Global Avon ambassador Reese Witherspoon was at the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Washington this weekend. The walk raised over $8 million for the cause. Witherspoon spoke to USA Today about her role and how she tries to show her children the importance of charity:

“I’ve always been very focused on creating positive images and doing things to give back to women,” Witherspoon says.

And she says the spirit of helping is rubbing off on Ava, who traveled to New Orleans with her for this year’s Idol Gives Back special.

“She has a very giving spirit, so it’s great to encourage that,” Witherspoon says. “There’s a great responsibility to educate your children and show them what’s important in life, which includes giving back.”

[From USA Today]

There have been a lot of stories that Reese and co-star Vince Vaughn are fighting on the set of their upcoming film, Four Christmases, supposedly because Vaughn wants to ad lib and Reese prefers to follow the script. She tried to squash some of those rumors by saying that Vaughn is “great,” and “so funny.” Reese said that they “had a great time riffing off each other” on set and added: “Sometimes I would just cry from laughing so hard.”

As for her under-the-radar romance with Jake Gyllenhaal, she of course won’t discuss that, but some of his friends will. Producer Ryan Kavanaugh directed Jake in the upcoming film Brothers, and says “seeing what we saw on the set, he was certainly completely devoted to her and really loves her.”

Reese had a tiny little tummy in her top and there’s some speculation that she’s pregnant. She looks fabulous, and just seems to be wearing an unflattering outfit.

Gwyneth Paltrow wore a bizarre 70s purple vest suit with bell bottoms to the premiere of Ironman in LA. It looked like something Heather Mills would wear to divorce court. It’s the second time Paltrow has worn a low cut vest recently. She donned a similar vest for her appearance on The Late Show earlier this week. At least she’s not wearing another micro miniskirt, but the super wide bell bottoms leave something to be desired. It’s a one piece outfit and is cut almost to the top of her butt in back. Can’t she dress sexy without showing so much skin?

A lot of you called my post critiquing her her super short dress ageist because a younger woman might have been able to get away with it, but the issue was with her fashion not her age. She’s got a gorgeous body, but she doesn’t need to wear a skirt that barely covers her crotch to show off her legs.

As it is, she’s slowing growing on me. She gave a great interview to David Letterman earlier in the week and I found her both likable and surprisingly down to earth. I’m baffled by her outfit choices, but at least she cut her hair and is taking chances again. People are talking about her, and that’s undoubtedly what she’s going for with her wild shoes and outfits while promoting Ironman. It’s not like she’s done much recently and she may as well get as much publicity as possible.

Also shown at the premiere are Robert Downey, Jr., Vince Vaughn, Jeff Bridges and his family, Jon Favreau, Jack Black, Terrence Howard, Beau Bridges, Diddy, Pete Wentz surprisingly without Ashlee, and Jenna Dewan.

The celebrity rumor mill is on overdrive, as it appears Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are not getting along on the set of their new film, “Four Christmases.” Apparently they have completely opposite personalities, which no one considered when casting the two as romantic comedy leads. I don’t really consider that a newsflash. Did the casting director even look at these two people? Reese looks like she just came from a magazine cover shoot by 8 a.m. every morning, whereas bloated Vince Vaughn normally looks like you could squeeze the grease from his head.

Spies working on Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn’s new film, “Four Christmases,” say the tension between the stars is even more entertaining than the script of the romantic comedy. Famously alpha personality Reese — who named her production company Type A Films — is clashing with Vaughn’s laid-back approach to work.

“Vince rolls onto set in the morning looking like he just came in from a night out, while Reese will arrive early looking camera-ready,” says our San Francisco source. “Then Reese tries to force Vince into blocking out each scene and running through their lines as Vince tries to convince her that he’s an ad-libber and wants to play around and see where the scene goes.”

However, the movie, about a married couple who spend a Christmas with each of their four divorced parents, remains on schedule and on budget. “She’s a one-take perfectionist and Vince likes to try it a few different ways,” snickers our snitch. “Sometimes Vince will be standing behind her and he has this look on his face that he just wants to kill her!”

[From Gatecrasher]

To me, all the things that were just outlined as Reese’s “faults” are simply being professional. Unless a director says otherwise, I’m under the impression that actors are generally supposed to know their lines, and rehearsing them is probably a good idea. It’s lovely for Vince Vaughn to want to roll out of bed and improvise, but other people have things to do with their day too. It’s not fair to expect someone else to do take after take because that’s fun for you. Unless that’s what the director’s asking for, of course. But Vince Vaughn just sounds lazy to me. There’s just something about the way he speaks and the way he presents himself that says, “I don’t give a rat’s ass about anything. Personal hygiene? Boring. Being a professional at work? Not fun. Putting on a shirt without six holes in it? Sooo last year.” That was my best early-Monday-morning-Vince-Vaughn impression. It could use some work. Either way, I know we’re supposed to hear this gossip and think Reese is an uptight bitch, but I tend to think the problem is more the lazy slob.

Like the story of Vince Vaughn disturbing diners at a sushi restaurant with loud drunken complaints about his life, he was seen out at an L.A. club recently looking like crap and clearly wasted. Instead of bothering people with his sloppy behavior he tried to entertain them with it, with similar results:

Elvis Presley must have been spinning in his grave, after Wedding Crashers star Vince Vaughn crashed the stage at L.A. club Bordello to sing a boozy, out-of-tune rendition of one of The King’s classics!

An eyewitness tells Star that Vaughn, 37 - wearing what has become his trademark rumped, plaid work shirt… arrived at Bordello with a male friend at 10 p.m. on Aug. 24. “Vince already seemed a little glassy-eyed when he came into the club, but the first thing he did was to order a couple of cocktails,” said the eyewitness. “He hadn’t shaved and looked like he needed sleep…”

A rockabilly band was playing that night, and, the eyewitness reports, “after they finished a song, Vince must have decided that everyone was dying to hear him sing! He suddenly climbed on stage and talked to a band member off to the side, then grabbed the microphone and announced, ‘I’m gonna do an Elvis song!’ Everyone was excited at first since Vince is a celebrity.”

But the crowd’s oohs turned to boos almost immediately, as Vaughn’s vocal prowess - or lack thereof - filled the room. “Vince started singing ‘Little Sister,” but he was off key and seemed to stumble through the lyrics,” says the eyewitness. “The regular crowd [wasn’t] impressed at all… they actually started booing halfway through the song, an when he was through, one guy yelled out, ‘Hey Vince - don’t quit your day job!’”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 1, 2007]

Vaughn isn’t exactly attacking trees or removing his pants in public like Kiefer Sutherland, but he seems to have some issues with alcohol and I hope he has a designated driver or the sense to call a cab. He’s either lucky to not have been nabbed for DUI yet or responsible enough not to drink and drive. Given that it’s Vince Vaughn we’re talking about, I would say luck has more to do with it, but I hope I’m wrong.

The article in Star also had a funny inset pictorial called “Plaid to the Bone” featuring six different photos of Vaughn out wearing plaid shirts in different states of disarray.

Vaughn’s next film Fred Claus is coming out on November 9. Vaughn stars as little brother Fred to Santa, played by Paul Giamatti. Cinema Blend speculates that It could be fun adult fare like Bad Santa, or sweet but funny-smart like Elf, but it also looks like a risk for Vaughn, and if the film is too schmaltzy his career could take a nosedive. The poster is shown below, thanks to Cinematical.

Other images below are scans from Star Magazine.

There’s a story in this week’s Life & Style, that Vince Vaughn tried to get Jennifer Aniston to take him back when he visited her house around the holidays.

OK! Magazine ran this same news that Vaughn visited Aniston on Christmas Eve and claimed that she just wanted to show him her new Beverly Hills home. I’m going with OK’s version.

Here’s what Life & Style said:

Early afternoon, Christmas Eve. Jennifer Aniston, in her Hollywood Hills home, was looking forward to dinner with friends at LA steak house Mastro’s. But when the bell rand and Jen opened the door, she found herself face-to-face with her ex-boyfriend Vince Vaughn. It had been a while. The couple had broken up in October during Jen’s visit to London, where Vince has been filming Fred Claus, and hadn’t seen each other since. “Jen was happy to see Vince,” says an insider. “She’s never stopped caring for him.”

But if Vince’s visit was a bit out of the blue (he’d decided to jet to L.A. during a break from filming) what he rold Jen once they sat down inside was really out of left field: He wanted a second chance. “He told Jen he’d do whatever it took to win her back,” the insider adds, “even give her the baby she wants.”

Jen was touched by Vince’s sincere offer but said she’d been doing some soul-searching of her own. “Jen told him, ‘I really care about you, but this is all just too little too late,” says the insider. “But she said she hoped they could stay friends.”

[From Life & Style print edition, January 15, 2007]

I really doubt any of this is true apart from the fact that Vaughn visited Aniston on Christmas eve and stayed for an hour and a half, which is news that must come from the paparazzi crouching outside her home.

OK!’s version of events is that Vince visited Jen and they’re not more than friends:

Jen ended 2006 on an upbeat note…

Just before Christmasn, former flame Vince Vaughn visited her new $15 million Beverly Hills home. “Jen adores the house and was thrilled for Vince to see it,” a friend of the actress tells OK!

Vince, who had been in London filming the upcoing comedy Fred Claus, had returned to Los Andeles on Dec. 23 and made visiting Jen one of his top priorities. “Jen does not have a history of remaining friends with her exes but she wants that with Vince,” says Jen’s pal. “Now they’re buddies who can run into each other without it being uncomfortable. Jen certainly doesn’t have that with Brad.”

[From OK! print edition, January 15, 2007]

What to believe? Well, Life & Style is also saying that Angelina is pregnant again, so I think OK! is more accurate. Neither of these stories seem to have actual quotes from anyone who is a friend of Jen’s or some kind of “insider,” but who knows?

Life &amp: Style story from Sammie’s Effluvia. OK! story from the magazine I was duped into buying by the fake cover story that Angelina is somehow feeling guilty for saying she wanted to meet with Jennifer Aniston, which I will cover shortly.

Pictures of Vaughn in a santa hat on the set of his new movie found at Heart of News.

Jennifer Aniston’s rep sent a pretty thoughtful letter to Perez Hilton about his attacks on Jen for acting like she was still with Vince for all this time. (Word is they were just friends with benefits and split up months ago.) He said he gets that Perez is mean like that, but doesn’t understand why he goes after Aniston and babycorn-mouth Dunst when they’re such nice people. (Dunst is kind of growing on me after she hosted an art benefit for children and didn’t get a lot of publicity for it.)

The most telling thing about the letter to Perez is that Aniston’s rep says that he never claimed that Aniston and Vaughn were together all this time - he just said that they weren’t engaged. In fact he kind of admits that they’ve been apart for a while and is careful to say he never claimed otherwise:

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton posted an item accusing Aniston and her rep Stephen Huvane of lying about the split for months (Huvane called reports of a break-up “rubbish,” while Aniston appeared on the cover of People magazine under the headline “Defending Their Love” and went on The Oprah Winfrey Show to insist she and Vaughn were still going strong).

Within hours, Huvane emailed Perez in response and asked for him to lighten up on Aniston, and even brought his other client Kirsten Dunst into the mix. He wrote:

Hey there.

Just saw your item and wanted to correct you. I understand that being mean is your thing and honestly I am not trying to convince you to be any other way. If that’s what makes you happy then by all means go ahead and be mean. It’s just that if you are going to be mean then try being right. We never told People magazine that Jennifer and Vince were still together. Just do a little research and you will find that we told People.com that Jennifer was not engaged, had not been proposed to, and had no ring.

Your venom towards Jennifer and Kirsten [Dunst] is something I will never quite understand because if you actually knew these two ladies you would really like them.

I hope you will fix your item but my expectations are really low.

Stephen Huvane

Perez then vehemently points out that Aniston and her rep did lie to People and that Aniston told Oprah in October she was still with Vince. Her half-whispered “yeah” response wasn’t that convincing though and no one bought it. He notes that Aniston’s rep also called reports of their split “rubbish,” but it’s possible the publicist is splitting hairs and that it was rubbish that they broke up at that time. Guess it depends on what your definition of a breakup is, since a couple can’t split up if they’re never together.

Header image from Flynet online.

Star magazine claims that not only were Vince and Jen still together up until Thanksgiving, but that Vince cheated on Jen with a 20 year-old Texas college student he met a Budapest restaurant. I know it sounds weird, but go with it - Star even has evidence of an edited blog entry and an supposed e-mail this woman wrote her friends bragging about how she bagged Vaughn.

Star says that they told Jen’s reps this story was about to come out, and that’s when they announced the split. That doesn’t convince me that they were still together, just that Vince got with a college chick:

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn had not split up before Thanksgiving. In fact, the former Friend tried to convince her on-again, off-again boyfriend to make the 12-hour flight from London (where he’s been filming the comedy Fred Claus) to L.A., to join Jen for the holiday. When he turned her down, she ended up alone joining best friend Courteney Cox-Arquette and hubby David Arquette.

As for Vince, he hopped a three-and-a-half-hour flight to Budapest. On Nov. 25, while dining in a local restaurant with two pals, Vince befriended three female students at a nearby table — including Laura Mallory Lane, 20, a junior at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, who was on holiday while studying abroad in Rome.

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The group proceeded to have a cocktail-fueled evening that ended with Vaughn and Lane (who goes by her middle name of Mallory) in bed together — all of it documented in an e-mail entitled, “I shacked with Vince Vaughn” that Lane sent to 22 of her Gamma sorority sisters two days later, says a source!

When the bars had closed at 2 a.m., Mallory wrote that the group ventured back to Vaughn’s hotel and Vaughn asked her to stay for another drink — which she did. “I did not feel pressured at all,” Mallory wrote.

“We talked some more (and yes, we talked about Jen), and one thing led to another and obviously we were messing around before too long. We didn’t have sex, but it was just as good :)…”

Nevertheless, it wasn’t a good thing for Jen. Star alerted Jen’s reps to our story and lo and behold the couple announced their final breakup!

I tried to google specific phrases in that woman’s blog post, and I looked for her blog using different keywords in her name and location and couldn’t find anything. It’s possible she took it down or it’s just too hard to locate. (Update: reader Jess has better google skills, here’s her blog.)

This e-mail is also kind of hackneyed and suspect. Ooh, they hung out all night and made out but didn’t have sex. Isn’t that a cliche? I mean, I know I had a few of those encounters in college but it doesn’t sound really legitimate to me.

Here’s the blog entry. All of these images are from Star and I cannot find the actual blog here’s a link to her blog
12/4 original entry mentioning Vaughn:

12/6 edited entry deleting Vaughn. It seems a little strange that there’s a double line break where that text would be, but she could have put it in there when she erased the other text:

So either:
1. This story is bogus, there is no college woman and someone made this up to make it seem like Vince and Jen were still together and to make Vince look bad
2. Vince and Jen were really together and keeping under the radar and he did cheat OR
3. Vince and Jen were not together for months as everyone suspected and Vince just hooked up with this random chick with a big mouth.

I’m voting for 3.

Update: Thanks to reader Jess’ excellent googling, we have a link to the blog in question. Here’s the post from this Monday where she deleted the line about Vince, and there is one newer post with a cute picture of her posing with her friends in Prague. (I was only there once, it was beautiful.) There are currently four comments on the Vince Vaughn post asking about her encounter with him. I’m betting she’ll take the blog down within a few days.

Last week we reported that tired old recycled rumor that Aniston is pregnant again with Vince Vaughn’s spawn, but it was reported somewhere new so it was like our duty to cover it. A “pregnant” Aniston was said to have been visiting Vaughn on the London set of his new movie, Fred Claus, where he’s re-writing the script between takes and delaying production. The most surprising part of the story was that anyone would believe that Aniston was still with Vaughn, because even though she went on Oprah just in time for the DVD release of “The Break Up” and sort of half-said they were still together, there’s no evidence to prove it and no one really bought their relationship anyway.

Now People is reporting that this non-couple is entirely, absolutely broken up. Were they ever together? They refused to be photographed together, Vince often called Jennifer his buddy, and he famously told Letterman that he wasn’t saying if they were or weren’t a couple.

After more than a year together, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn have decided to part ways. “After Jennifer’s trip to London several weeks ago, Jennifer and Vince mutually agreed to end their relationship but continue to be good friends today,” reps Stephen Huvane and John Pisani tell PEOPLE exclusively.

The statement ends weeks of speculation that Aniston and Vaughn’s relationship has been cooling off. Vaughn has been filming Fred Claus in London since late September, while Aniston has been busy working in Los Angeles and New York.

Despite their distance, both had made efforts to ensure the relationship was still going strong. In October, Vaughn, 36, threatened to sue several tabloid newspapers that alleged he was seen kissing a mystery blonde and had ended his relationship with Aniston, 37. The actress also shot down rumors of a rift on Oct. 11 when she told Oprah Winfrey that the two were still together.

Aniston visited Vaughn in London in late October after spending nearly a month apart. The two took in the London sights and caught a matinee showing of the musical Wicked. The actress returned to L.A. a few days later…

After doing a well-received stint in the 6th Annual 24 Hour Plays on Broadway benefit in October, Aniston has been back in L.A. Vaughn will be shooting Fred Claus in London through this month.

Now who needs this publicity, Aniston or Vaughn? I would say Aniston since IMDB lists that she’s got three movies coming up, and it was her publicist who announced this stale non-news.

Update:
Old picture, new story. At the end of the story it’s pretty clearly stated that this picture is old and that this news was circulating before.

Holy Moley, a weekly British gossip e-mail service that is similar to popbitch, is reporting that Jennifer Aniston has been visiting Vince Vaughn on the London set of his new film, and that she’s quite obviously pregnant. I thought these two were broken up a long time ago, and if Aniston is in London why haven’t we seen pictures? Oh, that’s right, no one gives a shit about her any more.

Also, the power-players on the set (we all know it’s the drivers) report than Jennifer Aniston has been dragging her huge chin there to watch her beau spin out strands of comedy magic, and she’s quite obviously lugging a mini-Vince around in her womb as she’s sweating for two.

The poor sods who have to do the real acting (learning words and not just standing there with a quizzical look and gurning), Paul Giametti and John Michael Higgins, are described as “lovely”.

[From the Holy Moley weekly e-mail newsletter]

Holy Moley also reports that Vaughn is rewriting the script of his new film between takes, delaying production and probably costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I thought Aniston was pregnant when she looked a bit paunchy at the premieres of “The Break Up,” back in June but that turned out not to be true. If she’s pregnant now it might be just what she needs to get some publicity and get her career back on track. She most likely realizes this. I’m not saying she convinced Vince to leave the condom off or anything, but it seems possible to me - if this suspect gossip is even true. Life & Style was also calling her pregnant in June. It’s possible she is visiting Vince and she just has a little bitty tummy.

Header image is from the German premiere of “The Break Up” in mid June of this year.

US Weekly claims to have an exclusive that Vince Vaughn broke up with Jennifer Aniston before he left to film in London. This seems like old news to me, because didn’t Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn break up over a month ago after news of their non-engagement came out?

US also claimed to have an exclusive in mid-August that Jen and Vince were engaged (I had to reuse the parody cover I made at the time), and stood by their story when Jen and Vince’s people vehemently denied it. They made it look like the two were actually photographed together by Photoshopping them together on a bench. They were only seen together at a tennis match while promoting their movie and in some grainy pictures out to dinner. They refused to pose together on the red carpet and drew hisses from German photographers when they remained apart at the Berlin premiere of “The Break Up.”

Now US says that Vince and Jen were engaged, but that it was the nail in their relationship coffin and that everything was downhill from there:

That’s just a teaser article and Us will have more details in its upcoming issue.

Back in early May it was said that Jen begged Vince not to take the role that would keep him filming in London for months, and that it led to a huge fight:

Back in college I had a terrible boyfriend who told me not to take the semester abroad that I was already approved for. I was supposed to be in Manchester, England at the height of the Madchester music scene when the world-famous “Hacienda” night club was open. It would have been a fabulous time. I was a dope and listened to the guy. He cheated on me within two months.

My point is that if you’re not married you should explore and live your life. If your relationship isn’t solid it’s not going to survive no matter what you do. Jen asked Vince to stay because she couldn’t keep him anyway. He was never willing to acknowledge that they were together, and acted like she was his buddy in interviews. I really doubt that they were engaged or that it even lasted this long.