The controversial shock rocker, once linked to the 1999 Columbine school shooting, has been officially diagnosed with the H1N1 virus. The virus is not believed to life-threatening and Manson is expected to make a speedy recovery, which prompted the star to crack a few joking about his diagnosis on his MySpace Celebrity Blog on Tuesday.

“So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with THE SWINE FLU,” he wrote. “I know everyone will suggest that fucking a pig is how this disease was obtained. However, the doctor said my past choices in women have in no way contributed to me acquiring this mysterious sickness. Unfortunately, I am going to survive. M [sic]“

Manson isn’t the only celebrity to have been diagnosed with swine flu, which originated in Mexico. Last summer, actor Rupert Grint – who plays Ron Weasley in the hit wizard film franchise Harry Potter – contracted the highly contagious and potentially fatal disease.

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Marilyn — whose real name is Brian Warner — took to his MySpace blog this week to warn writers to keep their fonts shut.

“If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech,” Marilyn wrote cryptically.

“I dare you all to write one more thing that you won’t say to my face. Because I will make you say it. “In that manner. That is a threat.”

His statement is thought to be a response to a recent interview in L.A. Weekly, in which a writer suggested that Manson is addicted to cocaine and is nothing like his onstage goth persona. In 1998, Marilyn Manson was accused of inviting music magazine editor Craig Marks backstage at a concert and assaulting him.

The charges were later dropped.

Harry Potter star Emma Watson is embracing the dark side after accepting a role in shock rocker Marilyn Manson’s creepy movie musical.

The 19-year-old has been offered a part as the princess in a Goth-inspired version of the classic fairytale Cinderella, The Sun has revealed.

The alleged role would be Emma’s first outside of the Harry Potter franchise, which saw the beauty shoot to fame as the studious Hermione Granger in the hit wizard films.

Marilyn Manson has a crush on Lady Gaga.

The pair met last year when they recorded covers of each other’s upcoming material. The controvesial “Beautiful People” rocker – who recently on/off romane with actress Evan Rachel Wood, 21, recently ended – is desperate to take his friendship with the “Poker Face” singer, who is also nearly 20 years his junior a step further.

When Marilyn watched Gaga passionately kiss a male model in the video clip for her new song “Paparazzi,” the 40-year-old musician moaned and said: “I’d like to be that guy. I’ll give you a cervical exam.”

The alternative musician is also a fan of the 23-year-old singer’s unique image because he sees himself in her.

“I was most impressed by her paparazzi photos. I thought that it looked the way that rock stars should look, as exciting as something that Warhol or Dali would do,” the alternative music star told Britain’s Observer.

“And I don’t consider her to be similar to her contemporaries – the other girls that do pop music – simply because she knows exactly what she’s doing. She’s very smart, she’s not selling out, she’s a great musician, she’s a great singer, and she’s laughing when she’s doing it, the same way that I am.”

Someone has a serious case of “The Stalkers.” Marilyn Manson is struggling to cope with his split from former girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood. After two years of dating, Marilyn split from the star of the motion picture The Wrestler for good earlier this year, but the goth rocker admits a deep longing for Evan — who is nearly twenty years his junior — prompted him to call the star 158 times in one day after they split.

In an interview with Spin Magazine, Marilyn says: “My lowest point was Christmas Day 2008, because I didn’t speak to my family. My walls were covered in scrawlings of the lyrics and cocaine bags nailed to the wall. And I did have an experience where I was struggling to deal with being alone and being forsaken and being betrayed by putting your trust in one person, and making the mistake of that being the wrong person.”

He explains, “I made the mistake of trying to, desperately, grasp on and save that and own it. And every time I called her that day – I called 158 times – I took a razorblade and I cut myself on my face or on my hands.”

The 40-year-old musician reveals that his new album The High End Of Low is all about his split from the 21-year-old actress. Even today, Marilyn says there’s not a day that passes that he doesn’t think of killing Evan….Although we’re not sure he should be admitting that.

“That damage is part of the record, and the song ‘I Want to Kill You Like They Do in The Movies’ is about my fantasies. I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer,” Marilyn continues. “‘Devour’ is about when someone said to me, ‘OK, I want to be with you until I die.’ And then they gave up. I was at the point in my life where I was like, ‘OK, let’s die, but I tell you what, I’m going to kill you first, because I don’t trust you.’ “

Evan Rachel Wood has rekindled her romance with 40-year-old shock rocker Marilyn Manson after “taking some time” away from the relationship. The couple are back together after ending their two-year relationship last October.

The 21-year-old star of 2008’s The Wrestler confirmed her reunion with Manson in an interview with the May 2009 issue of GQ Magazine.

Well this ought to put an end to those Mickey Rourke romance rumors.

Controversial shock rocker Marilyn Manson was asked to perform at a concert supporting President-Elect Barack Obama’s campaign for office, according to Manson’s former girlfriend, actress Evan Rachel Wood.

The Thirteen star, who separated from Manson last month after nearly two years of dating, says it was she who persuaded the musician not to link up with Obama, because of the adverse reaction such an affiliation would have had on the politican’s campaign.

“I advised them not to do it,” Evan says.

“I said, ‘If you show up there, it’s not going to be good. It’s going to bring a lot of controversy, which I know you love, but Obama doesn’t need it right now.’”

The actress adds, “Now that Obama’s been officially elected, I might call Manson and say, ‘Just go! Just go to the inauguration!’”

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson and actress Evan Rachel Wood have split.

The couple broke up after a bitter argument on October 23 over Evan’s 21-year-old brother, Ira, who had been living with the celebrity pair.

“Evan owned the house and didn’t want her unemployed sibling living on the street,” a source tells Star. “It was the tipping point. Evan was fed up with how controlling and emotionally abusive Marilyn was.”

Marilyn and Thirteen star began dating in December 2006, following his split from then-wife, burlesque star Dita Von Teese.

Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer Ne-Yo will lend his hitmaking skills to a bizarre collaboration with controversial rock star Marilyn Manson.

Ne-Yo has postponed recording sessions with The Pussycat Dolls and Michael Jackson to concentrate on his hook-up with Manson.

“We’re about to go into the studio together. I’ve wanted to work with him for ages and his people reached out to me when they heard,” the Year of the Gentleman star says.

“I have no idea what the music will sound like or what direction we’ll take, but it will be really cool. We’re obviously two separate sides of the musical extreme but that’s what makes it exciting.”

Ne-Yo added: “People might think it’s a strange collaboration, I don’t. But don’t worry – you won’t see me adopting his style. I don’t think you’ll ever see me in make-up.”

Marilyn Manson’s seedy affair with nineteen year old actress Evan Rachel Wood is rumored to have soured his short-lived marriage to dancer Dita Von Teese-and now the May-December couple are reported to have screwed live on the set of Marilyn’s new video “Heart-Shaped Glasses.”

According to a production crew tattle, Evan and Marilyn elected not to fake their intercourse.

The video begins with a lengthy sex sequence-Evan appears to be hitting the Big O-either that or she’s one helluva faker.

Evan also appears dressed as pubescent vamp Lolita and rubs her coochie while watching Manson perform onstage, and another in which she lies drenched in blood.