Week In Review: Part 1
3:49 pm, September 6th, 2009
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On this long Labor Day Weekend, Gossip Cop looks back, in a two-part series, at the Week in Review:
Part 1
Two months after passing away, Michael Jackson was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Jackson’s three children – Prince Michael, Paris, and Blanket – placed a crown atop his casket, and his five brothers carried it to the marble mausoleum where he was buried. In addition to Gladys Knight performing the hymn “Our Father” (The Lord’s Prayer), a number of famous friends paid their respective to the King of Pop in a private service. Among those attending were longtime friend Elizabeth Taylor, Jackon’s ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley, Chris Tucker, Barry Bonds, Quincy Jones, Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, Mila Kunis, and Macaulay Culkin.
On the subject of Culkin and Jackson, The Sun claimed Jackson’s legacy would live on, thanks to the “Home Alone” star who the tab fingered as the sperm donor for Blanket. Gossip Cop busted that rumor, and the other high-flying donor report that a Jackson sperm sample, given a year ago to an L.A. clinic, was being jetted to England for safety. The alleged fear was that “sinister” forces would get their hands on his semen and use it to create another heir. The story, of course, was full of hot heir.
There were plenty of “Twilight” tales this week as well. In addition to old quotes from Kristen Stewart being resurrected to appear as new, there was also the rumor that Argentinian actress Luisana Lopilato would star as the vampire Tanya in “Eclipse.” Not only did the filmmakers have no idea who Lopilato is when we contacted them, but the character of Tanya isn’t even in “Eclipse.” Similarly, there was casting confusion when it came to Robert Pattinson. Reports had him set to star in “Vauxhall Crossed,” a film being directed by a stuntman who worked with the handsome British star on two “Harry Potter” films. Gossip Cop was told by Pattinson’s rep that he’s not making that movie.
And the Web went wild when Splash News reported that it had a source who spotted Stewart with her ex-boyfriend Michael Angarano in Vancouver. No pictures, no proof, no truth to that ex-sighting story.
Another person whose picture will be hard to find is Pattinson. A reliable production source told Gossip Cop: “He’s a prisoner of the paparazzi.” “It’s a nightmare,” added the source, explaining that Pattinson almost never leaves the hotel except to go to the set. And when he does, the crew has to go great lengths to find ways to transport him from one location to another undetected.
At the end of the week, we experienced déjà vu when we read quotes in the British magazine Now that had Pattinson saying, “You always think you’re going to get more girls after you’ve made a movie and it never happens.” Sound familiar to you? In August The Mirror quoted Pattinson in an “exclusive” interview bemoaning, “You always think you’re going to get more girls after you’ve made a movie and it never happens.” The first time we saw those quotes, his rep told Gossip Cop exclusively, that The Mirror interview was wholly fabricated. Gossip Cop has asked Now to pull its (repeated) phony interview – now!
The latest in Lindsay Lohan rumors had the “Freaky Friday” star excited about posing for Playboy after being offered $900,000. But as Gossip Cop reported exclusively, she is not considering doing a Playboy spread anytime soon. This week also had the Star publishing a completely made-up story about Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson having all the men removed from a nightclub in Sardinia, Italy, where they reportedly partied with females only on August 18. Slight hitch: Gossip Cop spotted Lohan at a screening of “Inglourious Basterds” in New York on August 17, and ran into her at dinner on August 19. She was NOT in Italy, as was ridiculously reported. And by the end of the week, blogs were claiming, “Lindsay Lohan robbed her own house.” In Touch even ran side-by-side photos of the burglar and Lohan, striking a similar pose, and noted, “The identities of the thieves haven’t been determined, but one of them bears an eerie resemblance to Lindsay.” (As eery a resemblance as say, rumor cop?) Anyway, a rep told Gossip Cop that the person pictured in the surveillance video was NOT Lohan.
Jennifer Aniston was the subject of a couple of Gossip Cop corrections this week. A number of outlets reported that Aniston and John Mayer were getting back together based on such irrefutable evidence that Aniston was wearing a Rolex that the musician allegedly gave her when they were dating. Time out: So not true! And the boobs at Grazia magazine wrote that Aniston recently had her breasts done with a gel injection. While a titillating story, that too was fake.
Check out tomorrow’s Part 2 of the Week in Review . . .
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