Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Peter Cook can beg all he wants, but Christie Brinkley isn’t ready to forgive. "She’s still very hurt, very shocked. He carried on a two-year affair," a family member said yesterday, laughing at the suggestion Brinkley will reconcile. "She has to be careful because they did a prenuptial agreement. She can’t say anything bad because the prenup will be broken," the relative said. "It’s not in her personality to say anything bad anyway." The family member, who asked not to be named, said it would be one thing if Cook, 47, was guilty of a meaningless one-night stand. But his philandering was a prolonged and devious relationship with a teenage assistant named Diana Bianchi. "You think when there are kids involved, maybe you can find forgiveness. But this girl [Bianchi] was on TV saying all this stuff about Peter pursuing her. It’s really hurtful," the family source said "I can’t say for sure what [Brinkley will] do next. But whatever it is, the family will totally support her," the relative said. "I think she’ll find love again. Everything is possible. She’s very strong."
Cook’s friend Trish Bergin, a TV news anchor who once dated Brinkley’s ex-husband Billy Joel, also rushed to Cook’s defense yesterday."Peter is not a cad," Bergin told "Inside Edition." "He is a good man who made a very bad mistake. I am hopeful they will now be given the privacy to work through this."Bergin described Cook as "distraught," "truly remorseful," and "committed to saving his marriage."
Bianchi’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina said Cook’s attempts to rehabilitate his image are fine when it comes to mea culpas, but dangerous when it comes to painting his client as an eager participant in the affair. "If he’s going to take a position not based in reality or truth, then [Bianchi] may wind up in a position to have to file a lawsuit," Tacopina told The News. Tacopina specifically disputed Cook’s comment, delivered through his lawyer, that he "took no advantage" with Bianchi. "No one ever said Diana was forced physically. The question is whether or not the advances were welcome and whether she believed there would be collateral consequences if she didn’t give in to his advances," Tacopina said. "She was making $12 an hour at a toy store when they met, and she became financially dependent on [her job at Cook’s architecture firm]. She was put in a difficult position, one that the law frowns upon," he explained.Tacopina said he had no immediate plans to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against Cook. But "if he keeps pushing us, invoking Diana in the newspapers, she’s going to be forced to defend herself," he said.

NY Daily News

Dang Bianchi is one smart whore at 19! Screw them after they are done screwing you. 

Lance Bass, the former ‘N Sync heartthrob, reveals that he is gay, in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. "I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys’ careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything," says Bass, referring to bandmates Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake. "I didn’t know: Could that be the end of ’N Sync? So I had that weight on me of like, ‘Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it’s bad.’ So I just never did," he says speaking about his sexual orientation for the first time with PEOPLE. Now, after years of keeping his personal life private, the Mississippi-bred, Southern Baptist-reared Bass, 27, is publicly revealing what he first shared with his friends, then his shocked family. "He took years to really think about how he was going to tell everyone," says his close buddy Fatone, 29, who was the first ‘N Sync bandmate to find out Bass is gay. "I back him up 100 percent." Adds Bass’s longtime pal, actress Christina Applegate: "I’ve always accepted him as who he is. It’s about his own serenity at this point." Having pursued acting, producing and – most memorably – space flight after ’N Sync went on hiatus in 2002, Bass now is looking ahead to new beginnings. He is in a "very stable" relationship with model-actor-Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl, 32, and is developing an Odd Couple-inspired sitcom pilot with Fatone in which his character will be gay. Mostly, though, he’s just enjoying the relief that comes with the culmination of a long, at times emotionally fraught journey. "The thing is, I’m not ashamed – that’s the one thing I want to say," he explains of his decision to come out. "I don’t think it’s wrong, I’m not devastated going through this. I’m more liberated and happy than I’ve been my whole life. I’m just happy." As for why he’s talking about this now Bass says, "The main reason I wanted to speak my mind was that (the rumors) really were starting to affect my daily life. Now it feels like it’s on my terms. I’m at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there’s really nothing else that I worry about."

People

Good for him! 

Jessica Simpson will appear on the first episode of The View to star new cohost Rosie O’Donnell, on Sept. 5, PEOPLE has learned. "Rosie herself reached out to Jessica," says a source close to Simpson about the singer-actress’s guest shot. The two have a long history together, going back to The Rosie O’Donnell Show, which aired from 1996-2002, when O’Donnell was riding the crest as TV’s highly rated "Queen of Nice." "When Jessica was just starting out, none of the big shows were interested in her, but Rosie took a chance on her and Jessica never forgot it," says the source. It wasn’t just a break that O’Donnell provided, but encouragement. "When Jessica was on The Rosie O’Donnell Show years ago," the source went on to say, "Rosie went backstage afterwards and said, ‘You’re gonna be a star.’ " Adds the source: "Jessica will never forget her."

People 

As news broke of Dave Navarro’s extramarital affair with another woman, actress Sarah Howard, even more surprising were reports that his wife Carmen Electra, 34, may have known about — and not minded – the affair, which lasted from January to March. “I think Carmen figured out Dave was fooling around, but she didn’t make it an issue,” says an Electra friend. Adds another, “If she was angry, she would’ve booted him out.” (At presstime, Navarro and Electra still shared their Beverly Hills home.) Howard and Navarro, 39, met in January at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where he approached the actress at a poker event. “They hung out that night and hooked up,” a source close to Howard tells Us.

Us Weekly

I thought the definition of separated was you live in separate residences, but I could be wrong. 

Stay-at-home mom no more! While Katie Holmes, 27, has enjoyed a quiet life in the three months since Suri’s birth – she spent much of July chilling out in Telluride, Colorado – the new mom has returned to L.A. with a new attitude. Sources tell Us she’s ready to get back to work. On July, 19, the actress – who’s career was just shifting into high gear with the blockbuster release of Batman Begins when she hooked up with Tom Cruise, 44, last year – took a meeting sans Tom with her agents at CAA in Beverly Hills to fire up the search for the perfect vehicle for her big-screen return. “She knows it’s been too long. She doesn’t want to give up her career for her new life,” says a friend of Holmes’, who adds that she has been reading scripts looking for an “older, more mature role.” And although she wants a hot career again, her family life won’t have to suffer, says an insider close to the pair. “She’s still very much involved with Tom and the baby,” says the source. “But she does want to start working again soon.”

US Weekly

I thought Tom wanted her to stay at home and take care of Suri. You know that baby that we are not sure really exists. 

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