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Known as the "Sweeter-Smelling Oscars," The Fragrance Foundation's FiFi Awards honor outstanding achievements in perfumery. This year's winners include: Reveal by Halle Berry: Fragrance Celebrity of the Year My Life by Mary J. Blige: Fragrance of the Year (Direct to Consumer); Sales Breakthrough Winner Outspoken by Fergie: New Celebrity Fragrance of the Year Award Do awards like these factor in to your scent purchases? Or is the experience all about chemistry?

Yee-haw, boys and girls, "Project Runway" is back! After a long, dark period I will only refer to as "the unpleasantness," "Project Runway" saddled up and moved on over to Lifetime seamlessly. What a joy to have all the regulars on hand for what is one of the best episodes of “PR” I have seen in a long time. Tim’s here! Yay! Heidi, looking beautiful while dishing out huge helpings of schadenfreude (delight at other people’s misfortune). Michael Kors, the ever-glowing tangerine God of Fashion, and Nina Garcia, now at Marie Claire and sharpening her claws on a new crop of diverse designers.

Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, it is filmed in Los Angeles ... but so far that doesn’t seem to have affected a thing; in fact, the first challenge is pretty fabulous because of L.A.: The designers are taken to the red carpet of the Emmys, and given the challenge of designing a red-carpet gown of their choice with two days and $200. All the familiar fun ensues that makes us addicted to this stuff — sketching in the workroom (now at FIDM and bigger than ours!), a half hour to shop at Mood (yay! Mood!), and let the drama begin. All under the lilting tones of a certain Mr. Gunn, whom we have sorely missed.

Meet the designers: Ra’mon (the serious med student); Logan (the guy’s guy, letting us know in no uncertain terms that he is straight); Johnny (former drug addict who tried out for the show several times, but made it now that he is clean. Read: drama); Gordana (Yugoslavian tough-chick who will win even if she has to make her dress out of potatoes and corn); Malvin (one word: Sanjaya); Qristyl (oooh honey, step back, cuz Miss Q doesn’t mess around with skinny girls, she is size “plus-sexy”); Shirin (sweet to the point of diabetic coma); Nicolas (the self-acclaimed “Feather Prince” — Good Luck); Mitchell (every show has one, the all-American cutie); Ari (techno-chick who’s tragically into “Blade Runner” Chic); Louise (trapped-in-vintage-land Louise Brooks channeler); Irina (into leathah); Carol (this season’s Kenley? Pixie-couture airhead); Epperson (serious dreads and seems to be the oldest of the bunch); Althea (Cocky with a capital “C,” sure she is the next Christian, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen, blah blah blah); and finally, Christopher (self-taught and second runner-up in the cutie category). We met Christopher last — any predictions?

Some workroom fun that was music to my ears: Ari saying “I don’t sketch” ... Johnny having a drug-free meltdown with Tim coming to save the day and dry his tears ... Mitchell may be our new cryer ... Malvin claiming his garments are “ineffable” and beyond description (Oh, I can describe them alright). The best moment of the show? Qristyl can’t find anyone to cut her fabric at Mood, so she buys a pair of scissors and CUTS IT HERSELF! Way to make it work, Miss Q! Reality-show gold!

The dresses are coming along, and there’s a joyous visit from Saint Tim (do I hear angels when he enters the workroom?), and we begin to see what these designers are all about. Johnny says he will use “spit and gum” to finish his hideous dress if he has to. Tim calls Christopher’s work a “cruise-line cocktail waitress,” Ari is tragically channeling Blayne by making a halter diaper dress and Mitchell is making some sort of Victorian caftan out of coffin lining. Miss Q has completely missed with her quasi–Carmen Miranda wedding dress, and on the morning of the runway show, Mitchell has to start over from scratch and decides to go for a Lady Godiva look and send his model down the runway nude.

Oh Rapture! The Runway! Another byproduct of the L.A. location ... Lindsay Lohan is the guest judge! Here come the dresses!

• Althea: Silver, pretty, nice and safe.
• Gordana: Short blue-green dress with origami floating device around the bust.
• Malvin: Beige burlap scaly ugly boring dress fit for a prison wedding.
• Mitchell: Sheer (butt cheeks on parade) caftan that would make a great maternity dress for JLo.
• Louise: Dress made of drapes with a flowered growth on the shoulder.
• Christopher: ’80s prom dress made of garbage bags and Kleenex.
• Ra’mon: Fabulous eggplant taffeta gown that you could see on the most fabulous star on the Oscars red carpet.
  Shirin: Cutesy, short, safe.
• Epperson: More purple, but this one is the wrong way to do it.
• Irina: Literally drapes that the model keeps tripping over.
• Ari: Ridiculous space suit that wouldn’t pass for fashion in any year in the future.
• Johnny: This tragedy looks like a piece of fabric blew onto the model in a windstorm and was held in place by pieces of chewing gum.
• Qristyl: Ouch. I love Q, but this is hideous. How hideous? Kenley would love it.
• Logan: Silver, boring and monotone like his voice.
• Nicolas: Short, black plastic/rubber body condom. No feathers, go figure.

 

The decisions are made, the delicious drama spills forth in classic PR fashion. Did I agree with their decisions on who they kept on the runway? Yes. But I seriously disagree with their commentary on the top and the bottom looks ... but that’s what makes the show addictive. You want to scream at Nina, pull Heidi’s hair out, wipe the orange off of Michael Kors, and force-feed Lindsay Lohan. We all agreed Miss Q was a wreck, but she’s too fun to get rid of: In. Johnny: In. Are you serious? This same dress has gotten many designers eliminated, but they obviously keep him for what they hope will be more drug-free drama. Ra’mon: In. They called this dress “safe,” even though it was obviously the most beautifully realized piece on the show. Mitchell: In. They gave him a break. Plus they know all the gay men watching the show would be mad if they eliminate the cutest designer. Ari: OUT. What glee to hear Michael Kors call this ugly piece of garbage a “disco soccer ball.” I am swooning with delight. The winner? Christopher. Oh my God. This dress is one pair of fingerless gloves away from the prom scene in any John Hughes movie. (See photo.)They would normally rake this thing over the coals, but to keep us talking about the controversy, they chose to reward the self-taught naive boy who now thinks he’s got a shot at winning. But that’s why we love the show. “Project Runway” is back in all its glory. We can’t get enough of the delicious punishment, drama, hopes and dashed dreams of “Project Runway.”

And, ultimately, of life. See ya soon, Chris

Cameron Diaz and Sean "Diddy" Combs:
Dang – we didn’t see this one coming! Us Weekly is reporting that since her breakup with A-Rod, Diaz has been hooking up again with her old flame P Diddy. Apparently they have been booty call buddies since 2008. Wonder how his model girlfriend of three years, Cassie feels about this!

Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner:
Say it isn’t so! The “Melrose Place” co-stars have confirmed that they have called off their engagement. We had high hopes for Amanda and Dr. Burns – how could they do this to us?

George Clooney and Stacy Keibler:
As hard as we try not to get too attached to Clooney and his flavor of the month, we gotta admit, we’ve got it bad for him and Keibler as a couple. The duo showed some serious PDA at the Beverly Hills premiere of “The Descendants,” AND she met the ‘rents. Please don’t break up, please don’t break up, please don’t break up.

Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart:
Who? Yea, we said the same thing. Jennifer Lopez is allegedly involved with a 24-year-old backup dancer named Casper Smart. Didn’t she learn anything from Demi and Ashton?

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Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt:
Us Magazine just reported that the two actors were spotted making out recently in New York. ScarJo has been doing ok for herself! Since her split with Ryan Reynolds, she’s been linked to big names like Sean Penn and Bradley Cooper.

Speaking of Bradley Cooper…
Things between our secret boyfriend Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lopez are heating up. The hot couple went on a dinner date in New York last month and they were reportedly spotted out together again a few days ago when a photo surfaced of Cooper in an SUV with a woman who looked remarkably like J.Lo (she was unsuccessfully attempting to cover her face).

And speaking of Ryan Reynolds…
First, our other secret boyfriend was linked to Charlize Theron and now he’s allegedly dating Blake Lively (who is fresh off her breakup with Leonardo DiCaprio). Meh. We liked him better with Charlize Theron.

George Clooney and Stacy Keibler:
Rumors started swirling about them over the summer and now George Clooney and Stacy Keibler are going strong and stepping out in public together. Clooney brought Keibler to the screening of his latest film, "The Descendants," over the weekend, where the couple walked hand-in-hand down the red carpet together. Awww.

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Daniel Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright may have stirred up a little romance onscreen in the last two Harry Potter movies, but offscreen there was an entirely different scenario happening. Wright, who played Ginny Weasley, got engaged to her other Harry Potter co-star, Jamie Campbell Bower (seen in this photo). If you missed this swoon-worthy actor as Gellert Grindelwald in these wizard flicks, don’t worry — you can see him light up the silver screen in “Anonymous,” a movie that asks the question “Was Shakespeare a fraud?” It’s out in theaters on November 4. Campbell Bower will be playing the dashing Earl of Oxford, who woos a young Queen Elizabeth I (Joely Richardson). Gauging by this picture, the two seem to have some serious chemistry in front of the cameras. But this actor (and the rest of this film’s all-star cast) is only one reason to see “Anonymous” ...

If you ask Nick Verreos, the beloved “Project Runway” designer from Season 2, about what he’ll be keeping an eye out for in this movie, he’ll say it’s the fabulous fashions. There were 20 handmade costumes for an older Queen Elizabeth alone.

Check out Verreos’ take as he judges these spectacular Shakespearean styles from “Anonymous” as only a “Project Runway” designer could!

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Nude photos of Scarlett Johansson may have just hit the web.

The actress appears to be the latest victim of a cell phone hacker ring thought to be responsible for stealing nude photos and videos from at least 50 female celebrities, including, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba, Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus and Christina Aguilera.

Here’s what we don’t understand – after SO many scandals involving naked pics have broken, why do people keep taking them?

And while we shouldn’t be wondering this but at least we are admitting it, were ScarJo’s photos meant for Ryan Reynolds or for Sean Penn?

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Some of Hollywood’s most beloved couples are the hopeful, happy pairings that we’ve been rooting for all along — see: Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Others are head scratchers of an entirely different genre — see Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, pre-Oscars 2010. This weekend brought with it a little from Column A, a little from Column B — “huh?!” and “hurray!” along with us, Limelighters!

Hot on the Louboutin heels of her split with hubby Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez was spotted sharing a romantic meal with actor Bradley Cooper. This surprising (also see: WTF) couple snuggled up for a two-hour dinner date Saturday at NYC hotspot Per Se. Bradley was most recently linked to actress Renee Zellweger who he parted ways with back in March after dating for two years.

Love hasn’t always come easy for Lady Gaga, who famously said: "Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."

But things in the romance department may be looking up for the Lady, who is rumored to be hooking up with her incredibly hot “You And I” music video costar Taylor Kinney. The actor has appeared on “The Vampire Diaries” and will be starring in the Lifetime original movie event “Five” (get more info on the movie here!)

Which new celebrity couple do you think will go the distance?

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With her fit physique and frequent sneaker-clad appearances running through the various “Slim Stars Secrets” or “Stars: Just Like Us” sections of many a mag, it’s no secret that 35-year-old Reese Witherspoon stays in shape by running! Unfortunately, the actress took the wrong route yesterday and was struck by a car while out for a jog.

Local news outlets reported that Reese was jogging in the northbound lane of Georgina Avenue in Santa Monica yesterday, when a driver, later identified as an 84-year-old woman, coming down 20th street hit the star. The driver was later cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

Reese was taken to a nearby hospital and checked for minor injuries, but thankfully soon released. Her reps reported to People, that she is now “resting comfortably at home.” Hopefully, new hubby, agent Jim Toth is taking good care of her while she recups!

What freak celebrity accident has had you stunned?

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Eddie Murphy has been hired to host the 84th Annual Academy Awards in February.

James Franco and Anne Hathaway didn’t exactly win rave reviews as last year’s hosts, so this unexpected opportunity for the comedian could end up being exactly what the Oscars needs.

"Eddie is a comedic genius, one of the greatest and most influential live performers ever," telecast producer Brett Ratner says. "I know he will bring excitement, spontaneity and tremendous heart to the show.”

Murphy, who earned an Oscar nomination in 2006 for his supporting role in “Dreamgirls”, has never hosted the Academy Awards before.

"I am enormously honored to join the great list of past Academy Award hosts from [Bob] Hope and [Johnny] Carson to [Billy] Crystal, [Steve] Martin and [Whoopi] Goldberg, among others," Murphy told Us Weekly in a statement.

Tell us, what do you guys think?

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Jennifer Aniston rocks a straight, side-parted 'do for Marie Claire Australia's current issue.