When Sandra Bullock thanked her bad-boy husband, Jesse James, as she accepted her best actress Oscar for The Blind Side, she may not have known that while she was away shooting the film, Jesse was carrying on a steamy affair with a tattoo model. While Jesse has had an 11-month affair, including five weeks of sex, with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, she believed he and Sandra were no longer together. “I would never have hooked up with him if I thought he was a married man,” Michelle tells In Touch in an exclusive interview. “He gave me the impression they were separated.” For weeks, while Sandra was in Atlanta shooting The Blind Side, Michelle had sex at least once a week with the Monster Garage star. Far from a one-night stand, his relationship with Michelle was intimate and highly charged. Michelle even says she called Jesse, who didn’t wear underwear or condoms, by a special pet name, Vanilla Gorilla, because he was so “well-endowed.”

While Jesse was in Atlanta with Sandra when she started to film The Blind Side, Michelle sent West Coast Choppers a friend request because she hoped to snag a modeling gig there. She was surprised that it was actually Jesse who wrote back to her and told her to e-mail him at his personal e-mail. From the start, Jesse wanted to meet Michelle, and it was never about business: “He started saying, ‘Do you want to hang out?’” So a week after he got in touch, Michelle drove two hours from her San Diego home to West Coast Choppers in LA. “I got there around 9 at night,” remembers Michelle, who was starstruck at first. “I was like, ‘Holy s**t. It’s really Jesse James.’” After taking Michelle on a tour of his garage, Jesse brought her into his office and locked the door. “We ended up on the couch,” she says. “He wanted to watch movies, but I asked him, ‘What’s going on with you and Sandra?’” Jesse was evasive. “He said, ‘She doesn’t live here. She has a house in Austin. She is filming, and I can’t talk about it.’” Assuming he and Sandra were separated, Michelle continued talking to Jesse, she says, and then, “We had intimate relations.” Michelle says she and Jesse had sex “two or three times,” that night — and began what she believed was a serious relationship, texting each other several times a day, and meeting up for sex at least twice a week for the next five weeks.

For more on this story, check out this week’s In Touch magazine!

UPDATE:

From UsMagazine:

Sandra Bullock has pulled out of the London premiere of The Blind Side, set for next Tuesday, UsMagazine.com has confirmed. The film will still be screened.

In a statement from Warner Brothers UK, Bullock, 45, tells Us: 

“Due to unforeseen personal reasons, a trip abroad to support The Blind Side has been deemed impossible at this time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your continued support of the film.”

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LONDON — British movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their law firm said Monday.

The surprise split puts an end to a golden couple of Britain’s show business world, buttressed by matching Oscars and a host of commercial successes and artistic accolades.

The pair’s law firm, Schillings, said the split was “entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement.”

Winslet, 34, shot to international stardom on the back of her appearance opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron’s “Titanic,” and sealed her reputation with an Academy Award for best actress for her role in “The Reader” in 2009.

Mendes, 44, was already an acclaimed stage director by the time he won an Oscar for directing “American Beauty” in 1999.

For more on the story at HuffingtonPost.com, click here.

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In April’s GQ, Rielle Hunter, John Edwards‘ mistress, breaks her silence about her affair with the former Democratic presidential candidate.

Contrary to reports, Hunter 45 – mother to their 2-year-old daughter Frances Quinn – says they never met in the lounge of The Regency in NYC.

But she says that’s where they first locked eyes. “He saw me. And it was a mutual unusual staring going on,” she tells GQ. “There was an instant and odd connection that we both felt. Like, ‘I know you, you know me, who are you?’ Anyway, he then got up and left.”

She insists she didn’t know it was him at the time. “The John Edwards I saw in 2004 on TV I believed to be a disconnected, two-dimensional-geek kind of guy,” she says. “And the man sitting across the room was not that at all.”

After she learned who he was, she slipped one of his associates a business card that read: “‘Rielle Hunter. Being is free,’” she tells GQ.

When Edwards later spotted her “on the corner of 61st and Park Avenue,” he “lit up like a Christmas tree,” she says. “And I thought his reaction when he saw me was just so cute. I mean, he looked like a little kid at Christmas. And I just uttered to him, ‘You’re so hot.’ And he said, ‘Why, thank you!’ And he almost jumped into my arms. Literally.”

Hunter – who went on to work as a videographer on his campaign – says she told him, “‘I can help you.’ And he said, “I want your help. I need your help.” And he told me how to contact him [at the Regency]. He said, ‘Please call me.’ I said, ‘How long are you staying?’ He said, ‘Until tomorrow morning. Please, call me. Call me.’”

They eventually connected on the phone.

“He said that he really wanted to hear what I had to say. Would I mind, um, meeting him in his room? And I said, ‘No, I wouldn’t mind at all,’” she recalls. “And the reason I wouldn’t is because he’s a celebrity. I have a lot of celebrity friends, and I know their rules are different. Also, it felt completely familiar, like I’d known him all my life. Anyway, so I said, ‘Let me eat my Caesar salad, and I’ll see you in 15 minutes.’ And I said to my friends, ‘I’m going over there.’ And it was funny, because they were like, ‘You cannot sleep with him! You cannot sleep with him, because you can help him!’ And I said, ‘I am not going to sleep with him.’ I gave them my word: ‘I won’t sleep with him.’ [laughs] And so I went over to his room, and I walked in, and I. Was. Terrified.” 

“Because I had never experienced anything like what was flowing between us,” she continues. “I sat on the other side of the room. I wouldn’t go near him. And he kept saying [she mimics his southern drawl], ‘What are you doin’ over there? Come over here. I can’t even see you. Come closer. I won’t bite you.’ I was just — there was sooo much attraction and sooo much… I want to say love, but it wasn’t love at that point. You know, it was just this, this magnetic force field like I had never experienced. It terrified me. Absolutely terrified me. And, um, I eventually walked over to his side of the room. [laughs] He was pretty relentless. And that’s all I’m gonna say on that! Now fade to black!”

He called her the next day, she says, and they “talked on the phone almost every night for four hours. We met on February 21. On February 25 — on the phone, from Davenport, Iowa — I fell in love with him. Head over heels in love. I was a goner.”

She says she helped him keep the affair hidden from his breast cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth, 60, by buying him a second cellphone — identical to his regular one — for her to call him on.

But Elizabeth, suspicious he was having an affair with Hunter, discovered the second phone one day. When she dialed the last number called, “I answered the phone and said, ‘Hey, baby.’ And, click,” Hunter recalls.

Elizabeth then “confronted him and confronted him, and he finally confessed,” Hunter says.

Hunter says she initially had “problems” having an affair with a married man, but that their “force field of our love overrode any issues” she had.

Plus, she says: “Infidelity doesn’t happen in healthy marriages. The break in the marriage happens before the infidelity. And that break happened, you know, two-and-a-half decades before I got there. So the home was wrecked already. I was not the Home Wrecker.”

Adds Hunter, “I believe what happened in his marriage is, he could not go to his wife and say, “We have an issue.” Because he would be pummeled. So he had a huge fear. Most of his mistakes or errors in judgment were because of his fear of the wrath of Elizabeth. He’s allowed himself to be pushed into a lot of things that he wouldn’t normally do because of Elizabeth’s story line. And the spin that she wants to put out there. He was emasculated. And you know, the wrath of Elizabeth is a mighty wrath.”

In July 2007, Hunter says she learned she was pregnant. Though Edwards said he would support her, “on some level, he was hoping I would get an abortion,” Hunter says. “He wasn’t happy about the timing. Which is understandable. He was married and running for president.”

Hunter says Edwards has been a “sweet” and “very loving” father, adding that their daughter “calls him Da-da. She’s always known who Da-da is. Yeah. She’s never had Da-da missing from her life … He very much wants to be in her life full—time, and he doesn’t want to hide.”

Now that Edwards and Elizabeth have separated, she says she has “no idea” if they’ll wind up together. “I do know that I will love him and that love is till death do us part, and probably beyond,” Hunter says. “We have a child together, so at the very least we will be co-parents together.”

Looking back, she says she knew they had something special the night they met.

“We had an extraordinary night, and I did know that this was unlike anything either of us had ever experienced,” she says. “And as we have all learned, that was accurate! [laughs] He in fact did say to me the first night, ‘Falling in love with you could really f–k up my plans for becoming President.’ And of course I said, ‘If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.’”

For more on this story, check out the interview in April’s GQ.

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Corey Haim will be buried in his native Toronto next week – and his family is asking fans to help cover some of the cost.

“Due to the unexpected expenses of transporting his body to Canada for final resting, a fund has been set up to help his family,” reads a statement on his official website.

…Haim’s longtime pal Corey Feldman told CNN’s Larry King earlier this week that Haim — who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1997, listing debts for medical expenses and more than $200,000 in state and federal taxes — was “very broke, very destitute. Feldman said he was living with his breast cancer-stricken mother in a “month-to-month living” complex in Los Angeles.

Feldman said Haim was so broke he “didn’t even have a car.”

For more on this story at UsMagazine.com, click here.

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Corey Haim, the iconic 1980s teen actor best known as one of “The Coreys,” died this morning in Burbank of a suspected drug overdose, the Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed. He was 38.

Sgt. Frank Albarran of the LAPD’s North Hollywood division told TheWrap Wednesday that he received a call from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank at around 3:40 a.m. local time informing him of the Canadian-born actor’s death. Because medical officials suspect drugs were involved in Haim’s passing, police were called to investigate, per standard procedure, Sgt. Albarran said. Police are on site at St. Joseph’s. No further details were available.

Haim was forever linked to fellow young actor Corey Feldman after their joint apperance in 1987’s “The Lost Boys.” They then starred in “License to Drive” and “Dream a Little Dream,” and attempted a joint TV comeback together via the short-lived A&E reality series “The Two Coreys.”

For more on this story from TheWrap at MSNBC.com, click here.

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Looks like washed up actress Lindsay Lohan may finally have gotten the memo that her acting career is just about over… After all, what else could possibly explain her latest publicity stunt?

Unbelievable as it seems, Lindsay is suing E*Trade, the company behind the “talking babies” commercials, claiming that the company’s use of her (first) name in the commercial that refers to a female baby (named Lindsay) as a “milk-aholic” is all about her.  In a lawsuit filed Monday in Nassau County, New York, Lindsay claims the ad improperly invokes her “likeness, name, characterization, and personality” without permission, violating her right of privacy.  Taking things even further, Lindsay is suing the company for ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!  In addition, Lindsay is also demanding that the commercial stop running altogether and that all copies of the commercial be turned over to her. Lindsay’s lawyer claims that the broke-down actress has the same one-name recognition that megastars such as Madonna and Oprah have. (Excuse me a second while I LMAO here).

REALLY, LINDSAY??  Is that the best you can do? Or better yet, ARE YOU FRIGGIN’ HIGH (AGAIN)???

This is really the most ridiculous thing we’ve ever heard of.  You’d think that as a D-List celebrity, Lindsay would focus more of her time on rebuilding her career and reputation, rather than HIGHLIGHTING her reputation as an addict and a floozy.  Guess Lindsay is so out of touch with reality that she doesn’t realize that LOTS of girls are named Lindsay… OR that by claiming that the commercial mocks her, she’s only clowning herself by reminding us all of her past tabloid headline behaviors. 

What a joke.

Oh, and by the way Lindsay, the company that produced the commercial, Grey Group, told the New York Post Tuesday the “Lindsay” in the ad was named after a member of its account team. Sorry Lindsay, we know that must be a huge blow to your enormous ego to hear that someone else out there shares your precious name… but hey, while you’re at it, maybe you can sue the production company team member for having your name too???

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After a whirlwind awards season, first-time Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe is bringing her talents to TV.

Sidibe is set to star in Showtime’s new dark comedy, “The Big C,” where she plays a student of Laura Linney’s character, a suburban wife and mother who turns her life around after being diagnosed with cancer.

“The Big C” will begin shooting its 13-episode season in May and will air at the end of summer.

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UPDATE, 3/8/10: Tom’s reps claim that it was NOT Tom who was involved in the close call accident on Sunday. However, witnesses say the biker involved sure did look a LOT like the Mission Impossible star. Hmmm, what do you think? Is it a case of mistaken identity or a cover-up by Tom’s people?

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Well, we may never know exactly what happened between Naomi and the driver, but it looks like Ms. Campbell is escaping from this latest run-in without any legal trouble. 

Thursday, Naomi released a statement about the incident, saying, “On Tuesday, March 2nd, I was accused of unacceptable behavior towards a driver in New York. I have worked very hard on correcting my previous wrongdoings and I will not be held hostage to my past. I try to treat everyone with respect and I am pleased the driver has apologized. I would like to put the last few days behind me and move on.”

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