Despite a near complete lack of photographic evidence, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are said to be a real couple, with Jake wanting to take more of a role as a father figure to Reese’s two children with estranged husband, Ryan Phillippe. Reese is said to be wary of their new relationship, though, and to want to take things slow.

Reese, 31, who got to know Jake on the set of their upcoming thriller, Rendition, is one of the main reasons the actor, 26, is ready to settle down. Jake confessed to Reese, “I really want to be a part of your family,” her pal reveals. (On April 6, Jake even surprised Ava and Deacon in L.A. with Easter baskets.)

With a shared passion for running, romantic dinners and - above all - family, Jake and Reese “are very well matched,” says the pal. Reese’s mommy skills rate especially high with Jake. “He’s told his friends how much he admires the good manners she’s instilled in her kids,” says a Gyllenhaal family friend.

[From Life & Style print edition, March 30, 2007 via Sammie’s Effluvia]

All the news about the budding romance between these two has focused on eyewitness reports, and TMZ says that they’re still together and that someone spotted them driving on the freeway talking and laughing while Reese ate a yogurt.

OK! had them broken up in another issue due to the fact that they spent Easter with their families. They claimed that Reese wanted to make sure her children weren’t affected by her new relationship so soon after her split with Ryan.

They could be friends or more, who knows. I’m not really convinced about it, so we’ll have to just wait and see.

Here’s Reese with her son, Deacon, three and a half, on Easter. Pictures from Photorazzi and Splash News.

A new book is coming out that details a Globe journalist’s unscrupulous attempt to get Tobey Maguire’s mom to out him while commenting on his close relationship with fellow star Leonardo DiCaprio. Page Six notes that Tobey’s mom said they were close friends who shared a bed, hung out with gay guys and sometimes wore ribbons in their hair, but that it didn’t mean anything:

In “Tabloid Prodigy,” out this month from Running Press, Kast writes how she tracked down Maguire’s mother, Wendy, a secretary, and “told her that I was working on an article for a gay pride magazine about sexual expression among Hollywood stars. I asked her if she’d be willing to share any thoughts about her son’s close bond with Leonardo.”

Wendy Maguire responded to Kast, “I figured this subject would come up sooner or later . . . Those two are just free-spirited guys. Most of the friends they hang around with are gay. They’re comfortable with that. But I think Leo and Tobey are the crossover between men and women. They have feminine traits they are willing to accept. They aren’t ashamed to have any sort of title, even if that means someone calling them gay.”

Kast continues, “Wendy continued to recount her liberal views, divulging details of how the two friends ’shared a bed and wore ribbons in their hair.’ ” While Kast wasn’t about to claim the stars were gay, “Wendy had provided exactly what the editors wanted - insinuations.”

Tobey’s rep said the story was ridiculous while Leo’s rep said it was “made up” and “untrue.” When I heard this story I was reminded of an old picture of a naked Tobey hanging out with David Blaine and Leonardo DiCaprio in what looks like some kind of tea house or asian-themed spa. It could be Photoshopped, but if it’s not Tobey is well endowed. I doubt these guys were anything more than friends though. They are both in serious relationships now, with Tobey having a new baby at home and Leo rumored to soon be marrying his model girlfriend.

Tobey and Leo are still close friends. They were out to dinner last night along with Lucas Haas, but they left separately and refused to be photographed together.

Tobey Maguire was videotaped smacking a camera out of a fan’s hand recently. Commentors noted that it looked like the guy touched him and he was responding to that. Tobey later posed happily for a picture with that same fan to let him know there were no hard feelings.

Tobey has spoken about how he tries to save money, saying he uses his frequent flier miles to fly first class instead of buying a ticket outright. He is also said to enjoy shopping at Payless for shoes. He’s not doing it just to be frugal, though, he is a devout vegetarian and has given up all clothing that contains leather and animal products. Payless has the all-synthetic shoes to go along with his lifestyle. [From Globe print edition, April 30, 2007 via Sammie’s Effluvia]

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Header image is of Bloom showing his butt crack and is from last March. We know you’ve already seen it and are not referring to this image in the story

Orlando Bloom isn’t a fan of belts. Last year the Pirates of The Caribbean star was photographed showing signigificant ass cleavage while bending down to chat with friends at a sidewalk cafe. A recent incident has the heart throb nearly showing his goods in the restuarant at celeb favorite Chateau Marmont. Orlando was dining alone when he stood up to stretch and pants fell down around his ankles to reveal crimson red boxer shorts:

Diners at Chateau Marmont hotel on Sunset were stunned when the star, lunching solo and studying a script, stood to stretch, extended his arms skywarn - and accidentally dropped trou! Mortified, Bloom hastily yanked up his pants, which had dropped to his knees - but not before flashing stylish, dark red BOXERS! He stammered to gawkers that he’d forgotten to wear his belt.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker’s column, May 7, 2007]

If only someone had pictures of Bloom in his boxers, not that we haven’t seen shirtless pics of him before. There’s just something about a guy in boxers.

Bloom recently revealed how he feels bad for his rabid fans. He said he ended up giving a fan a hug when she confronted him and asked why he never acknowledges her.

When questioned about his relationship with Penelope Cruz, he paused before saying “she’s a friend.” I wonder if she prefers boxers or briefs?

Thanks to Splash News for the pictures.

Lindsay Lohan thinks she has what it takes to win an Oscar.

(*Fall over laughing* *Bump my head on coffee table*)

What? Oh wait, she’s not kidding?

Lohan thinks that the reason she hasn’t received a golden statuette is because the media won’t leave her alone long enough to do whatever she has to do to be the next Meryl Streep.

Here’s what she says to Nylon magazine, which MSNBC has picked up:

“The thing about the press and why they need to leave me the [bleep] alone for a little bit is because I don’t want that distraction from my work. I want to get a nomination. I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being ‘the party girl.’ I hate that. I bust my [bleep] when I’m filming, and when I gave time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.”

Is it just me or does Lindsay sound completely schizophrenic? She loves the attention because she’s lonely and wants people to like her, but she wants the media to buzz off so she can concentrate on work. She wants to be clean and keep her friends safe, but yet she’s pictured at Coachella at a party where drugs were found, dancing like a drugged out Pussycat Doll reject.

You want to know why no one is takes Lindsay seriously? She’s overexposed and burnt out worst than Britney’s nasty cowboy boots. That, and she’s a lazy ass actress. Jane Fonda had more work ethic and talent in her left pinky toe than Lindsay has in her entire body.

I accept I am enabling her behavior by covering her yet again, but I can’t help but look away at the wreckage. What choice do I have — it’s girls like her, walking around like life-sized Bratz dolls, that are running things in Hollywood, aren’t they?

Thanks to Photorazzi for these pics of Lohan at Coachella.

Christina Applegate, Alyson Hannigan and Kate Bosworth all invited multiple paparazzi agencies to photograph their respective beach bodies in Hawaii this week. It seems when a starlet is in shape and ready to get back to work she figures that some bikini candids will help move her career along.

Enough was enough for svelte Christina Applegate, though. She was seen arguing and trying to reason with a paparazzo. Splash captioned these as:

Christina Applegate fed up with a harassing paparazzo, flips out at him and begs him to not take any more pictures. Then she gives it up for the camera for just a few seconds.

Applegate has one project in the works, according to IMDB, a TV series with an unknown release date called “Sam I Am.” Last year all she did was lend her voice to a penguin in the much-derided straight-to-DVD release Farce of the Penguins.

Thanks to Splash News for these pictures.

Gisele Bundchen is no longer a Victoria Secret model after the company allegedly refused to give her a pay rise.

Gisele is the world’s richest supermodel according to the Guinness Book of World Records, having earned about $150 million throughout her career. Not bad for walking around in your skivvies all the time and ocassionally smiling at the camera. Give Lindsay Lohan a bottle of “water” and she’ll do the same for free, I’m sure.

From E! Online:

Though the company did not elaborate on the reasons for the split, published reports suggested that Bündchen might have gotten her panties in a bunch while trying to renegotiate her contract.

The situation reportedly came to a head when Victoria’s Secret refused to increase Bündchen’s $5 million annual salary, leading to the Brazilian model’s decision to turn in her Angel’s wings and step down from the catwalk.

Bündchen’s twin sister, Patricia confirmed to Brazilian Website glamurama.com that her shapely sibling broke off contract talks after the two parties were unable to come to an agreement. Meanwhile, the New York Post quoted a source who opined that the model may have gotten too greedy for her own good.

“Her demands were outrageous. She got a new lawyer who was unrealistic,” the source said. “Victoria’s Secret doesn’t care. They have five new hotter, younger girls debuting next year. And they won’t have to deal with any craziness.”

I love that Victoria’s Secret have to make a point about having hotter and younger models waiting in the wings (no pun intended). Gisele is only 26 years old! She’s not exactly a dinosaur, is she?

I’m getting bored of walking into Victoria’s Secret, with its pink and black decor like a Barbie Bordello gone wrong. At least now I won’t have Gisele and her perfect twosome staring out on me on billboards anymore, like I don’t belong in the store. That perks me up a bit (again, no pun intended).

- Britney Spears topless holding flowers over her boobs [Egotastic]
- Britney Spears’ Big Comeback - pictures from inside her set [Hollywood Tuna]
- More pictures from Britney’s short show [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Inside scoop from The Britney Spears Semi-comeback show [I’m Not Obsessed]
- What’s wrong with Britney’s baby? [popbytes]
- Britney’s Carrie Underwood, Desperate Housewives and Pirates of the Caribbean look [Mollygood]
- Brad and Angelina are in Prague [ICYDK]
- New stills from Angelina Jolie’s new movie, A Mighty Heart, make her look waxen [DListed]
- Natalie Portman and Maggie Gyllenhaal at the premiere of their new movie [PopSugar]
- Petra Nemcova at the Spiderman 3 premiere [Bastardly]
- Kylie Minogue is not going to be in the Dr. Who series after all [The Shallow End]
- Mel B has to take Eddie Murphy to court because he won’t submit to a paternity test [Socialite’s Life]
- A fan tried to take a picture Daniel Craig’s ass and got sworn at [Agent Bedhead]
- Mariska Hargitay’s new hair [Gabsmash]
- Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace Bikini Pics [Drunken Stepfather]
- Vida Guerra in Playboy (NSFW) [Celebworm]
- A scene in “Babel” is making Japanese people sick like in that Simpson’s episode [The Blemish]
- What Happened To Kirsten Dunst’s Feet? [Best Week Ever]
- Lohan is schizo even when talking about her birthday plans [Celebwarship]
- Lohan’s new gay boyfriend dresses like her [The Evil Beet]
- Paris Hilton is still in love with herself [Celebslam]
- Cool sea organ [The Grumpiest]

Uh-oh, sounds like Brad needs to get his woman in check.

Angelina made her directorial debut at the Tribeca Film Festival with her documentary A Place in Time. She ran into ex Olivier Martinez, and gave him a lap dance for old time’s sake. As you do.

US Weekly reports:

Encouraged by a group of drummers, the actress eventually began waving her arms around. But it wasn’t until Jolie started dancing for Martinez that things got really wild.

“She turned to him on the banquette and was shaking it in front of him. She was giving him a lap dance, ” another reveler tells Us. “She was looking over her shoulder, tossing a glance his way.”

As another partygoer describes it, “It was very, very flirty.”

“When she is with someone she knows, she might appear to be flirtatious, but it’s just affection.”

Come on! There’s affection, and then there’s flirting outrageously for no reason. Showing affection to an ex invloves a hug or kiss on the cheek — it does not involve shaking your moneymaker for him while your man is at home playing manny to the kids. Brad should have been there to pull Angelina by her weave and stop her from making herself look cheap.

I’m not sure whether this story is true as the tabs have been trying to knock Angelina out of ivory tower for about a month now, but I wouldn’t put it past her based on previous history. All I know is that Brad better grow a backbone and take some authority in his relationship to stop Angelina mistaking him for a babysitting service.

Pics are from US Weekly.

Here’s a still from 2004’s Taking Lives.

Barbra Streisand has seriously lost her mind. She thinks her new show is the second coming that everyone will sell their first born child to attend. How else can she explain charging a fortune just to watch her go on for two hours?

From The Daily Mail :

Fans wanting to see Barbra Streisand perform in the UK for the first time in 13 years will have to pay as much as £500 for the privilege, making the concert one of the most expensive ever.

The cheapest seats for the diva’s show at London’s O2 Arena - the former Millennium Dome - will cost £100, with top ticket prices more than three times what it would cost for the best seats at a Rolling Stones or Madonna concert.

Critics claimed Miss Streisand, 65, was exploiting her fans’ goodwill.

But her camp defended the sky-high prices by calling a live performance by the singer a “momentous occasion” comparable to seeing Elvis or Sinatra.

A “momentous occasion” close to seeing Elvis or Sinatra? I saw Elvis sing live with Celine Dion last week for free on my local pub’s plasma! American Idol brought him back from the dead, people! You can’t get any more momentous than that!

Barbra Streisand must be crazy if she thinks that her old fans are going to sell their walkers and cash in on their pensions just so they can get £500 ($1000) to see her sing. It’s not like she’s going to do saucy choreography (eww… shudder at the thought) or sing any new material — just go to Blockbuster, rent Funny Face for a fiver and sing along in the comfort of your own home and still be entertained.

Keith Urban is back on tour after completing rehab, and his new wife Nicole Kidman isn’t taking any chances with his sobriety. Word is that she’s installed an ankle bracelet on the country star that will let her know if his skin gives off any alcohol-containing sweat:

When good ‘ol boy Keith Urban hits the blacktop for his concert tour this summer, wife Nicole Kidman, worried her country boy might backslide back into the booze, will lock a remote-controlled alcohol monitor around his ankle - and that’s just fine with Keith! He’s determined to stay clean after his successful rehab and is willing to wear the device, knowing any trace of alcohol in his perspiration will be detected by Nicole.

[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker’s column, May 7, 2007]

I’ve never heard of an ankle bracelet that can detect if a person is drinking booze, but news outlets say there is something called a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor, or SCRAM, that detects alcohol vapors released by the skin, and can be set to test the wearer at specific intervals. Tracey Morgan is wearing one under court order after his second DUI.

If Urban is ok with that and it helps him stay sober, then good for him.

Urban had to cancel a show in Manchester, England last Saturday night, April 28th, because he had a throat infection. He will tour Australia starting May 11th.

Here are pictures of Urban in concert in London on 4/24. Thanks to Photorazzi for these pictures.