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Are Ginnifer Goodwin and Colin Egglesfield more than just co-stars in the film, “Something Borrowed”?

PopEater reports Egglesfield recently bought Goodwin “a very special gift” for her 32^nd birthday, a necklace in the shape of a key, with the word “joy” written on it. Egglesfield embarrassingly told PopEater, “It’s the key to joy.”

He further explained to the site, he “wanted to get her something special,” adding, “She’s a sweetheart … She’s someone I’m really fond of.”

Of course, that was enough for PopEater to wonder, “Hm, sounds like they’re more than just friends.”

Since the “key” to good reporting is fact-checking, Gossip Cop looked into PopEater’s “more than just friends” speculation.

Guess what?

That’s all they are.

A rep for Goodwin confirmed to Gossip Cop that PopEater’s report is “totally false.” 

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Amazing! It took four Star magazine reporters to come up with a single page of text, and still it’s so riddled with inaccuracies that it seems more a work of fiction than an article.

In a piece titled, “Ashlee Forced Out! By Heather,” the Star claims, “Heather Locklear was gunning for Ashlee Simpson-Wentz from the moment she set foot on the Melrose Place set. Now Ash is history – and the prime-time diva couldn’t be more thrilled!”

According to a so-called “source,” Locklear “was jealous of Ashlee immediately… She knew Ashlee was one of the bigger names on the set, and she wanted her gone so she could make it her show. Heather is very political and calculating.” Adds the “source” in what is clearly a made-up quote about Locklear: “For a sunshiny California girl, she sure has ice running through her veins.”

The cutting dialogue, the intrigue… this fabricated story is almost as dramatic as an episode of “Melrose Place.”

The article also goes way off base when it states how Simpson-Wentz and her onscreen love interest Colin Egglesfield were informed their characters were off the show: “Producers told them by e-mail they were being let go!”

Well, Gossip Cop spoke to sources involved in the production, and here is what we learned. For starters, Star violated Journalism 101, says a source, who related that the magazine “never called to fact-check.”

Had Star done the basics, the magazine would have found out what Gossip Cop did which, according to a highly placed source, is that their story is “100 percent not true.” That same impeccable insider said, “Ashlee is a total pro, and Heather is a total pro,” but emphatically stressed, that Simpson-Wentz’s departure had “nothing to do with Heather, but was part of the original plan [for her character].”

Additionally, that whole thing about her finding out she was gone via e-mail… the insider said that, too, was “completely false,” and told Gossip Cop she was personally informed by producers.

Gossip Cop has said it before and we’ll say it again: We think we’re developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from having to repeatedly type the words “Star magazine” and “not true.”

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Apparently, Star magazine isn’t satisfied with the romantic intrigue actually ON “Melrose Place,” because it’s fueling rumors of behind-the-scenes flirtations between co-stars Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Colin Egglesfield.

According to the tab’s piece titled, “Ashlee Crushing on Melrose Costar,” “an overly flirty” Simpson-Wentz “got touchy-feely with Colin between scenes on Sept. 23.” An ‘eyewitness’ tells Star the actress “kept grabbing Colin’s hand and hugging him repeatedly,” “giggled nonstop and did the whole hair-filp thing.”

Star then reports that husband Pete Wentz is aware of Ashlee’s “crush” and is very jealous. According to an ‘insider,’ “He recently caught Ashlee online Googling Colin and flipped,” and “they got into a huge fight over it and didn’t speak for days, and then he went on tour.” At which point, a different ‘insider’ tells Star, Ashlee invited Colin to join her for drinks after a day of filming.

We hate to “crush” this crush story, but a source close to Simpson-Wentz tells Gossip Cop, “It’s not true.”