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Lindsay Lohan, who just finished a second stint in rehab for substance abuse treatment, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and possession of cocaine early Tuesday, authorities said. Lohan, who is already facing a drunken driving charge in Beverly Hills, was stopped near the Santa Monica Police Department after authorities were called about a car chasing another vehicle, said Sgt. Shane Talbot. Authorities conducted a field sobriety test and then transported Lohan to the police department. A breath test was conducted and her blood alcohol was between .12 percent and .13 percent, Talbot said. California’s legal limit is 0.08 percent. The 21-year-old actress was booked on two misdemeanor charges of suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving on a suspended license and two felony charges of possession of cocaine and transport of a narcotic, Talbot said. During a pre-booking search, police found cocaine in one of Lohan’s pants pockets, Talbot said. Lohan has been released on $25,000 bail, police said. A call to Lohan’s publicist was not immediately returned. Police said they received a call around 1:30 a.m. from passengers in a black Cadillac Escalade sport utility vehicle who said they were being chased by a white Denali SUV. Police met up with the SUVs in the parking lot of Santa Monica’s Civic Center, about a block away from the police department. When police approached the Denali, they recognized Lohan as the driver. The passengers in the other vehicle apparently know Lohan, but did not realize she was chasing them. Lohan had two passengers in her vehicle. There were three people in the other vehicle, police said. Last week, Lohan turned herself in to Beverly Hills police to face charges of driving under the influence in connection with a Memorial Day weekend hit-and-run crash. Lohan’s blood-alcohol level at the time of that crash was above the legal limit, authorities said. They wouldn’t disclose how high it was. She also faces a misdemeanor charge of hit and run in that case. Lohan and two other adults were in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 convertible when she lost control and crashed into a curb and shrubs on Sunset Boulevard on May 26, police said. Lohan got into a second car and was driven to a hospital in Century City for minor injuries, police said. The others in her car were not hurt. Officers received a 911 call about the accident and traced her to the hospital. Two weeks ago, Lohan checked out of a rehabilitation center after more than six weeks. In January she also had checked into rehab for substance abuse treatment.

Former Celtic Antoine Walker was robbed at gunpoint Monday night. Miami coach Pat Riley expressed relief that Heat forward Walker was not injured during a robbery at the player’s Chicago home. Walker and one of his relatives were bound at gunpoint while multiple robbers took a car, cash and jewelry from the three-time All-Star’s off-season residence. Walker — a Chicago native — was shaken up, but not physically injured, said agent Mark Bartelstein. “I’ve talked to Mark. Have not been able to get through to Antoine yet, but he’s OK,” Riley said Tuesday after watching the Heat’s summer league team play. “It’s what it is. It had to be a terrifying ordeal for him. Until I speak with him, I don’t have any knowledge other than what I’ve heard from other people.” The vehicle taken in the robbery was found, abandoned, in Chicago on Tuesday morning. Police have not announced any arrests in the case. In July 2000, Walker — then a Boston Celtic — was the victim of an armed robbery along with NBA center Nazr Mohammed as they sat in a vehicle waiting for a restaurant on Chicago’s South Side to open. Police said at the time that three men approached and demanded cash and valuables, which included a $55,000 wristwatch. Walker averaged 8.5 points with Miami this past season and was a key part of the Heat’s run to the NBA championship the year before.

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Joel Madden and his pregnant girlfriend Nicole Richie were escorted out of a luxury California hotel on Saturday, after the Good Charlotte front man almost came to blows with MTV reality star Spencer Pratt. Pratt was dining with his The Hills co-star and fiancee Heidi Montag when the incident at the Beverly Hills Hotel occurred. Pratt claims Madden was angry about comments he was incorrectly reported to have made about Richie’s weight. He tells In Touch, “I was sitting having a quiet lunch with Heidi when Nicole walked in and started pointing at me and then whispering to Joel. “He storms over and starts shouting, ‘You’ve been talking s**t about my girl.’ I told him, ‘Please can we not do this at the Beverly Hills Hotel. This is ridiculous.’ Then he started screaming and calling me names.” At this point, Madden and Richie were asked to leave the hotel. Pratt adds, “It all stems from an interview in Details ages ago where I was misquoted calling Nicole a skinny bitch. It’s all a misunderstanding. I’ve always thought she’s a really nice girl and I wouldn’t call her that.”

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Just months after his longtime girlfriend gave birth to twin girls, Sean “Diddy” Combs announced Tuesday that the pair have split up. A publicist for the 37-year-old rap mogul confirmed that he and model Kim Porter were no longer together. On Dec. 21, Porter gave birth to daughters D’Lila Star and Jessie James; the couple also have a son together. The move comes a few months after the two publicly proclaimed their love for one another in a cover story for Essence magazine, which detailed their turbulent history: They already had a son, Christian, when Combs began his high-profile romance with Jennifer Lopez. That romance ended in 2001. In the December article, Porter said Combs simply fell for a “big booty and a smile” and she knew he would be back. Though she took him to court to increase her child support payments in 2002, Combs eventually reunited with her. But while Combs told Essence he was an “ex-player,” he admitted that he wasn’t ready to marry Porter and even wondered, “Do you really think that God meant for a man to have just one wife?” Though Combs said “this is the most monogamous I’ve ever been in my life,” rumors persisted about other women — so much so that actress and friend Sienna Miller recently took pains to deny that they were a couple. He has another son, Justin, with ex-girlfriend Misa Hylton-Brim

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Men seem to come and go in Britney Spears’s life – quick: Who remembers the Manny? Or Isaac Cohen? – but buzz is building around the identity of the square-jawed man with tousled brown hair who’s been out with her in recent days. This weekend marked the latest public sighting of Spears with the man, who has been hiding behind dark shades. They turned up at Bel Air Presbyterian Church on Sunday, with Spears carrying son Jayden, who will turn 1 in September, and the man toting a crying Sean Preston, who’s nearly 2. Ruggedly handsome and good with kids – but who is he? Bodyguard? Boyfriend? A little of both? The Internet has been abuzz with speculation, but so far no positive IDs. Spears’s reps also aren’t saying and her Web site is absent any mention of him. He just emerged, often seen behind driving Spears around in her black Mercedes. The church visit followed a very public night on the town last week, with Spears and the man going to LA’s Pantages Theater see the musical Wicked – or at least the first part of it. Spears and the man ducked out about an hour into the show, though no offense was taken. “She came in late, and stayed for about an hour and left,” says Wicked rep Tim Choy. “She loves the show. She’s seen it several times.”

While they may never be able to say “adios” to the paparazzi, Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo aren’t sitting idly by as steamy photographs taken on their Mexican getaway make the tabloid rounds. E! News has confirmed that Lachey has enlisted celebrity attorney Martin Singer to inform multiple magazines that they’ll be playing with fire if they opt to publish the more graphic shots from a roll of film that supposedly features the singer and his TV personality paramour getting ultra-romantic in the hot tub at a private villa near Puerto Vallarta. The July 9 issue of Life & Style already features shots of the couple frolicking on the beach, canoodling in the spa and nakedly toweling off (with all body parts censored) on the villa’s patio. But Lachey, 33, and Minnillo, 26, are obviously in no mood to see the more intimate moments of their vacation become an international event. “As a woman, my body is a temple, it’s mine,” a distressed Minnillo told OK! magazine. “So it was embarrassing. But we did nothing wrong.” “This is the girl that I love,” added Lachey, no stranger to being caught on camera with the girl he loves. “It’s tough to see someone you care about be unfairly judged. It’s hard for me as a man to see my girl go through that. Everybody said it was a scandal. Where’s the scandal? I was in Mexico with my girlfriend of a year, celebrating our anniversary on a private vacation. It’s not like I was caught with a Mexican hooker. We’ve all gone out and had a few too many and done something stupid. We’ve all made mistakes. Unfortunately, as a celebrity, you’re a target.” In his cease-and-desist letter to various publications, Singer has said that the photos, taken by a Mexican shutterbug on June 23 and 24, violated Mexican law and are a clear invasion of privacy, and that legal action would be forthcoming if any of the mags decided to publish the pics. “I felt personally violated,” Minnillo said. “If I was being disrespectful I would [have] expected to be punished, but I wasn’t. It’s wrong. For me, it was disheartening,” Lachey said. “Is it acceptable to violate someone’s private life and personal space? Is this what it’s come to? We both knew when we came into this business we had to give up aspects of our privacy. But when someone is stalking you with a zoom camera lens, in my mind, that is overstepping the bounds.” The couple touched back down in Los Angeles Monday night after their publicly pleasant holiday. When they’re not able to get away from it all (or get away from nothing at all, really), Lachey and Minnillo split time between his L.A. home and her New York condo. And, perhaps, whatever makes them almost file lawsuits together makes them stronger. “I see even more now that Nick is the man I thought he was,” Minnillo said. ”He’s very strong and has a good head on his shoulders. I know now he’s definitely there for me. He has single-handedly pulled me through.”

Christina Aguilera is working on converting “Come On Over Baby” into a lullaby. E! News confirmed that the five-time Grammy winner and hubby Jordan Bratman are expecting their first child together. This will be baby number one for both. There was no immediate comment from a publicist for the couple. Up next for the mommy-to-be is a jaunt through Asia and Australia, starting with a show tonight in Hong Kong. According to the singer’s website, her last stop is an Aug. 3 date in Auckland, New Zealand. Aguilera, 26, has also been tapped to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year along with fellow musicians George Harrison, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Brooks & Dunn and Ricky Martin.

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Paris Hilton partied at a Hollywood club on Saturday - the first time the reality TV star has enjoyed herself at a nightspot since her release from jail last month. Hilton, who served 23 days of a 45 day sentence after being found guilty of violating her probation from a 2006 drink-driving arrest, was accompanied by her sister Nicky at Los Angeles club Les Deux. One onlooker tells People, “Paris was super happy and full of smiles. She was laughing, having fun, drinking, dancing, singing along to songs, talking to everyone and hugging all the girls at her table.” After her release from jail, Hilton vowed to put her wild partying days behind her. She said, “I’ve been doing it for a long time. It’s fun… But that’s not what I care about as much anymore. Obviously I’ll still go out sometimes. I’m young and I like to be social, but I’m going to focus more on my work.”

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Jim Morrison of The Doors died from a heroin overdose at a lavatory in a Paris club and not in his hotel room as is thought - according to the venue’s former boss. The sensational claims are made by Sam Bernett who refutes the official cause of the rocker’s death, which say he collapsed and died in his Paris apartment in 1971. Bernett, who managed the famed Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus club in the French capital, insists the singer’s death was covered up to avoid police investigating the nightspot’s drug activities. He says, “The club was full of dealers. Jim disappeared to the lavatories at around 2am. Then, about half and hour later, a cloakroom attendant came up to me and told me someone was locked in a cubicle and wasn’t coming out. It was then that I got a bouncer to smash the door down. I recognised the U.S. Army combat jacket and the riding boots which he never took off. It was Jim Morrison.” Bernett, 62, claims the singer was then hauled from the club to his hotel room by bouncers under the order from a representative of the club’s owner Paul Pacini. He adds, “I was told ‘We saw nothing, we heard nothing, we shut up! Ok? It’s what we better do to avoid a scandal.” A spokesperson for France’s Police National say they will consider the new evidence.

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The rumors have been out there for weeks and according to mediatakeout.com, a member of Jay Z’s inner circle is confirming that him and Beyonce are over. According to the source “Jay Z’s not 25…he’s been ready to settle down and have a family for a while now. But Beyonce was asking him for more time.” The source went on to say that Beyonce’s family is happy about the decision adding that they thought Jay was a little too serious for her at this point in her life. According to the insider “For now, it’s over.  But who knows what might happen in a couple of months.”  There’s been no official word from either Beyonce or Jay’s people.

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Britney Spears checked back into a Californian rehabilitation facility last week after estranged husband Kevin Federline threatened to take away her children. Federline was furious the singer had checked out of Promises in Malibu last Wednesday and worked with his lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan to schedule an emergency hearing to seek physical and legal custody of their sons, Sean Preston, 18 months, and Jayden James, six months. A source tells People that Federline gave his estranged wife a choice - either she checked back into rehab that night or he would go to court the next morning. Spears showed up at his home in Tarzana, California last Wednesday evening, followed by 20 members of the paparazzi. When Federline failed to appear, she left and was later seen hitting a photographer’s car with an umbrella. Later that night, Spears’ mother Lynne, who had flown in from Louisiana to look after her daughter and grandsons, drove her back to the rehab facility. A source says, “Kevin is working closely with Lynne to let Britney know how serious it is that she gets help.” Federline reportedly played a key role in persuading Spears to seek treatment in the first place and has regularly been spotted vitiating her at Promises.

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Katherine Heigl has bowed out of contract talks after reaching a stalemate with producers over a salary dispute. Sources told E! Online TV columnist Kristin Veitch that Heigl is angling for a salary bump that would put her on par with the show’s other female stars, namely Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh,  both of whom were better known before the ABC hit launched. Heigl apparently feels that she has become an integral part of the show and her star is on the rise. According to sources, Heigl’s camp believes that, come the June release of her Judd Apatow comedy, Knocked Up, Heigl will be one hot commodity. (Think Steve Carell post-The 40-Year-Old Virgin.) ABC confirmed to E! News that, dispute or not, rising star or not, Heigl isn’t going anywhere. She’s currently signed for three more years, through the show’s sixth season. “Katherine is an integral part of Grey’s Anatomy and its success,” the network said in a statement. “Fortunately, we have a long term contract to ensure she’ll be with the show for several years to come. In recognition of her tremendous talent and value to the show, we recently approached Katherine with an offer to raise her compensation significantly above the terms of her current contract. We were surprised to see this gesture reported negatively in the press, and want to reassure fans that she will continue as Izzie Stevens.” Heigl, meanwhile, said she was “embarrassed that this has become a public matter and disappointed that [ABC’s production unit] Touchstone felt it necessary to divulge private employment information.” In a statement, the actress added: ”I had hoped I would be able to deal with this issue confidentially with my bosses. I dropped out of the renegotiation simply because I wanted to treat myself with the respect I was not getting from them. No matter how unhappy I am about their decision to respond to this publicly, I continue to be passionate about and committed to this character.” Heigl’s Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens has become a major asset onscreen (she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and shared the ensemble award from the Screen Actors Guild), but Heigl’s offscreen behavior has been something of a distraction. The 28-year-old was the most vocal cast member in the wake of Isaiahgate. Heigl made frequent comments in support of costar T.R. Knight and against costar Isaiah Washington, who called Knight a ”faggot” during an onset fracas last fall and then denied it following the Goldeon Globes. “I’m not okay with it,” she said before Washington sought treatment. “He needs to just not speak in public. Period…And I’m probably going to get in a lot of trouble for being that blunt.” While ABC denies that the current contract dispute is any sort of embodiment of behind-the-scenes turmoil, People reports Heigl is distressed that Washington’s continued presence on the show seems to valued over her own. Of course, the stalemate could be less about conspiracies and more about money. Last June, Touchstone rewarded each of the Grey’s Anatomy principal cast members with a cool $200,000 one-time bonus for a time slot well done. At the time, it was reported that the bonuses were an attempt to head off actors’ requests for bigger paydays down the line. Apparently the powers that be wanted to avoid the inevitable salary battles that occur when relatively unknown stars are catapulted to fame via a monster hit show and try to renegotiate their original deals (see: Friends, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond). Should they need it, the producers will likely have a little more pocket change at their disposal by the end of the season.

(Source: E!)

Never one to hold his tongue, American Idol judge Simon Cowell has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the scandalous photos of Idol contestant Antonella Barba circulating on the Web. “I think it’s disgraceful that so-called friends would sell these pictures,” he told PEOPLE at a Playboy Mansion party for the E! show The Girls Next Door and the launch of the new Ryan Seacrest-produced reality series Paradise City. “It’s private property. I really, really have a problem with that – big problem.” (Barba pal – and fellow auditioner – Amanda Coluccio has insisted that the most X-rated of the bunch aren’t her friend.) And Cowell has equally fiery feelings about this year’s batch of competitors. “If you want to do as well as someone like Jennifer Hudson you’ve got to be great, and we’re not seeing enough great, but they’re getting better,” he says. “We’re going to weed out the bad ones.”

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Former Sex and the City star Jason Lewis is moving on from his split with Rosario Dawson and is dating Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Michelle Trachtenberg. Lewis, 35, and Trachtenberg, 21, were recently spotted on a date at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles. A source tells Us Weekly, “They just began hanging out.” Lewis and Dawson started dating in 2004 before breaking up in November. Trachtenberg has recently been romantically linked with Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz.

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Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy model whose flamboyant made-for-reality-TV life featured paternity and inheritence battles, drug and weight struggles, and her son’s mysterious death, died Thursday in Florida. She was 39.

Hold on to your remotes, Idolites, because Courtney Love told Usmagazine.com that American Idol wants her! Love reveals that Idol’s executive producer Nigel Lythgoe called her office last week inquiring into whether she would be interested in sitting in as a judge on the hit FOX show. “He called,” Love tells Usmagazine.com. “He was wondering if I was interested. I thought it was kind of weird but brilliant.” Is FOX lining up a replacement for slap-happy Paula Abdul, or just looking to spice up the show with the always-entertaining rocker/actress? Love, who is currently in L.A. recording a solo album, declined to reveal any more specific details. But a source tells Usmagazine.com that Lythgoe was considering having Love “replace Paula.” American Idol reps could not immediately be reached for comment.

(Source: US Weekly)

Is T.R. Knight about to exit “Grey’s Anatomy”? The actor was the subject of a widely-publicized homophobic slur by a cast mate and he “is so upset about the situation and so disgusted by how it was all handled,” that he’s planning to leave the show, says a source. “He was told not to say anything about the whole incident,” says the insider, referring to an on-set dust up in October when fellow cast member Isaiah Washington referred to Knight, who plays Dr. George O’Malley, with a derogatory word used to describe gay men. “He kept his word, but then the whole thing blew up again at the Golden Globes, and when he was asked about it, he basically called Isaiah a liar,” says the source. “He feels that the atmosphere there is so toxic and unhealthy. I suppose things could change and we would stay, but for now, he’s planning to leave the show.” When asked if Knight planned to leave the show, his spokeswoman said: “We’re not commenting on that.” She later said that the story was “Completely, one thousand percent false.” A rep for the network also called to add that “rumors of T. R. Knight’s departure from the show are irrefutably untrue.”

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The Police will reunite to open the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 11, The Recording Academy said on Tuesday, fueling speculation that the hit 1980s band is planning a reunion tour. The five-time Grammy-winning band, led by frontman Sting, with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, split up in 1984 and was last seen playing together in 2003 to commemorate their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band, known for such hits as “Roxanne,” “Message in a Bottle” and “Every Breath You Take,” has never performed at the annual telecast for the music industry’s most prestigious awards that are given by The Recording Academy. “The Police join a stellar list of past Grammy Awards opening acts, which includes reunions and once-in-a-lifetime performances,” said a statement from the academy. Members of The Police have so far refused to confirm rumors that the band is planning to reunite in 2007 for dates in Britain and the United States, with this year marking the 30th anniversary of the release of “Roxanne.” Last month the band’s label A&M Records, which is owned by Universal Music, said in a statement that they would mark the year somehow. “It is our intention to mark the anniversary by doing something special with the band’s catalog of songs. Needless to say, everyone is hopeful the band will support our plans and while early discussions have taken place, nothing has been decided,” said the statement. Other presenters at the Grammy Awards include Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Christina Aguilera, Melissa Etheridge and Stevie Wonder.

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Lindsay Lohan has checked into rehab. “I have made a proactive decision to take care of my personal health. I appreciate your well wishes and ask that you please respect my privacy at this time,” said the 20-year-old actress in a statement issued Wednesday through her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick. Us Weekly reports that Lohan entered the posh Wonderland Center in Los Angeles at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, arriving in a sports utility vehicle and clutching a Jamba Juice. Zelnick confirmed to The Associated Press in December that Lohan was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Lohan told People magazine then that she had been going to the meetings for a year. “I haven’t had a drink in seven days. Or anything,” she said to People. “I’m not even legal to, so why would I? I don’t drink when I go to clubs. I drink with my friends at home, but there’s no need to. I feel better not drinking. It’s more fun. I have Red Bull.” Last July, Lohan was treated for several hours at a Los Angeles area hospital for overheating and dehydration on the set of Georgia Rule. The actress recently had surgery to remove her appendix

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Drew Barrymore has split from her boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti. The actress has decided to end her five year romance with The Strokes drummer because she felt they needed a break from each other. A source close to Drew told Us Weekly magazine: “Drew said they needed time off. Fab is now living back in his old apartment.” One alleged reason for the separation is that Fabrizio doesn’t get on with any of Drew’s friends and feels uncomfortable with her Hollywood lifestyle. Another source said: “He’s younger, and she’s more worldly. He doesn’t like the Hollywood stuff. He doesn’t get her friends.” Ironically, Drew, 31, couldn’t stop gushing about her love for Fabrizio, 26, in a recent interview. Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar magazine, the actress - who started dating the musician in April 2002 - said: “Right now I’m in a phase of, ‘I’m not even your girlfriend. I’m your best friend who is madly in love with you…The longest I’ve ever been with someone was like two to three years, so I’m in uncharted waters. Right now I’m into championing him as a human being.” Representatives for both stars have so far refused to comment.

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Marilyn Manson is dating young actress Evan Rachel Wood. The 38-year-old shock rocker - whose wife Dita Von Teese filed for divorce in December - has reportedly found love again with the 19-year-old actress. It has been reported Dita grew tired of her husband’s constant partying and his blossoming relationship with Wood. A source told People: “Dita is heartbroken, she didn’t see this coming. His partying contributed to the split as well.” Manson and Wood have reportedly been friends for a while. On his official website, Manson says he met Wood for the first time after asking her to star in his horror movie Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. Wood once posed for one of Manson’s watercolor paintings. She said: “It came as a kind of shock. I was beyond flattered.” Wood also attended the opening of Manson’s new Hollywood art gallery, the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art, last October. Dita and Manson - who is currently in Paris - are yet to comment. Wood’s representative would not confirm the relationship. Dita - who dated Manson for seven years and was married to him for a year - moved out of the marital home and filed for divorce before Christmas, citing “irreconcilable differences”.

(Source: People)

David Arquette blames Angelina Jolie for destroying Jennifer Aniston’s marriage to Brad Pitt. David - who is married to Jennifer’s best friend Courteney Cox - is convinced Jennifer and Brad’s marriage would have survived if he hadn’t met Angelina.

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Paris Hilton’s wonky left eye, which she is adept at hiding through a combination of hairstyles and sideways glances on the red carpet, may be the result of botched eye lift surgery. What’s more, the colored contact lenses she wears are said to be making the condition worse: When Paris Hilton decided to turn her brown eyes blue with tinted contacts, she might have hurt her already suffering eye lids. According to a Beverly Hills source, Hilton stopped by a plastic surgeon’s office with sister Nicky earlier this week, seeking to “fix her drooping left eyelid.” Our insider says Paris had hush- hush surgery six years ago to lift her lids. The muscles of her left eye were supposedly damaged as a result, “causing it to droop more than the right” - a look that was once parodied on South Park. Hilton has made things worse by wearing blue- tinted contact lenses over her naturally brown irises. “They have been drying out lately,” dished the tipster. “She is ignoring doctors’ orders to not wear her tinted contacts.” Paris’ rep Elliot Mintz told Page Six, “To the best of my knowledge, Paris has never had any kind of cosmetic surgery and has not mentioned any medical procedures having to do with her eyes.” Hilton is currently filming the crappy new film The Hottie and the Nottie with Christine Lakin. She has been praised for her work ethic on set, and was seen filming for 10 hours on Wednesday.

Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend, longtime lawyer, and alleged father of her infant daughter provided her son with one of the drugs that killed him — then tried to cover it up by flushing the remaining pills down the toilet, a report says. The charges surfaced Monday as Bahamian officials agreed to conduct a formal inquest into the death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith in his mother’s hospital room there in September. More than 20 witnesses will be called to testify, including one who allegedly insists that Howard K. Stern gave Daniel methadone before he died. Stern was in the room at the time of Daniel’s death. Methadone is one of at least three drugs that made up the lethal cocktail that led to Daniel’s heart attack, according to an autopsy report. The same witness also will tell officials that after Daniel’s death, Stern flushed the remaining methadone down the toilet. Smith will also be among the witnesses required to testify before the jury inquest, Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez said. “It’s to try and answer all the unanswered questions that have been raised in this matter,” he told reporters. The inquest at the coroner’s court will be open to the media, he said. Smith, 39, and Stern, 38, exchanged vows in a non-marriage “commitment ceremony” 18 days after Daniel died on Sept. 10 in her hospital room in the Bahamas, where she had given birth to a daughter three days earlier. Meanwhile, a judge has given Smith, a former Playboy Playmate and reality star, until Jan. 23 to have her infant daughter undergo paternity testing sought by a former boyfriend. Smith’s ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead claims he’s the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. Birkhead, 32, sued in October to get a paternity test. Stern maintains he is the baby’s father.
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Julia Roberts has a hit movie out and two more films on the way — but her biggest project at the moment is a bun in the oven. Page Six has learned that the auburn-tressed Oscar winner is pregnant with her third child and will give birth next summer. The happy news comes as Roberts flies high in the nation’s No. 5 picture, Charlotte’s Web, in which she provides the voice for the beloved spider. Her pregnancy is somewhat of a surprise since the star, 39, had so much difficulty with her first effort to start a family with cameraman hubby Danny Moder, 37. In November 2004, she gave birth to twins Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia — but only after months of round-the-clock bed rest that followed a scare in which she was rushed to the hospital with false labor. It’s not known how the Georgia-born beauty’s pregnancy will affect her latest screen projects. Roberts, who commands up to $25 million per movie, is appearing in Mike Nichols’ new flick, Charlie Wilson’s War, and has reportedly signed to do The Friday Night Knitting Club. But it’s likely she’ll take some time off, as she did when the twins were born. “It’s a joy being domestic. It’s something I want and something that makes me very happy,” she once told an interviewer. Roberts’ spokeswoman, Marci Engelman, couldn’t be reached for comment.

Dallas Cowboys Tony Romo was rumored to be secretly dating Jessica Simpson earlier this year, but now the star quarterback is coming clean about the new blond in his life. American Idol champ Carrie Underwood, who released one of the most successful albums of 2006, surprised football fans on Christmas day with her appearance at Texas Stadium, where she was seen with Romo and gave him a hug on the field before his game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Now, In Touch Weekly reports that Tony has confirmed that he and Carrie are a couple in an interview the Journal Gazette/Times-Courier, a small-town paper in Charleston, Ill., where he played college football. Sports editor Brian Nielsen says, “After I asked him all my usual football questions, I said, ‘My wife really wants to know if the Jessica Simpson dating rumors are true.’” He laughed and replied, ‘No. Tell her I’m dating Carrie Underwood.

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Mike Tyson was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of cocaine after police stopped him leaving a Scottsdale nightclub early Friday. Sgt. Larry Hall said the heavyweight boxer was stopped after his car almost struck a sheriff’s vehicle while leaving the club at about 1:45 a.m. “He showed signs of impairment, and voluntarily submitted to field sobriety tests,” said Hall, a member of the Buckeye Police Department who was working in the area as part of a holiday DUI task force. Hall said Tyson was placed under arrest after “showing more signs of impairment” during the field sobriety tests. Police subsequently searched Tyson and found cocaine on him and in his car. No one else was with Tyson at the time, Hall said. Tyson was booked at a Maricopa County sheriff’s jail, and he was expected to have an initial appearance before a judge later Friday to determine bail, Hall said.

Nicole Richie was arrested early Monday for investigation of driving under the influence after her car was reported headed the wrong way on a freeway.

Richie, 25, star of “The Simple Life” reality series and daughter of pop singer Lionel Richie, was arrested without incident at 1:45 a.m. (PST) after she failed a field sobriety test given by California Highway Patrol officers, CHP Officer Todd Workman said.

Richie’s 2005 black Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle was stopped in the car pool lane of State Highway 134 in Burbank.

Other motorists had placed 911 emergency calls around 12:30 a.m. (PST) about a car headed against traffic on the freeway, Workman said. Descriptions of the vehicle matched Richie’s. When officers arrived, they found her car facing the right direction.

Richie was placed in the passenger seat of her car, which was found to be operable, and an officer drove the car off the freeway.

“She volunteered the information that she had smoked marijuana and taken Vicodin,” the prescription painkiller, Workman said. No drugs were found on her or in the car.

Richie was booked in Glendale for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, tested for drugs and released later Monday morning, Workman said. The results of the test haven’t been determined, he said.

Bail was set at $15,000, but Richie was released on her own recognizance, Glendale police Agent John Balian said. A Feb. 7 arraignment in Glendale Superior Court was scheduled.

Nicole Perna, a publicist for Richie, replied to an e-mail requesting comment, saying that there would be none.

Richie told officers she weighed 85 pounds and was 5-foot-1, Workman said. Her driver’s license listed her weight as 100 pounds.

In an interview earlier this year with Vanity Fair magazine, Richie acknowledged that she is “too thin” and was receiving treatment to gain weight.

The drivers who placed the 911 calls are potential witnesses about whether Richie was driving the wrong way, and authorities were trying to contact them, Workman said. Richie could face an additional charge depending on the information obtained, he said.

Misdemeanor arrests by the CHP in Burbank are routinely handled by Glendale police and courts, Workman said.

Burbank is 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Angelina Jolie fell hard for Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith - but didn’t chase Hollywood’s leading hunk because he was married to his “best friend,” the smoldering actress said in a jaw-dropping magazine interview.

“We’re constantly in competition with each other,” she said. “He’s somebody I admire based on the way he lives his life.”

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning a fairytale Christmas wedding in South Africa. The Hollywood couple will tie the knot in a small village outside Johannesburg, according to reports. Sources say they were persuaded to pick the venue after talking to chat show queen Oprah Winfrey. An insider said: “They are treating their marriage like a spiritual affirmation and don’t need big Hollywood glitz like Tom Cruise had in Italy.” The ceremony will include traditional African music and will be “simple and elegant”, a friend of the couple told OK! magazine. The pal adds: “They are so much in love. Brad and Angelina have waited a long time for this chapter in their lives to unfold.” It comes after Jolie and Winfrey have grown close after the TV host was impressed by Jolie’s humanitarian efforts. She is said to have told her: “When you have the chance to capture lightning in a bottle you need to go for it.” Winfrey, 52, is expected to be among several stars attending the low-key event, shortly before Christmas. She founded the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in a village south of Johannesburg. Madonna, her husband Guy Ritchie, actor George Clooney and Jolie’s co-star Daniel Craig are also said to be going.
(Source: Daily Mail)

In other celebrity statement news, Britney Spears posted a short item on her personal Web site yesterday defending her right to party and poking fun at her accidental overexposure. “It’s been so long since I’ve been out on the town with friends,” the newly single mom of two wrote. “It’s also been 2 years since I’ve even celebrated my birthday . . . I probably did take my new found freedom a little too far. Anyway, thank god for Victoria’s Secrets’ new underwear line!”

(Source: britneyspears.com)

Britney Spears dumped him and his debut album bombed, but Kevin Federline says he’s doing ‘great.’ “I am good, I am great, you know … just moving along, progressing and taking it all in stride,” the 28-year-old aspiring rapper tells E! News. Federline, who is seeking spousal support and sole custody of his sons with Spears, says he’s a family man and “that is the truth … in all honesty, that is what it is.” Meanwhile, the media is giving the club-hopping Federline a tough time. “I laugh a little bit about it you know,” he said. “I don’t take it too seriously. Those are people who don’t really know who I am.” His debut album, “Playing With Fire,” sold a dismal 6,500 copies in its first week of release. The CD was released Oct. 31. When asked about it, Federline says he’s “working it slowly, still trying to get out there and do more stuff … I got a lot of options on the table right now.” His New Year’s resolution? To be “a little bit wiser, a little bit stronger.”

(Source: E!)

After more than a year together, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn have decided to part ways. “After Jennifer’s trip to London several weeks ago, Jennifer and Vince mutually agreed to end their relationship but continue to be good friends today,” reps Stephen Huvane and John Pisani tell People exclusively. The statement ends weeks of speculation that Aniston and Vaughn’s relationship has been cooling off. Vaughn has been filming Fred Claus in London since late September, while Aniston has been busy working in Los Angeles and New York. Despite their distance, both had made efforts to ensure the relationship was still going strong. In October, Vaughn, 36, threatened to sue several tabloid newspapers that alleged he was seen kissing a mystery blonde and had ended his relationship with Aniston, 37. The actress also shot down rumors of a rift on Oct. 11 when she told Oprah Winfrey that the two were still together. Aniston visited Vaughn in London in late October after spending nearly a month apart. The two took in the London sights and caught a matinee showing of the musical Wicked. The actress returned to L.A. a few days later. Vaughn will be shooting Fred Claus in London through this month.

(Source: People)

Eddie Murphy is questioning whether he is the father of the unborn child that former girlfriend and ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown is reportedly carrying. Murphy, who stars in the upcoming Dreamgirls, was asked about his relationship with Brown – and her pregnancy – during an interview on the Dutch TV show RTL Boulevard that aired Monday. “We’re not together anymore,” says Murphy, 45, in a clip on the show’s Web site. “And I don’t know whose child that is, until it comes out and has a blood test. You shouldn’t jump to conclusions, sir.” Brown, 31, has not officially confirmed her pregnancy. In August, Murphy and Brown took a weeklong family vacation to Hawaii with his five children and the singer’s 7-year-old daughter. The couple had been spending a lot of time together since meeting at a party in June. Murphy divorced his wife of 12 years, Nicole Mitchell, in April.

(Source: People)

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown insists ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy is the father of the baby she’s carrying and says she can’t imagine why he would publicly question the child’s paternity. “I am obviously upset and distressed at some of the comments made by Eddie Murphy to the media,” Brown, who is in the second trimester of her pregnancy, says in the statement released Thursday. “I have no idea why anybody would want to conduct themselves in this kind of manner about such a personal matter in such a public way. My main concern is for the well being of my (seven-year-old) daughter Phoenix and of course the baby. I was astonished at what Eddie said – there is absolutely no question that Eddie is the father.” Brown only learned that her relationship with Murphy had ended when she landed in Los Angeles and received voicemails from friends telling her about the TV interview, a source close to her tells People. That same night, at the New York City premiere of his movie Dreamgirls, Murphy stepped out with his new girlfriend, Tracey Edmonds, a movie producer and the ex-wife of singer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. Edmonds told People they’d been dating for “about a month and a half.” “This was extraordinarily brazen what he did,” a friend of Brown tells People. “If he had fallen in love with somebody else, that would have been pretty bad anyway, but to then wheel her out in public for a deliberate photo op, when Melanie’s pregnant! That’s a rat, frankly.” The friend adds, “Melanie insists there is absolutely no question whose baby this is. And she resents the inference that she wouldn’t know whose baby it was. It’s fairly simple. She hasn’t slept with anyone else.” Still, the friend says Brown will agree to a paternity test. “Melanie’s gone through shock, pain, anger, the whole range of emotions,” says the pal. “A lot of women or men in this situation would go to ground but she wants to take it head on.” The former Scary Spice has lived in Los Angeles for the past few years and worked on launching a solo singing career – but British reports indicate that the Spice Girls may reform next year for a concert that is being planned by Princes William and Harry in memory of their mother, Princess Diana.
(Source: People)

What to get the movie star who has everything? If it’s architecture buff Brad Pitt – who turns 42 on Dec. 18 – it’s a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, Fallingwater. Angelina Jolie treated Pitt to a visit to the Pennsylvania house on Thursday, where they took a two-hour guided tour and then held a private birthday party in Fallingwater’s living room. “Brad said he had wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in college,” Cara Armstrong, the house’s curator of education, who led the couple on their tour, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “He and I talked quite a bit about design and art. He was incredibly well informed about architecture.” Armstrong told the paper the couple were “very gracious and very engaged in the house. As we say in the Midwest, you could tell their mothers raised them right.” The famous house, in Fayette County, Pa., about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, is built over the wooded Mill Run creek. “Brad said he had a visual sense of Fallingwater,” Armstrong told the Post-Gazette, “but experiencing it in person, hearing the sound of the waterfall cascading under the house and smelling the wood from the fireplace was better than anything he could have imagined.” After the tour, the couple headed to the living room to enjoy champagne and caviar, which Jolie had arranged to have sent in. They later invited the staff to join them. According to the paper, Jolie told Fallingwater staff members of the birthday boy, “He’s so hard to buy for.”

(Source: People)

Britney Spears has turned to Justin Timberlake to cope with the breakdown of her second marriage. It has been claimed that Britney was making tearful phone calls to Justin even before she filed for divorce from Kevin Federline last week. A source told Britain’s Grazia magazine: “Justin said Britney has called him crying a number of times about her relationship with Kevin. She has gone through an excruciating time. It’s very sad. She doesn’t want anybody to feel sorry for her or see her as a victim. She has been trying for months to make it work for the sake of her children.” One of the tracks on Justin’s new album ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’ appears to be a warning to an ex-girlfriend, strongly believed to be Britney, about staying with an unfaithful partner. The lyrics to ‘What Goes Around…Comes Around’ read: “You spend your nights alone/ And he never comes home/ And every time you call him/ All you get is a busy tone/ I heard you found out/ That he’s doing to you/ What you did to me.” Britney filed for divorce last week after allegedly catching Kevin with another woman in a New York hotel.

(Source: Hollywood Rag)

Kevin Federline has gone from a life of luxury to watching every cent. The wannabe rapper is due to perform in Miami this weekend but rather than fly to the venue he went by bus. Kevin, 28, arrived in Florida on Tuesday with an entourage of six people. He bragged about going on a shopping spree but arrived back at his hotel empty-handed. According to the New York Post, Kevin was also seen eating at the “cheap” Oriente at Cardozo café on Ocean Drive. After dinner, Kevin and his entourage went to South Beach club Mansion - and filled up on the free drinks offers. Kevin will be hosting a party at Mansion tonight with his friend DJ Irie.

(Source: NY Post)

Paris Hilton has a sexual disease, according to Shanna Moakler. Shanna, the estranged wife of Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, made a jibe about Hilton’s sexual health after being quizzed about her feelings towards Paris. She told website X17: “All I have to say is don’t forget to take your Valtrex Paris.” Valtrex is an anti-herpes drug. The animosity between Paris and Shanna, a former Miss USA, began in September when Paris was seen kissing Travis. Paris and Shanna were then involved in a fight on October 4, with the hotel heiress filing a police report alleging that Shanna punched her in the jaw and screamed obscenities at her in Los Angeles’ Hyde nightclub. Shanna told police that Paris’ ex-boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos, pushed her down some stairs. Travis was the second lover Paris had reportedly stolen from Shanna. The singer also dated boxer Oscar De La Hoya. Shanna isn’t the only one getting her claws into Paris. Actress Tina Fey has been slamming the heiress’ hosting appearance on Saturday Night Live. She told radio DJ Howard Stern: “Paris was a nightmare! She took herself super-seriously and wouldn’t let anyone poke fun at her at all.” Tina then attacked Paris’ looks, saying: “Strands of her gross Barbie hair were found all over the set. Close up she actually looks like a transvestite.” Fey also said that when Paris became frustrated with the show’s writers she would “lock herself away in her dressing room”.

(Source: Bang)

Tina Fey, the former head writer of Saturday Night Live, and creator and star of the new NBC show, 30 Rock, dropped by Howard Stern’s Sirius Satellite radio show on Wednesday to share her thoughts on various past SNL guest hosts. She revealed that Paris Hilton asked the writers to make a skit in which she could play Jessica Simpson “because I hate her…she’s fat.” Fey also claims that Paris was so self-centered that staffers had a bet going on as to whether she would ask anyone something personal (like “How are you?”) during her week on-set. They only lost when she asked, “Is Maya Rudolph Italian?” (she’s half Black, half Jewish). In excerpts from the interview below, Tina dishes more on Paris and Matthew McConaughey.

On Paris Hilton:
HS: What is Paris Hilton like?

TF: She’s a piece of sh-t. The people at SNL were like maybe she’ll be fun, maybe she won’t take herself so seriously. She takes herself so seriously! She’s unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close.

HS: Was she bad on SNL, was she hard to deal with?

TF: She was awful. People never come in and say “I’m not doing that.” So, this guy Jim Downey wrote a really, really funny sketch, it was supposed to be Lorne Michaels just finding out that she had a sex tape and telling her she couldn’t host the show because SNL has standards… So she was like “I’m not doing it!” and refused to come out of her dressing room. Also, you would walk down the hall and find what just looked like nasty wads of Barbie hair on the stairs… Her hair is like a Fraggle.

HS: Did she give you ideas for sketches?

TF: Yeah, she wanted to make fun of all the girls she hates. She was like “I want to play Jessica Simpson, I hate her.” She would come in the room and say “you should do a show about Jessica Simpson because she’s fat.”

HS: What was t