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Ryan Kwanten has no problems being more naked than not on the new HBO vampire series, True Blood.

In the new drama from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, Kwanten plays Jason Stackhouse, a small-town Louisiana hick who doesn't seem interested in anything but bedding any woman he can get his hands on. Just watch in this coming Sunday's premiere—the 31-year-old Australian native is shown in some rather revealing compromising positions.

"The shirt doesn't get on much more than it does in the pilot," Kwanten tells me with a laugh. "But I definitely think it's part of what makes Jason Jason."

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Don't look for Making the Band's new star Donnie Klang to be reuniting with former flame Aubrey O'Day anytime soon.

It sounds like the Danity Kane songstress (above, checking out Klang's abs last month on MTV's Total Request Live) was too much work for the hunky singer during their on-again, off-again romance earlier this year.

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CITY SLICKER: Audrina Patridge, wearing a Boone's Farm vintage T-shirt while picking up magazines at a New York City newsstand.

DOLLS' HOUSE: Natasha Bedingfield, hanging out with the boys of One Republic during the Pussycat Dolls performance at the Kohl's-hosted Fashion Rocks preparty at NYC's Mansion club.

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Eva Mendes is one happy camper.

"I'm big on therapy," Mendes told me yesterday. "I've always said I love talking about therapy, because there's nothing wrong with it. Why wait until something goes terrible in your life to start fixing things?"

Mendes, 34, has never talked details about why she did a stint in rehab earlier this year, but she did tell me that one of her biggest issues was coping with her own success. "Up until recently, I was really uncomfortable with having success and enjoying it," Mendes says. "I just couldn't deal with that. How can I have so much? It's not fair. How can the world have so little?…I allowed it to mess with me in the sense that I just didn't know how to handle it."

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Sienna Miller may not be on Brothers & Sisters, but that doesn't mean she's not stirring up some problems for the hit ABC drama.

I'm hearing that Balthazar Getty and Matthew Rhys, who play brothers on the show, are no longer speaking because of the Getty-Miller romance.

As you may have heard, Rhys used to date Miller...

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There's nothing like telling people I once went to bed with Cloris Leachman.

I did. Yesterday.

The 82-year-old legendary funnylady decided to take it easy while doing interviews for her new movie The Women, Diane English's remake of the 1939 camp classic, by relaxing under the bedcovers at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.

No doubt her upcoming turn as a contestant on Dancing With the Stars leaves her a bit more pooped than usual these days.

So, yes, I hopped on the bed and lay beside Ms. Leachman for our li'l chitchat.

But she wasn't the only gal I talked with yesterday. Read on for the highlights...

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Tom Cruise may be coming to a theater near you sooner than you think.

Valkyrie, Cruise's upcoming flick about the real-life failed attempt by high-ranking German officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler, has been screen-tested for regular ol' moviegoers in Nevada, I'm hearing.

The audiences weren't aware of what they would be seeing because they had been blindly solicited to attend a free movie at their local multiplex.

In other words, a test screening could be happening in your neighborhood sometime soon (except, of course, if you live in major cities like Los Angeles or New York, where studios rarely test because audiences in those areas tend to be much more critical and not exactly in tune with the all-important Middle America moviegoers).

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John Mayer wasn't Jennifer Aniston's only ex-boyfriend partying it up on Labor Day weekend.

While Mayer was reportedly spotted carousing with a mystery blonde in Miami, Vince Vaughn was in the company of an unidentified brunette in Las Vegas on Labor Day night.

So what were they up to?

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Debi Mazar definitely doesn't want to see Sarah Palin as our next vice president, but that doesn't mean the Entourage star doesn't support her in some way.

Mazar knows all about teen pregnancy. Her mom had her when she was just 15 years old.

"I think it's completely fine," Mazar told me earlier today of 17-year-old mom-to-be Bristol Palin while promoting her new movie, The Women (I'll have more on the flick later on), at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. "And I think Sarah Palin made a good choice in being supportive of her daughter...and I agree that it's private because those are her children. Her daughter fell in love and had sex. Big deal—it happens."

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Do you think you've got what it takes to be the next Amy Winehouse?

We're talkin' about the voice, not the trainwreck personal life.

If so, who better to know than the "Rehab" hitmaker's Grammy-winning producer, Mark Ronson?

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Jessica Simpson has returned to her Southern roots. If ya haven't heard by now, the former pop-singing, reality-television star is about to release her first country album, Do You Know.

But it was less than two years ago that Simpson thought her music career was over. The 28-year-old Texan blond bombshell filled me in on exactly what happened as we sat down earlier today for a little chitchat about the new album at the Casa Del Mar hotel in Santa Monica.

Read on to find out why she almost called it quits, why we probably won't see her acting again any time soon and why we shouldn't be thinking about Tony, John or Nick when listening to the lyrics of her many new songs about livin' and lovin'...

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Fran Drescher doesn't only support gay marriage, she's doing something about it.

No, she's not getting married to a woman!

The former Nanny star is cohosting a cocktail party tomorrow night with her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, which benefits Equality California's fight to defeat Proposition 8, the November ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in California.

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