Sideshow: Will and Jada go to loveyland

August 25, 2011|By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
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  • Will and Jada Pinkett Smith in February. On Wednesday, they spent lots of time holding hands outdoors in Malibu.
  • Will and Jada Pinkett Smith in February. On Wednesday, they spent lots of time holding hands outdoors in Malibu. (JASON MERRITT / Getty Images )
  • A month after Amy Winehouse (shown last year) died, her "Back to Black" has become Britain's biggest-selling album of the century. (See "Winehouse: Century's biggest seller.") (NEIL MOCKFORD / Getty Images )

The world's most important married couple, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, injected a dose of fiber into their blanket denial that they are breaking up with a brazen, bald-faced public relations move: They spent Wednesday visiting shops - on foot and in full view of John and Jane Q. Public - all around Malibu, Calif. They had breakfast at an outdoor cafe, bought craft and arts supplies for amateur painter Jada, lovingly lingered in front of boutique windows. Photos have them smiling, holding hands above their big shopping bags, beaming with marital (if not martial) joy. We loooooove each other, it all screamed. The couple was noticed: "They were laughing and being cutesy. They seemed to be getting along just fine," an Unnamed Onlooker told People.

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On Tuesday, the Smiths denied an anonymously sourced report by In Touch Weekly that they are separating. Other reports, also denied, suggested Jada had been having an affair with Jennifer Lopez's ex, Marc Anthony.

In shocking news sure to affect, deeply and irrevocably, the future of the town of Wasilla, the state of Alaska, our beloved nation, and the entire Western Hemisphere, Levi Johnston has decided not to run for mayor of Wasilla. Levi, whose baby Tripp's mama Bristol Palin's mama, Sarah Palin, began her illustrious political career in that very job, had hoped to create a reality show around his campaign.

 

Levi: Henry Miller of his generation?

He may sit out an election, but the 21-year-old Johnston won't be idle: He's busy publicizing his memoir - one hopes it'll be the first volume of dozens - Deer

in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, which is due next month.

 

Ben Flajnik to take on 25 chicks

Ben Flajnik, 28, is dusting off his six-shooter and getting right back on his horse. The Sonoma, Calif., winemaker man so cruelly rejected by Ashley Hebert, 27, this month on The Bachelorette will star in the next season of ABC's The Bachelor. At the time, Ben said Ashley's rejection "has deeply hurt me. . . . It is one of the very very hardest and saddest parts in my life." (Ashley chose New York construction manager JP Rosenbaum, 37.)

 

Winehouse: Century's biggest seller

Britain's Official Charts Co. announced Wednesday that Amy Winehouse's Back to Black had become the best-selling album in the U.K. in the 21st century. (Sounds cool, right? Dude, we're barely a decade into the new century!)

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