Olivia Wilde's Life-Saving Hero, Jerry O'Connell's Dirty Confession, 50 Cent's Smollett Slam & More
Plus a Housewives arrest, a killer's patriotic cash grab & a TV titan's fiery meltdown.
Hollywood served up everything from a real-life cowboy rescue to a seriously funky love confession this week.
Olivia Wilde revealed the costar she says saved her life, Jerry O’Connell shared an eyebrow-raising secret about wife Rebecca Romijn, and 50 Cent took aim at Jussie Smollett’s comeback hopes. Plus, a Netflix director heads to prison, a Bravolebrity lands in legal trouble, Taylor Sheridan unloads on critics and Jodi Arias finds a new way to cash in.
This is HOLLYWOOD 411 by KEEPING TABS – let’s get into it.
OLIVIA CALLS GOGGINS A LIFESAVER!
OLIVIA WILDE says she owes her life to WALTON GOGGINS after a terrifying on-set disaster. While filming 2011’s Cowboys & Aliens, Wilde says she was galloping full speed across the desert with DANIEL CRAIG and HARRISON FORD when her horse bucked her over a ditch, slamming her to the ground and leaving her hidden in a cloud of dust as 40 horses thundered toward her. “
Walt Goggins saved my life,” she recalls. I remember hearing the stampede and thinking, ‘It’ll be quick. I’ll be pulverized applesauce.’‘ But in a split-second move, she says Goggins turned his horse sideways and used it as a shield. “People thought he’d gone insane, but he was protecting my body on the ground,” Wilde says. “So I owe him my life. He’s a real-life hero.”
JERRY NOSE WHAT HE LIKES!
JERRY O’CONNELL just made a very dirty confession about wife REBECCA ROMIJN - and he means that in the sexiest way possible.
On the Thanks Dad podcast with EGO NWODIM, the actor admitted he’s obsessed with his supermodel wife’s natural scent, crystal deodorant and all. “This is going to get a little dirty - I kind of like it when I can smell my wife’s body odor. It’s kind of like, yeah, she’s alive, we’re alive, we’re living.” Calling the smell “a little kicking” and “a little funky town,” Jerry insisted it’s basically an aphrodisiac for him. “I still can’t believe I married a supermodel,” he gushed. “I just love everything about her - including the smell.”
RAPPER RIPS SMOLLETT COMEBACK
50 CENT is roasting JUSSIE SMOLLETT’s comeback hopes by reminding everyone what he’s really known for: a fake hate crime. Smollett was convicted in Chicago in 2021 of lying to police after staging a bogus racist and homophobic attack on himself, then filing a false report that sparked national outrage two years before.
Reacting to chatter about an industry return, 50 posted about the disgraced Empire star and sneered, “They trying to get the band back together, huh?” adding, “This fool still talking like we forgot.” In another swipe, he wrote, “You can’t PR your way out of this one, son,” and cracked, “Ain’t nobody buying those tickets.”
SCAMMING DIRECTOR HEADING TO PRISON
Director CARL ERIK RINSCH, known for 47 Ronin, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for scamming Netflix out of millions over his never-finished series White Horse/Conquest. Nearly two months after KEANU REEVES urged Judge JED RAKOFF to show “leniency and mercy,” the federal jurist ordered Rinsch to report to prison Sept. 1.
The 48-year-old was also given three years of supervised release and must repay $11 million to Netflix, plus $700 in mandatory special assessments. Prosecutors had sought at least 60 months. Rinsch was convicted of fraud and money laundering for obtaining $11 million from the streamer, then blowing it on risky stock options, cryptocurrency and luxury goods. In court, he apologized, saying, “I accept responsibility.”
ARRESTS, RANTS... AND MORE!
Real Housewives of New Jersey nepo kid MILANIA GIUDICE allegedly went off the rails during a fiery domestic clash. The 20-year-old University of Tampa student is accused of hurling food and candles in anger before older sister GABRIELLA called cops to the family home May 14. Officers slapped TERESA GIUDICE’s daughter with a simple assault charge and hauled her away in cuffs. She has not yet entered a plea. The Bravolebrity offspring later broke her silence on TikTok, admitting she “was not in a good area” in her life when the chaos erupted.
Yellowstone mastermind TAYLOR SHERIDAN unleashed a scorched-earth rant on critics, declaring, “F*ck ‘em, honestly.” On The BILL SIMMONS Podcast, the TV kingpin, 56, sneered, “The critics are going to come after me ... I can’t write for women, all this nonsense. The critics and me - I don’t care what they think, and it annoys the sh*t out of them that I don’t care.”
Convicted killer JODI ARIAS is trying to turn America’s 250th birthday into a personal payday. Locked up for life for butchering ex-beau TRAVIS ALEXANDER, Arias is suddenly a “patriotic artist,” churning out red, white and blue paintings to sell. “It’s my way of giving back,” she insists, claiming her jailhouse doodles are “celebrating freedom.” “Everyone profits off the Bicentennial-plus,” she shrugs. “Why not me?”