Ashton Kutcher took to Twitter on Wednesday to slam rumors that he cheated on wife Demi Moore.

"I think Star magazine calling me a "cheater" qualifies as defamation of character. I hope my lawyer agrees," he wrote. "STAR magazine - you don't get to stand behind "freedom of the press" when you are writing fiction."

Star reported that an eyewitness saw Ashton "kissing and groping a hot young blonde by an out-of-the-way bathroom at Italian restaurant Madeo in L.A."

"Ashton had this gorgeous girl pinned against the wall, and he was totally making out with her," the source told Star. "I was shocked to see him sucking face with a girl who obviously wasn't Demi."

Ashton's rep denied the story.

Demi recently tweeted pictures of herself in a string bikini.

'Real Housewives of New Jersey' star Caroline Manzo showed off her youthful new look Wednesday night at a party for the opening night of 'My Big Gay Italian Wedding' (below left).

As Manzo, a mother of three grown children, said on the 'Housewives' reunion earlier this week, she's recently lost 25 lbs using portion control. Below right is Manzo in 2009.

Part two of the explosive reunion airs next Monday.

Shane West is animated when he talks about his role as Michael, the agent in charge of recruitment who is tasked with bringing in the rogue lead character in the CW's Nikita which premieres on September 9. "Michael is a tortured soul, multi-layered and conflicted but not a bad guy," explains West, "and he cares for Nikita." He says the show is not a remake so much as a retelling of the story, a look into the characters' future.

A quick search of the internet reveals that many of Shane West's fans are eagerly anticipating watching him on the new series. In fact, many of them would watch him do just about anything. Shane is grateful to them: "I've been very blessed during the 12 years that I've been acting that paparazzi and fans are very respectful. I guess it would be harder for someone who suddenly blew up in a film like Twilight or who is a true pop culture icon. But that's not me."

Shane West spent his early childhood in Baton Rouge, moving out to Los Angeles when he was 12 so his mother could attend law school and, he muses, to "to go to more of an offbeat city with lots of options." It was during the next few years that Shane explored the activities that would eventually become his passions. "I had a vivid imagination," he recalls. "I drew my own comic books and loved music. I was miserable at math and science." Looking ahead to life after high school, he had three potential goals: having his own band; playing college basketball; or getting a cartooning job. Not on the list was the one that quickly materialized - acting.

While a college freshman , West was called to do a WB pilot with Shelley Long called Kelly Kelly and that was shot during his final exams. He remembers thinking, "This is it. I know what I want to do." The pilot was picked up as a mid-season replacement but Shane was fired for not being funny enough. And he was put on probation at college. For most people the convergence of these events might have been paralyzing. But Shane West forged ahead. "I was slightly devastated," he says. "My parents lovingly cut me off when I didn't return to school and I didn't work for a year but I was too blissfully ignorant to be scared." He lived rent-free in the homes of his managers and got small jobs to see him through. He says he ate fast food three times a day and was down to his last $100 when his acting career finally got back on track.

Even now - after a string of successes in films from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to A Walk to Remember and roles on ER and Once and Again, Shane says, "Insecurity is part of being an entertainer. I know in my head I can be okay for the rest of my life but I still worry." He says it wasn't until he'd been on Once and Again for three years before he bought his first new car and a condo. "I know this could all be taken away," he says.

But Shane is also being proactive in his career. His strong interest in music led him to spend six years playing with the punk rock band Jonny Was and the past few years with the Germs. The latter came about after he appeared in What We Do is Secret - a biopic on the Germs' lead singer Darby Crash who committed suicide in 1980. "That film validated me as an actor. I wish it had been more widely seen but I put my heart and soul into that. The band reunited and now I'm the lead singer in real life. It was an underground success, doors opened to me in the music world - it was a landmark moment, my passion project," says Shane West. He's also started his own production company and says some remarkable scripts are coming in.

Clearly Shane West believes in taking charge of his life, even when it comes to relatively mundane details. When he moved to Toronto from L.A. to begin shooting Nikita, he chose to drive himself the 2186 miles. He explains, "I did a road trip and packed the car with my own pillows and blankets, eight pairs of shoes, 30 t-shirts, a video game system and other things I couldn't have taken in a suitcase." For now, he's calling Toronto home and seems happy. "I couldn't be more passionate about this business," he says enthusiastically.

Jerry Lewis, 84, had some choice words for Lindsay Lohan during an interview with Inside Edition (via Popeater).

Asked what he would do if he saw the fresh-out-of-jail and rehab Lohan, Lewis told the interviewer, 'I'd smack her in the mouth if I saw her,' continuing, 'I would smack her in the mouth and be arrested for abusing a woman.'

When asked what he would then say to her, Lewis responded, "I would say, 'You deserve this and nothing else' ... WHACK! And then, if she's not satisfied, I'd put her over my knee and SPANK her."

And it's not just Lohan's behavior that Lewis is concerned about, it's many of today's younger celebrities, like Paris Hilton, that Lewis is troubled over.

"What they're saying is, 'I'm f**ked up, can you please help me?'"

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Harvey Weinstein was back at work Thursday in Venice for the film festival. He was photographed sitting front and center inside the premiere of 'Miral,' sitting next to fellow producer Tarek Ben Ammar.

Weinstein's wife Georgina Chapman gave birth to the couple's first child (his fourth), daughter India Pearl, Sunday night.

On Tuesday, September 7, HBO airs the documentary My Trip to Al-Qaeda by Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright. It should not be missed. Wright's most recent book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, won the '07 Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction. It's the best book yet about the complexities surrounding that tragedy, and begat a one-man play, which begat this latest effort. Gibney won an '07 documentary Academy Award for Taxi to the Dark Side, about an innocent driver tortured and killed at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. He was also nominated in '06 for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. His work speaks for itself. This new film isn't some cookie-cutter analysis of Islamic terror. There is no "Bring it on" bumper sticker sloganeering to appease conservative ideologues. In fact, there's no appeasing of either side. Rather, it's a deliberative, thought-provoking walk-through of the people who birthed that nightmare in New York and their motivations, which are at once religious, cultural and economic. There's some anger and heat, to be sure, but it seeks to shine a light instead of fomenting confusion. There's also plenty of globe-trotting gumshoe reporting by Wright, a longtime staffer at The New Yorker. If you didn't read The Looming Tower or see the play (and most of us didn't, after all), then devote an hour and a half to this nationally televised film on September 7. You'll be smarter for it.

Kim Kardashian teased photos from a racy shoot a couple of weeks ago, and now the cover is out.

"This may be my most risque cover yet!!" she tweeted Thursday with a link to her blog where she writes:

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ABC has released the first photos from the new season of 'Dancing With the Stars' rehearsals. Here are Audrina Patridge with partner Tony Dovolani and Bristol Palin with Mark Ballas.

Bristol previously talked about going on the show to set a good example for moms, and about how her costume will be more conservative than any of the other contestants.'

"That's how I am and that's how I want to dress," she said.

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Karissa Shannon wore a bold dress to an OK! magazine party on Wednesday.

Karissa is a former Playboy Playmate who made a sex tape with Heidi Montag.

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Vienna Girardi has gotten rid of her hair extensions.

The former 'Bachelor' contestant, who was engaged to Jake Pavelka until they split this summer, shared a photo of her new look over Twitter on Wednesday.

"Getting my makeup done by @florid0 and my new look @ninezeroone can't wait to show you all a picture. Hint: no more extensions!" she wrote. Then: "@florid0 Gorgeous! Thank you so much."

See photos of pre-makeover Vienna in a bikini here.

"Me and my girl @ViennaGirardi with her beautiful new 'do!!! Love it!! Props to @ninezeroone," a friend of hers tweeted later.

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Riding on the back of nine minutes of unseen footage, the special edition of James Cameron's pioneering 3-D masterpiece Avatar returned to theaters last week. But billions of dollars and path-breaking cinematic innovations later, it's hard to ignore the part of Avatar's comeback that tastes like unadulterated robbery.

Those still defending The Hurt Locker's upset Oscar for Best Picture, which belonged to Cameron's film using any sensible criteria, are howling into the cold winds of history. Because that's where defenders of films like the misogynistic My Fair Lady or neurotic Annie Hall hang out, convinced that the short list below of genre films that also became Best Picture losers deserved their fate. They didn't, and here's why.

There's no better way to say this: Kelly Osbourne looks amazing lately. Fresh off a glamorous turn on the Emmys red carpet, Kelly O underwent a burlesque makeover (think blonde extensions and a vinyl corsette) to perform with the Pussycat Dolls at the Viper Room in Los Angeles Wednesday night. PCD founder Robin Antin tweeted the above pre-show photo.

The stars of 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' took the film to Tokyo on Thursday.

Stars Milla Jovovich, Wentworth Miller and an adorably pregnant Ali Larter premiered the film in Tokyo. Larter announced in July that she and husband Hayes MacArthur are expecting their first child together.

The film opens in the US on September 10.

Chelsea Handler may have parted ways with her new boyfriend, Animal Planet star Dave Salmoni.

"Up until a couple weeks ago, I was working very intimately with the Animal Planet, but unfortunately, that contract was terminated," she said on 'Chelsea Lately' Wednesday night. "However, I enjoyed being in bed with them and may hook up for an occasional project."

Chelsea confirmed that she and Dave were dating on 'The Tonight Show' in July, and they stepped out together at a concert in August.

"She saves all commentary about her personal life for her own show," her rep told Us Weekly when asked about a possible breakup.

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Lady Gaga has dressed up as the Statue of Liberty for V Magazine's New York issue.

Gaga appears with a tuxedo-clad Marc Jacobs on the cover of the magazine in a photo by Mario Testino.

"Just as the Statue of Liberty was France's gift to America, Gaga is, to us, New York's greatest gift to pop culture and fashion," V editor Stephen Gan said in an announcement. "She embodies everything V is about, and is also a beacon of the city's creativity and hope. Exactly one year after her first V cover (the first fashion magazine cover she was on), we decided to do the NEW YORK issue, and she was the first person who came to mind to represent our great city. In the year that's passed, she has become a bonafide genius and we can safely declare her our muse. Above all, a New York issue should celebrate people who've done great things. We at V are grateful Gaga came along to put the New back in New York!"

The cover hits newsstands today, September 2nd.

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