Eva Longoria: Ready for love or publicity?

MONDAY, it looked as if the only beneficiary of the Eva Longoria-produced dating show "Ready For Love" was Eva Longoria.

That's when Life & Style reported that Eva was dating contestant Ernesto Arguello, a Miami entrepreneur.

Eva, however, denies it.

"WHAT?! AGAIN? Sorry guys, still not dating @ernestoarguello Who are these 'sources'??" she tweeted.

Sources? Who needs sources?

"Sorry @ernestoarguello is NOT dating me, but u can see who he is dating on #ReadyForLove tomorrow night on NBC after #TheVoice!," she tweeted later, realizing the confusion could be an opportunity to boost the since-canceled show's minimal viewership - the same way Tattle realizes that we can promote phillydailynews.com here by giving you Wednesday's access code, H66A.

Eva's rep piled on by telling E! News, "Eva is not dating Ernesto. She is friends with all of the guys and matchmakers from the show, but nothing further."

But Life & Style said the pair was spotted leaving LAX last week and driving to her place.

"She put her head on his shoulder as he drove," said an unnamed eyewitness.

Who does that with someone she's not dating? You don't do that with the cabbie who picked you up at the airport.

E! News added that Ernesto spent the night at Eva's. Whoa.

TMZ.com reported that the "couple" spent Sunday night at Chateau Marmont in L.A. and was seen at SoHo House the following night.

But London's Daily Mail chimed in, reporting that not only is Ernesto living with Eva, so is another contestant, Tim Lopez of the Plain White Ts.

Maybe Eva's just running a Halfway House for failed reality-TV bachelors to work their way back into the dating pool.

The DIY television network is proving a comfortable home for rappers-turned-renovators.

"Vanilla Ice Goes Amish" will debut on the network this year. Network executive Burton Jablin says the former rap star will live with an Amish community in Ohio to learn how they build houses. Ice already has a renovation series on the network that will return for its fourth season this fall.

Reverend Run of Run DMC will star in a series next year with his wife and three children as they renovate their home. And DIY will also feature Daryl Hall next year as he renovates a farmhouse in Connecticut.

* German customs authorities said Tuesday that Justin Bieber's monkey isn't going anywhere despite pleas from Bieber's reps that he be removed from a shelter and placed in a zoo.

Mally, the 17-week-old capuchin monkey, was seized by customs authorities March 28 when Bieber failed to produce the required papers after landing in Munich while on tour.

Customs spokesman Thomas Meister said that Mally will stay in the shelter until Bieber or someone with his power of attorney gets in touch with them directly.

Bieber has until May 17 to provide Mally's paperwork, Meister said.

"If by May 17 there is nothing, then he loses ownership of the animal, and it becomes the property of the Federal Republic of Germany," he said.

It's like when the federal government takes your land - but this is eminent domonkey.

Or would that be chimpinent domain?

UPDATE: Bieber's reps have given permission for the monkey to stay in the Federal Republic of Germany permanently, E! reported late Tuesday.

Wilkommen, capuchin!

* Theater producers in London announced that a long-awaited stage version of Irish soul saga "The Commitments" will open later this year.

Roddy Doyle's exuberant 1987 novel about a bunch of working-class Dubliners who form an unlikely soul band is considered a literary landmark, and was made into a successful 1991 movie by Alan Parker. But a stage adaptation has been a long time coming.

Doyle admits it's partly because he never really liked musicals.

"In the house I live in, if 'The Sound of Music' comes on, all the male members, including the dogs, stand up and walk out," he said. "And the female members stay and cry."

What changed Doyle's mind? "Jersey Boys."

Director Jamie Lloyd said the cast - mostly Irish and younger than 21 - will all play their own instruments, and the show hopes to retain the scrappy quality of the book.

"Many of them have never been in a play before," Lloyd said of the cast. "There are a couple who've never seen a play before." * Authorities say Anthony Ciccone, the brother of Madonna, needed nine stitches to his forehead after he resisted arrest in a public bathroom in northern Michigan.

Who does he think he is, Reese Witherspoon?

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that police were called Sunday night when Ciccone refused to leave the bathroom at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center.

Police say his blood-alcohol level was a whopping how-was-he-standing .40, five times the legal limit for driving.

* South Korean pop star PSY hit another mark for viral views with his new single "Gentleman," earning 38 million YouTube views in a single day as it set a blistering pace to 200 million views.

Those are the kinds of numbers we want at phillydailynews.com, so use Wednesday's promo code, H66A.

- Daily News wire services

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