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It’s confirmed: Whitney Port is dating fellow MTV star Ben Nemtin . The two were spotted making out in Whit’s Porsche on Friday — although the two posed together at an event earlier this week, so it was no big shocker. So will Ben be featured in an upcoming season of The City ? [ Gossip Center ] Post from: Crushable

Julissa Bermudez is an actress and presenter who is most well-known for hosting BET’s 106 & Park — “I was the first Latina on there ever,” she says proudly — but we know her best for hosting the Jersey Shore: After Hours recap show, and making Sammi and Ronnie break up (sort of). Right now, she’s doing in-store appearances for Steve Madden and promoting her indie film Sara . But being the big Jersey Shore fans that we are, we had lots of Guido-related questions for Julissa, and she was nice enough to play along. You sound pretty busy. What are you up to these days? I’m currently going around the country as the spokesperson for Steve Madden . We just got back from Tampa and the weekend before we were in Vegas. I basically go with a DJ and bring a party to your local department store. We’re going to be in Austin, Tex. on March 20 and it’s going to be crazy because it’s during South By Southwest so tons of people are going to be coming out. It’s going to be even bigger and better, and we’re also going to be having a pre-party on March 18. Do you have any dirt on the upcoming season of Jersey Shore ? All I can say is that they’re not going to be at the Jersey shore. I can’t wait to see what will happen and see if Sammi and Ronnie are really going to get together or if they’re going to continue this back and forth break up and make up story. Like on the After Hours show, it looked like they were going to break up at that minute, but later they were grinding up against each other at the club. You never know with those two. Did you know what was going to happen on After Hours before Sammi’s break down? We always show behind the scenes footage and never before seen footage and Sammi had no idea what we were going to show. From the minute she walked on to the set, she was really nervous and I couldn’t figure out why. That’s why I kept asking her about it. Ronnie told me later, “What a lot of people don’t know was that we gave each other a time period to tell each other about anything that hasn’t aired.” They wanted to let each other know so there were no surprises. He was really surprised, and that’s why he was so upset. So in preparing for hosting After Hours , did you watch Jersey Shore ? Yes! First of all, I had no choice because I had to be prepared for what I was up against. I ended watching the entire season before it premiered. And I was hooked from the minute I popped in the first DVD. It was so addictive. There is just something about that show, I don’t know what it is. I think it’s the people on it. You or I may not do back flips in our thong in the club, but it’s fun to watch. And the thing about them is what you see is what you get. It’s not like a lot of “reality shows” where you think you see something and its really not. I think that’s why so many people love it. Have you ever been to the Jersey shore? I’ve never been. I have three older brothers who used to go all the time and can you believe they never took me? If you could do any guy from Jersey Shore , who would you do? Pauly D. I just think his hair would protect us through anything. What is his hair like in person? It is as hard as a rock and yes, and I am referring to his hair. What do you like best: G, T or L? G and T, because who likes doing laundry? Ed Hardy — yea or nay? What I think about Ed Hardy is, to each his own. When Ed Hady was the trend, I definitely owned a few shirts. But I’ve moved on from Ed Hardy. If you were making out with a guy and some zoo animals or a grenade showed up, what would you do? I would probably react exactly like Snooki. If I’m making out with a guy, it’s probably because I really like him. So don’t try to get in between me and I guy I like! What is Snooki like in person? She is so nice, she should really be “Sweetheart.” She’s such a ball of energy. Would you sleep with a guy you met at the Jersey shore? Probably not. Do you not like Guidos? No, I love guidos. I just wouldn’t sleep with a guy I just met at the Jersey shore. I would have to get to know the people around me before I sleep with them! Would you ever go on a show like Jersey Shore ? It depends on the destination, if you offered me a house with other people for the summer, all expenses paid, and I only had to work a couple of hours a day at a T-shirt shop, sign me up. — You can catch Julissa tomorrow in Make It Happen , a dance movie airing on MTV at 2 p.m. EST. Also, follow her on Twitter: @julissab. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Post from: Crushable

Today’s PM Crush Links, a roundup of the day’s most talked-about celebrity news: Actor Max Ryan , who plays Samantha’s love interest in Sex and the City 2 , was seriously injured in a car accident yesterday. [ Life & Style ] Charlie Sheen is leaving rehab so he can resume taping epsiodes of Two and a Half Men . [ RadarOnline ] Justin Bieber will promote his album on QVC tonight. We may or may not live blog this ridiculousness. [ MTV ] Howard Stern criticized Gabourey Sidibe on his show, saying she’s “the size of a planet” and that she won’t work again. [ Jezebel ] The man who tried to blackmail David Letterman will get six months in jail. [ The Wrap ] Here’s a great roundup of Kathy Ireland ’s greatest acting moments. [ The Frisky ] Heidi Montag is in a new Funny or Die video about plastic surgery, embedded for your pleasure: Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic from Heidi Montag Post from: Crushable

Need more evidence that John Mayer is a true player/ladies man/skeeveball? Check out this story from MTV’s Julissa Bermudez : “I ran into him at the W hotel in Union Square. I was checking in with my luggage and everything, and the next thing I know, I have this guy telling me I have the best toe cleavage in town. I turn around, and it’s John Mayer. He’s known as this player, so I quickly changed the subject, but I was like, really? Toe cleavage? That’s the best line you could come up with? But I could see him being a playboy. He was quick on his feet. And if you’re quick on your feet like that, you can get a couple of girls.” (Photos: WENN.com) Post from: Crushable

Thank christ Interscope said ” 3D DVD ” and not “Full HD 3D”—I don’t think I could cope with protruding man ladybits in full HD. Not that I’m planning on buying the DVD obviously—though there is a danger that the Interscope rep who told MTV News of Gaga’s 3D desires just doesn’t know the difference between Blu-rays and DVDs. [ MTV News via NME ]

A weekend edition of Crush Links, our daily roundup of the day’s most talked-about celebrity news: Jenna Elfman and her husband welcomed a baby boy on Tuesday, the actress tweeted yesterday. [ People ] More details on Conan O’Brien ’s live tour: It will begin in April, and the comedian will visit mostly West coast cities with possible dates in New York City. [ The Wrap ] Precious took home five prizes at last night’s Independent Spirit Awards, including ones for Gabourey Sidibe , Mo’nique , and Lee Daniels . [ Variety ] The couple involved in Ronnie ’s Jersey Shore boardwalk fight sued MTV, saying Sammi started it and the channel edited the fight to show otherwise. [ RadarOnline ] Post from: Crushable

1. What’s your backstory? I grew up in Los Angeles and moved to New York, where I’ve worked for a number of media companies, including MTV, Big Spaceship, a digital design agency, and Massify, a startup online production network. Now I have my own small media consulting business and I do corporate speechwriting. Oh, and I guess the interesting thing is that I was on Survivor last year and came in second. I was the first person ever to get shut-out by the jury in the final 2. 2. Everyone has a “thing.” What’s yours? My thing is losing a reality TV gameshow. 3. Everyone also has a karaoke song. Name yours (and don’t be shy). Master of the House ( Les Miserables ) and Don’t Be Shy (Cat Stevens) 4. Who are your biggest influences? Harold Bloom , who was my professor in college and really taught me to love literature. My former boss at MTV, who taught me how to be an effective cog in the corporate machine. And the training sequence in Batman Begins. “The training is nothing! The will is everything!” 5. What is it you most dislike? I hate when someone emails you asking how you are, and you write back a long and thoughtful response, and then you ask them how they are, and they never respond. From now on, if you want to know how I am, you’d better be prepared to do some soul searching. 6. Whose job would you like to steal? I would like to steal a professional thief’s job because that would be a real sign of talent – now the student has become the teacher. 7. What was your best date? The first time I hung out with my current girlfriend. We couldn’t hear each other at all, she poured all the drinks I bought her into a plant, I spilled a bottle of red wine everywhere, and I got rejected when I moved in too soon for a kiss. I mean the date itself was a disaster, but somehow it worked out. 8. What was your worst? The same date. No no, jk, that would be too cheesy. I got set up during a haircut once. This barber set me up, and the girl came and hung out in his apartment while he cut my hair. The best part was how the barber was trying to unobtrusively snip my bangs while I was like, “Sooo….what did you major in?” 9. When I wake up in the middle of the night its because I’ve had a nightmare that I’m ___ . I think hearing about other people’s dreams is inherently really boring. People are fascinated by their own dreams. Characters appearing and disappearing, random meetings with celebrities, being chased by monsters, flying, endless corridors, invisibility – these things would be fascinating IN REAL LIFE. But that shit is supposed to happen in dreams. 10. I feel my best when I’m wearing ___ . A helmet. Safety first! 11. Please settle the debate: New York or LA? Los Angeles: the weather is perfect all-year round, the people are more relaxed, and orange juice is cheaper. 12. What’s on your playlist at this very moment? This question is impossible to answer without looking like an asshole. But it’s the greatest hits of The Band. See? 13. What are you watching on TV? I’m pretty much obsessed with Jeopardy . Also, Craig Ferguson is freaking awesome, even if he is a little bit too aware of how awesome he is. Oh, and Survivor of course! 14. If you alone held the power to pick the Oscar for Best Picture, would you give it to Avatar or The Hurt Locker ? I would give it to the Hurt Locker. I haven’t seen it, but my parents tell me it’s very powerful. Also, Jeremy Renner used to be on reality television. 15. Given the chance, would you rather hang out with George Clooney or Robert Downey Jr.? Does anybody choose Robert Downey Jr? This may be a weighted question. It’s like – who do you want to hang out with, Jesus or Bob Jenkins in Accounting? A better question would be, “Would you rather hang out with George Clooney or Angelina Jolie?” Then I would have to choose – would I prefer a night of feeling inconsequential next to the most charming man in the world, or an evening of being snubbed by the most beautiful woman. A true conundrum. 16. If you were a character on any movie or TV show, past or present, who would you be? Treebeard the Ent in Lord of the Rings, because he moves slowly and is very thoughtful. Also, I have a tendency to misplace things, and he lost his WIFE. I feel you, Treebeard. 17. What is your drug of choice? Cookies. 18. What’s the last thing you think about before falling asleep at night? I go over different interactions I’ve had during the day and try to think of how I could have handled them better. But ultimately I fall asleep very quickly. I guess that’s because I handle every interaction perfectly. Post from: Crushable

In the March 2010 Issue of ZINK Magazine, MTV reality star Whitney Port channeled the iconic model Jerry Hall . (aka Mick Jagger’s ex-wife) Do you think Whitney did a fair job of paying homage to Jerry? For an exclusive behind the scenes video check out Zink Magazine’s website. The March issue of ZINK is currently on newsstands. Photos courtesy of Zink

1. What is your drug of choice? Christopher Walken. 2. What’s your backstory? I’m originally from a pea-sized town in upstate New York called Coxsackie, which has a population of about 2,000 and is not pronounced the way you think it is. I moved to New York after college and worked in PR for a few years before deciding that my time would be better spent at home, writing freelance articles in my underwear. Not that I am doing that right now, or anything. 3. Everyone has a “thing.” What’s yours? Boots. I’m perpetually shopping for them, even though I already own 20 pairs. 4. Everyone also has a karaoke song. Name yours (and don’t be shy). Killing Me Softly: the Fugees version, not the Roberta Flack one. 5. Who are your biggest influences? Dorothy Parker, Samuel L. Jackson, and my parents. 6. What is it you most dislike? Bad smells in enclosed spaces. (Airplane farters, I’m looking at you.) 7. Whose job would you like to steal? Dick Cheney’s, just because I like the idea of taking something away from him. 8. What was your best date? Autumn, afternoon beers, and a stroll through Washington Square Park. We sat on a bench and watched people walking their dogs. And then we got married. It was pretty great. 9. What was your worst? Four words: 26. Year. Old. Virgin. 10. When I wake up in the middle of the night its because I’ve had a nightmare that I’m ___ . Pregnant. 11. I feel my best when I’m wearing ___ . Vintage pretty things with swing skirts and nipped-in waists. 12. Please settle the debate: New York or LA? Only a person from LA would ask a question this ridiculous. I’M ONTO YOU. 13. What’s on your playlist at this very moment? Rilo Kiley, David Bowie, and the best of Django Reinhardt. 14. What are you watching on TV? LOST, Fringe, and endless Law & Order reruns on TNT. 15. If you alone held the power to pick the Oscar for Best Picture, would you give it to Avatar or The Hurt Locker? The Hurt Locker. I mean, I like a trite object-lesson about colonialism featuring a pair of muscular cat-smurfs having sex under a tree made out of fiber-optic dreadlocks as much as the next guy, but REALLY. 16. Given the chance, would you rather hang out with George Clooney or Robert Downey Jr.? Is one of them naked? Then yes. That one. 17. If you were a character on any movie or TV show, past or present, who would you be? Lily von Schtupp from Blazing Saddles. 18. What’s the last thing you think about before falling asleep at night? “If I dream about making out with Skeet Ulrich again, so help me…” Kat Rosenfield is a Crushable’s advice columnist. Her writing has also appeared in Girls’ Life, Interiors, and Wend magazines, and online at SparkLife, Venus Zine, and MTV.com. She eagerly awaits emails about botched breakups, dating dilemmas, and other relationship-related drama at katrosenfield@gmail.com. Post from: Crushable

2010 has so far been a busy year for the two biggest stars of MTV’s most unreal reality show, The Hills . Lauren Conrad debuted her bestselling new novel and Heidi Montag unveiled her new … face. If you somehow missed her on the cover of People , Heidi had 10 plastic surgery procedures – that’s right, 10 – in one day. She emerged from under the knife looking like an alien disguised as a human being – that is, if the alien’s only knowledge of women came from airbrushed Playboy centerfolds. It got me thinking: How could two girls who started down the same road together end up in such radically different places – with one a success story and the other a cautionary tale? So in the great tradition of investigative journalism, I delved into Lauren’s new book for clues. Sweet Little Lies is the second book in Lauren’s L.A. Candy trilogy, which is about two friends who are cast in a reality show much like The Hills . When we left our heroine, Jane, at the end of the first book, she was fleeing L.A. after scandalous photos with her boyfriend’s best friend landed on the cover of a tabloid. What she didn’t know was that her close friend and cast mate, Madison, was the one who leaked the photos. Hm… Speidi… Lauren’s sex tape rumors… Sound familiar? So are the books any good? Actually, yes. They’re not going to win any awards (obvs), but the story is fast-paced and fun. If Lauren did the writing, she’s not half bad. Whether she did is up for debate. Lauren thanks a “collaborator” – novelist Nancy Ohlin – in the acknowledgements section, so she clearly had some help. But that’s almost beside the point. We’re reading the books to get a taste of what it’s like to be the star of a show like The Hills , and Lauren’s tale doesn’t disappoint. As Lauren describes it in the book, the experience is both surreal and kind of creepy. Friends and boyfriends are “cast” by puppet-master-like producers, who then subtly direct their interactions from behind the scenes. Everyone’s motivation is open to the same question: Is this just for the show? At one point, it is described “like you’re a character in a novel, and you’re not sure you like the plot. In fact, sometimes you hate the plot. But there’s nothing you can do about it, because you’re not writing it.” When their lives are being scripted, is it any wonder that some of the girls lose touch with reality? As I see it, the heart of the difference between Lauren and Heidi is this: Lauren didn’t forget that real life is what happens when the cameras stop rolling; Heidi did. Her life is now lived for the cameras – the made-for-TV wedding to her fame-whore husband, the countless fake photo ops and now her scary physical transformation. ( Kristin Cavallari may not be handling things much better if the recent reports about her partying and drug use are true.) After reading the books, I spent an afternoon watching some early episodes of The Hills . It was unexpectedly sad to see pre-facelift Heidi looking so fresh-faced and adorable. Where did that girl go? So in the end, my research was a failure. I’ll never really understand Heidi. I’m just grateful that at least one of her cast mates has come out of The Hills unscathed… for now, at least. Try to keep it that way, LC. —By Kristen Lee Post from: Crushable

Now that Beyonce’s world tour is over and she’s ready to kick back and enjoy life, she says that she has left behind her on-stage persona “Sasha Fierce”. “Sasha Fierce is done,” she told “Extra” host AJ Calloway. “I killed her.” Beyonce shared how she plans to spend her time off: “learning to paint and cook, and to do Broadway shows and museums. And learn just to be at home and just watch television.” When asked about the possibility of having kids: “Eventually,” she said. “When it happens, it happens.” According to MTV, she played over 100 concerts on six continents. And that doesn’t include interviews and tv performances, etc. I’m sure she’s looking forward to just kicking back and doing some relaxing. Photos by WENN