In what would definitely qualify as the most shocking news of the day, uber-cutie actress Reese Witherspoon and hunky husband Ryan Phillippe announced through their publicists that they were planning to separate after seven years of marriage.

Both have been publicly effusive in the past about their affections for each other, so the news that they’re splitting is quite a surprise. They say that no one thing caused the rift, but rather an accumulation over time. Like I tell my friends all the time: it’s rarely something big that ends relationships, it’s all the little stuff that builds up and never gets resolved.

We’re sad to see what was an apparent Hollywood relationship success story end badly for both Witherspoon and Phillippe. It may go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway, and I hope that they remember throughout the divorce proceedings that there are two little ones (7-year-old Ava and 3-year-old Deacon) involved and that they try to resolve things as amicably as possible a la Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

Shakira is just taking her time…At least so says the father of her long-time boyfriend, Antonio de la Rua. The two have been dating for five years, and there don’t appear to be any wedding plans in their foreseeable future.

So keep holding on to that hope, guys…She’s not completely off the market yet and doesn’t look to be any time soon…

If you’re like the majority of male population of the planet, you’re on the edge of your seat waiting for this year’s annual Victoria’s Secret show.

With supermodel superstars such as Gisele Bundchen and Adriana Lima set to take to the catwalk and Heidi Klum scheduled to appear as well, the men will have no problem finding an excuse to clear their schedules for December 5th when CBS will air the show at 10pm EST.

But what about the ladies (and the rest of the guys)? If the thrill of seeing the latest barely there lingerie fashions on supermodels isn’t enough for you to set the TiVo, then maybe the spectre of seeing Justin Timberlake perform songs from his latest album, FutureSex/ LoveSounds, might be enough temptation to convince you to tune in.

The good folks at Victoria’s Secret are doing their best to provide a little eye candy for everyone… You have to love a company that truly understands the real meaning of “customer service”..

Eva Longoria is spilling the beans and then some about bikini waxes and her first orgasm in Cosmopolitan magazine. One of the fun things about her - and, no doubt, a big part of her current popularity - is that, unlike many celebrities, she is strikingly candid in her interviews, and this one is certainly no exception.

What do I mean? Check out these choice quotes from the article.

- Talking about her first orgasm:

“I didn’t have my first one until I was twenty-six. It was that recent. Before that it was like, ‘I think I did’. But when I finally did have one, I was like, ‘What’s going on with my body? Oh, my God!!!!!’” 

- Talking about getting a Brazilian wax:

“Believe me, the first time I did it, the technician did half, and I was like ‘Stop!’ She said, ‘Sit down, I have to finish’ But then it gets easier. The more you do it, the less hair grows back. But yeah, I love it. I swear by it. Every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back.”

When relationships go bad, you can almost always point back to a specific moment at which you said, “That’s it, I’ve had enough of this.” Jessica Simpson is talking about that moment in her marriage to Nick Lachey.

Was it an infidelity? Despite some rumors to the contrary, it was nothing of the sort. Rather, acccording to her, it was in October 2005 when he decided to stay home rather than go to Africa with her on a charity mission for Operation Smile.

If their reality show was any indication of what life was really like, then it was surely just the straw that broke the camel’s back. On the show, he was always staying home acting like an irresponsible frat boy while she went out and brought home the bacon. Then when she did get home from this gig or that, he always very critical of her. More than once my own significant other commented that she would have tossed his unemployed derriere out of the house long before Simpson finally did.

Making that trip to Africa alone surely gave Simpson a lot of time to think about her relationship, and unfortunately for Lachey, she finally came to the same conclusion herself.

Cameron Diaz has an important lesson for you the next time you hear about celebrity infidelity: don’t believe the hype. And it looks like the National Enquirer is about to fork over a whole lot of money for telling tales about her.

Long story short: Cameron Diaz kisses a friend goodbye, and the National Enquirer manufactures a whole story about a raging affair between her and the friend. They even went so far as to tell the friend’s wife that he was going to leave her for Diaz. And not a word of it was true, so she sued them.

The two parties appear to be close to a settlement, and I’m sure the amount of money the Enquirer is going to have to pony up won’t be splashed across their front page the way the original story was…but it should be…

I’m all about celebrity gossip (obviously!) but to me there’s a bright line between telling an inconvenient truth and just making up a story out of whole cloth and intentionally trying to break up someone’s marriage to sell a few issues. What the Enquirer did was mean-spirited and whatever they have to pay probably still won’t be enough to make up for it…

The Dixie Chicks and their film distributor are claiming they are being victimized in a transparent attempt to drum up publicity for a useless victimography that nobody really wants to see.

In yet another public display of stunning ignorance about the First Amendment, they seem to believe that they have a constitutional right to put their ads on networks that have no desire to be tied up in their attempt to influence the upcoming elections.

One more time for the Dixie Chicks and their adherents: you have a constitutional right to say whatever you want, and no one has ever tried to impinge on that right. However, you don’t have a constitutional - or any other kind of - right to demand that someone else provide you with a platform to do so.

NBC and the CW have viewerships comprised of both Republicans and Democrats, and neither network is in a position to make half of them mad by airing your ridiculous publicity stunt. They are perfectly within their rights to say “I don’t want anything to do with this mess,” and what objective person could really blame them?

The article also makes it clear that you never made a serious attempt to actually place the ads in the first place: it was all a transparent ploy to generate publicity by making false claims about censorship from the start. You did just enough to issue a press release, and for this little piece of prevarication I’m supposed to want to see your film? How pathetic must it be that telling baldface lies about it is the best thing you could come up with to market it? All it tells any sane, thinking person is that this film is pure pap that’s long on agenda and short on facts. Believe it or not, we’re not all as stupid as you thought we were when you dreamed up this little ploy…

But in the world according to the Dixie Chicks and their enablers, only they have the right to speak their mind while everyone else is forced to pony up the time and money so for them to jam their amateur politics down everyone else’s throat. As this little incident shows, in their world you don’t even have to disagree with them to get branded as some sort of corporate Nazi, all you have to do is to decide not to play along.

I guess you’d have to pony up a few bucks to watch their propaganda flick in order to find out what level of Hell from which you must have ascended if you actually have the nerve to call them out on their ignorance of both Geopolitics and Basic Civics 101.

Since I plan on skipping out on the victimography, I guess I’ll never know from which level I arose…If you’re gullible enough to fall for it and decide to watch this tripe, drop me a line. I’ll want to know, so I can put it on my resume.

If you’re of the thin-skinned variety, you might want to steer clear of Amanda Peet for the next few months. According to her, pregnancy has turned her into quite the potty-mouth.

She says that whenever she gets angry these days, she “swears like a longshoreman.” And to top it off, she’s gotten a good case of acne to go along with her anger management issues. Her mother attributes it to the fact that she’s carrying a girl. Peet says, “It’s an old wives’ tale I guess…[girls] make you look less good.”

Congratulations to Holly Marie Combs and her husband David Donoho on their new baby!

She gave birth to 8 lb. 8 oz., 19″ long, Riley Edward Donoho at 12:57 p.m., Thursday. According to David:

He has hair like Elvis – a full head of black hair. The doctor said he came out looking like a 2-year-old.

New baby Riley is the second child for the couple. He has an older brother, Finley, who is 2 and 1/2.

In a “Duh” moment for law enforcement, Snoop Dogg was arrested for suspicion of illegal drug and gun possession.

The only real question here is: Why now? The name Snoop Dogg is virtually synonomous with smoking marijuana and has been for more than a decade. Every song, every appearance, virtually every other word out of his mouth is all about smoking weed. He is rarely without his ubiquitous blunt, but all of a sudden he gets arrested for it.

I’m not saying he should get special treatment for doing something that you or I would have been locked up for long ago, I just want to know why they let it slide for so long and now want to do something about it all of a sudden. I can only guess that there was some kind of dust-up between him and his people and the law enforcement that showed up to tell him not to park his car in the loading zone. Maybe they should have just apologized for the mistake and moved the car…