Celebrity Gossip
 You can throw all those rumors about a split between Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie out the window. Jolie has filed for divorce from her husband, though now, some folks in Hollywood claim she may be having second thoughts.
The celebrity news TV show Extra reported that the couple's very public love life came to an end after just two years of marriage. In a recent interview with Us Weekly Jolie said that she and Thornton had split. And she said she hasn't spoken to her Oscar-winning hubby in at least a month.
 "I'm angry. I'm sad. It's a very difficult and sad time," Jolie told the magazine in its July 29-Aug. 5 issue. "Sometimes,” she admitted, “you don't see things coming, even though they are happening. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it's not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems."
 Thornton declined to comment for the article. His publicist would only say, "They remain very married." However, in divorce papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Jolie cited "irreconcilable differences" and sought sole custody of their 11-month-old adopted son, Maddox, who was born in Cambodia.
Jolie, 27, wed Thornton, 46, after a whirlwind courtship in Las Vegas in 2000. Thornton was dating actress Laura Dern when he became involved with Jolie and started a romance with her unbeknownst to Dern. It was Thornton's fifth marriage and her second.
Jolie and her 11-month-old are, reportedly, living in a hotel away from the couple’s Beverly Hills, Calif., home; Jolie says she is unsure of where Thornton has been staying.
The couple's love life has created much media buzz over the years and at one time they wore vials of each other's blood around their necks.
 Looks like pop princess Britney Spears caused a ruckus on the movie set of “Crossroads,” when she opened a box of condoms. Alas, studio bosses cut it out.
Since the Britney Spears-Jason Timberlake shocking split, Timberlake hasn’t been sitting around mourning. He’s been dating dancer Jenna Dewan, which hasn’t made the Brit too happy.
 According to Carol Channing’s soon to be published memoirs, “Just Lucky I Guess,” her father was a black man, a highly respected Christian Science lecturer whose light skin allowed him to pass for a Caucasian. Even though he taught her “rhythmic Negro spirituals,” which the two of them would sing together, Carol sez she never suspected. Then, when she was 16, her mother told Carol that her father was the son of a German father and a black mother. The racial issue isn’t the only “hush hush” item included in the memoirs. Carol reveals her secret battle with cancer. In the mid-‘60s, when she was touring with “Hello, Dolly!” she began to experience female problems, which turned out to be cancer of the uterus. She received life-saving radiation and chemotherapy under the phony name of Rifka Schwartzbach. But, wait-just-a-damned-minute! There’s more…Channing also slams longtime rival, Barbra Streisand in the tell-all tale.
 Rosie O’Donnell”s pregnant lesbian lover, Kelli Carpenter, gathered up the 5-year-old adopted daughter of the former talk show host, recently, and took off on a three-day cruise without her. Insiders claim it’s Kelli’s way of letting Rosie know she’s upset over the miserable way the 300-pound personality has been treating her. Now, the blond beauty is warning Rosie, if she doesn’t shape up soon, she may pick up and leave for good. Rosie and Kelli (who became pregnant in March by an anonymous donor form a sperm bank) split their time, normally, between a $6.5-million four-story brownstone in Manhattan and a $6-million mansion on Miami’s exclusive Star Island. But, they have now moved into separate bedrooms.
 Sources in the music industry say that grandstand surprise attack by Michael Jackson on Sony chief Tommy Mottola may come back to haunt Jaco, making him “an untouchable” in the music business. What Jackson did was single out Mattola, blasting him as a “racist” and calling him “devilish.” He even rode around town on a double-decker bus, holding a poster depicting Mottola as a devil, complete with horns, tail and pitchfork.
 Those smelly skunks that tried to have a live-in deal at Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt’s Santa Barbara hideaway, were scared away to a neighbor’s home, but the determined animals returned to the guesthouses after dark and sprayed Steve Pitt in the face when he tried to scare them off. Hang on now, Steve Pitt is not Brad Pitt’s brother. He’s the stray calico cat Jen and Brad adopted a year ago.
 Speaking of smelly creatures, it looks like romance is the pits for Courtney Cox and her husband, David Arquette, who sez her smelly armpits get him hot to trot. Arquette admitted his wife was pretty but confessed she smelled like a truck driver and he loved it.
 Roseanne thinks she’d be the ideal gal to play Robert Blake’s murdered wife, Bonny Lee Bakley in a TV movie. The loud-mouthed comic sez she can relate to Bonny Lee because they both were molested as children and came to Hollywood in search of a dream. She also wants to show that Bonny Lee had an innocent side despite conning men around the country out of money.
 Regis Philbin sez Kelly Ripa’s proposed breast enlargement plan will make him look like a big boob. The more uncomfortable Regis gets about the idea, the more Kelly has been kidding him about showing up at the studio one morning with “an enormous set of Dolly Partons.” Insiders claim Regis is worried she will show up looking like Pam Anderson. The problem is, Regis believes he (and possibly she) are the stars of the show, and they shouldn’t be upstaged by what he delicately termed “appendages.” Sources say Kelly isn’t trying to steal Regis’ thunder, she just wants to add more sizzle to her sex life.
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