I have some affection for Nikki Reed as a relatively nice-seeming castmember of the Twilight franchise. I haven’t seen an interview with her before. So I was surprised by the fact that she has a kind of a nasally, mildly annoying voice. Nikki takes the cover of Seventeen’s December/January issue, which we first saw a preview of six weeks ago.

Seventeen released a behind-the-scenes video of Nikki’s interview and photoshoot (above) and she gives some totally unremarkable comments about what she’ll miss about her Twilight costars. She says that Kristen Stewart makes good desserts, that Robert Pattinson tells elaborate stories and is a “good storyteller,” that Taylor Lautner has a lot of energy, and that Kellan Lutz is a goofball. Ashley Greene gives her workout tips and fashion advice (I get the impression that she’s a mini-Goop) and Jackson Rathbone jams out with her now-husband, former AI contestant Paul McDonald.

So everything Nikki said was diplomatic and my impression of her as a nice person was confirmed. If you read between the lines on what she said in the actual interview she may be hinting at some kind of issues with her costars. She said (and we covered this a while ago) that “success comes along and changes the dynamic. We’re not all best friends, and we’re not all going to hang out together after the final movie is done.” She also claimed in that video interview that what she’ll miss about Twilight is the time at the beginning of filming, when everything was innocent.

HollywoodLife claims that in this video Nikki disses Robert Pattinson as a liar and confirms a feud with him and his now-girlfriend, Kristen Stewart. GossipCop calls them out for drawing spurious conclusions, and I agree that they’re really reaching with that one. That doesn’t mean that there’s no feud though.

Quick background: Rumor has it that Nikki dated Robert Pattinson before Kristen Stewart and that Kristen and Nikki were friends back then. Kristen had another boyfriend at the beginning of filming, who was also friends with Nikki prior to when Kristen dumped him and hooked up with Robert. (Not necessarily in that order and more background is here.) So there’s probably bad blood there but I doubt they’re seething at each behind the scenes.

I think the most telling thing in Seventeen, though, is this first person work of “fiction” Nikki wrote about a young girl in love with a charismatic guy who convinced her that they should keep their romance a secret:

It had been almost a year since we began dating, but nobody knew about us. Sometimes I would bring it up casually, but he always found a way to twist and turn his words until they morphed into a theory that seemed to make sense. He was good with his words, and I was good at coming up with reasons to believe them. Only a few friends at school were allowed to know about us, and they were mostly hand selected by him.

At the time it made sense, because he was convincing when he spoke about privacy being a persons number one priority. Sometimes I would tell him half jokingly that I wanted to scream it out to the world on a megaphone, because that’s what being in love made me feel like doing. He never smiled at that. Although my mom sensed there was something unusually dark about him, I always argued that it was self-induced. Besides, I couldn’t let myself believe that I was too good for him. He was endlessly charming, and intelligent, and philosophical beyond his years. At least that’s how he would secretly want to be described.

I knew I loved him, and that’s all that mattered. Sure I wasn’t the prettiest girl in the world, but he always said he liked me for that very reason, so I felt content with that. Most of the time that is. One time, I gathered the courage to sing a song in front of him in the lunch room (I had always loved singing), and he laughed and said “…that’s what’s so great about you; even though you aren’t a good singer, you’re not afraid to try.” That’s a compliment right?

[From Seventeen, written by Nikki Reed]

That to me is way more revealing than the fact that she called Robert a good story teller. She’s married at this point, so you would think she’d be over this though. Maybe that explains why she got married so quickly in the first place.

Nikki is shown on 11/14, 11/15 and 11/16. Credit: Pacific Coast News and Fame

What are the general thoughts on Michelle Trachtenberg? I think she’s a pretty little thing, but I don’t have an opinion on her talent or her personality. She seems kind of bland to me, but then again, I was never into Buffy. I’ve never gotten the needy-famewhore vibe off of her, and she doesn’t seem to be one of those hyper-ambitious girls just dying to see her name in the press. So this new interview with Michelle seems out of character. Michelle drops this bombshell: she was up for the role in Bella Swan in Twilight. Can you feel the Twihard Fatwa coming down on Michelle? I can.

Michelle Trachtenberg was a vampire slayer’s little sister on Buffy, and she could’ve fallen in love with a creature of the night on the silver screen, too!

The 26-year-old actress told Us Weekly Wednesday at the opening of LOLA in NYC that she was indeed considered for a role in the Twilight films. “There was definitely interest here and there because there’s only so few pale girls in Hollywood,” she explained.

“I’ve known [director] Catherine Hardwicke since the movie Thirteen,” she said. “I was actually supposed to star in that, but I was on Buffy at the time.” (Hardwicke, who went on to directed the very first Twilight film in 2009, directed the saga’s star Nikki Reed in the 2003 drama and Evan Rachel Wood played the film’s primary character. Reed cowrote the gritty screenplay.)

So why did Reed, Kristen Stewart and Ashley Greene end up as Breaking Dawn’s leading ladies instead of Trachtenberg? “I guess schedules never worked out,” she explained.

“I already have Buffy,” she added. “I’ve already done the vampire thing.”

But the Gossip Girl star doesn’t want to speculate how her life would be different if she’d starred opposite Robert Pattinson in the blockbuster films. “[Hypothetical answers mean] you’re not living in the moment and you’re looking negatively at what you’re doing now,” she mused.

[From Us Weekly]

I’ve read way too much about Twilight, but I’ve never heard anything about this. I thought the casting story went like this: Catherine Hardwicke’s first choice for Bella was always Kristen Stewart (who at that point was fresh off of Into the Wild, which got her a lot of attention) – Kristen was offered the part and she said yes immediately. All of the casting drama was with Edward, and it took months for Robert Pattinson to be cast. Isn’t that how it went? Or was there a “search” to find the right Bella and several actresses were considered, including Michelle Trachtenberg? Or is all of this just wishful (famewhore) thinking on Michelle’s part?

And in a parallel universe, what would the world be like if Michelle had been cast as Bella? Would Robert Pattinson have fallen for Michelle instead??! OMG.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I will admit to finding Jackson Rathbone attractive in the past. Like not here at TheBreaking Dawn Part 1 premiere at all, not with the Vegas red velvet suit, the black tie and vest with chains, and the obvious makeup. Also not in any of the Twilight movies, where he has that freaky bleached blonde hair and the serial killer eyes that are unique to the Cullen family. (If they’re not real family members, and are just a rag tag bunch of vampires of varying ages, why do they have to all look like that? It’s probably explained in the books that I skimmed.) I thought this guy was hot in the past, when he was working a well put together rocker look a la Jason Mraz.

Let’s revisit that look for Rathbone, from August, 2010. Look how adorable he is with floppy hair, a cute hat and the right amount of scruff.

And look at him now. Weird, right? One of the suggested searches for Jackson Rathbone on Google is “Jackson Rathbone gay,” but there’s not a verdict on that and some sites say he has a girlfriend. He looks like a poorly dressed rocker to me, not that it matters. He’s super fug here yet he looks oddly confident. Is this outfit some kind of cheeky joke? That’s the only excuse for it.

Taylor Lautner resembled a Wall Street banker in this very stodgy but stylish suit and tie. He does nothing for me, and I tend to associate him with his whiny bitch character in Twilight. I don’t think of Robert Pattinson as an emotionally abusive stalker, but maybe that’s because he done other roles. Lautner will be Jacob for me for a while. Also, this scruff makes him look like a high school student trying to grow a beard for the first time. Still, I can see how some teeny boppers would find him dreamy.

To cleanse our palettes, lets gaze at Rob Lowe, who isn’t in the movie of course but scored an invite to the premiere. He’s wearing a black shirt with a blue suit, and it looks like his pants are too long for him, but still he’s gorgeous. This dude is 47. There’s a scary aged bloated photo of him hidden in an attic somewhere.

Also here is his wife. I get the sense that they are super kinky.

Photo credit: WENN.com

Of all the Twilight girls, I like Nikki Reed the best. She just married that Chris Kattan-looking American Idol contestant, and she seems pretty happy with him. Plus she does red carpets and she gets papped occasionally, but she doesn’t seem to be up her own ass or full of herself like Ashley Greene. Nikki is happy to be a secondary player, and she’s happy to share the spotlight. Ashley Greene once implied in an obnoxious Allure interview that the cast of Twilight was close. She said “All of us essentially were unknown. So everyone kind of went through this crazy whirlwind [together]. It was really nice to be able to confide in people who were going through the exact same thing.” Only if that was true it didn’t really last, according to Nikki Reed. In a new interview with Seventeen, Reed says that while the cast was initially close they were eventually driven apart by “fame.” I wonder if she has anyone specific in mind.

On the Twilight cast, behind the scenes: “In the beginning, it was innocent and fun, and we were like one big happy family – it was like being sleepaway camp. And then success comes along and changes the dynamic. We’re not all best friends, and we’re not all going to hang out together after the final movie is done.”

On people’s misconceptions of her:
“I got typecast as a party girl when Thirteen first came out. The funny thing was, I was a virgin, I didn’t do drugs and I barely drank.”

[From Seventeen]

Nikki Reed is 23. Thirteen came out in 2003, which means she was 15 when it came out. So the fact that she was not on drugs like her character, was a virgin and “barely drank” at 15 shouldn’t be remarkable at all.

As for her comments on the cast, Kaiser thinks Nikki could be referring to Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. There were rumors that Nikki dated Kristen’s now-boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, briefly before Kristen hooked up with him. Nikki has denied that. There were also stories about how Nikki was friends with Kristen’s last boyfriend, Michael Angarano, whom Kristen seems to have ditched for Robert. Plus Nikki used to call Kristen her “best friend” in 2009, but then said in 2010 that “Kristen does her own thing” when it comes to hanging out with the rest of the cast.

Here’s Nikki in sea green Marchesa at the Breaking premiere. I love shades of green, but I really dislike the color of this dress, which looks too pastel to me. The foil-like sequin piping looks cheap too. At least the cut of the dress is pretty and elegant and I love her shoes! I also like that Nikki didn’t pose on the red carpet with her new husband, Paul McDonald.

Photo credit: WENN.com

I’m surprised at how attractive I’m finding Robert Pattinson in these new photos. Rob was in Paris last night promoting Breaking Dawn, Part 1 with Ashley Greene. Greene is acting like she’s the star of the film, which is pretty much how she sees herself, but Pattinson doesn’t seem to mind. He’s just happy to pose and sign autographs for fans. He looks so hot to me here, and like he’s no longer jailbait. I love his scruffy beard and the small amount of weight he’s gained. (If he’s gained any and it’s not just the light beard.) Plus he’s grown out that awful patchy hair he was sporting this summer for a role.

Pattinson trimmed down his beard from the full wilderness man look he had up until late last week. At last night’s premiere he was working the hell out of a Dolce & Gabbana suit. Greene was in a navy Givenchy gown with a goofy ruffle around the waist and down the front. It’s not bad, but that weird tooth necklace she’s wearing is bizarre. It’s so out of place that I would speculate that a fan gave it to her on the red carpet. It matches her shoes a little too much to be random though.

Breaking Dawn is imminent, and they keep releasing scenes from the film in drips and drabs that are whipping Twihards into a frenzy. At first they released the honeymoon scenes, then the wedding, and there were probably some other releases in there that I missed. The film is out in the US on November 18th, so we have a couple more weeks of constant news about it to endure. It just looks so cheesy to me. To promote the film, a few of the secondary stars and performers are going to go on a five city appearance and concert tour starting next week. It will be free and tickets are sure to sell out quickly. It’s not a bad idea, but it’s probably completely unneccessary. This movie will clean up at the box office and probably requires very little promotional effort. Here’s more:

Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz and Elizabeth Reaser will pile into the van (OK, probably a plane) for a five-city tour from November 7 to 11 that will hit Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and Salt Lake City, just one week before the movie hits screens (November 18). They will be joined by singer and “Breaking Dawn” soundtrack contributor Christina Perri on the first three dates. Three other soundtrack contributors — Aqualung, Lucy Schwartz and Sleeping at Last — will be on hand for the final two shows.

Tickets for the appearances are free and will be available beginning at 10 a.m. local time Saturday, November 5, at each location, with a two-ticket-per-person limit. Each event will feature a red-carpet arrival followed by the mini-concert.

[From MTV]

Good for them I guess. Ashley Greene’s name isn’t in the list quoted, but MTV reports that she’ll be joining them. She probably thinks they need a high profile celebrity there.

Update: After I wrote all that, the Flare Magazine people sent us this excerpt and these two photos from Ashley’s cover story. She looks so smug as usual, and while her interview isn’t as obnoxious as the one she just gave Allure, it’s still dripping with attitude:

On her protective instincts toward Taylor Lautner: “The guys get some very intense um… propositions. We all got a little ‘momma bear’ on Taylor because women were giving the guys their numbers and their panties and it was just a little insane.”

On staying in touch with the cast: “We’ll do dinners and game nights. This whole experience was really special to a lot of us, and we certainly don’t want to lose that family aspect just because we’re not filming.”

On Alice Cullen’s telepathic powers: “Seeing the future sounds really cool, but I think it would drive me crazy, honestly. I think it takes away the mystery, and that’s one of the best things about life… You never know what’s going to happen and you have to live every day like it’s your last.”

On embracing the single life: “I’m not dating anyone right now, which is nice. I’m choosing to take it as a really great opportunity to focus on myself and figure out what’s next in my career.”

On filming Bella and Edward’s wedding scenes: “Watching your friends get married, onscreen or off, is a very interesting, delicate thing.”

On her vision for her character’s bridesmaid’s gown: “I wanted Alice’s past incorporated into her dress a little bit. She’s from the 1920s and 1930s, so we kind of kept that in mind.”

[From Flare Magazine received via e-mail, with more photos at the source]

“I’m choosing to take it as a really great opportunity to focus on myself” = “I’m waiting to land a high profile hookup and then parade him around to the paps.” Just wait.

Photo credit: WENN.com

The full-length trailer for Breaking Dawn Part 1 was finally released. Previously, we’ve gotten teaser trailers and such, but this trailer contains full-on Twihard goosebump junk, like Bella’s father getting emotional about walking her down the aisle, and stuff about Bella (spoiler) being pregnant and how the baby is killing her from the inside. I’ve also included some of the new posters too. Here’s the trailer and some of my general thoughts on the trailer:

*First and foremost, poor Billy Burke. I like him as an actor so much, and he’s been a talented character actor for years and years. And now he’s known to an entire generation as “Bella’s dad”. The good thing about Burke’s appearance in the films is that he gives some much-needed emotional depth and weight. The bad thing? He’s now famous for the Twilight franchise.

*Will Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 finally be the films where we see Sparkles and K-Stew “act”? Because now that I’m finally caught up on the franchise (Showtime won’t STOP showing New Moon and Eclipse), I have to say… they are both BAD actors. Taylor Lautner is the worst, and then by K-Stew, and then I’d put Sparkles a little bit higher – he actually tries, and whenever Edward has to weep sparkle-tears, Pattinson sells it.

*Interesting makeup work – Kristen’s “sickly” makeup looks especially good, but they seem to have gone overboard on Sparkles’ wedding powder. I thought he was Michael Jackson for a moment.

* I can’t wait to see the honeymoon sex scenes. I just… can’t wait. Feathers and sparkles and busted headboards, oh my!

Photos courtesy of WENN, posters courtesy of Summit.

Here’s the new cover of Entertainment Weekly, featuring a still from the much-anticipated Twilight Finale, Breaking Dawn. The movie is out in two parts (of course), the first of which will be released on November 18th. Both parts will clock in at about two hours, making the finale a total of four hours long.

Kristen looks kind of stoned in this picture and Pattinson looks scared, like someone has seen him sparkling in the daylight, or like he’s afraid of vadge. (To quote Kaiser. And that may be technically accurate given the plot.) I put on my Twilight tin cap and skimmed through the last book to see what their characters could be responding to. (I had to get it from the back of the shelf where it was hidden. Yes I read all the books but I’m not proud of it.) I couldn’t find a scene from their honeymoon where they get surprised in the water, but spoilers from book they do have some minor conflict with a maid coming to the house who knows that Edward is a vampire and gets afraid for mortal Bella. Re-reading those sex-lite scenes reminded me of how cheesy those books are, and how ridiculous the dynamic between the characters can be. Edward tries not to have sex with Bella again after he “hurt” her during their first session, and he tells her he’s not going to screw her again until she’s “changed,” but then she “seduces” him. It’s obnoxious, and of course they were both virgins when they did it.

Pattinson seems to realize that his character is less than ideal, because he says as much in the accompanying EW interview. His last statement here is kind of awesome:

Kristen on the end of Twilight: “It’s just so strange, I can’t get over it.”
Kristen on the wedding scenes: “It’s a trip to watch the wedding scenes especially. It was so volatile and emotional — I was being such a crazy person.”

Robert on how Edward rips apart a pillow in a passionate moment: “I wanted to have it as a line so much, ‘I bit through all the pillows. Every. Single. One.’ And then [Edward would] start crying. By the way, that’s what he should be ashamed of in the morning. All those beautiful pillows! Egyptian cotton! ‘I ruined this bed!’”

Robert on how Edward and Bella discover her pregnancy: “They shock each other. For a saga which is about eternal, undying love that nothing can touch, suddenly…

Kristen interjects: “There’s one thing that can. That was fun to play. Bella’s always liked him and liked everything he said and thought; everything he did was right. This is something that she clearly disagrees with. She doesn’t mindlessly and blindly follow him. She was always kind of defiant. I like that.”

Robert frankly assessing Edward’s character: “Look, there are a lot of moments when Edward sort of acts like a p*ssy. I mean, throughout the whole series.”

[From EW via PopSugar]

Well at least Pattinson knows that his character can be a manipulative whiny jerk. I imagine that it must get old focusing on this one series and the same wooden characters for years on end, but all those millions must make the work much more tolerable.

In terms of this cover image it’s really goofy, but that’s pretty much what this show is about. Here are a bunch of other stills that have already been released. My favorite is of all the vampire chicks at the wedding in their nice dresses and creepy contact lenses. [via Collider]

Breaking Dawn crap takes two covers for the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. It’s all about Twihards, all the time. What’s funny is that Robert Pattinson is nowhere to be found in the excerpts from the cover story. Surely they scored an interview with Sparkles? Maybe not. But they did get some good quotes from Kristen Stewart, including her thoughts on filming the wedding scene, as well as her desire to completely gross out every Twihard ever.

Fans have waited years to see Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) tie the knot, and the wedding scene, scheduled for the end of production on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, proved to be equally climactic for those involved.

“It was one of the coolest things that I’ve done,” says Stewart. “There was a certain point when I walked on set, and I saw everyone from the entire cast sitting there in the pews, about to do their bit. And it was just so perfect for me in that moment. It was so emotional in such a real way. I literally felt like thanking them for coming.”

But filming wasn’t always quite so idyllic. As the stars and director tell EW, Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2 (in theaters November 18 and November 2012) involved a grueling, globe-trotting shoot, and scenes far darker, bloodier, and more polarizing than any in the franchise so far. If audiences haven’t matured with the Twilight books, they’re about to grow up fast.

“We shot everything — whether it’s the lovemaking or the childbirth — as potent and powerful as it can be,” says director Bill Condon, who knew he was working within the constraints of a PG-13 rating. “It will be interesting to see whether there will be people who think it too disturbing for this universe.”

For her part, Stewart wishes the movie could have been even truer to the graphic nature of the book — not so much the honeymoon sequence (“It feels like a real love scene, not necessarily vampire-y, which is good”), but the brutal birth of the baby, Renesmee.

“It’s funny because when [the PG-13 issue] comes up, everybody thinks it’s all about the sex,” she says. “The birth is really effective, and I’ve heard it really hits you in the face. But what it could have been? It could have been shocking and grotesque, because that’s how it was written in the book.” She sighs: “I would have loved to have been puking up blood.”

Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob, says that even being a member of the wolf pack didn’t have its privileges.

“Everybody is always complaining to me that I don’t have to wear the contacts, I don’t have to wear the white makeup or wear wigs and all that stuff. And I’m like, ‘I’m the one in the freezing rain and cold not wearing a shirt! I paid my dues in New Moon and Eclipse.”

And as for his plot arc in Part 2, which will involve falling for — or imprinting on — Renesmee? “There were many times I walked up to Stephenie [Meyer] and asked her, ‘What exactly is imprinting?’” says Lautner. “It’s still a very confusing thing for me, so don’t ask.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

This part is cracking me up: “She sighs: ‘I would have loved to have been puking up blood.’” She’s so gross! But in a good way, I guess. Even though I think she’s a lip-biting, eye-rolling little troll, I will give her props for not being some frilly little delicate girly-girl. I appreciate that she wanted to make the gross scenes truly disgusting.

Oh, and I can’t wait for the honeymoon scenes. You know it’s going to be disturbing, right? Oh, yes. The Sparkledong Is Coming.

Promotional images from ‘Breaking Dawn’.

I’ve read all the Twilight books but after the snooze fest that was the second movie, New Moon, I never bothered to see the third. I considered catching it in theaters, but I never had the motivation or time. I will probably see Eclipse eventually when it hits DVD. Now the fourth and final book, Breaking Dawn, is coming out in two parts with the first next year. There’s casting news along with some new information about how a pivotal scene is going to be handled.

Many spoilers below There were several things that bothered me about the last book, most notably the fact that of course it’s Bella, who is inexplicably lusted after by all sorts of supernatural beings despite being dull as dry toast, who saves the day at the end. Somehow she has more powers than all the supes put together and unlike True Blood’s Sookie Stackhouse there’s no real explanation for how she earned them. Another thing that bothered me was the birth scene, in which Bella got a C-section by vampire teeth and had to be turned into one herself to survive. It was overwrought like everything else in that series but it particularly irked me.

Anyway we have news that the birth scene is going to be good, at least according to Kellan Lutz. Of course Kellan made it about him and how his character should somehow be in it. I’m surprised he didn’t talk about himself in the third person this time. Maybe he did and they edited it out. The screenwriter makes it clear that the scene won’t be particularly gory. Thank goodness.

Let the countdown begin. Cameras are pretty close to rolling on Breaking Dawn.

“We start sometime in October and go all the way through to late April,” Kellan Lutz says. “I just did a [wardrobe fitting] and a contact lenses test.”

As for that much anticipated, hard-to-imagine birthing scene…

Lutz cracked, “I think they should show it and have Emmett in the background laughing.”

Joking aside, Lutz says he knows what director Bill Condon has planned for the potentially gory sequence. “I love the way that they’re showing it,” he said. “I really thought that was going to be really a tough thing to show.”

Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg recently told us the birth of baby Renesmee won’t necessarily be gruesome. “I don’t think it’s about the amount of blood you show,” she said. “It’s about the intensity of it. It’s on their faces. It’s all from Bella’s point of view when you’re seeing what’s going. It should feel visceral. I think it’s going to be pretty intense.”

[From E! Online]

In casting news, Maggie Grace from Lost will play a vampire I don’t remember who is a kind of rival to Bella named Irina. (But I don’t remember much about the books.) The child actress who will play Bella and Sparkles’ daughter Renesmee (awful name) has been named, and she’s a lovely little 9 year-old actress called Mackenzie Foy. She has that kind of haunting look that will make her a convincing vampire. I still doubt I’ll see this one in the theaters, though. I’ve about reached the point where I can wait for the DVDs for all future Twilight films. Maybe once I see Eclipse I’ll change my mind, though. We’ll see.

Maggie on Sept. 9, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Just in time for the release of the third much-anticipated installment in the pedestrian Twilight series, a producer has confirmed that stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are a couple. Feigning disbelief that people were even still interested in Pattinson and Stewart’s relationship, producer Wyck Godfrey told Time Magazine that the two were in a stable relationship that could be considered boring. Tell that to all the sobbing, shaking Twimoms and their Twitweens.

Everyone is talking about whatever is going on between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Is that good for business?
Do you want the honest answer? I haven’t even thought of it that way.

That’s not the honest answer.
It really is. I honestly don’t think of it in terms of business. It doesn’t affect our core business at all. The thing I do think about is, Oh my God, I hope they stay together. Because it could be awkward on set in the next movie if they have a huge falling out. It’s like, Wow, they have to portray this love story through two more movies. God, I hope they stay together; please stay together. That’s what affects my day-to-day.

But you walk by newsstands and it’s a publicist’s dream: they are on every cover.
I don’t feel it’s out there anymore. Do people still report on it? If you look at people who have a stable personal life, the rags get tired of them. I think we’re heading to that place where they are together and that’s their life and we better find someone new to create drama out of.

[From Time via Huffington Post]

So this guy doesn’t think that people are still reporting on Pattinson and Stewart’s relationship. The young stars are on plenty of recent magazine covers just promoting the film, but they’ve also earned countless gossip rags. Just two weeks ago US and Life & Style ran competing covers giving different versions of their relationship. US had Kristen potentially breaking Rob’s heart and Life & Style had Kristen’s heart already broken by Rob with the title “Dumped!”

The stars themselves aren’t saying much and have only given a kind of joking non-admission to Oprah. Is Godfrey as clueless as he sounds or is he genuinely surprised that people still care? I find it hard to believe that he hasn’t been exposed to the “are they or aren’t they?” hype, but maybe he lives overseas or just doesn’t do his own shopping at all.

Meanwhile there are some new quotes from Pattinson that may come closer to admitting a relationship with Stewart. He allegedly said:

“Kristen and I have lived a great adventure together with the ‘Twilight’ films. We are very close and no one can understand what we’ve gone through together the last few years.

“When we’re together, we understand each other so well that we don’t have to say a lot to explain what we’re thinking. Kristen is a wonderful girl.”

Those quotes are from Contact Music and sourced to new! Magazine, so it’s hard to tell if they’re legitimate. Whatever is going on with those two, the status of their relationship definitely affects the billion dollar Twilight franchise. It doesn’t need the publicity though, that’s for sure.