• A study suggests that drinking a large glass of wine or a pint of beer a day increases the risk of developing bowel cancer by around 10 percent, reports the Daily Mail. “Gotta do better than that,” say alcoholics.

• Gary Coleman, involved in a dustup with a femaie companion in Provo, Utah, takes it out on his vehicle’s steering wheel.

• Owen another thing. Owen Wilson, 38, had his arm around Mary-Kate Olsen, 21, the other night after he struck up a conversation with her at a table littered with Grey Goose bottle outside Opera. Janet Charlton heard that there was some amount of giggling before he left with her phone number – and made the rounds of other tables getting more numbers.

• “Scarlett has never seen a script nor been approached about this project,” says a rep for the actress. “She also has no interest in playing this role.” OK?

• Ironically, Star Jones spills the beans about her gastric bypass surgery to Glamour mag.

• In a public admission of his continuing love for her, Pete Doherty called Kate Moss a “nasty old rag,” causing her to fly into a rage, smashing pictures and throwing wine glasses, which are always at arm’s reach.