Bradley Cooper and Huma Abedin are good friends — not lovers, a source says.
Cooper, starring as Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” and Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s “body woman” since the ’90s, were introduced by their friend, Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
“Huma is considering running for office and needs to wash off the stink from being married to Anthony Weiner,” my source said.
The spouses were stars in the Democratic pantheon until Weiner, a former congressman who was running for mayor, was caught sexting with a minor and went to jail.
Abedin filed to divorce the registered sex offender and father of her 10-year-old boy in 2017.
Huma had not been linked to anyone besides Weiner, before Cooper emerged.
“They are friends, but nothing more,” said my source. “Bradley’s doing her a big favor.”
Attempts to reach Huma Abedin’s rep were unsuccessful.
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Colombian-born beauty Andrea Munoz was thrilled to be cast in a small role in “Bullet Train” starring Brad Pitt, but the leading man had been exposed to COVID.
“I had a scene with Brad, but it was a body double,” she sighed.
The real excitement was playing the wife of Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, the Puerto Rican reggaeton superstar known as Bad Bunny.
The two had a kissing scene that needed rehearsing.
“Oh yeah, plenty of time,” laughed the actress sounding like she enjoyed it.
“Those scenes are always awkward. He’s a very respectful man, very sweet. That’s all that matters.”
Munoz also kissed Sebastian Stan in “Pam & Tommy.” “He just ditched me in the club when he met Pam Anderson.”
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The inimitable George Wayne always seems to have his finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist.
In the current issue of Joan Jedell’s Hampton Sheet magazine, the oracle of “everything you should know but don’t,” proclaims that the new “It” boy of summer is Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark — Prince Achi for short.
In support of his proclamation, Wayne, the longtime Vanity Fair “celebrity griller,” added that the world needs a “John-John Kennedy blue blood royal stud to ogle and we need one now.”
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J. Balvin, the Colombian singer known as the “Prince of Reggaeton,” partied alongside Bobby Shmurda, the rapper who did six years in prison, at Sapphire 39, south of Bryant Park.
The “A Night at the Roxbury” themed spectacle featured Chris Kattan as the guest of honor and a performance of “What is Love” by Haddaway, who flew in direct from Germany.
Guests were floored when Shmurda took the stage with Haddaway for an impromptu performance of “Rapper’s Delight.”
Sapphire 39 hosts legendary throwback performances curated by Michael Wright, Richie Romero and trans-bombshell Valentina Nicolette.
Tone Loc will perform “Wild Thing” at the club on Monday.
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Candace Bushnell, of “Sex and the City” fame, was nostalgic at the Race for Hope in Southampton.
The author, who confirmed she’s interested in meeting someone new, said, “I’m handing out medals to the cutest guys, but they are just too young for me or married.”
There were billionaires aplenty among the 400 people at the starting line of the race that raised over $325,000 for Audrey Gruss’ foundation, the Hope for Depression Research Foundation — Richard LeFrak, Martin Gruss and John Paulson…to name a few.
Bushnell, the co-grand marshall, told the crowd, “This organization is so important to me because I too, have suffered from depression. And I can tell you that it really does rob people of a portion of their lives.”
Leading the applause were Jamee and Peter Gregory, Patrick McMullan, Janna Bullock and divorce attorney Marilyn Chinitz.
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Anthony Haden-Guest, the journalist, cartoonist and author, was kung fu fighting when a 250-pound martial artist fell on him, breaking four ribs and puncturing his lung.
Haden-Guest, the winner of Spy magazine’s “Iron Man Decathlon” in the late ’80s, is now 85 and rehabilitating in Maryland, but he sounds ready for more.
“I’m doing fine,” he said. “I’ll be back in a few weeks.”
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Fashion model Anna Chernitskaya has launched a new weight loss tea called The Ritual.
The tea was a hot topic at Andy Sabin’s gala for the South Fork Natural History Museum co-chaired by Susan and David Rockefeller.
Sabin announced that “Ray Donovan” star Liev Schreiber will be the organization’s new global ambassador.
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Harlem-based artist Guy Stanley Philoche will open “New York, I Still Love You” at Cavalier Galleries on Sept. 15. The show pays homage to the city that Guy has called home for over 20 years.
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Cheryl Burke is good at pretending she likes her partners on “Dancing with the Stars” — even if they are jerks.
Burke told Allison Kugel on the latest episode of the “Allison Interviews” podcast: “It’s still really hard to dry hump somebody when you feel disrespected, put it that way, really hard! And you can’t walk out because we both have a job to do, you know?”
