Did anyone actually hear Ryan Seacrest?

OK, here’s the latest rumor, and we’re thinking this is a potential no brainer. It all starts with a post over on the Oh No The Didn’t community where someone read on the Madonna message boards that Ryan Seacrest said on his E! News program that Madonna might be in New Moon in the cast or on the soundtrack. Now if that last sentence doesn’t sound like the rumor mill on the 4th grade playground, we don’t know what does.

Now a bunch of media sites, who of course haven’t contacted the Ryan Seacrest show producers because they apparently haven’t heard of this thing called the telephone, or this other new fangled thing called email, have somehow morphed this into “Madonna cast in New Moon”.  Pel’s response was, “As who? Mrs. Cope?”

WE ARE NOW PAUSING FOR THE SCREAMING FOR THOSE THRILLED OR NOT THRILLED.

OK, now that you are focused again. Here’s where you can help out. Did anyone who reads our blog actually hear Ryan Seacrest’s show and actually hear him mention this info? There is zip, nada, nothing to substantiate this over on E! (though various sources cite E!) and given the voracious way they have covered Twilight it seems odd that they wouldn’t put this front and center especially if one of their own correspondents got the scoop.

Usually when Ryan Secrest says something Twilight related we got a bunch of fans who email us about what they heard, and frankly we haven’t gotten a single tip from a fan who actually heard Ryan say this.  So unless Ryan has suddenly lost a significant portion of his Twilight listeners, this is seeming kind of fishy to us.