Kate Bosworth, 23, has a starring role in “Superman Returns,” but she still seems to be uncertain about her star status. She says she was waiting to be replaced as Lois Lane, and that it’s easy to be insecure in Hollywood.

She got the role of Lois Lane in “Superman Returns” on the recommendation of Kevin Spacey, who directed her in “Beyond the Sea.” Director Bryan Singer saw a screening of the film and asked Spacey how she was to work with. Spacey had nothing but praise for the young actress, and Singer cast her in the role of Lane shortly afterwards. Bosworth was insecure about the big production, though, and was waiting for the axe to drop well into her work on the film:

Bosworth started her career in a role of a friend of the young girl in “The Horse Whisperer” at the age of 14. She was an accomplished rider and went to the audition on a lark. She had her big break in the surfing film “Blue Crush” in 2002 and went on to play in “Wonderland” and “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton.”

She says she’s turned down roles that required nudity, but she leaves the option open by saying that she’s not sure how she’ll feel about it in a few years.

Now that Bosworth is in a blockbuster film, the buzz is that she’s about to hit it big in Hollywood.

She doesn’t see the lack of privacy and stalkerazzi as a problem yet, and is more concerned about her status in Hollywood:

Bosworth says she’s not engaged to Orlando Bloom and won’t elaborate other than to say she’s “very happy.”

She was recently voted the sexiest Lois Lane over Teri Hatcher and Erica Durance.

One of Kate’s eyes is half hazel and half blue, and she has been asked to wear contact lenses to hide it in every movie she’s appeared in - except for “Superman Returns.” Director Bryan Singer liked Kate’s eyes the way they were and now the Lois Lane dolls have eyes that are two colors, just like the actress.

“Superman Returns” is doing well at the box office, with $21 million on its first opening day.

Here is Kate shopping at Gucci in NY on 6/27. I don’t like her smock dress with the black belt and think she looks like one of the women who works at the cosmetics counter at a department store. Otherwise she’s gorgeous. [via]

We weren’t holding our breath, but we were kind of hoping Nick and Jessica would get back together. Jessica wore her wedding ring around her neck for a while, and Nick told Rolling Stone that he still loved his wife of two years, but ultimately Jessica’s immaturity and Nick’s wild oats won out and now the two are officially divorced. The divorce was made final on June 30. No word yet as to the settlement amount. Jessica’s dad tried to low-ball Nick into accepting a $1.5 million settlement, while Nick is said to have asked for a more realistic $8 million that he lowered to $5 million.

Nick is dating MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo while Jessica may be with her co-star in the upcoming film “Employee of the Month,” comedian Dane Cook. Cook was involved with someone else at the time of filming, but is now single and said to be getting cosy with Jessica.

This is sad news for Nick and Jessica fans, and should serve as a warning to all women who try to hold out before marriage and then get married young because they can’t wait.

Here is Jessica in NY on 6/28. She’s wearing the deadly long jeans/platform sandals combo that caused Britney’s near baby-drop. Nick Lachey is shown performing a private concert for Q-100 listeners on 6/29.

Naomi Watts, 37, is now on pregnancy watch, and it’s largely due to the loose tops and ill-fitting dresses she’s worn out to recent events. She’s been on pregnancy watch since wearing two different frilly dresses with tummy coverage to the Oscars. We were even declaring her pregnant after she wore a poncho to the Tribeca film festival in late April.

Then we saw some high-res photos of Naomi in a sheer, but loose top in mid-May. You could see her stomach through it and it was flat.

Watts may just be wearing loose tops because they’re in style. Reese Witherspoon was called pregnant after she was seen in some loose clothing and it turns out that wasn’t true at all.

Watts has made some comments that she’d like to start a family, though, and Australian reports have her pregnant already:

If she is pregnant it’s very soon along. She was photographed playing tennis on June 18th. Her top was pulling up and she did not have a stomach, although it’s a little hard to tell. She was seen at the MacBeth In The Park 2006 Summer Benefit on June 28th in an empire-waist dress, which surely helped feed the rumors.

We really doubt it’s true, although we hope it happens soon for her and Liev if they are indeed trying.

Here is Naomi in the photos we mentioned. She is seen with her boyfriend of over a year, actor Liev Schreiber, 38, and with Jessica Lang. Reader Millie let me know that Lang was not gracious about the latest remake of “King Kong” after having starred in the other remake from 1976. She said she wouldn’t be seeing Peter Jackson’s version of “King Kong” and considered it too commercial.

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J.Lo’s first ex husband, Ojani Noa, is unable to publish a tell-all book about their relationship now that Lopez won a case against him publishing the book. He signed a confidentiality agreement with Lopez in late 2005 as part of his settlement payout for a breach of contract lawsuit against her. Noa claimed that Lopez had him unfairly fired from his manager position at her Pasadena restaurant, Madre’s.

In April Noa told Lopez’s attorneys that he’d put the book out unless she paid him a cool $5 million. Of course the diva wasn’t having that and sued him in an attempt to block the book, which is said to have juicy details like J.Lo cheating on P.Diddy in 1999 with Marc Anthony. Unfortunately J.Lo was successful and we won’t be able to get our hands on the novel, but one detail did come out: Noa claims Lopez does Santeria on her enemies to get back at them:

I believe this, because Lopez was said to have consulted a Santeria advisor at the time of her upcoming wedding to Ben Affleck. The voodoo guru told her to call it off:

That’s pretty funny and we hope more dirt gets released on Lopez even though the book was blocked. If she’s gullible enough to believe in voodoo, maybe Lea Remini will successfully convert her to Scientology.

Here she is in the videoshoot for “I’m gonna be alright,” which was released in 2002. [via]

You’ve undoubtedly heard about the Brangelina baby shower pics that were released to a few blogs and media outlets with the promise of 450 more. It turns out that Angelina’s kissing brother, James Haven, took his camera to BestBuy in LA but forgot to remove the memory card. BestBuy outsourced the job to Precision Camera in Enfield, Connecticut, where two guys thought they hit the jackpot. They might have, if they would have been smart enough to take basic precautions like using a proxy server and an anonymous e-mail address. Instead they used an easily traceable account and the feds raided their place of employment and one of their homes to recover the pictures. They probably would have been caught anyway, but it might have taken a couple of extra days.

They dodged a legal bullet since it was determined they didn’t do anything illegal:

What I want to know is why the secret service got involved in a stupid celebrity photo leak case. How much taypayer money did that cost?

The two guyswho leaked the pictures, Bill Keyes, 36, and Adam Beckwith, 20 something, may not be arrested or charged, but Brangelina’s lawyers are out for blood and they’re going to get them to pay. Hopefully they’ll get some decent pro bono support and will be able to avoid being sued.

Here are the Brangelina baby shower pics.

Britney Spears claims the glowing happy pictures that came out in US Weekly of her posing with Kevin were, like, totally stolen. She’s said to be “evaluating legal options” against the magazine. You know that Britney released the photos herself after her “Dateline” debacle, and is just saying that to make it seem like they’re really stolen:

We seriously doubt this is true because the pictures are all cute and seem to come at a time when she needs good publicity and wants to make it seem as if everything is fine in her marriage. It’s also seems like too much of a coincidence when compared with the recently leaked Brangelina baby shower pics.

Reader Missy notes that Britney and Kevin may look happy and privileged in these pictures taken on a private jet, but that Kevin is suspiciously hiding his ring finger. Someone must have “forgotten” to wear their wedding ring.

Star Jones just can’t stop opening her big mouth. She screwed herself out of a chance to exit The View gracefully by blabbing that she’s leaving on air, and then telling People that she was fired. She should have taken producers’ advice to “make up a story” about why she’s no longer going to annoy the old ladies who watch The View with her shrinking presence. Instead she behaved as arrogantly as she always does and managed to royally piss off Barbara Walters.

Word is that she has almost no chance of getting another job in television now that she’s poured gasoline over all her rickety bridges.

Here’s Star on The Today Show. She tries to compare herself to people screwed by big corporations like Enron or Tyco, but she’s totally full of shit. She also says she made the announcement she was leaving on Tuesday instead of Thursday because of the “nastiness” in the media.

That’s part 1 of 2. The second part is here.

She better get television coverage when she can, because she’s talk show poison now.

TMZ has a big story and video of Woody Harrelson choking one of their photographers, but when you watch the video he only grabs the guy by the neck and talks to him in his face, and it doesn’t like like he’s trying to strangle him.

The photographer had “neck lacerations” that look serious, though, and are clearly finger marks. It’s pretty convincing that Harrelson was forceful, and he’ll probably get sued.

Here’s my bad transcript of the tape:

Woody is seen with a blonde, brunette, and a guy. Then he’s walking down the street with a brunette near him. He approaches the cameraman, and the camera is turned to the side so you can’t see him.
“Turn it off, Turn it off, I’m asking you to turn it off.”
“All I’m doing is my job.”
“Will you stop doing it, please?”
“… Come on, man”
“I’ve asked you to stop. Are you going to stop?”
“Not when you ask me like that.”
“I asked you politely… turn it off”
“No.”
Scuffle ensues. (You have to click the link to the right for “Camera 2″ if you want to see the alleged choking.)

TMZ says that the injured paparrazo tried to flag down a cop but that the officers ignored his complaint and just drove off. They went to the station and filed a criminal complaint and an invesitgation is underway:

This is incredibly dumb of Woody, because he obviously got pissed getting videotaped and photographed while out with a brunette who wasn’t his wife. He was seen with several women kind of walking together at first and should have played it off like it wasn’t a big deal. He’s cheating, though, or else why would he get so upset?

Danny Glover similarly hit a photographer in late April when he was photographed out with a woman who was not his wife.

No one cares about Danny Glover or Woody Harrelson and unless their wives are super sleuths they’re not going to get their hands on some random paparrazi photos of their semi-famous husbands out with other women. Add some rage and violence to the mix, though, and they’re sure to find out.

Harrelson’s wife, Laura Louie just had his third daughter on 6/3. They live on the Hawaain island of Maui, and now she’s going to realize what he gets up to when he’s in Hollywood.

- Lil’ Kim is getting out of jail just in time for 4th of July [popbytes]
- Brandy taking Star Jones’ place? [Concrete Loop]
- David Hasselhoff was injured in the hand or maybe the arm in a freak “shaving” accident [Mollygood]
- Co-editor gets fired at Gawker ’cause they want to be “mainstream” Maybe I’ll be able to read it now since it was too high-brow for me before. [Jossip]
- Lindsay Lohan celebrates her 20th birthday [PopSugar]
- 2006 World Cup Babes [The Bastardly]
- Rush Limbaugh and Mary-Lynn Rajskub?! [Tabloid Whore]
- Celebrity Photoshop with Ashanti, Beyonce and Halle Berry [Faded Youth]
- Freddie Prinze Jr. took a crap in Matthew Lillard’s trailer for a laugh [DListed]
- Victoria Beckham walks her bra. [Hollywood Tuna]
- Rachel Weisz looks fabulous [I’m not obsessed]
- High class madam says that Time Warner CFO Wayne Pace was one of her biggest clients [Blog NYC]

Here are a bunch of pictures of ‘Lil Kim at various events in honor of her early release from jail today. Thanks to Hollywood’s Best for these photos.

Australian gossip rags are reporting that Nicole Kidman did invite her ex, Tom Cruise, to her wedding with Keith Urban last weekend. He didn’t attend, but sent his regards. His two adopted children with Kidman did attend:

Earlier reports that Tom sent Nicole a picture of Suri for her 39th birthday with the message “a very nappy birthday” were false, and were undoubtedly made up in England, where most of the fake gossip originates and nappy is a common colloquialism for diaper. Nicole was also said to have wished “mother and baby well” after the birth of Suri, but that turned out to be made up, too. It could be true that Tom sent his regards after the wedding, but we’ll probably never know.

Nicole and Keith are back in Nashville after departing their honeymoon in Tahiti on Saturday. They left at night to avoid photographers, and boarded a jetboat to a chartered flight, which took them to the Island nation’s capital, where they caught a private jet home. Their honeymoon was probably not as peaceful as they were hoping, considering that Eva Longoria and Tony Parker crashed their resort.

Nicole is no longer on pregnancy watch after she was photographed looking super-fit in a bikini. Both she and Keith are headed back to work:

Here are lower resolution pictures of Nicole and Keith on their honeymoon, and some higher resolution candids of them back in Nashville. [via]