Justin Timberlake's wedding scandal

TMZ tracked down one of the homeless people who appeared in the tasteless video shown at Justin Timberlake's wedding (it was called "Greetings from your Hollywood friends who just couldn't make it" and featured homeless people in L.A congratulating the happy couple. Very. Poor. Taste). 

The guy, called Eddie, reckons he was paid $40 to appear in the video and had no idea it was a joke to be played at a celebrity's wedding. 

When we told him how the footage was used, Eddie said: "That makes me feel really bad ... that was a trick played on me."

The video was made by Justin's real estate buddy Justin Huchel, who has threatened to sue Gawker for featuring the video on its site, claiming it was shot as "a private joke" without Timberlake's knowledge ... and demanding it be taken off the web ASAP.

In other Justin dissing, Lainey Gossip says: "PEOPLE released an alternate cover for his big pink wedding. At least this time his wife was allowed to stand up in the photo. Britney, however, is still prominently positioned in the corner. Obviously JT doesn’t like this one as much. You can only see half his face, his eyes are closed, and his nose looks smushed from the kissing."

Taylor won't be a Kennedy after all

Taylor Swift has broken up with her toyboy, Conor Kennedy.  

US Weekly says: "They quietly parted ways a while ago," the friend explains of the "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" crooner, 22, and the high school senior, 18. "It was just a distance thing. No hard feelings. They're fine."

"It's been over a month since they've even seen each other," the friend explains. "With her promotion for Red, she has no time off until the end of the year."

Or maybe he got suss after she snogged his cousin Patrick at that party ...

But Taylor still plans to buy a house near the Kennedy compound. According to TMZ: A source connected with the real estate transaction tells us, the deal for the $4.5 million Hyannis Port home is still going full steam ahead ... and is currently scheduled to close in two weeks.

To see pics of the house click here.

Matthew Fox like you've never seen him before 

Matthew Fox has revealed he lost 20kg for his role as a serial killer in upcoming thriller Alex Cross.

He told Men's Health magazine: "I never watch my films while we’re making them, so when the images came out on the internet, someone sent it to me. I opened it up and was like ‘holy s**t’. I could hardly even believe it was me. But, it was exactly what I wanted to look like."

"I read somewhere that when Christian Bale was preparing for The Machinist he ate nothing but an apple a day for months. Just one apple. That can’t be good for you."

Matthew's diet consisted mainly of chicken breast, steamed broccoli and protein shakes made with water.

Tom's flawed legal battle

Remember the quote from Tom Cruise's lawyer yesterday about why he's suing In Touch and Life & Style magazines over their abandoned Suri stories? 

"These serial defamers are foreign-owned companies with their global headquarters in Hamburg," he says of the publisher. "They take money from unsuspecting Americans by selling their malicious garbage. Having to pay a libel judgment may slow them down. Tom will undoubtedly give the money to charity. He always has."

Lainey Gossip says: "Fine. But that doesn’t change the fact that he hasn’t seen his kid in three months. I mean, if this is an attempt stop people from thinking he’s abandoned his child, is throwing a legal hissy fit the best way to demonstrate that you didn’t abandon your child? I can come up with a much simpler solution that’s not such a pain in the ass."

Good point!

 

Hot pics & clicks

* Justin Bieber and Oprah Winfrey have cuddled up for an interview. Biebs tweeted this pic with the caption:  'Me and @Oprah just swaggin it out'.


* Elizabeth Taylor surpassed Michael Jackson this year on Forbes‘ list of the highest-earning dead celebrities. The actress, who suffered heart failure last March, earned a whopping $210 million; $45 more than the highest paid living celeb, Oprah Winfrey.

* Dustin Hoffman's son is the spit of his dad in these pics.  

* Now that's one scary Halloween costume Sofia Vergara is wearing on the set of Modern Family (daily mail)

 * Here's Christina Applegate's More cover. Odd choice of pic, not immediately recognizable as her (People)

* Lindsay Lohan's longtime publicist Steve Honig has called it quits -- and TMZ has learned, it was all over tension with Lindsay's dad during the intervention he tried to stage last week and the aftermath. I don't like LiLo's chances of finding someone else game enough to represent her. 

* P.Diddy's rep has released a statement about the injuries the rap mogul suffered in a car accident outside the Beverly Hills hotel yesterday: "Sean Combs sustained multiple injuries in yesterday’s car accident including to his neck, ribs and collarbone. He is currently receiving treatment for these injuries from his physicians and would like to thank all of his fans for the outpouring of support that he has received since the accident."