- Rush Limbaugh says women love Hillary because they’ve “Had Two Or Three Abortions” [Jezebel]
- Mariah Carey scored her 18th number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with “Touch My Body” - surpassing Elvis Presley. All that’s left is The Beatles who have 20 number 1’s. It’s a scary world we live in, when Mariah Carey could beat the Beatles. [Dlisted]
- Diddy a Commitment Phobe? What?? He admitted, “I don’t know how marriage works.” [Bossip]
- Pajiba asks, “What would be your personal nightmare film project?” [Pajiba]
- Two men were seen stealing trash bags from the front of Amy Winehouse’s London home last night [Celebslam]
- Heidi Montag lets us know that she’s voting for McCain because “I’m a Republican and McCain has a lot of experience.” Normally I’d criticize, but I’m just proud she knows who McCain is [Derek Hail]
- Apparently being a Gisele Bundchen ass rubber is an actual job. It doesn’t come with health care or a 401(k) but the beneifits are still pretty obvious [The Bastardly]
- Robin Williams has found himself a new woman. And she’s literally new, as she’s 27 and he’s 56 [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Avril Lavigne is so unimpressed with the current crop of celebrity magazines, she wants to create her own [In Case You Didn't Know]
Mary Carey’s boobs have a higher IQ than her head (Site NSFW) [Drunken Stepfather]
- Victoria’s Secret cover model Marisa Miller unveils Victoria’s Secret swim 2008 collection in New York City [Hollywood Rag]
- “Lindsay Lohan took a nose-picking constitutional around Beverly Hills with DJ Samantha Ronson yesterday.” Definitely my favorite sentence of the day. [Yeeeah!]
- Knicks Broadcast Turns Briefly Watchable When Announcer Sings “Dancing Queen” On Air [Best Week Ever]
- Sales of Botox raked in $1.21 billion last year. And Nicole Kidman’s forehead was only responsible for 1/2 a billion of that, at most [Agent Bedhead]
- Christina Ricci wants Jessica Biel’s ass [The Blemish]
- Unfortunately for George Clooney, New Yorker’s have long memories and like to use movie posters to speak their minds. Which is true, because there’s a 100% chance that a ripped Leatherheads poster was borrowed from a subway station and now resides on the wall in my living room. Because we are classy like that at che JayBird [CityRag]
- Robin Williams has found himself a new woman. And she’s literally new, as she’s 27 and he’s 56 [Crazy Days and Nights]
- Is Sex and the City Really a Bad Influence? Some of the old fans have turned against the ideals of SATC [Popsugar]
- The Spice Girls are just like us: Emma Bunton Shops At Target [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Roger Ebert announced on his blog that he is back to review movies for the Chicago Sun Times. He’s cancer free, but unfortunately has completely lost the ability to speak [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Eva Longoria feeds the paparazzi. You know what they say: if you feed a pest, they’ll never leave [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Madonna has already made millions off her upcoming album “Hard Candy” by selling tracks for commercials and advertising [WWTDD]
- Definitely the most unflattering photo I’ve seen of Rose McGowan - or any celebrity really - looking like she’s teaching her dog how to pee [Websters is my Bitch]
- Photos of Matt Damon shooting Green Zone in London [Lainey Gossip]
- Renee Zellweger at a recent premiere, showing off her exceedingly bony back and legs [The Skinny Website]
- Miracle Jesus spoon update. No joke, it’s on eBay and it’s real [Circus Hour]
- Jodie Foster has some borderline OCD cleaning habits [Mollygood]

Earlier this month, we reported on 13 staff members at UCLA Medical Center who were fired for snooping through Britney Spears’ confidential medical records and feeding information to the tabloids. It looks as though Spears isn’t the only celeb to be ratted out at the medical center. Farrah Fawcett, who has been battling cancer, was also a target.

Months before UCLA Medical Center caught its staffers snooping in the medical records of pop star Britney Spears, ’70s TV icon Farrah Fawcett learned that a hospital employee had surreptitiously gone through records of her cancer treatments there, documents and interviews show.

Fawcett’s lawyers said they are concerned that the information was subsequently leaked or sold to tabloids, including the National Enquirer.

Shortly after UCLA doctors told Fawcett that her cancer had returned — and before she had told her son and closest friends — the Enquirer posted the news on its website. Indeed, alarming headlines regularly cropped up in the Enquirer and its sister publication, the Globe, within days of Fawcett’s treatments at the UCLA hospital.

UCLA subsequently terminated the employee who inappropriately reviewed Fawcett’s records, according to one person familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity.

This was the second time that information on Fawcett’s links to UCLA was inappropriately shared by someone connected with the hospital. In a 2006 letter, one of her physicians, Gary Gitnick, informed Fawcett that a former hospital contractor had listed her name on his blog, “suggesting you are a patient and/or charitable donor of mine and UCLA.”

While Fawcett, now 61, was being treated at UCLA, officials had been monitoring access to some of her records to guard against a privacy breach — and found none, said Carole A. Klove, chief compliance and privacy officer for UCLA Healthcare and Medical Sciences.

But after the Enquirer ran its exclusive story, “Farrah’s Cancer is Back!,” last May, Fawcett complained to her doctor, Eric Esrailian, and UCLA launched an investigation and looked at additional records. The hospital discovered “multiple reviews” of her records by a worker who was not involved in Fawcett’s treatment, Klove said.

[From the LA Times]

If you ask me, this incident is even more egregious than the Britney one. Farrah Fawcett was battling a terminal disease and hadn’t even had a chance to break the news to her family before these nosy staffers went running to the Enquirer and got paid for this. It’s disgusting. I’d sue their asses off if it were me. But I guess Farrah has enough to deal with right now. If this keeps going on, how are famous people supposed to keep their medical records and treatment private?

Farrah Fawcett is shown in the header image on 5/19/07, thanks to Splash News.

We’re pretty much all Obama fans at Celebitchy, but I have to say I kind of like John McCain. I wouldn’t vote for a guy who would keep the troops in Iraq probably indefinitely, but I’ve often wondered what would have happened if McCain had secured the Republican nomination instead of Bush in 2000. He’s a lot more moderate and seems a hell of lot less obstinate. He’s also a cancer survivor, a decorated war hero who spent five and a half years in a POW camp and he has over 20 years experience as a senator. I think it’s not much of a logical leap to assume that the fate of America and the entire world would have been a lot rosier post 9/11 under McCain instead of Bush Jr. My response to a possible McCain presidency is a shrug, and we’ve certainly seen that there are much worse things that could happen.

We covered Obama on “The View” and Hillary on “Saturday Night Live,” so it’s only fair that we give McCain some coverage for his talkshow circuit interviews too. He was on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night and he managed to poke fun at himself and generally come off as the decent guy he is. Damn him for being likable.

McCain walked on during Letterman’s monologue and responded to some jokes Letterman made about him. Letterman said McCain was like an old dude who worked at a hardware store and then McCain said Dave looked like a threat to society:

During Dave’s monologue, he goes off in the familiar tangent about Senator McCain: “How about that John McCain? McCain looks like the guy at the hardware store who makes the keys.
McCain looks like a guy who can’t stop talking about how well his tomatoes are doing.
McCain looks like a guy who goes out to but turpentine.
He looks like a guy who keeps growing hair out of new places.
McCain looks a guy who points out the spots they missed at the car wash.”

And then . . . . Senator John McCain walks out and stands beside Dave.
McCain: “You think that stuff’s pretty funny, don’t you?
Well, you look like a guy whose laptop would be seized by authorities.
You look like a guy caught smuggling reptiles in his pants.
You look like a guy who neighbors later say, ‘mostly kept to himself.’
You look like the night manager of a creepy motel.
You look like a guy who enjoys getting into a hot tub and watching his swim trunks inflate.”
And then he exits. Paul and the band play “Soldier Boy.”

[Recap from CBS.com]

Here’s the clip of that segment:

And during his interview later in the show, McCain outlined his position on different issues that are important to the country, namely the economy and Iraq:

The Senator is looking forward to becoming President for many reasons; one being so he can see himself on “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches” every night.
With a camera on you 24/7, it’s not too surprising to find verbal screw-ups of a President from time to time. But with GW, it’s so easy.
Issues discussed:
The economy
– the problems are very serious
– millions in danger of losing their homes
– it’s important to get the lenders and the borrowers together to make a plan on how to fix their problem. A solution will benefit both.
– We need to re-educate our out-of-work workforce. We need to redesign our education system to fit today’s needs.
The War in Iraq
- The war itself was not a mistake, but it has been mismanaged.
- Any troop withdrawal should be driven by events on the ground and not by politics
Our respect around the world
- it’s down now, but it will come back. For example, the new France president Sarkozy is a big supporter of the United States

And the Senator promises to run a civil, clean campaign without the attacks and name-calling. It’s what the American people want and expect. Dave differs on this. The more attacks and dirty tricks in the campaign, the better. Dave can’t get enough of the good stuff like that.

[Recap from CBS.com]

In my opinion, America definitely needs the reform that would come with Obama as president. I’m not for Hillary and think she should step down after that bullshit Bosnia sniper story. She still has a lot of support and many people admire her stance on important issues and think she has the experience to effective run the country. In my opinion she’s only dividing the party, but time will tell. McCain isn’t a terrible alternative though. He wouldn’t make a bad president, I just don’t think he’d make enough of the changes the country so badly needs. It’s too bad he’s likable and normal though.

Bobby Brown, fresh from a stint on the painful reality show “Gone Country,” has written a tell-all book about his marriage to diva Whitney Houston. I guess he needed the money to cover all his bail, back child support, and drug habit. Brown’s book attempts to paint his ex-wife as the one who introduced cocaine into the household, and claims that she only married him to kill rumors that she was gay.

With an ex-husband like Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston doesn’t need enemies.

In his upcoming autobiography, Brown blows the lid on his wildly dysfunctional marriage to the troubled, Grammy-winning diva, suggesting that she drove him into a nightmare of drug addiction.

“I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice,” Brown writes in “Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But,” out next month. “At one point in my life, I used drugs uncontrollably. I was using everything I could get my hands on, from cocaine to heroin, weed and cooked cocaine.”

As far as his 15-year marriage to Houston is concerned, it “was doomed from the very beginning. Within the first year we separated, with several more to follow,” Brown writes. “I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married . . . I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children.”

Whitney, he alleges, had been under “a lot of pressure. The media was accusing her of having a bisexual relationship with her assistant, Robin Crawford. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn’t go too well with her image . . . In Whitney’s situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation, whether it was true or not. In the short, I think I got caught up in the politics and ended up marrying one of the biggest stars in the world.”

But Brown notes that he was no saint in their relationship, confessing in his book, “I am guilty of sleeping with other women . . . Women are always throwing themselves at you. I’m only human, so I would make the mistake and bite the hook sometimes . . . I let the testosterone take over.”

One of his most public indiscretions was an affair with former exotic dancer Karrine “Superhead” Steffans. “Yes, I’ve slept with her,” he confesses. “Yes, I’ve spent several nights at her house. But she was only good for what her nickname stood for.”

[From Page Six]

“At one point in my life, I used drugs uncontrollably.” Uh, yeah- I think that was last Tuesday. Sorry, I can’t stop laughing at this giant pile of BS. We are actually supposed to believe that Whitney Houston needed to clean up her image, and the best she could do was marry Bobby Brown? Bitch, please. That fool already had a criminal record and a nasty reputation as a misogynist long before Whitney came along. I think all that crack has addled Bobby’s memory. It’s also hilarious that he explains away his cheating in a few sentences, but rips into his wife for her supposed behavior. Whitney has more talent, fans, charisma and character- even in her current state- than Bobby Brown could ever hope to have.

Jenny McCarthy was on Larry King Live last night and she was very clear that she thinks her nearly six year old son, Evan, would not have suffered from autism if it wasn’t for vaccinations. She said that autism is a global epidemic, and that she and the autism community are not anti-vaccination, but that they’re anti-toxin and anti-schedule. She’s says “we’re not treating autism, we’re treating vaccine injury.”

Larry asked Jenny about the schedule and she said that back in 1987 there were 10 shots scheduled for children and today it’s 36, which is “too many too soon.” She says we need an alternate schedule, and that the mercury has not been removed from vaccines and that the shots also include aluminum, ether, and antifreeze.

MCCARTHY: I personally haven’t heard of that many people falling off the map that we needed to implement 26 new shots in this time. And isn’t it ironic, in 1983 there was 10 shots and now there’s 36 and the rise of autism happened at the same time?

And parent after parent after parent says I vaccinated my baby, they got a fever and then they stopped speaking and then became autistic.

KING: Is your link scientific or statistical?

MCCARTHY: Well, I believe that parents’ anecdotal information is science-based information. And when the entire world is screaming the same thing — doctor, I came home. He had a fever. He stopped speaking and then he became autistic. I can’t — I can see if it was just one parent saying this. But when so many — and I speak to thousands of moms every weekend and they’re all standing up and saying the same thing. It’s time to start listening to that. That is science-based information. Parents’ anecdotal is science-based information…

KING: Jenny, will you agree that some cases have nothing to do with vaccines, which makes it more puzzling?

MCCARTHY: Absolutely. You know, environmental toxins play a role. Viruses play a role. Those are all triggers. But vaccines play the largest role right now and something needs to be done. You know, testing these kids for immune issues, you know, that would help so much, changing the schedule. You know, I don’t understand — as a precautionary measure, why don’t they do this?

If everyone is screaming this and they’re so worried about parents going into offices right now telling the pediatrician j everyone is going I’m too scared to vaccinate my child. This is the new parents’ number one fear — I am afraid to vaccinate.

I am not trying to start this global non-vaccinating world. I’m trying to implement change.

[From Transcripts.CNN.com]

Jenny says that her son Evan hasn’t “recovered,” but that he no longer qualifies as autistic for special services. She compared it to being hit by a bus. You can get better but you’re never quite the same. She called him a “a wonderful example of hope and possibility for parents out there.”

They had journalist David Kirby, the author of “Evidence of Harm” on. He discussed the case of Hannah Polling, in which the “vaccine court,” a special court created by the US government to shield the pharmaceutical companies from large lawsuits, ruled that vaccines did contribute to Polling’s autism. In that case Kirby notes that Polling had an underlying mitochondrial disorder that was exacerbated by the vaccines. Kirby says, like McCarthy, he’s not anti-vaccination but thinks that the schedule should be individualized to each child. He said you could for example specifically test for the genetic defect that causes a mitochondrial dysfunction and make sure that those children, who are genetically more susceptible to autism, be given less vaccinations at once.

At the end of the show there was a panel of doctors trying to sum up the issue. Earlier they discussed the importance of vaccination and how childhood illnesses have been eradicated. The discussion got heated and McCarthy plainly said “that’s bullshit” when one doctor said vaccines have been a boon to families. She said “my son died in front of me,” and talked about how her son died for two minutes and went into cardiac arrest. She asked “are we considered acceptable losses?”

Clip of McCarthy saying “that’s bullshit!”

I clipped the rest of the show and the links are below if you would like to watch it. This is an important issue that touches so many families and I can’t imagine the heartbreak of having a child with autism. Good for Jenny for having the courage to speak out about this. There are no clear-cut answers and there needs to be more study into this, but it seems as if the pharmaceutical companies have been shielded from scrutiny due to the reasonable fear that people will stop vaccinating.

Larry read out a statement from Jim Carrey at the end of the show that “Vaccines are more a profit engine than a means of prevention. And that’s why there are so many vaccines.”

Jenny and Jim Carrey will lead a march on Washington on June 4th, and you can learn about it on GenerationRescue.org

MCCARTHY: Jim and I are going to lead a march and rally in Washington, D.C. And I’m announcing it right here on June 4th. You can go on GenerationRescue.org for more information. We will be there and we’re asking every parent that can make it there in Washington on that day, every grandma, mom, dad, to be there with us marching, rallying. You have a voice that day.

KING: Are you raising money?

MCCARTHY: Oh, no. This is a day — you know, I’ve been talking to parents across the country, thousands of them. And they’re so dying to have a voice one day. So we’re bringing the media. We’re bringing the attention, and now I’m asking every parent that’s watching this right now, come there that day and you will be heard.

KING: Where do you go online?

MCCARTHY: GenerationRescue.org.

Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 1
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 2
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 3
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 4
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 5
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 6
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 7

Lynne Spears, still dealing with two daughters whose lives have gone off the rails, is now demanding that younger daughter, pregnant teen Jamie Lynn, draft up a pre-nuptial agreement before marrying her babydaddy, Casey Aldridge. Sources say that Lynne has come to terms with Jamie Lynn’s decision to marry Aldridge, but still harbors doubts about the boy’s intentions and level of commitment, which is why she suggested the pre-nup.

Pregnant teenager Jamie Lynn Spears has a diamond ring on her finger, but there are still obstacles to overcome before she and Casey Aldridge, 18, can be married. Her mother, Lynne Spears, has insisted that the couple sign a prenuptial contract to protect the Zoey 101 star’s assets.

“The contract is already drawn up and ready to go,” an insider confirms to In Touch. “Lynne’s not sure marriage is a good idea, but she’ll go along with that if that’s what Jamie Lynn wants — as long as Casey signs the contract.”

A Spears family confidant says that Lynne, who flew home to Kentwood, La., to celebrate Jamie Lynn’s April 4 birthday, is worried about Casey. “He doesn’t seem as committed to the relationship as Jamie Lynn,” says the confidant, adding that the family is aware of the rumors that he’s cheated. “Lynne is keeping an eye on him.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

Lynne is the one responsible for the Britney/K-Fed prenup as well, which probably saved Britney from losing half of her fortune during the ugly divorce and ongoing custody battle. While it’s true that Brit has been ordered to foot the bill for her ex’s attorney, and pay child support to him since losing custody of the children, K-Fed has no claims to her fortune other than the original $300k settlement he got when the divorced was finalized. Lynne actually did something right there! Funny how Lynne is smart when it comes to her daughters’ fortunes, but can’t seem to handle all the other aspects of decent parenting, isn’t it?

Jamie Lynn Spears is shown on 4/31/08, thanks to Splash News.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s vintage Fiat flipped over yesterday in the Hamptons after his brakes failed. He got up and walked out of the crash without any injuries, and his wife says he’s fine and was just a little shaken. Seinfeld pulled the emergency brake when the brakes failed and cut the car swiftly to the side to avoid oncoming traffic, which is when it flipped over. No other cars were hit:

The dramatic accident occurred at 7:40 p.m. Saturday on Skimhampton Road in East Hampton, said East Hampton Police Chief Todd Sarris.

Seinfeld was alone in the vehicle, driving north toward Montauk Highway.

“The brakes went bad,” Sarris said. But Jerry kept his head.

“He had to pull the emergency brake,” which Sarris said still failed to halt the two-door vehicle as it headed into traffic on the highway.

Seinfeld then cut the wheel to the right and “the car rolled over” and stopped yards from the intersection - just short of other vehicles.

The 1967 Fiat BTM rolled onto the passenger side, then the roof, and finally came to rest on the driver’s side.

“His actions probably avoided a very serious accident,” Sarris said. “I think he was a little shaken up, with justification.”

Police rushed to the scene, but the comic did not require medical attention.

The accident was chalked up to mechanical failure. Seinfeld had not been drinking and no summonses were issued, Sarris said.

A friend following Seinfeld in another car drove him to his nearby East Hampton mansion.

[From The NY Post]

Seinfeld made a stupid joke about the incident that brings home how dated and unfunny his skits are.

“Because I know there are kids out there, I want to make sure they all know that driving without braking is not something I recommend, unless you have professional clown training or a comedy background, as I do. It is not something I plan to make a habit of.”

I’m glad he got away unhurt and all, but couldn’t he have damaged someone else’s car or property and be faced with a massive lawsuit? The guy needs to be slapped with another one.

Seinfeld owns something like 47 Porsches, according to the NY Post, and had a huge multi million dollar garage built in NY city just to house his cars. Heaven forbid that building should burn to the ground or anything.

There was a photo that was online late last year of Tom Cruise bald and wearing a fat suit. The NY Times reports today that it’s from an uncredited cameo in the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy “Tropic Thunder” also starring Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Nick Nolte. They wanted to keep Cruise’s appearance a secret, but the news got out at an industry screening of the film, put out by Paramount Pictures.

Paramount head Summer Redstone decided to cut ties with Cruise’s production company in August, 2006 after public outburst against pharmaceutical drugs. Redstone made it clear that Cruise was no longer working with him due to his behavior, and said “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”

Cruise and Redstone had lunch last week in what many people thought was a bid to patch things up, and now it’s known that he plays a character in “Tropic Thunder” that is thought to be a parody of Redstone. The screening audience was howling with laughter at Cruise’s scene:

At an industry screening Tuesday night of the forthcoming comedy “Tropic Thunder” from Paramount Pictures and its unit DreamWorks, Tom Cruise brought down the house with his surprise portrayal of a bald, hairy-chested, foulmouthed, dirty-dancing movie mogul of the kind who is only too happy to throw an actor to the wolves when his popularity cools.

The several hundred Hollywood agents, managers, publicists and reporters at the screening on the Paramount lot here couldn’t have missed the joke. In August 2006 Mr. Cruise — after spending many years at Paramount and appearing in some of its biggest hits, including “Top Gun” and the “Mission: Impossible” series — was sent packing by Mr. Redstone, the chairman of Viacom, the studio’s parent.

Two years later Mr. Cruise is back in a Paramount movie, playing a craggy ingrate in what is shaping up as one of the studio’s best prospects for the summer. The movie, a raunchfest directed by Ben Stiller, about a bunch of actors whose jungle war movie turns unexpectedly real, also stars Mr. Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Nick Nolte.

The humor may have been heightened by knowledge that Mr. Cruise and Mr. Redstone only last week kissed and made up over a very public lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

[From the NY Times via Huffington Post]

Why do you have to go endear yourself to the industry like that, Tom Cruise? You’re supposed to be a batshit crazy cult leader, not a funny guy who pokes fun at his career setbacks.

Robert Downey Jr. is also said to have brought down the house. Downey plays an actor playing a soldier in blackface, so it’s more of a meta-role and not a straight case of a white actor playing an African American role.

“Tropic Thunder” will be out in the US on August 15, and is about a group of actors filming a Vietnam war movie who get abandoned in an actual war. It’s thought that the film will be a real hit for Paramount, and it could do wonders to revive Cruise’s image.

Header image is of Tom and Katie pre-shorter haircut out at The Cut restaurant on a double date with Will Smith and Jada on 2/27/08, thanks to WENN.

Here’s the trailer, which does not include Cruise:

Heath Ledger’s uncle gave an interview to US Weekly in which he made it clear that his brother was widely misquoted on the “Heath Ledger love child” story that had everyone talking earlier in the week. Heath’s uncle, Haydn Ledger, was quoted as saying a love child of Heath’s was a “real possibility,” but Heath’s other uncle, Mike, says his brother just gave a noncommittal response like “anything is possible,” not something like “that’s really possible.”

One thing Heath’s other uncle said that made it sound like this could be true though, is that “it’s been a rumor for a long time.”

How did the rumors start?
All my brother Haydn said was that anything is possible, and from there, it just went absolutely berserk. At the end of the day, our thoughts are with the little girl in question, and we’re not prepared to make any more comments at all.

So Haydn said something, and it was taken out of context?
Yes. Haydn was asked a question that wasn’t’t directly related to the Heath issue: ‘If someone was this age, could it be possible?’ and Haydn said ‘Anything is possible,’ and that’s it. His statement was absolutely taken out of context. Absolutely.

So you and Haydn don’t know for a fact if Heath had another child or not?
No. It’s just a rumor! It’s been a rumor for a long while.

Did you and the rest of Heath’s family know about Heath having a girlfriend who was older?
There were rumors. He was a young, good-looking guy, and he attracted lots of women.

[From US Weekly]

The Daily Mail has one of their long suggestive stories about an interview with the unnamed woman who is rumored to have had Heath’s love child after a 1996 affair when he was 17 and she was 25. The woman had a daughter after they broke up. The Daily Mail titles the article “Heath Ledger ‘former lover’ refuses to confirm whether he fathered her 11-year-old,” but the woman didn’t “refuse to confirm” it at all, she said “no” flat out, in a statement at the end.

The woman’s husband, who it sounds like was not around at the time the girl was born as he knows he is not the father, says that they would gladly submit to a DNA test, but Heath’s former lover says that’s out of the question, but that he’s not the father anyway.

Agreeing that he was not the girl’s father, the woman’s husband said: “I’m the step-dad, but there’s nothing to hide…and if I asked (the mother) I’m sure that she wouldn’t mind (to have a DNA test).”

But he wondered how they could even get Heath Ledger’s DNA.

However, his wife refused to have any part of the DNA suggestion.

“I’m not answering anything,” she said. “I think it’s very, very rude that I’m being posed all of this. I really do. I can’t talk about anything…”

“When you are considering an 11-year-old girl who has to go to school and be a part of society, that is my main concern,” she said.

Of the persistent rumours, she said: “You have no proof, there’s no background, there’s no grounds, there’s no nothing.

“I’m not going to answer anything or go into anything at all.” Her husband supported her denials.

“The whole thing with that (Heath being the father) is no. No way. No can be. It would probably be a great thing if she was, but no.”

[From The Daily Mail]

If the Daily Mail didn’t completely make up that interview, and I definitely wouldn’t put it past them, then the mother sounds like she’s completely denying that Heath is the father. Even if he is the father, she doesn’t want to acknowledge that possibility and is not going after any of Heath’s estate, assuming this interview is real. (The Mail is hardly accountable for it given that they don’t give a name or any other details that would explain how they were able to get in touch with her.)

As it is, the only one fueling these “love child” rumors is the media, looking for some more dirt to dig up on a dead guy who died of a prescription drug interaction.

Verne Troyer, best known as “Mini-Me” in the Austin Powers movies, has been hospitalized. The diminutive actor, who is currently cast in Terry Gilliam’s new movie “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” which co-starred the late Heath Ledge and now features both Johnny Depp and Colin Ferrell, was battling flu symptoms on the set and was hospitalized for dehydration.

Actor Verne Troyer, best known for his role as “Mini Me” in Austin Powers, was rushed to the hospital today, Usmagazine.com has learned.

A source close to Troyer, 39, says the actor was experiencing “flu-like symptoms” while shooting The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath Ledger’s last movie) in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Adds the source, “He’s been working really hard on the film. They just wanted to hydrate him.”

A rep for Troyer denied that he was treated for a drug-related problem.

“Verne is fine and doing well and is back to work,” the rep tells Us.

Troyer checked into rehab for alcoholism in 2006.

[From Us Weekly]

My question: what the hell kind of weird-ass movie is this, that stars Johnny Depp, Tom Waits, Christoper Plummer…. and Mini-Me? I do hope Verne is feeling better soon, and whatever he’s dealing with goes away. Every time I see him, I can’t help but think of when he appeared on the reality show “The Surreal Life,” and would get blackout drunk to the point that Peter Brady would have to carry him around like a baby and put him to bed.

Note by Celebitchy: Heath Ledger fell ill while shooting that same movie, and the star Terry Gilliam said of Heath’s illness before his death that “We all caught colds because we were shooting outside on horrible, damp nights. But Heath’s went on and I don’t think he dealt with it immediately, even when he was taking antibiotics. I think what he had was the walking pneumonia.”

Now that two actors have fallen ill, do you think they might improve working conditions?

Verne Troyer is shown with “actresses” Tina Holloway and Tiffany Jordan at the Fuse TV Party for the Grammy Awards on 2/7/08, thanks to PRPhotos.