This might be when Reese Witherspoon officially turned into LeAnn Rimes. I’ve never seen a celebrity – aside from LeAnn – so happy to get pap’d at a children’s athletic event. We can debate whether or not Reese called the paps to document this happy-family photo-op, but there should be no debate about whether or not Reese is thrilled that she’s being photographed, and that these photos are part of her “I’m not a crazy, smack-talking drunk bitch” campaign. Let’s call it the “American Citizen” Campaign. She’s just a smiley blonde celebrity at a kid’s soccer game, y’all! At least she’s dressed appropriately for the occasion, which is something LeAnn Rimes rarely is. Reese honestly looks like she stepped out of an LL Bean ad.

Is this also a cleansing pap-session for Jim Toth? He’s a Hollywood professional, and it’s interesting that no one is talking about rehab anymore, like they were just after Reese and Jim’s arrests became public. Maybe Reese and Jim have worked out a new PR strategy – happy family photo-ops to prove that they’re just like us and no one will have to go to rehab for PR purposes.

Meanwhile, Radar reports that Reese just bought another new home in Brentwood (a posh section of LA). She spent $3 million on a ranch-style home with four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Reese already owns multiple properties in LA, although she’s been trying to unload her Ojai farm/ranch for about a year. She and Jim married in Ojai, and it was featured in Elle Décor, and just after the magazine ran photos of the property, she put the place up for sale for $10 million. She didn’t have any buyers so she slashed the price again in March. I feel like Reese is trying to make some extra money by flipping properties but she’s actually losing money…?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Taylor Swift’s last foray into real estate was a disaster. Okay, not really, but it was a PR disaster. Last year, after only dating high school student Conor Kennedy for a few months, Taylor bought the multi-million dollar property right across the street from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. Then, in her Vanity Fair cover story, Taylor tried to half-ass a denial about the real estate purchase only to be called out by the VF journalist, who looked into the real estate deal. It seems that Swifty did actually make the purchase (through her shell company) and then she flipped it for a profit after a few months had passed. So, at least Swifty made some money off of it, although her reputation did get dinged and plus she just continues to look like the kind of young woman who real-estate-stalks her boyfriends.

Anyway, Taylor’s new real estate venture doesn’t seem to come with a boy attached, so I just don’t know what to think. According to TMZ, Swifty just bought a $17 million Rhode Island mansion. IN CASH.

Taylor Swift is a certified BALLER — TMZ has learned that not only did she just buy a Rhode Island mansion for $17 million … but she did it with straight cash, homey!

As TMZ first reported, Swift was eyeing the 11k-plus-square-foot mansion for a few weeks now, having toured the place back on April 15.

According to our real estate sources, the asking price on the house (which sits on 5.23 acres) was around $20 mil, but Swift got it for $17.75 mil.

We’re told Swift wired the money over and movers were spotted at the house early this morning. Maybe Taylor is better at closing the deal than we thought.

[From TMZ]

A month from now, will we find out that Swifty has some new boyfriend, perhaps a teenage son of some Rhode Island hedge fund manager or something? Perhaps. But having seen the estate (I’m including a photo below), I think Swifty bought it because the house looks like a giant wedding cake, or perhaps a pile of meringue or whipped cream. That appeals to her Alice In Wonderland sensibilities.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

In Tuesday’s epic Taylor Swift-Vanity Fair post, I excerpted the details about Taylor’s purchase of a Hyannis Port home, which was reportedly right next to the Kennedy compound. Rumors and reports were widely circulated about the real estate purchase last year, when Swifty was in the throes of her high school romance with Conor Kennedy. Like, she literally purchased the house next door to Conor after they had only been dating for a month or two. Tay-Tay tried to play it off in the VF interview, but the writer (Nancy Jo Sales) did her research and not-so-subtly called Swifty out on her BS. Here’s the relevant portion from VF:

In response to the rumors that Swift was looking to buy a house next to the home of her then boyfriend Conor Kennedy’s family in Hyannis Port, Swift tells Sales, “People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like—that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.”

Swift continues, “One of these things I say to myself to calm myself down when I feel like it’s all too much . . . If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.”

But Sales reports that Swift actually did purchase the house. According to someone close to the situation, she had been viewing the property with her parents for over a year under the recommendation of Rory Kennedy. In November 2012, the Cape Cod Times reported the house had been sold to Ocean Drive LLC for $4.8 million. The company’s filing papers name a certain “Jesse P. Schaudies” of 13management—Taylor Swift’s management company. Schaudies did not return calls made to 13management’s offices, but according to the source, the Hyannis Port house was recently resold. “It was like a house-flip,” the source says. “A good short-term investment.”

[From Vanity Fair]

So, Swifty knew well enough to avoid a specific denial (especially on something that could so easily be proven), but she still looks like a liar and a whiner for complaining about the coverage of something that SHE ACTUALLY DID. Anyway, E! News has more about the Hyannis Port real estate deal which I found interesting:

Make that money, Taylor Swift . Despite being coy in Vanity Fair about buying the Hyannis Port, Mass., house near the Kennedy compound while dating Conor Kennedy last summer, realtor Bob Kinlin tells E! News that he did in fact sell the house to Swift.

The chart-topping singer avoided answering the question during her interview for the mag, saying, “Apparently I buy houses near every boy I like.”

But Kinlin, who sold the house last August to Swift, told us that the young singer snagged the Cape Code style, seven bedroom home for $4.8 million, in the name of the Ocean Drive LLC, registered to a Nashville manager Jesse P. Schaudies Jr. of Swift’s 13 Management company.

“I never physically met her, but she has obviously an entourage of people that represent her,” the realtor told E! News. “And the property did close for $4.8 million.”

He also told us that Swift turned around and sold the property two weeks ago, making almost $1 million in profit after having the home for only seven months. The home sold for $5,675,000 to a couple that had been coveting the house before Swift, Kinlin tells us.

Swift’s team did do some improvements to the home, which included renovating the kitchen, some bathrooms and replacing the septic system.

[From E! News]

And this is one of the biggest problems I have with Swifty: she’s actually a smart businesswoman and she has made and continues to make really intelligent decisions about her career and her money, but she insists on making her public persona all about unicorns and candy canes and being a boy-crazy tween stuck in the body of a 20-something girl-child with bolt-ons. This is the difference between the reality of a 20-something pop star who dates, has healthy sex and makes smart business decisions versus the girl-child image she tries to perpetuate. She plays the untouched angel victim role (in comparison to the brunette sluts she skewers in her music) who is too feminine and innocent to be a savvy businesswoman.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Kim Kardashian is in Miami right now – these are photos of Kim out and about with her BFF Jonathan Cheban yesterday. I don’t really think she’s showing yet, do you? Her boobs look bigger and her butt… well, her butt is always going to be big. Hopefully she’ll stop wearing crazy heels at some point during this pregnancy, but I fully expect her style to get even worse, if that’s possible. Maternity leather jodhpurs? WHY NOT?

While Kim is in Miami, she and Kanye are still taking care of many of the pressing issues concerning their baby-to-be and their relationship situation. TMZ says that while marriage isn’t currently on the table (Kim is still married to Kris Humphries, and Kanye doesn’t want to propose to Kim until she’s divorced, because he’s classy!), they are planning on living together. Together in an $11 million mansion.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West aren’t committed in matrimony … but they ARE committed in 11 million (and one) other ways — TMZ has learned the duo just bought an $11 MILLION MANSION!

Sources close to K & K tell TMZ … the future parents are now the proud owners of a 10,000-square-foot pad in an über-private, gated community in Bel Air, CA.

Kim and Kanye have owned the house for a few weeks … and they’ve already gutted it and are designing a 14,000-square-foot dream home in its place.

The new home will be an Italian-style villa … with a gym, movie theater, full hair and makeup salon, bowling alley, basketball court, indoor and outdoor pool … oh and probably a baby nursery. Just a hunch.

Not included … a wedding date. We’re told there are no plans.

FUN FACT: Kim & Kanye’s new neighbors will include Jennifer Aniston, Chris Paul, and Joe Francis.

[From TMZ]

Hahaha, Kimye have moved into the same neighborhood as Joe Francis and Jennifer Aniston. You never know with Aniston’s properties, though – she might be leaving the neighborhood very quickly, because she and Justin seem to be on some kind of weird real estate binge of buying, selling, renting and renovating. God knows. As for Kimye’s mansion… sure. It sounds pretty standard for people who have that kind of money to throw around.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

In case you don’t know who the Ecclestone sisters are, they’re like the British, more new-monied version of The Hiltons, except both of them are ambitious famewhores, not just one like Paris vs. relatively harmless Nicky. They’re the daughters of Formula One founder Bernie Ecclestone, who is worth about $2.4 billion, and they love spending their daddy’s money. Tamara, 28, (the brunette one) had her own reality show on British TV in 2011 called “Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$$ Girl.” She currently owns a home in London worth $70 million. Her sister, Petra, 23, made headlines last year when she purchased Candy Spelling’s mansion, the largest in LA County, for $85 million.

Well the time has come when Petra’s real estate may no longer outrank her sister’s. Tamara is said to be eyeing the most expensive estate in the US, a $125 million monstrosity called Fleur de Lys and modeled after Versailles. Tamara supposedly wants the mansion not just because she has insanely expensive tastes that can never be satisfied, but because she wants to one-up her sister by owning a larger, more expensive property. As if it wasn’t ridiculous enough that the home even exists as a single-family residence.

The stinking rich daughters of Formula 1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone are going head-to-head in an epic battle of the bricks, as Tamara, 28, prepares to move Stateside with the aim of outshining her 23-year-old little sister, Petra, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The socialite-turned-reality TV star has been checking out a number of palatial estates in La La land with a view to either leasing or buying — with several reports claiming she is particularly interested in the spectacular $125 million Fleur de Lys Estate in Holmby Hills, which was crowned the “world’s most expensive house” by Forbes in 2008.

Owned by Suzanne Saperstein, the 45,000-square-foot home was modeled after Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles and boasts a total of 12 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a 50-seat screening room and library, and a nine-car garage.

The humungous mega-mansion manages to significantly trump Petra’s stunning Holmby Hills home which cost just a paltry $85 million — and a source says that was the very intention!

“Tamara and Petra have always had a very strong sibling rivalry,” the source says. “When they were little Tamara really wanted nothing to do with Petra, who was five years younger, whereas Petra idolized her big sister and followed her around like a puppy dog. They have grown a lot closer in recent years but they still remain extremely, extremely competitive of each other.

“Tamara has always firmly believed that she is the superior of the sisters, and that she has the higher profile in England with her TV presenting work and then her reality show. But recently, Tamara has been feeling overshadowed by Petra — her wedding last year got an insane amount of press and then she bought that massive house in LA and they started writing about her in the U.S. as well — whereas Tamara is still unknown in the States.

“Tamara does not like feeling that she’s being outdone by her sister and is determined to set the balance straight again — and put herself ahead of Petra. She has been considering getting a base in LA for some time and is now seriously looking into it. Tamara feels it is the natural next step for her career wise and that it’s the only way to put her little sister back in her place, ie: in her shadow.

“She’s looked at the details of a number of different properties, with the main criteria being that it HAS to put Petra’s house to shame, which is no mean feat! Tamara really likes the Fleur de Lys, and what makes it all the more attractive to her is that Petra put in her own offer for the home that was turned down, before she bought the Spelling mansion — so, Tamara feels that if she could work out a deal for the property then she’s already gotten one up on Petra right off the mark.”

[From Radar Online]

These women may be richer than sin, but they don’t look it. Somehow they manage to look as cheap as the Kardashians and that’s really saying something.

Also Petra is currently pregnant, after having married in a $6.5 million ceremony in August of 2011. I just hope these twits’ sibling rivalry doesn’t extend to babies. Imagine the stupidity that would ensue. They’d hire enough nannies to look after their kids, though, while they were tucked away in another wing.

Here’s some house p0rn of Fleur de Lys. It looks like a museum. It reminds me of the furnished period rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Photo credit: WENN.com, Luxist and CurbedLA

I get the feeling that these photos from Duchess Kate’s hospital exit yesterday will be the last photos we get of Kate for a few weeks. She’s going to be laying low at Kensington Palace for a while, and then maybe (probably) the Queen will demand Kate and William’s presence at Sandringham for Christmas, so we might get photos of Will and Kate on or around Christmas day going into some church services. So… there will be a dearth of new Kate photos, just prepare yourselves. Even when the new year comes, I don’t think we’ll be seeing much of her for a while. I don’t see Kate as the kind of girl (or the kind of royal woman) to be seen out in some clingy evening gown while she is with child. But you never know. Maybe Kate will miraculously feel better by February and she’ll be back to a full schedule. “Full schedule” = one event a week, maybe.

As I’ve said many, many times before, this pregnancy is the best thing to ever happen to Kate’s image in general, and specifically for all of the complainers (raises hand) who bitch about her lack of work and her lack of interest in anything beyond her hair and shopping. Because now all of those complainers will look like such big, mean trolls for yelling at poor, pukey Duchess Kate. As we should – I’m not going to yell at her now or for a while. Poor girl can barely stand up straight from the looks of things. Still, it’s funny to think that from here on out, Kate will never really have a “full schedule” in the traditional sense. First she’ll be pregnant, then she’ll want to focus on being a mom for several years, and then she’ll get pregnant again, and then, like, a decade from now people will be like, “Seriously, WTF does she do all day?”

What was the point of all that? Ah, yes. According to Life & Style, William is going to get Kate a really nice “push present”. He’s going to buy her a Scottish estate, a “holiday home that they can visit when they are not working.” Hahaha.

Kate Middleton’s getting an early push present from doting husband, Prince William: a new home! As their family expands, William plans for them to lay down new roots in Scotland — near the Queen’s Balmoral estate — to make room for baby.

“William has been looking into adding another house to their portfolio and he wants it to be a surprise to Kate,” an insider tells the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now. “He wants it to be a holiday home that they can visit when they are not working.”

And in typical Prince William style, the home won’t be an extravagant palace, the source details: “It will likely be something cottage style and cozy.”

Earlier today, Kate was released from King Edward VII Hospital after being treated for nearly four days with a case of Hyperemesis Gravidarum — a severe form of morning sickness.

“She left the hospital smiling and looking in good health,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style.

As Life & Style reports in this week’s issue, the royal couple are set to welcome their bundle of joy in July.

[From Life & Style]

It would make sense for William to buy a Scottish cottage or estate close to Balmoral so that they can have their own space while still visiting with the Queen (and Charles, when he becomes King and inherits Balmoral, which is still technically a private residence as opposed to a royal property). But Balmoral itself is HUGE and there are many “cottages” on its epic acreage. Surely the Queen would “give” William and Kate a cottage on her estate?

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

I know you guys are already talking about all of this stuff in the other Aubry/Berry/Martinez post, but let’s just go ahead and cover all of this crap anyway. As we already knew, Halle Berry’s security cameras around her property were set up so that none of them caught Olivier and Gabriel’s fist-fight (or one-sided beatdown, as the evidence now suggests). We know that this giant legal and custodial and criminal clusterf—k went down on Thanksgiving, just a few weeks after a judge told Halle that she could not move to France with Olivier and Nahla because it would effectively end Gabriel’s custodial rights. We know that Halle has done everything – literally, everything – to try to strip Gabriel of his custodial rights. So then comes this suspicious story about Halle’s real estate:

Halle Berry has VERY quietly listed her Hollywood Hills mansion for $15 million … the same home where Gabriel Aubry and Olivier Martinez faced off in a violent Thanksgiving Day showdown … TMZ has learned.

Multiple real estate sources familiar with the deal tell TMZ … a few weeks back Halle gave a prominent realtor a pocket listing — a fancy term for property that isn’t advertised. The broker — Billy Rose with the high-end company, The Agency, has history with the house. He owned it a decade ago, renovated it and then sold it to actor Frankie Muniz, who sold it to Halle several years later.

Sources tell TMZ … Rose has quietly put out feelers to other realtors and potential buyers … with some success. We’re told last week Halle got an $11 million offer, but she’s holding out for more.

In case you’re in the market, it’s a 5-bedroom, 5,900 sq. ft. Tuscan-style estate, with a huge backyard, a 1,400 sq. ft. guest house … an awesome pool and spa … fireplaces galore … incredible landscaping … and oh yeah, a motor court — where Gabriel and Olivier settled their score.

[From TMZ]

“A few weeks back”??? I would like to know exactly when. I would like to know the exact date. I would like to know if Halle had quietly put her home on the market BEFORE the judge’s ruling on the move to France or AFTER. Of course, it’s perfectly possible that Halle simply doesn’t like her current house and she’s planning to buy another home in LA. But it’s still a sketchy move, right?

In addition to that, TMZ had another bizarre story which seems to come entirely from unnamed LAPD sources:

Although it appears no criminal charges will be filed against Gabriel Aubry in the Thanksgiving Day massacre of his face at Halle Berry’s house … cops on the scene concluded he was the instigator … TMZ has learned.

According to the police report, after interviewing Gabriel, Olivier Martinez and Halle, the investigating officer concluded, “Suspect [Gabriel] arrived at victim’s [Olivier] residence for child custody exchange. Suspect and victim engaged in verbal altercation. Suspect became upset and attempted to punch victim’s head but missed and struck victim’s right shoulder instead. Victim returned with 3 punches to the suspect’s head, causing him to fall to the ground. Victim’s fiance [Halle] notified police.”

It’s interesting … Olivier and Gabriel each claimed they said nothing to incite the other, but the report concludes both were smack talking.

According to the conclusions in the police report, Olivier acted in self defense: “Victim defended himself and punched the suspect.”

And law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Gabriel never told police about the alleged death threats made by Olivier both the day before and during the fight … threats he later claimed were made by Halle’s fiance. What’s more, cops contacted Gabriel after the fight and asked if he had more info, and he passed. There was no mention of death threats.

Nonetheless … in the end law enforcement believes it’s a case of mutual combat and it’s almost certain Gabriel will not be prosecuted.

[From TMZ]

This just reads as a reiteration of the original story which was pushed out by Team Halle on Thanksgiving. And here’s my problem with the continuing story line of “Gabriel never mentioned any of this on the day of the fight”: as we now can see from Gabriel’s awful injuries and his side of the story, he had been brutally beaten and Olivier had slammed his head into concrete. That’s head trauma, a concussion, and I think it’s weird that everyone is like “well, he should have told his side of the story even though he had just been knocked unconscious” or whatever.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Further evidence that Hurricane Sandy is a destructive bitch: gossip has slowed to the point where I’m writing puff pieces about Benedict Cumberbatch, because why not? In my defense, The Daily Beast did it first! Last week, The Daily Beast published this bizarrely dated story called “‘Sherlock’ Star Benedict Cumberbatch’s Polarizing ‘Cumberbitches’” which you can read here. It’s all about the subset of crazy Cumberbatch fan-girls and how obsessed we are with this strange alien-cat man. I guess it’s supposed to be both tongue-in-cheek and, like, an anthropological study of The Cumberbitch Tribe, but it just reads as condescending and quite dated. I would understand if the story had come out when Sherlock’s Season 2 was airing on PBS, or even when Parade’s End was on. But Cumby is barely in the news these days. Plus, the Cumberbitches aren’t even half as rabid as Tom Hiddleston’s fan-girls. *shiver*

In other Cumbernews, The Sun reports that Benedict is building his “dream home”. In London. Not in my pants.

Benedict Cumberbatch is building his dream home after buying the apartment above his current property and making plans to convert them into one.

The Sherlock star has applied for planning permission to convert the two apartments in Hampstead, North London into a luxury three-storey home by knocking the two buildings together and expanding into the loft.

The house will eventually be worth an estimated £2 million once the work is complete.

A source tells The Sun, “It’s an ambitious project but it’s being done with minimum disruption.”

[From The Express UK]

Yes, that sounds lovely. A luxurious three-story home in London, which he and I will fill with alien-cat Cumberbabies. I’ll do the master bedroom in shades of blue, with some metallic accents. The nursery will be in creams and beiges, because Cumby will want to wait to find out the sex of the Cumberbaby. Oh, and we will get a cat. We will name her Dollianna Wigglesworth. Or maybe we’ll just save that name for the baby.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

If you want to see the much-discussed first post-Mini-Coopering photos of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, go here. Kristen’s armpits are front and center. And Rob looks… I don’t even know? He’s not staring at her adoringly, but I feel pretty strongly that he agreed to this “friendly” photo-op. Close your eyes and wait it out, Rob. Do not get hypnotized by the Armpits of Lust and Doom. So, there are several new stories. Do you want the Happy Twihard story first or the Haha Twihard story? Hm… I’ll decide. Haha, Twihards:

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have separate hotel rooms for their upcoming worldwide promotional media blitz for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

“Despite getting back together, Rob and Kristen will have separate hotel rooms booked for them on the upcoming promotional tour for Breaking Dawn-Part 2. Summit Entertainment isn’t taking any chances that the couple will have problems again and be forced to scramble at the last minute to book one of them a posh hotel suite,” a source close to the situation tells Radar.

“In fact, in several cities, rooms have been booked for Kristen at a separate hotel from the rest of the A-list cast. Rob and Kristen are always professional, but the fact is she cheated on him, and this media tour needs to go off without a hitch. Summit wants the final installment of the Twilight franchise to go off without a hitch, in order to prime the movie to break box office records,” the insider adds.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, R-Pattz and K-Stew are legally required to promote the final installment of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2, together, and if their “reconciliation” doesn’t last the actors will be stuck with each other on the international press junket.

“Rob and Kristen are legally required to promote Breaking Dawn-Part 2 together along with the rest of the cast. Their individual contracts have very specific language about what is legally required of Rob and Kristen to do on the publicity tour. The studio execs at Summit weren’t happy when Rob and Kristen broke up, but this is why there are clauses about what is required of the stars to do. The promotional tours of the past Twilight movies are very much anticipated by the fans and almost becomes bigger than the movie,” an insider previously told us.

[From Radar]

Logic says that regardless of the state of Rob and Kristen’s relationship, before or after the Mini-Coopering, they probably always got separate rooms. You know? Separate rooms are just part of their contract, their riders or whatever. They get separate rooms automatically and then they just spent the night together in one of their rooms, no biggie. Even though I want to laugh at the “Robsten is Unbroken” crowd, this isn’t the smoking gun.

As for the Happy, Happy Twihard news, there’s another twist in these ridiculously detailed real estate stories. A few weeks ago, sources claimed that Rob was no longer going to sell his Los Feliz mansion, meaning that he had forgiven Kristen and ROBSTEN IS UNBROKEN of course. And now Kristen is reportedly buying a home that’s just one-and-a-half miles away from Rob’s home. But… but… I thought Rob’s home was HER home?

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are back on – and now she has reportedly purchased a home in the same L.A. neighborhood where he owns a house. Stewart bought a $2.1 million home just a mile and a half from Pattinson’s Los Feliz house, according to real estate site Zillow.com.

Meanwhile, the newly reunited couple have been spending lots of time together privately and publicly.

“They seem attached to the hip again,” one observer tells PEOPLE. “They spent all weekend together. They are back to hanging out with their old group of friends. Everything seems back to normal again.”

On Saturday, Stewart, 22, and Pattinson, 26, arrived hand-in-hand for a late night dinner date at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood. On Sunday, they spent a fun-filled night out with friends at the Ye Rustic Inn, near Pattinson’s Los Feliz home.

“Rob and Kristen sat next to each other all night,” a witness at the Ye Rustic Inn tells PEOPLE. “They were both in a great mood. They kept smiling at each other and were laughing with their friends. They looked happy and everything seemed great. They were flirty and held hands, but didn’t kiss.”

On Monday, the couple also had lunch out together in Hollywood. The couple will make their first official appearance together later this month to promote The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.

[From People]

Once again, this isn’t firm evidence (to me) that Rob and Kristen are totally back together and/or they’ll never break up ever again. Kristen is a wealthy woman, and this real estate purchase isn’t really some powerful “signal” that she’s back on with Rob. Game it out – if they break up in two months and Kristen doesn’t want to be so close to Rob’s house, she’ll simply put this property back on the market. Or Rob will sell his house, which is what he was planning to do in August anyway. You know what I would take as a definite “sign” that all was well in Robsten-ville? If Rob put Kristen’s name on the title of his house. Then it would “their” home. Instead, Kristen has moved out of his place and now she’s buying a house close to him. Possibly because she’s real-estate-stalking him, like Lindsay Lohan used to do with Samantha Ronson.

Photos courtesy the 2008 Vanity Fair photo shoot, my favorite.

Within a month into Taylor Swift’s romance with 18-year-old Conor Kennedy, there were widespread reports that Swifty was contemplating a major real estate purchase close to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. Various sources and sites claimed that Swifty was closing in a property that was practically across the street from the Kennedy compound, and that Swifty was doing it all for love. Then, a few months later, there was a weird back-tracking in the press, with oddly-worded denials claiming that Swifty was not purchasing any property. I assumed that maybe she didn’t get the price she wanted, or maybe she was just having a rare moment of maturity. Turns out, not so much. Ethel Kennedy (Conor’s grandmother, widow of RFK) spoke to WENN yesterday, and Ethel let it slip that Swifty was really and truly buying a neighboring property. And then some:

Kennedy family matriarch ETHEL KENNEDY has confirmed her grandson Conor’s girlfriend TAYLOR SWIFT is moving into the family’s Hyannis Port neighbourhood in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The country star fell in love with the area while vacationing with her new beau this summer (2012) and recent reports suggested she plans on moving there after purchasing a new home near the Kennedy family compound.

Reports suggested she purchased a beach mansion located opposite Ethel’s home in August (12) – and now the Kennedy clan favourite has confirmed she’s thrilled to have Swift as a neighbour.

She tells WENN, “I’m happy that we’ll be neighbours. I’m thrilled.”

Sources suggest Swift hopes to spend more time around the Kennedys over Thanksgiving in November (12) – and Ethel admits the Love Story singer is always welcome, because she’s a big hit among Conor’s relatives.

She adds, “She is just spectacular; she is just sensational… She’s very kind. You know what she really is? She’s game. She had never sailed before, she sailed; she had never gone dragging before, she dragged… She played everything that everyone else was doing (with) no fuss.”

And she’s not surprised her grandson has fallen in love with Swift, adding, “How could you not? I think the world has.”

[From WENN]

Oh, Ethel. She’s been buttered up by professional brown-noser Swifty, who apparently has never met a grandmother she couldn’t charm. It must be the ponytails and the red lips and the polka dots and the antiquing. Swifty is straight out of the 1950s. I would definitely be more interested in knowing the true feelings of Maria Shriver and some of the more astute Kennedy women, the women who protect the Kennedy nest like hawks. I’m sure Swifty is “game”. Game for being a Kennedy bride. Ugh.

Photos courtesy of WENN.