There’s this doubtful story that Elle Macpherson was almost mugged across the street from an event. She was said to have felled the mugger with her skill in, uh, Tai Chi. I took Tai Chi for a while and found it kind of mentally taxing but boring overall. It’s a meditative martial art and goes really slow. How anyone could use Tai Chi to kick someone’s ass is beyond me. It seems more likely that Macpherson distracted the guy with her great boobs, which were on full display that night.

Our suitably impressed source said: “Elle’s car stopped across the road from the party as there was a snarl-up outside Koko, so she jogged across to get into it.

“Everyone was watching her – well it’s hard not to – and we all just looked on in horror as we saw a figure in a hoody come out of the shadows.

“It looked like a man, about 6ft 2in and stocky. We were all panicked but the traffic was in full flow so everyone just ended up gawping in horror.

“It turned out that he didn’t stand a chance, though. As soon as he grabbed for Elle’s bag she swung around quite calmly, just went for his arm and got her bag… it looked so simple.

“The mugger reacted like he’d been floored and staggered back, then ran for it. The lights changed and we tried to follow but he managed to get away.”

And according to friends of the super supermodel, her swift reaction to the nasty ne’er-do-well is all down to the hours of body work she puts in.

A mole told us: “Elle practises T’ai Chi which is one of the softer martial arts but a martial art nevertheless. It’s primarily used for meditation and for toning the body.

“But it does, after a certain level, ensure that the pupil is proficient in self-defence. It’s also brilliant at developing core strength.

If that’s true then Elle deserves a lot of credit for fending off a mugger with her bare hands. It sounds like something out of a movie - a half-dressed former supermodel uses slow-mo martial arts on a street thug.

Brad Pitt was spotted at an Indian market buying a mixture of herbs known for their aphrodisiac qualities. It looks like even the hottest piece of ass has trouble satisfying the insatiable Angelina Jolie:

Speaking of magic, what was BRAD PITT thinking of conjuring up when he bought sex-enhancement powder at an open-air marketplace in Jaipur, India? Hunka-Hunka and his Hubba- Hubba, ANGELINA JOLIE, were in town working on their flick “A Mighty Heart” – but “wifey” was nowhere in sight, says My Spywitness, when Brad made his buy of “an herbal mix of Ashwagandha, Atmagupta and Gokshura, which, when combined, are supposed to be a ‘natural Viagra’…a love potion!” (Kama Sutra says: Try with curry for extra hurry!)

That might not be true, I just pick out the most sensational shit and reprint it usually.

Case in point: a couple of stories we covered about the Jolie-Pitts have been since refuted. They’re not being pursued by Al Qaeda, and Brad was praised by Jimmy Carter for working a day and a half with Habitat for Humanity, not the fifteen minutes that an Indian paper claimed.

Here is Brad at that premiere of Babel on 11/5. Thanks to SimplyBrad.com for these pictures.

Courtney Love is reportedly going to pose topless in little panties in a European magazine (link has automatic video) that will be published at the end of this month. They must have talented Photoshop artists there since she’s not looking that hot lately:

No stranger to controversy, rocker Courtney Love is set to get headlines flying again — she has posed nude for an upcoming issue of British fashion magazine, Pop, Access Hollywood has learned exclusively.

The widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain appears naked in several pictures of the trendy, two issue a year magazine, expected to hit newsstands later this month. Prior to beginning promotion for her new book ‘Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love,’ a scrapbook version of her journals, Love traveled to Ibiza, Spain for the shoot and cover story.

Images in the piece seen by Access Hollywood show the former Hole frontwoman standing strongly, legs apart and her breasts fully exposed, while strappy, designer panties cover her bottom half. Others show the blonde fully naked with her knees curled up.

According to sources close to the singer, Love was not planning to disrobe for the shoot, but chose to after becoming “comfortable” with the photographer.

Courtney Love’s new autobiography “Dirty Blonde” is said to be a scrapbook mess of a book in which the rock star lays bare her nasty life. Now we get to see her goodies again too.

Church and local officials are saying they won’t put their stamp of approval on Tom and Katie’s wedding, which is said to be taking place in the Italian town of Bracciano in just over a week. Tom and Katie haven’t filed the paperwork to make a civil marriage legal in Italy, and it sounds like they don’t have enough time left to do so:

The priest with jurisdiction over the dreamy lakeside castle tipped as the chosen location for the wedding says his parish won’t marry Cruise, and the mayor says she can’t because the couple haven’t done the official paperwork.

The small Italian town of Bracciano has been swimming with picture-snapping paparazzi since Il Messaggero newspaper reported that Castello Odescalchi in the town was chosen by the couple for their wedding later this month.

But rules of the local bureaucracy and the Roman Catholic Church appear to be a lot tougher than any of the macho super-secret spies Cruise’s character regularly defeats in the “Mission: Impossible” movies.

Mayor Patrizia Riccioni told Reuters she would like the wedding to take place, but that it was unlikely any celebration would be blessed with state recognition given that the couple have not provided the needed documents.

“I don’t think it will be legal,” she said. “On an Italian level, there are papers and documents that we certainly don’t have (for a wedding).”

But Cruise and Holmes’ Los Angeles-based publicist dismissed the notion that the American couple’s nuptials depended on official sanctioning by Italian authorities.

“They are making all the proper and necessary arrangements for their marriage to be legal,” said publicist Arnold Robinson.

Cruise and Holmes announced in October that they would marry on Nov. 18 in Italy, with Giorgio Armani designing Holmes’ gown.

Oops, it looks like Italy might not have been the best location for a wedding after all, if TomKat can’t get their act together enough to take care of all the red tape ahead of time.

Mike Walker of The National Enquirer offers a little more insight as to why the TomKat wedding might not be legal. A Roman Catholic official has to preside over a church wedding according to Italian law, but Tom wants to bend the rules of course and still have a Scientology-style church wedding instead of a civil one. He may have to get married to Katie in the states first to make it legal. Katie’s parents are not happy with that fucked-up Scientology-style mysoginistic wedding, and want a Catholic ceremony:

Despite reports that plans for how the ceremony will be conducted are set in stone, sources say Tom’s still pushing his people to cajole Italian authorities into bending the custom that a Catholic priest must “officiate,” or a big church wedding isn’t automatically legal! And it’s highly unlikely that a Catholic church would allow a Scientology minister to officiate. An Italian civil ceremony would legitimize the union, of course, but insiders say Tom’s okay with making it legal before a church wedding by having a prior U.S. civil ceremony. But Katie’s parents are NOT happy that he’s dead-set on a Scientology - officiated wedding, with a Catholic priest present only to “bless” the union. Mom and Dad keep repeating their heartfelt request: Let our daughter be married by a priest! Last-minute pleas are being beamed to CruiseControl… but so far, My Favorite Alien’s unbending.

Maybe Tom thinks that everyone will bend over backwards for him just like Madonna.

Here are Tom and Katie at the Black Ball in NYC yesterday. Iman and Alicia Keys hosted the event, and David Bowie performed. Anne Hathaway is also pictured. Proceeds went to the “Keep a Child Alive” foundation, which benefits AIDS victims.

Hopefully Tom will get his hair cut before the wedding. And is it just me, or does Katie look really annoyed like she’d rather be shopping? Pictures from KatieHolmes.com

Ed Bradley, the 60 Minutes news anchor with the earring and the cool demeanor, has died of leukemia at the age of 65:

The celebrated “60 Minutes” newsman, who died yesterday of leukemia at 65, was certainly learned, absolutely a globe-trotter, and highly honored. But it was his cool that drew bearhugs from men and cheek-to-cheek kisses from women all over the world…

He often turned his interviews into gabfests, into something akin to a kitchen chat at Thanksgiving. (They took on far more intensity when he was interviewing murderers or bombers.) And there were those across black America who wondered if as many black legends — Lena Horne, Muhammad Ali — would have been profiled were it not for his presence.

“Ed was as comfortable talking to Lena Horne as standing out on the White House lawn,” says Thornton. “What he brought to ‘60 Minutes’ was not only the diversity of his person — his hipness, his music — but he extended that to the stories he covered. Thereby introducing America to those things.”

RIP Ed Bradley, America loved you and you will be sorely missed.

I don’t know if this ruins the movie for me or not, but I was really looking forward to catching even a silght glimpse of Daniel Craig’s goods. Judi Dench says he has a monster c0ck, and that’s a good enough recommendation for the film for me.

Now the news is that Craig’s big member won’t be making an appearance in the film at all, and that he used a pen1s double. What a shame.

JAMES Bond star Daniel Craig was so nervous over his sexy bedroom scenes in new movie Casino Royale that he used STAND-INS.

Daniel, 38, admitted: “I had stunt men all the way.

“Stunt p***s? I’ve got four or five.”

But the blond 007 was determined to do his own stunts outside the bedroom.

He revealed: “I got hurt every day.

“All the stunt guys are as hard as teak — I can’t show any pain in front of them.” The movie premieres next week in London.

Craig suffered several mishaps on set: a prickly heat rash, knocked out teeth, and most recently damage to his nether regions. It’s so big that Craig couldn’t get out of the way in time durnig a whipping scene and took one right to the ‘nads:

In the scene, Bond is stripped and tied to chair before being whipped by baddie Le Chiffre, played by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen.

However a blunder in the measurements of the whip and chair that Craig sat on, meant the end of the whip made contact with his privates when it should have only hit the chair.

He said: “I just jumped like eight feet in the air shouting ‘Stop!’ and left the room rather hastily.”

However, Craig knew that playing Bond would be no picnic physically so after a dose of painkillers he carried on filming.

He joked: “If you don’t get bruised playing Bond you’re not doing it properly.”

Casino Royale opens in the states on November 17th.

“If I ever see a woman with chipped nail polish on her nails, I’ll walk right over and smack her over the head with my grocery bag. Unkempt is not fashionable, there is simply no excuse for it.” Steven Cojocaru, as quoted on the Rachel Ray show.

Oh snap, Cojo! Point taken, but sometimes you’ve gotta cut a mom a break on this one. Doing things like dishes and diapers is not exactly manicure-friendly work. Besides, isn’t it a bigger fashion crime for a grown man to to think it’s “fashionable” to dress up like Chastity Bono? I’m just sayin’.

Do you think Kim Cattrall knew what she was doing when she crossed and uncrossed her legs at her book signing? Look at her haughty expression - of course she did.

- Kim Cattrall pulls a Basic Insinct [yeeeah]
- Ashlee Simpson gets Olsen mouth, hangs out with Blohan [Gabsmash]
- “A Good Year” with Russell Crowe is hackneyed and predictable, but not as bad as you might think [Pajiba]
- Video of Lindsay Lohan calling Paris Hiton a cunt [Celeb News Wire]
- Spiderman 3 trailer [Mollygood]
- Naomi Watts on the set in NY [Smart]
- Britney Spears is going to Miami to work on her album and tan [I'm not Obsessed]
- Britney arrives at Sony stuidios in NY [ICYDK]
- Jack Palance and R&B singer Gerald Levert died this week [Socialite's Life]
- Beyonce and Eva Longoria might play lesbian lovers on screen [Rhymes with Snitch]
- Britney’s Malibu home is for sale [Into Gossip]
- Great fall style picks [Lady Licorice]
- Freudian slippers would make a funny Christmas gift [Shallow and Tacky]
- Scarlet Johansson did not enjoy wearing a corset for 12 hours a day [Suicide Girls]
- Winter exercise tips [Celeb-Diet]
- Leann Rimes says Carrie Underwood hasn’t paid her dues [Glitterati]
- David Gest is so hot. (warning) [Faded Youth]
- Posh wears an extension cord and a garbage bag [Haute Gossip]
- Julia Roberts is subjected to the dreaded yellow arrow of the gossip rags [Gallery of the Absurd]
- Salma Hayek has a great rack [cityrag]
- Why does Jenny McCarthy need an MRI? [ICYDK]
- Mel Gibson is a dork [Celeb Slam]
- Taryn Manning is double butta [Bastardly]
- Kate Beckinsale and her daughter, Lilly [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Kate Moss’ second Agent Provacateur film [Agent Bedhead]
- Nick Lachey is finger licking good [Oh La La Paris]
- Wedding bells for Nick and Vanessa? [The Bosh]
- Donald Rumsfeld to be brought up on criminal charges in Germany [Junkiness]

Everyone is talking about Britney this week, due to her impending D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

As an expert in “WT”, I have been keeping up on all things Britney. Everyone EXCEPT for K-Fed is pretty happy for Brit and the “little taters”, now that she’s FREE AT LAST!

D-I-V-O-R-C-E is tough. Even if you are a pop star millionaire single mom. I want to encourgage Brit to keep her spirits up, because as my dad always said, “THE THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM”!

Third time’s for love. Second time’s for money (you blew that one Brit). First one is for practice. I’m sure if she remembers this WT Golden Rule, it will make her feel much better.

What happened to Tom Cruise? Did he gain those sympathy pounds when soon to be wife Katie Holmes was pregnant? It seems like he has really let himself go. He has a woman he clearly adores (who lost her baby weight) and a beautiful child, does that give him the right to get fat? TMZ reports that TomFat and Katie love to eat at steakhouses such as Mastro’s and Wolfgang Puck’s CUT. Is that the culprit? Who knows, what I do know is that Tom is fat and happy!

Source