Rush & Molloy stringer, Ladies Man(tm), and Bill O'Reilly target Sean Evans gave himself a difficult task: Get wasted on organic booze and see if the hangover is less intense, as the rumors say. The results? "There was no headache, and at first everything felt groggy. But despite being slightly slow, after a quick shower nearly all symptoms had dissipated. There was no nausea, no stomach pain; no normal hangover feelings." He still ate street meat. [NYDN]
Page Six gossip Paula Froelich wrote a book. Ex-colleague Jared Paul Stern writes for a blog. And retired Gatecrasher and current Star television face Ben Widdicombe is probably scribbling something between two hardcovers right about now. But former Rush & Molloy stringer Patrick Huguenin? He's gone and wrote himself a play. It's called Paper Dolls, opens tomorrow at the NYC Fringe Festival, and centers around a one Claire Cunningham, a the gossip columnist conceit who "once cried her way onto a plane to spy on Madonna." And there is scandal! Worse than anything Hud Morgan did on Daily News reality show Tabloid Wars! [Paper Dolls]
While Steppin' Out may battle Our Town for the least-read NYC-area publications, it does get its name in the news thanks to Chaunce Hayden, the magazine's editor and one-time Page Six item planter (before a nasty little libel suit put an end to that). The magazine is a place for mini-somebodies to make names for themselves.
Enter this as-yet-unpublished cover of Steppin' Out, featuring a one Shallon Lester. Who? She's the Rush & Molloy gossip stringer who speaks with a slight lisp, and whose "single girl" videos for DoubleAgent.com are actually funny. (She's also only been to the Hamptons, like, once, so she's insta-likable.)
Lester is also the star of an upcoming reality show, which means this cover may be only the beginning! CONTINUED »
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You might know Lester from her chronicled attempts of trying to be Paris Hilton' BFF. But she's also the co-author of Hot Mess, about a surburban girl who takes to New York City to, like, try and make it.
As Amazon describes the book: "Emma’s totally prepped for days at a fabulous internship and nights of socialite-ing around town. But when you’re 17 and not an heiress, reality is far from pink fizzy drinks and red velvet ropes. As the summer heats up, Emma learns that glamour is hard to come by when your only friend is too boy-crazy to hang, your budget is more H&M than D&G, and you spend 8 hours a day working for a man who proves that the devil wears Dockers too."
Which has this video from Lester making perfect sense. It's where she describes the Hamptons, a mythical place she says she's never been to, as a place for losers. (Which it totally is! See you there this weekend?)
The video is below and, warning, it auto-starts. But it's quite funny.
Update: Lester writes in to tell us that she went to the Hamptons this weekend. A virgin no more! CONTINUED »
Rush Limbaugh, gone too far? That's like accusing Bill O'Reilly of, well, the exact same thing.
Fresh off their O'Reilly attack, Rush & Molloy are pushing a story today that the pundit's "anal poisoning" comments crossed some sort of threshold into the inappropriate.
"Limbaugh was ranting against Sen. John McCain on his radio show this week when a caller asked whether he thought McCain would pick Sen. Lindsey Graham as his running mate," they report. "Limbaugh doubted it, though he admitted: 'I may be wrong … Lindsey Graham is certainly close enough to [McCain] to die of anal poisoning.'"
As bloggers point out, it's the third time he's used the phrase in 13 months. But Limbaugh's camp maintains the term is just a more graphic way of saying "brown-nosing." And, well, it just may be, so long as it's physically possible to get screwed in the pooper while getting your face up in there too.
And can you pretend to be surprised when you let you know that FoxNews.com's coverage of all this makes no mention of the keywords?
Bill O'Reilly is playing more offensive defense following the latest embarrassment over his search for non-existent homeless veterans.
You'll recall, last week director Robert Greenwald rounded up some homeless vets and brought them to Fox News' studios to show the anchor that, yes, these people, afflicted by the economy, really do exist. O'Reilly sent producer Jesse Waters, acting as his liason, out to meet them, and to accept their 17,000-signature petition demand he apologize for his remarks.
So on Friday night's show, O'Reilly defend himself against Greenwald, calling him a "fanatical leftist who is obsessed with Fox News." And also, Greenwald directed that movie bomb Xanadu, or as O'Reilly says, "Xan-A-Dooo." HA HA HA, look at the bad director!
Fourth grade playground taunting only gets your argument so far.
So O'Reilly then goes after the New York Daily News' George Rush and Joanna Molloy, the "notoriously dishonest" twosome who "printed a hatchet job" after "sending one of their minions," ladies man Sean Evans, to the scene, where he declines an interview request about a story that has nothing to do with him. For shame.
And also: NBC News is also going to hell! Why would they send a camera crew to cover such a staged event? The O'Reilly Factor, of course, remains completely innocent of such digressions.
Exclusive:
After a year-long stint at Gatecrasher, gossip girl Laura Schreffler (right) is ditching the Daily Snooze in favor of a new gig as senior writer for OK! magazine, leaving the features managing editor (and intimidating Irishwoman) Orla Healy behind in favor of buxom Brit Sarah Ivens.
And with Schreffler originally slated to take a features position in the Daily News' Los Angeles bureau, some PR insiders are already whispering that some last minute "drama" and/or internal conflict was the cause for the split.
Schreffler is quick to dispel those rumors, however, insisting she left Orla and the Daily News on "great terms," and explaining "I just didn't feel that being a hard news reporter was the right move for me." (In which case, OK! magazine was definitely the way to go!)
First Cristina Kinon decamped for TV writer Richard Huff's wings, and now Patrick Huguenin is also taking off for another Daily News wing: features, where he'll be a staff writer. (He also appears to be taking over the "Perfect Ten" column from new New York staffer Chris Rovzar, so send those pitches!) In Huguenin's wake is newcomer Sean Evans, who we hear is quite the ladies man.
In some bizarre "fate of the universe" logic exercise, we're going to assume the slight pay raise he'll receive will somehow make up for the axing of boyfriend Chris Ciompi from the top gig at Genre.
Breaking news alert! Apparently, in addition to being a pretentious dickwad who wears more eyeliner than your mom, Jared Leto is also lousy in the sack! And his publicist (in the unlikely event he actually has one) is seeing double today.
Reports Rush & Molloy:
Perhaps Jared Leto should concentrate on quality instead of quantity as he cuts a swath across womankind. Penthouse Pet of the Year runnerup Krista Ayne gave the raccoon-eyed actor only an average grade after their alleged tumble. "Okay, I admit it, I hooked up with Jared Leto. He's a really nice guy. The sex wasn't that good though," the bounteous brunette tells Steppin' Out mag's Chaunce Hayden. "I'd give him a 7 on a scale from 1 to 10 in bed." We hear Leto's called Ayne semi-constantly since we called him for comment - perhaps to bring his average up?
But Richard Johnson and his hardworking Page Six minions were not to be outdone.
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A well deserved kudos to the Kobe Club's publicist, whose round of blind item planting actually worked.
From today's Page Six:
WHILE Lindsay Lohan is off filming in Hollywood, her mom, Dina Lohan, is busy showing where Lindsay might have picked up her moves. Dina, spotted in a "really short dress and boots," made some fellow diners at Kobe Club lose their appetites Wednesday night. A guy sitting next to Dina was "all over her," we're told. "Dina had a napkin in her lap and hiked up her dress," our source says. "The guy put his hand under her napkin . . . It went on for like five minutes." After the guy realized he was being watched, he stopped whatever it was he was doing. A rep for Dina said, "That's a disgusting lie and it's completely untrue."
From today's Rush & Molloy:
Lindsay's mom, Dina Lohan, liked the beef at Kobe Club Wednesday night, both on the plate and off. Showing a lot of leg in a miniskirt and knee-high stiletto black leather boots, the Lohan mother ship nibbled the high-end home cooking at Charlie Walk and Jeffrey Chodorow's steakhouse between nuzzling a silver-haired gentleman who looked a lot more dignified than her ex, Lindsay's imprisoned dad, Michael.
Indeed, a lot more dignified. He did, after all, have the courtesy to place a napkin above Dina's pleasure zone.
Matt Damon, humanitarian? Sure, he'll toss his hat in the ring for any cause of George Clooney's, but what about Matt Damon, the man who's saving one life at a time? He's there, kids, for anyone who will listen — like The Good Shepard co-star Mark Ivanir.
In one scene, Ivanir, who plays a KGB officer, is tortured by three CIA agents who cut off his clothes with scissors, hold him down, put a burlap bag over his head and douse his naked body with freezing water.
“Matt told me, ‘We should have a warning sign if you feel like you’re really in danger. You really could get hurt with that mask suffocating your face,'” Ivanir tells Us.
“Sure enough, if Matt hadn’t thought of an alert to stop filming, I really would have passed out and died. It would have been great publicity for the film, but not so good for my career!”
We also have a warning sign: When we say "Kentucky." That's when we expect our partner to remove the clothespins from our nipples, the fishing wire from our scrotum, the hot wax from our chest, and the gerbil from our ass. Works like a charm, everytime.
Today's Fox 411 column from Roger Friedman included with it a little update about Jermaine Dupri's split from Virgin Records' Urban Division following the sales slump of girlfriend Janet Jackson. Also included? A reference to a previous column that, supposedly, broke the news "exclusively." And all it takes is one mention of "exclusive" to get our Scoop Wars synapse firing.
From today's Fox 411:
We told you exclusively on Saturday [Oct 21st], but it has since then been confirmed that producer Jermaine Dupri, boyfriend of Janet Jackson, has left Virgin Records, and the complete flop of Janet’s new album is the reason.
Oh, but wait, what's that? You say that even if Friedman has the story on Oct. 21, the tag team Rush & Molloy had that story .. the day before? From R&M on Friday, Oct. 20:
We told you on Monday that Jermaine Dupri had threatened to quit his job as president of Virgin Record's urban music division because he blamed his colleagues for badly marketing the CD of his girlfriend, Janet Jackson. Yesterday, sources said Dupri was in fact out of there. A rep for Virgin CEO Jason Flom had no comment by deadline.
And, to be sure, the Monday mentioned was Oct. 16, giving George and Joanna a full five-day lead on Friedman's column. And the obvious winner in this round of Scoop Wars is: Rush & Molloy.
This just in: Gossip gurus George Rush and Joanna Molloy have found a replacement for semi-departed tag-team stringers Chris Rovzar and Jo Piazza. Cristina Kinon, the now former associate editor at Gotham and Hamptons magazines, will be the new face floating around the gossip scene. Which means, along with Ben Widdicombe's Lloyd Grove's Katherine Thomson, the Daily News will be a mob scene of XX-chromosomed roving dirt receptacles.
Emails Cristina to her network of untouchables:
I'm really excited to let you all know that, after almost two years at Gotham and Hamptons, I will be making the leap from glossies to newsprint. Starting September 25, I will be working at the New York Daily News as reporter for Rush & Molloy. It's been such a pleasure getting to know all of you during my time here, and I look forward to working with you on new projects in the future (or maybe just dishing on your celeb clients!).
No word yet as to if she will be joined by the standard male counterpart, but we hear there are some ex-Voice staffers still looking for work. Chris (when he's back from Europe in January?) and Jo, meanwhile, are now free to roam the depths of the News features department, doing the bidding of Orla Healy while still convincing Armin Amiri they need to be inside Bungalow 8.
We always thought Johnny Knoxville was a stoner and a jackass. Turns out, he's just the latter.
Smoking a laced joint with Willie Nelson qualifies as "one of the worst things" the magazine cover boy has ever experienced. Point of the story: Willie's got the hook-up … and Rush & Molly don't approve of these extra-curricular activities.
The duo also doesn't approve of whichever obnoxious word Knoxville used to describe Angie Dickinson's hoo-hoo, while explaining why he couldn't just say no.
"I'm not a weed person, but when Willie Nelson passes you a joint, you don't say no," the "Jackass" star tells Playboy. "That's like Angie Dickinson passing you her [sexual organ] and you saying, 'No, no, no.'"
Sexual organ? Uh, ew. We are a bit perplexed as to why anyone would run this pointless quote, let alone run it they had to sub out the language. But running the quote and replacing "vag" with "sexual organ?" It's actually more awkward than just coming out and saying "cooter."
Side Dish [Rush & Molloy, Daily News]
When we hit last night's Entertainment Weekly Must List party at Buddha Bar, we expected to see the likes of Christina Aguilera (and did we!), Neil Patrick Harris, Nelly Furtado, Vanessa Carlton, and Oxana Baiul. (Actually, we had no idea what the hell Oxana was doing there. Or anywhere, for that matter.) But we never imagined we'd have the pleasure of meeting one of the famed TMZ.com paparazzi — their dedication which brings us endless footage of Paris Hilton crashing her car, Paris Hilton singing to her own music, and Paris Hilton hating on Lindsay Lohan with Brandon Davis. So meet Willem DeVries, who's much better suited to be in front of the camera instead of behind.
And who else did we have the pleasure of meeting? That'd be Rush & Molloy's brand new intern: Columbia-educated Debbie Newman (pictured here with her friend Lee, who may or may not be stalking us), who told us she just started the gig this week. She was there getting the field experience every new gossip needs — and because R&M minions Jo Piazza and Chris Rovzar took all the "Kayne West at Cipriani" RSVPs.
MollyGood does EW: The Gaspacho Edition [Mollygood]
(Left: Jan. 16 issue; Right: Jan. 23 issue)
In between believing Colin Farrell's attorney's managed to shut down DirtyColin.com, Rush & Molloy today are pushing another half-truth that we've yet to see evidence of regarding a one Ms. Lindsay Lohan. Sure, they got most of the story correct about Lindsay claiming VF scribe Evgenia Peretz twisted her words, but what's this about Star magazine misspelling La Lohan's name on the cover?
P.S. At least Vanity Fair spelled her name correctly: The cover of Star calls her "Lindsey."
We weren't sure which cover of Star they're referring to, but the recent copies we've seen spell Lindsay's name as accurately as William Safire would.
Out of the blue, Colin's sex tape lands on Web [R&M]
Official Site [Star Magazine]
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