Serial monogamists Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper went on a “romantic” dinner date at New York’s Per Se, where the average bill is $883 per visit. Did he parlez en Français? Did she attempt to convince him she’s just Jenny from The Block? There are no further details about the rendez-vous at the link, so I’ll just throw in that he is a 36-year-old Capricorn and she’s a 42-year old Leo and a lioness would absolutely rip a goat to shreds. [TMZ]
Today, Anderson Cooper‘s new daytime talk show, Anderson, premieres with an exclusive interview with Amy Winehouse‘s family. According to a press release, Amy’s father Mitch says of the singer’s death: “She hadn’t taken drugs in three years. Everyone thought I was in denial, I wasn’t in denial, she hadn’t taken drugs. She’d been clean for round about three years….Her problem was alcohol, the last few years of her life… She was prescribed Liprium, which is a normal drug, which is given to people who are detoxing… it kind of decreases the chances of having seizures… She had a series of seizures brought on by this binge drinking and then stopping to drink….I think it’s what the doctor said, I think she had a seizure and this was the time when there was no one there to rescue her.” [AndersonCooper.com]
BTW: The Amy Winehouse–Tony Bennett duet of “Body And Soul” — her final recording — will be released on Wednesday, on what would have been her 28th birthday. [Reuters]
Beyoncé is carrying The Greatest Fetus Of All Time™ so obviously she’s going to have some insane pregnancy cravings: Oreo cookies. Pickles. Ice cream. Hot sauce. Bananas dipped in ketchup. Breakfast: croissants with melted Daim bars inside. [The Sun]
So sad: Andy Whitfield, the 39-year-old star of the Starz network’s Spartacus: Blood And Sand, died Sunday of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma after being diagnosed 18 months ago. [USA Today, AP, LA Times]
- Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi are teaming up for a comedy project on NBC. The show will be about dueling sisters — one of them played by Portia — and Ellen would be one of the producers. [Deadline Hollywood]
- Terrence Howard, actor and baby-wipes enthusiast, left a threatening message on a stranger’s voicemail. It goes a little something like this: “Nigga, you been calling my wife… If you call my wife again I’m going to come to your house and I’m going to cut your fucking throat. Understand that. I’m gonna tell you this one time. You call my wife again, I’m going to kill you.” Later, when the call was revealed to be a misunderstanding, Terence, always a gentleman, apologized: “I’m so sorry for calling you and speaking that way,” Terrence said. “I thought you were somebody that’s been harassing my wife. Please forgive me.” [Radar]
- Cristiano Ronaldo looks hot on the cover of T. That is all. [The Life Files]
- Some dude who probably has never met Jessica Simpson has written a book about her, with the super catchy title, The True Story of Jessica Ann Simpson’s 22 month long attempt to seduce a married man- her very Active Super Secret Sex life: True Story Jessica Simpson Seduction of A Married Man (Volume 1),. Sure to become a literary classic. [TMZ]
- The 84-year-old lady who hit Reese Witherspoon with her car feels just awful about it. [TMZ]
- Scrubs star Sarah Chalke is moving in to Cougar Town. [TV Line]
- Weezy hearts skateboarding. [TMZ]
- RIP Spider-Man‘s Uncle Ben. [TMZ]
- “It’s going to be an English accent. It’s always very tricky when you are doing something that is meant to be in another language. Because you are like, what accent should it be, should you do that? Well, if you’ve got a Russian accent, why aren’t you speaking Russian? It’s an English-language film. So we have taken the decision that it’s an English accent… I’ve been reading the book now, for about two months, three months, poring through it, trying to pick pieces out of it, trying to figure it out. And then a couple of history books of that era in Russia, which is fascinating.” — Keira Knightley on playing Anna Karenina. [Reuters]
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