Tattle: Megan Fox and the Russian stripper
FHM MAGAZINE'S sexiest woman, Megan Fox, used to be in love with a female stripper. How's that for "Transformers"? The 22-year-old hottie/actress, who's engaged to actor Brian Austin Green and appears on the cover of the October GQ, said the relationship occurred when she was 18 and first living in L.A. alone.
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MAGAZINE'S sexiest woman,
Megan Fox
, used to be in love with a female stripper. How's that for "Transformers"?
The 22-year-old hottie/actress, who's engaged to actor Brian Austin Green and appears on the cover of the October GQ, said the relationship occurred when she was 18 and first living in L.A. alone.
"Well, that year my boyfriend broke up with me, and I decided - Oh, man, sorry, Mommy! - that I was in love with this girl that worked at the Body Shop," Megan said. "I decided that I was going to get her to love me back, and I went out of my way to create a relationship with this girl, a stripper named Nikita."
Megan said Nikita would do "these beautiful slow dances to Aerosmith ballads." Megan, soon to be seen in "Jennifer's Body," also said she would bring the Russian stripper gifts and try to inspire her to quit her line of work.
Despite the brief relationship with a woman, Fox said she does not identify herself as gay.
"Look, I'm not a lesbian," she said - not that there's anything wrong with that. "I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl. Olivia Wilde ("House") is so sexy, she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. And lately I've been obsessed with Jenna Jameson, but . . . oh, boy!"
None of this explains why Megan is with Brian.
Or maybe it does.
Megan also defended Miley Cyrus and Vanessa Hudgens regarding their racy photo scandals and said that she doesn't like Disney because they take "these little girls, and they put them through entertainment school and teach them to sing and dance, and make them wear belly shirts, but they won't allow them to be their own people. It makes me sick."
Lil Wayne nabs dozen BET nods
Lil Wayne received 12 nominations for the third annual BET Hip-Hop Awards (to air Oct. 23).
The rapper scored the year's best-selling album sales debut with sales of one million copies of his new CD, "Tha Carter III."
Kanye West drew the second-most nominations with seven, while Jay-Z received six. T.I., who was arrested hours before he was to headline the show last year, grabbed three nominations.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons will receive the "I Am Hip-Hop" icon award.
Katt Williams will host for the third straight year.
* In other Lil news, billboard.com reports that Wayne has re-signed with Cash Money Records.
Negotiations shouldn't have been too difficult. Lil Wayne is the label's president.
Tattbits
* Billboard.com reports that in addi-
tion to her ninth studio record, "Little Honey" (due Oct. 14), Lucinda Williams will release a digital-only EP of protest songs on Oct. 28.
"Lu in 08" sports four live tracks: Bob Dylan's "Masters of War"; Buffalo Springfield's "For What it's Worth"; the Thievery Corporation/Wayne Coyne collaboration "Marching the Hate Machines Into the Sun," and a Williams original, "Bone of Contention."
* James L. Swanson's best-
seller on the capture of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, is coming to HBO.
"Manhunt" will be written by David Simon ("The Wire") and Tom Fontana ("Oz"), who worked together on "Homicide."
* We get a lot of news releases here at Tattle, but the one for the new book, "My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem," by Debbie Nelson, with Annette Witheridge, started out with a doozy of a statement.
"Eminem is the Elvis Presley of the new century."
Huh?
* A guy who was once legitimately
compared with Elvis (albeit 40 years ago) is Tom Jones, who will release "24 Hours" Nov. 25.
It will be the 68-year-old Welsh sex symbol's first album in the U.S. in 15 years.
"The fire is still in me," Jones told the Associated Press. "Not to be an oldie, but a goodie. I want to be a contender.
"We've been thinking about this for a while, doing a retro sound but new," said Jones. "And Amy Winehouse, she cracked it. When that album came out, my son called me right away and said, 'You know what we've been talking about? Listen to this.'
"The hits that I've had recently have all been European," he said.
"I've had a lot of success worldwide, which is a pain because I live here and I do most of my shows in America. . . . Hopefully this will straighten that out."
* The Film Society of Lincoln Center
will honor Tom Hanks in April at its annual gala tribute, citing the two-time Academy Award actor's talent of making "a good man compelling."
It will be the society's 36th annual gala, following last year's celebration of Meryl Streep.
* Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and
Margaret Cho will honor the late
comedian George Carlin at this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
The prize was announced just before Carlin's death in June. It will be awarded during a tribute performance Nov. 10 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.
The program will be aired later on PBS stations.
Others who will honor Carlin include Garry Shandling, Lily Tomlin, Denis Leary, Joan Rivers, Lewis Black and Richard Belzer.
To deal with the fines from so many foul-mouthed comics paying tribute to Carlin and his infamous seven words you can't say on television, this year's pledge checks to PBS can be made out directly to the FCC. *
Daily News wire services contributed to this report.
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