costar, Blake Lively. Guess who Blake made a beeline for?

Has Blake Lively set her sights on Leonardo DiCaprio? The newly single “Gossip Girl” star was spotted flirting with DiCaprio at “Hurt Locker” star Jeremy Renner’s birthday at his house in The Hills on Saturday night.

A spy told us, “They were on the balcony together for an hour. They were standing close in a corner and looked like there was a lot of flirting. Later, they were together again by the bar.”

There was no sign of DiCaprio’s model girlfriend, Bar Refaeli, who was believed to be working. But a pal told us he and Lively “are just friends and Leo left with Kevin Connolly.”

Others who joined the dancing and mingled in the house and on the terrace included Colin Farrell, Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson and Christina Aguilera, who was spotted looking a little wobbly and was helped out by boyfriend Matt Rutler. DiCaprio’s rep declined to comment. Reps for Lively and Aguilera didn’t get back to us.

[From Page Six]

If Leo left with Kevin Connolly, then that was probably very disappointing for Blake. What’s up with her lately? First she was riding Ryan Gosling and then it was kind of over as soon as it started, and it just seems like Blake is kind of desperate to upgrade to a big A-list celebrity boyfriend. That’s how she’s coming across to me: desperate. But maybe Leo likes that. If he and Blake do become something, though, she won’t be able to famewhore the relationship at all. Leo doesn’t care for that stuff.

Also – what’s up with Leo and Bar? Did they split? I think they might have, honestly.

One last thing – reports indicate that at the party, Blake wasn’t the only vacant blonde working her tits. Scarlett Johansson is back, bitches. According to Us Weekly, ScarJo’s rebound for the night was Kevin Connolly… sidenote: when did Kevin Connolly become so friggin’ A-list? He’s chillin’ with Leo, flirting it up with ScarJo. Weird. Anyway, Us Weekly says ScarJo and Kevin were “together all night and talked…They weren’t kissing, just drinking together.” A “bunch of agents” were hanging around her too, and the agents were “standing there listening to her.” Another witness says: “She was having a great time. There was no drama with her. She was running around the party and was a party girl, bouncing around from person to person.”

If you were a dude, would you rather go home with Blake’s desperate, plotting famewhore machinations, or ScarJo’s fun-loving drunk party girl? Yeah. That’s why ScarJo is A-list and Blake isn’t. Blake could learn a few things.

One last thing: why was no one trying to ride Jeremy Renner? It was his birthday! Will no one think of the birthday boy’s need for drunk ass? If Jeremy had invited me, I would have given him some birthday ass.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday, LaineyGossip broke the story that Leonardo DiCaprio and the newly single Blake Lively were spotted having dinner together (with a group). Then, just a few hours later, Us Weekly reported the same thing, confirming it. Congrats to Lainey for breaking so many stories lately!

Anyway, yes, Blake and Leo – they were out to dinner on Wednesday night, apparently there with a group of eight people, one of which was Baz Luhrmann. Baz is likely preparing his next project, another film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Many think Leo has it in the bag for Jay Gatsby… and that Blake is trying to be his Daisy Buchanan. Lainey also reported that Tobey Maguire could be coming on as Nick Carraway. So… was it just a business meeting? Or has Blake found her next boyfriend? Or a little of both?

Lively meets Leo! Newly single Blake Lively dined with Leonardo DiCaprio at NYC eatery The Lion on Wednesday, an insider confirms to UsMagazine.com. (LaineyGossip.com first reported the sighting.)

But Lively, 23, and DiCaprio, 35, weren’t alone. “It was an 8 person dinner,” the insider explains, adding that director Baz Luhrmann was in attendance.

And the meal was strictly business: DiCaprio has been cast as Jay Gatsby in Luhrman’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic book — and Lively is being strongly considered for the role of Gatsby’s love, Daisy Buchanan.

The director’s “whole crew was there,” the source says, adding that DiCaprio and Lively “didn’t leave together.”

Lively would have to fight off strong competition to win the role of Daisy. Scarlett Johanson, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley and Michelle Williams are also contenders, according to Deadline.

Lively and Gossip Girl costar Penn Badgley recently ended their three-year romance, her rep told Us Weekly exclusively last week.

DiCaprio is still going strong with Bar Refaeli, his model love of over four years.

[From Us Weekly]

I would actually like/love it if Blake and Leo became a couple, or just had some kind of brief, hot affair that ended his relationship with Bar, who I don’t really care for (I think she’s Single White Female-ing Gisele). But Blake as Daisy? Oh, no! NO. Blake needs to stretch her acting muscles at something else besides a classic American character like Daisy. So Blake, take my advice: your best role will be as some power player’s girlfriend, not as Daisy. Please.

Photos courtesy of WENN. Side-by-sides thanks to CB!

I recently watched Revolutionary Road, and it took me a while to finally rent it as I’d heard that it was depressing. It was a real downer, but it also felt like a brutally honest film, one in which the color had gone out of a woman’s life and subsequently her marriage. (It bothered me that the children were shown so infrequently in the movie, but they were peripheral to the characters’ lives and I guess it made sense in that context.) The arguments were frustrating and I thought the performances by all the main characters were superb.

Leo recently commented in a kind of vague but telling way about the fact that Kate’s marriage to their director for the film, Sam Mendes, has ended. He said that “Hollywood and this movie business can be a killer for marriages.” Is Leo giving us hints that he’s not the marrying type? I think he’s already demonstrated that. Is he hinting that he knows more about the end of Kate and Sam’s relationship? It’s hard to tell, but Kate was gushing about how much she loved Leo when she was winning awards for that film, and called him more like her husband than Mendes. I never bought the rumors that these two were secret lovers, but they do admit that they’re close friends and I’m sure Kate confided in Leo about her relationship. Here’s more:

The Oscar-winning actress was so disturbed by the relaxed attitude of her husband Sam Mendes – who she is now separated from — to the raunchy scenes in 2008 film Revolutionary Road it made her question her marriage.

“It was certainly a difficult time. She was really worried that Sam wasn’t bothered by the fact that his wife was making out with another guy right in front of her,” Leo said. “I told her it was only acting, but she kept on saying, ‘This is really weird.’

“When Sam started telling her exactly how to have sex with me she didn’t like it at all. She was freaking out because she was supposed to be having sex with her best friend — me — while her husband directed. But I didn’t find it weird at all. It didn’t bother me, because that’s part of acting.”

Kate and Sam — who married in secret in the Caribbean in May 2003 — split in March by “mutual agreement” and Leonardo thinks Hollywood was responsible for the death of their marriage.

“She loved being a wife,” he said. “Some people are meant to be married and I think Kate’s one of them, but Hollywood and this movie business can be a killer for marriages.”

Shortly after their split it was reported Kate and Sam had a trial separation in 2009 after falling out while working together on Revolutionary Road.

[From Showbiz Spy]

That’s sweet that Leo called Kate his best friend! A couple of weeks ago we reported on the rumor that Kate had hooked up with a hot male model who worked for Burberry, among other high end designers. Kate was since photographed out with the guy while he was conveniently jogging shirtless, semi-confirming the rumors. I’m sure she doesn’t mind her estranged husband, who was rumored to be getting hot and heavy with a young actress, seeing those photos. Kate and her husband announced their split in March after seven years and a child together. (Kate also has a daughter from her first marriage.) As far as I can tell they have not officially filed for divorce yet. Maybe that’s coming now that Kate has so publicly stepped out with a new man.

Kate, Leo and Sam Mendes on December 15, 2008. Credit: WENN.

I have a confession to make: I didn’t listen to the last audio release of Mel Gibson venting the frustration of several failed lifetimes at his girlfriend, nor did I listen to all the spittle-filled voicemails he left her. After listening the first five tapes and wasting several minutes of my life trying to process the meanest most threatening vitriol I’ve ever heard, I’m done. Just a few seconds of that vile crap would have been enough, and as I’ve mentioned before I’ve never witnessed anything like it. Even movies don’t show villians ranting like that for several minutes.

Still there are even more tapes/audio segments, and Radar head David Perel tells E! Online that they’ll continue to release them, and that “We will be posting them on the site as we continue to report on the Mel Gibson story.” Perel told Howard Stern that Radar has a full 30 minutes of audio from Mel.

Now that we know Mel for the verbally and (“allegedly”) physically abusive creep he truly is, he’s box office poison despite all the ways his people try to spin the “poor Mel” story. There’s almost no one in Hollywood willing to publicly speak out on his behalf, and a recent sympathetic profile in People Magazine included positive quotes from just three industry people I’d never heard of. We can add thoughtful actor Leonardo DiCaprio to the list of people trying to disassociate themselves with Gibson. DiCaprio has quietly dropped out of a Gibson-directed Viking film he was set to star in.

Leonardo DiCaprio is withdrawing from a Mel Gibson-directed flick about vikings in the wake of the domestic abuse scandal, RadarOnline.com has exclusively confirmed.

“Not a chance,” said a source, close to the Inception star, when asked if he was still planning to star in Gibson’s next project.

The decision is a major setback for the Oscar-winning actor/director, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse and child endangerment.

It also lends support to critics who are suggesting Mel won’t be able to recover from the Oksana Grigorieva scandal…

The viking film was to be DiCaprio’s first picture with Mel.

A source close to DiCaprio said the star, who is currently basking in the release of his wildly acclaimed box-office topping movie Inception, did not want to risk his reputation, with being associated with Mel.

“Leo has earned the right to pick and choose who he works with and Mel Gibson is not one of them,” the source added.

The as-yet untitled project is being produced by Graham King and Mel’s Icon Productions.

Variety had previously reported DiCaprio had long been fascinated by Viking culture and was poised to play one in a storyline that will be as unsparing as Mel’s other period directing efforts, Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto.

[From Radar Online]

I’m fascinated by viking culture too thanks to Alex Skarsgard’s character’s flashbacks on True Blood. I mean that in a purely superficial/stare at the eye candy kind of way.

I’m only trying to change the subject because I don’t want to think about Mel and his crazy meanness anymore. As I was writing this two more stories came out on Radar Online – an e-mail that Oksana sent her lawyer describing Mel’s attack on her on January 7 and yet another voicemail, said to be Mel’s “final” voicemail, made on February 20, the day after he made all those mean calls. He tries to make nice and claims that he wants “to talk reasonably about schedules.” The time to talk reasonably had long since passed.

TMZ also reports that Oksana was offered a $15 million dollar payoff to keep all her evidence of Mel’s abuse confidential. She is said to initially have agreed, only to back out of the deal. Radar Online claims that they never paid Oksana for the audio tapes.

Yesterday, Us Weekly released part of their epic cover story, which is basically a series of excerpts from Andrew Morton’s new unauthorized biography of Angelina. The online article was all about how Angelina’s mom Marcheline “abandoned” her right after Marcheline and Jon Voight split up. It all seemed very cheap. But Us Weekly also teased something I had never heard before: that Angelina might have had a little something with Leonardo DiCaprio. Now Crushable has a few more excerpts and they are… disappointing. No sexy details about Leo-Angie bedroom knife play, just an awkward story about Angelina and Leonardo taking a shower together? The hell? Here’s more:

Thanks to her very very very public relationship with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie has gained a reputation as a husband stealing maneater. And, according to an upcoming book, Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography by celebrity biographer Andrew Morton, Brad’s not the first married man Ang has gone after, and certainly not the first co-star she’s bedded, lusted after or entranced.

Angelina’s list of conquests and flirtations includes some fellow celebrities that you may have never would think to romantically link to the mother of six, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger and recent co-star Johnny Depp, who the author quotes an Angelina friend as saying, “If she cold get something going with Depp, she would leave Brad.” Here, we break down the weirdest alleged hook-ups Angelina has had over the years — not counting ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton — as outlined in the recent issue of Us Weekly, which has clips from Andrew’s unauthorized book.

Timothy Hutton
According to Andrew’s book, Timothy and David Duchovny battled for Angelina’s love on the set of their movie Playing God, and Tim prevailed. They dated “quietly” while Angie took drum lessons to impress him. Weird.

Leonardo DiCaprio
The pair showered together in his hotel suite, but Angelina reportedly told friends that there was “little sexual rapport” between the two. Ouch.

Colin Farrell
The Irish actor was reportedly falling in love with Angelina on the set of Alexander, but she denies they were ever intimate.

Ralph Fiennes
Angelina’s Beyond Borders co-star could be one of Angelina’s mystery lovers she’s talked about meeting for rendezvoux in London.

[From Crushable]

The Ralph Fiennes rumor still works for me, big time. And I do think Colin and Angelina had something going on, despite her denials and obfuscations. Up until yesterday, I had never heard a whiff about Leo and Angelina, and the shower story seems fishy as hell, although I’ll buy that if the two of them were ever together, naked, they wouldn’t have much sexual chemistry, and that would be on Leo and his failings as a romantic lead. But David Duchovny? I’m still into him! Yes, he’s a douche and a “sex addict”. But there’s something about his deep, lazy voice and his bedroom eyes… damn. That would have been hot. Why did Angelina go for Hutton?!?

Okay, not so much in these photos though:

A little Ralph & Colin to clean the palate: