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Elijah Wood Thinks Jared Leto is Weetarded: What Really Happened at the Woodie Awards

Jared Leto attacked Elijah Wood at an awards show last year because the star had told friends he didn't like Leto's band. The 26-year-old star was attending the MTVU Woodie Awards in November when Leto, who is the lead singer of cult act 30 Seconds To Mars, approached his table.

Leto came over, whispered in Wood's ear and walked away, but then turned around, grabbed him by the throat and called him a "f** a**hole."

Wood tells Jane magazine, "He was basically upset at the fact that I said I didn't like his band. He said that initially and walked away. I guess he thought I was laughing at him, but I was more shell-shocked and telling people around me, 'Whoa, I just got told off by Jared Leto for not liking his band.' And that's when he came back and grabbed me."

He adds, "I told Jared it wasn't personal. He acted like I'd been disrespecting him or speaking about his family. Things like that don't usually happen to me. I'm very non-confrontational. The whole thing was kind of ridiculous."

What Really Happened

Does anyone else think that they were having a lover's quarrel? Who knows, maybe before the show Elijah told Jared he had way too much eyeliner on, maybe Jared responded with a crack about Elijah's 'size'....

They got to the awards, sat at different tables, and THEN, Jared saw Elijah talking to that other damn hobbit, you know Sam, and it was on. Jared ran over to the table, grabbed Elijah's neck, told him to go 'fuck the hobbit', and walked away.

But wait it wasn't over yet, that wasn't enough... Elijah turned to hobbit Sam and started laughing about Jared's professionally chipped black nail polish. Jared saw this, assumed they were laughing about his crapola band, and threw a glass of sparkling in Elijah's face. Later on in the night they met at Hyde, smoked some weed, and made out with Shannon Elizabeth & the girl from The Soprano's.

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Madge & Fam at the Premiere of Arthur & The Invisibles

Wow! Lourders sure grew up. She is absolutely gorgeous. She is gonna be a living terror at 16. Madonna may have a heart attack. Can you imagine having to live with Madge as a teenager? Oh my god, how awful that would be...all the 'ruling the world bullshit', she's gonna have her hands full.


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Katie Holmes Almost Pulls a Britney

Good think Kate wears nude nylons or we may have had another Britney incident on our hands.

John Meyer & Jessica SImpson Dress Alike

"We both were stripes when we're recording. Only really serious artist wear stripes." -Jessica Simpson


Just kidding. That's what she is probably thinking as she leaves a very exciting John Mayer recording session. Can you say B-O-R-I-N-G???? Source

On Set Car Crash Sends Nicole to the Hospital

Actress Nicole Kidman was rushed to the hospital Wednesday night after being involved in a car accident on the set of her latest film, The Invasion, in downtown Los Angeles. At the time of the incident, the actress was filming a scene in which she’s driving a Jaguar, trying to escape zombie-like characters hanging off the hood. The vehicle was being towed by a rig in order to give the appearance that the actress was really driving. At around 11 p.m., the stunt driver operating the rig skidded while taking a corner at roughly 45 mph, causing Kidman's car to hit a poll and knock over a garbage can. Both the actress and her costar, 10-year-old Jackson Bond, who was riding in the front passenger seat, were wearing seat belts. Members of the crew immediately wrapped a blanket around Kidman and paramedics arrived to check the actress for injuries. Kidman, 39, was taken to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in an SUV, and was released within two hours. Sources tell Us that the actress was in shock and took a long break, but eventually resumed filming later that night. Her husband Keith Urban, 39, and 11-year-old son, Connor Cruise, were said to be on-set at the time of the accident. Kidman's rep was unavailable for comment.


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Charles is REALLY in Charge

What's a guy to do when he's "dated and made love to some of the most desirable, beautiful starlets in Hollywood" but still can't find love? If you're Scott Baio, you find two co-writers to package up your pinhead thoughts and try to sell a book. Perhaps emboldened by the success of early '90s casualty Tori Spelling, who sold her memoir to Simon & Schuster for $300,000 in December (albeit, after asking for $2 million), Baio is shopping around his own, poignantly titled tell-all, BaioWatch: How I Dated and Loved Hollywood's Most Beautiful Women and Ended Up Alone.

The book, which Radar obtained the first 60 pages of, is effectively a compendium of love advice Baio gleaned from flings with everyone from Pam Anderson to Heather "The One That Got Away" Locklear to, um, Liza Minnelli (A taste: "Take it from me, when a woman says, 'I need time to think,' it's over. You're fucked. That train has left the station. Cry for two days, then find someone else.")

Those looking for a little Baio lovin' to put next to their Charles in Charge: Season One DVD will undoubtedly be thrilled if he happens to find a publisher (though, a publishing source notes, "several have already passed.").

On losing his virginity at the age of 16 to Happy Days co-star Erin "Joanie" Moran:

"I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say after we got naked. So for the first five minutes, maybe less—hell, it might have been the first twenty seconds—I'm doing it and thinking, man, this is really uncomfortable. What happened was, my thing was between the cushions on the couch and I didn't even know it. Instead of being inside Erin, I was humping a corduroy sofa!"

On being a teen heartthrob:

"I got tight with Charles Laufer, the owner and publisher of Tiger Beat, which became an effective promotional tool.... One girl sent me her underwear that she'd peed and menstruated in, didn't wipe and ran a mile in, so I could have her natural body fluids and odors.

On how he managed to pull chicks while partying at the Playboy Mansion with Charles in Charge co-star (and Radar correspondent Willie Ames):

"Admittedly, it's all about money, power and fame. Sometimes Playmates will walk right up to me and grab my crotch."

On the exact moment he knew his relationship with Pamela Anderson was over:

"One day Pamela came home and said, 'I'm thinking of getting my boobs done.' Admittedly, I was surprised. My initial response, 'Reduced?' She already had large, beautiful, natural breasts. At that moment I knew our relationship would soon begin to crumble. Pamela had finally gone Hollywood—or whatever it is that happens when a woman becomes a hot celebrity."

On his attempt to pick up Beverly D'Angelo (the Vacation movies, Entourage):

"Beverly was standing there at Liza's party. I didn't even introduce myself. I walked right over to her and confessed, "You know, you have one of the sexiest qualities a woman can ever have.

'Oh yeah? What's that?' she asked. 'You have an overbite.'

'I don't have an overbite, dear,' she said. 'I have a cocksucker's mouth.'"

Perhaps most bizarre, however, is an exchange he details in which a 51-year-old Minnelli tries to get Baio to become her surrogate baby daddy:

"'I really want your sperm. You're a talented, good-looking Italian guy. That's what I want my child to be.'

I was incredulous. 'What are you gonna do with my sperm?'

'Well, I'm going to take my egg and put it into somebody else's body.'"

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War Over Baby David

Over dinner recently at her £10 million London townhouse, Madonna opened her heart to a gathering of trusted friends. "I haven't been this hated since I brought out my Sex book back in the early Nineties," she tearfully confided. "What have I done to deserve this?"

Challenged by one of her more outspoken guests (who wondered aloud why she was bothered, given that her entire career has been shadowed by public outrage) her voice dropped to a near whisper.

"Controversy is fine," replied the subdued star. "But this. . . well, this is different. It's personal."

"This", for the uninitiated, is David Banda, the little African boy she is in the process of adopting amid massive publicity, widespread condemnation and a legal campaign to stop her bringing him back to Britain.

The Malawian toddler has been living with Madonna's family since October last year, and yet the storm over his controversial adoption — which critics insist was not only unethical but also illegal — shows no sign of abating.

Now the Mail has learned that David's father, Yohane, is so concerned about his 15-month-old son that he is making arrangements to fly to England to demand assurances that David is happy and well. The peasant farmer is furious at a "total lack of communication" from Madonna and the Malawian adoption ministry.

Meanwhile, relations between Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, are said to be "seriously rocky", with the film director repeatedly berating her for the way she has handled the situation and rejecting out of hand Madonna"s pleas to adopt another African baby in the coming months.

Small wonder friends say that Madonna is at "her lowest ebb" and on the brink of fleeing the country for her old hometown of New York.

"She's seriously down about it all and harbouring resentment towards everyone who she feels has stitched her up," says a source close to the star. "She feels victimised — even Angelina Jolie has turned on her with critical words about the adoption, for goodness sake. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

"In the midst of all this, none of her friends have stuck up for her. As far as Madonna is concerned all she did was to rescue a poor, ill boy from terrible poverty in Africa, but all she gets is aggravation.

"Even Guy doesn't miss an opportunity to tell her this is her own fault. She feels abandoned and rejected."

Another insider puts it even more bluntly: "She came back from their Christmas holiday with one thought on her mind — she's moving to New York this year. With the kids, and with or without Guy."

That even Angelina Jolie, who has adopted two children from Third World countries, should raise questions about Madonna's actions goes some way towards explaining the singer's siege mentality.

Angelina said earlier this week that she had been shocked by Madonna's decision to take David from the country where his father still lives.

And although the actress has since claimed her words were misinterpreted, friends say Madonna is "a long way from forgiving her" — especially since Angelina's partner, Brad Pitt, is a friend of Guy's and was instrumental in the decision to adopt David in the first place.

But for all Madonna's concerns, nobody is more worried than Yohane Banda. Speaking from his home village of Lipunga, 100 miles from the Malawian capital Lilongwe, he said: "I am desperate to hear how my son is doing. My plan is to go to the UK to see David next month. I have already got the passport forms to fill in, I have had my photographs taken and next week I will be applying for it.

"Despite several appeals, the government has not yet contacted me to tell me about how my son is doing. I also expect Madonna to respond. If she talks to me or sends her people here — or through the government — just to show me pictures of my son and word that he is doing fine, that would be enough and I will not travel."

Mr Banda, who has scraped together enough money for the flight through media interviews (though the Mail did not pay him for this interview), sent David to an orphanage after his wife died and he was unable to care for him and work at the same time.

Yet he was opposed to the boy being taken out of the country. And it should be noted that Madonna has been granted only an 18-month interim order for custody of David, after which she will have to return to Malawi for another court hearing.

But Mr Banda does not have a great deal of faith in his government upholding the rule of law, which states that under normal circumstances children cannot be adopted by foreigners.

Revelations that Madonna is paying £20,000 for a civil servant from Malawi's adoption ministry to be educated in England have not helped allay suspicions that she used her power and money to manipulate the authorities.

Despite the uncertainty surrounding David, his integration into English life continues apace.

Friends say the singer has gone to great pains to make him feel at home. His nursery has been decorated with an African theme, while she and Guy — who dote on the boy — have taken the effort to learn some Chichewa, David's native tongue.

(Extraordinary as it may sound, there is even talk that Madonna has had Malawian earth flown in to fill his sand pit.) All of which is entirely laudable. However, on the question of religion, matters become somewhat more controversial.

Every Friday night, David is taken along with his 'sister' Lourdes, ten, and brother Rocco, six, to the Kabbalah Centre, near London's Bond Street, by their weekend nanny (their long-standing nanny recently walked out, complaining about Madonna's bossiness).

Controversially, Madonna is determined that according to the rules of Kabbalah, David should be circumcised. But his natural father Yohane is strongly opposed to the ritual being carried out — insisting that his son was born a Christian.

But if such disagreements will continue to be a source of friction, they are likely to fade into insignificance compared with a rather more intractable problem: the state of Madonna and Guy's marriage.

Although David has brought a renewed unity of purpose to their family life — David idolises Rocco, while Lourdes will not sleep until he is safe in bed — Madonna and Guy are not on such good terms.

Guy remains angry about the adoption fiasco. "It started off as a good idea, but then it turned into the Madonna show, especially when she went on the Oprah Winfrey show to defend herself without him," says a friend. "That really annoyed him, because it suggested this was all about Madonna the superstar."

He is also increasingly critical of her devotion to Kabbalah, which he believes is becoming "obsessional".

Last month the couple had a blazing public row in the Italian restaurant Cecconi's, in Mayfair. In another recent bust-up, Guy yelled at Madonna in front of friends: "I'll get on my bike if you want me to."

Madonna's reaction, as ever, has been to throw herself into work.

"In that sense, having David hasn't impacted on her routine too much. Her excessive exercise regimen, a minimum three hours a day, includes high intensity Ashtanga yoga, swimming, pumping iron and cycling, and she's still in endless meetings plotting and planning her career. She even has a StairMaster stepping machine in her office which she works out on as she takes calls."

Madonna is also pressing ahead with work on a new album, and last Thursday she took a surprise trip to the U.S. — to host a screening of her new film, Arthur And The Invisibles — without her film director husband, whose formerly stellar career has stalled in recent years.

Her solo trip raised eyebrows in their social circle, who had been hoping that the family's Christmas holiday may have built bridges between the troubled couple.

They stayed on a private island in the Maldives to "try to get over the stress of recent months", says a friend. However, Guy was on the beach with the children for most of the holiday while Madonna worked out in the gym. "She hates going out in the sun these days," says a confidante. "She won't risk the wrinkles."

Adds the friend: "They didn't reach any solid conclusions, apart from that Madonna said yet again she's homesick for the States and wants to move to New York. It's her home and she feels Guy should give it a shot.

"But he's being stubborn and says the kids should stay in school in the UK so they form lasting friendships and feel they have a solid base.

"Madonna also feels she's the one with the career these days, so what she wants to do should be the priority, whereas Guy refuses to be told what to do. Deep down he blames her for his career nosedive, because he feels people regard him as nothing more than Madonna's husband."

Even Guy's father, John, has weighed in, saying that another adoption would be the final nail in the coffin of his son's marriage.

John insists Guy is a perfect father to Lourdes, Rocco and David, but admits the couple are going through a difficult patch. He said: "They've had a difficult time. (David) is beautiful and Guy is very good with him. But I don't think he'd want to adopt again." Madonna, however, absolutely does want to adopt another child — preferably a Malawian sister for David.

Since returning from holiday, she has been seen arriving at her gym in St John's Wood, North-West London, invariably looking glum and clutching a large bottle of Volvic water.

As she jetted into New York the other day, friends were privately wondering how long it will be until she makes it her permanent home, surely far out of the reach of her new son's worried father.

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