Gossip Cop  

“It’s Over” between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, declares Famous magazine in big, bold letters under the words, “Rob confirms to the US media.”

Really?

Pattinson NEVER confirmed that to the media.

NEVER ever.

Nevertheless, Famous, which is often famous for its imaginative, though not necessarily accurate cover stories, claims, “Robert confirmed the news late last week to stunned cast and crew members on the set of his latest flick Water for Elephants - in which he plays a vet who joins the circus – declaring, ‘I’m single.’”

The mag alleges, “A movie rep then confirmed to Fox News, ‘Rob is not dating anyone’” and emphasized, “He just tells everyone he is single.”

Famous, which likes to use the words “confirms” or “confirmed” – yet doesn’t actually confirm anything, goes on to say, “Friends of the star confirmed that Kirsten – who flew into Australia this week to promote the third instalment (sic) of the Twilight franchise, Eclipse – is devastated.”

Uh, she hardly looks devastated from the pics we’ve seen from Down Under.

We can go on and on with all the other nonsense Famous prints in this piece, including a “spy” telling the mag, “[Kirsten] really does love Robert. She won’t let him go without a fight,” but let’s consider what this entire story is based on – a WRONG report from the Fox411 blog.

Did those phrases “Rob is not dating anyone” and “He just tells everyone he is single” sound familiar?

They should.

In the false Fox411 report last week about Pattinson making moves on Reese Withspoon, which Gossip Cop busted, a so-called Fox411 “insider” said, “Rob is not dating anyone… and he tells everyone he is single.”

Huh, so Fox411’s “insider” suddenly became a “Fox rep” when cited in Famous?

Bottom line: the Famous article based its fake premise on an equally fake Fox411 blog story.

None of these things were ever said, and the story is not true.

Famous is just becoming famous for its famously inaccurate cover stories.

Via Hollywood News 

It must be the new rage—popular magazines supplementing talk of real people with discussion of fictional characters. Entertainment Weekly is the most recent publication to rank one of Stephenie Meyer’s brood, having named Edward Cullen as one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years as part of this week’s cover feature.

“Who says vampires are scary?” the section headline reads, “Sometimes they’re just dreamy teen idols.” All this after it announces that Stephenie Meyer’s most beloved vamp ranked in at #53. Though the write-up isn’t shy about suggesting that Robert Pattinson the actor may be responsible for the memorability of Edward Cullen the vampire, both Twi-hards and Twi-haters would agree that certain aspects of his character (e.g., being brooding and mysterious, gentlemanly but unattainable, unfailingly devoted to Bella) hold the most appeal to women.

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Gossip Cop  

When Gossip Cop busted Fox411’s nonsense about possible romance between Water for Elephants co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, we assumed it’d still be picked up and repeated by a few careless sites.

We also thought there wasn’t much an outlet could do that would be worse than the original, unsubstantiated speculation.

We forgot about HollywoodLife.

The dented trash receptacle posing as a legitimate gossip site got wind of Fox411’s claim and managed to crank out one of its most inane posts to date.

Not satisfied to regurgitate the Rob-Reese non-story, HollywoodLife uses it to taunt Kristen Stewart, writing with all the bile of a catty junior high schooler lacking rudimentary logic skills.

“OMG! Robert Pattinson is TOTALLY Flirting with Reese Witherspoon!” shrieks the site. “K-Stew, Did You Hear This?”

Let’s pause here to note that HollywoodLife’s habit of addressing celebrities in the second person has gotten no less annoying.

“Has our favorite brooding vampire found a new soul mate?” the site speculates before dragging out yesterday’s drivel about “magic” chemistry between Pattinson and Witherspoon.

“Whoa! We bet Kristen Stewart is NOT happy about this news!”

Actually, we bet Stewart is fine with their behavior, because, unlike HollywoodLife, she understands that the pretty, costumed people in front of the cameras are characters.

They’re not real.

It’s all make believe.

“The last time this happened,” continues HollywoodLife, “Rumors swirled about R-Patz’s offscreen romance with co-star Emilie De Ravin during the filming of Remember Me.”

Yes. Rumors that were completely false.

It was just another example of Pattinson daring to appear in a role that required interaction with a member of the opposite sex and not dating her in real life.

According to HollywoodLife, Stewart “has to be so jealous of Reese!”

It sure sounds like the site wants Stewart to be jealous, but there’s still no basis for it.

Here’s how blinded the site is by its need to bend facts to fit its absurd flights of fancy. HollywoodLife acknowledges that Witherspoon is dating Jim Toth, and that he’s “already going to her kids’ soccer games.”

The rational response would be: Wow, things must be going really well between Witherspoon and Toth!

The HollywoodLife response is: “He can’t be too pleased with this news [about Pattinson], either!”

There is no news.

There is no romance between Witherspoon and Pattinson.

There is just HollywoodLife, shouting at the wind.