Zach Braff

The Gossip loves Rachel Bilson. How can anyone not adore such a cutie?

But the actress may have her hands full these days ... of hot man love! Everyone knows that Bilson and co-star Adam Brody have been an item for almost as long as their OC characters - Seth and Summer - have been dating.

They seem awfully happy. But can anyone woman resist the innocent charm of Zach Braff? Having starred alongside Bilson in the recent release, The Last Kiss, Braff looks as comfortable as Brody with her in the images below, doesn't he?

We're not saying Rachel is wearing Zach's Scrubs (if you know what we mean!), but we're not saying she isn't, either.

If the Bilson and Brody relationship is coming to an end, however, we hope it's a more pleasant conclusion than that of The OC in this, its final season. Gosh, it's become awful.

Don't worry, fans, this season of Scrubs is gonna be REALLY funny.

Not that it would be possible for the shananigans of JD, Turk, Dr. Cox and the crew not to be hilarious, but star Zach Braff is reassuring anyway.

"We just finished the first episode and there's lots of prosthetic make-up in the first episode. Last year, we sort of got really silly and random, and we call it the stoner humor. We did a little more of that, and the fans loved it. We had our best ratings ever. The feeling is this will probably be the last year, so we're all just sort of going for it," Braff said while promoting his new film, The Last Kiss.

As far as guest appearances go, Braff is really hoping to get a former Arrested Development character on. So are we, Zach. So are we.

"The one person I want right now is David Cross. I wanted David Cross to come on as Tobias Funke ... I love that character, and the fact that character is over for good, I want him to at least have one more little life."

Besides working on Scrubs, Braff has been rumored to play Fletch in Fletch Won, which predates the first seven books in the series. It follows the early days of the title character's journalism career as a junior reporter in his 20's.

"I don't know. Bill Lawrence is definitely writing and directing Fletch, and there's a good chance I'll do it ... The books aren't as wacky and silly as the Chevy Chase movies were, so there was talk for awhile of going back to the books and not having that level of comedy in them, and Bill and I both disagreed.

"That's what made the movie so great. It's one of the most quoted movies ever, especially by guys. Why would you not tap back into what's funny about that?"

In the meantime, The Last Kiss opens on Friday, September 15.

Hey! According to rumors, that's the day after Britney Spears gives birth to her second baby. So that's nice.

He's not blonde. He doesn't straddle every guy with two feet. And he's not unnecessarily using up oxygen from the planet.

So stop comparing Zach Braff to Paris Hilton!

The Scrubs star was on The Late Show with David Letterman this week - and he wasn't his usual jolly self. Braff seemed upset at how the tabloids have made him out to be a heavy party-goes since the public break-up with Mandy Moore.

"I lead a pretty boring life - I sit at home, I'm on the Internet, I eat cereal - that's a typical night for me," Braff said.

"Here's how the whole thing works. I actually decided, ‘Maybe I'll go out. It's the summertime, I'm off from Scrubs.' So I go out a little bit and they write all about me being this crazy party guy, like I'm Paris Hilton or something. I'm like the male Paris Hilton."

Perish that thought, J.D. Unless you have a sex tape of you answering the phone while getting it on with Turk, you're nothing like that hotel bimbo.

Braff continued to lament the nature of some in the media:

"So then I'm like, ‘I don't like that. I don't like being in the tabloids, so I'm just going to stay home. I'm going to be a homebody, I'm going to write'. A week later a tabloid comes out with - ‘Zach Braff Will Not Leave His Home!' You can't win! I just gave up on it."

The man makes a good point. But The Gossip has just one thing to say on the matter: Zach Braff Cannot Win!

Read all about it here.

Go to a movie theater, watch a romantic comedy, see a couple fall madly in love. Unfortunately for actors, real life doesn't always follow a script.

Ask Zach Braff. While promoting his new film, The Last Kiss, Braff opened up about the troubles of dating in Tinseltown. He had his own problems earlier this when he and Mandy Moore broke up.

"A relationship is hard, doing it in the public eye is something that's very new to me. I was a waiter give years ago and when I was a waiter nobody was telling lies about me in the tabloids. But it's par for the course," said the Scrubs star.

One recent tabloid rumor even linked him with Jessica Simpson, but Braff insists the gossip isn't true: "

Totally made up. I've met her a couple times, she's a sweet girl but I think I saw her two months ago at a bar in the Hamptons and that was it."

Oh well. Maybe if Scrubs wins an Emmy Award, the ladies will come running.

As we discussed yesterday, everyone is chiming in about Mel Gibson. The latest individual being lovable Scrubs star Zach Braff, who claims in his official blog that he wants his money back from Bird On A Wire.

The 31-year old actor, who is Jewish, was probably less than thrilled about Gibson's anti-semetic tirade last Friday.

But, if it's any consolation, evidently Mel hates gays too, and probably a whole host of other ethnic groups we just don't know about yet.

Braff, whose blog also talks about his new myspace page and some of his musical interests, has reportedly been laying low since his difficult breakup with singer and actress Mandy Moore. He will be back on the set of Scrubs when the quirky sitcom kicks off its sixth year.

Let's hope this is one piece of Hollywood gossip that become a Tinseltown truth:

Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence is hoping to cast Zach Braff in a new installment of the Fletch movie series. He makes an ideal bumbling doctor, why not a clueless detective in a role perfected by Chevy Chase?

Lawrence has inked a deal with the Weinstein Co. to bring the character back to the big screen. Regarding Braff, Lawrence told Reuters:

" [He's] perfect for the role. I'm going to use all my pull trying to make him do it."

We'd love to see Braff accept and then everyone can forget the fact that he was totally snubbed for an Emmy Award nomination!

As Zach Braff downed drinks, partied with friends and unsuccessfully tried to holler at Jessica Simpson at a West Hollywood hotspot, he looked like just another guy on the prowl.

He is.

A source tells Us Weekly that the 31-year old Scrubs star and Mandy Moore, his girlfriend of the past year and a half, have split.

"There was no drama. They were ready. Mandy was very young when they got together and she wanted to see what's out there, now that she's a woman," says the source, who cited their age gap as the primary reason for the breakup. "Zach was mature, and realized it was time to let her do that."

But not everyone close to the quirky Garden State star/producer is certain that he and Moore, the 22-year old actress and singer, are through with each other.

Christa Miller, Braff's Scrubs co-star, said on the June 12 Howard Stern Show that the couple is still together.

Braff's rep did not return repeated, harassing phone calls. Moore's rep does not comment on her personal life. Moore's rep also declined comment on why he/she does not comment on her personal life.