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Katharine McPhee: I Wouldn't Be Surprised If Simon Ditched American Idol, Too
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Katharine McPhee wasn't exactly shocked to learn that Paula Abdul was leaving American Idol.
"It doesn't surprise me, because it wouldn't surprise me if Simon Cowell was leaving the show," McPhee told me at last night's benefit concert for the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank and Feeding America.
"They've all been on the show for so many years…Do what you've got to do," she said. "People try to figure out the real stories and I'm like, 'Who cares? She wants to go.' "
In fact, McPhee thinks it's time for the show to shake things up a bit with someone like Ellen DeGeneres...
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Pattinson & Cox: A Cougar Town Canoodle?
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Can't you just see it now: Courteney Cox getting it on with Robert Pattinson!
It definitely would make for good TV on Cougar Town, Cox's upcoming ABC comedy in which she plays a 40-year-old single mom who has a thing for younger dudes.
"Why don't we get the Twilight guys," Cox's costar Busy Philipps told me today during a set visit by the Cheesecake Factory and Feeding America (more on that after the jump). "That would be awesome."
Cox is into the idea. "We'll have to do that," she said. "If the show is a success I'm sure it will be easy to do. But we'll have to see how it goes first."
Also on Cox's plate? Scream 4!...
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It's Official: David & Courteney Will Scream Again!
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It's official! David Arquette and Courteney Cox have signed on to reunite with the Ghostface killer.
"We are going to be doing Scream 4," Arquette just told me from New York City, where he's hanging out in plastic box over Madison Square Garden for Feeding America (more on that later). "Kevin Williamson is writing the script at this moment, and hopefully Wes Craven is going to direct."
In the original horror trilogy, Arquette played Deputy Dewey Riley with Cox as a tabloid television reporter Gale Weathers...
Courteney & David's Coco: A Model in the Making
Is David Arquette and Courteney Cox's young daughter, Coco, on her way to becoming a supermodel?
Maybe.
David says his new clothing company with longtime musician pal Ben Harper, Propr, has the 4-year-old already dreaming of catwalks.
"Coco was at the fashion show, and she wants to be a model now," David says in his latest MySpace Celebrity video. "We make her little couture dresses...She's had a couple made."
As for Courteney, she's just hoping David's foray into fashion will help him clean up his look. "She wants me to wear jeans that are tighter," he admits. "My butt's always hanging out of my clothes."
Jennifer Aniston's Night Out for a Friend
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It may have been Courteney Cox's celebration last night, but all eyes were on Jennifer Aniston.
Jen hit the premiere of Glamour's Reel Moments at the DGA building in L.A., where Cox's directorial debut—a short starring Laura Dern called The Monday Before Thanksgiving—was being screened, along with flicks directed by fellow first-timers Demi Moore and Kirsten Smith, a screenwriter.
If the press about her dinner dates earlier this week with one-time beau John Mayer was getting to her, it didn't show. Aniston was all smiles and, of course, her hair looked perfect. However, she did avoid the red carpet by slipping through a side entrance just minutes before the screenings began.