Michelle Rodriguez appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live and Good Morning America yesterday. Her character was killed off this week’s episode of Lost, but she has played it off and insists it’s not due to her legal trouble:

Here’s a Good Morning America interview with Michelle and a quick recap of her death and love scene on Lost. She said that her death was planned from the beginning, but that she didn’t tell the other castmembers. She also said that her arrest taught her that it’s time to grow up.

Here are pictures of Michelle on Total Request Live [via] and some candids of her in Hollywood after being released from jail. [via] She must use the same cosmetic dentist as Hillary Duff.

No, not in the obvious way. At least according to this story. The hospital where Star had the gastric bypass surgery that she refuses to admit to had a problem sterilizing its equipment. So this isn’t as sensational a story as we were hoping, either, sorry about that:

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If all this is true, and not some kind of conspiratorial cover up for the fact that Star’s husband infected her (we did not come up with this, the bulletin board where we found the news mentioned it first), then hopefully nothing happened to her, and she’ll be able to get on with her career of becoming the spokesperson for hemorrhoid cream after she gets booted off The View.

Oprah’s best friend, Gayle King, is said to be in the running for Star’s place on The View. Star is not considered long for the show now that Rosie is taking Meredith Vieira’s seat. Star’s contract is up in September:

Nearly anyone would make a better cohost then Star.

We obviously dislike James Blunt and zealously report negative news about him. The latest is that the woman he cheated on his hapless now-ex girlfriend with says he has an itty bitty peter:

Blunt broke up with his girlfriend over the phone after lying to her and saying he didn’t cheat with Tomkinson.

Tomkinson also says Blunt has been trying to contact her, but that she’s not going there again. Maybe Jessica Simpson will get word of this and let go of her foolish crush on the untalented singer.

Jennifer Love Hewitt came to the aid of a fallen paparazzo while out shopping in Beverly Hills. After the woman fell she helped her up and asked for a hug “so that I know you’re ok.” She was kind to the hoards of photographers following her and chatted with them. When she ran into Fred Savage, she told the paparrazi that he was her “first date ever” and talked about Savage’s wife expecting a baby. TMZ has a video of it. (link leads to page, not direct video.)

Here she is helping the photographer [via] and with her new hair extensions on the Late Late show. [via]

Ed Norton and Evan Rachel Wood starred in 2005’s Down in the Valley together, and if the latest Gawker stalker reports are true, it looks like they’re dating:

Sounds like they make a rude couple.

Thanks to ONTD for putting this together and finding these pictures from their Interview magazine spread.

Courteney Cox is the new spokesperson for the Kinerase skin care line. My mom has used the stuff and says that it works well. She prefers a similar product, MD Forte, though. Here’s the PR blurb about Courteney’s endorsement:

Courtney voices an animated character in the upcoming movie Barnyard, and she plays a tabloid editor in a pilot for the FX Network called Dirt. Both projects are completed and due for release, and she has several more in production.

Here she is leaving an office building in NY yesterday. These pictures are a little too nice, and she may have wanted the paparrazi to know where she was. [via]

Spoiler alert - if we haven’t already spoiled it for you. Sorry about that.
Mischa Barton’s character on The O.C., Marissa Cooper, may die of a drug overdose. Barton has several films coming up and is said to be tired of her ongoing role on the series:

Marissa had a near-brush with death when she took a handful of prescription drugs while in Mexico in season one of The O.C. Ryan found her passed out, heroically saving her just in time. It will be a sad end to her character, and that’s too bad that she’s not waiting out the end of the series.

O.C. creator Josh Schwartz says the show will go on for one more year, and that there will be a major plot climax at the end of this season. It sounds like he might be talking about Marissa’s death.

Here is Barton with Hayden Christensen in their film in production, The Decameron, a love story set in the middle ages. It is listed on IMDB with the title Guilty Pleasures.

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Liz Smith mentions in her column in the NY Post today that the photos that accompany Nicole Richie’s interview in Vanity Fair were retouched to make her look healthy:

Nicole Richie became famous as soon as she started showing up for tons of events, and that just happened to coincide with her weight loss, probably because she had higher self esteem. While the ideal for slenderness in Hollywood is out of bounds and harmful to young women, I don’t think that Richie’s stardom can be attributed to her stick thin appearance. It is obviously unhealthy and not a good role model for anyone of course.

You can see the retouching in the photos below. In a picture of RIchie wearing underwear and kissing herself in the mirror, her butt looks a little too round to be real. Her face also looks less deathly.

The red string bracelet that Richie wears on her right wrist may not be a sign of anorexic pride that it can also stand for. (Some images are shown flipped, and the bracelet is really on her right hand.) It is from Kitson and is adorned with a gold hamsa, a protective jewish symbol. It’s just, uh, a coincidence that anorexics also wear red string bracelets on their right wrists while Kabbalah followers wear them on their left wrists.

Richie admits in her Vanity Fair interview that she’s too thin and that she’s getting help from a doctor and a nutritionist.

Pictures [via]

- Pete Doherty’s blood paintings are for sale (A Socialite’s Life)
- Nick Lachey seen leaving same club as Cacee Cobb (Blog NYC)
- Janet Jackson fat no more - take three (Egotastic)
- Gwen Stefani hurts her finger (Just Jared)
- Denise Richards refuses to let Charlie Sheen’s parents see their grandchildren (IDLYITW)
- Kellie Pickler gets felt up (yeeeah)
- Vince Vaughn on Jennifer Aniston: “I’m not saying we are or aren’t a couple” (Glitterati)
- The Cox-Arquettes say hi to bubble boy (PopSugar)
- Heather Locklear shops the pain away (Hollywood Rag)
- Wilmer works his charm on Tera Patrick (Hollywood Tuna)
- Catfight in the halls of The View (CityRag)
- Korean scientists develop sexy female love machine (The Bastardly)
- Charlie Sheen’s tranny prostitute (DListed)
- Happy Cinco de Mayo with Salma Hayek (I’m not obsessed)

Our distrust in the gossip industry peaked this week, with several rumors being debunked, and fake quotes circulating like wildfire.