Every once in a while the tabloids surprise us by zigging when we thought they would zag. Case in point: Renée Zellweger, 37, who we figured would spend most of her time on the North Carolina set of the football flick "Leatherheads" fending off rumors linking her to her leading man and director (not to mention rumored ex) George Clooney. But Star has gone a different route, instead touting the pucker-face-prone Oscar winner's alleged "affair" with her equally appealing -- albeit in a slightly more goofy way -- co-star, John Krasinski, 27, better known as Jim from "The Office." And while Renée, who has been flying solo since annulling her blink-and-you'll-miss-it marriage to Kenny Chesney in 2005, and John, who was last linked to his small-screen love interest Rashida Jones, were spied Saturday night laughing side-by-side from the second row of a sold-out performance by the always-hilarious David Sedaris (per the Charlotte Observer), Pam shouldn't go running back into the arms of Roy just yet. A rep for Krasinski tells E! News the hook-up talk is a bunch of hooey, insisting, "This story is not true. They are just co-stars and friends."

Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey may be ancient history, but could the former "Newlyweds" be trying to one-up each other when it comes to reports of them settling down with their new loves? Let's start with Lachey, who the New York Post says is "getting serious" with Vanessa Minnillo, his squeeze of more than a year. How serious? The Manhattan-based "Entertainment Tonight" talking head is supposedly becoming bicoastal by moving into Nick's Beverly Hills digs. What's more, adds the Chicago Sun-Times, there are rumblings that "an engagement is imminent."

Not to be outdone, Simpson is also rumored to be taking her PDA-packed, "Saturday Night Live"-parodied romance with John Mayer to the next level. "I think Jessica and John are truly, deeply in love," a mole inside Jessica's camp confidently posits to the Sun-Times. "I'm betting he gets her a ring -- and a big one! -- before the summer's out." Anyone want to pony up on that bet? Didn't think so.

Is Bruce Willis continuing to get up close and personal with the suddenly fat-free body of Courtney Love? Gossip maven Cindy Adams claims the oddball pair, who reportedly played an eyebrow-raising round of tonsil hockey last month at the smooth-noodled star's 52nd birthday bash, are now "sort of seeing one another." Let's hope Willis is all stocked up on lip balm: Last week, he was allegedly spied smooching his "Perfect Stranger" co-star Tamara Feldman. By the by, Courtney, 42, reveals to People that in addition to the 50 or so pounds she's dropped through diet and exercise, there's now even less of her to love. She says she's also ditched her breast implants: "I just quietly did it, you know?"

Hulk Hogan may be a little rusty in the wrestling ring, but he can still slam with the best of 'em, with or without his spandex bodysuit. The bushy mustached wrestler is hitting back at reports that his 20-year-plus union to wife, Linda, is about to become the latest reality show casualty. According to the New York Post, the VH1 staples are "going through a very hard time" and have been tussling over, among other things, how best to raise their tan-orexic daughter Brooke. "At one point, they were talking divorce," an insider tells the paper. "It's still precarious." Not so, says Hulk, who assures Us that all is well at home: "I'm happily married, and everything is cool."

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