Courteney Cox Denies Affair, Defends David Arquette

In the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Courteney Cox discusses her trial separation from David Arquette. “If [the marriage] doesn’t work out, I will have huge waves of pain about failing in that department,” says Courteney. “But right now I don’t have that because I don’t know what the future holds and I guess because I have strong feelings for him.” She denies that she’s having a relationship with her co-star Brian Van Holt, and says of David’s recent fling,, “He absolutely did nothing that wasn’t in the boundaries of what we set for our separation, so there’s nothing to judge. I may not have known about it, but that’s the only difference.” [Us]

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Lindsay Lohan has been offered 60-90 days in jail if she pleads guilty to grand theft, but Linds is still leaning toward having a trial. [Radar]
A source says Michael Lohan flipped out this week while filming Celebrity Rehab 5 because he, “wanted Lindsay, Ali, and the rest of the family to come for ‘family day.’ Michael even wanted Dina to come. They all refused, they don’t want to appear on camera in that setting, period. Michael was very upset and emotions were very raw for him. Soon, thereafter, all hell started to break out between other patients and families.” [Radar]

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Tina Fey says, “Any time you talk about being a working mother and you complain about it in any way, people eat your face … I remember reading some interview where Gwyneth Paltrow said something like, ‘I missed my kids on the set one day and I was crying.’ And I thought, Yeah, I’ve totally done that … But on the website where I read it there were these furious comments. ‘But you’re a movie star!’ Yes, it’s much worse for a mom serving in Afghanistan. Of course. But there’s just no forgiveness.” [CNN]
Here’s a picture of Tracy Morgan brandishing a lightsaber on the set of 30 Rock. He’s shirtless, natch. [TMZ]

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• Update: Elizabeth Taylor is still in the hospital being treated for congestive heart failure. [AP]
• Gene Simmons has dropped his lawsuit against make-up artist Victoria Jackson, but she’s still suing him for allegedly sexually assaulting her. [Radar]
• Ramona Singer managed to celebrate her 19th wedding anniversary without the aid of Real Housewives cameras. [Radar]
• Andy Cohen says Miami will probably be the last Real Housewives spinoff. Rats. We were really looking forward to The Real Housewives Of Maine. [ONTD]
• Andy Cohen, who was recently on a Mardi Gras float with Anderson Cooper, says, “The only thing that I’ll tell you is that Anderson really knows how to be on a Mardi Gras float. He set up his beads as we were about to start. He does like a mis en place with his beads so that he was ready. And then the rest of us, who had never done it, had like no idea what we were doing. And you really do have to kind of take the beads apart and get them in a place where you’re ready to throw them, so he was quite prepared. It was like what chefs do.” [N.Y. Mag]
• Alec Baldwin will be appearing in Rock of Ages with Tom Cruise. “I think they have us all sing something. I think I’m going to sing, thankfully, something very modest; I might sing ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ or something like that,” he says, but he won’t be dancing because, “It’s not Glee, it’s rock and roll.” [N.Y. Mag]