CB already covered People Magazine’s cover story this week – Demi Moore and her “dangerous desperation” to stay young and skinny. And now Us Weekly has revealed their cover story – which is also about Demi being desperate, this time about really young guys. According to Us Weekly (and HL), Demi has been trying to hook up with her daughter’s friend (and rumored boyfriend) Zac Efron. Poor Zac finds Demi “creepy” though. Hollywood Life also repeats that gross story about Demi “grinding” on Victoria Justice’s boyfriend’s ass. Fo’ real. You know who has my sympathy at this point? Rumer. That poor girl.

The night of Demi Moore’s Jan. 16 911 call was even scarier than it sounded.

“Everyone thought she was going to die,” a source tells the new Us Weekly of the emergency, in which Moore, 49, collapsed, and was “convulsing” after smoking an unknown substance.

It was the culmination of months of self-destructive partying (and drug use) for the newly single star, struggling to make sense of things as she nears 50 without husband Ashton Kutcher, from whom she split late last year.

“She’s been really down, and she’s surrounding herself with young people to make her feel better,” an insider tells Us of Moore, who’s been obsessed for years with staying young and thin.

“She’s been mixing pills and Red Bulls, among other things,” another source says.

One of Moore’s favorite young stars to party with — and flirt with — is daughter Rumer Willis’s longtime friend Zac Efron, 24, a hunk nine years younger than Kutcher, 33. Not only has Demi Moore, 49, ”literally inserted herself” into 23-year-old daughter Rumer Willis‘ social circle, but she’s even trying to hook up with 24-year-old Zac Efron!

“She calls him and texts him a lot, but he’s not interested at all,” a source tells the mag. “He thinks she’s a creepy cougar.”

A wired, gaunt Moore “tracked down” the High School Musical star at a party in L.A.’s Venice neighborhood, an insider tells Us. “She seemed out of her mind at this party.”

Meanwhile, People reports that Demi has yet another younger guy in her sights — Victoria Justice‘s boyfriend, 27-year-old Ryan Rottman!

“She found ways to touch him all night, and at one point when he was in front of her, she was grinding on his butt,” an onlooker said of Demi and Ryan’s behavior at a Jan. 11 party. “His shirt came unbuttoned, and she started tickling his bare chest playfully.”

For additional details on Moore’s spiral — her calls and texts with Efron, how her three daughters are coping, her ongoing obsession with staying young, and what’s next — pick up the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday.

[From Us Weekly, Hollywood Life]

I don’t even know what to say about this mess at this point. Demi clearly has significant issues, and this has gone beyond a simple public-relations problem, although I do think the root of Demi’s problem might be the dichotomy of how she views herself (hip, cool, young, relevant) versus the reality of who she is now (sad, desperate, kind of pathetic). I don’t think it’s as easy as saying “Demi needs to act her age.” This woman has mental health issues, and a good publicist can’t fix the crazy.

So what’s my armchair advice to Demi at this point? Go away for a while. Take a year or two off, don’t work, go back to Idaho or something. Don’t tweet. Don’t give interviews. Get clean and sober. Wear sweatpants for a while and stop messing with your face. Eat real food. And then, after some time has passed, come back. Relaunch yourself as smart and effective producer who still dabbles in acting. Give a few interviews, but only to the major outlets. Write a tell-all book, and really TELL ALL.

… But she won’t follow my advice, will she?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Well, color me confused. Since early this summer, Emma Roberts has been strutting her boring, smug, and entitled self around with Chord Overstreet of “Glee.” That is, she’s been doing so while not preoccupied with getting bitchy about nepotism. Still, I’ve got nothing against Emma’s actressing — she was cute and affable a few years ago in Aquamarine — and I am genuinely puzzed by this eyewitness account from In Touch, which states that Emma and Zac hung out together at the People’s Choice Awards in January and have just now hooked up at a Hollywood party. If this report is correct, it follows that Emma is now cheating on Chord with Zac. As Aunt Julia would say, that’s “so tacky“:

Is Emma Roberts two-timing boyfriend Chord Overstreet with Zac Efron? Emma, 20, has been dating “Glee” star Chord since the summer, although they have been tight-lipped about their relationship status. But an eyewitness spotted Emma and High School Musical star Zac “full-on making out” at an after-hours party hosted by Lance Bass on October 30. “Zac and Emma both wound up at Lance’s party and before the night was over, they were all over each other,” the witness says. “They took each others’ numbers and seemed into each other.” Watch out, Chord!

[From In Touch, print edition, November 28, 2011]

Before we even consider whether this tale is true, that last little detail throws me off. Who on earth makes out with someone before even securing the digits? Maybe I’m just old. Still, swapping numbers should come before swapping spit or, for that matter, any other bodily fluids.

Regardless, I’m also hung up on a few other aspects of this account. First, it was a party hosted by Lance Bass. That should tell you a thing or two that will be left unsaid. Also, I thought Zac was completely crazy about Rumer Willis to the point of meeting her parents or something. Or maybe it’s that report of Zac holding hands with a dude that’s throwing me off here. Something just doesn’t feel right about this story, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Photos courtesy of Fame

Strange couplings (like Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn) have certainly been in vogue in Hollywood this year, but my mouth is slightly agape at the notion that Rumer Willis has been quietly dating Zac Efron for an indeterminate period of time. Yes, I know rumors have circulated since January of this year, but so far, there aren’t any photos of these two crazy kids together at all. Still, In Touch reports that the relationship has grown serious enough that Zac’s even “met the parents,” but they’re actually just talking about Demi:

Zac Efron and Rumer Willis, 22, have been hanging out all over Hollywood lately, and while they have yet to address dating rumors, he has already been introduced to Mom.

“Rumer is close to her mom. Demi’s opinion matters,” says a pal.

Though Zac, 23, has crossed paths with Demi Moore at industry events, this was a more formal introduction and a chance for them to get to know each other. “Zac brought Demi flowers,” says the pal. “She was super-polite and they got along well.” Sure, meeting the parents might scare some dudes off, but when one of them is gorgeous Demi, the chances are slim!

Despite being spotted recently with Ashley Tisdale, a pal says Zac only has eyes for Rumer.

[From In Touch, print edition, August 8, 2011]

Zac does like the ladies, right? He dated Vanessa Hudgens for years while they worked together filming and touring for their “High School Musical” trilogy of whitewashed Disney goodness. Maybe he really digs girls with boob jobs and tragic 90s style. Although I’m sort of scratching my head over what Rumer would see in Zac, but she does seem to like those trendy “it boys” like Chord Overstreet. Still, Zac is no longer an “it boy,” and I’m still not buying this relationship. After all, Zac was photographed doing this with Ashley Tisdale on July 2 of this year:

Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame

The National Enquirer’s new thing is to “out” male celebrities in the most explicit eyewitness accounts they can get away with without being sued. They did it with John Travolta, Daniel Craig, and even Jeremy Renner. This week’s outing involves Zac Efron and a “buff young man” at an industry party. Apparently, Zac was openly flirting with the dude, and at one point, they were even holding hands. The kicker: Vanessa Hudgens was there too, and she was all, “Whatev, my gay BFF is getting some!”

Zac Efron stunned onlookers at a recent Hollywood event when he held hands and flirted with someone right under the nose of his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa Hudgens – and it was a GUY! Zac – who recently ended his five-year romance with Vanessa – got cozy with a buff young man at a Deb. 18 NBA event at the W Hotel in LA, according to eyewitnesses.

“‘I was shocked at how relaxed and open Zac was with this guy,’ continued the fellow partygoer. ‘He walked around talking to him, smiling and holding his hand right in front of everyone, including Vanessa. People were wondering if maybe it was a stunt to make Vanessa jealous. But truthfully, Zac really seemed into the guy.’”

And if Vanessa minded, she certainly didn’t let on. She and Zac exchanged a warm greeting, and then she spent the remainder of the evening with her girlfriends, while Zac kept his attention on his male friend.

“It was bizarre,” added the eyewitness. Zac has long been the target of Internet speculation about his sexuality – and Zac has always laughed off the rumors.

“That night at the party, Zac and Vanessa clearly weren’t together,” added the eyewitness. “But they still seem like friends.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, scan via Boy Culture]

I honestly don’t know what to think about this. I’ve always given Zac and his seemingly “fancy” sexuality the benefit of the doubt. When I read this Details Magazine cover interview with Zac, it didn’t really feel like he was in the closet – it seemed like he was a straight guy who didn’t really care about “trading up” girlfriends or bangin’ as many girls as possible. Like, he came across as kind of old-fashioned and nice, not “hiding a secret that involves spa dong and glittery circuit parties.” Maybe I’m wrong about it, though. I have no idea.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Several days ago, one of our photo agencies had photos of Zac Efron getting out of his car in front of Vanessa Hudgens’ house. They made a big deal about Zac visiting her or spending time with her just weeks after the two split. I didn’t do a story about it because A) Who really cares, really? And B) Exes don’t have to hate each other after they split up, and Zac and Vanessa seem like the kind of kids who would remain friends anyway. However, now the whole thing looks official – Zac and Vanessa are back together. Either that, or they’re just enjoying some “breakup freebie sex”.

Could Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens be back on? The couple of nearly five years — who parted ways in early December — came together Friday for an outing at Los Angeles nightclub Eden.

And their reunion seemed to go off without a hitch. Stopping by the hotspot’s opening bash, Efron, 23, and Hudgens, 21, kissed and danced the night away with pals, including actress Brittany Snow.

“The two showed up around 10:45 p.m. through the back entrance with a group of friends and were holding hands at different points throughout the night,” a source tells UsMagazine.com. But the High School Musical costars were careful to keep a lid on their PDA.

At one point in the evening, when Efron leaned in to kiss Hudgens, the actress pushed him away after spotting a clubgoer who tried to snap a cellphone photo.

“They were kissing on the lips and seemed to be enjoying their night,” says the source. Adds another eyewitness: “They seem to be back together.”

The pair’s display of affection comes mere weeks after their mutual split was announced.

“There’s no drama. No one cheated. They just grew up,” an insider told Us at the time of the breakup.

[From Us Weekly]

So, they’re back together. My theory: last month, Zac had a moment of “The grass is always greener” so he dumped Vanessa and decided to see what his options were for a potential girlfriend upgrade. Then he encountered Rumer Willis during a New Year‘s holiday. Then he went running back to Vanessa. Just my theory!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Both Zac Efron and Rumer Willis ended their seemingly stable relationships last year. Rumer went first, breaking up with WhatsHisFace… um… Micah Alberti in the fall. Then just before Christmas, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens announced their split too. Now, Rumer was rumored to be rubbing up on Chord Overstreet, the blonde dude on Glee, but it is unknown if they were ever really dating, or if they are still seeing each other. So, seemingly, both Zac and Rumer are single and ready to mingle. And mingle they did, at least according to The Chicago Sun-Times (via Celebuzz, via PopCrunch, etc).

Word on the Curb has it that Zac Efron and Rumer Willis — who both ended long-term relationships in 2010 — brought in the New Year looking “extremely cozy” during a vacation with Rumer’s family at The Parrot Island Resort in Turks & Caicos.

It’s been a busy few weeks for Zac — who is boasting a new buzz cut, in case you hadn’t heard. The stud ended his three-year relationship with fellow High School Musical cutie Vanessa Hudgens and cozied up to his The Lucky Ones co-star Taylor Schilling.

But like a true Hollywood couple, not even this much drama can keep Zanessa apart. Friends believe the bust-up of the Love that Disney Built is only temporary and that Zac and Vanessa’s “bond” could eventually bring them back together.

“They speak every single day … they wanted some free time, but they’ll get back together,” said a (nosy) friend of the couple.

[From Pop Crunch]

How does Zac Efron know all of these people? He hangs out with Tom Cruise (well, I think Tom probably was trying to seduce him), Zac gets advice from Leonardo DiCaprio, and now Zac is chilling out with the Willis-Moore family? The hell?

But yeah… Rumer and Zac. Ugh. I wish Zac would find someone… I don’t know, more interesting, I guess. I have some affection for the kid (he seems nice and self-aware, and he’s trying, you know), and I think I’d like to see him with one of those cute little hipster actress girls. Like Olivia Thirlby or somebody like that.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens are over, according to E! News’ Marc Malkin. SOB. Zac and Vanessa had been together much longer than normal teenage celebrity relationships – something like four or five years, right? They started dating when they worked together on those High School Musical movies/shows/whatever. So, is Zac getting some on the side? Nope. Allegedly.

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens are over.

Sources just told me…

The two, who started dating when they were just teenagers costarring in the hit High School Musical franchise, recently called it quits.

“It’s nothing dramatic,” one source said. “There’s no third party involved.”

Says another source, “They were together for so long. It just ran its course.”

Sources insist they remain friends.

Efron, 23, is currently filming The Lucky One in New Orleans. Hudgens, who turns 22 tomorrow, wraps Journey 2: The Mysterious Island later this week in Hawaii.

[From E! News]

Judging Zac solely on his surprisingly good Details profile a few months ago (where he talked about why he didn’t really want to “bathe in p-ssy”), I tend to think he wasn’t screwing around on Vanessa – he actually seems like a nice kid, and a standup guy. Now, he might have his eye on Vanessa’s replacement, but I don’t think Zac was screwing around on VH, that’s all that I’m saying. So was Vanessa fooling around? Once again, why would she? Zac is the bigger fish in this relationship – and my guess is that he did the dumping, and that he did the “outgrowing”. We’ll see…

Zac Efron is making headlines this weekend because he debuted a completely new, rather adult look at the Deauville Film Festival, where he’s promoting Charlie St. Cloud. The beard is very nice – I didn’t think Zac had enough testosterone to grow a substantial beard like that, but good for him. I’m saying “substantial” to be nice to the kid – I don’t think he’s capable of having a filled-out beard, but this little “extended goatee” is nice. And it does make him look much, much older. Tom Cruise is probably weeping right now – his pretty little motorcycle buddy is all grown up.

There have been some other sightings of hot(ter) guys this weekend too – especially at the Toronto Film festival, where it looks like it’s hot guy central. My favorite? James McAvoy, clean-shaven and baby-faced and so, so pretty… there‘s a special appearance by Robert Redford too!

Colin Firth! He’s been everywhere in Toronto, apparently.

Clive Owen has been all over Venice and Toronto the past few days, and there are so many hot photos of him. Praise the Lord. These are just a few:

And some photos from The Town boys promoting their film at TIFF. Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, and my lover (and Ben’s lover, apparently) Jon Hamm.

Too mean? I actually like Zac Efron, but I’m not loving this scruffy scrub look he’s working. If you’re going to grow a beard, then make sure you can actually grow a beard, mmkay? None of this half-assed pretty-boy dirt-lip, with some extra chin-pubes in the mix. Although, I have to admit: with the sunglasses and the scruff, Efron looks like… who? Chace Crawford, right? Eh, there are worse things, although I personally think Efron is better than Chace, in pretty much every way.

Anyway, Zac is probably still recovering from Charlie St. Cloud’s less-than-stellar performance at the box office. Maybe he’s trying to change up his look for the next big career move? Page Six had an interesting piece about Zac and what his next move might be – another musical! Oh, Zac. You’ll never end up like Leonardo DiCaprio like this.

Add Zac Efron to the list of candidates eager to star in a movie adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical “Memphis.”

The “High School Musical” heartthrob attended Tuesday night’s performance, his second visit to the show in a month. His girlfriend, Vanessa Hudgens, accompanied Efron, as well as Adam Shankman, a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance” and the producer of Efron’s flicks “Hairspray” and “17 Again.”

Insiders speculate that Efron is interested in the lead role of Huey Calhoun, a 1950s-era Memphis radio DJ played onstage by Chad Kimball.

Sources said Efron hung out with the cast during intermission and gushed over female lead Montego Glover.

“When Montego came over, Efron said, ‘I just can’t stay away from the show,’ ” reports a witness.

Efron also attended the show in July on the same night he and “Musical” co-star Corbin Bleu spent $2,000 at Flashdancers.

Although there are no concrete plans yet to adapt “Memphis” for the big screen, Efron isn’t the only actor in the hunt. Justin Timberlake saw the show in May, about the same time director Oliver Stone checked it out.

Insiders say Stone has taken meetings with “Memphis” writers Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, who’s also the keyboardist for Bon Jovi, and Stone mentioned Timberlake as a potential Huey Calhoun. A rep for Stone confirmed he met with Bryan and expressed interest in doing a film adaptation.

Interest only increased when “Memphis” was nominated for eight Tony Awards and won four, including Best Musical.

A rep for “Memphis” confirmed that Efron has attended the show twice. Efron’s rep had no comment.

[From Page Six]

He’s just so pretty! That’s his problem. He’ll never be thought of as a real actor until her dirties it up, and I’m not just talking about bedhead and dirt-lips. He needs to do a film where he’s a scummy loser, maybe even violent. Maybe a guest-spot on some gritty procedural crime drama? As the killer? That would be a good start. Also, he would perfect as some kind of glitzy, superficial sociopath. I’m just throwing out ideas.

Zac on August 18, 2010. Credit: Fame.

Okay, you bitches need to help a girl out, because I am now totally hot for Zac Efron. I just poured over every word of his truly interesting Details cover profile (for the September issue), and I went through his photo shoot, and I’m kind of in love with him. He seems… sweet. Like a really nice kid. But unlike someone like Taylor Lautner, Zac’s niceness doesn’t seem like the product of being really young and unexposed to the world. Zac’s niceness just seems like something very natural, like he wouldn’t even think to be cruel or anything. He seems to know his own mind too! When the interviewer asks him about dating Vanessa Hudgens and why Zac isn’t out there, “bathing in p-ussy.” Zac’s answer is pretty awesome: “Yeah, everyone tells me that. I think a lot of guys would enjoy that. But I’m not really like that. Believe me. I rack my brain thinking, ‘Why am I not out there playing the field?’ One of my buddies was like, ‘You have no idea what’s going on right now. You’re peaking on Ecstasy and you’re watching TV.’ But it’s not in my heart.” He also talks about the gay rumors! Oh, Zac. I heart you.

On getting a horrible case of poison oak: “I went backpacking over Memorial Day weekend and I just got the worst poison oak, bro,” he says. “It was my first time getting it. Dude, it’s, like, everywhere. Everywhere. I can’t even begin to show you, ’cause you’ll get so grossed out. I look like a zombie from Dawn of the Dead.” Coaxing commences; negotiations occur. “Okay, I’ll show you my back, but the front’s pretty gross, man,” he says, then lifts his shirt. Above the bunched-up waistband of his underwear (boxers, Hanes, blue plaid), half of his back has been taken over by a crust resembling swollen cornflakes. “This spot just popped up this morning. Don’t touch it!” Efron is under the erroneous impression that anyone who touches him will catch his cooties—and maybe even develop a taste for brains.

Efron is not cool: Zac Efron is not cool, and this pronouncement is neither an insult nor a revelation to him. His lack of cool has nothing to do with the fact that, as a preadolescent, he lived for community theater or that he tried to get away with wearing a fedora to school at 15. Cool is effortlessness. Efron is all effort.

Efron is the Anti-Shia LaBeouf: Hollywood, like everything else, is just an extension of high school, with the burnouts and the jocks coexisting uneasily. Burnout Sean Penn drinks and smokes too much and will always be cooler than jock Tom Cruise, whom one imagines doing lots of crunches and high-fives. Same with Shia LaBeouf and Zac Efron. LaBeouf seems to give not one shit. He disses Spielberg and flips pickups and just gets bigger; Efron makes appearances at Bar Mitzvahs as favors to industry friends. “I’m so jealous of that,” Efron says of LaBeouf, whom he doesn’t know personally. “Yeah, that’s awesome to not give a sh-t. And Shia still pulls it off. That’s so cool. It’s just awesome. It just comes easy to some people.”

On Tom Cruise: Hollywood’s upperclassmen have shown how they feel about this freshman. Penn, upon meeting Efron, reportedly said exactly two words to him: Go skydiving. But Cruise recently flagged Efron down in the lobby of CAA. “You ride motorcycles?” Cruise asked him. Alas, he didn’t. “You wanna learn how?” Cruise invited him out to his house, taught him how a motorcycle engine works, showed him the hangar with his dozens of pristine bikes—including the Triumphs he rode in the Mission: Impossible movies. Efron was allowed to ride a pedigree-less dirt bike. “He made so many great movies,” Efron says of Cruise. “I get the feeling that he works really, really hard. It didn’t come from swagger with him. It came from dedication, hard work. You see it in the way he physicalizes everything. You watch The Last Samurai and that’s him! He’s really doing that.” I ask Efron why he supposes Cruise bothered reaching out to him. “I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t even want to know. It’s just so cool that he gave a sh-t, the fact that he cared at all. No one else did that.”

On backing out of Footloose: “All the things I loved about Footloose I couldn’t find in the project,” he says. “They just weren’t there. I couldn’t see myself doing it.”

On letting water run on his poison-oak infected skin: “Oh…my…God,” Efron says with a gasp. “It’s like the best…orgasm…ever! And I just keep coming!”

On Vanessa Hudgens and why he‘s not “bathing in p-ssy”: Here in the bathroom, the topic of other bathrooms comes up, specifically the Japanese one at the famous Los Angeles sushi place Matsuhisa, which has a bidet-like contraption that will essentially shampoo your anus. “Yeah, Vanessa has one of those,” he says, speaking for the first time of his girlfriend of five years, High School Musical costar Vanessa Hudgens, who had dropped him off tonight. By now the Lakers are well on their way to winning the game and the bottle of Cab is gone, not more than a quarter of it consumed by Efron himself, which may explain the coarse phrasing of my suggestion that now might be the time for him to immerse himself in the company of more than one lady friend. “Bathe in p-ssy?” he repeats. “Yeah, everyone tells me that. I think a lot of guys would enjoy that. But I’m not really like that.” I point out that he does not know if he would enjoy this or not, since he has never been famous and single. “Believe me,” he says. “I rack my brain thinking, ‘Why am I not out there playing the field?’ One of my buddies was like, ‘You have no idea what’s going on right now. You’re peaking on Ecstasy and you’re watching TV.’ But it’s not in my heart.”

On the gay rumors and the rumor that Vanessa is his beard: “That’s just f-cking insane,” he says. “I’ve never even heard of that happening. I don’t even know who I would have been around who would have thought that was even a good idea. It would have been so much easier to call it off a long time ago.” Efron sees it as just wishful thinking by an avaricious gossip industry. “They want you to believe it, and they hope they’ll influence you to break up by making you seem insane for being in it. And then you’ll play the field, and then they can write about you a sh-tload, make shit up, and speculate about everything. Right now they know exactly what’s going on and it’s not very interesting and there’s no money to be made on it. It’s exactly how it should be. It’s real.”

[From Details Magazine]

Isn’t my new boyfriend funny? Isn’t he sweet? Doesn’t he have pretty eyes? Sigh… yes, he’s not Gerard Butler, but he’s got potential. Serious potential. Oh, and I think Tom Cruise was hitting on him, right? I mean, Tom could have just been trying to be generous to a young, up-and-coming star, but it also seems like it was a date, right?

Photos courtesy of Details.