JULIA ROBERTS SECRET HOUSEGUEST

JULIA ROBERTS sure can keep a secret! After the world first heard decades-long lovers SUSAN SARANDON and TIM ROBBINS had broken up, their rep dropped a second bombshell: They’d actually been separated since last summer.

Now here’s the secret America’s Sweetheart kept from the world: When Tim confessed to longtime good pal Julia he was splitting with Susan and needed to be alone, she promptly offered him the use of her tiny hideaway house in Venice that’s been standing vacant since she moved to her Malibu mansion.

(Great piece of gossip, Julia – why didn’t you call me?)