I think that all these magazine surveys that list Britain’s eligible bachelors, the Princes William and Harry, Jude Law, the guys from big brother, are thinking too young. Wouldn’t an ex-Beatle be a catch too? Apparently Renee Zellweger thinks so. And Christie Brinkely.

Zellweger, 38, spent some animated face time with Beatle Paul McCartney on Saturday jamming to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

As Zellweger smiled, laughed and hung on the 65-year-old musical icon’s every word, our lensman spotted Brinkley casting what appeared to be less-than-delighted glimpses in their direction - and no wonder.

After all, it was just two weeks ago at a James Taylor concert in the same East Hampton venue that Brinkley, 53, sparked romance rumors when she and Sir Paul, who is estranged but not yet divorced from Heather Mills, cut a rug.

They were even seen slow-dancing to “How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You.”

A witness at Saturday night’s Petty concert at the Hampton Social insisted that they’re all just friends.

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Now, I myself think that old Macca would be quite a catch. Despite two previous marriages, he’s not suffering financially. My mum would like him. He’s got a nice accent. Not bad looking. I mean, if Pete Doherty can get a supermodel than I think Paul McCartney, the 1960’s ultimate heart throb, should be able to date Hollywood actresses and ex-supermodels. He might be - we’ve all heard the ‘just good friends’ line before, haven’t we?

Renee Zellweger looks like she had one of those fits where you can’t stand your hair anymore and just chop it off. It’s a self-defeating maneuver that you learn from and move on, convincing yourself that the result is really not that bad.

It’s uneven at the bottom, and if she hired someone to do that she needs to go see another hairdresser. Maybe it looks better when it’s styled, and she can always opt for extensions like the rest of Hollywood.

Zellweger is set to film Leatherheads with George Clooney soon. She plays a journalist while Clooney is a football star. Maybe her haircut is for the film.

Pictures from Oh No They Didn’t.

Is there such a thing as a facial expression coach? Surely there are acting coaches who can help celebrities perfect their smile for the red carpet. You know who I’m referring to - poor lemon face Renee Zellwegger. She’s just got to train herself to stop making that sour pout. Her dress, undoubtedly Carolina Herrera, is safe and decent. She looks like she’s going to a cocktail party instead of an awards ceremony.

And Beyonce is ready to play Vegas in that metallic number. Somehow Cate Blanchett makes that lace assymetric black dress with the skinny belt work. She takes calculated fashion risks and unlike - say, Gwen Stefani, she usually pulls them off.

Jennifer Love Hewitt looks like she’s going to the prom in that copper number with the big bow, but I have to say her hair and makeup look gorgeous. It looks like smoky metallic eyes and neutral lips are in. Cameron Diaz didn’t get the memo.

Pictures from Gossip Rocks.

Renee Zellwegger, who we don’t see a lot of in the gossip news apart from her spectacularly failed marriage, has a new interview in Time. She’s guarded, vague and well-spoken in her comments but it’s clear that she’s having difficultly coming to terms with fame and has trouble with all of the constant speculation about her private life. She doesn’t sound like a happy person. It seems like she would rather bury herself in her work and stay home than go out shopping for designer crap and eat at the best restaurants and have everyone talk about her.

She said that she just got through the days last year and when asked about the hardest part of her year she almost starts to cry:

LIFE: In your new movie, Beatrix Potter best expresses herself through the characters she created, like Peter Rabbit and Flopsy Bunny. How do you best express yourself?
ZELLWEGER: Oh, I don’t know. I’m not a performer. I don’t want to hop up on a stage and go “Look at me! I’m Renée! What do you think?” That’s not me. What I do is very different. If I want to express something, it’s through the filter of a character. So I never feel exposed.

LIFE: You made the movie in a very difficult part of your life last year.
ZELLWEGER: It was important for me to make this film—going to work and being with my friends, getting through the days.

LIFE: What was the hardest part about 2006 for you?
ZELLWEGER: Well, I’m sure that if you buy groceries, you might have read something about it. It’s not on the top of my favorite things that have ever happened. [Her eyes well up] I’m not a superficial person. I don’t care about what’s on the grocery-store shelves. That’s just salt in the wound. But it’s not a television show. I lived it. It’s a very sad experience for anyone to go through, and it’s not fun when people decide that it’s a lovely thing to capitalize on. But you’re oblivious to that because you are living the reality of the experience—which is devastating.

LIFE: Are you two still friends?
ZELLWEGER: I’ll tell you that I was saddened. I’ll tell you that it took . . . it’s, it’s not something I could reason away. It’s something that I’ll live through, but I don’t want to talk about it beyond that because it matters to me.

LIFE: But is there anything that you feel you need to change about your life in the coming year?
ZELLWEGER: Yes. I need to find a way to manage the things that are very difficult for me in terms of fame. I need to find a way to have more grace in certain situations. I’m not good at the majority of things that come with celebrity. I like my job. I don’t mind getting up at three in the morning on the Isle of Man, working in a cowshed that smells like poo. I’m okay with 16-hour days. I’m okay with living out of my suitcase. I am not good at the commodification of me as a person—it’s dehumanizing. I’m not good at it because my values are different than that, and so I’m disappointed by it. But it’s not my place to be disappointed by it. I need to find a way to be okay with those things.

LIFE: Is it a question of trying to distance yourself from it? To care less about what’s written about you?
ZELLWEGER: It’s hard to not care. It takes a long time to realize the only way to win is to resign yourself to losing, because then you lose less. Because you are going to lose. There are going to be people who capitalize on your losses, on your sadness, and they’ll create it. I expect that if I have a personal crisis, somebody is going to sell magazines because of it. I expect that there will be paparazzi in the street. It’s the other side of fame. I’ve seen stories where people speculate about what it is that [you’re] saying based on your body language. It’s incredible to me that that’s where our society has gone.

When asked about what she looks forward to this year she says Leatherheads, a new movie she’ll be filming with George Clooney.

She almost makes me feel guilty for gossiping about celebrities all day. She seems to hate the personal price of fame and tries to avoid it, perhaps at the cost of a personal life. Having people make up shit based on your body language is what goes along with those multi-million dollar paychecks for a few months work. At least that’s what I tell myself so that I don’t feel guilty for dehumanizing the celebrities as Zellwegger mentions.

Paris, Lindsay and Britney seem like well-deserving targets, but people like Renee make me think twice about talking smack about famous people. Good luck Renee. There are a lot of fun superficial things you can do as a celebrity. Why don’t you try to enjoy them for a little while instead of hiding and making yourself miserable thinking about the downside of it?

A lot of people will comment on this article about how Renee looks and not bother to care or read what she’s saying. She kind of has a point.

In Touch Weekly points out that Renee Zellwegger, Britney Spears, Nicole Kidman, and Carmen Electra are looking bustier lately. Their plastic surgeon renders the verdicts and speculation is that Renee and Carmen got implants while Britney’s bigger boobs are the result of her recent birth and Nicole’s can be chalked up to weight gain.

Thanks to Sammie’s Effluvia for scanning In Touch.

Renee Zellwegger looks like the perfect weight at the premiere of Mrs. Potter in London this weekend. It’s wrong of me to say that, because it just perpetuates the evil cycle that these Hollywood women go through to look good, but she’s not super skinny any more and looks really healthy. Would it kill her to use some gloss on those lips though?

Zellwegger said that not having time to eat while she’s working on the movie set helps her stay thin. She also claims that she’s a little bit intimidated at the thought of working with her once-rumored lover George Clooney because he’s a notorious prankster. They will start shooting the movie “Leatherheads” together in January.

Renee Zellweger, who showed up looking svelte at Sunday night’s London premiere of her new movie, Miss Potter, credits her slim figure to her work.

She says that the 20-minute lunch breaks she was allotted while making another movie, Case 39, helped her stay fit.

“That’s all we got on the set,” the Cold Mountain Oscar winner tells PEOPLE. “At that point, I was like, you know, forget it. And running around … everywhere, that helps.”

Zellweger, 37, joked that she finds out what diet she’s on by reading media reports. “I’m like, oh, oh, I’m doing that diet now – that’s fantastic! Good for me!”

As Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter, Zellweger is playing an English woman for the third time, having portrayed Bridget Jones twice. It’s having an effect, too: “I understand (and) crave the beans and toast breakfast,” she says.

But when it comes to living in the high-priced British capital, “I don’t know if I can afford it,” she told reporters. “I move around so much with work that I don’t really live anywhere.”

Next up for the actress: Leatherheads, with George Clooney. Shooting starts in January.

And how does she feel about working with PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive? “I’m scared,” she admits. “I hear he’s a terrible prankster and really had patience… Like when you least expect it.”

As a result, “I’m going to be on alert, I’m never going to sleep, I’m sure of it. I’ll be watching my back, George!”

Considering that Clooney probably banged her a few times, it seems like she made a Freudian slip when she said she’ll be watching her, uh, back. Clooney is said to enjoy… entering establishments by the back door.

Renee is shown with Ewan McGregor, her costar in the film “Miss. Potter” at the premiere. (You know that people are still going to comment and say “that’s not George Clooney, duh.”) Here’s the trailer. Thanks to Faded Youth for these pictures.

There’s this story that Reese Witherspoon was crying to Renee Zellwegger over her salad at Wolfgang Puck’s Beverly Hills restaurant. Bruce Willis also happened to be there and tried to cheer them up. He seems to have succeeded and Reese Renee left with him!

A downtrodden Reese Witherspoon turned to some big Hollywood shoulders, Renee Zellweger and Bruce Willis, for some solace last Friday night. A TMZ spy spotted Reese dining – or, rather, stabbing disaffectedly at a salad – at Wolfgang Puck’s latest celebriteria CUT in Beverly HIlls on Friday night.

Reese looked groggy and sad, says our eyes on the scene, and Renee patted her on the shoulders and consoled her, while trying to keep things as uplifting as possible. Then, Bruce ditched his dinner companions to come over and talk to the two southern belles for about 45 minutes. Even Wolfgang himself got in on the lovefest, sauntering over to gladhand the trio. Curiously, after the meal, Renee took the chance to catwalk her way through the middle of the restaurant with hips in full swing, and left, as our cameras observed, with Willis.

They left a restaurant together, not a bar or a club at 2:00 am, so it’s possible they just headed out for a drink and then went home separately. Given that it’s Reese not Britney, that’s the most likely outcome.

Reese was photographed with her children leaving church on Sunday, making it even more likely that her meeting with Willis was completely platonic.

Update: Thanks to commentor Iscatonic who points out that Renee left with Willis, not Reese. Ah well. Hopefully Renee got a little action that night.

Also, let me add some more to this story, because it’s pretty thin as it is. Life and Style reports in its latest issue that Reese’s estranged husband Ryan Phillippe had been cheating on her for a while with various women and that Reese put up with it for the sake of appearances and their children. When she found the poisoned Blackberry with messages to Abbie Cornish that was the last straw as Ryan seemed to want to get caught by so obviously dating his costar.

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The British press, particularly lesser-know gossip rags, are notorious for making up quotes. There are two highly suspect recent quotes from celebrities that are being widely reported.

I don’t report stories I think are fake without some sort of disclaimer, and I haven’t covered these two because they seem completely fabricated to me.

Why are Renee Zellweger and Ben Affleck suddenly talking about their past relationship pain to a random British tabloid called Now? They’re not. These quotes are made up.

Affleck told Britain’s Now magazine: “I should never have got engaged and never gone down that route. I thought I wanted certain things, but I didn’t. I got lost and felt suffocated, miserable and gross. Being in the middle of a tabloid frenzy, it became so intense I had to stop and think, ‘What am I doing with my life?’”

The couple’s relationship was plagued by constant media attention and rumours of rows and the ‘Good Will Hunting’ star admits it was draining.
Affleck revealed: “I had to smile for the cameras, but I was really in turmoil. I was no longer in control of my life and I didn’t know which way to turn. I felt like a hamster in a cage. The faster my legs went, the less distance I seemed to travel.”

And here’s Renee Zellweger’s quote, from the same dubious source:

Speaking for the first time about her failed marriage, Zellweger tells the British magazine Now, “There was no alternative but to let it go.

“I made the biggest personal mistake of my life. I felt a fool.

“I was looking for something else. I just needed to put acting aside. I needed to sit still and not to worry about the dresses and the hair and the travel and the interviews.

“I was going through huge life changes at the time. I wanted to stop and be a girl for a while. My marriage came during this time and it was desperately important to me. I don’t want anyone to think I didn’t take it seriously.”

Zellweger admits Chesney did not approve when the actress invited her close friend to stay in their Hamptons, N.Y., farmhouse soon after their marriage.

She explains, “There was no acceptance of my life or my friends. My friend was pregnant, with her husband and young kid. She was doing up her house for the new baby.”

Zellweger and Affleck are notoriously tight-lipped and protective of their privacy. Affleck might have blabbed like this in the past, but he’s a family man now and has worked hard to stay out of the spotlight and rebuild his public image since the J.Lo fiasco. He wouldn’t bring it up like this, just like Zellweger wouldn’t remind the public of her failed four-month marriage.

Pictures from PopSugar and Random Celebs.

My BFF hairdresser back in the states, Ken, also went to cosmetology school. He did me up a few times before we went out and I looked incredible if I do say so myself. Makeup does wonders. It’s a shame I’m not rich or I would fly him over here to hang out and make me look gorgeous every day. Access to top-notch makeup and hair experts is one of the major advantages of being a celebrity. (That and not having to deal with all the bullshit at the airport. Now we can’t even bring our own water or books onto a plane. Do you think that makes us safer, because it seems like exactly the sort of thing that would please the terrorists. I’m just saying.)

Renee Zellweger (the before picture could be from “Bridget Jones”)

Tori Spelling - ouch!

Kate Hudson - adorable

Pam Anderson - not bad

Thanks to Cherryjam at JJB for posting this and creating the pictures.

Nicole Kidman had Keith Urban sign a prenup in preparation for their wedding this weekend that gives him a relatively paltry portion of Kidman’s fortune. Kidman is said to be worth $150 million dollars, but she’ll only surrender $600k a year to her groom-to-be if they get divorced. If he drinks a lot or does drugs, he gets nothing:

The most interesting part of this article is the mention of Zellweger and Chesney’s on-again relationship. If this is true, I would like to see pictures. Zellweger manages to avoid the paparrazi, and she was rumored to be seeing Chesney briefly after their high profile divorce. She deserves someone who will pay more attention to her, though, and if the rumors about Chesney are true it’s possible they’re just friends.

Kidman has taken smart precautionary measures for her wedding to an ex-drug addict, although it might actually last and we hope things work out for them.

Although Kidman’s “hen party” wasn’t too exciting, Naomi Watts was in town to party with her prior to the wedding, and it looks like they had a little bit to drink. Here are pictures of Watts and Kidman out on the town last night in Sydney. [via] In the last picture Kidman is shown being driven from her Sydney home this morning.