July 21st, 2010

Emily Blunt has married ‘The Office’ star John Krasinski.

The British actress and the US star – who began dating in 2008 – held an intimate ceremony at Italy’s Lake Como, with celebrity guests including George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis.

The pair had been staying at George’s estate on Lake Como for the last week leading up to the wedding on Saturday (10.07.10).

A source at the event revealed: “It was an outdoor ceremony and absolutely beautiful. It was an official ceremony. They are husband and wife.

“Emily didn’t want a big fuss or a Hollywood wedding. It was a case of the smaller the better – they flew all the wedding party out.”

The pair became engaged after a year of dating, when 30-year-old Krasinski got down on one knee with a 3-carat Edwardian diamond and platinum ring, rumoured to have cost around $100,000.

The actors were not the only Hollywood pair to marry yesterday – country music star Carrie Underwood and Canadian sportsman Mike Fisher invited showbiz friends including Simon Cowell, Faith Hill and Garth Brooks to their nuptials at a hotel – which they had hired out especially – in Greensboro, Georgia.

· And now for a video that brings us a new spin on the “bromance”-related puns that have come to define our generation, The Brostitute. In this new Funny or Die clip, Tim Roth shows how high a collar must be popped if you plan on making money as a highbrow “brooker.”

Check out actress Jennifer Aniston’s restraining order papers filed against Jason Peyton, the man accused of stalking her.

Sandra Bullock may have filed for divorce from Jesse James, but according to Life & Style, the actress may be considering a reconciliation.

“Her heart is open to him again,” a source tells the magazine.

So what has Bullock ready to forgive? It’s James’ three kids — Sunny, Chandler and Jesse Jr. “Sandra will never fully get over the way Jesse betrayed her. But he did give her the family she’s always wanted. And because of that, she’s able to forgive him,” an insider explains.

James is set to move to Austin with Sunny, to be closer to Sandra and her son, Louis Bardot.

Sandra’s very attached to those children. Once they’re in Austin with her and Jesse, the hope is that they’ll be able to put the past behind them and start rebuilding their lives,” Bullock’s neighbor in Texas tells the magazine.

As for Sunny’s mother, Janine Lindemulder who lost her custody battle to keep James from moving to Austin, she tells Life & Style that the former couple “want to exclude” her, but that Jesse “will do anything to get back in good graces.”

Misha Barton took a cruise in her cool Cadillac down the famous Sunset strip this week!

Lindsay Lohan appeared today at the Beverly Hills court house to surrender to the judge and begin her 90 jail sentence! Good luck Lindsay!

Feline-based hallucinogen news, now, as we are given another glimpse into the world of cinema’s Nicolas Cage. The genuinely nice thing about the Con Air star is that he does seem to regard being an actor as a bit of a joke – somewhat aptly, in his case – and is all the more lovable a screen presence for that.

Anyway, when last we caught up with Nicolas, you’ll recall, he was in the process of divesting himself of some of his 15 residences, after the taxman had finally tired of his failure to meet tax demands. He’d already bid farewell to a Bavarian schloss, had put a Bahamian island up for sale, was on the point of doing the same with a trefoil-shaped castle near Bath, and was in a bate about the fact that four of his other mansions were being foreclosed upon. The fate of a flotilla of yachts, 22 luxury automobiles and a $276,000 dinosaur skull he’d purchased after a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio were uncertain.

Whether Nicolas has turned a financial corner we cannot say, but he was certainly singing for his supper on a US chatshow this week, barely settling into his seat before telling David Letterman how his cat Lewis had just adored the bag of magic mushrooms he’d kept in his fridge back in the day.

“He ate them voraciously,” Cage explained gamely to Letterman. “It was like cat-nip to him. So I thought what the heck, I’d better do it with him.”

Well, it’s only sociable, isn’t it?

“I remember lying in my bed for hours,” he went on, “and Lewis was on the desk across from the bed for hours, staring at each other . . . not moving. But he would stare at me,” Nicolas concluded sagely, “and I had no doubt that he was my brother.”

Truly, he adds to the gaiety of every nation in which he owns a hopelessly mortgaged home.

All that remains, meanwhile, is to remind you of Lost in Showbiz’s official policy as far as frothing emails and indeed comments from animal rights posters are concerned. All such missives are printed out and fed to actual animals – so once again you must decide whether you want to be part of the problem, or part of the solution.

There have been tumultuous scenes at the Milan courthouse as George Clooney arrived to testify in a case that centres on the use of his name on a line of clothing. The Hollywood actor, accompanied by his lawyer and two bodyguards, emerged from a lift to find the corridor leading to court 4 packed with fans, photographers, TV crews and some courthouse employees who were bent on capturing the moment on their mobile telephones.

Wearing a dark blue suit, white shirt and birds-eye pattern tie, the actor shook hands with some of his fans before disappearing into the hearing. But his only reported comment was a practical – and very necessary – “Please let my lawyer through.”

The judge, Pietro Caccialanza, had ordered additional security inside and outside the courthouse, in anticipation of large numbers of admirers. On grounds that the presence of the actor in court was not a matter of “social relevance”, the judge banned the filming and photographing of his testimony.

Caccialanza had the trial moved temporarily to a bigger courtroom with more space for the press and public. Soon after taking his place at the bench he threw out a woman caught trying to take photographs of the scene with her mobile phone.

He repeatedly asked for silence from the public, which was predominantly and predictably female. “This trial has the right to tranquil dignity,” the news agency Ansa quoted the judge as saying.

Three people are accused of exploiting Clooney’s fame to promote a line of clothing, GC Exclusive by George Clooney. The case goes back to April 2008 when the defendants marketed a line of suits bearing his initials.

They are said to have claimed the actor would be present at the launch in Milan. Instead the only newsworthy arrival was that of a detachment of officers from Italy’s semi-militarised revenue guard.

Among other things they took away documents the prosecution says bear a forged copy of the Hollywood star’s signature. The launch was allegedly staged by Vania Goffi, from Senigallia on the east coast of Italy. She has been on trial in another case involving a website that the prosecution maintains offered Rolex watches for sale and delivered boxes of salt.

The actor is both a witness in the case and a party to it. Under Italian law victims of an offence can join themselves to a criminal trial to obtain compensation.

An interpreter was requested by the judge so that Clooney could testify in English. His agent, Stan Rosenfield, was expected to give evidence to the court.

Clooney, who has a villa near lake Como, is rarely out of the news in Italy because of his relationship with Italian model and actor Elisabetta Canalis. He has lent his name to the advertising of legitimate Italian products, including a brand of coffee and an aperitif.

Courtney Love’s new fashion blog, What Courtney Wore Today, isn’t fooling anyone. The setup is that it is posted via an apparently likeminded, anonymous amanuensis called “L” or sometimes “T” (and sometimes “X” ), who is chained to a Mac somewhere in America while “CLC” (that’s “Courtney Love Cobain”) travels the world, texting and tweeting her barely lucid missives from the frontline of fashion, fabulousness and utter bonkersdom.

Like the cyberspace offspring of Perez Hilton and The Sartorialist, CLC’s blog is illustrated with a highly flattering archive of posed and snapped photos (not just what the Hole singer wore today, actually, but stuff she wore as far back as the 1980s) and seems intent on projecting an image of Love as, variously, an aspirant Euro-trasher (she’s in St Barth’s right now), a label-obsessed fashionista and a front-running candidate for pretty much every global fashion campaign going.

And the words that go with all this? Well, despite a lengthy protest by those purporting to be her mouthpiece, they are so obviously, fluently Courtney herself. What are the chances of Courtney finding another living semi-literate person in America who blurts out verbal squits employing exactly the same tone and certifiable syntax, to order? Anyway, here’s what I learned from the site yesterday:

• She wants us to think that she may well have slept with Liam Gallagher (there’s a shot of them leaving London’s Met Bar looking pissed and randy).

• Her “monochromatic hair situation is fucking high maintenance” (no, me neither).

• She might be feeling a bit guilty about claiming a few weeks back that she had an affair with Gavin Rossdale, because there are several old pictures of Courtney with his wife Gwen Stefani, looking all knockabout-matey together in silly “kooky” outfits.

• She must get a heck of a lot of clothes and accessories given to her; Courtney’s music career isn’t what it was, so she certainly isn’t buying them.

• She looks weirdly mumsy with that bob hairdo.

• When she went to have lunch with Sam Taylor-Wood, Lee McQueen and Woody Harrelson earlier this year at the Wolseley in London, she arrived to find Woody reading a dog-eared copy of Mein Kampf.

Russia’s sexiest spy won’t get probed by an American porn studio after all — we’re told the 28-year-old she-Bond Anna Chapman has officially turned down a huge XXX movie deal. Vivid Entertainment president Steve Hirsch offered Chapman a potentially lucrative deal to star in one of their adult films — but according to a rep for Vivid, Anna just ain’t down with getting down on film.

According to the rep, Chapman’s lawyer claims the Russian spy has “no interest in our offer or in adult films.”

But Hirsch tells us it ain’t over yet — the offer’s still on the table if Chapman ever changes her mind.