Paris was just linked with USC quarterback Matt Leinart after it was announced yesterday that she broke up with Stavros Niarchos. She’s not wasting any time because she showed up at a party at Pure nightclub at Ceasar’s Palace last night to celebrate Leinart’s draft into the NFL. She even sang at the event.

Also attending were Nick Lachey, Danny Masterson, Wilmer Valderrama, Kimberly Kardashian, and Caroline D’Amor. View the e-vite for the event. (Warning - lauches automatic music.)

Leinart has been drafted to the Arizona Cardinals. He won the Heisman Trophy so he must be hot shit.

Here’s some quick sports background on Leinart.

Matt Leinart was said to be dating Kirsten Cavallari at one time, but just like Nick Lachey, Cavallari said that they were only friends. Leinart has a blog that centers around his football career.

He seems to have a good head on his shoulders and we doubt he and Paris will last.

Here are pictures from the party.

Update: Images removed upon request.

I want to dislike Teri Hatcher, I really do. In fact before I read the synopsis of her interview on the Oprah site I had the opinion that the woman can’t snap out of her crybaby routine. After reading what she said and getting an idea of what she went through, I have to say that it kind of touched me. I hope that she can get some therapy and realize that she has it pretty good now and that the past is behind her.

She talked a lot about her childhood abuse and how painful the situation was. She also said that Ryan Seacrest dumped her after a couple of dates, and made it sound like she actually bought into the situation:

She denied dating Clooney at all, and said that she only went on one date with him. She also said she doesn’t use botox and talked about the fake hair and boob tape that everyone uses to look better on the red carpet.

She looks pretty bad in recent pictures so maybe she doesn’t use botox and that’s the problem. As for her relationship with Clooney, I really doubt that they only had one date. There were all sorts of rumors about that. Still, now that I discovered quotes from a personal trainer about Katie Holmes that were completely made up, I have a lot less faith in the gossip industry.

Hatcher has a new memoir out, called “Burnt Toast,” in which she chronicles her sad love life. She reveals that she didn’t have sex with her second husband on her honeymoon, and they only had sex once in the year her daughter was conceived.

Hatcher says she’s now looking for love and wants lots of sex. As we pointed out earlier, this is not the way to go about it, but at least it will sell books.

Here she is on Oprah. There’s a short video clip for the show on the Oprah website. (This is up as of today, May 3rd, and may be removed shortly)

Update: Video segment where Teri discusses the Ryan Seacrest situation.

Thanks to reader Millie for sending us this People article debunking basically everything we’ve gleefully reported about the worlds most famous couple. Almost nothing, except the fact that Brad and Angelina are in Africa (or Angelina is, at this point) is true:

Damn! That just about blows every stupid thing we’ve written about them out of the water. My faith in the gossip industry is just about nil. They even make up quotes from people I actually know, and I’m not that connected.

Angelina did give a few real quotes in her Dateline interview that the press is blowing out of proportion. She said she can’t quite believe that she’s pregnant and is in denial about it, and that she plans on adopting more children.

She also supposely said that’s she’s not morbid, but that’s not from her Dateline interview and is just some random quote so who knows if it’s true?

Now that our faith in the gossip industry is waning, we’re going to call it like we see it. (For a day or two at least.) The reporting paper where we read this tried to make out like Lindsay Lohan was in a catfight with Cameron Diaz since they both dated the same guy at some point, but it sounds like Cameron simply asked Lindsay to stop smoking when they were in the VIP section of a NY club together:

Lindsay’s a nasty skank who thinks she can get away with whatever she wants. It’s been illegal to smoke in bars in NY for years now, so she should know better. She was probably pissed because she knew Cameron was right.

Meanwhile Lindsay still hopes to clean up her image with that humanitarian mission to Africa we told you about. She’s only considering it, doesn’t have a date planned, and it’s clearly all about making her look good:

Lindsay’s ready to try to get some good press for once is all.

Here she is in St. Paul, MN yesterday for the world premiere of A Prarie Home Companion. Stars were “carried in horse drawn carriages led by the Highland Park Senior High marching band down Wabasha St.”

News reports are taking this out of context. Kevin Federline was being interviewed on Power 106 radio station in California and the DJs asked him to answer “questions out of the forbidden hat.” They told him he could “tap out” at any time, and that he didn’t have to answer a question if he didn’t want to. He said he wanted a threesome with Jessica Alba in response to a question, but that’s a no-brainer, and he didn’t even know her name.

We actually listed to this crap, and here’s what he said:

When questioned, he says that Britney is a better lover than Shar Jackson although he hesitates, and he also says Britney is a better dancer than him.

While it’s rather damning that Kevin would immediately admit that he’d pick his son over his wife and wouldn’t say it’s a hard decision, it’s not that unusual to want to save your helpless child over an adult.

Kevin says in a different interview that Britney supports his music career, and that he would probably give it up if she didn’t.

Britney’s big press conference for music industry executives is today. People are buzzing that she’ll announce a pregnancy, and that she’s having a baby girl, due in October.

You can listen to Kevin’s interview online. Here is the mp3. [via]

Jessica Simpson is said to be enamored with James Blunt and wanted to make sure she gave him her contact info at the MTV Australian music awards:

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Blunt may be a sensitive singer, but he’s a complete dumb ass and iit would be a disaster if these two got together. While Nick was able to balance out Jessica’s ditziness with common sense and a grounded personality, Blunt has no such redeeming qualities.

Here is Jessica with her incompetent hairdresser Ken Paves at Mr. Chow’s in Beverly Hills on May 2nd, and shopping with him on April 30th. [via]

And here’s Blunt at a press conference in Mexico City on May 2nd and at Coachella.

Tom Cruise had a whirlwind tour of NY yesterday to promote MI3. He rode a firetruck down Broadway in the afternoon, then boarded a helicopter, and finally rode a subway to the premiere. The subway train was rented for $10,000 just for the occasion.

Cruise seemed uncomfortable and made some characteristically strange statements on David Letterman on Tuesday night. He didn’t go into specifics about Katie’s birth and seemed to skirt questions. People has the highlights:

Cruise tries to hide behind a lot of vague adjectives, and reader Millie notes that he acted odd and was uncomfortable with specific questions about the labor. Wonder what that means.

Cruise is also said to be auctioning off the first pictures of Suri to the highest bidder. The photos are said to be worth around $1 million.

Katie Holmes will get a sweet deal if she ever marries and divorces the crazy half pint. She’ll get $14 million according to a new prenup that’s been set up. Even if she remains single, she and Suri will be taken care of with an $8 million trust.

Now that’s not bad compensation for living a lie, is it?

Here’s Cruise in all his glory on his whirlwind tour of Manhattan yesterday.

Stavros Niarchos showed up drunk at Paris Hilton’s house at 1:00 am on Monday morning begging her to take him back:

Paris was at Matt Leinart’s draft party on Tuesday so that means she was with her new guy one night, and her old one the next.

Matt Leinart may be hot but he’s not as rich as Stavros. Stavros inherited $275 million on his 21st birthday this month, while Leinart’s contract with the Arizona Cardinals is said to be worth around $12 million. He also has a new endorsement deal with Nike, so it’s not like he will be suffering.

Paris is playing the field wisely.

Here she is with Nicky going to Shag nightclub on 5/2. Barbara on the gossip rocks board points out that they are “two different shades of orange” and “so easy to hate.” How right she is. [via]

Everyone was waiting with baited breath to see what Britney Spears would announce in her press conference yesterday. I even got up early to catch the news and was suprised that it wasn’t listed in the Google Entertainment News section yet.

It turns out that now our week of bullshit gossip news is complete, because the entire press conference was a hoax:

I googled “Karen Phillips” combined with either “Sony Music” or “Sony BMG” and logical variations like “Karyn,” “Caryn,” and “Philips” and got nothing about her - except for this supposed quote about the Britney press conference. There is a musician named Karen Phillips, but no “executive.” She is also not included on the Sony BMG site among the “executives” listing, although there are only four old white guys there, so there are probably plenty more executives there.

The bottom line is, this Karen Phillips person who was quoted about the press conference probably doesn’t exist.

Earlier in the week we found completely fabricated quotes about Katie Holmes’ fitness routine from someone we actually know.

It’s hard to determine where this press conference story originated, but clearly someone is making up quotes and it’s just spreading.

This is gossip, innuendo and rumor, so it’s not like it has to be held to a high standard of journalistic integrity. Still, there’s a huge difference between saying it’s your opinion that someone is pregnant or screwing so and so, and making up shit entirely and acting like it’s true. Too many of these stories are totally bogus.

Oh, and Britney fan site BreathHeavy.com reports that Britney and Kevin are going to renew their vows after Kevin promised Britney that he would change. They don’t have a source listed, though, and this doesn’t sound true to us. Not much does lately.

Katie Holmes came to the Los Angeles fan screening of MI3 last night, and she looked gorgeous. She did pair white shoes with a black dress, though. (It’s surprising that she couldn’t find a better pair since she spent all that time shoe shopping in her final days of pregnancy. She must have realized too late that comfort matters.)

In the “this sounds fake to us” department, Katie Holmes was said to be slated for a role as a Bond girl in “Casino Royale” before her pregnancy kept her from taking the part.

Tom appeared on BET Wednesday while in NY promoting MI3. He tried to dance, with humorous results (video below):

Here are Tom and Katie engaging in their trademark public PDA at the MI3 screening: