Everyone’s fantasy Scarlett Johansson has been embarassing her boyfriend of over a year, Josh Hartnett. Smart Scarlett has made light of the fact that she and her body parts have topped various sexy “best of” lists lately, and now Josh is said to be wary of all the attention this puts on his relationship.

Scarlet has an album coming out soon in which she makes Tom Waits covers sound sexy.

Scarlet looks a little tipsy or high behind this mask at the Moet & Chandon Fashion Tribute. She doesn’t look any less cute, though. [via]

Ever-reliable The Globe reports that Brad and Angelina are being tracked in India by Al Quaeda, who are incensed by the film adaptation Mariane Pearl’s book, “A Mighty Heart.” Members of the notorious terrorist group are said to be outraged that Brad and Angelina are making this film, which depicts journalist Daniel Pearl’s torture and demise at the hands of Al Quaeda operatives.

What’s more, one of the men who murdered Pearl is now awaiting execution and is considered a terrorist hero.

British security experts have been called in to protect Brad and Angelina, as it is feared that they are being targeted for their high profile status as well as the content of their movie in production:

This is said to be the real reason they switched production of the film to India at the last minute:

Top British security experts rushed to the city of Pune, India after warnings from neighboring Pakistan that Hollywood’s golden couple could be in danger, say sources.

“These former Special Air Service (SAS) men arrived to aid American bodyguards already watching over the superstars and their three children,” says a source…

“That’s why they made a last-minute switch from the authentic Karachi location of their movie to Pune, which has some similar scenery.”

At first it was decided that Brad and Angelina and their children would be quartered in a 20-room villa on the outskirts of Pune, according to the source.

“But Indian intelligence had been informed by Pakistani agents that they could still be targeted,” the source says.

“It was recommended that they beef up their security and move into Le Meridian Hotel,” which would be safer.

[From The Globe October 30, 2006 print edition]

The article goes on to use this terrorist threat as a sort of justification for the brutality of Angelina’s security force. Recent incidents involving an AP photographer being threatened with a gun and another British photographer getting strangled by the head of Angelina’s security force could be due to fear of a targeted attack, The Globe suggests.

This could be true, but it doesn’t justify such extreme force against photographers who just want to get a money shot. It also makes it seem like Brad and Angelina might have a much rougher go of it than simply getting mobbed whenever they go out. If there are threats against their lives, it’s understandable that they would be scared and defensive.

Globe article [via] Pictures of Brad in the movie “Babel” with Cate Blanchett [via]

Before Keith Urban was whisked off to rehab for “letting his guard down” on his recovery, Keith and his new wife Nicole Kidman were trying to conceive a child with the help of fertility drugs.

Nicole suffered from an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage during her marriage to Tom Cruise and she’s now less fertile at age 39. According to The Enquirer, she and Keith have visited a fertility clinic.

Keith’s sperm were judged motile but groggy, and Nicole has started taking fertility drugs, which may explain her bloated abdomen that all the bloggers (like me) were mistaking for a baby bump:

Nicole recently began taking the fertility drug Clomid to induce ovulation before she left to finish shooting the fantasy film “The Golden Compass” in London.

“Meanwhile, Keith has had tests done, and he was found to be able to have kids,” said the insider.”

“He knows how much Nicole wants to get pregnant.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition. October 30, 2006]

Nicole’s past history of a failed and ectopic pregnancy makes it more difficult for her to get pregnant, while the drug she’s on adds to the risk of another ectopic pregnancy.

The article notes that Nicole and Keith haven’t had a lot of time to conceive a child as their work schedules keep them apart.

With the latest news that Keith has checked into rehab to get treatment for his alcohol addiction, it might be a while before they’re able to start trying for a baby again.

National Enquirer story [via]

Here are pictures of Nicole Kidman in Kosovo as a goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM on 10/14. [via]

Lindsay Lohan was seen out and about this spring with 20 year-old British model and singer Jamie Burke, who also went out with Kate Moss briefly.

Lindsay had lunch with Burke, who looks like a 90s grunge verstion of Johnny Depp, at paparrazi hot spot The Ivy yesterday. She came in with a bunch of friends but then Jamie joined them, and Lindsay was all too willing to be photographed with him. It seems like The Ivy is Lindsay’s favorite way of announcing to the press that she’s banging an old boyfriend.

Burke was also recently photographed holding hands with 42 year-old Courteney Love! They went to another paparrazi-target restaurant, Mr. Chow, and it looked like they were out on a date:

Courtney and James had dinner on Oct. 22 at Beverly Hills eatery Mr. Chow and left hand-in-hand, kissing, an eyewitness tells LifeandStylemag.com.

Despite the couple’s 22-year age difference, they made sparks fly!

“They definitely looked like they were on a date, and they seemed really into each other,” the eyewitness says.

This guy must have an album coming out or something he wants to promote, because he got rid of Lohan back in the spring and he can’t be dumb enough to get back with her. And Courtney Love? That’s got publicity stunt written all over it.

Here’s Lohan at the Hollywood Awards on 10/23. [via

No, Demi Moore wasn’t kneeling in prayer while she had a little work done, she actually had her knees operated on for cosmetic purposes. I remember reading a while ago that she was interested in getting her knees done and I thought that was bullshit because who would be so obsessed with their looks that they have their knees restructured? Here’s your answer:

The Daily Mail shows before and after photographs of Demi’s knees, and said she had some skin taken in by the guy who did all her other work. It’s possible that her knees look better because she’s wearing tight pantyhose and that the Mail is fabricating this story based on the comparison pictures and that old rumor that she wanted her knees done:

Moore has supposedly had over $400,000 worth of work done, and this knee surgery is said to have added $9,000 to that.

I can see a faint scar over one of her knees in high resolution pictures taken on 9/14, so it’s possible that this is old news. Still, it seems excessive to get one’s knees done. I can see a facelift or some lipo, but knee plastic surgery?

Here are Ashton and Demi at the Hollywood Awards on 10/23. The first five pictures are higher res. [via]

This cold is kicking my butt and the blog was slow and frustratingly buggy today. I thought I fixed it, but it’s still screwy periodically. I’ll keep working on it. If the site doesn’t load for you at some point, hit reload and try again. I’m going to hold off from installing new features for a while because they keep breaking shit. Let me put a plug in for my web hosts, choopa, who treat me like gold even when I ask them 5 times a day to reboot the server.

Where is “marines all the way”? He has not commented in a while and that makes me worry about him. Hi to Viv, xiaoecho, Angelika, Agent Bedhead, Mr. T, AC and everyone who has been commenting lately.

- Kate Moss downs champagne. She can’t be pregnant, right? [Hollywood Rag]
- Vote for Mollygood’s Halloween costume [Mollygod]
- Vincent Gallo is dating a 16 year-old girl. [ICYDK]
- Ideas for sitcoms that are really clever puns [College Humor]
- Heather Mills to sue British tabloids [I'm Not Obsessed]
- What the hell is Penelope Cruz wearing? [Bastardly]
- Britney and K-Fed on the verge of splitting? [Hollyscoop]
- “The Prestige” is a fantastic film about struggling magicians at the turn of the century and stars Christian Bale, who really needs to star in more movies so I can stare at him for two hours. [Pajiba]
- What is worse: the old trying to look young or the young trying to look old? [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Lindsay Lohan says she likes to sit down and commune with nature [DListed]
- Don’t forget to vote on November 7th [CityRag]
- Ewan McGregor thinks playing James Bond would be career suicide [Agent Bedhead]
- A woman claims to have actually had sex with Michael Jackson [The Shallow End]
- Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of not taking his medicine so he would have worse tremors in his pro stem cell research PSA [Junkiness]
- NJ gives gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. They probably still can’t get married, though. [Metadish]
- Melissa Etheridge and her partner had boy and girl twins [Celebslam]
- No one wants to pay $7,5000 for a date with Dennis Rodman. How surprising [ecorazzi]
- Matthew Perry hates the paparrazi [Celebrity Puke]
- Diwali Mubarak (Shout out to My) Hos [Grumpy Old Indian Man]
- Madonna goes on Oprah to show her receipt for baby Davie. Maybe she forgot to remove the sensor and that’s the problem. [Socialite's Life]
- The Bahamian government is pissed at Anna Nicole Smith for lying on her resident application [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Tyra Banks freaking loves vaseline [Wampoon]
- You will soon be able to watch “The O.C.” on myspace [LA.com]
- Remember Christopher Reeve [Drunken Stepfather]
- Ivanka Trump shows off her new boobies [Notorious F.A.G.]
- Tyra Banks freaking loves vaseline [Wampoon]
- You will soon be able to watch “The O.C.” on myspace [LA.com]
- Remember Christopher Reeve [Drunken Stepfather]

You’ve undoubtedly heard already that Madonna went on Oprah yesterday to defend her controversial adoption. She never bothers to defend the other controversial things she does, but now that an infant is involved she must realize that her earning status is threatened by this PR fiasco.

I have not seen clips from the show yet, and am waiting until they hit YouTube, but she makes somewhat of a point by saying that the press is putting words in the half-orphan’s father’s mouth, and that he’s being manipulated into saying he didn’t understand the adoption. He did clarify that he doesn’t want Davie to come back, but that he didn’t really understand that adoption means legally signing his child away. That makes sense to me, and I think he’s just explaining that it was fast-tracked and that he wasn’t told the full truth.

In Madonna’s statements on Oprah yesterday, she said that David was suffering from pneumonia when she picked him up and that she whisked him off to a clinic to get him an antibiotic shot and treatment. She mentioned that she had David and several other orphans tested for HIV and other medical conditions. Does this mean that she only gave the go-ahead for the adoption after she learned his HIV status?

Why did she test all of the children unless she was going to select one based on their medical status? If she just wanted Davie and fell in love with him after seeing his picture as she claims, wouldn’t she have only had him tested? Did she give medical treatment to any of the other orphans based on the pediatrician’s findings, or does she think that a glass of Kabbalah water will cure them?

She also said that none of David’s extended family had visited him at the orphanage during his entire stay there. At first this sounds like it contradicts Yohane Banda’s statements that he regularly biked the 25 mile round trip to see his son and play with him. Notice she used the word “extended,” though, and that David’s father is immediate, not extended, family. She is trying to justify snatching David by saying that no one else visited him apart from his father.

Madonna is justifying her usual outlandish behavior, and said that there were no laws that she flouted by taking the child out of the country. There were definitely laws that she was required to stay in Malawi for 18 months in order to adopt a child, and at the very least she is bending the truth by claiming there weren’t.

She said she couldn’t understand why people are outraged at her adoption and that she didn’t want to discourage other people from trying to adopt. She also admitted that she doesn’t read newspapers or watch television. That’s ridiculous, and shows how proud she is of her haughty ignorance. She routinely bashes Bush and Christianity. I guess her opinions are based on how she feels about things, and not facts or current information. (I hate Bush too, and he also admits to never reading a newspaper, but Madonna is just as bad if she attempts to influence the public but can’t be bothered to try and keep up with current events.)

Madonna tried to do damage control on Oprah yesterday, and it was partially successful. Audience members note that she seemed upset and tried to maintain composure. Her statements seem snotty and defensive to me, though, and by admitting that she doesn’t understand the controversy and that there were no laws barring her behavior, she makes it clear how she could flout adoption regulations and snag an infant with a father without batting an eye.

Pictures from Oprah.com and Just Jared.

How did Naomi Campbell get so far in life when she’s so addicted to rageahol? Did she hide her evil temper up until now, when all that anger from years of subpar service just bubbled up to the surface, scalding all of those who are paid to meet her mercurial needs?

The latest victim of Naomi’s maid/chef/help venom is a 40-something drug counselor, who went to London police claiming that Naomi scratched her on the face. No phones or text messaging devices must have been handy at the time.

Maybe the drug counselor told Naomi that her real problem was anger management.

Keith Urban was partying up a storm in Nashville while Nicole was off filming in Europe. Friends told Nicole that Keith was drinking again and she told him to go to rehab or she was divorcing his ass:

And with his wife away working Keith, 39, started to hit Nashville’s bar scene again.

Kidman was tipped off by friends that Keith was out drinking, and called to confront him.

“Nicole called Keith and confronted him,” an insider told Life & Style magazine.

“He got defensive and accused her of spying on him.”

But Urban eventually admitted his drinking to Kidman, and she flew straight back to the US to be by his side.

“She gave him a choice. He could enter a program or she’d leave him,” a friend of Kidman’s said.

“He chose the former. Keith can’t stand the thought of life without Nicole.

“That’s his motivation to kick this thing for good.”

And the pal says that Keith’s problems have had a massive impact on their marriage.

“She’s an emotional wreck,” the friend said.

“She would never say it to Keith, but she’s telling her family and close friends that her marriage is hanging by the thread.

“She says she wants to help Keith conquer his demons so the two of them can move on with their lives.”

Nicole is said to have turned to her father, psychologist Dr. Anthony Kidman, for help and advice during this difficult time.

Lainey’s Gossip speculates in her offhand way that Nicole is deciding whether it would be better for her image to dump Keith or stay with him at this point. They have an unstable relationship that is unlikely to withstand this latest pressure.

Lainey also says that Nicole has not visited Keith in rehab and that she did not accompany him there. Nicole has also reportedly been interviewing nannies, which leads some to think that she may be preparing to jump on the celebrity adoption bandwagon.

She could be pregnant or be preparing to be - she has been seeking fertility treatment as we reported yesterday.

I am trying so hard to gossip today, but I am all stuffy, dizzy and out of it. If I had a real job I would have called in sick.

Nicole is seen above in a recent candid with her nephew. Picture found on Lainey’s Gossip.

Sorry for the low number of posts, I was wicked sick today. I did do a guest post over at celeb-diet.com though called “Kate Beckinsales Diet and Fitness Secret.”

Whenever I get a chance, I tout the little-known fitness and nutrition program Best Shape of your Life that helped me lose 20 pounds in two months. I finally got my pre-baby body back and am excited about it. I found the program on my own after hearing that the founder died in a car accident this summer. It’s easy to follow, requires only 2-3 exercise sessions a week of just 40 minutes each, and lets you eat carbs, protein and fat. (I am not paid or encouraged to endorse it.)

The highlights are over at celeb-diet, the new site with celebrity exercise and diet tips run by Vera of I’m Not Obsessed.

Here are today’s links:

- Lohan and K-Fed met! Mollygood has the best title: Playing with Fire(crotch) [Mollygood]
- Britney and K-Fed party apart, but everyone is kind of ignoring the fact that they have a newborn and one year-old at home. [Celebslam]
- K-Fed thinks he’s the most underrated rapper in the business [WWTDD]
- The Fraggle Rock movie is coming! [Pajiba]
- Bastardly Lesbian Sex Fantasy: Kim Kardashian does Paris Hilton again! [Bastardly]
- Drunk Paris Hilton lezzie action [Superficial Girls]
- Dress like a celebrity baby smuggler for Halloween [cityrag]
- Angelina Jolie’s new book: “Dropping the Baby” [Something Awful]
- David Beckham’s new book [Oh La La Paris]
- Katie Couric is jealous of Kelly Ripa, or maybe she just finds her really annoying. [Gabsmash]
- Cisco Adler gave Mischa Barton a diamond promise ring [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Mischa Barton in UK Vogue [Girls Talkin Smack]
- Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban on the new cover of People [popbytes]
- Avril Lavigne drunken upskirt [Metadish]
- The Hoff’s ex wife does blow [yeeeah]
- Borat press conference [Popoholic]
- Posh is helping plan Tom Kat’s wedding. [DListed]
- Why did Kate Hudson drop a bunch of money on baby items? [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Law & Order producers cinematically rape & murder Elisabeth Hasselbeck [Suicide Girls]
- Gwyneth Paltrow predicts an Oscar for Brad Pitt in Babel [Into Gossip]
- Jude Law takes his kids to school [ICYDK]
- Kate Winslet likes to be a normal-sized mom [Agent Bedhead]
- Lindsay Lohan’s future neighbors want her to move back to the hotel that kicked her out [IDLYITW]
- Trailer for Aishwarya Rai in Dhoom 2. Who cares what the plot is? [Chic Mommy]
- Sandra Bullock says that Preparation H does wonders for puffy eyes [Derek Hail]
- David Lynch tried to indoctrinate California school children into his cult [Cult News]
- Limbaugh thinks Michael J. Fox is fakin’ the shakin’ [Gossip Blog Wars]
- Moderately NSFW Norwegian(?) video that’s hilarious [Spank Cheeks]
- Gisele Bundchen is a sexy TGI Friday’s waitress [Celeb News Wire]
- Robbie Williams likes sex in public. He must be gay [Socialite's Life]