Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her rock-star husband Pete Wentz have become parents for the first time, People magazine reported on Friday.
Simpson-Wentz, 24, delivered a boy, named Bronx Mowgli Wentz, on Thursday, and all are doing well, People quoted a spokesperson as saying.
The report did not specify a location, but rival tabloid In Touch Weekly reported earlier on Thursday that Simpson-Wentz was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The singer, the younger sister of tabloid magnet Jessica Simpson, has released three albums, and is famous for singing to a prerecorded track that malfunctioned on "Saturday Night Live" in 2004. She married Wentz this past May.
Wentz is the bass player and main lyricist for the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy, which topped the U.S. album chart in February 2007 with its most recent album, "Infinity on High."
Via reuters.com
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz delivers baby boy
viernes, 21 de noviembre de 2008 | Etiquetas: Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz
Britney Spears Regrets Marrying Kevin Federline
jueves, 20 de noviembre de 2008 | Etiquetas: Britney Spears, Kevin Federline
Britney Spears thinks maybe marrying Kevin Federline was not such a good idea. In her upcoming MTV documentary, “Britney: For The Record,” she says she “married for all the wrong reasons.”
Britney Spears thinks maybe marrying Kevin Federline was not such a good idea.
In her upcoming MTV documentary, “Britney: For The Record,” she says she “married for all the wrong reasons.”
She says instead of following her heart, she did it “for just, like, the idea of everything.”
“Britney: For the Record” will air Nov. 30.
Via wjbf.com
Paris Hilton and her boyfriend of nine months, Benji Madden, have broken up. Hilton publicist Alanna McCarthy said Wednesday that the two "remain very good friends." She wouldn't say more.
Hilton and Madden have been photographed wearing rings with each other's initials. The 27-year-old socialite also joined her boyfriend when he toured with his rock band, Good Charlotte.
The 29-year-old Madden plays guitar, and his identical twin brother, Joel, is the lead singer.
Joel Madden has a daughter with Nicole Richie, Hilton's longtime friend and reality-TV co-star.
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Hugh Jackman crowned People's `Sexiest Man Alive'
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2008 | Etiquetas: Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman says wife Deborra Lee Furness teased him after finding out he'd been named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive."
Recalling Furness' reaction, Jackman says: "God bless her, she said, `I could've told them that years ago! And then she said, `Obviously Brad (Pitt) wasn't available this year.' And I said, `That was a joke, right?'"
The magazine's executive editor, Jess Cagle, said Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show that Jackman is a "surprising choice," but he'd been on the editors' minds "for a long time and it seemed like this was the year to do him."
Cagle pointed out that not only is Jackman's career at its peak, with the "X-Men" movies and his upcoming epic with Nicole Kidman "Australia," but he's "built like a tank."
Via associatedpress
Christopher Ciccone has little in common with his sister, ultra fit and apparently ageless pop star Madonna.
The 47-year-old Ciccone is so reserved he comes across almost as shy. He’s wrapped in an oversized hooded sweatshirt, and the wrinkles show around his eyes, making him look personable.
Despite the cool autumn weather, he prefers to sit on the terrace of a New York hotel for an interview about the book he has written about his famous sister. Perhaps it’s so that he can tamp down a touch of nerves with a cigarette.
He likes to refer to himself and Madonna as “we”, although he has fallen out badly with her since Life With My Sister Madonna was published in English this summer. The book has recently been published in German.
In a family of eight in Rochester, Michigan, Christopher Ciccone was 27 months younger and closest in age to Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone.
Together, they managed to break out of the tightly knit family, and in the early 1980s they lived together in a derelict apartment in New York City. Their lives revolved around the Manhattan dance club scene, and they mingled with film stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Sean Penn.
Ciccone witnessed his sister’s rise from their modest home to her current status as a legend of the music industry – the queen of pop.
He was her personal assistant, a backup dancer in her act, her decorator, her art and concert tour director. He helped her change clothes between numbers and wiped the sweat from her body. Madonna is known for her lack of inhibition, but Ciccone has written that in private she is too shy and prudish to appear naked in front of a stranger.
But his tales get far more scandalous, and the book has even been cited in recent reports about Madonna’s split from Guy Ritchie, which had been rumoured for months, and was recently announced by the couple.
However, genuine secrets aren’t to be found within the pages of the book. Her reputation as a control freak, leaving nothing in her career to chance, is already well documented.
Madonna acknowledged Ciccone’s loyal services poorly, her brother wro te . For example, she outed him as gay in an interview with a British newspaper in 1991 without consulting him about it first, and she failed to compensate him financially for his work in helping her sell millions of albums.
Ciccone writes that she committed a sacrilege in the 1991 documentary film In Bed With Madonna, when she frolicked on their mother’s grave.
He said there’s nothing sacred to Madonna, not even the memory of their mother, who died when Madonna was five years old .
Ciccone has described Madonna as self-centred.
“The focus of her world is her. You don’t get to where she is and stay there for 20 years by focusing on other people,” he said.
His comments don’t sound bitter. Ciccone said he didn’t want to hurt anyone by writing the book, just rediscover himself.
Somewhere between all the partying with famous people, the screaming fans and his dedication to his sister’s career, he lost his own identity.
“I have no regrets about our life together. It’s been a bumpy road, and it has been very high and very low, but it is a life I have gotten used to. It makes me what I am,” Ciccone said.
He recognises that for the rest of his life he will be the brother of Madonna. After years of therapy and the publication of the book, he’s come to terms with it.
He’s also convinced that one day he’ll reconcile with his sister, but this time he has a condition.
“The first requirement I have is: She has to read the book. She needs to know my perspective.”
Via dispatch.co.za
Fergie's diet plans have been put on hold because she has to return to the set of new movie Nine to shoot extra scenes in December (08).
The pop star was hoping to lose the 13 pounds (5.8 kilograms) she piled on for her role of Saraghina in the movie musical over Thanksgiving at the end of November (080, but she has been told to keep her shapely figure for another few weeks.
She says, "I have three more days left of shooting in December, but it's for the finale and I'm a little more covered up... so I've started to try get back my muscle tone... I'm not trying to do as much cardio because I still want to keep on a little bit of the weight for my shooting in December."
And Fergie admits she had no reservation packing on the pounds - and had fun preparing for her new film role.
She adds, "They just asked me, 'Can you gain weight?' because the role really calls for it and when I'm amongst actors of this calibre, I'm not gonna be so vain as to not completely dive into the role. I had a great time doing it.
"To gain weight, I just completely stopped working out... and ate anything and everything I wanted."
Via contactmusic.com
Actress Winona Ryder was admitted to a west London hospital after being taken ill on a flight to Heathrow.
The 37-year-old was met by medics at Heathrow after being taken off the flight from Los Angeles.
A British Airways spokesman said the captain of the flight had requested a priority landing after she became ill.
Ryder, the star of movies such as Girl, Interrupted and Edward Scissorhands, was admitted to hospital in the morning and discharged a few hours later.
A spokesman for British Airways said: "The captain of BA282, which was travelling from LA to Heathrow, requested a priority landing as a female passenger required medical attention.
"The passenger was taken to a local hospital for treatment. The plane touched down shortly before noon UK time."
BA also said crew had looked after her as much as they could before the plane landed, and passenger service staff had gone with her to hospital.
Ryder will appear alongside Simon Pegg and Eric Bana in the forthcoming Star Trek film.
Via bbc.co.uk
Carla Bruni's new album shot to the top of the charts in France but anyone looking for clues about her love life with her husband, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, won't have any luck.
"They are only songs. It's not so precise about life ... It's not exactly your own real life," Bruni said during an appearance on NBC's Today Show on Wednesday.
Italian-born Bruni, a former supermodel-turned-pop singer who wed Sarkozy in February after a whirlwind romance, released her third album, "Comme si de rien n'etait" (As if nothing had happened), in July.
She performed live on the morning news show as part of a tour to promote the album. Some of its lyrics have caused a stir and prompted a search for hints about past love affairs with intellectuals and rock stars, including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, and her marriage to Sarkozy.
One song with the lyrics "You are my drug, more lethal than heroin from Afghanistan, more dangerous than Colombian cocaine," prompted Colombia's government to criticize the song as "hurtful."
Bruni discouraged close analysis of the songs, describing them as simple folk songs that "you play just sitting in your living room ... by the fireplace."
Bruni, who has two earlier albums, admitted to some apprehension about releasing the album after becoming France's first lady.
"At the beginning, I got worried that people might take it wrong, because they are not used to it. Usually first ladies have been supporting their husbands," Bruni explained.
"I thought that maybe for a woman nowadays, you know, it's important to have a job and to keep it," she added.
Bruni said France was enthusiastic about the election of Barack Obama and she is looking forward to meeting his wife Michelle
"She looks like she's a great, strong intelligent woman," she said.
Via reuters.com
John Sergeant dramatically quit Strictly Come Dancing saying the joke was wearing thin.
The 64-year-old former BBC political correspondent brushed off suggestions he had been bullied and said he left to avoid a "bloody battle". He said there was a real danger he might win and told a press conference at BBC Television Centre in London: "That is a frightening thought, it is a terrifying thought.
"I didn't want that to happen because it would have been a very bittersweet victory." Falling back on his years of political election reporting, he added: "The problem was there was no viable Stop Sergeant candidate."
Sergeant, who has come under fire from judges for his clumsy footwork, said: "I decide to choose my own battles. What I did not want was a bloody battle." But he added he was very grateful to everyone who had voted for him over the last few weeks.
Viewers' love for Sergeant has kept him in the popular BBC1 show - despite him coming bottom of the score table three weeks in a row with dance partner Kristina Rihanoff.
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt announced that anyone who had voted for Sergeant and wanted to be reimbursed would be. The BBC's website has been flooded with comments from "strictly incensed" viewers angry at his departure.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson added his voice of support. He said: "John Sergeant should not bow out. He has become the people's John Travolta and he should be a fighter, not a quitter."
Sergeant will end his dancing career with a last waltz on Saturday, saying after that: "I shall return to my rather quiet life."
He was grilled by Newsnight heavyweight Jeremy Paxman among others over the reasons for his departure. In front of a glitzy backdrop, Sergeant defended his move to quit the show.
He said: "The reasons for leaving; well it is like when do you leave a party? You leave before the fighting starts and I think that is what has happened on this occasion."
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The former escort who helped bring down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer tells People magazine that she is sorriest about the pain felt by his wife.
Ashley Dupre, in an interview in the issue to be published Friday, said that her encounter with the man she knew as "Client No. 9" and "George Fox" was "strictly business." She said she only learned who her client was when she watched him on television announcing his resignation -- and she was only watching because her mother had called about it.
What hit her when she saw Spitzer on television was his wife, Silda.
"I try not to revisit that place too often, but when I think about his speech, I think of her face, her eyes, the hurt," she said.
Dupre was working for the Emperors Club VIP, servicing clients who paid thousands of dollars for her company. She said that she told her mother how she was making a living after the FBI informed her that one of her clients was under investigation.
She said her mother found the news "extremely painful" but did not get mad at her.
Via upi.com
