Gossip Cop Week in Review

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12:51 pm, August 23rd, 2009

 

It was a great week for Gossip Cop.

 

We were the first to confirm that Celine Dion was pregnant with her second child at the age of 41.

We then broke the world exclusive of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony hosting an intimate dinner for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at their New York home.

Next we were also the first to dispel the rumor that Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt were engaged after talking with Paris’ mom.

And that scoop was followed up with our exposing how the Mirror did not have an interview with Robert Pattinson, as the paper had claimed. Pattinson’s rep even gave Gossip Cop an exclusive comment about it.

On the subject of Pattinson, the “Twilight” star was the focus of a few stories. First, we had footage showing how the paparazzi staked out Pattinson and Kristen Stewart with long lenses when they returned to their Vancouver hotel after going to a Kings of Leon concert. There was also a false report that the two were moving in together. And there was a ridiculous rumor that Stewart fought with Pattinson because she thought Megan Fox was making the moves on him.

Perez Hilton kept us busy this week (as he always does). He reported that Michael Jackson had been buried. Of course, the King of Pop has yet to be buried. Oops. He also had Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz on the “brink of divorce” – again wrong. He even rehashed the incorrect rumor that Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are hiding a secret on-set romance. And Perez’s fertile imagination took over when he speculated wrongly that Anna Paquin is pregnant, which she is not.

Also this week: Numerous outlets reported that Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens were engaged until Gossip Cop corrected it. And in more Hudgens news, we set the record straight that she is NOT joining the cast of “Twilight.”

In “Idol” gossip, the New York Post claimed that Jessica Simpson was trying to take Paula Abdul’s spot – wrong — but we did report that Joe Jonas was tapped to be a guest judge.

Some stories from the sets of movies included a mysterious item that Brad Pitt was going to do some additional scenes for the “Sherlock Holmes” movie, which has already finished filming, because the studio thought the film was lacking. The only thing lacking were facts – Pitt is not doing “Sherlock Holmes.” In a related note, it was reported that “Sherlock Holmes” star Robert Downey, Jr. was going to take over the role of Lestat in the next “Interview With The Vampire” movie. We took a bite out of that rumor, too.  And there were tales of tension between Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson on the set of “Iron Man 2,” but Gossip Cop investigated, and found there was no truth to it.

Speaking of Johansson, there was also a story that Alanis Morissette was writing a tell-all memoir. In it allegedly is a chapter about her times with ex-boyfriend Ryan Reynolds, which the National Enquirer claimed was going to upset his wife Johansson. There is no such chapter, and instead the book will feature Morissette’s photos from the road and some recipes.

It was also a week for wildly crazy rumors. Among them was the story about Eminem dying in a car crash while talking on his cell phone.  And then there was that off key story about Mel Gibson doing a duet on his girlfriend’s new album.  Equally wrong were articles about Cameron Diaz dating Keanu Reeves and Hugh Grant asking a first-time director for a role – and getting turned down.

We showed you a fun video of Ashton Kutcher colliding with a paparazzo, and a couple of Hollywood stars gave Gossip Cop props this week! And after we ran into Lindsay Lohan she gave us a shout-out on Twitter. And Kristen Bell was nice enough to Tweet about Gossip Cop after we corrected an alarmingly wrong Star magazine story about her being awoken by her neighbors who heard her smoke detector after she allegedly fell asleep while cooking eggs. Total eggs-ageration!

Gossip Cop is looking forward to another week of busting bad dish!