What a difference a few months can make in the revolving-door world of celebrity relationships.
Nicole Richie and DJ AM are off (but apparently trying to get back together), while Nicole Kidman is with a country singer, not a Scientologist.
Seeing as how the weather is turning nicer, it’s time for RedEye to do some pre-spring cleaning and update our trusty Couple Meter.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
The actress and the Aussie country singer are fixtures on the awards show circuit. She accompanied him to the Grammys, and he went with her to the Oscars. Talk of a wedding is very loud.
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Stacy Keibler and Geoff Stults
She and her partner showed some sexy moves on “Dancing With the Stars,” but Keibler has a partner off camera too. It’s Stults, who will star with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn in “The Break Up.” He sat in the audience to support Keibler during the final rounds on “DWTS.”
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Mischa Barton and Cisco Adler
Shaking off tabloid rumors of fighting and a breakup, Barton and her musician boyfriend keep rocking steady. Too bad Mischa’s character on “The O.C.” doesn’t have the same luck.
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Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend
Is there a new man in Knightley’s life? People magazine published paparazzi shots of Knightley and Friend (a co-star in “Pride & Prejudice”) frolicking in the Bahamas.
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Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
Easily one of the hottest couples at the Oscars–where Alba presented an award–they look every bit as comfortable together as William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman (except for the whole “married” thing, of course).
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Nick Lachey and everybody
If you believe Us Weekly, there aren’t many single women Lachey isn’t dating at the moment. He has been linked to Kristin Cavallari, Alyssa Milano and a former Miss Kentucky. Finally, he and estranged wife Jessica Simpson are on equal footing–the gossip press has linked her to any semi-famous male within 25 feet.
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Rock ‘n’ load
The guns are drawn between Velvet Revolver lead singer Scott Weiland and Guns N’ Roses frontman, Axl Rose. And the man in the middle is former GNR and current Revolver guitarist, Slash.
In a battle of dueling news releases, Rose started by calling out Slash, alleging that he ripped on his new bandmates in Revolver and called Weiland a “fraud.”
Weiland fired back on the band’s Web site, calling Rose a “fat, Botox-faced, wig -earin’ [bleep].”
“[You have an] unoriginal, uncreative little mind, the same mind that had to rely on its bandmates to write melodies and lyrics. Who’s the fraud now, bitch?” Weiland writes.
Weiland also mocks Rose for taking 10 years to put out the latest GNR album. “We toured [for] our album over a year and a half. How many shows have you played over the last 10 years?”
Read about more feuding rockers on Pages 48-49.
Being there
Lance Armstrong spent Wednesday morning comforting 13-year-old Will Reeve, less than two days after his mother, Dana Reeve, died of lung cancer.
“I would say that his spirits were pretty good considering that, in the last 18 months, he’s lost his father, his mother and his grandmother,” Armstrong told syndicated entertainment show “Inside Edition.”
“In situations like this,” Armstrong said, “all you can do is say, ‘Hey buddy, I’m here if you want to go hang out, if you want to play games, whatever you want to do, I’m here.’ “
Friend-less future?
NBC appears to be inching closer to putting “Joey” out of its misery, according to Variety.
The show starring Matt LeBlanc likely has been shelved until the summer, when NBC might burn off the remaining original episodes, Variety reports. That could be “Joey’s” kiss of death, but the peacock network hasn’t said anything yet about that show’s cancellation.
Return to ‘Narnia’
A sequel to the megahit family fantasy “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is slated to hit theaters in late 2007.
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” will be based on the third installment of C.S. Lewis’ seven-book “Narnia” series, a Disney spokesman said Friday.
Blarney rubble
Consider these awards St. Patrick’s answer to the Razzies. The Blarneys, based on the ancient Irish word for “goat drool,” are awarded each year around St. Patrick’s Day to a parade of goof-ups in sports, news and entertainment.
Here are some of this year’s Blarneys recipients:
– Bode Miller
– Dick Cheney
– Barry Bonds
– Lindsay Lohan
– Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney
– Former FEMA director Michael Brown
– Tom Cruise
– James Frey
– Paris Hilton
