Kelly Slater
Gossip

Note to The Hollywood Gossip staff: if this whole celebrity gossip thing doesn't work out, take up surfing.

Earlier this year, Kelly Slater was rumored to be dating Cameron Diaz. Now?

There's little doubt he's getting it on with Bar Refaeli.

In fact, Israeli police detained the eight-time world surfing champion early Saturday after a scuffle with entertainment news reporters who were trying to take pictures of him with the Israeli supermodel who used to date Leonardo DiCaprio.

Israeli photographers were waiting outside as Rafaeli and Slater left a hotel in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya before dawn Saturday, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

In an effort to prevent the cameramen from taking pictures, Slater reportedly gave them a shove; from there, a brawl broke out and Kelly was taken for questioning and later released.

Kid Rock would be proud.

Kelly Slater is a surfing champion.

Alas, he claims he is not the champion of Cameron Diaz.

In other, non-lame segue words: they have not been dating. Despite the time these beautiful people have been spending together, don't read too much into the relationship.

"We're just friends," Slater told People magazine last week at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Tournament, adding that he and Diaz met "a few years ago" when he appeared on her MTV show, Trippin'.

Asked how Diaz is doing in the wake of her recent split from Justin Timberlake, Slater profoundly said:

"She's doing well."

Slater, an eight-time world champion surfer, and Diaz were spotted catching some waves together in Hawaii last month. Her ex, meanwhile, has been spotted getting cozy with Scarlett Johansson on more than one occasion.

The odds of JT and CD getting back together are pretty much as high as those of Howard K. Stern actually being the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

Kelly Slater has two things going for him:

1. His name is the combination of two well-liked Saved by the Bell characters.
2. He's seen Cameron Diaz naked.

He's also a world champion surfer or something.

But the news here is that he's been shacking up with the recent ex of Justin Timberlake on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

The two have been friends for years; Slater even appeared on Diaz's MTV show "Trippin" in 2005.

JT, of course, is rumored to be bedding Scarlett Johansson, but we assume he's still bothered by this news. Break-ups are never easy.

Just ask Jennifer Wilson and Lorenzo Borghese.