Josh Hartnett is being painted as a sad sack by London paper The Mirror, which has a video interview with him focusing on the cause of climate control. He is promoting the charity Global Cool in England, and will meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair at a dinner reception on behalf of the group. The video they have posted with him has an interviewer asking him about conservation and climate change. Josh talks about his interest in the cause and how he tries to offset his personal effect on the environment.

Somehow, though, the article focusses on Hartnett as this pitiful creature pining for his lost relationship with Scarlett Johansson. There are none of the quotes they mention in the text in the actual video interview, and indeed the topic of Scarlett is never even brought up.

The quotes they have from him in the text, which again are not in the video at all, are the kind of regular trite statements you’re supposed to give when you break up with someone. While I doubt he even said this stuff it’s not like the quotes show he’s all broken up over it.

In an exclusive interview, the chiselled star admitted that their break-up last year was “really painful”.

He told us: “It was difficult spending so much time apart with all our different commitments and both of us flying all over the world.”

The sexy actor dated Scarlett, 22, for a year after they met on the set of the movie Black Dahlia.

But they decided to call it quits last November as dates grew more and more infrequent. And Josh, 28, has remained tight-lipped about the one that got away. Until now.

He reveals: “At the end of the day, we’re just ordinary people and it didn’t work.”

Pining for his ex he might be but the stud is far from lacking female attention.

He has been spotted with both Brit babe Sienna Miller and Spider-Man star Kirsten Dunst.

Then then go on to quote an “insider,” which just means the person who wrote it, saying that “Josh was gutted when he and Scarlett split.”

They’re not going to get another interview with Hartnett after asking him about climate change and then making up shit he said about Scarlett and basically calling him a pussy for it.

If you want to see the video, just right click over Josh’s picture on the Mirror website and choose “save target as.” I tried to click directly on the link and it just came up with a bunch of code.

Header image is from last summer, and I just thought it was cute because Josh was covering his mouth.

In a humorous little interview on the possible side effects of last year’s floods of celebrity babies (and yes they are already playdating each other) kickin’ ska-band mommy Gwen Stefani opined:

that it would be cute for her son, Kingston, to end up with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter, Shiloh. The two were born within days of each other at the end of May last year and enjoyed a playdate over the summer. Gwen told Elle magazine recently: “Yeah! They were like two little blobs when they met. Maybe they’ll get married when they grow up? That’d be cute!”

[via Fametastic ]

Well Shiloh hasn’t quite signed up yet (poor thing is functionally illiterate) for the FBDA, although I’m sure even as pre-verbal celebrity she doesn’t appreciate her future Mother-in-Law callin’ her Blob shaped.

I mean poor Shiloh hasn’t even had time yet to let her infant under-twos pilates classes have their maximum de-blobbing effect. But you know, you just can’t please some boys’ mothers … already with all the judging …

Nonetheless - Shiloh and Kingston - the combo does have that Rivers Of Babylon feel to it … they could combine their maternal inheritances: Momma Jolie’s humanitarianism with the walking bassline, and scratchlike tempo of Momma Stefani’s ska. Hit the Studio and put out a Blob Baby Single which would raise mega-money for UNICEF and UNHCR.

Playdates … the new singles bars! Blogs … the new career counseling!

- Joe Francis admitted to Howard Stern that he had unprotected sex with Paris Hilton, Kimberly Stewart, and Lindsay Lohan. He said Paris gave the best blowjob, and that Tara Reid was the worst lay because she made him wear a condom [IDLYITW]
- And obviously Francis holds it against Tara, because while waiting outside of Hyde he said “don’t Tara Reid me” [CelebWarship]
- America Ferrera on Jay Leno [Just Jared]
- Stephen King’s 1408 movie trailer with John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson [Popoholic]
- Jennifer Hudson says she was abused and brainwashed on American Idol [ICYDK]
- There’s no bullshit feud on The View this week, so Joy Behar called fashion editors “war criminals.” At least she didn’t invoke Hitler [Socialite's Life]
- Thandie Newton sent out a bunch of letters asking her celebrity friends like Tom Cruise, Robin Williams and Madonna to give up their SUVs for the sake of the environment and no one got back to her [ecorazzi]
- More pictures of Diddy’s twins [Celebrity Baby Blog]
- Britney Spears hired a new producer to help her with her album [I'm Not Obsessed]
- No wonder Lindsay Lohan is so f’ed up. Here’s another letter from her father from jail. [PopSugar]
- Natalie Portman at the Prague premiere of Goya’s Ghost [Egotastic]
- Hot Heidi Klum photoshoot [The Grumpiest]
- There’s going to be a sequel to the Meet the Fockers movie called Meet the little Focker. OMG [Pajiba]
- Stripper poles for kids [White Trash Mom]
- Courteny Love was punked into thinking she was getting hired for American Idol [Mollygood]
- DJ AM and Mandy Moore kiss in public [DListed]
- Carmen Electra is going to play a porn star. She’s not going to be one, just play one [Hollywood Tuna]
- Ms. Usa Tara Conner is wringing her 15 minutes of fame [Bastardly]
- Beyonce is the most desirable woman according to AskMen Magazine [CityRag]
- Jennifer Garner and Violet play peek-a-boo [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Taco Bell name-drops K-Fed to get some free publicity [Evil Beet]
- Justin Timberlake is tapping Jessica Biel’s fine ass [Celebslam]
- Joann Krupa in a bikini [Derek Hail]
- Guys really do like chic flicks, they’re just acting annoyed but secretly want the couple to get together in the end [Gabsmash]
- Sexy Rebecca Romijn photoshoot [Popoholic]
- Fight Club with Brad Pitt as gay pr0n [Agent Bedhead]

Johnny Knoxville and his wife, Melanie, have separated after nearly 12 years of marriage. They have a daughter, Madison, 10. Johnny Knoxville was married? Am I the only one who thought this clown was single? Who would put up with that guy for so long?

Knoxville’s not going the regular separation route. This fall he moved with his girlfriend, a former waitress, two doors down from his wife and daughter. It looks like his estranged wife will put up with quite a lot:

Johnny, 35, and his new girlfriend, a former waitress at NYC’s Mercer Hotel, have moved just a couple of doors away from his estranged wife, Melanie Cates, and their 10-year-old daughter, Madison! “They’ve been living together since the fall and are staying near his wife’s home,” an insider reveals. “They’re really in love.”

In December, 2005, when the Dukes of Hazzard movie had been out to critical acclaim for several months and Knoxville’s affair with Jessica Simpson was old news, he told Parade Magazine “The secret of staying married 10 years to the same woman is Melanie. She’s just a good girl.”

When that interview was conducted, Knoxville lived in Hollywood. He’s probably still there and that’s where he lives a couple houses down from his ex. I was picturing them as a big happy faimily in a NY City apartment building, where they wouldn’t even have to go outside to visit one another and could just walk down the hall.

or What Katie Didnt Do …

Lovely Liz Smith at Page Six reports that Katie Holmes suddenly remembers she’s an actress. Maybe they had to take her off the Stepford sedatives while she was recovering from her brash new rhinoplasty … don’t want to mix medications after all. Not when she has some good Thetan breeding years left in her yet.

Agency CAA is developing a new career plan since Katie has not worked during the two years since she fell for Tom. … [Moviefone] describe her connection to Tom Cruise as “a tabloid free-for-all” that didn’t do her any good, creating negative publicity. They say her “likability” rating has dived. And she’s been off the screen too long.

Lovely Liz exhibits some of the problems of an overly kind granny reading of gossip (usually a welcome change from the venom for venom’s sake). In trying to prove that launching the Tom Cruise Missile into a girl’s career is a force for good not for evil - Liz undermines her own kindly case.

Of course, Tom Cruise could produce his own movie to star his beloved. If you think such loving nepotism doesn’t work, think back to Norma Shearer and hubby Irving Thalberg. Being associated with Mr. Box Office didn’t hurt Penelope Cruz, his short-term girlfriend. She’s up for a Best Actress Oscar. And since her divorce from Tom, Nicole Kidman has come into her own.

Okay she gets points for going all ol’ skool with the Shearer/Thalberg reference, but the rest of the argument falls to bits … only proving that getting free of the TC works wonders. Sort of like time served in purgatory that might eventually get you the Keys to the Kingdom. As for producing a film for Katie … does the idea of Battlefield Earth Returns frighten anyone else down to their cotton socks.

Penelope Cruz’s Volver nomination is generally considered a Hail Mary (or I guess Ave Maria) pass from a Hollywood career with not a single good role. She had to basically rewind back to her pre- Cruise Hollywood days to get back on track. I think working with Almodovar again is clearly the key, not her year of T.ender L.oving C.ruise.

Kidman’s divorce let her wear heels again and start winning Oscars worthy roles et al. Isn’t the real lesson that Katie Holmes is either up Dawson’s Creek without a paddle or married and in flats? Success will follow when she’s paroled or granted a pardon.

I wonder if CAA stands for Cruised Actresses Anonymous - in certain knowing circles?

Pictures added by Celebitchy: Here’s Katie Holmes outside of CAA on 1/26, which Just Jared says stands for Creative Audio Associates, which handles music and sound for TV and film. There’s also a Creative Artists Agency, which is what I figure it stands for. Pictures are from KatieHolmes.com

Now that I’ve done a little research, I’m convinced that Joe Francis is behind ParisExposed.com, which is currently out of commission. The domain was registered in 2003, and even if it was sold or whatever, who buys an existing domain when they can create a new one that’s just as catchy? Francis mentioned the site several times on Howard Stern, and the wording on Joe’s Girl’s Gone Wild website is suspiciously similar to mailings sent out to Paris Exposed Subscribers.

The captions to the photos on the Paris Exposed site were written by someone who does a pretty good job of identifying the people and circumstances in the photos. It’s easily obtained information, and the people are moderately famous, but it seems to me like they had at least some insider information.

Regardless I have some more of Paris’ journals and stuff that I may as well publish before it’s even older news than it is now. I’ve included some of the captions so you can see what I mean.

People are wondering where the outrage is over Paris’ racial slurs in both her sex video (which I’m like the only person who hasn’t seen) and the videos available on the Paris Exposed site. Despite the fact that Paris is sometimes naked and doing drugs, let me tell you that it’s really hard to sit through an entire Paris Hilton home video. They’re also poorly organized on the site, which is down now anyway. There are so many videos there that I was loathe to tackle them. I tried to make UrbanDK do it, but he had some clever excuse.

The racial slur video is up at CelebWarship.

Here are some other paris videos from the site.

There’s news that Nicole and Paris are no longer paparazzi targets. They’re so over-exposed that their stock has plummeted.

or perhaps … Stereopeein’ in public

Proving that even rock singers better watch it gettin’ lippy with the fuzz (well bobbies, or actually coppers) Kelly Jones from Stereophonics has been ticketed and warned for that ultimate weekend warrior sin: public urination

Kelly had been on a night out with friends in Camden on Tuesday when he felt nature call. A source told the Sun: “He was relieving himself in the middle of the street outside the Barfly venue when a couple of passing coppers spotted him.”
Kelly himself added: “I said to the copper, ‘You telling me you never had a piss in the street?’ He said that the people of Camden wouldn’t appreciate me urinating on their streets. I said, ‘I know that. That’s why I live in Fulham.’ He said, ‘I’m taking you in.’”

Sounds like they oughtta have taken him in for doing a bad Bugsy Malone imitation as well: ” You’ll never take me alive coppers … not you and your whole flatfoot crew … Now go jerk yourself a soda copper, I’m busy weeing in the road.”

It must be counted an additional benefit for the UK volunteer incontinence brigade that the ‘coppers’ in London don’t carry guns.

In New York your Stereophonic mouthing off gets you the standard issue Mean Streets beat down and you’ve no one to blame but yourself. In the (increasingly) damp streets of Camden town they just make fun of your hair-cut. Apparently the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy quintet are running the local police academy. I kid you not … the story continued thusly

Kelly claims the officers then started to make fun of his haircut. He explained: “I said to the copper he should have a day off. He said, ‘You just had a haircut? I can see the hair on your face.

Not exactly Carson Kressley quality bon mots … still it’s nice that the Talentless Five have found a new gig. How very Madonna of them to have set up house in England.

Home of the Blind Item that reads like Braille Holy Moly reports:

A mole’s gay friend has recently hooked up with a lovely new chap. The only cloud on their loved-up horizon comes in the form of the new chap’s ex, who took the break-up extremely badly and has resorted to various forms of emotional blackmail, late night phone whining and increasingly-stalky behaviour.

The harassment continues. It doesn’t help that the ex-boyfriend is an Oscar-winning actor who is much respected amongst London theatre circles.

Yes, it’s the usual suspect…

Ladies and germs it ain’t NASA, it ain’t the International Space Station, it’s America one and only undercover satellite Kevin Spacey … Building the world’s largest glass closet: one shiny brick at a time.

From his early days talking his Moms to the Oscars, holding disingenuous ‘I aint gay’ GQ interviews through his adventures with 3am “dog walking” in cruisey Hampstead Heath - nothing can stop our Artistic Ambassador to English Theatrical World as he waves gleefully to all and sundry (including some very sundry characters indeed) rom inside his transparent wardrobe. Get a Lion and A Witch in there and he’s all set to play with Mr.Tumnus.

Famous for handing out his phone number to every cute waiter in London (on 20 pound notes at the end of meals) Kevvo Spacey proves that Ian McClellan’s work has hardly begun. Still there’s nothing like a restraining order, ASBO, or full blown court case to turn Cheeky knowing silence into The Trials of Oscar Wilde, luckily Gay-Pax has chosen a way better century.

French hunk Olivier Martinez isn’t really delivering all that rich cheesy goodness that the 38 yo pop star needs. Kylie has famously just finished her Homecoming World Tour … where she both celebrated her successful battle with breast cancer and fought exhaustion that caused her to cancel a few shows towards the end. But the final Homecoming may not be as sweet as the finished tour. The News of the World reports:

details of secret trysts Olivier enjoyed at a Hollywood hotel this week while his pop princess was 5,000 miles away in Britain. … First he hooked up with stunning model Sarai Givati … [The next evening he] shared a cosy dinner there with 28-year-old Lost star Michelle Rodriguez—the girl he was spotted kissing in the street two years ago.

She stayed over and emerged at 9.40am yesterday wearing the same outfit and caught a taxi to her home just two miles away.

While the angle on the story here is Olivier’s cheating ways I can’t help but be impressed with glowy sourpuss Michelle Rodriguez who seems to be everywhere, all the time with a gorgeous international assortment of somebodies, with good bodies, boys and girls can both apply. All this extra-curricular action is scheduled in-between pugnacious bouts of refusing to do community service and tearing around Hawaii boozed up. Its one thing to be such a bad-ass (she did launch her career with Girl-fight) but the multi-tasking is what’s truly breathtaking.

I’m not entirely convinced by the same outfit as a sign of adulterous guilt … Michelle Rodriguez does tend to jeans and a blouse as a uniform (they look mighty good on her too) … and the overnight stay could have been a way to avoid more drunk driving charges. If her girlfriend Kristanna Loken has a hunky French looking baby soon — well there’s a third explanation.

But back to Kylie’s take on the Olly Martinez Program for Two timing to the second power.

Friends say Kylie, who this week completed her Homecoming world tour in Manchester after battling breast cancer, is frustrated by Olivier’s French arrogance and attitude.

As opposed to the famed smorgasbord of modesty and self-deprecation that one has generally associated with dating French model slash actors

“Olivier says he’s only worried about Kylie’s health and is gutted that she won’t listen to him.
“Kylie reckons she’s rested enough and says it’s time to live again.
“She was seriously considering finishing with him a month ago.”

Stay tuned to see whether Everybody’s Doing the Locomotion sometime soon. How ever will they find the time.

You probably already heard that Joe Francis was on Howard Stern yesterday and talked a lot of crap, at Howard’s expected urging, about the famous women he’d slept with. He said Paris gave the best BJ, and according to people who listened to the show he claimed that Tara Reid was the worst in bed because she made him wear a condom. The recap on the Howard Stern website is cleaned up a bit and just mentions that Joe said Paris was the best in bed.

What’s revealing about the Howard Stern recap is that a tired, probably high Joe references the Paris Exposed site several times and urges people to go there:

Joe claimed he wasn’t happy that the Paris tapes were released, but both Howard and Robin thought he was behind their release. However, Joe promised that wasn’t the case and was planning on suing the tapes’ distributors. Joe went on to say the man behind the tapes tried to extort him for $7 million, and, when he refused to pay that, he then released the videos. Joe also noted he owned the copyright to the tapes, so, even if they were released, he thought he should be getting money from them.

Joe then acknowledged he had sex with Paris, but denied he was ever with Lindsay Lohan. As Joe again began fading out, Howard informed him he was “a sh*tty interview” this morning, but he responded it was because of his phone connection, not that he didn’t want to talk…

Joe continued to claim he wasn’t looking to make any money off the Paris videos, but wanted to stop them from being sold instead.

When Howard asked Joe who “the best” sexual partner he’s ever had was, he named Paris. Joe proceeded to suggest people visit the Website to watch his video so they could see how “good” she was themselves. This led Howard to point out that Joe had referenced the site a number of times during the interview, which he thought was another sign that Joe was behind it. However, Joe again denied any ties to the site.

So, he name-drops the site repeatedly, which is suspicious, but that might just mean that he still wants to cash in on the free publicity and that all this went down like Paris and Joe claim. Or does it?

I did a whois on the Domain ParisExposed.com, and it was registered way back in November, 2003.

Registrar: KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH
Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net
Referral URL: http://www.key-systems.net
Name Server: NS1.LEASEWEB.NL
Name Server: NS5.LEASEWEB.NL
Name Server: NS4.LEASEWEB.NET
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Updated Date: 30-jan-2007
Creation Date: 07-nov-2003
Expiration Date: 07-nov-2008

Those registration names just seem to be general registration companies that cannot be traced to the real creators of the domain, and it looks like there’s a privacy block on the domain. I did whois searches on Joe’s professional sites, including his business Mantra Entertainment at Mantraent.com and Girls Gone Wild at girlsgonewild.com, and there’s no connection between the dates or companies used to register the site.

Now, who would register the domain way back in 2003 if it wasn’t Joe? Wasn’t that when he was dating Paris?

If these people acquired Paris’ stuff recently, wouldn’t they pick a domain name that they wouldn’t have to buy off someone else, like ParisHiltonsMemories.com or ParisPrivateStuff.com or something?

There is a real lawsuit available through the Smoking Gun website, in which Paris files suit against the supposed people who created this site, Bardia Persia, who is said to have paid about $2,700 for the contents of the storage locker, and Nabil and Nabila Haniss, who are said to have paid Persia a whopping $10 million for the stuff and to have created the Paris Exposed site.

If you do a Google search for Bardia Persia, Nabila Haniss, and Nabile Haniss, there are next to no results if Paris and ParisExposed.com are filtered out.

Google search for: +”Nabil Haniss” -”Parisexposed.com” -”paris” : No Results
Google search for: +”Nabila Haniss” -”Parisexposed.com” -”paris” : 3 Results about Paris
Google search for: +”Bardia Persia” -”Parisexposed.com” -”paris” : No Results

If these people were totally savvy enough to buy all of Paris’ stuff and sell it online, don’t you think they’d have some other online information about them? They created this whole slick website. If they really exist, there would be some kind of Internet history available. Also, how did Francis find out their names? There’s no name attached to the domain at all.

The main thing that blows this whole “Paris was violated” story out of the window is the fact that the domain was registered in November, 2003!

Joe Francis made his dubious fortune through the subscription Girls Gone Wild videos. Of course he would try to profit from Paris’ stuff using a similar subscription model, and she’s undoubtedly perhaps behind it too.

In case you’re still skeptical, check out the near-identical wording on the Girls Gone Wild website and a recent e-mail sent to Paris Exposed subscribers

From Joe Francis’ Girls Gone Wild Website:

Q: What do I see if I join?

A: You will have full access to hundreds of video clips, thousands of photo sets, and live video streaming. Plus, you can see exclusive web content that’s too hot for any of our regular video titles! Membership is a great deal. Click here to join now.

Looking for the Ultimate Rush? How about the hottest college coeds and the sexiest girl-on-girl action you’ll find anywhere?

From an e-mail sent to Paris Exposed subscribers:

Thank you for joining ParisExposed.com, home of the Most Exclusive Content on the HOTTEST Celebrity of our time.

The Paris Exposed Website and its alternate IP, which was mailed to subscribers on Monday, are currently down.

Update: Thanks to commentor no-one for pointing out that people on the gofuckyourself.com (NSFW ads) adult webmaster forums were talking about this. The domain was legitimately sold to someone back in November of last year, and a commentor who seems like a well-known adult webmaster on that board mentions that he’s been getting flack for selling the ParisExposed domain that he originally owned.

As for who is behind it, I haven’t yet found the thread speculating on that. There are several threads about potential affiliate programs that the commentors say seem too good to be true.

It’s also possible that the wording that is so similar on the girlsgonewild and Paris Exposed material is just common terminology that is used in the adult web business.

I’m still not convinced, and I’ll keep looking to see if I can find more information on it.

Of course the site has been shut down now by judicial order, but it’s still possible that Joe Francis is silent business partners with these guys. Let me know if you have any more details.