Even though they axed all their freelancers, Page Six continues to find use for them. When the page isn't helping Lisa Marsh promote her other freelance endeavours, we guess they are hitting up other ex Sixers for global goods.

We have no actual proof of this, but since "spy on the scene" Fernando Gil is currently in eastern Europe for the World Cup, we're going to suggest he had something to do with this gossip item.

A GROUP of players from the U.S. soccer team, based in Hamburg for the duration of the monthlong World Cup, were checking out the prostitutes in the German city's infamous red-light district Tuesday night. "It's called the St. Pauli District, and the streets are teeming with very aggressive Eastern European hookers," said our spy on the scene.

Well, Fernando himself did say that Friday was the day you can get anything into Page Six. We just wonder: is he back on the mob's payroll?

Search For Kicks [Page Six]

Is working for Page Six losing its appeal? In today's Off the Record column in the Observer (which we knew was coming but had to do a little searching for it) we learn that a sleu of bloggers, freelancers, and even Observer staffers themselves have turned down an offer to work at the Page.

According to sources familiar with all or part of the search, people the Post has approached include Jacob Bernstein and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz of WWD, W’s Marshall Heyman, Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen, Us Weekly blogger Noelle Hancock, Christopher Tennant of Radar and 24-year-old freelance writer Derek Blasberg, who was among the young men profiled in an April 23 New York Times Sunday Styles story about New York’s new tribe of “Boldface Men.” Mr. Johnson has also contacted at least three New York Observer staffers.

The article suggests this collaborative "no" may be the result of the Ron Burkle/ Jared Paul Stern "shake-down" or because of the fact that this new full-time staffer will have to take on the partying of both Fernando Gil and Jared Paul Stern combined (a nearly impossible feat).

Whatever, we don't really care why people don't want to work there, we're just wondering if this means the Chris Wilson/Jessica Coen spat has come to an end? Oh, and what exactly is Derek Blasberg writing?

Times’ Siegal Imprinted Invisibly on Newspaper [Tom Scocca and Gabriel Sherman, New York Observer (2nd Item)

• Maybe our newfound prophet can help tell us where to hide for the second coming.

• According to Time there are people besides Anderson Cooper who influenced the world. 99 others to be exact. Of course we only care about Coop and Martha Stewart … and the fact that Stephen Colbert doesn't read news or know who we are.

• And the tuxes served double duty (but thankfully Jann only broke out the cords once) when magazines were awarded for their content, design, and EIC's hot behinds.

• Lindsay Lohan works harder than anyone else. (Except, of course, her publicist.)

• Meanwhile, Nicole Richie has no ass left to lose. Her shoes on the other hand? Those are dunzo.

• Keith Kelly wastes a ton of trees getting a lot of information wrong. And Maxim gets a new daddy.

• Anderson Cooper inspired us to adopt Fernando Gil and then ask him all sorts of crazy questions.

If any of you have been paying attention, you know by now that Jossip has unofficially adopted ex Page Six freelancer Fernando Gil. Mostly because he is a displaced foreigner, doesn't know "who the fuck Jessica Joffe is" and spends time explaining blogs to his friends.

So when he agreed to sit down with us for a Q+A, we just had to get the goods on what it's like being a gossip who hesitates to call himself a gossip.

He does not hesistate, however, to bash President Bush or the New York Times. An artist and non-scenester party hopper at heart, Gil went from NYU to Page Six and barely noticed the difference. After the jump, he reveals his affection for Midget Kiss Bands, Chris Wilson, and hypothetical gossip relating to Bush Twins and coke.

(**Please note that the opinions in this interview solely reflect those of Fernando Gil are are by no means supported or unsupported by his foster parents.)

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Well, if the freelancers at the Post have been let go, at least one now notorious gossip is unawares. Though today's Daily News story claims that Page Six contribs Fernando Gil, Lisa Marsh, Christopher Tennant and Jared Paul Stern are being "sacked," staffers may not have actually received their memos yet.

"I haven't heard anything from the Post," Stern told us.

Even though Chris Wilson put a price on our head, we're still nosing around looking for more details. Have you got some? Are you a (just announced) former Sixer? Tattle our way, baby: tattle@jossip.com.

Update: Fernando Gil tells us of his formal "firing" via the always classy out-of-office reply.

As you may have read in the Daily News, the Post has decided to hire a full time person from outside the column to be the 4th full timer along with Chris, Paula and Richard, which leaves myself and several other part-timers out of the picture. I'll still be working on the Page Six magazine, due out in September, and other parts of the paper (hey - I hear "Tempo" digs itself some Latin American writers). If you do have anything that is Page Six worthy, and would like me to pass it along to one of my peoples at Page Six, by all means send it along. Now that my Fridays are free, I'm happy to report I can take up that 53-year-old rich nerd on his long standing lunch offer (Mahmoun's falafel in ten, guy?) In any event, I look forward to seeing you all soon.

Update 2: Chris Tennant writes in to tell us he formally quit the Post two weeks ago, and the Newsies will be apologizing.

I stopped freelancing at The Post two weeks ago on my own volition to focus on other projects full-time. I've spoken to The Daily News and they've agreed to run a correction.

Earlier: Four Freelancers Axed from Page Six

Hearing four stringers at Page Six got the axe makes us sad. So we're starting a new charity: Adopt A Sixer, wherein you make sure that even without the Page Six badge, they still get to eat, drink, and party on someone else's dime all weekend. We're taking Fernando Gil under our wing, which leaves three more in need of gossip stringer love.

• Speedo
• Altoids
• USA Network's Show Us Your Character
• Cingular & One Tree Hill
• Magnolia Pictures' Somersault

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