Posted Dec. 3, 2008

Gwyneth arrives at the Fontainebleau Hotel grand reopening party in Miami on Nov. 14. (©AP)

If we could be so bold as to suggest a New Year's resolution for Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, we propose that they nix their longstanding position against being seen together in public, because it's only putting their relationship under more scrutiny. The camera-averse parents of Apple, 4, and Moses, 2, who will celebrate their fifth anniversary on Friday, are denying persistent rumors that their marriage has hit a rough patch and that the Oscar winner spent Thanksgiving in Miami with moneybags real estate mogul Jeff Soffer. Paltrow's spokesman affirms to the New York Daily News that she was back home in London for the holiday (and, indeed, there are pictures of her attending a shindig with Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal), calling the rift rumors "rubbish ... stemming from the fact that she will not make any public appearances with her husband." Adds a pal to the paper, "Everything is fine with them, and of course they still live together." Martin, for his part, is likely relieved to be sleeping in his own bed now that Coldplay's world tour is on a break. When asked by the Times of London what he can get in his native Britain that he can't get in America, the ornery rocker was quick to reply, "Laid. Oh, and maybe a Toffee Crisp."

Mark and Kelly hit the New York premiere of "Cadillac Records" on Dec. 1. (©Retna Ltd.)

Kelly Ripa wants you to keep something in mind when you're making your regular perusal of the tabloids while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store this weekend: She and husband Mark Consuelos are doing just fine. While the current cover of the National Enquirer screams "Split! Kelly Ripa's husband packs bags and walks out," Regis' perkier half insists their 12-year union is solid. "There is no truth to the story," her rep assures Us and People. "Their marriage continues to be quite healthy and the National Enquirer should be ashamed for fabricating such an untruthful story." A lawyer for the toothy couple has demanded a retraction and an apology from the tabloid over the "false and outrageous statements," calling the story (via E! News) "little more than a cynical and malicious attempt to injure my clients and their family, to boost flagging circulation, and to trade off of the good reputation, image and deserved celebrity of my clients." Ripa and Consuelos, who are parents to Michael, 11, Lola, 7, and Joaquin, 5, put up a united front on Monday night as they stepped out together for the New York premiere of "Cadillac Records."

Sam and Lindsay are spotted in London on Nov. 19. (©Retna Ltd.)

Despite recent reports that Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson have been squabbling at hot spots all over the globe, they're still very much an item. The employment-needing starlet used some of her oodles of free time to offer a relationship update on her MySpace page. "Oy vey! Rumors. Just to clear this up, because I have been getting a lot of e-mails asking me this one question," she wrote in an entry posted on Monday. "Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan (me) are NOT breaking up." Lindsay then drives home the apparently functional state of her romantic status by pointing out that she's currently listening to the Turtles' 1967 ditty "Happy Together." And that's just how People describes Lohan and her DJ inamorata during a recent night out at a Los Angeles club with Nicole Richie and Joel Madden. A spy says they "looked very happy" and remained suctioned to each other's side during the evening. Lohan, who was also snapped shopping with Ronson on Tuesday in Beverly Hills, recently told the December issue of Harper's Bazaar that she intended to keep her piehole closed about her squeeze, explaining, "I feel like it jinxes it. ... The second I start talking about whomever I'm seeing, a month or two later it's failed." Still, she did tempt fate by calling Sam "a wonderful person" and proclaiming, "I love her very much."