Disclaimer: Olivia Wilde is downright gorgeous. We know this.
We, too, would strangle a mountain ox in order to make out with the beauty.
But that doesn't change the fact that the House actress can look better or worse, depending on her style choices. For example:
In the contrasting photos below, Wilde shows off her versatility. She's fresh-faced and mostly make-up free in the first; versus decked out in eye shadow and a more exotic look in the second. Which do you prefer?
Welcome, gossip readers around the world, to The Hollywood Gossip on this day after Christmas. Below, we take a look back at another dramatic gossip week.
Some highlights from the last seven days in celebrity gossip news:
Brittany Murphy (1977-2009).
Christmas wasn't too merry for Charlie Sheen.
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Spencer Pratt may have a hot new single and a ridiculous house in Hollywood thanks to his success on The Hills, but the Jersey Shore cast is not impressed.
Asked about The Hills cast, Jersey's Ronnie Magro said of his fellow MTV reality stars: "I’m not crazy about them. We’re doing better than them right now."
"They’re really not that big of a deal," Ronnie adds, noting that the only thing the West Coasters can do better than the Shore guidos is "outspend" them.
The guidettes would welcome a throwdown as well.
"It would be awesome to do The Hills versus Jersey Shore, like Real World/Road Rules Challenge. We would torture them," Jenni "J-WOWW" Farley said.
"We’d ruin them,” she said. “I’d take on all six girls!"
The cast of Jersey Shore thinks it's already out of The Hills' league.
According to Mike Sorrentino, a.k.a. "The Situation," he and his fellow cast members already had a Hills run-in, and it was clear who was looking up at who.
“Somebody called our publicist in L.A. and said, 'The girls from The Hills want to sit next to you in a club,'" The Situation said. “As soon as we walked in, I saw some girl running at me. That happens a lot to us, so we didn’t know who."
"She almost tackled me. I went, ‘Oh, she’s kinda cute.’ Then I saw it was Kristin Cavallari. I like to think that I’ve always had it like this, but not to this extent!”
We can only hope for a crossover episode featuring Justin-Bobby and Kristin's fake relationship intertwined with ridiculous Jersey Shore quotes. Give it time.
Perhaps the biggest sign they’ve made it? Snooki and The Situation were parodied on Saturday Night Live. “I thought it was hilarious,” Snooki, a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi, said of Bobby Moynihan’s SNL Snooki parody of her. "He said what I would say."
The actor posted $8,500 bond last night, following a significant update to the assault charges leveled against him.
Immediately prior to the bail hearing, wife Brooke Mueller recanted her story to a Colorado police officer. She said she was drunk when she dialed 911 (her blood alcohol test at the time measured a whopping .13) and reportedly backed up Sheen's story that he was merely defending himself.
Still, authorities will pursue charges against the Two and a Half Men star for now.
Sheen has hired Colorado attorney Richard Cummins and his next court date is schedule for February 8.
Chalk up another reason for Jon Gosselin to be on suicide watch.
He has few friends and no job, is on the hook for five-figure monthly child support payments, and now his ex says he owes her a small fortune in rent money.
Somebody better take away Jonny Boy's belt and shoelaces ASAP.
Hailey Glassman, Jon's post-Kate rebound piece, says the douchebag pocketed thousands in rent money she paid him. As in he never actually paid the rent.
She and Jon lived in a West Side apartment building in New York City, which she moved out of Wednesday (even though she says they broke up weeks ago).
Why'd she move out? Maybe because someone didn't pay rent.
On Christmas, Hails set the record straight on Twitter:
Hailey Glassman calls Jon Gosselin a liar and thief.
"FYI That apartment everyone calls 'Jon's Apartment' was MY apartment as well," Hailey Twittered. "We split rent! He's been living off my family and I."
"So ... get your facts right before you all assume. My family and I found out a week ago he's been pocketing our rent money 'n not paying the rent!"
Hailey Glassman, who also bashed Jon for his relationship with Kate Major, adds fuel to growing speculation over Jon's financial woes with these Tweets.
Jon and Kate Gosselin's divorce just became final, leaving him responsible for hefty child support payments. The biggest problem with that obligation?
Thanks to TLC's pending lawsuit against him, Jon can no longer earn money with public appearances or interviews that violate his non-compete clause.
So cross out those nightly visits to The Insider. On the plus side, he can probably still get a job in IT like the old days ... well, except for the recession.
As first reported by TMZ, Bruce Jenner dialed 911 on Christmas Eve because his neighbor allegedly went nuts at the valet standing outside the family's residence.
Witnesses reportedly told the cops the man appeared drunk and argued over the presence of the valet - even falling over at one point and spilling blood on the street.
Sources close to the family say Pastor Brad - the man that should have his license revoked for marrying Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom - tried to help the wasted neighbor. For his good deed, he was punched in the face!
Fortunately, Jenner broke up the potential melee and no arrests were made.
The lessons, as always:
When Jon returned home, cops say stuff was missing and a "butcher knife wielding maniac" had sliced and diced the entire place into a million pieces.
A note was left behind with Hailey Glassman signed at the bottom - the knife was stuck through the note - and whoever wrote it is not a big fan of his.
A source says the word "cheater" was carved into his bed's headboard.
Of course, someone else could have easily signed her name ... but the apartment is listed under both their names, and she just moved out last week.
Jon Gosselin has filed a complaint with police.
Did Hailey Glassman trash Jon Gosselin's place?!
Jon's attorney, Mark Jay Heller, said later in the day that Jon found his "shoes, shirts, luggage, bed, curtain, rugs and other furnishings" had been slashed.
Moreover, his TV, CD player, coffee maker, Nintendo Wii, dishes, pots and pans were taken. Heller also says a valuable Ming vase was "smashed to pieces."
Jon's attorney says the NYPD has fingerprinted and photographed the scene, and Jon is not taking it lightly. He wants felony charges brought in the case.
One would think Hailey Glassman had the means and the motive to trash Jon's place, having lived there and having recently broken up with the douchebag.
Since they broke up, she's made her bitter feelings known, even going on a rant a few days ago about Jon owing her rent for the apartment in question.
She also has a bit of a wild, troubled past in general.
Just the same, there's no proof ... yet: "The note will be forensically analyzed by a handwriting expert," says Heller, declining to comment further on it.
On the very same day Dean Sheremet filed for divorce from LeAnn Rimes, they agreed to a confidential divorce settlement, L.A. court records indicate.
"The settlement shall not be filed in this proceeding due to the parties mutual desire to maintain their respective rights to privacy," the document reads.
It presumably divides their cash, property and valuables of LeAnn Rimes and and Dean Sheremet, who will be legally single as their marital status ends.
LeAnn Rimes' marriage to Dean Sheremet is no more.
Their nearly eight-year marriage crumbled as Rimes began a relationship with actor Eddie Cibrian, who was married at the time to Brandi Glanville.
Eddie was also linked to Scheana Marie while married to Brandi.
Cibrian and Glanville are also in the process of divorcing.
Eddie and LeAnn are dating for real now.
Dean? Who knows what he's up to.
He says they illegally wiretapped his phone ... why would they do that?
There is a bit of history between Tom Cruise and Michael Davis Sapir.
In 2001, Cruise sued Sapir for $100 million after he claimed video of Cruise "engaged in a homosexual relationship." That lawsuit settled later that year.
Both parties issued a statement saying that no such tape existed.
Tom Cruise is a wild man. But a spy?
In the latest suit, filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court, Sapir claims Pellicano illegally wiretapped his phone during the time of the 2001 lawsuit.
Sapir claims in the suit that Cruise, Fields and Pellicano were all privy to what was going on, and is currently suing the actor for $5 million, minimum.
Bert Fields says they did not even hire Pellicano to work on the Sapir case.
There was no comment from Cruise's rep. Pellicano? Well, he's in jail.
Of course, the two had supposedly split on The Hills season finale, but it looks like that was totally staged ... or maybe just elaborate foreshadowing.
Jayde hinted at the split on Twitter: "Sometimes when you truly love someone you have to let them go. I never understood that quote until now."
Deep.
Just the same, Nicole reportedly "celebrated her breakup" with a 12-strong crew of girlfriends at Hyde Lounge in West Hollywood Friday night.
The following night, Jayde hosted a party at Chicago's Manor nightclub, where she was "telling everyone" about her breakup with Brody Jenner.
According to a source: "She made it sound like it was his doing, saying, 'He said he needs time to 'find himself. I don't have time for that.'"
Jayde Nicole and Brody Jenner had a good (argument-filled) run.
Brody, she said, has "gone to Australia" for some soul-searching. And by that he means girls. Nice, stable girls who won't yell at him 24/7.
Jenner himself Tweeted: "So I decided to stay in Australia BY MYSELF!!! Hahaha this is Crazy ... Might just stay here and start a new life."
Wow, she really did a number on this guy.
Guess not even seeing Jayde Nicole nude can make up for all the emotional torture she inflicts. It can only carry you so far in a relationship.
On the just-concluded season of The Hills, Nicole and Jenner argued about his flirty relationship with aggressive ex-girlfriend Kristin Cavallari.
"Everything was totally fine before you came here, so you need to go back to wherever it is that you came from," Nicole sniped at Cavallari.
All three are signed on to shoot Season Six next year.
Notes written by an investigator from the L.A. County Coroner's office show there were a shocking number of prescription meds on the late star's nightstand.
Brittany "had been complaining of shortness of breath and severe abdominal pain" for 7-10 days prior to her death from cardiac arrest two mornings ago.
Murphy went into the bathroom around 7:30 a.m.
Half an hour later, Brittany's mother, Sharon Murphy, went to check on her daughter, opened the bathroom door and found her on the floor unresponsive.
Brittany Murphy (1977-2009).
Sharon yelled for help. Her husband, who broke his silence on his wife's tragic death last night, heard the screams from Sharon and ran to the bathroom.
Sharon called 911 and Simon Monjack, who had been in bed, "attempted to revive the decedent by placing her in the shower and running the water."
Murphy was unresponsive and purged her stomach contents prior to the arrival of the paramedics. When paramedics arrived, she was "without signs of life."
Paramedics moved Brittany from the bathroom to the master bedroom, where they found a slew of prescription drugs. The medications included:
She makes friends with benefits with salad!
The reality TV star is featured in a new spot that makes no secret about how the company is trying to sell its products: via unadulterated sex appeal.
"I'm such a neat freak. Everything's got to be clean, crisp and tasty," Kim says, while eating a salad, below. "And while the best things in life are messy, it's fun to get clean."
She then immerses her naked self in a bubble bath. Watch the commercial and ask yourself: Does it make you hungry to eat food or... something else?
Carl's Jr. is known for its burgers and chili-cheese fries and is now trying to join the country's growing health trend.
In the past, the chain has used Paris Hilton, Padma Lakshmi and Audrina Patridge to sex up its menu.
With those ads only seeing moderate success, the company has now turned to the large-breasted master at earning publicity for... her large breasts.
While the Senators forward tangled with the Boston Bruins on the ice, the country star showed off her ice in the stands... and it appears Mike did a heck of a job.
That thing is practically the size of a hockey puck! Well, not really, but what we're trying to say is that it's big. And we can't think up many good hockey puns.
Asked about the engagement again last night, Fisher wouldn't give away any details, saying only that it's true, and that "we're both excited and very happy."
The Sens lost 2-0 last night, but somehow, we can't imagine Mike cares. In fact, he'd probably take this cutie over the Stanley Cup any day ...
CENTER ICE: Carrie Underwood's ring gets the once-over. Good job Mike!
It's also nice to take a break from sad stories like Brittany Murphy's death and juicy scandals like Tiger Woods' drama and focus on something simple. Something nice.
And what could be nicer than this:
First Dog Bo Obama takes in his wintry White House surroundings.
After a record-setting blizzard blanketed Washington, D.C., in a foot and a half of snow, residents struggled with the logistical and travel hassles that ensued.
Well, most residents. For Bo the Portuguese Water Dog, it was a chance for some good old-fashioned play time on the snow-covered White House grounds.
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