Giada De Laurentiis Having Affair with John Mayer?

Here’s the story: Star Magazine reports that they have a source who witnessed John Mayer and TV chef Giada De Laurentiis heating things up at New York’s The Standard Hotel in the appropriately named, Boom Boom Room.

“John had one hand on the small of her back,” the eyewitness told the magazine, “They looked like two people who were going to go home together.”

And that’s just what they did – well, not home, but they did go to the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and apparently, “disappeared into a suite together!”

But Star’s version of events is (*shocker!*) pure fiction, said Giada who sent the following statement to US Weekly:

“It is a shame a media outlet such as Star needs to rely on disgraceful lies and hide behind false anonymous “sources” in order to entertain their readers. When the Star reporter approached Giada De Laurentiis on Sunday, while she was co-hosting a children’s cancer fundraiser, Giada responded unequivocally that she did not see John Mayer when she was in New York for the Food and Wine Festival. Furthermore, contrary to the claims of an anonymous “source,” at no time did Giada step foot in the Gansevoort Hotel. Giada indeed met John Mayer briefly at a charity event in 2007 but has not seen him since. To be clear, they are not friends and cannot even go so far as to call John Mayer an acquaintance. There is not a sliver of truth to Star magazine’s story. It is unfortunate Star would publish these malicious untruths without reporting the fact that Giada was with her husband Todd that weekend in New York, along with their family and friends. Giada De Laurentiis and her family deserve an apology and we demand an immediate retraction.”