Proving themselves to be relevant, the media watchdog group GLAAD has successfully petitioned actor Scott Caan to apologize for calling a pesky paparazzo a "faggot".

TMZ caught the actor's tacky rant yesterday, when Caan said,

I saw you shooting me while I was eating a cheeseburger. Fucking jack-off. I'll give you a thousand dollars to come fight me, how about that? $2000. $2500. Ten grand if you'll fight me. Get a real job, you faggot.

Though GLAAD president Neil Giuliano sympathized with Caan's plight, he and his were deeply offended by his "dehumanizing remarks". As if paparazzi are human!

Fearing the gay wrath, Caan readily agreed to issue his personal apologies through his personal publicist:

I am sorry for using such a derogatory word. I was being harassed by a paparazzi and, unfortunately, the word slipped out. I don't ever condone the use of that word and I deeply apologize to anyone whom I may have offended.

Yes, but did you apologize to the poor, defenseless paparazzo?

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• It's over for Marc Jacobs and former rent-a-boy Jason Preston. The designer and his tattooed boyfriend split over their conflicting schedules. That is, Preston is 25 and wanted to hit the clubs all night while Jacobs is 30-ish and has to be in bed early. You know, so he can wake up and work. The relationship was also affecting Jacobs' work ethic, it seems, which sounds like it was Marc's handlers and business associates who gave the relationship the final string pull. [La Dolce Musto]

• Liza Minelli's ex-husband David Gest is on the receiving end of a sexual harassment lawsuit from former assistant Charles Beyer, who claims his sexual preference blurry boss would grab his ass, make comments about his penis, and mark his datebook with instructions to "Shake my penis, make sure it feels good," wash it "in hot water" and "dip it in chocolate fudge." For what it's worth, Gest denies it. [Page Six]

• That "special bond" between Paul Walker and Scott Caan on the set of Into the Blue looks just like the one between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. [Towleroad]