Leo linked to model
Model Miranda Kerr is married to Orlando Bloom, who’s filming in South Africa right now. Miranda’s in New York, hanging around with Leonardo DiCaprio, who just split from model Erin Heatherton.
The New York Daily News is all excited that Leo and Miranda were “murmuring in each other’s ears and partying until the wee hours together” one night last month, chillin’ with Beyonce, Jay-Z, Cameron Diaz, Robert De Niro, etc., at Leo’s birthday party. Then they were spotted, side by side and “very flirty,” at dinner with friends at trendy N.Y. resto ABC Kitchen (“roasted beets with housemade yogurt, $10”).
It’s probably nothing. “There is absolutely nothing going on with Leo,” Don’t Usemyname told the paper. “They’re just friends.”
Right. It’s not as if Leo were a ladies’ man. When Orlando comes home for Christmas, they’ll all laugh together about these silly rumours.
Leo’s 38. Orlando’s 35. Miranda’s 29.
Vacancy filled: The BBC will make a miniseries out of The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling’s first non-Harry Potter novel. No details or casting yet.
It’ll be on the air, over there, sometime in 2014.
Shakira getting sued: Shakira spent a decade with this guy Antonio de la Rua, whose father Fernando used to be president of Argentina. She and Tony were a couple, and he was her business manager, too. Even when the “couple” part ended, in 2010, she said they would “continue to be partners” in business.
You guessed it. She started proceedings this fall, claiming that he helped himself to money that was hers. Now he has retaliated, says Us Weekly. He’s suing for — get this — $100 million, as his share of “past and future partnership profits.”
Tony is 38. Shakira is 35.
Funniest of all: So Vanity Fair mag and 60 Minutes, the TV show, commissioned a poll: What’s the funniest sitcom ever?
Seinfeld won, edging out Jackie Gleason’s old The Honeymooners. The most popular current show is 30 Rock.
Isn’t it sad when a nation forgets its heritage?
Just yesterday I was bemoaning the strip-mining of popular culture, but now I must say it’s time for a revival of the real funniest sitcom ever, the classic The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
You haven’t? Look it up! Look how many big stars started there!
Packing it in: Reaching perhaps the apex of his profundity potential as an artist, Damien Hirst has put brightly coloured spots, and little things like prescription pills, all over fabulously expensive backpacks being marketed by MaryKate and Ashley Olsen.
These backpacks, made from Nile crocodile leather, sell for $39,000 before being Hirst-icized, through the twins’ brand The Row. If you want one of the 12 he has custom-made — or had made by his minions, I suppose — it will cost you $55,000, The Telegraph reports.