A glum Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and her dog Boi sport matching sequined jackets while sitting atop a pile of pink luggage.

Martha Stewart has apologized to Jessica Simpson for saying she should have watched her Malitpoo Daisy more closely after the dog was dragged away by a coyote in Los Angeles last week.

Stewart, 68, scolded Simpson, 29, calling the incident was "pretty sad." She said Simpson "should have been more careful" and also advised the singer to "get another dog."

But in a segment on her daytime program, The Martha Stewart Show, Stewart changed her tune.

"I said that she should have been watching her dog more closely, but I feel very, very sorry for anybody that loses a pet," she said Thursday. "Jessica, I hope you find your pet, but if you don't, I'm really sorry that you lost one."

 

EOnline.com says "sources confirm" that the Project Runway host and husband Seal are about four months along in the new pregnancy.

The happy couple, who were married in May 2005, already have two boys together, Henry Günther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, 3, and Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel, 2. Seal is the adoptive dad to Heidi's daughter Leni Klum, from a previous relationship.

The baby buzz all began when sketches for a couture maternity gown leaked on the Internet. Heidi will need that fashionable bump-accommodating gown as shooting for season 7 of Project Runway kicks off this summer in NYC.

With wife Jennifer Garner noticeable absent, State of Play star Ben, 36, cahtted with the actress-turned-lifestyle guru, 36, while their children played.

"They had a lot of games for the kids, including a reall horse with a cowboy," an onlooker tells OK!.

But did the reunion upset Gwyn's hubby, Chris Martin? The bashful 32-year-old rocker ducked into the house when he saw Ben arrive."Chris didn't want to be around," adds the spy. "As soon as Ben left, he came back out."

The controversy isn't stopping U.S. radio from playing "If You Seek Amy." Six top 40 stations have the song in rotation this week, enough to place the track at No. 92 on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. Leading the pack is WFLZ-Tampa, Fla., which has played it 19 times.

"We're confident the version of the song we air is not crossing any lines," program director Tommy Chuck told Billboard.com, adding that WFLX plays a Jive-created edit of the song that changes "Seek" to "See" as well as a jokey version in which morning host MJ shouts his name every time the word "Amy" appears.

As further details emerge about Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s increasingly bitter divorce proceedings, the exes are finding support in very different areas. While the Material Mom attended NYC’s Kabbalah Centre with children Lourdes, 12, Rocco, 8, and David, 3, on Oct. 25, Guy happily posed with fans outside a Manchester, UK, hotel before letting his hair down over dinner at Stock with celebrity pals Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

Just two days earlier, Guy partied at London’s White Cube gallery with Jude and Robert, who are both starring in Guy’s new movie, Sherlock Holmes.

“They were in a silly, goofy mood,” an onlooker tells OK!. “It was a guys’ night out, and Guy didn’t look one bit upset.”

Madonna, 50, also found time for some fun, taking her kids to Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers gym on Oct. 20 to play on the trampolines, followed by an Oct. 21 helicopter ride over NYC for Rocco and David.

Guy may be staying far away from his ex, but Madonna’s new man, Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, is rumored to be looking at $80-million apartments just two blocks from the singer on NYC’s Upper West Side.

Angelina Jolie visits NBC's Today show October 16, 2008 in New York City.

"Not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love," Jolie, 33, says - referring to wanting her kids to see the flick - in the New York Times.

One sight she's not ready for her six children to see? Racy internet pictures of herself!

Jolie says she worries, "[Maddox will] look up my name and see some kind of sexy pictures, or read a story about himself that isn't true.

"There's a lot we're going to have to explain to them about how public their family is," Jolie adds.

For now, the kids look at mom and dad as nerds, Jolie says.

"What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad," she says. "Even video games, you know, it's: 'Mom, you can't play this. You don't know how.'

"Oh, they all think I can't do anything, that I'm just there to snuggle with. But the other day, Madd said, 'Can you do a cartwheel?' and I said, 'Yeah I can.' And he was like, 'Wow, Mom,'" she says.

"And I thought 'Oh, yeah. I can do some things. You wait. You'll find out. I'm capable," Jolie says.

The actress says she picks her movie roles based on her kids' schedules.

She asks herself, "Who's in school at that time? How can I be sure I don't do too many long hours? Can the three youngest be on the set every day?

"As long as I can still be with my family, it's fun. But I only want to do that, and I'm not looking for anything else," she says.

For inspiration, Jolie looks to her own mother, who died in January 2007.

"My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell, or even curse," Jolie says. "But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn't always know she had.
 

The former 'Friends' actress, who recently split from 'Gravity' singer John Mayer, gets frustrated by some of the things she reads about herself but has learned not to pay attention and move on.
Jennifer, 39, said: "You hear so many ridiculous stories and things which are just plain lies and you want to go on the record, but you can't because it just inflames things more. 

"I'm so used to it now that I just don't pay attention. I just live my life, focus on my work and stick to the plan. I really don't worry about what's written about me. It's part of the business." 

Jennifer - who can soon be seen in new independent film 'Management' - also revealed she was attracted to the film because it gave her more scope to add her own touches as an actress.

She added: "You can take more chances on an independent film because there isn't as much money or studio pressure riding on it. You don't have to follow all the conventions as an actress, you feel that maybe you can take more chances with your performance."

 Jennifer Aniston makes a good case for proving that acting talent can be absorbed by osmosis. From her father John Aniston's stardom on Days of Our Lives to her relationship with godfather Telly Savalas, the actress was surrounded by plenty of inspiration from an early age.

 As Aniston attended the Rudolph Steiner School as a child, she was interested in many forms of art and proved to be a talented painter, eventually having one of her pieces displayed at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Acting also appealed to her, and became her primary focus after graduating from New York's prestigious High School for the Performing Arts in 1987. She took roles in off-Broadway productions such as For Dear Life and Dancing on Checker's Grave before she began honing her skills in television acting with appearances on shows like Quantum Leap and Herman's Head.

 She said: "I don't cook - it's the one thing I can't do!"

 Angelina insists Brad is the parent responsible for the cooking, admitting: "When I get away from filming and doing interviews, I join Brad and the children to have breakfast or lunch. Brad is always thinking about the kids and what to feed them for breakfast. For him it's the most important meal of the day."

 The 33-year-old actress also revealed she likes being as open as she can, but is determined to keep some things private.

 She added: "I'm honest and I like that I don't have to worry about what I say because I don't have the time or energy for it. Sometimes things are taken the wrong way and it's crazy to be misinterpreted - it does bother me. But there's also a lot of people don't know about me.

 "People know about a tenth of my life and because it's a certain kind of life, they assume that's everything. But I do have my secrets."

 Raised mostly by her mother after her parents divorced while she was still a baby, Jolie moved around a lot with her mother and brother. She also did a fair amount of traveling as a professional model, living in such places as London, New York, and Los Angeles before settling for a time in New York as a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and New York University, where she first started acting in theater productions.

 The fledgling actress soon moved on to film with a small role in 1993's Cyborg 2, followed in 1995 by her turn as a computer hacker in the more widely seen Hackers.

The Tropic Thunder star - who has a biological daughter Suri, two, with wife Katie Holmes and two adopted children, 15-year-old Isabella and 13-year-old Connor, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman - insists he treats all his kids exactly the same.

He said: "My adopted children are my own children. There is no separation in that for me whatsoever. There's no way there is any difference and anyone who has adopted would say the same.

"I've been up in the middle of the night changing diapers, there's no question in terms of me being the father, that bond couldn't be any stronger."

Tom - who co-starred with Nicole in 1999 movie 'Eyes Wide Shut' - also hinted he is keen to star in a movie alongside Katie in the future.

He said: "I would maybe work with Katie, if I can find the right film. I wouldn't say it's necessarily easier of harder working with a wife or girlfriend - I work well with everyone. Working together is really enjoyable. In the same way Katie and I are creating a family, a home. It's very pleasurable."

Tom Cruise spent the 1980s as one of Hollywood's brightest-shining golden boys. With black hair, blue eyes, and unabashed cockiness, Cruise rode high on such hits as Top Gun and Rain Man.

Although his popularity dimmed slightly in the early '90s, he was able to bounce back with a string of hits that re-established him as both an action hero and, in the case of Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, a talented actor.

It is reported the twins have been named Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline and were born by Caesarian section around 8pm on Saturday. Knox Leon was reported to weigh five pounds while Vivienne Marcheline 5.02 pounds. Jolie, whose partner is actor Brad Pit, was admitted to hospital earlier this week.

She gave birth at the Santa Maria clinic.
Pitt was there during the operation, said the doctor, who delivered the twins at the seaside Lenval hospital in Nice in southern France.

"Everything is going well," said Sussmann. "The mother, the babies, the father are doing marvelously well."

He said the Cesarian was moved forward from its originally planned date "for medical reasons" so that the babies could be born "in the best conditions." Sussman did not give details.

The doctor said Jolie is expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days.

The babies' first photograph is believed to have been sold to a US paper for 5.5 million dollars - but the money will go to a humanitarian cause, in keeping with the couple's charitable beliefs.

American Jolie, 33, and Pitt, 44, have one biological daughter together, Shiloh, who was delivered by Caesarean section two years ago in the African country of Namibia.

The couples also are the parents of three adopted children - daughter Zahara from Ethiopia, son Pax from Vietnam and son Maddox from Cambodia.

The couple is known for their humanitarian work from the hurricane struck New Orleans, to Africa and Pakistan. 

“I can confirm she is engaged,” her representative Stephen Huvane told celebrity Web site People.com.

Huvane was not immediately able to be reached for further comment. People.com said the pair began dating last summer, and since then their relationship has blossomed quickly. 

Thurman, 38, has a long list of film credits that include roles in “Pulp Fiction” and “The Producers.” She was previously married to actor Ethan Hawke, with whom she has two children, as well as to actor Gary Oldman.

Businessman and philanthropist Busson was until 2005 involved with Australian model Elle Macpherson, with whom he had two sons. He is the founder and chairman of EIM Group, a fund management business based in London.

 The actress had co-founded a movie production firm called Plan B Entertainment with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, but decided to part ways with the company after the couple split in 2005.

 Now the 39-year-old has formed Echo Films with Hahn, who is best known as an executive producer on Martin Scorsese's  hit movie The Departed.

 The company is already reported to have lined up a variety of projects taken from books and real life stories, most of which will see Aniston take the lead role.

 Confirming the move in a statement, Aniston and Hahn say: "We're drawn to stories about people finding their voice and finding their way because they help us as listeners and viewers do what we feel we're all trying to do, which is making sense of our lives through the stories of others.

 "That's why we chose the name Echo, to echo back an idea, a challenge, something that resonates through all of us."

 Jennifer has also recently revealed her plans to visit the home of her Greek ancestors. The former Friends star recently announced that she is still passionate about her Mediterranean roots and plans to visit her ancestors' homeland.

The 39-year-old, whose father John was born on the island of Crete, said that she would travel to Greece this summer in a bid to get in touch with her roots.

 The reports were confirmed after they were caught kissing and cuddling in public, with Aniston bringing Mayer to a Marley & Me cast party in Miami.

Now, she’s put him to the test by taking him to meet Cox, who she has been pals with ever since they started shooting ‘Friends’.

 Cox, ever protective of Aniston since her divorce from Brad Pitt, was also said to be disapproving of the actress’ relationship with her ‘The Break-Up’ star Vince Vaughn.

In other news, Aniston and Mayer are reportedly set to get matching tattoos.

 Aniston is said to be toying with adding a heart to the one she already has on her stomach - but apparently Mayer has other ideas.

 The pair - who are yet to confirm they are dating - has been photographed regularly together since April, most recently during a romantic weekend in Miami, Florida.

Oscar said yes to "No Country for Old Men" and to European actors on Sunday night.

"No Country," the Coen brothers' brutal tale of a man pursued by death and the law across the bleak moonscapes of West Texas, won best picture at the 80th Academy Awards.

The four acting awards, meanwhile, went to Europeans: Marion Cotillard, Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton.

The Coens also won best director and best adapted screenplay, and Bardem, who played cattle-gun-armed killer Anton Chigurh, won best supporting actor. Producer Scott Rudin shared the best picture award with the brothers.

"We're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much," Joel Coen said in accepting the directing award.

He observed that the pair didn't think they were doing much different work now from when, as a child, Ethan Coen "got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called 'Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go.' "

The Coens, who have been known for their arch style and oddball humor in films such as "Fargo," "O Brother, Where Art Thou" and "The Big Lebowski," received some laughs for Ethan Coen's laconic acceptance speeches.

After the pair won for adapted screenplay, Ethan Coen gave a brief thanks. Upon winning the directing award, he expanded on his speech slightly, sort of: "I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you," he said.

Day-Lewis was more effusive in his thanks after winning best actor for his performance as a misanthropic oilman in "There Will Be Blood."

"My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town," the British actor said as he accepted the award.

"I've been thinking a lot about fathers and sons in the course of this, and I'd like to accept this in the memory of my grandfather, Michael Balcon, my father, Cecil Day-Lewis, and my three fine boys, Gabriel, Ronan and Cashel," he added. See the complete list of winners

As he accepted his first Oscar, Bardem, one of Spain's top actors, thanked his directors and reflected on his role as a creepy killer with a bad haircut.

Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard and Javier Bardem toast their success.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Saturday

She put her baby bump on display at Saturday's Film Independent's Spirit Awards. And even though Angelina Jolie didn't actually attend Sunday's Academy Awards, her pregnancy still got a nod from host Jon Stewart.

During a short interlude, the Daily Show star teased about all the expectant actresses in attendance – referencing Jessica Alba and Cate Blanchett – and then announced (as if he were presenting an award), "the baby goes to ... Angelina Jolie!"

Then, the funnyman quipped, "Obviously Angelina couldn't be with us tonight. It's tough getting 17 babysitters on Oscar night."
 
 

Marc Anthony's Sister 'Ecstatic' Over Jennifer Lopez Baby News

Good news travels fast, and when Marc Anthony's sister found out about the double blessing he and wife Jennifer Lopez had early Friday morning, she was overjoyed.


"I learned this morning. I'm ecstatic, I really am. I'm happy for her," Yolanda Santa Maria, Anthony's older sister, told PEOPLE Friday after hearing the birth news on Good Morning America. "She's a mom for the first time. I can just imagine the euphoria she's going through."


And as for her brother? "It's another two blessings for him. He beat me – I have four [kids] and now he has five. I'm so happy for him. I don’t even know what to say. It's like if I had the babies."


Santa Maria, who expects to meet her new niece and nephew soon, added, "I can't wait to see them, I can't wait to meet them. Words don't even begin to express how happy I am for them."

 

Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

She put her baby bump on display at Saturday's Film Independent's Spirit Awards.

And even though Angelina Jolie didn't actually attend Sunday's Academy Awards, her pregnancy still got a nod from host Jon Stewart.

During a short interlude, the Daily Show star teased about all the expectant actresses in attendance – referencing Jessica Alba and Cate Blanchett

and then announced (as if he were presenting an award), "the baby goes to ... Angelina Jolie!" Then, the funnyman quipped,

"Obviously Angelina couldn't be with us tonight. It's tough getting 17 babysitters on Oscar night."

 

Britney Spears visits her sons

Britney Spears was reunited briefly with her sons Saturday, spending about three hours with the two little boys nearly two months after the troubled pop star last saw them.

Spears' father, James, played a key part in making possible the visit with Jayden James, 1, and Sean Preston, 2, said Elliot Mintz, a spokesman for Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Mintz wouldn't say where the reunion took place or who else was there, but People magazine reported that Spears' psychiatrist was present.

Spears had not been allowed to see the boys since January 3, when she refused to return the children after a visitation. Police were called to her home, and a scene ensued that ended with Spears being taken to the hospital. She was hospitalized a second time four weeks later.

The visit came a day after Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan announced that the couple "agreed to a modification of the court's order" that had stripped Spears of her visitation rights

Spears' parents went to Los Angeles around the time of her second hospitalization and have pushed to restore visitation rights to help their daughter recover.

court commissioner gave Federline sole physical and legal custody of the former couple's boys and suspended Spears' visitation rights on January 4.

Leading up the hospitalizations, Spears engaged in bizarre public behavior. Since divorcing Federline in November 2006 she shaved her head, was seen in public without underwear, ran over a celebrity photographer's foot and attacked a vehicle with an umbrella.

Singer Britney Spears poses at a party in
Los Angeles in December 2007.
 

Oscar-winner Hilary Swank says Oscar night really works up an appetite so she comes prepared. When asked on the red carpet why she has dashed to Astro Burger after the awards show for the past two years, she explained, "It's because you're starving!"

But this year she came prepared. Dressed in Versace, the actress showed Ryan Seacrest the contents of her little black bag. Inside? Nuts!

"I already ate the cake," she said.

Jessica Alba has confirmed that she is pregnant with her first child. The saucy actress and her boyfriend Cash Warren are expecting their first child next spring after dating for almost four years together.

 The couple met at the set of the movie Fantastic Four in 2004, where Cash has been working as a director's assistant and have been dating since.

 Alba’s agent confirmed the pregnancy news and that the couple’s baby is expected in late spring or early summer.

 The couple had some trouble earlier this year and split claiming that it’s due to their hectic work schedules, but they got back together soon after that.
Jessica stated earlier that she wants to squash her reputation as a saucy screen siren, insisting that she’s a prude.

And that inspite of her lycra outfit in the Fantastic Four chain, and her role in Sin City, not to mention the various magazines photo shoots, Alba insists that she’s known in the industry for her shyness.

Alba also states that other than her role in Sin City, she doesn’t usually wear skimpy outfits in her movies, and that people know that she’s quite prude.

Alba actually has a no- nudity clause in her contract and only recently did she agree to bare her back for the new movie Awake, stating that it’s above the waist, and only the back is visible, and she was facing a wall.

Shiloh, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter has been voted the world's most influential infant.

 Shiloh, who is only 18-month old is the couple's only biological child among their other adopted children.

 The toddler beat off stiff competition from Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri to top the list compiled by Forbes magazine, which considered the Hollywood children who have the greatest effect on popular culture.

 The publication analyzed the amount of media attention famous children under-five had received and they were then placed according to how well known they are and their parents' consumer appeal rankings.

 Shiloh's adopted two-year-old sister Zahara came third, while the pair's adopted brother, Pax, four, was fifth.

Shiloh who was born in May who had more than 2,000 articles written about her last year, not to mention that her first photographs sold for a reputed $4 million.

 Other famous offspring to make the list include Britney Spears and Kevin Federline's two-year-old son, Sean Preston, and Madonna's adopted boy, David Banda.

Sarah Ivens, from America's OK! magazine, said: "We're now as fascinated to see Suri take off for Paris or Berlin in a little Burberry outfit as we are by what Scarlett Johansson is wearing."

Harry Potter and his fellow wizards attending Hogwarts will continue to work on their teen issues on screen in the next instalment of the movie.
During the next film ‘Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince’, all cast members will be dealing with more than share of adult issues, including, love triangles and jealous ex-girlfriends.

Director David Yates reportedly stated that the sixth instalment is the “sex, drugs, and rock and roll” of the “Potter” franchise.

 A relationship triangle starts to develop between Ron and Hermione, and Ron and Lavender, which is bound to be rather interesting to watch.

 Though the wizards and witches will experience social growing pains, the next instalment just might be the Potter film that has the audience laughing.

 Daniel Radcliffe told MTV ‘If we pull it off right, it should be the funniest of the films so far’

 Something that might be making the actors laugh with a little nervous energy could be the on-screen lip-locking between these young wizards and witches.

 Actress Bonnie Wright, who plays Ginny Weasley, Ron’s sister, who’s had quite a crush on Harry, told MTV, ‘It’ll be funny to do the love scenes, but it’s just a film! Hopefully people will just enjoy it and not get too jealous.’

Radcliffe is also feeling the awkwardness of “Half-Blood Prince’s” love scenes.

“I knew Bonnie when she was 10, so that’s going to be very odd! It’s going to be fine, but it’s going to be funny,” Radcliffe told MTV with a laugh.

Lohan, 21, left the Cirque Lodge treatment center on Friday afternoon, the magazine reported on its Web site, citing statements from her parents.

"I'm proud of her. She's moving ahead with her life," her mother, Dina, told People Friday. "Things were getting out of control. She took action. She took responsibility. She really needed to heal."

The exclusive center, which promises anonymity to clients, refused Saturday to confirm or deny the report. Calls to Lohan's publicist and attorney were not immediately returned.

Lohan's visit to Cirque Lodge was her third trip to rehab since January, a frenetic year in which she wrecked a Mercedes-Benz, released the box-office flop "I Know Who Killed Me" and was arrested more than once.

Lohan has been prominently in the public eye since becoming a star at 11 in the Disney film "The Parent Trap." She's also appeared in "Mean Girls," "Freaky Friday," "Herbie Fully Loaded" and numerous other films. In recent years, however, she's become better known for nonstop appearances on the Hollywood nightclub scene.

"Now that she is going out into the world, I can only hope for the best," her father, Michael Lohan, told People.

In May, Lohan was arrested after crashing her Mercedes-Benz into a tree in Beverly Hills, California. She was arrested again in July after the mother of Lohan's former personal assistant called 911 to report that her car was being chased by an SUV. The chase ended in Santa Monica, where police arrested Lohan for being behind the wheel.

In both cases, Lohan was found in possession of small amounts of cocaine.

Lindsay Lohan, here in May 2007, was being treated at the Cirque Lodge drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.

Spice Girls, from left, Victoria Beckham, Melanie Chisholm (Mel C), Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton and Melanie Brown (Mel B) pose for a photocall at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich ahead of their news conference later today on June 28, 2007 in London

The showbuzz.com: Spice Girls Announce Reunion Tour

The Spice Girls wannabe stars again.
Following a calculated publicity buildup, the original Girl Power group of the 1990s announced Thursday they had agreed to get together for 11 concerts around the world in December and January.
They will be the group's first concerts since breaking up in 2001, and the first with all five of the original group since Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell quit to pursue a solo career in 1998.

"Imagine you got divorced and you've got back together with your ex-husband," Halliwell said, explaining how she felt about the reunion.

"She just appreciates the fact we've let her back in," Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham joked.

The group said shows would be in Los Angeles on Dec. 7, Las Vegas on Dec. 8, New York on Dec. 11, London on Dec. 15, Cologne on Dec. 20, Madrid on Dec. 23, Beijing on Jan. 10, Hong Kong on Jan. 12, Sydney on Jan. 17, Cape Town on Jan. 20 and Buenos Aires on Jan. 24.

Halliwell, 34, and Beckham, 33, joined with Melanie "Sporty Spice" Chisholm, 33, Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton, 31, and Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown, 32, to pose for photos and announce tour plans.

"We wanted to say thank you to our fans. It just feels very right for us," Chisholm said.

"Obviously it's nostalgic. But equally, if new fans want to come along, that's fantastic," Halliwell said. "I like to think our songs are universal and they are timeless."

Fans stood outside the news conference, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Girls.

"We found out about this going on and we decided to take a trip," said Nicola Seodon, 21, a shop worker, who traveled the 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Dartford.

"I was a big Spice Girls fan when I was 10 years old. I'll definitely buy their album and I never got to see a concert when they were still around, so this will be a great chance."

The group's first single, "Wannabe," was released in 1996 and topped charts in 31 countries. The Spice Girls went on to sell more than 55 million records.

But their last album, "Forever," released in 2000 and without Halliwell, fared poorly.

You could now call them the Spice Mums, and Beckham said the tour would be designed to accommodate the seven children of band members. Bunton is now pregnant with her first child.

"Our priority is going to be our families. We want to have fun," said Beckham, who has had three sons with her husband, soccer star David Beckham. "That's one of the many reasons for this, for our children to see what we used to do. And I may be the cool one in the family for once."

In conjunction with the tour, EMI said it plans to release the first Spice Girls Greatest Hits album in November. The group also plans to make its first official documentary for TV broadcast.

"It's going to be the most honest story that you've ever heard," Halliwell said. "You get to see the dark side of the Spice Girls, the gritty side, the tears."

Some said the reunion tour would not be as popular as hoped — especially with men.

"They never really had that many male fans to begin with, it was always 16-year-old girls," said Robin Pitt, 22, a fundraiser from London. "But it's the kitsch factor. There will always be people going along for a bit of a laugh."

 

Drew Barrymore is on the look-out for her 'Mr. Right'. The Hollywood actress, who split from her Strokes drummer boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti this year, still believes in true love and is looking for the man of her dreams. She said: "I'm a total romantic and I'm eternally optimistic about finding true love."

However, Drew insists she is happy being single and doesn't need a man in her life.
She added: "I'm happy to be single, and I'm always happy if I'm with good friends." The 32-year-old actress recently confessed she wants to become a mother.

Drew admitted she is getting broody and worries she may never have a baby of her own.

Cameron Diaz is to star in a new horror film which will be directed by 'Donnie Darko' director Richard Kelly.

Variety reports that 'The Box' is based on the Richard Matheson short story 'Button, Button' and has been adapted for the screen by Kelly.

In the film Diaz's character is given a mysterious box by a stranger and told that certain things will happen if she presses certain buttons on it. 'The Box' is due to begin shooting in the autumn.

Diaz's new film, 'Shrek the Third', opens in Irish cinemas today

Julia Roberts, 39, and her husband Danny Moder, 38, have welcomed their third child, a boy named Henry Daniel Moder on Monday in Los Angeles.

Julia and Daniel got married on July 4, 2002. They have had twins, daughter Hazel Patricia and son Phinnaeus Walter, who were born on November 28, 2004.

Jim Carrey will soon play another holiday curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and three ghosts who haunt him, in a computerized remake of "A Christmas Carol," the Walt Disney Co. said on Friday.

Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis will direct the movie from his own script, based on the Charles Dickens classic novel, a Disney spokeswoman said.

 

Actress Lindsay Lohan will not be charged with theft after a woman accused her of stealing a shirt and other items of clothing from her.

The actress will not face charges because the district attorney's office has said that there is insufficient evidence that she stole someone else's clothes.

A woman had claimed that the actress stole a number of items of clothing from her while she was visiting her apartment in her absence.

However, photographs of a shirt provided by the woman did not match the plaid shirt that Lohan was later seen wearing.

Deputy District Attorney Greg Somes said: "The bottom line is that Lohan can't be shown to have been seen either taking or to have been later in possession of missing.

Lindsay Lohan

Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry is to star opposite Hilary Swank in a new comedy called Laws of Motion.

The Hollywood Reporter says the film tells the story of a husband (Perry) who is trying to deal with a demanding job and neighbors, and the problems caused by his free-spirited siblings.

Swank will play Perry's neighbor, a character described as "all-too-perfect". Production on the film is due to begin this month with Swank among the producers.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld took a huge leap of faith to promote his new film Bee Movie at the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday - by jumping from a hotel roof, dressed as an insect.

The Seinfeld star, dressed in a yellow-and-black bee suit, dived from a hotel and swung out over the Carlton Hotel Pier as photographers took shots way below him.

The comedian joked, "They tell me Scorsese did the same thing last year for The Departed." Bee Movie, set to be released this fall by DreamWorks, features the voices of Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick and Chris Rock, among others.

Jerry Seinfeld

"The King of Queens," starring Leah Remini and Kevin James, celebrates its 200th episode Monday night.

 "I'm not moving anything out of my dressing room just yet," said Leah Remini, still holding out hope for a 10th season of "King of Queens."

The cast and crew of the stalwart CBS sitcom, along with network and studio executives and hundreds of others, had gathered earlier this year to celebrate the show's 200th episode -- only the seventh time a TV comedy has done that since 1990. And there have been hundreds of them.

The cake was enormous and the steins of Heineken overflowed, yet the mood was bittersweet. Despite Remini's optimism, series star Kevin James -- with a film career looming -- had decreed he was abdicating as "King."

"All good things must end and unfortunately this is," he would say.

The end came two weeks ago in a gush of tears during nearly six hours of filming of the series' finale before a live audience on Sony Studios' Stage 28. Then there were the scores of executives, friends and family members crowding the wings.

There weren't enough tissues in co-star Gary Valentine's giant-sized Kleenex box to go around. The scene was not unlike a typical graduation, with long embraces, group pictures and the signing of autographs on copies of the final script.

"It's so unusual for any show to last this long," said a weepy Merrin Dungey, a regular on the series, which returns Monday at 9:30 p.m. EDT for its final seven episodes.

For the past nine years, despite lackluster promotion and scheduling changes, "King of Queens" proved to be a consistent success for CBS, with 8.7 million viewers tuning in to the show each week. And it delivers like gangbusters in syndication.

"We were like a cockroach -- you just couldn't kill us," says James.

The blue-collar comedy follows the hilarious conundrums of delivery man Doug Heffernan (James) and his secretary-wife, Carrie (Remini), as they cope with life in the New York City borough of Queens.

Although the Monday show is the series' 200th episode, the producers opted against any special anniversary theme. The Heffernans find out how best friends Deacon (Victor Williams) and Kelly (Dungey) can afford a vacation home when they can't.

Then the following week, Doug decides to become a vegetarian after accidentally hitting a chicken with his car and keeping it as a pet.

After that, the remaining episodes will begin tying all the show's loose ends together, including whether Doug and Carrie will finally have a baby, and how Carrie's cranky old father, Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller), moves out of their wood-paneled basement.

"This was an opportunity for me, for the first time, to test myself as an actor because I never saw myself as more than just a decent actor," says the genteel Stiller, explaining how James lured him out of retirement after "Seinfeld."

"He literally begged me to be in this show. He kissed me. He hugged me. He said, 'I can't do it without you,' " Stiller grins. "I'm susceptible to praise."

But the show got little of that from critics.

"I never really understood why the show didn't get more recognition," says creator-executive producer Michael J. Weithorn.

But, he continues: "The thing that really irked me over the years is that Kevin, Leah and Jerry never won an Emmy -- and Kevin wasn't even nominated until last year ... The work they were doing was so first-rate and definitely on par with the other nominees."

While other networks have pushed out comedy after comedy about young, good-looking, upwardly mobile characters -- including NBC which developed, then passed on, "King of Queens" -- CBS cashed in on its funny, overweight delivery guy.

"It's the simplicity of regular folks that people respond to -- and in such an overwhelming way, it was kind of surprising to me initially," says co-star Williams. "But then it made sense. There's a sort of honesty in that simplicity that I've really enjoyed and I'm really going to miss."

What he won't miss, he says, is his pea-green delivery outfit. "I can not wait to never put on another 'I.P.S.' uniform!"

With sitcoms continuing to struggle on television -- and studios, networks and producers looking at ways to reinvent the genre -- the irony of the success of "King of Queens" is that it was rooted in a format that many would say is dead.

"If you look at the younger generation, they want to see something other than the traditional family with the couch in the living room and the staircase going upstairs," says Steve Mosko, president of Sony Pictures Television.

"But these types of comedies work," he adds. "It really gets down to: Can they execute the format? Is the writing good? In the case of 'King of Queens' it was, and it stood the test of time."

In 2006, it seemed like denizens of the entertainment world, like visitors to the Twilight Zone, increasingly crossed over into another dimension. They moved to a place where reality means nothing; all that mattered was attention, good or bad.

Call it Hiltonworld.

In Hiltonworld -- named after its most famous resident, a person who appears to spend 24 hours a day there -- everyone is your friend. (Even if they're only thumbnails on MySpace.) You have no private life, whether you want one or not. (Mel Gibson and Michael Richards made unwilling forays into Hiltonworld's hinterlands; Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan reveled in its never-closing nightclubs.) The truth matters less than truthiness. (James Frey took in the sights.)

And there's always a camera on -- attached to a cell phone or YouTube, police car or paparazzo, or even a magazine that feeds off your fame as it dares to call you "annoying." (Such as the year-end issue of the Star, offering an irony whose depth boggles the mind amid the shallowness of Hiltonworld.)

In Hiltonworld the lights are always on, and so are you.

Hiltonworld, or a place like it, is nothing new, of course. Before there was Paris Hilton and her ex- (and future?) pal Nicole Richie, neither known for anything but attracting those cameras, there was the "international playboy," people such as Aly Khan and Paris' great-uncle, Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr. -- good-looking men of no discernable ability, who primarily earned their notoriety through their wealth and conquests. (People outside of Hiltonworld prefer to pick on women, however; the men don't like the emasculation.)

Before there was the Star there was Confidential; before there was the New York Post there was the Police Gazette. Celebrity has ignited curiosity as surely as P.T. Barnum's American Museum sold tickets to the Fejee Mermaid.

But the line between the real world and Hiltonworld has gotten thinner and thinner over the years, allowing more people to cross the border. It can be a tempting place to stay -- the lights are so bright, after all -- but once you're there, it's hard to get back.

Take Spears, for example. She's spent a good deal of her life in Hiltonworld, ever since she played the sexy schoolgirl in "... Baby One More Time." By 2006, every part of her life was being played and displayed for public consumption, from driving with her baby on her lap to her husband's nascent rap career, and her singing -- the real-world reason for her fame -- had become an afterthought.

By the time she decided to divorce said husband, she'd been in the public eye with pretty much everything. And her panty-less photographs took care of what was left.

On the other hand, Gibson wasn't a Hiltonworld type. Adore him or abhor him, the man was known as a talented actor and director whose occasional controversial statements were one part of a complex picture.

Then, one night in July, he had a few too many and found himself on the wrong side of the line (and the law). Suddenly he was a mug shot, a slurred voice of prejudice, a drunken star of someone's cell phone video. His determination to leave Hiltonworld as fast as he arrived has apparently paid dividends, with his new film, "Apocalypto," hitting No. 1 its first week at the box office and getting nominated for a Golden Globe; Gibson's face has vanished from Hiltonworld publications.

(And what of Hilton herself? She broke up with a shipping-heir boyfriend, declared a one-year ban on sexual activity, was arrested for suspicion of DUI and put out an album. For what it's worth.)

In the future, everyone may travel to Hiltonworld, if only for 15 minutes or so. Someone may place a video of you on YouTube or send an e-mail about you to 20 of their closest friends. All the news organizations keep at least a part-time correspondent there. You'll find yourself the center of attention.

Hiltonworld isn't necessarily a bad place. There's a lot of money to be made there, and a lot of exposure to be gained. It can be a nice spot to escape to, once in awhile.

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They've become better known for their behavior than anything else: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan

Julia Roberts is married to Danny Moder. The couple has two kids, and now a third on the way

Julia Roberts is expecting her third child with her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder, her spokeswoman confirmed to People magazine Friday.

The baby is due this summer, Roberts' publicist, Marcy Engelman, said in a story posted on the magazine's Web site. News of the pregnancy first appeared in the New York Post's Page Six column.

A call to Engelman by The Associated Press wasn't immediately returned.

Roberts, 39, and Moder, 37, have 2-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, who were born in November 2004. The couple were married in July 2002 at Roberts' home in Taos, New Mexico.

She won the best actress Oscar in 2001 for "Erin Brockovich." Her screen hits also include "Steel Magnolias" and "Pretty Woman."

Roberts is the voice of the wise spider in the film adaptation of "Charlotte's Web." She'll next be seen in the drama "Charlie Wilson's War," directed by Mike Nichols and also starring Tom Hanks, scheduled for release next year.

She made her Broadway debut this spring in a revival of Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain."

 

Britney Spears is behaving more like her soon to be ex-husband, Kevin Federline, than a pop princess on the verge of a career comeback.

Fresh from her split from the club-hopping Federline, Spears looked hip and wholesome weeks ago in a surprise appearance on David Letterman's show and while ice skating in New York's Rockefeller Center in a Gap sweater. But now she's unleashing her inner wild child, running around with party girls Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, sporting unflattering hair extensions and flashing her apparently panty-less crotch to the paparazzi

"She's a beautiful girl and now that she's single and she's having fun, I think she's just trying to express herself," said New York-based celebrity image consultant Amanda Sanders. "Unfortunately, it's the wrong message that's coming across. And the shame is she was really such a role model."

Spears, who turns 25 on Saturday, and Hilton were inseparable while hitting L.A. hotspots over the holiday weekend. People magazine reported Wednesday on its Web site that the duo will co-host the 2006 Billboard Music Awards, scheduled to air live in Las Vegas on Monday (Fox, 8 p.m. EST).

Representatives for Hilton and Spears did not respond to messages Wednesday.

She's enjoying the single life -- and who can blame her after putting up with K-Fed's antics? -- but many Spears watchers disapprove of her decision to cavort with Hollywood's most infamous heiress.

In a post on Spears' MySpace.com page, a female fan urged Spears "to read this so you understand how your fans may see the situation ... now your children need you so do the right thing brit, and be a mother and forget the partying."

Rosie O'Donnell said Wednesday on "The View" that Spears should stop bonding with Hilton and move in with her, her partner Kelli and their kids so she could have a "stable family around her."

Can the mother of two young sons return to the sexy yet sweet Britney of yore?

Maybe, maybe not. But she might reconnect with her fans by making savvy career moves, said Entertainment Weekly magazine executive editor Lori Majewski -- like doing a duet with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, or sitting -- not jumping -- on Oprah Winfrey's couch.

"The public can be very forgiving and, you know, if she were to go on Oprah, the court of public opinion could quickly turn," Majewski said.

"A few tears and the words 'I'm sorry' can go a long, long way. Or 'I'm embarrassed' or 'I didn't mean to' ... But the ultimate key to the success of a future career for her is a new -- it doesn't have to be a wholesome image -- but a new, cleaned-up image and a hot single."

The girl's worth millions and probably has "fabulous things" spilling out of her closet, Sanders said, but that's not enough to buy class.

It is enough, however, to buy a stylist.

"Now she's got awful extensions and her hair just looks -- it looks cheap," Sanders said. "And I don't want to use Tara Reid as a shining example, but, you know ..."

It's your turn, Britney. Now go and give Oprah a call.

Britney Spears at the American Music Awards last week. She's been spotted wearing rather less.

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