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Renée & Bradley's CANADIAN LOVE-A-THON!
After a quick trip last month to visit Bradley Cooper's hometown of Philadelphia (and an earlier jaunt to Barcelona), Renée Zellweger, 40, packed her bags again for a visit with her beau in Vancouver where Cooper, 34, is filming The A-Team. On Sept. 10 the duo dined with pals at Blue Water Café, and two nights later attended Summer Sessions at Ambleside, a charity concert organized by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan. So do all the frequent-flyer miles add up to things getting serious? One pal thinks so: "They're such a great couple. They're having a great time and are really happy."
People.com POLL
Should Idol Have Replaced Paula with Ellen?
Ellen DeGeneres, 51, will replace Paula Abdul, 47, as a judge on American Idol when it returns in January. Even Abdul claims in a Tweet, "I think Ellen will b a gr8 judge."
69% IT'S A GREAT IDEA!
ELLEN IS THE PERFECT "NICE" JUDGE
31% IT'S A BAD IDEA!
PAULA, COME BACK!
Michael Douglas 'I'M HOLDING UP FINE'
Less than two months after his son Cameron, 30, was charged with dealing methamphetamines, Michael Douglas told Scoop at the New York City premiere of his film Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, "I'm holding up fine. It's a very difficult situation and painful, as I'm sure any mother or father of a substance abuser knows."
RUMOR PATROL
IS JOHN MAYER DATING KRISTIN CAVALLARI?
According to an online report, musician John Mayer and The Hills' Kristin Cavallari "have been hooking up secretly at a mutual friend's house." That's news to Mayer, 31, and Cavallari, 22, who took to Twitter to deny the report. "I'm sure she's a wonderful gal, but we have never tasted the Skittles rainbow together," Mayer Tweeted. Responded Cavallari: "Stupid rumors, but I couldn't have said it better myself."
Maksim & Karina BALLROOM SPLIT!
The Dancing with the Stars pros call it quits as rumors swirl about what really happened
When Dancing with the Stars pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff got engaged on New Year's Eve 2008, close pal and fellow pro dancer Tony Dovolani recalls joking, "It's either going to be beautiful or a disaster. Either way it's going to be fun to watch." But when the couple called it quits Sept. 8, Dovolani ate his words. "This is not fun," he says. "It's really hard."
Things aren't likely to get easier. On Sept. 20 the pair are slated to perform together in a segment at the Emmy Awards in L.A. The following night the ninth season of DWTS kicks off. But Karina isn't dreading any awkward missteps. "It's going to be great," she says. "Maks and I have known each other for 14 years, and we were friends before anything else."
While Karina, 31, puts on a brave face, pals say Maksim, 29, has been wearing his heart on his sleeve. "He's upset," says colleague Mark Ballas. "He loved Karina very much."
But in the end nothing was enough to sustain a relationship that pals say had run its course. Early on, the duo's passion was driven by Maksim's decade-long crush on Karina. But when the couple began spending almost every waking moment together, including on the DWTS tour and in the Broadway production of Burn the Floor, some of the fantasy faded. "They discovered some things they didn't like about each other," DWTS pro Edyta Sliwinska observes.
A source says that Maksim began to realize that Karina, who previously dated Mario Lopez, was more excited about the media spotlight than the relationship itself. "Karina got a lot of [attention] when she was with Mario, and she got a lot with Maks," says the source. But, adds another, Karina realized she wasn't ready to take the plunge. "She knows now she needs to take time to focus on herself," says a Smirnoff pal.
Dovolani, at least, hopes his friends have learned something from their last tango together. At a recent dinner with Maksim, he advised his pal to "take the positives out of every experience. It was beautiful while it lasted. Now it's time to move on."
HEART MONITOR
Taking the pulse of celebrity love lives
NEW COUPLE!
SEAN PENN & JESSICA WHITE
Since meeting the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED swimsuit model at Kid Rock's house last month, Penn, 49, has been with White "all the time," says a source. On Sept. 11 they dined at N.Y.C.'s Hotel Griffou (left) and the next night arrived at Abe & Arthur's hand in hand for model Noemie Lenoir's birthday party.
HEATING UP!
EMMY ROSSUM & ADAM DURITZ
At N.Y.C.'s Dos Caminos SoHo restaurant over Labor Day weekend, Rossum, 23, and the Counting Crows frontman, 45, "were sitting side by side, kissing throughout dinner," a source tells Scoop.
NEW COUPLE!
CHRISTINA RICCI & CURTIS BUCHANAN
Following her blink-and-you-missed-it brief engagement to actor Owen Benjamin, Ricci is moving on. Since the pair's split in June, Ricci, 29, has been spotted holding hands around Los Angeles with Buchanan, an employee at Supreme skate shop. Although Ricci and Benjamin split amicably, a source says Ricci's new relationship is "not comfortable for him."
Gisele Bündchen NESTING MODE
As Gisele Bündchen, 29, awaits the December arrival of her baby with football star husband Tom Brady, 32, a source says the model is in nesting mode."She's moved up to Boston to be with him; she's staying in and getting things ready for the baby." Brady recently joked about Lamaze classes: "It couldn't be harder than training camp!"
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FASHION'S NIGHT OUT!
Style-savvy celebs gathered Sept. 10 at venues across N.Y.C. for Fashion's Night Out, an initiative to promote the fashion industry. Sarah Jessica Parker, Barbara Walters and Bette Midler showed their support at the Oscar de la Renta boutique soiree. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen served cocktails at Bergdorf Goodman before hitting Indochine's bash. And Gwen Stefani headed to Bloomingdale's, where she partied alongside iconic Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
FAST TAKES
• 9/9, N.Y.C.: Cindy Crawford helped hubby Rande Gerber toast the 10th anniversary of his lounge Whiskey Blue NY. • 9/12, San Simeon, Calif.: House's Jesse Spencer rocked out to Ciara (above) at the Audi Best Buddies Challenge: Hearst Castle. • 9/12, N.Y.C.: Gossip Girl pals Jessica Szohr and Hilary Duff gabbed at the QVC Style Fashion show and bash. • 9/12, N.Y.C.: Mischa Barton celebrated the premiere of her CW series The Beautiful Life at SL alongside Ashton Kutcher and wife Demi Moore.
MUSIC AFTER DARK
Proving that N.Y.C. truly is the city that never sleeps, the music industry's A-list partied until the early hours of Sept. 14, following a night at the MTV Video Music Awards. Celebrating her three VMA wins, Lady Gaga hosted a bash at Avenue and partied with pals Justin Timberlake, Akon and Jude Law.
- Contributors:
- CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer Garcia,
- Christina Tapper,
- Charlotte Triggs,
- Suzanne Zuckerman,
- with Shayna Rose Arnold,
- Kathy Erich-Dowd,
- Carlos Greer,
- Christine Kilpatrick,
- Lesley Messer,
- Jeffrey Slonim.
VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE
Heartbreak & Hope
After Jaycee Dugard's rescue, a look at the cases of six young people who went missing in 2009
