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Parker: Web world abuzz about heiress Paris, Avs hockey hunk Jose

By Penny Parker, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published June 21, 2006 at midnight

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Has heiress and professional party girl Paris Hilton hooked up with one of our hockey hunks? The Web was buzzing Tuesday with photos and stories about Hilton and Avalanche goaltender Jose Theodore holding hands and exiting a party together after the Much Music Awards last weekend in Canada.

The Canadian entertainment show eTalk Daily reported Monday night that the canoodling couple were photographed by an unnamed source at the Courthouse bar in Toronto.

Another report in The Globe and Mail newspaper said Hilton and the hunk slipped into another club then headed to Hilton's hotel.

According to other reports, Theodore's girlfriend, Stephanie Cloutier, gave birth to their daughter in March. Hilton has been linked off and on to Stavros Niarchos, a Greek shipping heir, and more recently to Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart.

But at the awards show, Hilton told Canada.com: "I'm single, and I love it. This is the first time that I haven't had a boyfriend, so I'm having so much fun just getting to know myself and just focusing more on my career."

When asked to comment on the hockey hottie and hotel heiress hookup, Avalanche spokesman Jean Martineau said, "We have never been involved in our athletes' private lives, and we won't change that."

GAEL TALE: Longtime New York Magazine restaurant critic Gael Greene recently wrote Insatiable, a tell-all tome about her culinary and sexual conquests. But there's at least one Gael tale she left out, according to Mel's owner Mel Master.

"I was opening a restaurant in New York called Jams with Jonathan Waxman," Master said during a book-signing and dinner in Greene's honor at his Cherry Creek North restaurant Monday night.

"Gael called me and said she had to get something in New York Magazine about the restaurant, and she wanted to do a photo shoot."

The restaurant, however, was still under construction and far from picture-perfect. Master and chef Waxman set up a table for two in front of Jams on 79th Street, but without a working kitchen, they couldn't cook any food for the photo. Master's wife, Janie, ran down the street and bought 12 scallops.

"She used her eyebrow pencil and painted black marks on the scallops so they looked like they had been on the grill," Master said.

"That's the picture that ran in New York Magazine."

PEOPLE PLEASER: Boulder's Ace Young, who made it to the final seven on American Idol, has been named one of this year's hottest bachelors by People magazine. Ace was aced out of the No. 1 hottest bachelor spot by his competitor Taylor Hicks, who won the Idol title.

The People mag pix shows Young sitting in a tree. People asked the 25-year-old Fairview High grad what makes "fans go crazy" for him, and he said: "my butt, my hair and my face. A lot of fans call me Ace the Face. I think it's the cheekbones."

GUEST SHOT: CBS 4 weather whiz Ed Greene will wing to New York City to sit in for The Early Show weatherman Dave Price on July 14. Price will be in Denver at the same time as part of The Great American Vacation Winnebago trip giveaway, where an unsuspecting viewer will be awarded a trip.

FREEBIE: Alternative rockers Ringside and Brian Bell from Weezer will perform a free concert at 7 tonight at the Virgin Megastore on the 16th Street Mall.

The show and autograph-signing session are part of a Pontiac promotion. Ringside's song Struggle was recently featured in a Pontiac TV commercial.

THE SEEN: Avs GM Francois Giguere, with team doc Andrew Parker and head trainer Matt Sokolowski, watching game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals on Monday night at Chopper's Sports Grill. Also at Chopper's: free agent Dan Hinote (heck no, don't let him go), picking up burgers to go.

EAVESDROPPING on a woman at Sketch: "Talking is highly overrated."

Penny Parker's column appears Tuesday through Saturday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-AM (630). Call her at 303-892-5224 or e-mail .