Macaulay Culkin Bails on DJ Gig in Wake of Gaunt Pics
Macaulay Culkin bailed on his monthly DJ gig Thursday at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City's West Village, hours after the surprising gaunt photos of him emerged.
Instead, fans ready to dance to his live music picks got an earful of his iPod.
"He's here all the time. Tonight, something just came up and he couldn't make it," a club employee said. "But he did drop off his iPod, that's what's playing."
"It's a shame he's not here, he always plays really good music."
Culkin, whose gaunt appearance in a set of paparazzi shots made headlines Thursday, was expected to take to the turntables around 10 p.m.
Around that time, a sign was taped to a box downstairs by the bar telling fans that canned goods would get them in for free - charitable guy that he is - and with no "Mack" in attendance, dancing would be to his pre-selected tunes.
"Macaulay Culkin is in perfectly good health," his rep said. "For anyone to speculate or suggest otherwise is reckless, irresponsible and destructive."
Macaulay Culkin Photos: Home Alone Too Long?!
They say the camera adds 10 pounds, but there are exceptions to every rule.
A skinny, scruffy Macaulay Culkin resurfaced in N.Y. City yesterday and photos of him first posted on Entertainment Tonight have generated a lot of buzz online.
A rep for the former child star slams speculation that the star is struggling in any way, despite his dramatically thinner appearance. Check it out below:
The rep said: "Macaulay Culkin is in perfectly good health. For ET or any other media to speculate otherwise is thoughtless, irresponsible and destructive."
Explains a source of the shocking Macaulay Culkin photos: "He is just so thin naturally, so when he loses one pound it just looks like more."
A second insider cautions that Culkin has had "emotional issues" for years.
Culkin and Friend with Benefits actress Mila Kunis called off their low-key, eight-year relationship in late 2010. He has not personally addressed the photos.
Macaulay Culkin Denies Doing Porn Star
Perhaps Macaulay Culkin has been going home alone since his break-up with Mila Kunis.
Last week, a Spanish porn star named Irene Lopez implied that she had an intimate relationship with this actor, as a photograph of the pair was snapped outside a live sex club in Barcelona.
But Culkin tells E! News there's nothing more to this story other than a woman seeking to capitalize on an everyday occurrence. He said:
"As I do with many fans, I briefly met and took a photo with Irene Lopez at her request. I have had no contact with this woman in any capacity, social or otherwise before or since that picture was taken. Any reports to the contrary are false."
Well... darn. That's just no fun at all.
Irene Lopez: Dating Macaulay Culkin?!?
Note to men seeking attractive girlfriends: don a towel, spread after-shave on your face and scream loudly.
The trick has apparently worked for Macaulay Culkin, who recently ended an eight-year relationship with Mila Kunis - and has seemingly started a new one with Spanish porn star Irene Lopez!
The two were spotted this week exiting a live sex club in Barcelona.
"The last time I was with him, no one found out about it," Lopez told E! News, perhaps outing the acting as a cheater. "I don't know what happened this time that the newspaper heard about it."
What, exactly, went on at the sex show in Spain? Lopez would only say: "I don't want to cause him any harm. He's a good person."
Sounds to us like someone won't be home alone tonight! (Sorry.)
Macaulay Culkin: Not the Father of Blanket
The kid is not his son.
No, really, this time there's been an actual denial, and an emphatic one.
Of all the people rumored to be Michael Jackson's kids' real parents (Dr. Arnold Klein, Mark Lester, Pia Bhatti) or rumored to be Michael's kids themselves (Prince Michael Malachi Jet Jackson, Omer Bhatti), none have denied it.
Until now. We can count Macaulay Culkin out of the paternity lottery.
The 29-year-old actor's press agent claims the actor is not the biological father of Michael Jackson's son Blanket, which a UK tabloid reported on Monday.
SHOCKER: Prince Michael Jackson II was not born of Macaulay Culkin's DNA.
The story said Culkin donated sperm to create Blanket. Since several other Jackson friends actually did donate sperm, it's not as far-flung as you think.
Still, Culkin's rep, Michelle Bega, has issued the following statement:
"The inquiries are too preposterous for us to even acknowledge."
We'll take that as a no. Sorry to burst your bubble, Blanket.
Macaulay Culkin: Biological Father of Prince Michael Jackson II (Blanket)?
After more than two months of never-ending rumors regarding the paternity of Michael Jackson's three children, this latest one might take the cake.
At least for this week. You never know what will be reported next week.
The Sun (UK) is reporting this morning that sources close to Jackson claim that his youngest son, seven-year-old Blanket, is really the offspring of ...
Macaulay Culkin!
The paper claims the late King of Pop asked the child star to donate sperm and that "Mack never let him down... deep down, I think he always wished Mack was his son. Having him create Blanket was the next best thing."
The two celebrities became "best friends" after Culkin shot to fame in the 1990 box office hit Home Alone. Culkin is 29 now, making him 10 at that time.
We know, it's really weird.
CLOSE TO HOME (ALONE): Is Macaulay Culkin Blanket's dad?
Culkin is godfather to Michael Jackson's two older children, Prince I and Paris Michael Jackson. Blanket's real name is Prince Michael Jackson II.
The actor has reportedly told close friends he will not comment in public regarding these rumors out of loyalty to his late BFF Michael Jackson.
However, "This isn't just chitter-chatter," the Sun's source says, without really elaborating on it. "Even Culkin suspects he's Blanket's father."
The Macaulay Culkin rumors are just the latest to arise regarding the three children, who Michael Jackson may or may not be the real father of.
Other speculation includes:
- That Dr. Arnold Klein, the boss of Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe, is the biological father of Prince I and Paris, and Rowe their mother
- That former child star Mark Lester, like Klein a close Jackson friend who gave his sperm to the star, is the father of Paris Jackson
- That Michael Jackson fathered a love child 25 years ago named Omer Bhatti
- That Omer's mother, Pia Bhatti, went on to become the mother of Blanket
- That Jackson had another son named Prince Michael Malachi Jet Jackson
Who knows who's next. Until then, the Macaulay Culkin speculation trumps all ...
