The Famous: Watching the Watched
  • One half of the well-caffeinated couple. - Steve Granitz/WireImageWhile the rest of the country was stuffing their faces with turkey this weekend, Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal were inexplicably taking part in a coffee-based tour of the United States.

    While their relationship took off last month with moderately creative, distinctly 1950's-ish dates -- like apple picking and ice cream stops -- the couple now seems to have only one thing on their mind: java.

    On Thursday morning, Swiftenhaal stopped by Brooklyn coffee shop Gorilla Coffee for specialty maple lattes.

    "They were really sweet, really really sweet," a source at the shop told People.

    But their caffeine craving had not been satiated! The duo next surfaced Saturday at a coffee shop called Fido in Nashville, where some intrepid soul snapped this picture of the pair, the first somewhat descent shot of the couple we've seen. (Hopefully next time they'll be wearing something slightly more interesting - here, they seem to be dressed for a somber yoga class.)

    Lots of questions here: Is Taylor

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  • Draco is not the daddy. - Jun Sato/WireImageWhen someone leaked an anonymous postcard to the website Post Secret claiming that one of seven "Harry Potter" actors was her baby's daddy, we initially assumed this was a prank. But then again, it seemed just ridiculous enough to be true.

    In any case, we can scratch Draco Malfoy off the list. Malfoy (real name: actor Tom Felton) announced on his Twitter that he was not the father. Malfoy/Felton's tweet: "my friend just found this on the web! just to confirm that i can be cancelled out of this equation lol!" Meanwhile, Oliver and James Phelps, who play the troublemaking Weasley twins, also denied paternity

    That leaves four potential baby daddies: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Alan Rickman and Jason Isaacs.

    The unsolved mystery continues. Someone out there must know something.

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  • Lady Gaga holds a casserole on Thanksgiving. - Twitpic/Lady GagaThe reports are true: Lady Gaga will die on Wednesday. Sort of. In a bold social-media suicide, she's quitting Twitter and Facebook, which will likely send her millions of obsessed fans (aka "LittleMonsters") into a sadness spiral of Gaga withdrawal. But Gaga's untimely Internet disappearance is for a good cause. The global pop phenomenon -- who has more than 7 million Twitter followers -- aims to raise money on World AIDS Day by staging a digital death.

    Also in on the stunt: Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Seacrest, Jennifer Hudson and Kim Kardashian, who's pictured in ads laying in a coffin next to the grim headline: "KIM KARDASHIAN IS DEAD."

    Keys is spearheading this campaign, called Digital Life Sacrifice, on behalf of her favorite charity, Keep A Child Alive. Gaga and the gang will come back to life once the organization raises more than $1 million for AIDS/HIV-affected families in Africa and India.

    This shows a keen sense of media savvy on Keys' part: Getting Gaga to sign

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  • Fascinating? - Todd Williamson/WireImageHold on to your hats, everyone: Barbara Walters has announced her list of this year's 10 Most Fascinating People of the Year. The group includes some usual -- if uninspired -- suspects, such as the Jersey Shore cast, Betty White, LeBron James and Sarah Palin. There's also a few people who really did have breakout years and who should, at the very least, give interesting interviews, such as Kate Middleton, Sandra Bullock and Justin Bieber.

    However the eighth honoree announced this morning, though certainly a superstar, is more of a head-scratcher: Jennifer Lopez. We're guessing -- though the future Idol judge did pull off a brave turn in the artificial insemination comedy classic The Back-Up Plan earlier this year -- the work of a savvy Fox publicist is what scored J. Lo the spot.

    As for the final two celebrities, their identities won't be revealed until the special airs next week. Based on the motley crew assembled so far, our money's on Kim Kardashian and Rachel Uchitel.

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  • The face of a terrorist. - Jean Batiste Lacroix/WireImageAdmit it: When you think "terrorist," you think Mark Ruffalo. Don't we all? The unassuming everyman -- actor by day, evil plotter by night -- has been placed on the terror watch list at Pennsylvania's Department of Homeland Security. His crime: organizing grassroots screenings of "Gasland," a documentary about natural-gas drilling. "It's kind of raaadical," Ruffalo says of his inclusion on said list in an interview with GQ magazine, adding that he finds the situation "funny."

    Directed by Josh Fox, "Gasland" exposes the dangers of natural gas drilling, which uses technology called "fracking" to break ground and tap into vast underground reservoirs of natural gas; that technology is under scrutiny as a health and environmental hazard. In one Pennsylvania town, residents were able to set their drinking water on fire, the movie's website says. And last year, in Lousiana, 17 cows perished after drinking fracking fluid that leaked into their pasture. (Watch a recent "60 Minutes" segment on

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  • Ending weeks of is-she-or-isn't-she speculation, Rachel Zoe has finally confirmed that, yes, she and husband Rodger Berman are expecting their first child together. Taking to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, the super-stylist announced:

    Yes, I'm pregnant.

    She then followed up with a second tweet of baby joy: "I feel great, Rodger and I are beyond excited and so thankful for all of your love and support. xoRZ & RB."

    Congrats! Zoe is reportedly three months along and will go on maternity leave after styling clients like Anne Hathaway this year's Academy Awards, aka Zoe's (Former) Reason For Living. It remains to be seen whether Zoe will have a mini Karl Lagerfeld or a mini Donatella. Either way, that baby will have one killer wardrobe. (We predict Zoe's baby shower registry to be fashionably over the top: Designer onesies? Check. Fur booties? Check. Fur-encrusted rattles? Check.)

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  • Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noah Baumbach. - Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImageIf you are a celebrity, and you want to announce your breakup with another celebrity, now is the time: It's the week of Thanksgiving and everyone is preparing for the holiday (in addition to reeling from the finale of "Dancing With the Stars"). In other words, people aren't not that much paying attention.

    In the past 24 hours, George Lopez's wife Ann has filed for divorce after 17 years of marriage. Then we found out that two good-looking, miserable-seeming people (Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noah Baumbach) are also divorcing; Leigh pulled an Ann Lopez and filed papers, seeking full custody of her son with Baumbach. It's downer news, all around: So if you're going to file for divorce, or issue a public statement, it's best to do it right before an important national holiday when everyone's too busy getting patted down by TSA agents. Maybe your bad news will blow over peoples' heads like a wintry gust of Whatever, like Leigh and Baumbach's breakup did. Or maybe it won't, in the case of

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  • Kate minus the eight. - Dr. Billy Ingram/WireImageWhen two out of eight Gosselin kids get in trouble at school for bad behavior, it makes headlines -- especially when said bad behavior results in expulsion from a Pennsylvania private school. In an interview with "Entertainment Tonight," full-time TV mom/sometime trainwreck Kate Gosselin responds to the reports, explaining why 6-year-old Alexis and Collin acted out.

    "Thepressure was getting to them," Kate says. "You have the divorce angermixed in with that." For now, they're being tutored at home. But, "The goal is to get themback into school as soon as possible," she notes.

    It's really no surprise the kids are having a tough time; their parents just went through an insanely public divorce that saw mom Kate turning into a national punchline and dad/Ed Hardy aficionado Jon carousing with a string of fame-hungry drama magnets (Hailey Glassman, Kate Major). Not to mention the Gosselin twins (Cara and Mady) and sextuplets (Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Leah, Aaden and Joel) have been on camera

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  • A bromance in the making. - Konstantin Zavrazhin/Getty ImagesIn a series of events reminiscent of a plot of one of his movies, Leonardo DiCaprio had a really tough time getting to St. Petersberg earlier this week for a four day summit about tigers. His first flight was forced to make an emergency landing in New York (he signed autographs for all the crew members after the safe landing); then his second flight made an unscheduled refueling stop in Helsinki. But, eventually, he made it -- and boy was Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin pumped about that.

    Putin went on a major DiCaprio-related tangent during his remarks at the summit yesterday, telling the crowd that DiCaprio -- who donated $1 million to the campaign to save tigers from extinction -- is, well, a hero. A manly, manly hero.

    "I would like to thank you for coming despite all the obstacles," Putin told DiCaprio. "A person with less stable nerves could have decided against coming, could have read it as a sign -- that it was not worth going... In our country, they have a saying -- a

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  • Can you imagine Jessica Simpson eating a Tofurkey? The Texas native would sooner deep fry a turkey than make one entirely out of tofu. But this Thanksgiving, there will indeed be a tofu turkey sitting on Simpson's table because her future husband, Eric Johnson, is a vegan.

    "After getting out of the NFL, [Eric] went to this healer and is veryhealthy," Simpson revealed on Jimmy Fallon's talk show."For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right!It's gonna be jiggly and weird."

    If Simpson takes a bite of this Tofurkey, imagine the consequences: chicken-fried steaks will fall from the sky. Moby will renounce his vegan lifestyle, hop on his bicycle and ride to the nearest Arby's drive-through for a giant beef sandwich. Prince William will gobble a Cheeto, and never look back. Carnivorous celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain will turn vegetarian, sending shockwaves throughout the global foodie community. Thanksgiving will be Opposite Day.

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