The latest issue of OK! Magazine has a cover story claiming that Angelina is “Tormented by Guilt!” (emphasis added) after her stupid comment inviting Aniston to sit down with her and have a nice girl chat about the fact that she lured her hapless husband away. Commentors point out that Angelina never brought up the subject that she would like to talk to Aniston and that the interview makes it seem as if she was asked about it and was just answering a question.

I was fooled into buying OK! as they claimed it was an exclusive story and I thought it might be an interview, but all they do is speculate that Angelina is going to make it up to Aniston for supposedly pouring salt in the wound of her failed marriage or for ripping open the scab or whatever. They have an “insider” who claims that Angie is going to figure out some way to apologize to her for talking about it yet again, but it seems like all they did was rehash the Angelina vs. Aniston feud to sell magazines. It worked on me.

The more interesting part of the article is an inset story about how Angelina and Aniston have similar family backgrounds. They both come from LA acting families, and each went years without talking to a parent after a perceived wrong:

While Angelina and Jen may appear to be opposite, their backgrounds are actually quite similar. Both were born in Los Angeles to acting families. Jen is the daughter of soap star John Aniston and retired actress Nancy Dow; Angelina is the daughter of Oscar winner Jon Voight and retired actress Marcheline Bertrand. When Angelina and Jen were children, their fathers cheated on and then left their mothers. As adults, each woman became estranged from one parent: Angelina hasn’t spoken to her father since he declared in 2002 that she had “mental problems,” while Jen only recently reconnected with her mom, who gave a tell-all interview about the star in 1996. With so much in common, maybe Brad’s women can set aside their differences and be friends after all.

[from OK! print version, January 15, 2007]

At least Aniston is talking to her mom again, but when is Angelina going to make up with her dad? He’s made it clear that he would love to see his grandchildren, but the poor guy has to read interviews with Angelina giving more personal details to the press than she would ever share with him. He doesn’t seem like the sharpest tool in the shed, and he recently called Zahara “Shakira” by mistake, but kids deserve to know their grandparents and it doesn’t seem like Angelina is being fair to Voight.

What is it about Brad that draws him to such f’ed up women, or is this type of family estrangement common and could that explain it? I’ve never heard of any of my friends not talking to their parents for years. Even if they have bad relationships with their family, they deal with it and argue. When grandchildren are involved you put on a happy face and let your kids get spoiled.

Update: I’ve been thinking about this, and of course there are unforgivable abuse-type situations that would lead someone not to talk to family for years. I did not mean to sound so callous about it. This sounds like more of a smack-talking issue, though I’m sure there’s more involved that we don’t know about.

Right after giving a revealing interview to Harper’s Bazaar about her struggles with her long term relationship, Drew Barrymore has reportedly called it quits with her boyfriend of over five years, Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. It’s possible they’re just taking a break, but the news doesn’t sound good for these two, and Fabrizio has moved out of her place:

“Drew said they needed time off,” a source close to the actress tells Us.

Confirms a Moretti pal, “Fab is now living back in his old apartment.”

The pair – who hooked up in April 2002 – seemed a good match on the surface, friends say.

“Drew has always had a taste for subculture,” Barrymore pal Courtney Love tells Us.

But they had suffered some rocky times. Tongues wagged when she skipped the February 2005 nuptials of Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas; months later, the duo got in a public tiff in Santa Monica, California.

In fact, “she broke up with him twice before this,” says a Barrymore insider.

At issue? Clashing personalities.

“He’s younger, and she’s more worldly,” says a source of Barrymore. “He doesn’t like the Hollywood stuff. He doesn’t get her friends.”

But don’t count them out just yet, adds the source. “This is exactly what happened last time they took a break.”

In Drew’s interview in Bazaar she cautioned women not to “take love and your relationship so g-ddamned heavy all the time.” She also said she was in “unchartered water” in her relationship with Fabrizio as she had only been in relationships of 2-3 years before Fabrizio. She seemed to suggest they were out of the infatuation stage and that she was trying to adjust to the changes that come with long term relationships.

Maybe we know now why Shiloh is rarely seen out in public with Angelina and Brad, Angie thinks she’s a blob:

“I think I feel so much more for Madd and Zee because they’re survivors, they came through so much,” Jolie says in the new issue of U.K. Elle.

“Shiloh seemed so privileged from the moment she was born. I have less inclination to feel for her…I met my other kids when they were 6 months old, they came with a personality. A newborn really is this…Yes, a blob! But now she’s starting to have a personality…I’m conscious that I have to make sure I don’t ignore her needs, just because I think the others are more vulnerable.”

All babies are vulnerable, and to try to compensate for the fact that one of your children is biologically yours while the others are adopted seems wrong to me. Maybe Angelina should hire someone to help her talk to the press. I mean, if she feels this way it seems like she should hide it. She hasn’t talked to her father in years and this statement makes it seem like she has trouble with family relationships to say the least.

Shiloh certainly shouldn’t be more valued than her other children, but she shouldn’t be snubbed in favor of the others, either. Am I misinterpreting what she’s saying here? I mean, she said “I feel so much more for Mad and Zee… I have less inclination to feel for [Shiloh]” because she didn’t have a personality when she was born. That kind of sends off alarm bells for me. Is Angelina saying Shiloh’s less valuable because she didn’t save her from a life of hardship? Who doesn’t love their own kid to pieces?

The latest issue of In Touch, not the most reliable source I know, claims that “The Honeymoon is Over” for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and that Cruise limits Katie’s time on the phone with friends and has tried to change her interests and hobbies. They say that Katie was chatting with Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom at their second wedding party/stateside Scientology recruiting blitz, and that Tom shut her down when she mentioned an interest in going to the exclusive nightclub Hyde. The article draws a lot of conclusions about Tom and Katie’s home life and implies that Katie is Tom’s shadow of her former self:

Tension was already in the air at Tom and Katie’s LA wedding reception on December 9, where a guest saw Katie talked to Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom about the Hollywood hotspot Hyde.

“Katie was asking what it’s like and saying she’d never been,” the onlooker shares. “Kirsten and Orlando were telling her that a lot of their friends go.” But when Tom walked up and joined the conversation, the tide turned. “Kirsten said they had invited Katie to Hyde, and Tom got a concerned look on his face. He said, ‘Oh, that’s no plance for you or me to go, Kate.’”

When Katie walked off with Tom, 44, “she looked really embarassed,” the witness says. “It was like she’d just gotten into trouble.”

[From In Touch print edition, January 8, 2007]

If this is indeed a true quote, I would guess that the “guest” that overheard it was one of the servers, but who knows if it’s accurate?

The article goes on to say that Tom forces Katie to keep her phone calls with girlfriends short, and has convinced her to give up her favorite hobbies like ceramics, painting and singing Karaoke. The only things that she seems able to do are Tom-approved activities like shopping, attending his children’s sports games with him, and taking up his hobby of learning to fly an airplane. He is also controlling her career and insists on having approval of any new projects she takes on.

They say that Katie seems to be comfort shopping as she routinely drops tens of thousands of dollars on clothing and shoes with no concern for the price.

If all this is true and is more than conjecture on In Touch’s part it wouldn’t be surprising. Cults retain power over new members by limiting their social contacts with outsiders and coercing them into adopting a new identity so they can’t escape back to their old one. It seems like Scientology’s most visiible spokesperson Tom is using those same tactics in his relationship with Katie. I for one am not fooled by their PR wedding and cute baby.

Here are pictures of Katie out shopping on 12/19.

A 23 year-old model says she met Keith Urban at a Nashville bar in 2004 and was banging him up until the month before he married Nicole Kidman. She says they were so close she lived in his mansion briefly and that she met his family. Keith was constantly drunk and on various drugs including ecstasy and cocaine according to his supposed lover, who claims she’s talking to the press now to make it clear that she’s not a homewrecker.

The woman seems to be the reason Urban went into rehab this fall. She was spotted making out with him at a Nashville bar in October, and he checked into the Betty Ford clinic shortly afterwards. She won’t talk about that latest incident, but says that she was seeing Keith up until May, that he refused to talk about Nicole, and that he stopped returning her calls and got married to the famous movie star just a month afterwards:

Amanda Wyatt, a 23-year-old part-time model and self-professed “nobody”, last night revealed that Urban was unfaithful to his superstar wife throughout their courtship and engagement.

She says: “I feel sorry for Nicole. Keith cheated on her repeatedly with me, right up to just before they got married.

“He’s done it once and he will probably do it again.

“I know him as well as anyone and while he can be charming and loving, he is also someone who is constantly fighting his demons…

Amanda furnishes her story with intimate details only a lover could know.

She has Urban’s secret security code for his guard gate, she casually drops into conversation the name of his favourite cologne - Dolce & Gabbana - and says she cannot smell Shea Butter Body Wash without thinking of him.

Furthermore, Amanda, who is 16 years his junior and was just 21 when they met in 2004, admits she was surprised their relationship ever progressed further than a one-night stand - and says she never once pushed him for commitment.

She says: “I was a fan of Keith’s and longed to meet him.

“I was born and raised in Nashville and he was a star here long before the rest of the world heard about him through Nicole.

“I went to a bar called the Tin Roof one night and he was there.

“I was with a group of girlfriends and after a couple of drinks, on a dare, I went right up to him and said: ‘Hi Keith, I’m Amanda and I’m a big fan.’

“He just grinned. A couple of hours later I was so flattered when he came up and said: ‘You’re Amanda, right?’

“The next thing he said was: ‘Do you party?’…

“He had this big, beige-coloured hot tub and he lit scented candles and we’d take big bubble baths together.

“It was so romantic. The music would be playing low in the background and he loved to wash me, rub my feet and wash my hair.

“He told me he loved me. He was always telling me how I made him feel young, how I was sexy and beautiful. It was a real turn-on.”

Amanda says she and Urban were inseparable in the early part of their relationship, which continued until May 2006, less than a month before his wedding to Nicole Kidman.

She temporarily moved into the home he was then renting in the Brentwood suburb of Nashville and even met his parents, Bob and Marienne, who had arrived from Australia to spend the 2004 Thanksgiving holiday with their son.

But even more disturbing, perhaps, than Urban’s sexual infidelity to Nicole Kidman was Amanda’s insistence that Urban was constantly drunk and a heavy drug user throughout their long affair.

She added: “As I got to know him, it was clear he was a deeply troubled man.

“He drank constantly; his favourite was Crown Royal Reserve whisky. And he did drugs: Ecstasy, cocaine, pot - you name it…

“I took Ecstasy with him. His drug use was no secret.

It looks to me like Keith got back with Amanda briefly and then was whisked off to rehab and told her he could never contact her again. That pissed her off so much that she’s talk to the press about him.

Meanwhile Keith and Nicole were said to be planning a family Christmas together to coincide with Keith’s release from rehab. Nicole is said to have booked the largest suite in the Beverly Hills hotel and to have ordered a large Christmas tree for their reunion. This latest news is sure to put a damper on their plans.

I wonder how long it will be before Keith and Nicole split. It seems like Nicole will put on a brave botoxed face for as long as she can stand it so that she doesn’t look like a complete fool for having a failed relationship with a drug addict and cheater.

Here are pictures of the woman in question, courtesy of Splash News Online. She’s a buttaface, but would probably be gorgeous with a little surgery.

It’s pretty bad news lately for celebrity couples. Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett have been plagued by breakup rumors before, with reports that Josh broke up with Scarlett back in March, after they had been dating for just over a year. In June Josh’s people finally denied the rumors, simply stating that they were still together. Josh made a few roundabout statements in interviews about how relationships were hard, and Scarlett said that she’s not really into monogamy, but that she doesn’t get around as much as people assume. (She said she does get an HIV test once a year to make sure, though.)

In August they bought a $6 million Tribeca loft together - and are said to have requested extra soundproofing in the bedroom!

Now the NY Post is reporting that their relationship is in trouble.

Sources tell Page Six the “Black Dahlia” star and her longtime boyfriend and co-star, Josh Hartnett, are close to calling it quits. “They are on the rocks,” said one source. “Scarlett is always mad at him, and they are always arguing.” Another insider says Hartnett hasn’t been in the United States in weeks - presumably he’s shooting “30 Days of Night” in New Zealand. Reps for Johansson and Hartnett did not return calls.

What is that movie “30 Days of Night” that Hartnett is making? Is it a “40 Days and 40 Nights” sequel, because I thought that was hysterical. (It’s a Vampire movie, but I couldn’t resist.)

We’ll have to see if Scarlett and Josh are over, but chances are no one is going to confirm anything for a while. This couple goes to a lot of trouble to stay under the radar, and it’s possible they’ve been broken up for a while.

Star is running a story with the headline that Keith Urban’s cheating sent him into rehab. Inside the article, though, they say that the cheating took place back in March way before their June wedding. Keith is said to have screwed a pr0n star for three full hours at a bachelor party. Nicole must have forgiven him because she ended up marrying him and supposedly knew about it. The article kind of half-suggests that Keith’s infidelity is the reason he’s drinking so heavily now.

Sources close to Nicole say Keith had to fess up to Nicole after reports came out that he had bedded a porn star for three hours at a wild bachelorette party in a ritzy L.A. hotel in late March. Keith had reportedly also been drinking champagne that night. Nicole was “cut to the bone” after learning the truth. “She’s grown up enough to know that boys will be boys,” says a friend of hers. “She didn’t threaten to leave, but she told him he had a lot of bridge burning to do.”

[From Star print edition, November 6, 2006]

It seems like the actual reason may have more to do with the expected failure of his new album, which is out November 7th. He desended into drug abuse after his first album flopped, and he seems to have reverted to old habits again. His first single off the album, a tribute to Nicole called “Once in a Lifetime,” is said to suck.

People reports that “he’s a perfectionist” and that pressure from recording his new album may have pushed him over the edge.

People also says that Nicole and Keith will weather this storm together, but I’m not so sure

“She is standing by him,” a friend says of the actress. “The have a commitment to each other. It’s incredibly painful, but they’re working it out together.

[From People Magazine print edition November 6]

We’ll see how things turn out for Nicole and Keith, but with Keith cheating on Nicole in the spring, then heading to rehab after just four months married, it just doesn’t look good.

Thanks to Sammie’s effluvia for these magazine stories.

According to the latest scoop at TMZ.com, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon have officially called it quits and are now separated.

The couple’s rep released a statement to TMZ Monday morning that says “We are saddened to announce that Reese & Ryan have decided to formally separate. They remain committed to their family and we ask that you please respect their privacy and the safety of their children at this time.”

Apparently, the celebrity couple had been struggling with their marriage for quite some time. Although the two have only separated for now, Reese is in the process of speaking with a divorce lawyer to dissolve the marriage for good.

I think it’s always sad when couples like this divorce, especially when there are little children involved. It seems, however, that Reese and Ryan really tried to make it work for the sake of their kids before taking such a huge step. Things must have been really bad between them for Reese to have to contact a divorce lawyer.

Note from Celebitchy: It seems like things came to a head for Ryan and Reese while Ryan was promoting his new film, “Flags of our Fathers.” There were reports that Ryan and Reese were fighting at the premiere, and the fact that Ryan is working must have made it painfully obvious how much more successful Reese is. According to IMDB, Ryan is filming another movie and has two more coming up. Reese has three films that have been announced but are not filming yet.

First cute character actor William H. Macy slammed Lohan in a roundabout way by saying that actors who show up late to work should get their asses kicked for making everyone wait and holding up production. Now Jane Fonda is telling Lohan that if she doesn’t slow down and focus on her work she’s going to end up nearly 70 and still worrying that the threeway sex tape she made with her ex-partner is going to be released someday.

In an interview with “Access Hollywood,” Fonda praised studio head James G. Robinson for writing that letter telling Lohan to quit pleading exhaustiong after partying, and then tried to backtrack at the end by saying she just wants to mother Lohan since Dina’s so bad at it, and oh, she’s talented too:

We all know that about Lindsay, and it’s nice to hear straight talk from an established actress.

Everyone also knows that Lindsay Lohan doesn’t wear panties and keeps it all smooth-shaven. (How she doesn’t get those bumps is beyond me. Jenna Jameson wrote in her biography that the porn stars avoid them by using antibiotic ointment after they shave. This works like partially, I’ve uh heard.) I am publishing that crotch shot photo, I really couldn’t pass it up. It’s the first thumbnail at the bottom and is clearly marked.

In related news, Lindsay royally pissed off her “longterm” boyfriend, Pink Taco founder Harry Morton, when she flirted openly with the DJ at a party. She was also said to have given her number out to two different guys at a club last night and to have not hung out with Harry all night. Those two are breaking up any day now.

To the commentor who asked why I keep reporting on Lindsay/Paris/Jessica, they’re low hanging fruit, and stories come out about those skanks every day. Sometimes I resist, sometimes I don’t.

Lindsay is show turning to the side, coughing and showing her goods [via] and getting stalked by photographers outside Cipriani restaurant in London on 9/9. [via]

E! Online’s Ted Casablanca claimed in his column yesterday thatLance Armstrong is Matthew McConaughey’s sugar daddy and that he paid all the bills for their expensive Miami vacation. People and “Entertainment Tonight” were said to have been tipped off that the pair was in Miami and told to cover it like they were two buddies hanging out.

Lance is supposedly fed up with Matt’s spending at this point and that may have led Matt back into the arms of Jake Gyllenhaal.

Unless you spend like ten minutes trying to interpret his prose and thinking about what he’s trying to say, it’s really hard to figure it out. So I’ve cut a lot of it out and removed the ten stupid nicknames he used for the same people:

[via]

Why doesn’t someone edit this man’s “awful” writing? Regardless that’s a juicy scoop if you can clean off all the syrup he’s poured over it.

It’s not news that Matt and Lance are said to be more than just sweaty workout buddies, but it is news that one of them paid for the whole vacation and that they had a private pool. It was probably just for all the hot women they brought back to the bungalow.