Zach Braff has been forced to deny rumours he’s dead after a prankster mocked up a fake internet page claiming he committed suicide.

The ‘CNN page’ quickly circulated on Twitter.com, alleging the Scrubs star had been found with “an empty pill bottle by his side”.

It prompted Braff to post a message on Facebook, declaring himself “very much alive”.

He then posted a video from the set of Scrubs, saying, “I would never off myself with pills. If I had to do it, I ‘d do it the way everyone else would do it – by hitting myself with pots and pans.

“I just want to say to the douchebag who started this: You win my first every douche of the day award for making my mum upset.”

Categories: Television
Tags: Dept. of Baseless Rumor / Scrubs / Zach Braff
Author: Ian Garland

Nick Lachey is astonished he’s being linked with his ex-wife Jessica Simpson, now they’re both single again.

Astonished and thrilled,we’d imagine.

He insists, “I think it’s fun storytelling, but there’s very little truth to any of it. I certainly have heard about her breakup and I wish her the best, as I’ve always done. Aside from that, there really is nothing to say.”

Not that the gossip is doing him any harm — his career has hardly flourished since the pair divorced in 2006, and nobody seemed to care when he split with Vanessa Minnillo.

Not that we’re suggesting he made up the ‘reunion rumours’ himself… Celebrities never do that kind of thing.

Categories: Music / Splits / Twosomes
Tags: Dept. of Baseless Rumor / Jessica Simpson / Nick Lachey
Author: Ian Garland

Johnny Depp’s choice of clothing accessory during a stroll through New York yesterday raised eyebrows among the city’s gay community.

The happily-attached (to a woman) actor sported his usual gypsy-themed attire on his way to a taping of David Letterman’s talk show — including a pink handkerchief tucked into the pocket of his trousers.

WENN’s expert on such matters reliably informs us that this colour hanky is code in the gay community — and suggests Johnny is a fan of… dildoes.

Read into that what you will…

Categories: Film / Television
Tags: Dept. of Baseless Rumor / Johnny Depp
Author: Ian Garland

Megan Fox of Transformers — and of the famously on-again off-again relationship with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’s Brian Austin Green — is on the record as claiming that Hollywood’s casting-couch culture still exists.  She insists that several top directors have tried to bed her since she got famous, saying that she’s attended a number of meetings with leading filmmakers to discuss roles, but had to turn down their advances.

Fox refuses to name names, though, telling Britain’s GQ magazine, “Any casting couch s**t I’ve experienced has been since I’ve become famous. It’s really so heartbreaking. Some of these people! Like Hollywood legends.

“You think you’re going to meet them and you’re so excited, like, ‘I can’t believe this person wants to have a conversation with me,’ and you get there and you realise that’s not what they want, at all. It’s happened a lot this year actually.”

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Categories: Film / Publishing
Tags: Brian Austin Green / casting calls / Dept. of Baseless Rumor / Megan Fox
Author: Sarah Bunting

R&B singer Kelis ripped on two-timers on her Twitter account — thereby hinting that her estranged husband Nas cheating on her, leading to their split.

The former super-couple shocked the entertainment world when the “Milkshake” star — rocking blue mascara at a MoMA party in New York City last week — filed divorce papers at the end of April, citing “irreconcilable differences” for the bust-up after nearly six years of marriage.

Kelis is expecting the couple’s first child together; speculation ran rampant in the days after the court filing as to what could prompt such a serious move during a pregnancy.  And the fight over child support and custody has already begun, with Nas urging a judge to deny Kelis cash for the child before s/he’s even born.

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Categories: Celebrity Younguns / Music / Splits
Tags: Dept. of Baseless Rumor / internet follies / Kelis / Nas
Author: Sarah Bunting