Chris Weitz didn't out Rob and Kristen

From GossipCop.com:

Gossip Cop’s inbox was hit by a flood of questions today concerning an interview “New Moon” director Chris Weitz gave to Empire magazine. A purported “version” of the interview posted on a site called Reel Loop included an alleged “quotation,” attributed to Weitz, that appeared to confirm that co-stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are a real-life couple.



Here’s what we now know:


- The Empire interview is real. What’s actually in the pages of the magazine and on Empire’s web site come from comments Mr. Weitz gave during Comic-Con.


- The final passage Reel Loop “quotes” is complete fabrication. And we’re told Weitz himself is troubled by that, but more about that in a bit.


Here’s the controversial passage:

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“Oh, one last thing, I was so joking, New Moon is straight up for the ladies. Jacob is naked during the entire production. Yeah, it was awkward for a bit but we all got used to it. What we didn’t get used to was Javier, the food cart guy. Homie was pant-less…and underwear-less when he served us scrambled eggs. If Kristen Stewart wasn’t dating Robbie, she told me that she would ‘fix his ferris wheel like a drugged-out fairy’…I don’t know what that means either.”
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Gossip Cop can confirm what many “Twilight” fans concluded – Chris Weitz never gave those comments.

They’re in a “voice” that is nothing like Weitz’s, they’re without context, and they were designed to deceive readers. Erik Buckman, the author of the Reel Loop piece, fabricated them. Tonight he Tweeted, “It’s way too easy to frighten/trick Twilighters.”


But since almost no one follows Mr. Buckman on Twitter, we wanted to expose his trickery here.

Gossip Cop has been on the phone with sources close to Weitz and the “Twilight” production all afternoon and evening. The director himself was understandably troubled by the Reel Loop’s fabrication. His spokesperson tells Gossip Cop the alleged “quotation” beginning with “Oh, one last thing …” is “completely untrue.”



Gossip Cop is happy to be able to set the record straight.