Which known-to-be-straight men's magazine editor-in-chief has been spotted scoping other guys in his gym's lockerroom? Though not one to bare his entire body, abs and all, in front of other members in the changing area, this health conscious editor sneaks a peek when he thinks nobody is looking. So far, nobody has objected to the attention.
Which rumored-to-be-anorexic women's fashion magazine editor-in-chief is said to be having an extramarital affair with her art director? They are said to leave for "lunch" together and return after three long hours, perhaps from a hotel down the street. And when the two do get together in the office, it's for closed door meetings. She can be spotted attending award galas with the art director — and without her husband.
Blind Items are like the James Joyce of gossip. They’re challenging, but with hard work comes great rewards.
From Gatecrasher:
Which Oscars golden girl made her celebrity ex-boyfriend pretend to still be in a relationship with her months after they broke up, because she was afraid a split would look bad for her Academy Award campaign? It worked, and they discreetly separated months later.
You're thinking Reese and Ryan, right? Well, remember they were married and the split wasn't discreet in the least. Retro couple Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck don't work either; their dating time line doesn't line up with her Oscar. So who was the Oscar golden girl?
Blind Items are like the James Joyce of gossip. They’re challenging, but with hard work comes great rewards.
From Page Six:
WHICH fashion designer is lying to her actor beau? While she proclaims her love for her man, New York insiders say she really prefers "butch Mexican and Latino women."
Frequent Stereohyped commenter daria of Gorgeous Black Women breaks down all the possible suspects:
DVF’s husband is gay and he’s not an actor.
Donna Karan is dating a 20something model.
Tracy Reese - ??
Vera Wang - married with kids, don’t think husband is an actor
Gwen Stefani - husband musician
JLo - husband is sometimes an actor. COULD be her.
Rachel Roy - husband music exec
Stella McCartney - don’t think husband is an actor
Tobey McGuire’s fiancee is a little suspect
Which only leaves one person …
Blind Items are like the James Joyce of gossip. They’re challenging, but with hard work comes great rewards.
From Gatecrasher:
Which celebrity sibling who can't stay out of trouble has a girlfriend-of-record, but also a much-talked about romantic incident involving a same-sex pal in the Hamptons last summer?
In a few years, this could be about Linsday Lohan's little sister, or even Dakota Fanning's. But not yet. There are only a few celebrity siblings who are famous for their own troubles and most of them live on the west coast.
So which celebrity sibling swings both ways? CONTINUED »
Blind Items are like the James Joyce of gossip. They’re challenging, but with hard work comes great rewards.
From Gatecrasher:
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Which recently launched gossip Web site can't keep staff? "Our new editor went partying in Miami a few weeks ago and just sort of never came back," complains one insider, who now has to cover her 6 a.m.-3 p.m. shift. "It's awful."
Don’t fall for the red herring clue about the new editor partying in Miami.
The key to this blind item is its source, the Daily News. This is an attack piece, so first we need to determine who the Daily News hates.
They hate Eli Manning, but now that he’s gotten the Giants to the Super Bowl, they hate him a bit less. Also, he didn’t launch a gossip site recently. Same problem with Hillary Clinton. And of all the recently launched gossip sites, why would the Daily News go after some random girl in Kansas who started a gossip blog she’ll drop in a week?
So what is this recently launched gossip website that’s allegedly falling apart? CONTINUED »
Blind Items are like the James Joyce of gossip. They're challenging, but with hard work comes great rewards.
Today's blind item from Gatecrasher is intriguing and easy, which is it to say we asked for help to figure it out:
Which model-turned-actress, who is on her second actor husband, relaxes between shoots with a bong made from an enormous two-liter plastic soda bottle?
We put the clues in bold in case you're retarded.
Cindy Crawford was sort of an actress, but her second husband is a restaurateur. Tyra Banks is also sort of an actress, but no matter what Us Weekly claims, reality TV stars aren't real celebrities. Plus, Tyra Banks doesn't have a straight man in her life.
So who is this model-actress who allegedly smokes pot Ithaca College style? CONTINUED »
BLIND ITEM NO MORE After dropping out of a movie, giving up botox and starring in a blind item, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are with officially with child and according to a statement are "thrilled." Probably less than thrilled? Those two kids Tom and Nicole adopted all those years ago. Where are those guys? [People]
"WHICH big Hollywood actress is about to come out of the closet?" wonders today's Page Six. "She's been living with her girlfriend in a small town, where all the neighbors know, and the two are now engaged to be married."
Given the term "big Hollywood actress" we would have gone with Academy Award winner (and heavily rumored closet case) Jodie Foster. Then again, our celeb-obsessed younger brother's guess helpfully reminds us that the word "big" has more than one connotation.
Which brunette star of a ratings-struggling but plot-awesome primetime soap played the part of her character at an insta-passe Little Italy nightspot over the weekend? Between dancing on the banquette and frequent trips to the bathroom, the fictionally privileged actress looked more like the teen socialite she plays on TV.
The next time the Daily News feels like running a "blind" item about a female tennis player, they might consider latching onto a less readily identifiable trait. [Mollygood]
Which aging boy bander has proposed to his NYC waitress girlfriend several times already, and they’ve known each other 10 days? She keeps saying no.
Follow-up question: What kind of person is so desperate to date an aging boy bander that she hasn't run screaming for the exits despite the fact that her boyfriend of 10 days has this annoying habit of proposing marriage to a woman he hardly knows?
Also: At this point, couldn't all boy banders be accurately described as "aging?"
From today's Gatecrasher:
Which high-fashion designer uses a wingman to lure young gents back to his NYC apartment with the instructions to get them drunk enough to seduce and then disappear?
After seeing the item, Tommy Hilfiger turned to his beard and said, "Honey, did you hear that? They actually called me 'high-fashion!'"
After yesterday's stumper about the picture-perfect Hollywood couple, we weren't sure if we even wanted to take a crack at today's blind item. And yet, here it is!
Which pretty actress just chopped off her trademark blond locks because her increasingly erratic Hollywood funnyman-boyfriend didn't like the feel of extensions?
But which blond bimbo could they be singling out? And who's her slightly hair-phobic masked funnyman? Sigh. These unanswerable questions are just making us feel dumb and dumber by the day…
Ben Widdicombe throws another brainteaser at us! And this time, we're not sure what to think.
Which Hollywood megastar couple likes to have the hotel where they stay in New York clip flattering pictures of them and their child from the celeb weeklies, to put in frames before they arrive at their suite?
Whoever it is must be super famous, totally desperate for attention and obsessed with keeping up their public image of a close-knit nuclear family and showing off their only biological artificially inseminated child. But who could it be??
And now we interrupt you with a blind-item update. Thanks to an astute (and completely anonymous!) tipster we've added a late-breaking entry to the poll about the "struggling new glossy" who can't even afford to pay its outstanding photo bills.
In fact, it's so obvious, we're practically kicking ourselves for not immediately coming up with it ourselves.
"Radar [has] no mention of the story on their site," notes our source, "and aren't they supposed to be all media/celeb/gossip focused?"
They are, indeed!
So back to the polls, kids. Vote safely. Vote often. Vote…for Radar.
Earlier:
• Yo’ Magazine’s So Poor…It Just Bought An Imitation Of A Fake Rolex
Today in the Land of the Sort-Of Blind, Ben Widdicombe tantalizes us with a teaser about a certain anonymous celeb weekly that's short on profits (and, presumably, also on readers). Naturally, we're stumped (Kidding! It's totally Cocktail) so we figured we'd put this one up to a vote.
So which glossy is so broke it can't even afford to go to the free clinic? Which tab needs to take out a second mortgage just to pay its Wireimage bill? Who's about to get their celeb weekly ass kicked by the thugs consummate professionals over at x17 Patrick McMullen?
If you think you know the answer, vote below! And if you don't, just pick whichever mag you hate the most.
And speaking of blind items,* we're kinda stuck on this one:
Which network executive tries too hard to prove he’s straight? He makes a show of chasing skirts in the United States, but when he goes to Europe, his preferences are decidedly more masculine.
Damn. Until we saw the words "network executive" we were convinced the Posties were finally breaking their code of silence about alchy Aussie Col Allan, or—as he's known in some exclusive (stripper) circles—"Mr. Front Row."
*Which we were, like, an hour ago
"WHICH Oscar-winning actor has his friends worried?" asks today's Page Six. "His career's gone downhill since getting the gold statue and his drinking has increased tenfold. Now, he doesn't even try to hide his public drunkenness or his affairs."
But who could it be?
Let's put on our thinking caps and try to narrow it down! Possibly to a certain ambiguously gay someone, who followed up his mid-90's Academy Award winning performance with a slew of unwatchable family pictures.
Poor "Mystery Man." Who would have ever guessed that gratuitously long movies about gay cruises, and mentally retarded football players would have simultaneously ruin your career and fail to show you the money?
• Lindsay Lohan hires a private detective to dig up dirt on her ex-boyfriend Calum Best. Because when you're Lindsay Lohan, finding out that your boyfriend cheated on you with two coke-addled prostitutes and photographed the entire thing apparently isn't enough.
• Tired of all the negative publicity, Usher finally gets around to marrying that fiancee he's been sleeping with on the side.
• Mena Suvari pulls a Britney, sans fried chicken.
• The price of Ted Koppel's superfluous starter home? $2.3 million. The image of a banana-hammock clad Ted Koppel swimming laps in his indoor pool? Priceless.
• Mayor Bloomberg reports for jury duty, tells bailiff at county clerk's office "You ask me about that sexual harassment suit and I'll have your boss' boss' boss fired."
• "Which network news executive had to confess to cheating on his partner after he caught hepatitis?" asks Gatecrasher, who adds, "he had to tell the 50 party guests whose food he prepared by hand the day before he was diagnosed."
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