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Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10, 2007

Remember when Marilyn Manson called nubile squeeze Evan Rachel Wood his "double"? They've now upped the doppelganger factor from icky to squicky by inking on matching tattoos and sporting identical skin tones. The 20-year-old starlet discloses to People that she and the aging rocker, 39, have etched on permanent tributes of their twoo love. "It's a lightning bolt for David Bowie. And it has a black valentine heart around it," she says of the tats. "Marilyn has a black heart on his wrist and I have a black heart [on my hip]. We got them on Valentine's Day." Wood is also thrilled that she and Manson currently share the same washed-out pallor, one that falls somewhere between Kabuki, corpse on "CSI" and clear. "I was always pale," she tells the magazine. "And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now. Because everybody always darkened me up." Evan, who's nearly finished with her bizarre transformation into her wonky-eyed boyfriend's bombshell ex, Dita Von Teese, adds that she thinks Manson is the bee's knees. "He's very, very romantic," she kvells of the guy who once told reporters he respects her as an actress "and someone who I'd want to fornicate with." Besides, she declares, "There is nothing sexier than rock and roll."

Seems John Mayer's quest to find that mythical hottie who will happily take pictures of his heinie continues unabated. The New York Post says the Casanova crooner was pitching woo with Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger a few days back at Los Angeles hot spot Villa. "They were chatting and getting really close," a mole tells the paper. "She was into it." The pair supposedly exited "within minutes of each other." A rep for Mayer, who recently had the length of his left arm covered in ink (even money says he'll look down one day soon and moan, "A tattoo sleeve? Man, I'm such a maroon"), had no comment on the alleged D-cuplist hookup.

In what is either a really hip prank for "Pop Fiction" or proof that opposites do indeed attract, the guy who popularized the term "never-nude" is supposedly sweet on the girl who used to talk to God. According to the New York Post, chrome-domed former "Arrested Development" funnyman David Cross, 44, was spied giving a tongue bath to onetime "Joan of Arcadia" star Amber Tamblyn, 24, at a bash Tuesday night in Manhattan for Morgan Spurlock's new documentary, "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?" A witness, who likely rubbed his or her eyes several times, tells the paper the pair was "definitely together, making out and barely came up for air the whole night."

PDA isn't just for vacant-eyed, short-attention-span starlets. The New York Daily News says Uma Thurman and her Swiss financier boyfriend, Arpad Busson, were "necking like teenagers" Tuesday night at the post-premiere party for her new flick, "The Life Before Her Eyes." The squeezes, who hooked up last summer, were also spotted by the New York Post, which reports they were "draped all over each other in the corner, kissing and hugging near the bar."

Has Eddie Murphy's lately wandering eye settled in one place? In Touch says the Sin City-prowling star is "secretly dating" a waitress named Lara LaRue (she's the sister of actress Eva LaRue). "He is already telling his friends that he is in love," maintains an Eddie insider, with another source adding, "He's been sending Lara huge floral arrangements practically every day and is talking about moving in together." According to the mag, Murphy, 47, met LaRue, 25, while bowling. "I know Eddie," LaRue tells the mag. "He's an amazing guy. I respect him and he respects me." If the romance rumors pan out, Eddie wouldn't be the first big name to fall for someone in the service industry. Nicolas Cage wooed Alice Kim after she waited on him in a sushi restaurant, with the two later marrying and producing moniker-challenged son, Kal-El.

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