Radar's feud revival with Page Six makes the Daily News' hostility hobby look amateur. (P6's Chris Wilson's bloodshed with Gawker's Jessica Coen, however, remains most interesting.)

Yesterday we pointed out the Sixer's out of character retraction of a Brittany Murphy item that, among other things, claimed she was doubly dumped by her management and publicist for being a coked up (and washed up?) actress who had sex with a waiter in a stairwell. Now Richard Johnson's camp claim that was rubbish — a retraction surely arriving only after Ms. Murphy's attorneys threatened Post-it boss Col Allan with some illicit photos.

Page Six's initial item, of course, was based on a report from Radar, which in turn stemmed from a none too blind item from E!'s Ted Casablanca. In their backstepping, the Post gossips effectively dumped blame on Maer Roshan's stable of "Pop Politics Scandal & Style" staffers. And they ain't having it. Responding today:

Although we did link to the item and the Defamer post, we never claimed the anonymous skank was Murphy; only that it didn’t reflect well on her image that a large number of her fans seemed to think it was.

If you've been able to stay up to speed thus far, you'll know this much is true: Nobody's taking responsibility for calling Brittany a coked up stairwell whore — except us. Radar, meanwhile, continues to throw a temper tantrum over Page Six's inability to get the magazine's frickin' web address correct. Ya follow?

(It's probably worth reminding our readership that we sorta kinda write for Radar. And sleep with Page Six.)

Page Six Cuts And Runs [Radar]
Related: Page 86's their Brittany Murphy tale
Related: No Junk, No Sex [Page Six]
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