Megan Fox said that “Olivia Wilde is so sexy, she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands.” Owen Wilson annoyed an angry vegan at One Lucky Duck the other day, when he bypassed the takeout line to place his order. Jessica Simpson switched hairdressers. Robert De Niro just became a grandpa. Russian model Svetlana had a screaming meltdown in front of the Hotel du Cap after last night’s AmFAR benefit. Meanwhile in New York, Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr partied it up at the Gramercy Park Hotel, and were later joined by Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, and Taylor Momsen, who is, by the way, still 16. Drinks on her!
After Robin Wright Penn spent the week flitting around Cannes, chatting it up with Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt, Sean Penn withdrew his request to legally separate from her. After detailed analysis of their film-festival body language, some Brits at the Sun think Brangelina is headed for a breakup.
Did Madonna bring bad luck to the Mets? After she ditched A-Rod to attend a game at Citi Field, the Yankees started an eight-game winning streak and the Mets lost four in a row. Will Smith and Sony Pictures are making a film about Hurricane Katrina. Wyclef Jean had lunch on the Cipriani Wall Street rooftop. Russell Simmons was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Memorial at the U.N.
When Gloria Estefan was a no-show at last night’s Museo del Barrio gala, the evening’s hostess hired an Estefan impersonator to serenade her guests, fooling Carolina Herrera, who was heard whispering, “Gloria looks so great. Who’s her doctor?” Larry King poked fun at the 26-year age gap between himself and his wife at a party for his memoir, My Remarkable Journey.
Skinny 90210 starlet AnnaLynne McCord canoodled with Twilight’s Kellan Lutz at the opening of the Gates and told all her friends that “it’s official.” Giada De Laurentiis thinks “it’s okay to cook and be sexy.” Tim Gunn is now a comic-book superhero. Keith Urban looks like he stole some of Nicole Kidman’s Botox injections. And enough with the Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt PDAs already. No one wants to see that.