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Okay, so it wasn’t quite like Los Angeles. But the stars still turned out in force for game six of the Lakers-Celtics championship series in Boston Tuesday night.
And it’s a good thing, too, because the Bean Town boys put away Kobe and Co. in a 131-92 rout - becoming the new NBA Champions.
Hometown boy Donnie Wahlberg - who predicted the victory to PEOPLE last week - pulled buddy Joey McIntyre onto the court for some post-game revelry.
Also in the house? Steven Tyler - fresh from his stint in rehab following foot surgery - and Boston native Ellen Pompeo. (Alas, it seems the Grey’s Anatomy star has switched her allegiance to Los Angeles - she left the game early.)
Even longtime Lakers fan Leonard DiCaprio was there for the disappointment, watching from a private suite.
• Ellen Pompeo arriving at an afterparty at the W
Hotels Jet-Set Lounge in New York so hungry that she ate
a platter of sushi by herself.
• Eva Longoria, doing some shopping - baby
shopping that is - at high-end baby boutique Petit Tresor in West
Hollywood. (For the record, the Desperate Housewives star has
repeatedly denied she is
pregnant.) Says an onlooker: “She was looking at cribs and other furniture.”
In the end, she dropped around $300 on some cute onesies, blankets and a
photo album.
• Claire Danes, working up a sweat on the
elliptical machine for an hour at Equinox Soho in New York. Wearing black
leggings and a blue T-shirt, the actress watched CNN on the big TV as she
exercised.
• Grey’s Anatomy’s Sara Ramirez, getting her hair
blown and styled at the House of Bumble in New York. Next, the perfectly
coiffed actress headed to the Bumble and Bumble Fashion Week fete to launch
Spray De Mode.
• Lovebirds Tiffany %26#34;New York%26#34; Pollard and her fiancé, George %26#34;Tailor Made%26#34; Weisberger, making out during at a preview party for the hot new Manhattan lounge, Suzie Wong. “They were all over each other,” says a source. The next day, the pair jetted to Las Vegas, where Pollard hosted an event at the Planet Hollywood Resort %26 Casino’s new Prive nightclub - winging back to New York City the next day.
• Heroes star (and future Mr. Spock) Zachary
Quinto, dining at Il Capriccio in Los Feliz, Calif. The actor greeted one
of the female servers with a kiss on the cheek, but managed to blend right
into the crowd. Quinto was seated toward the back of the restaurant with
his male companion, engaging in close conservation.
• By K.C. BAKER, JENNIFER GARCIA, ALYSSA SHELASKY and ERICA
SILVERSTEIN
Monday’s Couples Watch >
Ellen Pompeo had haute couture on her mind when she hit Paris Fashion Week - but she couldn’t help gushing about wedded bliss with Chris Ivery.
“We’re blessed,” the 38-year-old Grey’s Anatomy star told PEOPLE of her two-month union (sealed in November with a quiet ceremony at New York’s City Hall).
Her music-producer husband piped in on cue: “I’m the real McDreamy!”
Also on hand for Armani’s show: Hilary Swank, Dita von Teese and the legendary Sophia Loren.
- Mary Papenfuss
• Newlyweds Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery, stepping out for
sushi at Hirozen Gourmet in Los Angeles. Outside the restaurant, the couple
received congratulations from some nearby photographers and fans.
• Charlie Sheen, hanging courtside with his fiancée Brooke Mueller during a Los Angeles Clippers game at the
Staples Center in L.A. And good news for them: the home team bested the New York
Knicks, 84-81.
• After attending a private dinner at Green Door (thrown in her honor), Fergie spotted strolling into Bar Marmont in West Hollywood hand in hand with beau Josh Duhamel. The pair walked to the back of the bar and ordered drinks as the singer greeted some friends with a hug. Fergie took her glass of white wine - and her boyfriend - and retreated to the less-crowded patio section with her friends in tow. After some friendly chatter, the two pals departed, leaving Fergie and Duhamel alone for some quiet time together.
• Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari and her
boyfriend Nick Zano, catching a movie together at The Grove in Los
Angeles. Walking through the open-air mall, the couple held hands, looking
just like twins in jeans and white T-Shirts. The casual pair made their way
to the theater, giggling as they hit the line.
• Jennifer Connelly, taking in the Seventh on Sale gala and sample sale at the 26th Street Armory in New York along with hubby Paul Bettany. The fashion-forward couple - she sported an Oscar
de la Renta gown - mingled at the star-studded event (Ashley Olsen, Kate Moss and Blake Lively were among the attendees), and Bettany confessed he was there for
support, and not for shopping! “I always enjoy shopping,” he drolly teased
with us. “I live for it!”
• Tommy Lee, enjoying dinner with flame Kimberly Stewart - as well as her brother and father Rod Stewart- at Il Sole in West Hollywood. While it was a family dinner, the bad-boy rocker was getting pretty cozy with Stewart, a fellow diner reports.
Later, the pair continued their night by partying at Hyde.
• By JENNIFER GARCIA, LISA INGRASSIA and JEFFREY SLONIM
Friday’s Caught in the Act >
Ellen Pompeo now officially has her own McDreamy: the Grey’s Anatomy star and fiancé Chris Ivery married on Friday, her dad confirms to PEOPLE.
“I’m very happy for her,” Joseph Pompeo, of Everett, Mass., said Wednesday. “She just didn’t want a big thing.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg served as a witness at the brief ceremony, which was performed at City Hall in Lower Manhattan by a city clerk, the Boston Globe originally reported.
The connection between the couple and Hizzoner has to do with the fact that the record-producer groom, 38, grew up in Boston, while Bloomberg himself is a native of Medford, Mass., and they have mutual friends. Pompeo, who also turned 38 on Saturday, hails from Everett.
“We have a lot in common,” Pompeo has told PEOPLE of Ivery. “We’re from the same hometown, almost.”
The couple met in a Los Angeles grocery store in 2003 and began dating about six months later, after “one night she just looked different to me,” Ivery told PEOPLE last year.
“They are over the moon,” the actress’s spokeswoman told the Globe of Pompeo and Ivery.
After the nuptials, the newlyweds reportedly were seen at Sunday night’s Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, before the bride returned to Hollywood to continue shooting her series - though it soon threatens to shut down due to the writers’ strike
In June, Pompeo had told PEOPLE her wedding would not be a lavish affair, but that it would be held out of town.
“There will be no ‘big’ anything,” she said. “It’s going to be very small.”
Beyond that, she and Ivery, who became engaged in November, would only say, “We were thinking about going away and getting married.”
• Reporting by Liz McNeil
Although FOX’s 24 is up for more awards (12 in total), ABC’s 11-times-nominated medical drama Grey’s Anatomy is favored to win best dramatic series at Sunday’s 58th annual Emmy Awards.
And should Grey’s star Patrick “Dr. McDreamy” Dempsey fail to send temperatures soaring at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium, there’s always host Conan O’Brien, who tells PEOPLE, “I’m gonna wear very, very tight trousers, like matador pants. That’s gonna do a lot for women and a third of the men watching.”
NBC will broadcast the ceremony live Sunday starting at 8 p.m. ET. The top nominees are the TNT miniseries Into the West, which garnered 16 nods, and HBO’s miniseries Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren, which nabbed 13.
In other races to watch, TV critics are betting on The Office for best comedy and its star Steve Carrell for best comedy actor, while Lisa Kudrow is tipped by some to win best comedy actress in HBO’s short-lived series The Comeback.
And while last year’s big winners, ABC’s Lost and Desperate Housewives, were shut out of the major races, the list of nominees features several shows that won’t be back next season, including NBC’s Will %26 Grace and The West Wing and HBO’s Six Feet Under.
Sunday’s ceremony will honor prolific producer Aaron Spelling, who died in June at 83 and whose decades of hits included The Mod Squad, The Love Boat, Starsky and Hutch, Dynasty and Beverly Hills, 90210. A tribute will feature cast members from his shows.