Matthew Perry was briefly linked with singer/crappy actress Mandy Moore after the two were seen out holding hands on a romantic date together earlier this month. Not much seems to have come of that because there were no further sightings and Moore has seen been seen out with her ex, DJ AM.

Now there’s news that Matthew Perry may also have reconciled with one of his exes, new mom Meg Ryan, right around the same time. The two were first linked this February, and it sounds like they’ve been reacquainted. 38 year-old Matthew and Meg Ryan, 48, had a dinner date at the Chateau Marmont that sounds like it ended with a late night hookup in a romantic hotel suite. They also had another date a little over a week later.

Matthew Perry’s on-again, off-again romance with Meg Ryan appears to be very much on. The couple, who dated earlier this year, met for a late-night dinner date at LA’s Chateau Marmont on November 1, and Matthew even booked at suite at the hotel, says a friend of Meg’s.

“It finally dawned on him that he and Meg have a great connection,” says a friend…

The romance continued the following week, too. On November 10, Matt… and Meg… took in a Swell Season concert at the Wiltern theater in LA.

[From Life and Style, print edition, November 26, 2007]

And while Matthew has been playing the field, dating Mandy and then Meg in quick succession, so has Meg. The former a-lister with the trout pout was seen out on a maybe-date with single Hank Azaria on November 6, which was in between her sleepover and follow-up date with Matthew. Meg was either on a double date with Azaria and another couple, or they were just all together as friends, but the two took pains not to be photographed together as they left the restaurant:

[Meg Ryan and Hank Azaria were] spotted together leaving the exclusive Manhattan restaurant The Waverly Inn on November 6. Meg and Hank dined with NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen and his wife, Suzy Shuster, an ABC Sports sideline reporter.

“As Meg and Hank walked out, he opened the door for her and let her pass,” the eyewitness said. “As soon as she saw a photographer waiting outside, she ducked to the side because she didn’t want to be in the photo.”

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

Whatever the case, it looks like both Meg and Matthew have active social lives. Maybe they’re just keeping things casual for now.

Meg Ryan is shown on 10/30/07 at The International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Awards. Matthew Perry is shown on 10/13/07 at The Lili Claire Foundation Benefit Dnner and Auction. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Singer Mandy Moore, 27 23, and former Friends star Matthew Perry, 38, were spotted out to dinner holding hands in Beverly Hills. Mandy is set to have met Perry at Amici Trattoria for a romantic date that looked like it was one of the first for the pair, and that it was going well:

Page Six spies were astounded last week when they saw the two on a date at Amici Trattoria in Beverly Hills. One source said, “He was already seated and waited for her for 15 minutes until she arrived. He stood up to greet her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. They were holding hands across the table and being really close and laughing a lot the whole time.”

[From Page Six]

Matthew Perry’s career seems to be moving along after his excellent series, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, was canceled. He will next appear in The Laws of Motion with Ginnifer Goodwin and Hilary Swank, which is in post-production. He is also set to film The Beginning of Wisdom, but since the status of the film is listed as pre-production on IMDB, it’s likely to be delayed by the writer’s strike.

Mandy Moore has no future movies lined up, according to her IMDB profile, after the License to Wed debacle. She celebrated the end of her Wild Hope tour last month.

With both Matthew and Mandy in temporary down time, what better chance to get to know each other and fall in love? Eleven years isn’t that much of a difference, and Mandy deserves a doting man in her life. She was reportedly hurt by her ex Zach Braff, and several songs on her new album are said to be about their failed relationship. Mandy told the crowd at a performance last month “I think if someone disrespects you, they totally deserve to have a song written about them.” Maybe her next album will feature lighter, more romantic fare.

Mandy Moore is shown at the ACE Awards on 11/5/07. Matthew Perry is seen at the Lili Claire Foundation Benefit Dinner on 10/13/07. Thanks to PRPhotos.

When I saw the thumbnail picture for this photoset of the Dedication premiere, I wasn’t sure who it was right away and I assumed I was looking at some young British celebrity that’s vaguely familiar but whom I couldn’t place. Then when I looked further and realized it was Mandy Moore, I thought “why did she do that to herself?”

I get that she wants to change her look and is going for sultry and mysterious, it’s written all over her pouty mouth, but berry lipgloss with light sparkly eyeshadow? A dress with a built-in corset? It’s like she’s going to the prom and got her makeup at CVS. (Although you can do a hell of a lot better with drugstore makeup than this.) Either she’s working with JLo’s fired makeup artist or she tried to do her own makeup based on some high school formula of pretty. She looks a lot like Drew Barrymore here, who also looks good at premieres but has suffered from bad makeup choices in the past.

Her eyebrows are shaped well, I’ll give her that.

Overall the look is Hot Topic meets Forever 21, it’s too young and goofy-looking.

Mandy Moore is one of the better young celebrities, I really like her and I know she stays out of the spotlight and doesn’t party all the time or sleep around. It would be remiss of me if I didn’t take her to task for this look, though. Hire a decent expert to help you, Mandy, please. You are gorgeous and just need to accent it properly.

Mandy Moore recently said that she’s not going to go off the deep end and do drugs or get wasted every night. She said she’s only been drunk four times in her life and that drugs aren’t for her.

She said: “I’ve probably been drunk, maybe, four times in my entire life. Honestly. I guess I’m a bit of a lightweight.

“I have a better time enjoying one glass of wine and just being relaxed. It’s a bit of a control thing - I don’t like not being in control of my words. I like to go to bed at 10pm, or 10.30pm, because I like to wake up at 7am…”

She added: “Maybe for some people drink and drugs work for them, but I’m not a tortured artist. I wouldn’t turn to some sort of substance to make me feel better, I’d turn to writing.”

[Monsters and Critics]

It definitely sounds true that Mandy likes an early bedtime. The Enquirer also had an amusing story a couple of weeks ago about Mandy kicking people out of a house party in the Hamptons when she wanted to go to bed. It wasn’t even her house!

During a party at a mansion owned by the Manhattan club, Stereo, Mandy dropped in to surprise her ex-boyfriend, Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, according to insiders. “Mandy instituted a ton of rules and restrictions,” divulged a source. “She stayed upstairs with DJ AM and refused to come downstairs for a barbeque….”

She returned to the house with DJ AM, but went straight to bed alone - and her early bedtime prohibited late-night swimming in the estate’s outdoor pool.

“People were told Mandy didn’t want a lot of noise and that she was very sensitive to sounds while she was sleeping,” confided the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, August 6, 2007]

It’s nice hearing about a star who’s a diva for going to bed early and not partying too hard. If only she could get her look straight. It’s not that bad, just not suited to her.

Mandy is shown at the premiere of her romantic comedy, Dedication, with Billy Crudup in NY last night. The film is out in limited release on August 24.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

It looks like unlikely hookups are dominating the news lately, because now Mandy Moore has been linked with DJ AM. DJ AM?

Just when you thought Mandy Moore and Wilmer Valderrama were headed for a reunion, now comes this: Moore and Adam “DJ A.M.” Goldstein are in the early stages of dating, a source close to the deejay tells PEOPLE.

Moore, 22, and Goldstein, 33, have known each other for years, the source says, but started spending more time together after running into each other at a New Year’s Eve party in Miami.

“It’s really new. They’re in the beginning stages of getting to know each other,” says the source. “They’re very into each other. It’s very sweet.”

There are photos of these two looking clingy with each other, so it’s possible that People’s source is bogus, but I hold them to a higher standard than the other gossip rags and believe that someone blabbed. AM could probably use the publicity.

The last we heard of Mandy she was back dating her ex, fuck ‘n tell Wilmer Valderrama, so clearly she’s desperate. AM seems to be a nice guy in comparison, judging by how long he kept going back to Nicole Richie and how little he bragged to the press about how she was in bed.

DJ AM was said to be bitching recently because he’d gained 20 pounds and wanted to tighten up his gastric bypass. Mandy Moore is recording a new album, tentatively called “Wild Hope,” due out in 2007.

Mandy Moore has called Wilmer Valderrama’s tell-all interview on Howard Stern, in which he suggested he took her virginity, “tacky” and “untrue”:

Jennifer Love Hewitt denied Valderrama’s claims earlier, saying she “would have loved to have been there!”

Mandy Moore is in the finishing stages of her latest album, and says on her official website that “Things are really heating up and I’m so anxious to get out there and share this music with you all.” She also has harsh words for whoever started a rumor that she was in rehab, saying ” If you’re gonna spread trash and gossip, there should be a line drawn on issues that you just don’t go near!”

Considering that we never heard that Moore was in rehab, she shouldn’t have justified the rumor with a response.

Here she is the June, 2006 issue of Elle magazine.

Photos from [mooreofmandy.com]

The Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a ball last night to celebrate the opening of an exhibit on British design. Sienna Miller, wearing an awful gold sequined minidress and black tights, served as co-chair for the event.

The guy dressed like a cabaret pirate posing with Charlize Theron is Dior designer John Galiano. He’s responsible for her monstrosity of an Oscar gown with the giant shoulder bow. Sienna Miller is shown with Christopher Bailey, Burberry’s creative director.

We have over 100 pictures from the event. Stars and designers attending include Alexander McQueen, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, John Galliano, Charlize Theron, Lindsay Lohan, Victoria Beckham, Emmy Rossum, Eva Mendes, Gisele Bundchen, Gretchen Mol, Jessica Alba, Josh Hartnett, Lenny Kravitz, Donatella Versace, Rupert Everett, Linda Evangelista and Amber Valetta, Jessica Alba, Marcia Gay Harden, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, Molly Sims, Rosario Dawson, Scarlett Johansson, Stella McCartney, Amanda Peet, Andre Leon Talley, Naomi Campbell, Angela Lindvall, Angie Harmon, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Bridget Moynahan, Tom Brady, Chloe Sevigny, Ciara, Dita Von Teese and Marliyn Manson, Drew Barrymore, Elizabeth Hurley, Erin O’Connor, Matthew Williamson, Eve, Gina Gershon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ivana Trump, Jacquetta Wheeler, Jason Lewis, Jessica Stam, John Legend, Johnny Rotten, Josh Lucas, Joy Bryant, Julia Stegner, Iselin Steiro, Karolina Kurkova, Lily Cole, Lauren Bush, Lily Donaldson, Gemma Ward, Liv Tyler, Francisco Costa, Lydia Hearst, Mandy Moore, Minnie Driver, Nick Cannon, Petra Nemcova, Rachel Roy, Damon Dash, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Gere, Cary Lowell, Thandie Newton, Selma Blair, Shalom Harlow, Sienna Miller, Christopher Bailey, designer for Burberry, Zooey Deschanel, Sophie Dahl, Ivanka Trump, Mark Ruffalo, Taye Diggs, Idima Menzel, and Sarah Wynter.

In a funny twist on the slacker who doesn’t leave home scenario, Mandy Moore had to kick her parents out of her new house in LA after inviting them to stay with her.

That’s kind of cute. Moore seems like the type of person who would be worried about kicking her parents out.

Here she is hosting Total Request Live on MTV yesterday.

Mandy Moore stars in “American Dreamz,” an American Idol parady that hits theatres on April 21st. Hugh Grant, who admittedly loved watching lots of reality TV in preparation for his role, plays the nasty Simon Cowell-based judge. Willem Dafoe stars as the chief of staff to the President (Dennis Quaid) who decides to guest judge on the reality show talent competition.

Despite some unflattering pictures of Moore that came out recently, she looked svelte and pretty at the March 26 press conference for the film in New York.

Wilmer Valderrama keeps talking about his relationships with famous starlets. He toned down the details for a NY Times interview, but still dished the dirt in his tell-all style:

Valderrama also emphasized how he wants to take his career to the next level and challenge himself as an actor. Obviously talking about anal sex on Howard Stern is not going to get him far.

Here are Moore, Grant, and Dafoe at the American Dreamz press conference.

MandyMoore.net reports that USWeekly has an article covering Kelly Osbourne’s weight loss and Mandy Moore’s move in the opposite direction:

Mandy is quoted as saying:

She does look a bit more filled out in these latest photos, but we think they’re Photoshopped. She looks heavier in some pictures than others and we suspect they may have been stretched out to make her look fatter by someone who read the US Weekly article.

Moore’s sex life was just made a little more public by Wilmer Valderrama’s indiscreet interview on Howard Stern, in which he claimed to have taken her virginity when they were dating almost 6 years ago.

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