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 agreement, signed in Los Angeles earlier this month, also calls for joint custody of any kids the couple has together, although Urban would be prohibited from taking them out of whatever country Kidman is living in, the London Daily Mail said.
Kidman, 39, will wear a long white gown with Victorian-style high collar during the traditional Roman Catholic ceremony at an old Gothic chapel overlooking the sea in the Sydney suburb of Manly – a far cry from her Scientology-based nuptials with Tom Cruise in 1990, a union that ended in annulment five years ago.
The 200 guests who’ll party under a huge white tent after the wedding include her adopted kids with Cruise, Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11; Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Hugh Jackman and Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch. Flying in separately are Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney, whose marriage only lasted seven months but whom we hear are quietly seeing each other again.…
Meanwhile, Nicole had her bachelorette party at her sister Antonia’s home, and it was tamer than tame. Instead of male strippers and boozing, the girls each brought a favorite recipe to discuss.
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.
Renee Zellweger has reportedly told Nicole Kidman that all country stars who like to make money are terrible husbands, or something like that:
Nicole’s father is also believed to have reservations about the marriage after his acView the profile for Nicole Kidman on Celebrity Spotlightress daughter – who has two adopted children from her marriage to Tom Cruise – refused to make Keith sign a pre-nuptial agreement.
A source revealed: “Her dad is against Nicole getting married without a pre-nup, but her mum thinks she should follow her heart.”
The ‘Moulin Rouge’ star has invited 80 close friends and family to her nuptials at Sydney’s Mary MacKillop Chapel next week, and has arranged for Australian celebrity chef Luke Mangan to cook a wedding breakfast for all the guests.
What about Keith being an alcoholic, not just a workaholic, and an ex-drug addict and philanderer?
The source is some random British magazine, and most of the British rags make shit up wholesale, so we don’t really believe this. It sounds like something a gossip writer would come up with.
Meanwhile some priest who claims to have advised Kidman and Urban on their wedding is said to be revealing private details about it.
Coleman claims that the wedding will not take place at Sydney’s Mary MacKillop Chapel or Monte Sant’Angelo Mercy College – the two locations that have received the most buzz in the gossip world. He says that those places are not “large enough to accommodate such a social wedding.” Indeed, if you count the Australian celebrity guests alone, this wedding may be the A-list event of the year. The Morning Herald reports that attendees may include Naomi Watts, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Baz Luhrmann and Rupert Murdoch.
And while Bette Midler denied recent rumors that she would be performing at the nuptials, there may be some star-powered singing that night after all. News of the World, a British newspaper, is reporting that Keith may do some crooning during the reception.
Someone made that priest up, because no clergy member would give their real name and reveal details like that to the press. Maybe we’re grumpy today, but people want to get news about the Urban-Kidman wedding and are just pulling this out of their asses.
Renee Zellweger is said to have asked her costar in an upcoming film to take her out to dinner. The article makes it sound like she just wants to sample some of the food and atmosphere in England where they’re filming:
The pair are said to be planning to sample some typical English fayre at Manchester’s famous Mr Thomas’s Crop House as soon as Renee finishes shooting.
A source told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper: “Renee and Chris have been pals for years but because they email or phone, no one realised.
“They met while he was promoting ’28 Days Later’ about four years ago. Renee is really cool and down to earth and they stayed in touch.”
Zellweger and Eccleston starred together in the 1999 film A Price above Rubies, so they met over six years ago actually and it’s not surprising that they’re friends. We hope it turns into something more.
