Thornton Says Leoni Affair Rumors Are “Manure”

Looks like Billy Bob Thornton doesn’t like being named as the third angle of the David Duchovny/Tea Leoni split. Of course, Duchovny’s little sex addiction problem didn’t help but there are reports that Leoni and Thornton got down-and-dirty while making the upcoming film “Manure.” (Yeah, sometimes the lines just write themselves.) Billy Bob’s PR rep claims “Billy Bob Thornton and Tea Leoni are just friends” while Leoni told this month’s More magazine “Billy Bob Thornton…is maybe my new favorite person in the world.” This sounds suspiciously like what Billy Bob told his fourth wife before he dumped her for Laura Dern, who was later blindsided by his surprise elopement with Angelina Jolie. Wonder if the film will turn out to be a steaming pile of, well, you know.