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Can Harry Potter’s Magic Cure His Co-Star’s Swine Flu?

Karl Lagerfeld was told to STFU by Heidi Klum’s people. Courtney Love trashed a hotel room. Harry Potter cast members got Swine Flu! Presenting your Gossip Roundup!

  • Chelsea Clinton’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard is going to be at Vernon Jordan’s estate in late August, as previously reported. We’re saving the date and waiting for our invite. We should probably not hold our breathing. [NYDN]

  • Mugatu-esque German designer Karl Lagerfeld got some talk-to-the-hand from Heidi Klum’s publicist, who says that the German Vogue issue with Klum on the cover (with an apparent 140-page spread inside) sold more issues than any other. None of this matters, because Lagerfeld is still kind of a scary Mugatu-esque asshole. [Page Six]
  • Oh noez! Ron Weasley (Muggle name: Rupert Grint) has the Swine Flu. Defamer exclusive: Weasley was taken to Madam Pomfrey in the hospital wing of Hogwarts where they tried to use some healing potions to no avail. Then they had to ship him off on the Hogwarts Express back to Central London, where he became just another awesome celebrity case of Swine Flu. He is now better, and has flown back to the set of re-enactment documentary Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Meanwhile, Hermione Granger (Muggle name: Emma Watson) is keeping her relationship with Weasley under wraps as she publicly announces her plans to attend Columbia University in New York, where I will attempt to charm her with my Muggle blogging skills. It will probably fail miserably. Also, Harry Potter (Muggle Name: Daniel Radcliffe) won’t date Emma Watson because it’d be too weird for them. Good to know the competition is thinning out. [Daily News and Showbiz Spy]
  • Otis! My man! Tobey Maguire’s kid has a name, and thy Spider Man spawn’s name is Otis. People has the inside dirt on the middle name, too. [People]
  • Rumer Willis is going to be a lesbian on 90210. I hate that show and thus you will get no elaboration on what’s probably a tragically bad, sub-par attempt at Gossip Girl’s ingenious stunt casting. I’m sorry Rumer Willis, but you’re no Wallace Shawn. You just aren’t. [Daily News]
  • Courtney Love trashed her hotel room at The Inn on Irving Place. Have you ever seen The Inn on Irving Place? It’s the closest thing downtown has to a Bed and Breakfast. Like, jesus, Courtney Love: trash The Bowery Hotel. Located conveniently near the old CBGB space, you can relive memories of when that kind of thing was cool in bougie style while throwing things off your balcony at legitimately hot celebrities drinking in Bowery’s backyard. Trash the Maritime and throw things out of those weird porthole windows. Trash the douche-magnet Hotel Gansevoorte – seriously, people would love that. Trash DeNiro’s Greenwich Hotel or SoHo’s Mercer Hotel, which were practically constructed for celebrity destruction. But The Inn at Irving? Are you raging a war on cuteness? Also, you know trashing hotel rooms is, like, so 1999 when Scott Weiland, Marilyn Manson, and the rest o your Home for Formerly Addicted Friends from The Crow soundtrack or whatever aren’t doing it anymore. Seriously, old lady, put it on ice and chill the fuck out. You’re already inches from this as is. [Page Six]
  • There are 210 diamonds on the ring Kevin Jonas gave to his bride-to-be. Even I’m sitting at home with a gallon of ice cream, crying. We can haz inadequacies? There was also a small engagement party none of us were invited to. They went out for Pizza. [People and Pink Is The New Blog]
  • Levi Johnston, shopping a book. I laugh loudly every time I see mention of Tank, his multi-faceted bodyguard/publicist whose name is Tank. He also does birthday parties. [Page Six]
  • Matt Damon doesn’t want Clooney or Pitt to take home the People’s Sexiest Man Alive three-peat. Instead he’s lobbying for Hugh Jackman. I’m still lobbying for Robert Gibbs. [People]
  • Kelsey Grammer is already making jokes about the short-lived, massively underrated sitcom Back To You. [Page Six]
  • Taylor Swift used to pick up Sparklers on the wrong end and burn herself as a child. SWOON. She can do no wrong. [People]
  • Farrah Fawcett’s private funeral is going to take place on Tuesday afternoon in L.A. Interesting that they chose the same day as Jackson’s memorial service. [Reuters]

Comments (AU Comments | US Comments)

  • Foster Kamer

    @labyrinthine IS DOING THIS: I've admittedly infiltrated it before. $14 drinks that taste like shit. A great view. Always a line in front. But maybe the worst bar in New York, all said and done. Truly.

  • labyrinthine IS DOING THIS

    also...wow, you're right, Foster: that Gansevoort place looks positively douchetastic.

    labyrinthine IS DOING THIS

  • labyrinthine IS DOING THIS

    the whole Courtney Love rant... <3

    labyrinthine IS DOING THIS

  • Mount_Prion

    @onehotmess: In my opinion, which is utterly unimportant, the fact that you managed to make the above image worse means you deserve your star.

  • onehotmess

    @Mount_Prion: Is that a dress or is she molting?

  • Foster Kamer

    @maude_flanders: Believe me, I've seen My Dinner With Andre. It's no Gossip Girl. But The Princess Bride, on the other hand...

  • DahlELama

    @maude_flanders: All of that is irrelevant--Wallace Shawn was in Clueless; Rumer Willis was not. Game, set, and match.

    DahlELama

  • DahlELama

    @Mount_Prion: Definitely still has mileage. Things like this make me want to adopt Frances Bean to offer her a stable home.

    DahlELama

  • Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate

    @Oxycontin Merry-go-round: It's hard to appreciate that golden fiddle when your wife is beating you publicly with it.

  • maude_flanders

    I'm sorry Rumer Willis, but you're no Wallace Shawn. You just aren't."

    I'm an idiot for asking, but that's a joke, right?

    How many viewers of GG actually know that 1) Wallace Shawn is a playwright (in addition to being an actor) and 2) He was "Rex" from Toy Story (first movie from which I recognize that name...damn is Pixar good)?

    Damn right Rumer isn't Wallace Shawn...the audience demographic will have a (slightly) higher chance of knowing who the hell she is.

    Maybe the adults that guiltily admit to watching this beautiful-looking, questionably-written show would recognize him. (I'm in that group of "adults" who know the beautiful pool is tainted "meh" writing but came back to drink for both seasons...sigh.)

    maude_flanders

  • XavierBabakin

    Courtney's just following in the footsteps of those who've going before. My folks used to stay at the Inn at Irving Place when they'd come to visit. The manager used to tell us stories of Liza writing all over the carpet with lipstick.

    XavierBabakin

  • Mount_Prion

    Also, and I may have linked this before, but I think it still has mileage:

  • Mount_Prion

    Oh man, that description could only be better if it was the Crow II soundtrack.

    I snorted.

  • Miss Information

    @clickable: It was held last Tuesday -

    Miss Information

  • Scout 3.0

    @Oxycontin Merry-go-round:

    He has a picture of Dorian Gray in his attic.

    Scout 3.0

  • katekate is squared

    @Scout 3.0: It sort of looks like he's gearing up to punch somebody. To me his internal monologue must go something like this:

    "Hey, what are you looking at, motherfucker? You don't like this fucking $600 haircut? I'm gonna knock you out, you handsome bastard."

    katekate is squared

  • clickable

    Are you sure about Farrah Fawcett's funeral date? Because I'd swear I heard a report on the radio last week that she had been given a private funeral at a church called Our Lady of the Angels or something similar. The church name, obviously, stuck in my mind. Are you sure it wasn't last Tuesday?

    clickable

  • Oxycontin Merry-go-round

    @Scout 3.0: I thought he was checking his hairline to ensure that his deal with the devil was still intact.

  • katekate is squared

    @Private Hangnail: Be careful. You'll never get the smell of desperation out of your drapes.

    katekate is squared

  • Scout 3.0

    I guess Edwards is checking how long his nose is, in that mirror.

    Scout 3.0

  • Private Hangnail

    Courtney is always welcome to stay at my house, where the rooms have already been conveniently trashed.

  • The2ndMrsDeWinter

    @DahlELama: Exactly. Plus, GG has PG Wodehouse references in it and I'm sure that's not for the benefit of the target demographic.

    The2ndMrsDeWinter

  • jamesschneider

    It's wonderful that Karl Lagerfeld has managed to mix a truly spectacular design sense with such a winning personality. I'm really impressed with anyone who can so successfully combine entitlement with ineptitude.

    Oh, also, Otis? Otis? Toby Maguire hasn't been good in a film for maybe a decade (Wonder Boys?), but he's risen in my estimation dramatically with this turn. I'm sure he'll be thrilled to hear it.

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