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Robert Pattinson’s Bowel Movements Won’t Be Reported

1:15AM Foster Kamer | If sparkly vampires shit in the woods, would you listen? Did Michael Jackson drink Pepsi? Is Amy Winehouse on drugs again? Does being Ashley Durpre get you invited to parties? Is Jay-Z still gangster? Presenting your Sunday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »

Jeremy Piven’s Partying To Be Held Against Him In Court

8:28AM Kyle Buchanan | Jeremy Piven is expected to show up for his Actor’s Equity hearing tomorrow to determine whether his “mercury poisoning” excuse was totally made up, duh. The biggest hole in Piven’s defence? His exhaustively documented partying. More »

Jeremy Piven Fishes For Redemption With Diane Sawyer

2:02AM Kyle Buchanan | Maybe Jeremy Piven isn’t off the mercury—after all, his attempt to justify his recent behaviour to Good Morning America was oilier than a soy sauce-slathered eel roll. More »

Piven Could Be Forced To Pay ‘Plow’ Producers Under ‘Liar Liar Pants On Fire’ Statute

7:47AM Kyle Buchanan | Though Jeremy Piven’s ungraceful, sushi-related exit from Speed-the-Plow has at least secured him future savings on his Matsuhisa tab, he may part with that extra cash if the play’s backers have their (angry) say. More »

Was Jeremy Piven Actually Stricken With Insufferable-Diva-Poisoning?

2:57AM Kyle Buchanan | Aside from Fisher Stevens, everyone knows that Jeremy Piven’s play-quitting sushi defence is bogus (but delicious!). However, E! is now alleging that Piven never actually quit—he was fired. More »

Jeremy Piven Exposed To Toxic Sherri Shepherd-Levels During Escape From New York

4:51AM Kyle Buchanan | Sherri Shepherd’s got an entry for Hollywood PrivacyWatch! On a plane over the holidays, she realised that the “short,” fedora-clad man she’d been bothering was none other than the famously mercury-addled Jeremy Piven. More »

Broadway Audiences Prefer Their Casts Mercury-Poisoned

2:21AM Kyle Buchanan | Though we understood why Jeremy Piven’s ditched Speed-the-Plow co-stars reamed him onstage Sunday, we couldn’t fathom what it was that had made Elisabeth Moss allegedly start “sobbing.” Then, we saw the Piven-less box office: More »

‘Speed-the-Plow’ Producers Excited to Publicly Make Fun of Jeremy Piven

7:48AM Kyle Buchanan | Though David Mamet zinged Jeremy Piven’s play-quitting sushi excuse in the press, other Speed-the-Plow producers were keeping their slams anonymous until they realised just how much fun it can be. More »

Jeremy Piven Willing to Contract Any Disease That Will Get Him Off Broadway

2:11AM Kyle Buchanan | Hollywood community, Jeremy Piven is very disappointed in you. Why have you refrained from rallying around the actor as he suffers so dearly from mononucleosis… er, we mean “self-inflicted sushi poisoning”? More »

‘Avid Sushi Eater’ Jeremy Piven Blames Spicy Tuna For Neuro-Muscular Dysfunction

6:21AM Kyle Buchanan | When Jeremy Piven dropped out of Speed-the-Plow today and cited a “high mercury count” as the reason, we wondered whether that excuse could possibly be topped. As it turns out, it could! More »