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“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” opens tonight (have you heard?), and in light of Robert Pattinson being “confronted” (in good fun) on “The Today Show” this morning with a series of crazy rumors, Gossip Cop decided to compile a little trip down memory lane with our Top 20 Wrong “Twilight” Rumors from the last few speculation-saturated months.

There were, of course, the endless (endless, endless) Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart romance rumors, the problems with obnoxious paparazzi, issues with fake photos, crazy casting rumors involving “Harry Potter,” then ridiculous romance rumors involving “Harry Potter,” fake “Twilight”-bashing Tweets from Lauren Bacall (no, really), and more.

But here are the 20 that together helped to define the “Twilight” Tabloid Experience between the summer and tonight’s theatrical release. They’re fun, they’re wild, they’re crazy… and they’re wrong.

20. Robert Pattinson + Megan Fox = ???

Teen Choice Awards co-presenters make mistake of co-presenting in same time zone. All hell breaks loose.

19. Kristen Stewart “Tweets” Up a Storm

Unfortunately, it seems only one magazine has access.

18. Taylor Swift “Teaches” Taylor Lautner in Hotel Room

They supposedly jam until the wee hours while guests cover ears and mag’s fact checkers cover eyes.

17. “Looking Like Hell,” Cast of “Eclipse” Placed on “Lockdown”

Star magazine insists out-of-control stars get curfew. We think the editors need more sleep.

16. “Breaking Dawn” Production Rumors Just… Won’t… Stop

Every few days “news” of a fourth movie taking shape trickles from the Northwest. And one day it’ll be true. But not yet.

15. Kristen Stewart Scream 2009 Rumors… She Didn’t Go

Everyone kept insisting she’d attend the awards. We trusted our “no” sources. Disappointing news can be accurate news.

14. Robert Pattinson is a Teleporter

Outlet doesn’t get memo to wait until actor is in New York to generate fake New York rumors.

13. “Snobby,” “Miserable” Kristen Stewart is “Eclipse” “Outcast”

Actually, the entire smear piece could be placed inside quotation marks and then dumped in the water outside Vancouver.

12. New York Daily News Fakes Jennie Garth Quotes

Transcript shows paper exaggerated Peter Facinelli’s wife’s comments “outing” Robsten, but not as ridiculously as…

11. Site Fakes and Creates Chris Weitz Quotes

Blog manufactures director’s statement “outing” Robsten, fails Comedy 101.

10. Robsten’s Fantasy Island

Not satisfied with mainland rumors, tabs conjure an exaggerated couple’s getaway, albeit one more plausible than…

9. Taylor Lautner “Proposes” to Taylor Swift

We’d like to propose that certain outlets just take a “Twilight” timeout.

8. Phony Interview with Robert Pattinson Goes Everywhere

Gossip Cop actually called the perpetrators on this one – and got results.

7. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart “Keeping a Safe Distance”

Perez Hilton manages to pick up wrong story and make it 10,000 times wronger.

6. OK! Magazine Loves Robsten Rollercoaster a Little Too Much

We just got motion sickness reliving the tab’s topsy-turvy approach to reality.

5. Robert Pattinson’s Alleged Steroids Use

Mangled, out-of-context Kristen Stewart quotes generate ‘juiced’ rumors.

4. Robert Pattinson on Verge of Rehab

“His shirt was once buttoned all weird.” We’re not making this up.

3. Robert Pattinson “Injured” on “New Moon” Set

A blog alarms everyone by showing the actor bloodied… and fails to mention that it was makeup for a scene.

2. Robert Pattinson “In Mix” to Play Levi Johnston

No comment.

1. Robert Pattinson Impregnates Kristen Stewart

Due any day now…

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Glaring omissions? Personal favorites? Let us know in the comments section!

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Gossip Cop already gets too little sleep having to monitor weekly tabloids, daily newspapers, hourly blog chatter, etc. But now we’ll have even fewer Z’s given the rise of a whole new breed of bad gossip to combat – Twitter celebrity impersonators.

Someone claiming to be screen legend Lauren Bacall created an uproar among our beloved Twilighters this week when she Tweeted about watching the movie and coming away cold. “Yes I saw Twilight my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the ‘film’ was over I wanted to smack her accros (sic) her head with my shoe, but I do not want a book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die.” The so-called “Bacall” then recommended that everyone “watch ‘Nosferatu’ instead,” referring to the 1920s silent film based on Dracula. The star’s anti-Twilight comments spread like crazy as media outlets picked them up.

One tiny problem: Bacall never said any of it. Not a word. Not the real Bacall, anyway. In fact, a rep for the actress told Access Hollywood that Bacall “knows nothing” of Twitter.

This isn’t the only time this week that a fake celeb made real trouble. Gossip Cop fan Kristen Bell – fresh off a ridiculous fire rumor in the Star that we extinguished – had to contend yesterday with a poser who not only claimed to be her, but also “broke up” on Twitter with her boyfriend, Dax Shepard. Bell, unlike Bacall, IS a Tweeter, and got out the word to fans that the pretender was a fake. But not before some damage was already done.

Another high-profile Tweeter – Nicky Hilton – also found herself having to unmask an impersonator this week.

Gossip Cop will do our best to take down Twitter phonies.