In 2013, I quite enjoyed covering the Alec Baldwin beat. He was his own worst public enemy and good for gossip. He was going to quit show business, quit New York and quit social media. He was constantly freaking out on the paparazzi, leading to a cycle of goading and fighting and fighting and goa…      

I never thought George Clooney would give up Como (Dlisted)

Wait. Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen, the most perfect couple ever, can’t get into a club? (Just Jared)

LeAnn Rimes is a deadbeat? (Cele|bitchy)

Selena Gomez and Cody Simpson rumours (Celeb Dirty Laundry)

What will be all …      

You thought I was talking about Chavril, didn’t you? Chavril is the first couple of Canadian music, ok? The Great Canadian Love Story was always McGosling, Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. And there’s been a sinkhole in Canadian hearts ever since they broke up and DID NOT GET BACK TOGETHER, even …      

US Weekly has been on a tear lately on exclusive hookups and breakups. They were all over the Charlize Theron/Sean Penn split. They broke the news yesterday about Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch (we’ll get it to, hang tight), and they also reported on Wednesday that Jennifer Lawrence and Chris M…      

Meet Rafael Thomas Baldwin!

Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin introduce their 2-week-old son in the latest issue of Us.

“I thought I couldn’t be in labor,” says the yoga instructor, 31, who gave birth to their son two weeks early.

But baby Rafael arrived on June 17. The cofounder of NYC’s Yoga Vida admits she was in tears after the birth of her baby boy while Alec, 57, was in awe.

“It’s his first son. He can’t even believe it,” she says, adding, “Alec does other things, not change diapers.”

The family of four, including the couple’s 22-month-old daughter Carmen, posed in their NYC home for a photo shoot taken by Hilaria’s pal Eroula Dimitriou.

“She wants to kiss him, hold him, sing to him, and feed him food he can’t eat,” Hilaria says of Carmen. “She’s a good big sister.”

As for the family’s plans to expand – Alec is also dad to 19-year-old Ireland with ex-wife Kim Basinger – Hilaria says, “I think we’ll have one more eventually.”

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Happy Birthday, Ace Knute!

While celebrating their son’s second birthday on Wednesday, Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson were all smiles with their boy and 3-year-old daughter Maxwell.

The tot – who turned 2 on Tuesday – is photographed with his happy family in the new Instagram image.

In another shot, Jessica posted a photo of her daughter sporting a beautiful braid in her blonde hair.

“Maxi Drew and her unicorn,” the proud mom, 34, captioned the image of her pretty preschooler.

On Tuesday, the singer-actress-entrepreneur shared some shots of her birthday boy.

Maxi Drew and her unicorn

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Last night in New York. Little Shop Of Horrors. Ellen Greene in her defining role. Supported by Jake Gyllenhaal as the dorky Seymour. There are two more performances today and then that’s it, super exclusive. Every review I’ve read so far has been excellent. For Greene that’s not surprising. As f…      

This week, Ellen DeGeneres launched her lifestyle site, ED by Ellen. And it’s great.

You weren’t expecting that, right? The celebrity lifestyle business is so overrun with reality show stars pimping waist cinchers and movie stars curating monogrammed cocktail napkins that it feels like there …      

Almost one year ago exactly, the gossip world was all atwitter when some tabloids reported that Hank Baskett cheated on Kendra Wilkinson with a transsexual (that’s how she was described at the time, although now she’s being called a transgender woman). Hank moved out of the house just weeks after Kendra had given birth to their second child. Kendra was reportedly going crazy, punching walls, screaming, flushing her ring, all of it. But in the months that followed, Hank wormed his way back into Kendra’s life. He apologized and fed her a story that seemed to explain how everything went down. They are now back together and raising their two children. The question remained: just how did Hank explain his affair to Kendra? What did he say to get back in her good graces? As it turns out, his explanation is… um, made of lies. This is the stupidest “why I cheated” story I think I’ve ever heard. Here are some highlights from People’s exclusive:

“I messed up,” a teary-eyed Baskett tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I put myself in a bad situation. And everything through me brought pain upon this family.”

Last April, Baskett says he encountered a couple in a grocery store parking lot smoking marijuana. The former football player, 32, says he approached the couple to buy some pot; they gave him a phone number to call and, when he did, he was provided an address. Once he showed up at the home, Baskett says he used the restroom and when he emerged, “I saw something I thought I would never see in my life.”

Baskett says the person who answered the door, a transgender woman, was nude and making out with another transgender woman. “I froze,” says Baskett, visibly shaking as he recalls the memory. Then, the woman who answered the door approached Baskett and fondled him through his basketball shorts.

“I didn’t engage in anything,” he says. “It was like a bank robbery. You never know when you’ll freeze. I don’t know if it was a couple of seconds or 15 seconds, because all I was saying was get out, get out, get out.”

Baskett says he was so humiliated and distraught by the incident that he initially couldn’t open up about the truth to his family or friends, even when news of the encounter broke two months later. “I was this big former football player,” he says. “I was the alpha male. I could do anything to protect my family but I couldn’t protect myself.”

After the initial media onslaught, just five weeks after Alijah’s birth, a blindsided Wilkinson “went ballistic,” she says. The Kendra on Top, 30, star kicked Baskett out, flushed her wedding rings down the toilet and threatened divorce. “I couldn’t control my emotions.”

But when Baskett finally worked up the courage to be honest, Wilkinson was understanding, even sympathetic. “Hank was very naïve and gullible,” she says. “He thinks everybody is his friend. That led him to the hell that we’ve lived.”

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If you believe his story, I have a bridge to sell you. If I remember correctly, the transgender woman sort of sold her story to the tabloids and her description of the incident was much different. She said there was no penetration, but that she and Hank definitely fooled around. And I still believe that. Because… seriously, you show up at someone’s house to buy pot and then two naked transgender women make out and you got scared? WTF?

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