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Lea Michele met her new guy while making a music video but he used to make his money by making time with the ladies.

Or put another way ... Matthew Paetz was just a gigolo -- and a damn popular one at that!

Ryan Phillippe is suddenly looking JACKED on South Beach, and you can bet he's getting a ton of stares from the ladies -- and also possibly some gentlemen.

But only because he's their "th-inspiration." Yep, that's the only reason.

Two Victoria’s Secret’s models -- Cara Delevingne and Karlie Kloss -- kissing is normally something we'd applaud. So, we will ... but this also raises a question.

Since we thought Michelle Rodriguez and Cara were a thing -- this seems like a good time to ask M-Rod about her dating habits ... and to further investigate Cara and Karlie's liplock.

Shailene Woodley: You like apples?
Tom Cruise: Yeah.
Shailene: Well, I just kicked your ass at the box office with a sappy-tug-at-your-heart-strings flick about a girl dying from cancer! How do you like them apples?

Tom: Can I get a hit off your oxygen tank?

Jessica Simpson was looking hot, VERY tipsy, and most of all ... HUNGRY when we caught her and fiancé Eric Johnson hitting a Hollywood nightclub.

Sure, she had a dozen few drinkie poos, but it's no big deal -- not when you have a devoted driver ready and willing to make late night Jack in the Box runs!

Clark Gregg's seen all kinds of crazy stuff on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" -- but nothing comes close to the new show called "Born in the Wild."

The upcoming docu-series reaffirms that old saying: The circle of life is beautiful ... until you have to watch a groaning, naked, pregnant lady squeeze out a baby on the banks of a babbling creek!

Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart's break-up has nothing to do with any new relationships he may or may not have ... according to people close to them.

So hypothetically speaking, if a couple of attractive transsexual women are into Casper -- J.Lo hypothetically doesn't care ... cause she's been done-zo for a while.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s floating a pretty wacky theory ... that water has feelings! It's actually the research of a Japanese scientist who claims polluted water can purify itself if you talk real nice to it.

Sharon Osbourne ain't buying it, but guess what? TMZ has its own quantum physics expert, and she's backing Gwyneth!

Disclaimer:Our expert may not know what quantum physics means.

Jennifer Lopez had ass-on-parade during her first hometown concert in the Bronx -- but did Bradley Cooper, of all people, put her butt to shame? Only one can be the hands-down winner!

Actually, keep your hands where we can see 'em.

How many women (with or without underwear) can superstar DJ Calvin Harris cram into an SUV!? A LOT -- Calvin had a ridiculous trail of smoking babes following him to his ride outside an L.A. club.

The video is amazing -- kinda reminds you of a clown car ... but less red noses, and more hot asses.

Charlize Theron pulled a total normie move at Pinkberry ... telling 'em she didn't have any money on her to pay her $3.75 fro-yo tab!

She's so lucky the Pinkberry employee trusted her to come back -- and the employee's super lucky Charlize came back ... with BIG money!

Star Wars fans would be poppin' bottles in the club -- if they actually went to nightclubs -- because it's looking like the Millennium Falcon will fly again!

Aww yeah!! Who's up for making a Kessel Run in ... let's say ... less than 12 parsecs??

The new Playmate of the Year is like a unicorn -- a chick who really did get naked to help pay her way through school! Kennedy Summers is studying to be a plastic surgeon ... and no doubt the $100K prize will go a long way toward that.

But the other prize she got from Hef proves times are tough everywhere ... even at the Mansion.

The infamous smuggler Johnny Depp played in the movie “Blow” is free again after flooding America with endless piles of primo cocaine ... and spending nearly 20 years in the pokey.

So that's awesome--ly horrible? Umm ... drugs are bad. Depp's cool though.

The new Star Wars movie just started shooting, and sci-fi geeks have plenty to celebrate ... 'cause we scored the first pics of some strange new characters over in Abu Dhabi!!

And no, that’s not a new planet in a galaxy far, far away -- it’s part of the United Arab Emirates, and yeah ... you don't really care. Star Wars!!!

Actually, those critics are getting kinda loud.