According to the tab, MARC ANTHONY recently refused to work with estranged wife JENNIFER LOPEZ because he's upset about her new relationship with her 24-year-old backup dancer.
Anthony was supposed to meet J.Lo in Peru and Chile to host the auditions for their new Latin reality show :Q'Viva: The Chosen", but cancelled his trip after a "tense conference call" with Lopez. "Inevitably, their discussion boiled down to her new boyfriend," claims the tab's source. "And Marc made the decision not to work with Jennifer last week as a result."
On a related note ... the reason the couple hasn't officially filed for divorce is because they're still negotiating the terms. According to Radar Online, "Marc and Jennifer have homes, businesses, and are minority owners of the Miami Dolphins football team. It's complicated, and it could be at least several more months before final terms of the settlement are agreed upon."
ASHTON AND DEMI'S AWKWARD ENCOUNTER: Horror of all horrors!!! ASHTON KUTCHER and DEMI MOORE bumped into each other at an LA restaurant last Thursday, according to "Us Weekly".
Moore, witnesses claim, was dining at a private club with a male friend when she noticed her ex on the opposite side of the patio. According to their source,"She approached the table, he gave her a hug, and they spoke for a few minutes." Although the source claims the chat seemed "polite," the whole scene was described as "very awkward."
Sadly, no one thought to take camera phone video or at the very least snap a pic or two of their public encounter. What good is technology, people, if you're not going to use it for our amusement???!!!
LINDSAY LOHAN'S PLAYBOY COVER REVEALED: LINDSAY LOHAN'S "Playboy" cover has been leaked a week ahead of schedule. In the photo, Linds is straddling a chair with the Playboy logo covering her naughty bits.
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JESSE JAMES WANTS KAT'S RING BACK: JESSE JAMES is one classy fellow. First he dissed his ex-wife SANDRA BULLOCK earlier this week, and now comes word he's demanding ex-fiancée KAT VON D return the $50,000 Neil Lane engagement ring he gave her.
"Now that he and Kat are totally broken up, Jesse wants the ring back," an insider tells "Star" magazine. "The money he paid for it obviously isn't going to make or break him, but Jesse's always been a tightwad."
Word is Kat isn't giving the sparkler back anytime soon. Says an insider, "She says she deserves it for putting up with him!"
DOCTORS ORDER OPRAH TO LOSE WEIGHT: Doctors are warning OPRAH to lose weight or DIE!!! "Star" Magazine's sources say O, who is now allegedly 280 lbs, has been binge eating and drinking due to stress over the failure of the OWN television network and her stagnant love life.
The source claims Oprah "has been told by people in the medical field that this time, it's diet - or die." As a result she's reportedly given up a lot of her favorite foods like pizza, double crust chicken pot pie, caramel corn ice cream, sour cream pound cake and bacon-peanut truffles.
BABY POOP - KHLOE KARDASHIAN TO UNDERGO IVF TREATMENT: Looks like the KARDASHIAN clan has baby fever. With KOURTNEY expecting her second child, KHLOE is reportedly preparing to undergo IVF treatment.
An insider tells "Us Weekly" Khloe "is desperate for a baby with [LAMAR ODOM] and will do whatever it takes." The source adds, "They have faith the [treatment] will work." Lamar has a 13 and 10 year old from a previous relationship. Khloe and Lamar have been married since 2009
UPDATE - ALEC BALDWIN "RUDE" TO AMERICAN AIRLINES CREW: American Airlines is giving its side of the ALEC BALDWIN fiasco. As we told you yesterday, the "30 Rock" star went on a Twitter rant Tuesday, fuming that a "flight attendant on American reamed me out for playing Words With Friends while we sat at the gate, not moving", and then eventually kicked him off the flight.
Now the company has issued a statement saying that Alec was "extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language. Given the facts above, the passenger was removed from the flight and denied boarding."
In a letter published on Huffington Post, Alec offers an apologizing, of sorts, writing, "It was never my intention to inconvenience anyone with my 'issue' with a certain flight attendant" -- who, he claims, singled him out to make an example of him. He then goes on to trash the airline industry, saying they used 9/11 "as an excuse to make the air travel experience as inelegant as possible."
ROMANCE REPORT: We don't know how he does it, but SNL star JASON SUDEIKIS has bagged himself another hottie. Fresh off a six-month romance with Mad Men's JANUARY JONES, Sudeikis is now reportedly dating OLIVIA WILDE.
Olivia herself is coming off a string of alleged romances with some prime man-meat including Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds since her divorce from Tao Ruspoli in October.
“Us Weekly” is reporting that Jason and Olivia were spotted together at the after party for the NBC show's December 4th episode. "They walked in holding hands," says a source. Another claims that Wilde's been spotted at the SNL studios on a semi-regular basis and that "they've gone out to dinner after rehearsals."
Meanwhile … Jason’s SNL co-worker KRISTIN WIIG is being linked to Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. If his name sounds familiar it’s because Moretti previously dated DREW BARRYMORE for five years.
The “Bridesmaids” star and Fabrizio were spotted canoodling at a Black Keys party Monday night at a club in Manhattan. "They were literally on top of each other," a source tells the New York Post.
SPLITSVILLE - PETE WENTZ AND ASHLEE SIMPSON DIVORCE FINALIZED: ASHLEE SIMPSON and PETE WENTZ are legally divorced. Ashlee filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences in February 2011. Terms of the divorce, including how the couple settled their custody battle, were not revealed.
Since their split, Ashlee has gotten serious with “Boardwalk Empire” star Vincent Piazza, while Pete has been dating model Meagan Camper.
R.I.P - HARRY MORGAN: HARRY MORGAN, best known as Colonel Potter in MASH, and Bill Gannon in both the '60s version of Dragnet and its 1987 movie spoof, died Wednesday in L.A. at age 96. No word on cause of death, although his son did say Morgan had been battling pneumonia.
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