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Did not believe this at all!

Wonder if this was news to rumored girlfriend Gemma Ward…

Certainly friends, definitely party pals and maybe more, Heath Ledger and Mary-Kate Olsen first met over the summer of 2006, at the time he was living at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, PEOPLE has learned.

More recently, “Mary-Kate and Heath were casually dating for three months before Heath’s death,” a source has told PEOPLE. “They were hooking up, but neither were particularly interested in making it exclusive.”

As for what drew the two together, says the source, “They had a bond that was based on partying, and they had the same tastes in partying … like, in terms of where they liked to hang out in New York, what time they would want to go out. They just had the same sensibility.”

At the time of their first becoming acquainted – the summer after Ledger’s Oscar nomination for Brokeback Mountain – Ledger and Olsen were spotted together having lunch at the Chateau with a group of friends, and Ledger was described as being charmed by Olsen, who made him laugh as he would scarf down a big meal.

“Mary-Kate made him laugh a lot,” an eyewitness recalled.

Both the New York Post and Daily News reported this week that Ledger, 28, and the Olsen twin, 21, were dating.

Girlfriend or not, the first call should have been to 911.

Lauren Conrad is going to have a new roommate, and it’s very a familiar face for fans of Laguna Beach and The Hills.

No, Heidi Montag has not come crawling back. Lauren Bosworth (”Lo” to real fans) is reuniting with her high school BFF!

The Hills’ co-star and Lauren’s current roommate, Audrina Patridge, recently said in an interview that Lauren “Lo” Bosworth will be moving in with the two of them when they settle into Lauren’s new house.

“New year, new house, new jobs, new boys, new everything,” Audrina Patridge told Us Weekly about the new episodes of The Hills. “It’s gonna be fun!”

Lauren Conrad and Lauren Bosworth have always been close friends. Now LC and Lo will be roommates, according to fellow roomie Audrina Patridge!

Here’s some background on Lo, from what we know (as avid Laguna Beach / Hills watchers) and from what our low-paid, hard-working interns dug up …

• Lo has one brother and one sister.
• During the first season of Laguna Beach, Lo was a senior.
• She made periodic appearances on The Hills in its third season.
• In high school, she had more strict parents and was relatively more conservative than some of her fellow cast members.
• She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. However, Lauren transferred to UCLA for her junior year. She is, or was, majoring in communications and art history.
• Lauren Bosworth has stated that she does not have any online profile of any sort and that any baring her name are all fake.
• [Which, come to think of it, means the girl we added as a friend three weeks ago and have been corresponding with is totally full of $–t!]

• At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty.
• NBC has a new Chuck at 8, then a new Celebrity Apprentice and another new episode of Chuck.
• FOX has a new, two hour Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader at 8.
• At 8:30, HGTV has a new Carter Can.
• At 9, ESPN has the Winter X Games.
• TLC has a new American Chopper at 9.
• Also at 9: MSNBC has a Republican Debate from Florida.
• At 10, ABC has a new Big Shots.
• VH-1 has a new Celebrity Rehab at 10.
• At 10:30, Food Network has a new Ace of Cakes.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Some guy claiming to be a “drug dealer to the stars” (his term, not mine) is hitting up the NY Daily News for a quick buck. The first reveal on his celebrity client list? You guessed it — Lindsay Lohan, come on down!

Wednesday, a gentleman who represented himself as Lindsay Lohan’s former cocaine dealer let it be known, through an intermediary, that he was ready to sell his story. “Lindsay was texting him over and over the week she was in town with [boyfriend at the time] Riley Giles,” says the broker. “But he said he wouldn’t see her because she was just out of rehab.”

I’m media outlets everywhere began waving stacks of hundreds in an all-out tabloid bidding war, complete with pork pie hats and J. Jonah Jameson-type editors chewing frantically on cigar stubs. There’d be faxes flying and phones ringing over a chorus of “So you’re saying Lindsay Lohan and cocaine? You sold Lindsay Lohan cocaine? Cocaine — are you sure? Impossible!” And then an upstart journalist in a pinstripe vest covers the receiver on his phone and yells over the din, “Stop the presses! Hold the phone! I got wiener! I got wiener inside Lindsay Lohan! Extra, extra, read all about it: Lindsay Lohan likes the wiener!” That’s about when a closeup shot of the morning edition spins into focus and stops on the headline in bold and the whole office breaks into song and a highly choreographed dance routine utilizing the office chairs. That’s because it’s really 1954 and you’ve actually gone back in time to make sure your Mom and Dad still get married and have you! It’s totally unexpected, right? I’ve already sent my script to all the major studios, so don’t go getting any ideas or anything.

Lindsay learning of Heath Ledger’s death on the phone:

Sean Lennon, 32, was spotted in New York — looking so much like John Lennon (or a Yeshiva student) — it was eerie!

Sean was walking with a fiercely hatted woman in SoHo on Wednesday, where temperatures were near freezing. John and Yoko were snapped in Paris in 1969 — when John was 29.

Former face-painting wrestling superstar and current homophobe Ultimate Warrior is using Heath Ledger’s death as an opportunity to take serious shots at Heath, gays and his former rival, Hulk Hogan.

In a post on his blog titled “dead long before 28,” the idiot Warrior refers to Heath as “Leather Ledger,” and facetiously praises the late actor’s parenting skills by saying he “did what it took to kill himself,” adding, “His kid is without a father, yes, but the negative influence is now removed and his own child has the chance for a full recovery.”

Warrior also refers to “Brokeback Mountain” as “Bendover Brokeback” and mockingly praises Heath’s courage for taking the role. All this from a man who became famous for oiling himself up and running around in man-panties and teased hair!

But the bashing wasn’t over — Warrior then went after Hulk Hogan’s fathering skills, saying, “He insists on sticking around ruining, and profiting off of, the parentally mismanaged lives of his own children.”

It was announced today that the first two films in Pixar’s sole and signature franchise, Toy Story and Toy Story 2, are headed back to movie screens October 2nd, 2009 and February 12th, 2010, respectively, with a complete digital 3D makeover, called Disney Digital 3D to be exact. The films will be an audience primer for Disney-Pixar’s digital 3D Toy Story 3, which hits screens on June 18th, 2010. John Lasseter, director of the first two Toy films and a Pixar poobah, is supervising the 3D process on both, while director Lee Unkrick continues his work on the second sequel.

In 1995, Toy Story was probably the most eye-popping thing I’d ever seen at that young age, in a theater or otherwise. Well, it ranked with my first concert, Beck, but I remember looking at the screen and my brain couldn’t comprehend the smoothness of the characters on screen. It was like the future in Back to the Future 2 had finally arrived. That feeling came surprisingly close again last year watching Beowulf at midnight at IMAX, but not totally. And I guess kids will feel the same way (self-fitting sneaks and attacking 3D movie ads still on the way…) with Toy Story 3 in 3D.

But while the new movie is a whole ‘nother animal, I’m not sure if I’d like to see the original film again in theaters in 3D. It might be like putting two types of syrup on your pancakes. Maybe that’s the goofy, tie-dyed cousin of death, nostalgia, talking. I’m sure it will look amazing, and Pixar revolutionized filmmaking, so they deserve the long theatrical celebration and audience refresher. What do you think

Miley Cyrus well have plenty of money to blow on Coke and booze when she’s twenty. The fifteen year old Hannah Montana singing sensation is well on her way to becoming a teen billionaire. “She’s on her way to becoming the highest paid young star of all time,” an insider tells to In Touch Weekly. With the first Hannah Montana motion picture set to begin shooting this summer, Miley is also in talks to launch her own line of clothing and even her own fragrance; all of which could bring the young star billions.

“She could well be a billionaire in five years,” financial analyst Jordan Goodman says. “She needs growth strategies. She can’t just stick it in the bank.”

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Based upon these pictures alone, Britney should permanently lose custody of her children.

I feel like I know more about Britney’s tits than I do about members of my own family. I see them more often.This bitch is nasty. Even if some male with poor vision found her even remotely attractive, he’d get turned off as her stench of Starbucks, Cheetos, dandruff and cigs fills his nostrils once she gets within a few yards.

Why does Britney walk around braless everyday for attention WTF is wrong with her!!

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Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio just got tossed in the can for two days in upstate New York — for missing a drug counseling session, of all things. Bouncing around the cell!

Trey spent last Wednesday through Friday at the Washington County Jail, in Fort Edward, N.Y., after he violated the terms of a guilty plea made back in April. He was popped during a traffic stop in December 2006 for having painkillers without a prescription.

Sheriff Roger Leclaire told the Glens Falls Post-Star that Anastasio was in the general inmate population and that his stay was “uneventful.”

Has Amy Winehouse gone to rehab. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Did we report this same story earlier this week, only to recant it a day later? Yes, yes and yes! But her label has actually confirmed it this time.

Winehouse entered a drug rehabilitation facility today, after a series of meltdowns and bizarre behavior rivaled only by Britney Spears.

“She decided to enter the facility today after talks with her record label, management, family and doctors,” Universal Music Group said.

“[Amy Winehouse] has come to understand that she requires specialist treatment to continue her ongoing recovery from drug addiction.”

They finally got the “Rehab” singer to go there.

It surely wasn’t the first time, but earlier this week, a shocking video surfaced of the singer apparently smoking crack out of a glass pipe.

Police are still deciding whether any charges should be brought against Amy Winehouse over the video. Heck, maybe that was her intention.

Her husband of about a year, Blake Fielder-Civil, remains locked up and held without bail on charges of assault and witness tampering.

Pete Doherty’s vision must have been off yesterday in Germany, because he tried to light a cameraman on fire.

Smoke him if you got him.

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Barbara Feldon became famous for playing Agent 99 on the ’60s TV series “Get Smart.” Guess what she looks like now!

Three time Grammy Award winner Carrie Underwood will join Beyonce and the Foo Fighters as a performer at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony on February 10th. The 2008 Grammy Awards is airing live from Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 10th at 8 p.m. on CBS.

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After spending months at the center of bankruptcy rumors, Lindsay Lohan is now on a “strict” $1,000 shopping limit.

“She shop so much, she would spend all her money,” a Lohan insider tells In Touch Weekly.

It looks like LiLo’s attempt at budgeting is already cutting into her shopping addiction, the actress had to place items on layaway during a January 13th trip to American Rag.

“She picked out two dresses and said she would be back tomorrow. It’s because the next day, her limit of $1,000 is restored.”

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We’ve all been waiting a long time for Roger Ebert to come back to his seat on Ebert & Roeper, and now it looks like we might have to wait a while longer.

Ebert writes in a message on his web site that he has gone in for more surgery today. He doesn’t go into details about the procedure, but he says that he hopes that this will “solve some problems I’ve been living with.” He won’t be in the hospital as long as he was before, but it’s not day surgery either. He’ll be in there long enough to have prepared some film reviews and other columns in advance so they can run while he’s away.

By the way, a side note: in the message, Ebert says he’ll be “in hospital.” When did we all turn British I’ve been noticing this a lot the past few years. People are saying “in hospital” instead of “in the hospital” and “go to prom” instead of “go to the prom.” Maybe the phrases changed when I wasn’t paying attention (I also find it odd when people end sentences with “come with”).

Hurry back to your seat Roger. Get well soon.

You asked for them… here are some new candids of Tara Reid, leaving Nobu in London just last night.

You can tell by her face/neck area that she is still pretty scary-skinny. And is it my imagination, or does she look to be “on” something here She looks totally spaced out!

Eva Mendes went to Nepal with Cameron Diaz for the show “Trippin”>”Cameron is a big old belcher, but I can’t belch. One night I had a heavy dinner, so I combated her belching with something I could do. We were in side-by-side beds, so it was her disgusting bodily function versus mine. It was an Eva-Cameron fart-belch off.”

These perfect creatures actually burp and fart Next thing you’re going to tell me is that they take shits! At least it wasn’t a queef-off.

Source: The Sun

Paris Hilton has Bette Davis’ eyes — and apparently her voice too.

Mess Hilton was at Sundance on Sunday, torturing attendees with her vocal stylings at a private party. First the world had to endure her album, now she’s back to throw salt on the wounds!

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Will Ferrell received the James Joyce Award in Ireland yesterday for his numerous contributions to literature. “Anchorman” didn’t write itself, ya know!
The criteria for the award seems to be vague — as previous winners include U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and activist Jesse Jackson.