Jeffs Celebrity Gossip Blog

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe have separated. The couple's rep released a statement Monday morning that says "We are saddened to announce that Reese & Ryan have decided to formally separate. They remain committed to their family and we ask that you please respect their privacy and the safety of their children at this time."

Sources tell Access Hollywood Witherspoon has contacted celebrity divorce lawyer Robert Kaufman, who has represented Jennifer Aniston, Roseanne and Lisa Marie Presley.

Sources say Witherspoon spoke with Kaufman about divorcing Ryan Phillippe, her husband of seven years. The couple has two children. They met at Witherspoon's 21st birthday party.

The romance between Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn moved on to London this weekend where the duo reunited after nearly a month apart.

The couple, who attended the musical Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, "arrived by car together to see the Saturday matinee just before 2.30 p.m.," a spokesman for the theatre revealed.

"During the interval they went to the White Room, a public bar within the theatre, and had a drink," the spokesman adds. "They left together by car after the end of the show."

Earlier this month, rumors swirled about a possible rift between the couple because Aniston hadn't visited Vaughn, 36, who has been in London since late last month filming Fred Claus, a comedy about Santa's jealous older brother. However, Aniston, 37, shot down the reports when she told Oprah Winfrey on Oct. 10 that they're still together.

Asked if they'd split, the actress told Winfrey, "No, no," and added sweetly that Vaughn is "a regular guy."

"Vince and Jen are fine despite the distance," a friend of the couple said earlier this month. "Don't believe the hype."

At least one friend of Vaughn's did acknowledge that the couple experienced a "cooling off" period late last summer over where to take the relationship. Still, they are now making it clear that they're hanging in despite busy schedules.

Vaughn's movie is shooting in London through December. Aniston meanwhile has been working on her own projects: Just last week she made her New York stage debut in the 24 Hour Plays benefit, and has been promoting Room 10, the short film she codirected with friend Andrea Buchanan as part of the Glamour Reel Moments series.

Oprah Winfrey has famously given members of her audience new cars, paid off their debts and fulfilled their wildest dreams. Now she's given them what she calls the "gift of giving back."

On a show that aired Monday, Winfrey gave more than 300 audience members $1,000 debit cards sponsored by the Bank of America to donate to a charitable cause.

Winfrey called the show her "favorite giveaway ever."

"I can honestly say that every gift I've ever given has brought at least as much happiness to me as it has to the person I've given it to," the 52-year-old talk-show host said. "That's the feeling I want to pass on to you."

People can give the entire sum to one person — relatives aren't eligible — or they can split it among charitable causes. Audience members also received a DVD recorder to tape their stories for a future show.

"You're going to open your hearts, you're going to be really creative, and you're going to spend it all at once on one stranger or spend a dollar on every person," Winfrey said. "Imagine the love and kindness you can spread with $1,000."

Whilst the news outlets have focused on Buffalo-area storm damage up around Niagra Falls in recent weeks, a Hollywood film crew has had its lenses trained on the brink of the Horseshoe Falls - the biggest of the three waterfalls that make up Niagra Falls.

Now, Access Niagra reports that Walt Disney Studios is shooting falls-related scenes for use in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" scheduled for release in May.

The studio is not saying how the footage of the world-famous waterfall will be used, but there is speculation that moviegoers will see Captain Jack Sparrow and his shipmates facing oblivion courtesy of the giant cataract.

Stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley were nowhere in sight - expected to be added later to the footage used.

SCISSOR SISTERS' hotly anticipated Halloween concert in London will raise money to help the environment after the band agreed a deal to broadcast the concert live on the web.

The chart-toppers will play the Carling Brixton Academy tomorrow night (31OCT06), and will join a host of stars including ORLANDO BLOOM and JUDE LAW in supporting Global Cool, a charity aimed at cutting carbon emissions.

Bandmember BABYDADDY says, "This special gig is a big thank you to all our fans. It's set to be an amazing night and by showing the gig on the web it not only means that everyone can enjoy the party, but also raises awareness of their cause by highlighting the importance of saving our planet."

Pop heartthrob Ronan Keating is just one of the famous faces appearing on the next series of Ready Steady Cook!

The handsome Irish star will be sharing the kitchen with the likes of award-winning singer Chris de Burgh and Deborah Meaden and Richard Farleigh, the brand new 'dragons' on the next series of the BBC show Dragons' Den.

As well as whipping up a few dishes, Chris will talk about his latest album The Storyman, which is a collection of 12 themed tracks, each accompanied by a story.

Bad Girls stars Antonia O'Konma and Liz May Brice and acting brothers Nick and John Pickard, who are currently starring in TV soap Hollyoaks, will also put their cooking skills to the test alongside Ainsley Harriott and his gang of celebrity chefs.
The next series of Ready Steady Cook! will air on BBC Two next month.

Russell Crowe has revealed he would love to make 'Gladiator 2'.

The 42-year-old actor, who played Roman warrior Maximus in Oscar-winning film 'Gladiator', says he and director Ridley Scott are always thinking up sequel ideas - despite Crowe's character dying at the end of the first movie.

Crowe told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper: "The idea of doing a 'Gladiator 2' comes up all the time but we've made it very difficult for ourselves by killing off my character in the first one.

"We have an idea but it never seems to have sufficient credibility. It just comes back at us and says, 'Are you kidding?' Maybe we are kidding. Maybe we just enjoy talking about it."

There have been many rumours about possible plots for 'Gladiator 2' including a prequel plotline, or a sequel with a descendent of Maximus as the lead character or even Crowe's character coming back as a ghost.

With Westlife due to release their new studio album on November 20th we thought it would be an opportune time to catch up with the guys and find out whats been happening recently, how they felt when Brian McFadden left, and a look back on eight years of musical success.

Shane, Mark, Nicky and Kian look set to romance us into Christmas this year with the release of The Love Album on 20th November 2006. The album is a collection of old favourites picked out by the boys and Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh. For one of the tracks, the boys team up with Delta Goodrum for a version of All out of Love. The album also includes hits like Total Eclipse of the Heart, You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling, Easy and many more. Their first single, The Rose, is set for release on 6th November. Liz Frost catches up with them on their way to approve their latest video.

What have you been up to today
Nicky:
Got out of bed about 11 o’clock and came into Sony to do some Interviews and we’ve got some meetings with our marketing department. We’ve just approved the final edit of the video for our brand new single. It’s in colour currently, but we’ve changed it to be black and white.

How was your recent Face to Face tour
Shane:
Great! It was very long! We did a lot of dates, at the end it was quite tiring because we went to Asia and places like that. We were touring for about 6 months more or less, we did 3 months straight then we had a few weeks off then we were doing every weekend in the summer, we did 3 outdoor shows across the UK. Scotland Wales and England then we went to Asia for a 3 week tour over there. The crowd seemed to like it and people seemed to think it was the best so far. That’s a good sign, but we have to beat that next year now.

Do you prefer touring or recording
Mark:
When you’ve performed the same show so many times it becomes monotonous, but then you go into promotion and recording a new albumn then back to touring. It’s sort of half the time touring half recording.

What was the highlight
Nicky
: This year we changed it up a bit. We usually do a medley. And I think on this show, we decided to do something different. We usually do one of the Jackson five, Queen, we’ve done Wham, all sorts of things. This year for a laugh we decided to try and cover a modern song, so we did a version of Don’t Cha by the Pussycat Dolls, obviously changing it to boyfriend. It really went down a storm. A little sexy routine to it. It was tongue in cheek, not like we’ve done before. Also the new single You Raise me Up went down a storm aswell. I think that song came at just the right time for us. I mean, every band starts to go a bit, then Bryan left and everyone started to write us off. Then we did the Rat Pack albumn and Face to Face with You Raise Me Up, which really took off.

What made you choose the songs for the Love Album
Shane:
The whole idea of the album was to do a tribute Love Album. When you’re going do an original album you have to get new material in. We had 4 or 5 songs that were decent, but they weren’t in any ways near songs like You Raise Me Up. So we said to ourselves we’ve got a standard. If we want to make an original album it has to be at a certain standard. Simon Cowell came up with the idea ‘Why don’t you do a Love Album? You’re famous for singing love songs so it’s going to suit you’ Simon had his favourites, Louis had his favourites. There are some great songs on there. The rose is a famous song, but it’s not that famous a song. It was actually Louis who chose it but Simon thought it was a great song, the perfect song to launch the album.

Nicky:
There’s an interesting song on there too. There’s a song called ‘All Or Nothing’ That song was written for us 7 years ago, but Simon Cowell turned it down. That song was passed to OTown in the states and they had huge success in the States with it. We were quite gutted because we knew it was sounding very much like us. We have a bit of a laugh about it now. So we covered it on this Love Songs album. We do an acoustic version of it, it’s a lovely song.

You’ve been together 8 years, have you had any major squabbles
Kian:
We bicker over stupid things, but we’ve never had a major bust up ever. We’ve got too much respect for the band to do that.

Mark:
A couple of times we were close to headbutts and kicks.
Kian:
We tend to get worked up over travel, when we travel for a long time. We’ve been working very very hard for a few weeks, somebody would say something and it would be taken the wrong way. It would always be in a scenario when we haven’t been home for a while, we’ve been in eachothers faces for like 6 months really really working hard. It happened more in the earlier years than the later years, because we were younger and more feisty. Now we’re more grown up, it’s easier to say things to each other, There’s no winners when this sort of thing happens. What’s the point in rowing when we should be enjoying it?

When Bryan left, did you think it was all over
Shane:
To be honest, no. For about 10 minutes we were like ‘Oh no, what’s going to happen?’ We were only like 20 days away from the first show of a 4 month tour. We started rehearsals the next day and Bryan said ‘I’m hanging up my boots lads’. We thought we were being Punk’d because MTV Punk’d had just started. Then we had a 3 hour chat about it and we were like ‘Right, what are we going to do?’ Everybody wanted to carry on so we were just like ‘Let’s do it then!’ We had a big heart to heart. Louis drove over to chat to us at 3 in the morning for 3 hours.

Nicky:
He was like ‘It doesn’t matter. There are so many more years left’. If ever there was any doubt he convinced us. Especially in the aftermath because all the press were on Bryan’s side, everyone was like It’s Robbie again, when Take That were over. They went into our financial details. Bryan was worth more because of clever investments. But they were building him up in any way they could. It really got to us. It made us even more determined to succeed.

What do you think of Take That reforming
Mark:
There’s not enough Pop music around at the moment, So I think it’s great that old bands like Take That are coming back.

Kian:
Most of the bands that are coming back now were around when we started off, and we’re like ‘ah now you see why we stayed together?

Will you ever break up
Kian:
I don’t think we’d ever break up. We might take a break for a year or something like that but for the 4 of us to sit down in front of room full of people or on TV and say we’re finished for good. I don’t think we’d ever do that. I think we feel like we could go away for a few years and come back after that, but we’ve just had a renegotiation with the record label for another 4 albums and that’s after the next album, so there’s 5 more albums in our record contract. It depends really on how we’re seen as people. I can’t imagine us breaking up and never coming back.

Nicky:
Obviously if we don’t want to do it anymore, we won’t, but the fact that we’ve signed this renegotiation; we can keep coming back and doing another album when we feel like it. I think we are at a level now, we’ve got through and survived it.

Sources reveal that Nicole Richie passed out at Hyde nightclub early Sunday morning in Hollywood.

We're told it occurred just before 2 a.m., when Richie passed out and fell to the floor. An employee approached Richie and her friends and said he was calling 911. Sources say they told the employee not to make the call and that they would take Richie to a hospital. The friends then carried Richie out of the club through the back door.

Before Richie collapsed, we're told she hung out for awhile with Lindsay Lohan inside the club.

Late last week, Richie's reps confirmed that the "Simple Life" star entered a treatment facility to determine why she hasn't gained weight. Richie has looked shockingly thin over the last few months.

Richie's rep says her client was at Hyde for approximately 20 minutes but denies that she collapsed.

GARY Barlow has topped the charts nine times, sold millions of records and toured the world as part of chart topping boy band Take That.

But he says his birthplace Frodsham will always be ‘home’.

‘Everyone assumes I’m from Manchester but I've always tried to let everybody know I'm actually from Cheshire, and Frodsham,’ he told The Chronicle in an exclusive interview last weekend.

‘Nobody in Europe understands it and everybody in Britain always says 'Oh you're the posh one then’.

But for those of us who live in these parts it is important – we don't want to be from Manchester.’

Hundreds of girls queued in Manchester’s Trafford Centre and Liverpool city centre on Saturday for a signed copy of Gary’s autobiography, My Take.

The book charts Gary’s childhood, his first foray into performing when he won talent shows organised by Chronicle sister papers the Chester Observer and Runcorn Weekly News and his teenage years, spent touring social clubs around the North West playing an electric organ, bought from Rushworths in Chester when he was 10.

In 1990, aged 19, he was spotted by manager Nigel Martin Smith, who formed his boy band ‘Take That’ around Gary’s songwriting and singing talent.

By the time they split up in 1996 they were the UK’s biggest pop act, selling over 10 million albums and losing one Robbie Williams along the way.
With enough songs already written to fill a solo album, Gary was tipped to be the next George Michael but, after losing a press-fuelled chart battle with Williams, was dropped by his record company at 29.

My Take tells how he drove back home to Delamere Manor vowing never to set foot on stage again and to concentrate on producing and songwriting for other artists.

Last weekend Gary said Delamere – where he lived for 11 years until moving to London this summer – is one of the few places where he can walk around without being pestered by autograph hunters.
He said: ‘My regular pub has always been The Goshawk in Mouldsworth and I'm just never bothered in there.’ The only other place I'm never bothered is London because it's so busy you can just mingle in.‘I love the fact that you can do all this and still have a relatively normal life here.’

Gary settled into producing and songwriting for other artists including Donny Osmond and Charlotte Church, who visited Delamere to use his purpose-built recording studio – and sample nearby Cheshire pubs.

He said: ‘I've probably expected a bit much of our local pubs over the years. I've had Charlotte Church in there, I took the whole of Blue once, I've had Westlife there and somehow they just always seem to come over and say ‘I'll get you a quiet table in the corner’.’

Last weekend Gary and his wife Dawn, who toured with Take That as a dancer, stayed at the new Frodsham home of his parents Colin and Marjorie.

Gary said his children were thrilled to be home in Frodsham to see their grandparents and cousins – the children of his brother Ian.

He added: ‘I'm really keen always to remind myself where I started everything. We've even driven past the house in Ashton Drive this morning where I grew up until I was 10. ‘I just think it's really important to remember where I come from. Actually I have no reason to forget – Frodsham was a lovely village, I really enjoyed growing up there and it got me to where I am now.’

AN APPEARANCE on X Factor would have been the perfect launch pad if Gary Barlow was starting out today, he believes.

But he has never been tempted to do a reality TV show, despite being approached by producers of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Big Brother, Dancing on Ice and Strictly Come Dancing.

The Take That frontman said: ‘There must be a list of desperate celebrities and my name must have been at the top because I used to get sent all of them. But I've never been tempted.’

Former Frodsham man Gary, 35, says his chosen route to fame – playing in social clubs until he was spotted by Take That manager Nigel Martin-Smith – would be much harder now because live music is rare in today’s clubs.

He was regular organist in Connahs Quay and Halton social clubs before he was 15, playing cabaret hits on his electric organ and accompanying visiting artists and open mic nights.When he left Frodsham High School at 16 he toured clubs across the North West for two years until catching the eye of the Manchester manager.

He told The Chronicle: ‘X Factor would have been the perfect show for me at 17.’

‘The thing is the money I used to be paid through the clubs was what I used to buy all my recording equipment so I would never have learned to use all that if I hadn't had something to subsidise it.’
Gary added that singing live every night was good training for a gruelling schedule of promotional appearances in the early days of Take That.

He said: ‘When I was 15 having to win 150 people over who didn't even know you, it was hard work and you learned the craft of doing that.

‘When you stand on stage at Wembley you realise all these people have bought tickets to see you, this is the easy bit.’

Gary said that since Take That reformed last year they no longer have to defend themselves for being a manufactured boy band because of shows like X Factor and Pop Idol.

‘Nigel [Martin-Smith] made up stories about how we had formed because he was paranoid that if you're perceived as a band to be organically grown you're more credible than someone who says ‘I've just put this band together’.

‘But now it’s just so blatant, you have to wonder whether it would have made any difference to us?’ Gary added the band has noticed some familiar faces in the music industry this time around.‘The people who were 14 or 15 when we started are all 25, 26 now with jobs and a lot of our fans are editors and reporters - they are now in charge of the industry.’
With a new single, Patience, and album, Beautiful World, due to be released by Take That in November, Gary is confident the band’s second era will be a success.

He added: ‘I think there are a couple of songs that will do as well as Back for Good. I don’t like comparing songs, because they are all different, but I think it will be as big a hit.’

Lindsay Lohan had a rough morning Sunday and a pretty rough night, too.

At 6:45 am, a spy spotted Lindsay at Olive and Sunset in Hollywood, near a dog park. Lindsay was sitting in her parked black Cadillac Escalade and our spy, who was walking his dog, could see Lohan through the tinted windows, "freaking out" and talking on her phone.

Then, Lohan called our spy over and told him that two men in a silver Toyota 4Runner -- parked behind her -- had been following her for the last two hours, trying to "hit" her vehicle. Our spy reports that "she seemed out of it," that it appeared she'd been out all night, and that she'd clearly been crying, with mascara running down her face. "I've called the cops," said Lindsay of her alleged pursuers. "But the cops can't catch them."

What Lindsay didn't even realize in her reduced state was that the two men in the Toyota were actually paparazzi. Our spy saw them snapping away. And, he says, as their vehicle started to creep up on Lindsay's Escalade, she shifted into drive, hit the gas and took off. The paparazzi followed her.

Just like her big sister Jessica, Ashlee Simpson sisters loves talking about her breasts!

Ashlee Simpson recently said how much she loves her breasts and says they're "beautiful" gifts to men.

Ashlee Simpson also says she's fed up with rumors she's had plastic surgery to enhance her cleavage and says her breasts are perfect as they are.

"My boobs are beautiful! I'm not getting them done. I'm 22, they're up and high," Ashlee Simpson told a magazine.

However, Ashlee Simpson - who is currently starring in the London production of "Chicago" - admits she gives her cleavage a helping... not hand, but pad when she plays Roxie Hart on stage.

"I have pads in my dress that you can knock on - it's like four Wonderbras," Ashlee Simpson said

1. Shut Up And Sing: $21,000,000
2. Running with Scissors: $15,300,000
3. The Departed: $9,840,000
4. The Prestige: $6,850,000
5. Flags of Our Fathers: $6,300,000

GIRLS ALOUD held little back when they performed at G.A.Y in even skimpier outfits than usual.

The venue always encourages a different kind of performance from its acts and this time the group went for a raunchy routine.

They donned suspenders, basques and very little else to tease the crowd with their sexy new track Something Kind of Ooooh.

Brad Pitt & Cate Blanchett take this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly November 3, 2006 issue.

How the director of ‘’21 Grams'’ pushed Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and a multinational cast through ‘’Babel,'’ his epic four-sided saga of sex, drugs, guns, and terrorism spanning three continents and several gulfs of misunderstanding
Cate Blanchett was marinating in a puddle of blood on a dirt floor somewhere near the southern edge of the Sahara. Brad Pitt sat nearby, slumped over on a rock, sweat pouring off him. The temperature hovered near 112 degrees in the tiny Moroccan village that had become home to the cast and crew of Babel, the politically charged four-part epic from Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams).

This place was seriously primitive, beyond the reach of electricity and, for the most part, running water. Air conditioning? Not a chance. Indoor toilet? There’s only one: See the village elder.

To make matters worse, González Iñárritu, in his quest for supreme naturalism, had just asked them to perform Cate’s near-death scene for the 73rd time that day. The pressure was off the charts and there was just one distraction powerful enough to keep the two actors from going completely bonkers.

‘’It felt out of control,'’ Pitt says over a year later, in a luxurious, climate-controlled Los Angeles hotel suite, recounting the weeks he spent in a state of ‘’frenetic anxiety'’ on the Babel set. ‘’I thought it was going to push me over the edge.'’ Suddenly, the 42-year-old actor leaps to his feet to demonstrate that crucial survival tool. With a hint of dramatic flourish, he grabs hold of his belt loops and yanks his jeans up to his armpits, giving himself a deep-impact wedgie of what must have been the most painful sort. ‘’Throughout the movie, I’d walk around like this,'’ Pitt says, thrusting out his backside and waddling around like a duck. It must be said that watching Pitt transform himself into an Urkel-like superdork is a sight so perplexing, it could divert a person from just about anything. ‘’You’ve gotta find things to make you laugh during the shoot. Cate called it the Hungry Bum.'’ He pauses and chuckles to himself. ‘’When your bum’s so hungry it’s trying to eat your pants.'’

González Iñárritu’s globe-trotting melodrama was shot in six languages and on three continents. As ambitious as it is intimate, the narrative interweaves a quartet of sorrow-soaked vignettes: An American couple vacationing in Morocco (Pitt and Blanchett) are forced to depend on the kindness of strangers when struck by catastrophe; a family of Berber goatherds unravels after buying their first gun; a nanny (Amores Perros‘ Adriana Barraza), torn between work in San Diego and family obligations in Mexico, is thrown into an immigration quagmire; and a deaf-mute Japanese girl (Rinko Kikuchi) tries to cure her loneliness by prematurely uncorking her sexuality.

Babel takes its title from the biblical allegory, in which man’s hubristic attempt to build a tower to the heavens compels a vengeful God to create a cacophony of different languages that stymie communication and isolate people from one another. Using this as his metaphorical jumping-off point, González Iñárritu tackles some of the most provocative issues of our time post-9/11: globalization, immigration, the spectre of terrorism. ‘’The film is about prejudice,'’ the director says, ‘’and the dangerous borders and walls we build that affect [communication] personally. And on a global scale, between George Bush and the Muslim world.'’

Mixing politics and moviemaking has always been a dangerous game. One false move can mean the difference between Traffic and All the King’s
Men. But González Iñárritu’s single-minded determination about the project persuaded some of Hollywood’s biggest power players — Pitt, Blanchett, and Paramount’s Brad Grey, who agreed to back the movie in his first week on the job as the studio’s new chairman — to take a risk. It’s a gamble that’s already begun paying off: González Iñárritu collected the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes film festival, and the movie drew a raft of raves at Toronto. Now Babel looks poised to be one of this year’s leading dark-horse Oscar contenders. And Pitt’s nakedly emotional performance has placed him in the Academy Awards running for the first time since being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for 12 Monkeys.

All this comes at the end of a long, tough slog. The Pitt/Blanchett story line was just a quarter of the journey for González Iñárritu and the rest of the core crew, who crisscrossed the globe for more than a year, shooting under arduous circumstances.
Dehydrated crew members in Mexico, for example, had to be hospitalized. Appropriately enough, communication was particularly difficult: The young deaf actresses in the Japanese plotline required a series of translations, from González Iñárritu’s native Spanish to English, English to Japanese, Japanese to sign. ‘’I had three pains I thought were heart attacks during production,'’ recalls González Iñárritu. ‘’To make this film was to give birth to a boy with four heads. Painful.'’

Justin Timberlake was spotted leaving Radio 1 on Friday after an interview in London, UK. He announced that he is the first star confirmed to perform at London’s new O2 Arena, the former Millennium Dome. Justin, 25, will play at the arena on July 4th, 5th and 6th as part of the European leg of his Futuresex/Loveshow tour.

Nicole Kidman didn’t give paparazzi a good shot yesterday afternoon as she was spotted leaving a gym in West Hollywood. With her head bowed down, Nicole, 39, took to the gym for a session with her trainer to take her mind off of things. Sure to have lots of her mind, hubby Keith Urban has been stuck in alcohol rehab since one week ago.

Which rocker's ex girlfriend makes Fatal Attraction look tame? The lady in question has been stalking around their old haunts and spreading rumours about his sexual predilections. She has made his life a special kind of torture and still the sexy singer is too sweet to spill the beans about her penchant for nose candy and shameless gold digging.

Owen Wilson's got a cheek - he hired out a botty double for his latest film.

The Wedding Crashers star was due to shoot a shower scene for his new comedy Drillbit Taylor.

Owen, 37, nicknamed the Butterscotch Stallion thanks to his mop of blonde hair and love of the ladies - stripped down to a pair of blue swimming trunks as the cameras rolled on a California beach.

But when it was time to ditch the trunks, a naked body double was ushered in to pose instead.

That may have spared his blushes but it won't please his female fans.