Breaking: Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish are Expecting (To Put Lawyers on Fox Gossip’s Doorstep)!

Resident Fox gossipmonger Roger Friedman outdid himself this morning with the “news” that romantically linked Stop-Loss co-stars Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish are “apparently having a child.” You wouldn’t know it now, of course, with Friedman’s allegation deleted from his copy without any note or citation from his editors at Fox News. Thank goodness for the quick-thinking eagle-eyes at The Huffington Post, who nabbed a screengrab of the offending passage you can spy after the jump.

Yikes! This is quite a difference from the “Abbie Cornish (whom Phillippe is rumoured to have romanced)” revision hastily implemented just after HuffPo’s item broke. This is what always happens any time Friedman breaks from his beloved, played-out Michael Jackson beat, but hats off to him and the gang at Fox for keeping the class alive by pretending his lies, rumours and innuendo never existed. Though we can’t say the same for either star’s lawyers, we’ll pretend — for the hundredth or so time — that we didn’t see that.

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• First Reese Witherspoon, Now It’s Ryan Phillippe’s Turn in ‘Stop-Loss’ [Fox News]