Ben Affleck won’t enroll
at ‘Degrassi’

Fans can buy Orlando Bloom’s underwear

Kevin Winter / Getty Images file

Even pal Kevin Smith couldn't convince Ben Affleck to join "Degrassi: The Next Generation."

By Jeannette Walls

msnbc.com

updated 2:52 a.m. ET Nov. 22, 2004

Ben Affleck fans — if there are any left — shouldn’t hold their breath waiting to see him on “Degrassi: the Next Generation.”

Affleck’s buddy, director Kevin Smith, had told fans he was trying to get the “Gigli” star to appear in the popular Canadian teen TV show. Affleck, it seems, nixed the idea.

“Affleck, honestly, could use the work right now,” Smith joked to the Edmonton Journal when he announced his efforts to persuade Affleck to do the cameo. “What better way to reboot your career than starring in a Canadian melodrama?” Smith himself is appearing in three episodes of the show and also persuaded singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette to appear.

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But Affleck apparently thinks that the public has had enough of him for right now. “He was just like, ‘You know what, dude? I’m a little too high profile right now. I’m trying to scale back,’” Smith told MoviePoop.com. “He was just feeling the burn. It’s been a bad [bleeping] year for him, and he keeps getting the [bleep] kicked out of him. I’m not gonna add to this dude’s misery right now, where you know the episode would air and people would be like, ‘Affleck winds up in Canadian teen soap opera.’ And they’d somehow tie it into Jennifer Lopez.”

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Rosario Dawson — whose nude scene in “Alexander” is being singled out by some as the best thing about the big budget flick — is refusing to comment on buzz that she and co-star Colin Farrell had some off-screen action.

“I’m not going to give anyone any information about what was happening when the cameras were not rolling,” Dawson smiled when asked about the rumors by the December/January issue of Organic Style magazine.

If any hanky-panky was going on, Farrell made it easy on Dawson. While promoting the flick, Farrell revealed that he shaved his legs and wore no underwear under his skirt. “It’s very liberating down there,” he said. “Breezy.”

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Speaking of underwear, Orlando Bloom fans can buy his. The “Lord of the Rings” star’s skivvies, along with ones belonging to Nick Lachey, Mary J. Blige, Fred Durst and others are being auctioned off on eBay for charity starting this afternoon. . . . The Bush ladies consulted with Badgley Mischka for inaugural gowns, according one report, but a source tells the Scoop they’re also consulting with Oscar de la Renta. . . . Tommy Lee’s sex tape with Pamela Anderson was a must see for die-hard celeb voyeurs, but the rocker has little interest in seeing Paris Hilton’s. He has a problem with her feet. “I haven’t seen [the Paris Hilton sex tape] yet,” Lee tells the December issue of Blender. “But I heard she’s got really ugly toes — that her feet are crazy-looking. I’m a foot man, so when I heard that, I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna see it.’”