Eva Longoria and Mario Lopez have been claiming they’re best friends – and only best friends – since… well forever. But there’s always been something a little fishy about their relationship – maybe it’s just because you don’t often see a lot of opposite sex best friends in Hollywood. And you rarely see a real, platonic friendship when the guy is a total womanizing philanderer. But Eva’s husband Tony Parker must be totally cool with it, because Lopez and Longoria are seen out together all the time. Yesterday Mario gave Eva a gold Cartier necklace, supposedly as a congratulatory present for the opening of her new restaurant Beso. Though it could also be a “thanks for being my f*** buddy” necklace too.

Who’s a lucky girl? Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker received an expensive gift from pal Mario Lopez as the two lunched together in Hollywood.

With her basket ball star husband Tony Parker away on work duties, Eva, 33, joined Mario for an outdoor lunch at Café Med in LA.

Dancer and TV presenter Lopez turned up with a gold necklace in a Cartier bag for the already pampered Hollywood star.

An attentive Mario hopped out his seat to help Eva put the gold necklace on, and she seemed pretty pleased with the spontaneous gesture.

[From the Daily Mail]

Haha, yeah right. I’m sure Mario was just being attentive. I’m under the impression that men rarely give platonic female friends jewelry – even if they’ve got the money like Mario. It’s a pretty intimate gift. Next week he’ll be buying her some lingerie to congratulate her for walking down the street without falling or something. The Daily Mail notes several times that Tony Parker was “away on work duties.” I have no idea what they’re implying there.

The opening of Beso supposedly went pretty well, with several of Eva’s cast mates showing up.

Eva attended the opening of restaurant Beso, which means ‘kiss’in Spanish in Hollywood last night. With husband Tony Parker away on basketball duties, Eva was supported in his absence by her Desperate Housewives co-stars Nicolette Sheridan and Felicity Huffman. An excited Eva told People magazine: “Everything is painted, every candle is lit, every glass has arrived So far there has not been a catastrophic emergency happening. So I am very excited.”

And unlike spoiled Gabby on on Desperate Housewives, Longoria does actually know how to cook if her skills were called upon. She said: “I’ll go to a restaurant and if I have an amazing dish I’ll go to the kitchen and ask the chef how he made it. And then I’ll make him teach me. You can ask [my husband] Tony [Parker], I do it all the time. I’ll leave him at the table for like 30 minutes.”

[From the Daily Mail]

I’m sure that’s totally true Eva. Mario must love you because you’re just so down to earth. Er, I mean Tony. I’m sure it’s your great cooking that keeps Mario coming over to your house all the time. Hmm, what else can I say that makes it sound like Mario and Eva are sleeping together? I’ve probably done enough. At least she’s getting some good jewelry out of it.

Here’s Mario fasting his gift around Eva’s neck at lunch yesterday. Images thanks to Splash Here are the arrivals for the opening of Beso last night: Eva with chef Todd English, Christine Lakin, Constance Marie, Dana Delany, Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy, Karina Smirnoff and Mario Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter, Sheryl Crow, and Sarah Lancaster. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Eva Longoria’s new husband may tower over her, but she sure lets him know who’s in charge in their relationship. Star Magazine has a witness who was at a party at their house and claims to have seen Eva hitting Tony on the arm and smacking him upside the head. This seems completely believable to me, because they don’t just quote an insider or source, they use they guy’s name.

“We were all having a really nice time, eating Tex-Mex food and drinking cocktails,” partygoer Chris Ramirez tells Star exclusively. But it all went downhill from there.

“I don’t know how it happened, but the conversation got dirty fast,” says Ramirez. “Someone said oral sex should only be between man and wife. Then Tony chimed in, ‘A mouth is a mouth. What’s the difference?”

At that, Eva, 32, jumped up and screamed at her NBA star husband, “I can’t believe you said that! What do you mean, you’d take oral sex from anyone?” Then she let loose and slapped him hard across the shoulder, adds Ramirez. And if that wasn’t enough, she took a second shot, hitting him upside the head!

Although her rep denies the fight, Ramirez insists, “Eva was mad as hell, but Tony just sat there and did nothing. She then stomped off to another room, and we all sat there quietly. It was so awkward. I just thought to myself, ‘These two are crazy!’ Even before she made that comment, she kept hitting him and pushing him around - and she’s so tiny!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, January 28, 2008]

And the witness goes on to say that Eva drank a lot that night and never looked at Tony after that incident. She made him sleep down the hall in his own room, which is where she banishes him whenever they have a fight. Star calls it his “doghouse room” and says that it’s “even decorated specifically for him with framed photos of the Spurs, a huge flatscreen TV and matching cherrywood furniture.” The closet in that room is filled with Tony’s clothes, too, since Eva’s stuff takes up the two closets in the master bedroom.

I do not believe that Tony Parker cheated on Eva Longoria in any way. Although I was inclined to believe those titillating stories and details came out late last year it’s clear that he was set up in a plot by an opportunistic hooker who pulled the same stunt with another sports star. She used photos of different models and tricked a “Germany’s Next Top Model” contestant into recording videos saying she slept with Tony. This party where Eva smacked Tony then ignored him all night took place on December 8th, which was nearly a week before the news got out that a woman was accusing Tony of cheating on Eva, so it’s not like she was pissed off over that.

There’s no excuse for hitting someone though, and just because Eva’s a small woman she doesn’t get a pass. That kind of intimidation is abusive and cruel and Eva is a little tyrant if she treats her husband like that.

It looks like Longoria is knocked up. She took pains to say she wasn’t pregnant and had just gained some strike pounds, but that was the first time I’d heard about her supposed pregnancy. Eva “pay attention to meee” Longoria wants everyone speculating about her maybe-pregnancy, so she put the news out there. She’s wearing looser clothing and it could be an attempt to fuel the rumors, but she does look pregnant. She hopefully didn’t know about it back in December or she wouldn’t have been drinking. I bet Tony is forced to stay in his “doghouse room” for the duration of his mean wife’s pregnancy.

Eva Longoria is shown leaving the Mandarin Hotel in Miami on 1/18/08.

We were initially a bit divided as to whether married Tony Parker could be guilty of the hotel romps that were claimed by a French model. Alexandra Paressant went to paparazzi agency X17 with an amusing tale of hooking up with Parker on separate occasions, claiming that he was seeking sex outside his new marriage to Eva Longoria because the petite actress thought sperm was bad for her skin, didn’t want to have sex in front of mirrors, and didn’t like certain sexual positions. Paressant offered four text messages presumably from Parker and her plane ticket to San Antonio as “proof” of their relationship. Parker sued X17 for $20 million, claiming they didn’t do their journalistic duty by failing to report his side of the story and not adequately checking out the woman’s story.

Paressant claimed last year that Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho performed poorly at the World Cup because he was busy bedding her and playing Playstation late into the night. Ronaldinho also sued her for that claim, and while I initially thought that he had actually dated Paressant the real story is that, like Parker, he’s never even met her. She called Ronaldinho constantly, though, pestering him and threatening suicide. She also seems to not be a real model and to be using another woman’s pictures and passing them off as her own.

Dana Kennedy at The Huffington Post investigated the story and concluded that all of Parressant’s claims about both Parker and Ronaldinho were fabricated. In fact she found that many of the photos on X17 were of German model Hana Nitsche, a second runner up on Germany’s Next Top Model’s second season.

There are two different videos of a woman who is supposedly this Paressant person on X17, and she looks an awful lot like the German model mentioned in the Huffington Post article, Hana Nitsche.

It turns out that all of the videos and photos were of Hana Nitsche, not this Paressant person, who no one has ever seen, and that Paressant tricked Nitsche into recording the videos and sending the photos to X17 in an elaborate ploy. Nitsche told her story to the German press in which she revealed the plot:

The 22 year old [model, Hana Nitsche] said that some time ago she was contacted by Alexandra Paressant. “A couple of days ago, she called me again. [She said] I should send her a video.” It was meant to be a casting video. “She gave me the text. She claimed it was about a love movie. I should recite the given sentences. Of course I didn’t know which Tony it referred to.”

[From De.News.Yahoo.Com, roughly translated by my husband]

So some model was tricked by a woman no one has ever seen to claim that she had an affair with Tony Parker. As Crazy Days and Nights reports, it’s not likely that Parker’s lawsuit against X17 for reporting the story will be successful. The woman initially appeared to be believable given the “evidence” she offered and the videos, which weren’t even of her. I would like to see what this Paressant person really looks like as she’s led away in handcuffs and/or sued into the ground by Parker and Longoria. They aren’t my favorite celebrity couple, but when weirdos target people like this they need to be made examples of.

Update: Josh Robertson at The Playboy Blog notes that he found out this woman was a fraud who was using models’ photos and passing them off as her back when she tried to smear Ronaldinho. She either has an accomplice or another pseudonym and is running a scam where she uses the Internet to make her claims seem legitimate. As to what her motivation may be, here’s a NSFW link found by the Playboy Blog. It’s to a French escort agency site for the services of a prostitute named “Alexandra Paressant.”

Eva Longoria’s husband has issued a second stronger rebuttal that he never cheated on his wife with French model Alexandra Paressant. Paressant told her story to paparazzi photo agency X17 in which she claims to have had sex with basketball player Tony Parker at hotels while he was away from his new wife. To corroborate her story she offered four text messages supposedly from Parker in which he asked her in French to meet him. She also added the detail that she was friends with Parker on MySpace, which made her story look false to me, because that’s pretty weak evidence and why would you say that unless you were desperate? A video of the preening model repeating her claim also made her seem less than sincere.

Tony Parker’s first statement didn’t deny the woman’s claim and simply said “I love my wife. She’s the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier.” Perhaps realizing his oversight, he issued another statement through his lawyer that explicitly denied even knowing Paressant, and gave hints of litigation to come:

“Tony adamantly and unconditionally denies ever having laid eyes on this woman, let alone having had an affair with her,” says the attorney, Stanton “Larry” Stein. “The allegations of the supposed affair are entirely false and fabricated.”

Stein went on to say he would “pursue all legal remedies against those making such false accusations.

[From “>News.aol.com]

Late yesterday the news came out that Parker is suing X17 for $20 million for reporting Paressant’s story. I read through the lawsuit papers available on TMZ and Parker’s lawyers’ main complaint seems to be that not only are the claims by Parressant totally false, but that X17 refused to issue a retraction, correction or even acknowledge their statements that her story was false when they were told repeatedly.

They also note that X17 really didn’t do any homework to verify or disprove her claims and that “By intentional and reckless conduct, Defendant caused substantial harm to Plaintiff, in complete disregard of the truth and of even journalistic integrity.”

They also seem quite miffed that the articles are still available with such flimsy evidence as the supposed text messages and a flight itinerary to San Antonio from France, and that Tony’s rep’s statements were never mentioned in the posts.

It’s sounding more and more like this story is a complete fabrication, but if there’s any truth to it it’s sure to come out in the lawsuit. This is the same woman who was sued by Brazilian soccer player Rhinaldo for telling British rag The Sun that he was having sex with her most nights of the World Cup in which he performed miserably and lost. Maybe X17 could have avoided this if they would have checked her out a little more carefully and/or first published a retraction when Tony’s camp denied the story.

Eva and Tony are shown leaving LA for a weekend break on 12/14/07, thanks to Splash News.

Nicollette Sheridan and Michael Bolton have been flashing some new bling - matching rings worn on their ring fingers! Have they had a secret wedding?

The Desperate Housewives actress and the singer - who got engaged in March 2006 - were seen leaving a New York restaurant both wearing a band on their respective wedding fingers.

A source told the New York Post newspaper: “If they have got married, they’ve kept it very quiet. Michael wasn’t trying to hide his ring, though.”

Michael and Nicollette originally dated in the 90s but split in 1993, before rekindling their romance in 2005.

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At the beginning of November reports began circulating that Nicollette was pregnant, so maybe their wedding has been moved forward to accomodate a growing baby bump. Michael Bolton denied the rumours, saying “I am not going to be a father again soon,” and adding that they still had yet to plan a wedding.

Of course, I doubt that any celebrity couple can resist the opportunity to sell the exclusive pictures of their nuptials to a tabloid magazine. Fellow Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria sold the pictures of her wedding to Tony Parker for $2 million. OK! Magazine bought the rights, which probably paid for the wedding and left the couple with some spare change. Which might have been why she got married in the first place, on the date 7/7/07, in order to make some money and raise her public profile. Perhaps it was cash and not true love that drove those vows, which might explain the text message love affair.

Congratulations to Nicollette and Michael, hope you enjoyed your secret special day - and turned a profit.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Nicollette Sheridan and Michael Bolton are shown on 12/7/07 outside of their hotel. There aren’t any clear shots of Bolton’s left hand and it looks like Sheridan is just wearing her engagement ring at that point. Thanks to Splash News for this photo.

X17 has the questionable text messages that Tony Parker supposedly sent French model Alexandra Paressant, who claims that she hooked up with the basketball player and husband of Eva Longoria for sex sessions at hotels after he was married. Paressant was possibly inventing her story for publicity, but she gets credit for making it funny as hell. She claimed that Parker was looking for a release outside his marriage because Eva Longoria doesn’t let him do certain things in the bathroom bedroom and that she “does not want to make love in front of a mirror, does not like [a] certain position and thinks that sperm gives acne.”

Paressant’s claims to X17 are accompanied by various scantily-clad pictures of the model in sexy poses. Eventually she provided the supposed text messages from Tony and her only other “proof” of their relationship was that they were friends on MySpace. There are four text messages proported to be from Parker sent on two separate days in which he tells her in French to meet him or call him.

At first I thought that the messages were fake because commentors on X17 note that all feature the same “time stamp” in the upper right hand corner. That’s the current time shown on the phone when the photos of the phone were taken, though, and not the time stamp of the messages. The time stamp and dates on the messages makes them seem possibly real, although it’s quite easy to fake text messages. It’s also pretty lame that she said they’re friends on MySpace, that’s desperation talking.

As we noted in our earlier post about Parressant, she also claims to have bedded Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho before the World Cup last year, which he lost due to poor performance. Ronaldhino is suing Parressant for defaming his public image. The article I found about it makes it seem as if they did have an actual relationship, but that Ronaldhino is pissed that the woman made him seem like a sucker to the press.

The video of Paressant on X17 makes her seem like she’s super arrogant and I have a tendency not to believe her, but Parker does go for the obnoxious full-of-shit type. She is getting sued for prior claims, but she was apparently the girlfriend of the sports star she made them against. The verdict is still out on this one.

Tony Parker and Eva Longoria’s rep have denied that this story is true, and the newly-married couple issued a joint statement yesterday in which Tony suspiciously didn’t deny the woman’s claims. He just said “I love my wife. She’s the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier.” For her part Eva said that “Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband.”

Eva Longoria and Tony Parker have one of those marriages that seems unstable. Maybe it’s because they broke up several times before getting married, or because they had both reportedly cheated on each other while dating. Or maybe it’s because Longoria is supposedly quite the control freak in their relationship. Or that anyone who’s “best friends” with Mario Lopez (Longoria) has questionable judgment. During their engagement, there were a lot of reports that Longoria pressured Parker into marriage. Though they’d been together for two years, Parker was only 24 when they became engaged – certainly one could understand how any person that age – but especially a successful NBA star – would want a little more oat sewing time. Longoria also seemed to spend most of her interviews discussing wedding details more than Tony or the relationship. For different reasons, neither seemed ready to get married – Tony for a lack of life experience, and Eva for her focus on material stuff. According to a model named Alexandra Paressant, she and Parker began an affair shortly after his July 7th wedding.

A model claims that Tony Parker cheated on wife Eva Longoria with her in September. Alexandra Paressant told x17online.com that she was a guest at his July 7 wedding and that the basketball player, 25, looked at her with a wandering eye. They were eventually introduced to each other by mutual friend, soccer player Thierry Henry, she said. But it wasn’t until September 29 that Paressant claims she and Parker began exchanging sexually explicit text messages and phone calls while Parker was in Paris at the Park Hyatt Hotel.

They then slept together, she said, and continued seeing each other night after night in Paris until he left to San Antonio a short time later. “We had room service. He said that Eva, sexually speaking, does not want to do certain things,” she said. “She does not want to make love in front of a mirror, does not like [a] certain position and thinks that sperm gives acne.”

[From Us Weekly]

Eva Longoria does seem both dumb and vain enough to believe that sperm leads to acne. I’m totally going to use that line. Not in bed, just to random people on the street. Paressant also told X17 that Parker said he got married because everyone has to at some point in life. Romantic. When they asked if Eva knew about their affair, she responded, “I don’t think she knew about it. She seems quite jealous.” I’m guessing she knows now. And must be thrilled that everyone knows the secret to her clear completion. Paressant also said that when she asked Parker if he and Longoria would have kids, he responded, “Certainly not for now.”

I can’t explain why, but I do kind of believe this story. I have no idea if Alexandra Paressant is a credible source. Most mentions of her online are not to her modeling career but the fact that she was sued by her ex-boyfriend. I believe the story of the affair more because it makes sense in terms of what we already knew about Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s relationship. Eva seemed to be pressuring a fairly young guy into marriage before he was ready, and she seemed to focus more on having the big fancy wedding in Paris than on the relationship. Hopefully something dramatic and exciting will happen soon, and Eva Longoria will learn that just planning your wedding for 7/7/07 isn’t actually all you need for a successful relationship.

Note by Celebitchy: If you watch the video of the “model” over at X17, she’s a bad actress and seems like she’s full of shit, but this story also rings true to me. It could be a publicity ploy I guess. It’s suspect that the source is X17. Why would this woman talk to them unless she wanted the press? It’s not like they’re going to check out her story or ask for receipts or plane boarding passes.

This same French model claims to be responsible for Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho’s poor performance in last year’s World Cup - because he was shagging her at night and then playing Playstation soccer. I bet it was the video games that did him in.

This woman routinely kisses and tells - but is she telling the truth? Eva and Tony have issued new statements denying the reports. Note that Tony says he loves Eva and that he’s never been happier, but he doesn’t deny the woman’s claims. He seems like a dull blade, though, so maybe that only means they had to get this statement out quickly and didn’t read it over carefully or get another opinion first.

“I love my wife,” Parker said in a statement to PEOPLE. “She’s the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier.” Longoria, who took Parker’s name this year after their July nuptials, added, “Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband.”

[From People.com]

Pictures of Parresant below are from Ent.qq.com, a Chinese-language site.

There’s something in the water on the Desperate Housewives set – fertility drugs. Nicolette Sheridan is rumoured to be pregnant, and Eva Longoria would like to be.

The actress, who is married to basketball star Tony Parker, is ready to walk away from Wisteria Lane and start a family.
She said: “I’ve always loved the idea of having lots of children. If I’m around any baby, I’m like, ‘Aaaaahhhh, babies!’

“I was pretty ambitions when I moved to Hollywood and I succeeded. But now I’ve found new ambitions - I want to work, I want to be a great wife and I want to have children. This is a new chapter in my life. I will be very sad to go but I’ll have more time to do movies.”

New Zealand Herald

While Eva may love babies, perhaps she hasn’t spent a lot of time around them. She won’t have time to do more movies, as she won’t have time to do more anything! Although I guess she means that while she won’t have a permanent job she could do more movies than television as movie only films for a few months, which is not as long as you need to commit to a successful TV series. Or it could mean she’s going to get a good nanny or two.

Eva says in the same interview that on days off from the Desperate Housewives set she often flies to Texas, makes husband Tony Parker breakfast, lunch and dinner, than flies back to work. Which is kind of sweet, although I can never imagine myself becoming domestic enough to fly from Los Angeles to Texas to make food. They must still be in the honeymoon period of their relationship – give it two years and they’ll be fighting over who’s turn it is to cook.

Rumours are rampant that Nicollette Sheridan and fiancé Michael Bolton are expecting a baby, Nicollette denies that she is pregnant.

That Eva just wants the publicity that goes along with pregnancy and a baby. She’s probably annoyed that no one is paying attention to her after her over-the-top wedding.

Picture note by celebitchy: Here’s Eva shopping on 10/21/07, thanks to Splash News.

Forbes magazine has a list of the top ten most expensive celebrity photographs of the last decade.

1. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s first photos - People - June ‘06 - $4.1 Million
2. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s wedding - OK! - Oct ‘05- $3 Million
3. Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s wedding - OK! - July ‘07 - $2 Million
3. Larry Birkhead with daughter Danielynn - OK! - April ‘07 - $2 Million
3. Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt’s adoption photos - People - March ‘07 - $2 Million
6. Anna Nicole’s wedding to Howard Stern- People - Sept ‘06 - $1 Million
7. Britney’s son Sean Preston’s first photos - People - Nov ‘05 - $500,000
7. Angelina and Brad’s first photos as couple - Us Weekly - April ‘05 - $500,000
7. Angelina Jolie’s first visibly pregnant photos - People - Jan ‘06 - $500,000
10. Anna Nicole Smith’s son hours before his death - InTouch - Sept ‘06 - $400,000

Forbes

Interestingly, most of these photos are deals done with celebrities rather than paparazzi selling their wares.

Angelina Jolie dominates this list, but only during her time with Brad. At the time of her first expensive shot, April 2005 when she first started dating Brad, I couldn’t have named three of her movies under pain of torture. But I knew who she had been married to, how many tattoos she had - she’s old hollywood glamour, with a bit of modern crazy thrown in. Just a dash of it, take note Britney!

Close behind Angie is Anna Nicole Smith, which Dan Wakeford, the editor of In Touch Weekly who paid for the number 10 photos, explains that “The death of Anna Nicole’s son was the massive news story of the moment–it consumed the whole nation, and these pictures were so newsy and so emotive,” he says. “This was every mother’s worst nightmare, and through these pictures, America could empathize with what Anna Nicole was going through.”

Unfortunately, he can’t offer an explanation as to how Demi Moore won such a delicious young man at her age, why Anna Nicole Smith lied about the paternity of her baby when her private life had been so public, or even the secret to frizz-free hair on rainy days.

As if a Michael Bolton solo album wasn’t scary enough, here is the news that he’s planning an album of duets with fiancé Nicolette Sheridan.

According to Female First, Nicollette says, “I am such a shy singer but Michael has made me more confident and my voice has grown. We’re planning an album of duets.”

“You might think its madness but we like the way our voices blend.”

Meanwhile, Michael, known for his soft rock ballads, has nothing but praise for the effort his future wife has been making in her singing.

Michael said, “She’s got a beautiful voice but she has been terrified to sing since she was a kid. For some reason, at a young age, she was convinced that she couldn’t sing and if she thinks anybody’s listening she just shuts up immediately,” reports Female First.

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In other Desperate Housewives news, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker have returned from their honeymoon. The couple, who are rapidly becoming the most hyped and least exciting couple in Hollywood, stayed in the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos.

Eva Longoria tells People:

“It was so romantic, it was just the two of us. We were completely alone together. We didn’t see people for days with the exception of room service bringing us food. It was great to be completely, 100-percent alone.”

Note by Celebitchy: And now it’s much better to be back in the spotlight, she added. Pay attention to me! My wedding may be over but I’ll start saying ridiculous shit again soon to make sure my name stays in the glossies.