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10/17/11 – 6:06 p.m.

Shia LaBeouf was not very good during a recent fight scene.

Even worse — it was not for a movie.

Gossip Cop has learned that LaBeouf got beat up by a guy in the early morning hours last Thursday in and outside a Vancouver restaurant/bar called Cinema Public House.

A source on the scene tells us another patron “said something stupid” to the actor, and then the two went at it.

According to our eyewitness, “They were both really drunk.”

But the fight didn’t end when they were kicked out by security.

We’re told the other guy continued to pummel LaBeouf on the street.

Apparently, the Transformers star was so inebriated, “He thought a lot of people [on the street] were attacking him, but the other people were trying to help” diffuse the situation.

Eventually, the brawl was broken up, and LaBeouf, who’s in Vancouver shooting The Company You Keep, hopped into a cab and split.

LaBeouf has been in a few scraps over the years, including a fight last February at a bar in Sherman Oaks, California.

UPDATE – 10/18/11

Now there’s video of part of the fight. Check it out below.

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Shia LaBeouf was reportedly kicked out of the L.A. opening of The Box nightclub on Friday after an altercation with a friend of Marilyn Manson.

According to the New York Post, the actor “exchanged tense words with a friend of Manson’s, who lunged over the table at Shia, and Shia lunged back. Security stepped in quickly and broke it up before any punches were thrown.”

The paper says LaBeouf was escorted out of the bar by two security guards, with his girlfriend Karolyn Pho running down the stairs after them.

A rep for the Transformers star denied the report, telling the Post LaBeouf “actually left the club early as planned… exiting through a crowded room was apparently misinterpreted. No altercation occurred.”

Gossip Cop has reached out to the rep for additional comment.

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Shia LaBeouf revealed to Details magazine that he hooked up with Megan Fox while filming Transformers, and says she may or may not have been with now-husband Brian Austin Green at the time.

Whoops.

Asked if he and Fox got together while making the movies, LaBeouf nodded affirmatively, explaining, “Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them.”

LaBeouf continues, “I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry onscreen.”

When the interviewer asks whether Fox was dating Green at the time of the hookup, the actor replied, “I don’t know, man. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know,” repeating “I don’t know” eight more times, before concluding, “It was what it was.”

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Shia LaBeouf is quitting the Transformers franchise.

After starring in the first three films, he says, ”I’m not coming back to do another one. I don’t think [director Michael Bay] will either. It still is a hot property, I think, especially coming out of the third one. So I imagine they’ll reboot it at some point with someone else.”

And even though he’s leaving Transformers behind, LaBeouf says, “I’ll go see it opening night, I’ll be there [for the fourth film].”

He acknowledges there will be “a disconnect” watching someone else play his character, and jokes, “It’s mine, dude. It’s mine.”

Still, LaBeouf is happy he’s going out on a high note.

He tells MTV News, “This is the best movie we’ve made, I’m serious. It’s not a joke. I’m dead honest, man. I get myself in trouble all the time, but this is our best installment. It’s our best movie.”

Transformers: Dark of the Moon will hit theaters on July 1.

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Josh Duhamel is going to return to “All My Children” as a thank you to the soap opera that started his career.

A rep for the actor confirms to Gossip Cop that Duhamel will reprise his old role of Leo du Pres on the ABC series, which is going off the air in September.

Duhamel’s character will be on the show one, possibly two times towards the end of the summer before the soap ends after 41 years on the air.

In 2002, the Transformers star won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama for his portrayal of du Pres.

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“Josh Duhamel To Replace Regis On Live???” asks Perez Hilton about news that the Transformers actor may replace Regis Philbin on “Live with Regis & Kelly.”

The celebrity blogger exclaims, “Wow! We didn’t see this one coming!”

Neither did Duhamel, but more about that in a second.

According to Perez, “Source close to the production of Live With Regis and Kelly have revealed that upon Philbin’s exit from the morning talk show this summer, Josh Duhamel may be in the running to fill his vacant seat – because he’s apparently a favorite guest of [Kelly] Ripa‘s!”

“That would definitely be a pretty huge career shift for him!” adds Perez, who seems to substitute exclamation points for fact-checking.

Gossip Cop, however, spent an entire 40 seconds to check out this story, and as Duhamel’s rep tells us, there’s “no truth” to this tale.

Philbin announced he was retiring from “Live” three weeks ago.

On this Super Bowl Sunday, once again Perez fumbles.

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“Knocked Up star Katherine Heigl‘s intense off-screen relationship with Transformers hunk Josh Duhamel has plunged both of their marriages into crisis,” begins a piece in the National Enquirer.

Heigl and Duhamel, who recently co-starred in Life As We Know It, supposedly have a “flirty bond,” says the tab, and it’s “infuriating” their spouses, Josh Kelley and Fergie.

And there’s more… Apparently, Heigl and Duhamel “refuse to tone down their relationship,” reports the Enquirer.

“Josh and Katherine make late-night calls to one another and e-mail throughout the day,” says a so-called “insider,” and Kelley is “complaining to pals,” while Fergie is “suspicious” of her husband.

So is the Heigl-Duhamel situation really “a mess for both couples,” as the Enquirer claims?

No.

In fact, the only “mess” is the one created by the Enquirer.

Duhamel’s rep tells Gossip Cop the story is “all false.”

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Some outlets should know better than to try to make a wizard disappear.

A rumor that Harry Potter star Emma Watson has been dropped as the face of fashion house Burberry in favor of Transformers beauty Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is everywhere this morning.

Sky News reported that Watson had helped boost sales for the company over the course of their partnership, but was going to be “sidelined” for a future campaign. Soon enough, Parade.com and other major sites perpetuated the story that Watson was “canned.”

But Gossip Cop found out the Hogwarts heroine’s supposed ouster is hogwash.

Huntington-Whiteley’s rep tells us the actress-model’s involvement with Burberry is nothing new, and that she is not “replacing” Watson, who will remain with Burberry.

It looks like the only star for whom Huntington-Whiteley is a full-fledged substitute is Megan Fox.

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“Is Megan Fox Still Hung Up on Shia LaBeouf?” asks a recent post by Celebuzz.

The site, picking up a rumor originally floated by the Chicago Sun-Times, writes, “Megan Fox’s lips might have said ‘I do’” when she married Brian Austin Green last month, but “her mind is still thinking ‘I would’ when it comes to her former Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf.”

A so-called “pal of Fox’s” claims the actress “never got over” LaBeouf and “Brian has always been her second choice.”

Seriously?

Fox, who recently gushed to the media about how deeply in love she is with Green, is “hung up” on a rumored fling?

If it sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is.

A source close to Fox tells Gossip Cop it’s completely untrue, and “she’s happily married to the guy of her dreams.”

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Megan Fox is engaged to longtime boyfriend Brian Austin Green, her rep confirms to Gossip Cop.

The two have been dating on and off since Fox was 18.

There are no details yet about when the couple plans to tie to knot.

Over the weekend, Fox had some comments about marriage.

“I’ve been in this relationship for so long and I love [Brian] so much and of course [marriage is] in the future somewhere,” she told “Access Hollywood” at the Jonah Hex junket on Sunday in LA. “I’m not closed to that idea.”

The Transformers star also mentioned her desire to keep her theoretical nuptials traditional.

“I just think, if you’re going to [get married,] if you’re going to be with someone and make a commitment, it’s good to tell the universe, to say I’m committing to this person and making them my family,” she explained.

Fox and Green were previously engaged from late 2006 to early 2009.

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Is Megan Fox moving on from battling robots to facing off with pirates?

According to Showbiz Spy, the former Transformers star “is mulling over a number of big movie offers including another sci fi franchise and a role in the next Pirates of the Caribbean.”

The source even dishes that Fox “would play a mermaid who charms Captain Jack but she has a dark motive.”

“Megan has always loved Johnny [Depp],” the source alleges, “and is desperate to work with him.”

While it’s accurate that Fox’s name is being bandied about for several roles, this mermaid tail, er, tale sinks.

A rep for Disney confirms to Gossip Cop, the “story is not true.” 

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Paramount will NOT pick up Megan Fox‘s option for Transformers 3, Gossip Cop can confirm, meaning she’ll be out of the blockbuster franchise that made her an international sex symbol.

And while her rep tried to transform the order of events by stating, “It was her decision not to return,” a Paramount spokesperson assures Gossip Cop that, on the contrary, ”Her option has not been picked up.”

The team behind the next installment is readying a script that gives star Shia Labeouf a new love interest.

Fox and the films’ director, Michael Bay, shared an intermittently antagonistic working relationship.

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Megan Fox hates paparazzi and restaurant silverware.

The actress says she’d like to do “physical harm” to the photographer whose shots of a topless Fox made their way online earlier this year.

“I’m not a f—ing reality-TV star that’s courting the paparazzi and wants my f—ing picture taken all the time,” the Transformers siren tells Allure. I’m at my job and I’m trying to play a character and I’m trying to be serious, and this is the sh—that’s happening to me. It makes me furious.”

In a wide-ranging interview featuring numerous F-bombs, Fox also addresses her obsessive compulsive tendencies and desire to be alone.

“This is a sickness,” Fox says of her germaphobia. “I have an illness — This is not OK anymore.” The actress won’t use public toilets without covers or restaurant utensils.

“Putting my mouth where a million other mouths have been, just knowing all the bacteria that you carry in your mouth? Ucch!”

As for being in public at all, the beauty known for box office blockbusters speaks highly of isolation.

“I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.”

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“Megan Fox, You Are Going To Be HOT As A Princess Warrior In Your New Flick!” declares HollywoodLife, which unbeknownst to the Transformers star has cast her in that film.

The site goes on to definitively report, “Megan Fox is going to be Robert Rodriguez’s next muse! The (sic) will star in his remake of the 1985 film Red Sonja, according to the London Sun.”

Actually, The Sun does NOT say that.

While HollywoodLife is 100 percent sure Fox is “Going To Be HOT As A Princess Warrior” in the film, The Sun simply speculates, “Foxy Megan is Red hot Sonja?”

Rather than lazily claiming fiction as fact, Gossip Cop investigated this, and Fox is NOT going to star in Red Sonja.

Oops.

A rep for the actress confirmed to Gossip Cop, “She is not on that project.”

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UPDATE – 12:15PM 1/10/10

The receipts are in, and Avatar actually had a BETTER weekend than expected, pulling in $48.5 domestically to help raise its worldwide total to $1.34 BILLION.

With a “B.”

We’d say James Cameron‘s having a pretty good year.

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ORIGINAL POST – 1/9/09

An astounding box office run continues for Avatar, estimated to finish as the (easy) #1 at the box office for a fourth consecutive weekend.

Already the second-highest grossing movie of all time (worldwide) behind director James Cameron‘s own Titanic, the sci-fi epic raked in an estimated $13 million on Friday to kick start what looks to be a $46 million weekend. The film’s cumulative haul is expected to rise to roughly $425 million at the North American box office, overtaking Transformers: Rise of the Fallen as the top domestic movie released in 2009.

Meanwhile, the film is approaching $800 million overseas, edging closer to $1.2 billion overall.

Wow.

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Rihanna never ever said, “I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.”

Nevertheless, the quote was attributed to her, and rumors of her being a lesbian have exploded all over the Internet and onto the pages of numerous newspapers.

The Mirror, for instance, wrote: “Rihanna has revealed she is attracted to women – and would love a fling with Hollywood stunner Megan Fox.”

The article continued, “The Umbrella star – who was badly beaten-up by her ex boyfriend Chris Brown in February – said could see herself with a girlfriend in the future. The Barbadian singer said: ‘All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.’”

And websites like StarPulse similarly reported, under the headline “Rihanna Is Open To A Lesbian Romance,” that she “won’t rule out a same-sex romance,” having said, “All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.”

Again, the problem is Rihanna NEVER said those words – Megan Fox did.

In the original interview, upon which all this false information disseminated, Rihanna told the Daily Star – in response to whether she would like to break into acting — “I’d love to be an assassin. Either that or a lesbian. Maybe both! Hey, a gay assassin, there’s nothing hotter than that.”

And when asked who she would like to play opposite, “She purred: ‘Megan Fox – hands down. She’s yummy. She’s hot.’”

Here’s where the (sexual) confusion comes in…

The Daily Star then wrote that Fox “has never been shy about her penchant for… the ladies. She said: ‘All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.’”

Many outlets mistook the “She said” to mean that Rihanna uttered those words when, in fact, it was a quote Fox gave to the October 2008 issue of GQ, though, for full disclosure, the “Transformers” star also prefaced it with “I’m not a lesbian.”

While several outlets out there should be sorry for their wrongly reported stories, Gossip Cop would like to apologize to the guys out there whose TWO fantasies we crushed in one single post.

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In an article titled, “Jason Texting His Ex!” the Star claims that Britney Spears begged boyfriend Jason Trawick to join her in Australia for her Circus tour after she discovered he was still in touch with his ex Rachael Taylor” of “Transformers” fame.

The piece quotes a so-called “source” who alleges that, before Spears headed Down Under, “she checked his BlackBerry and found superflirty texts back and forth between them!” The pop star then supposedly confronted Trawick, who “told her she couldn’t tell him what to do,” says that same unnamed “insider.”  

Are you believing any of this?

But wait, in an interesting twist, the supermarket rag goes on to say that it was Trawick’s own jealousy that got him on a plane to Australia. Again, thanks to the “source,” the Star states, “Jason worried that Britney would hook up with backup dancer Chase Benz.”

Still believing any of this?

Well, you shouldn’t. Spears and Trawick — who brought the singer’s boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James, to Australia — are doing fine. A source close to Spears called the Star‘s report “bulls**t.” 

Spears has been embroiled in controversy ever since she arrived in Australia, first with her lip-synching flap and then yesterday when she was hacked on Twitter. 

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Gossip Cop wanted to update the Josh Duhamel and Fergie story that’s still making the rounds.

An Atlanta stripper’s allegation that she had sex with “Transformers” star Duhamel in his hotel room continues to attract huge attention, even though very little new information has emerged since supermarket tab The National Enquirer paid Nicole Forrester for her story.

What we do know at this point is that the couple has been spending time together, Black Eyed Pea Fergie believes her husband, the tabs are still mostly going on a questionable polygraph test Forrester took, and Gossip Cop has received numerous tips doubting her credibility. Additionally, unflattering chatter about the stripper is starting to emerge. Yesterday, someone who knows Forrester called into “The Bert Show” on Atlanta’s Q100 radio station – the same one that interviewed her – and said the stripper’s done crazy things in the past, and “people will do crazy stuff for money, especially that kind of money.”

Until we see an outlet put together a story more substantive than the (dubious) original, we’re not going to “transform” our minds.

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Did “Transformers” star Josh Duhamel, who married Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie in January, really have a “Georgia breach” of fidelity with an Atlanta stripper?

The National Enquirer claims Duhamel “has cheated on his gorgeous new wife Fergie – secretly having a wild fling with a buxom, blonde stripper.” Nicole Forrester tells the supermarket tab she met Duhamel at Tattletales Lounge, the club where she works, and later agreed to visit him in his hotel room, where they allegedly had sex. Forrester goes on to claim the actor became worried about being caught after their night together and didn’t answer her phone calls.

Yeah, Gossip Cop isn’t buying it. The Enquirer paid Forrester for her story, and the dancer later tried to wring the tab for more money. The rag’s entire “investigation” appears to be based on her story, which features no independent eyewitnesses except the one placing Duhamel at Tattletales – a visit he’s never denied.

The Enquirer says its “investigation” “proved key parts of Nicole’s story” – but doesn’t reveal which parts or how.

Duhamel’s representative didn’t mince words when speaking with Gossip Cop, saying, “This is not the first nor will it be the last time that a stripper was paid a large amount of money to sell a false story about a celebrity. This story is absolutely ridiculous.”

After Gossip Cop stripped the story down, there seemed to be no truth to Forrester’s tattletales.

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A new rumor claims Megan Fox faces the “distinct possibility” of a “gory death scene” in a third “Transformers” movie, thanks to her outspoken comments about how difficult she found working for director Michael Bay.

Perez Hilton and others are picking up an In Touch report that says Fox’s character might be killed off early in the next sequel and swapped with a new female lead. Supposedly, according to the magazine’s “source,” Bay is “very quietly looking for her replacement.” 

Very quietly. So quiet, in fact, no one can confirm it’s actually happening. And you know why? Because a rep for Fox tells Gossip Cop the story is “not true.”

Hilton concluded his inaccurate regurgitation by saying, “You dug your own grave on that one, Foxy.”

If there’s one thing Perez doesn’t know, it’s how to dig.

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Is Shia LaBeouf checking out other women right in front of reported new girlfriend Carey Mulligan?

The New York Daily News claims the Transformers star did just that last Thursday on the set of Wall Street 2, in which he co-stars with Mulligan.

“Shia LaBeouf has a wandering eye,” the paper says, “even when his girlfriend is around.”

Wow, really?

A witness tells the paper, “Shia was blatantly ogling a pretty brunette, and his girlfriend was standing right next to him! What a dog!”

Right next to him? On Thursday?

That’s funny, because Mulligan wasn’t on the set of Wall Street 2 on Thursday. She wasn’t even in New York on Thursday. Mulligan’s rep confirms to Gossip Cop that she was in Los Angeles that day for the premiere of her film, An Education, where we saw plenty of photos of her on the red carpet.

We’re not sure what the Daily News‘ “witness” saw back in New York, but he or she may want to consult an optometrist.

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It wasn’t all love for “Transformers” beauty Megan Fox after a screening of her new film, “Jennifer’s Body,” at the Toronto International Film Festival. As she signed autographs for fans, Fox encountered a heckler who wasn’t shy about sharing his feelings. Gossip Cop doesn’t think anyone deserves this kind of treatment.

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