Melrose Bickerstaff, the runner-up to CariDee English for the title of America’s Top Model Cycle 7, has made a new famous friend. The lovely 23-year old lass was spotted hanging out with Jeremy Piven (Entourage) at the post-Golden Globes Awards parties. E! Online Gossip Columnist, Kristin Veitch, reported that they looked rather cozy and hinted that the pair might well be…a pair.

Jeremy, for his part, had an official date. It was his mom.

Melrose answered the allegations and told TMZ that she was “not Jeremy’s girl. He is not my boyfriend. He invited me out. I showed up. We had a good time. Nothing more.”

We’ll just have to see, won’t we? I mean Brad and Angelina denied the rumors they were together too, didn’t they?

Melrose’s Top Model mentor, Tyra Banks, has also been in the news this week, but for something a lot less fun. The self-proclaimed “Queen of Cheap” spent over $200 on a bottle of face cream and regretted the impulse purchase after the stuff gave her “pimples on top of pimples…the kind of pimples that feel alive.”

Ewww!

Tyra told the studio audience on her daytime talk show that she had “learned her lesson” and will not go looking for magic in a bottle anymore.