August 2008 Gossip Archive (Page 32)

The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter.

Rielle Hunter's lawyer, Robert Gordon, says his client is a common citizen who is not running for public office and wishes to maintain her privacy.

"Rielle is therefore making no statement on the matter now or in the future," Gordon said. "Furthermore, Rielle Hunter will not participate in DNA testing or any other invasion of her or her daughter's privacy now or in the future."

Friday, John Edwards admitted to having an affair with Hunter in 2006 but denied he was the father of Hunter's 5-month-old daughter.

John Edwards dodges a bullet as Rielle Hunter nixes DNA testing.

Edwards offered to take a paternity test to prove it, but Hunter's statement means the issue of who the father is remains an open question.

A former Edwards campaign staff member, Andrew Young, professes to be the father, but the baby's California birth certificate lists no dad.

After months of speculation, John Edwards, the Democratic party's vice presidential nominee in 2004 and a contender again in 2008, confessed to ABC News on Friday that he lied repeatedly about his affair with Rielle Hunter.Continue Reading...

We don't see too much of Jayden James Federline, in large part because he lives with Kevin Federline, who mostly lays pretty low, and does not exactly attract hordes of celebrity gossip media even when he does venture out.

But Britney Spears appeared in Bel Air yesterday and was all smiles during her visitation day with Jayden James and his brother Sean Preston...

With the kids' grandpa Jamie Spears on hand, as well, is would appear she is doing so much better, and no-pants clubbing is a thing of the past. Phew!

Despite her recent break-up with her boyfriend of four years, accused conman Rafaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway still intends to date – in the future.

Speaking to Britain's The Independent, Hathaway says, "I don't just say no to anybody because I'd hope that people wouldn't say no to me just because I'm an actor – but they would have to be pretty extraordinary."

When it comes to making sure love lasts this time around, however, Anne Hathaway's role models are much closer to home:

"My parents have been married 25 years, with all the glory and the pain you can imagine, but have stayed together. I want a strong marriage like that."

As for the latest on Raffaello Follieri - the Italian businessman and real estate magnate who remains in prison awaiting trial on a dozen counts of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering - Hathaway remains optimistic.

"Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you can be the best thing for you, if you don't let it get the best of you," the 25-year-old says.

As for the rumored Anne Hathaway nude photos alleged to be in Follieri's private stash, the actress had no comment. Most likely because it didn't come up.

Elizabeth Edwards says husband John Edwards "made a terrible mistake" by having an affair with Rielle Hunter, but coping with the revelation was "oddly made somewhat easier" by her battle with an incurable form of cancer.

"None of these (problems) has been easy," she wrote on the political blog Daily Kos. "But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him."

Elizabeth, 59, says her husband, 55, told her about the affair with Rielle Hunter two years ago – months before her breast cancer returned.

"John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March 2007."

She says she wanted to keep it a "private matter" because it would be even more difficult to deal with on a public stage.

But, Elizabeth Edwards adds, "Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private."Continue Reading...

Sad news out of Hollywood this morning: Bernie Mac died. He was 50.

"Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago-area hospital," his representative said in a statement. "No other details are available at this time. We ask that his family's privacy continues to be respected."

Mac was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia on August 1, but was expected to make a full recovery after a few weeks of treatment

The actor - who appeared alongside Brad Pitt and George Clooney in the Ocean's Eleven franchise - also battled sarcoidosis, a lung disease, for two decades. In 2005, he announced that it'd gone in to remission.

Many people may consider the behavior of John Edwards to be disgraceful, following the Senator's admission that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter in 2006.

But the filmmaker - who met Edwards while doing a documentary on him - referred to the former candidate as an "inspiration" in an interview with Extra.

"He was very real and authentic," Hunter said in the 2007 interview, which you can watch below. "He was an inspiration to me. One of the great things about John Edwards is that he's so open and willing to try new things and do things in new ways."

Sadly, for fans of monogamy, that Rielle Hunter quote can now be taken in a very different, sexual context.

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted having an affair with Rielle Hunter even as his wife battled cancer.

He denies fathering her daughter, as has been widely speculated.

John Edwards told ABC News that he "lied repeatedly" about the affair with "a 42-year-old woman" but said that he didn't love her.

He has not taken a paternity test but "knows he isn't the father" of her love child because of the timing of the affair and the birth.

Rielle Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born February 27, 2008. The birth certificate filed in California lists no father's name.

A former Edwards staffer, Andrew Young, claims he is the father (on a side note, Young, like Edwards, is married and has three children).

The 2004 Democratic nominee for Vice President, Edwards was a top contender for the party's presidential nomination this year, pursuing his party's nod even after announcing that his wife, Elizabeth, had a deadly form of cancer.

In 2006, John Edwards' political action committee paid $114,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Rielle Hunter.Continue Reading...

Welcome, celebrity news and gossip fans, to The Hollywood Gossip Caption Contest, our Friday tradition.

This week's Caption Contest winner is slayerbarbie. Congrats! The winning entry appears below the picture!

The full list of replies appears further down the page. Thanks to all for playing and good luck again this week!

We're selling Hills body parts here! Original Hills body parts for sale! We have Jen Bunney's lips. We have Audrina's breasts. We have Heidi's lips, breasts, nose, shoulders, legs, feet, toes ...

The norm always gets boring - even if the norm is sleeping with (and living with) three unwed Playboy bunnies at one's leisure.

Yes, Hugh Hefner is reportedly falling for the "charms" of a woman outside his trio of girlfriends. The National Enquirer says he has been paying a lot of attention to a sexy, brunette Ukranian model named Dasha Astafieva.

That piece of info alone should raise a red flag - and not only is Astafieva a brunette, she may even have real boobs - but numerous European sources are also reporting Hef's hot and heavy romance with the Playboy mogul.

Check out these pics of Dasha Astafieva and you'll see why ...

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This great Audrina Patridge bikini photo below really needs no explanation, but we feel obligated to mention a few points:

1. Yes, it's actually her. Go see many more pics here.
2. We don't know specifically where this rooftop pool it in L.A., but it must have a gigantic neon exclaiming "DOUCHEBAGS ONLY!"
3. Despite these apparent, mandatory entrance requirements (as stipulated in point #2), Justin-Bobby is not present.
4. This is one EE-normous side boob alert. Good grief.

Okay, we're done. Enjoy: