Saturday, April 4, 2009
Mourning Jade Goody; Is Buffy Back?, Downey is 44 today

Thousands of mourners have arrived at the church where Jade Goody's funeral is being held.

Jade Goody's distraught widower Jack Tweed opened her funeral service by reading a moving poem in tribute to his 'brightest star'.

Entitled 'If Only' the poem he penned told how the couple's love was cut cruelly short by cancer and how he desperately wishes for his wife back.

One line read: "If only tears could build a stairway and heartaches make a lane we would walk the path to heaven and bring you back again." (Got news for you folks, he did not pen that, but it's still sweet nonetheless.)

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Sarah Michelle Gellar is reportedly in talks to reprise her role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer - for a movie.

The 31-year-old actress ended her role as Buffy in 2003 after a six-year run.

Now the feisty character could be making a return on the big screen.

An insider says, "There is an idea for a script and to pick the story up with Buffy older and maybe even a mother.

"Michelle is busy with movie projects at the moment but she is excited about the idea. Buffy still has a huge fan-base so this is a movie that already has an audience.

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Happy Birthday to Robert Downey Jr. who turns 44 today.

Robert currently riding high on his success in 2008 (Iron Man and Tropic Thunder), both commercially sound and picking up an oscar nod for the second. Over the next year he's got The Soloist (meh comments from Showest) and Sherlock Holmes coming up. That should keep him in the spotlight for at least next couple of years.

During the press junket of "The Soloist" Friday, April 3, Robert Downey Jr. has finally broken the silence over "Iron Man 2" possible plot. When asked by MTV whether this "Iron Man" sequel will be based on the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline, he responded by saying, "Not really. As a matter of fact, I think that's probably best saved because it's such its own storyline."

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Britney Spears spent some time partying with her new boyfriend Chase Benz in Dallas, Texas after a Circus tour show concluded the other night. Benz is a backup dancer, much like Kevin Federline was.

Wonder what her pops thinks of this guy...

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Miley Cyrus' pre-recorded performance for hit reality singing competition "American Idol" has just got its airdate. Announced on her official website, the performance where she sings ballad song "The Climb" will be televised on April 15, 2009.

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A nanny claims Robert De Niro and his wife stiffed her out of more than $40,000 in back pay, The Post's Dareh Gregorian reports. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Alexis Barry says she went to work for the "Meet the Parents" star and Grace Hightower in 2006. The couple allegedly agreed to pay her $31.25 an hour to care for their son Elliott, now 11, with overtime at $46.88. But the De Niros never paid the overtime, the suit says.

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    Sunday, March 15, 2009
    Some boring celeb news for your weekend

    Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen and wife Brooke Mueller Sheen welcomed twin boys Saturday night. The children, named Max and Bob, are the first for the couple, who married in May 2008.

    "They're doing great," Sheen's publicist Stan Rosenfield tells PEOPLE of the babies, who weren't due for another few weeks. "And Brooke's doing great."

    The two, who married in May of last year, announced last October that two babies were on the way! Sheen already has three daughters -- Sam, 5, and Lola, 3, with his ex-wife Denise Richards -- and 24-year-old Cassandra from a previous relationship with ex-girlfriend Paula Profitt.

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    Pop star Lionel Richie flew into a panic at the news his daughter Nicole was pregnant - as he believed it would spell an end to his sex appeal.

    The All Night Long star, 59, believed the birth of 14-month old Harlow, fathered by punk rocker Joel Madden, would signal his sex symbol status was over.

    Yet Richie now admits he enjoys life as a grandfather, albeit at a distance.

    He tells British tabloid the Daily Record, "I went through a panic - that's the end of my career. But I'm having more fun now with the responsibility of being a grandpa - that is, playing with the baby and handing her back."

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    Jade Goody was visited by a priest on Sunday and is in a coma-like state, her publicist Max Clifford has said.

    The cancer-stricken reality TV star - who is said to have just hours left to live after her condition worsened over the weekend - is now said to be in a "critical" condition.

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    Three people were arrested and six others hurt Saturday after bedlam broke out while they waited to audition for America's Next Top Model, police said.

    Police didn't know what prompted the chaos involving hundreds of people outside the Park Central New York hotel in Manhattan. The panic left the street outside the hotel littered with shoes and clothing, according to news reports.

    "It was pretty scary," Jessica Paravati told WNYW-TV. She said she was caught up in a stampede after waiting on line overnight, hoping for a shot at stardom on the reality show.

    Two women and a man were arrested on disorderly conduct charges, police said. Authorities also shut down the audition, saying it wasn't properly organized.

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    Actor and comedian Steve Martin has offered to pay for the off-campus production of his play Picasso at the Lapin Agile after it was banned from an Oregon high school.

    Martin wrote in a letter to The La Grande Observer that his goal in paying for the performance of the play is to keep his work "from acquiring a reputation it does not deserve," the Associated Press reports.

    According to reports, Picasso at the Lapin Agile was banned from La Grande High School in Oregon after a parent objected to the production and provided a petition signed by 137 people. The main objections to the play were the drinking scenes and its alleged disrespectful references to women.

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    With Kevin Federline joining Britney Spears on her current 'Circus' tour to keep an eye on their two children Sean Preston and Jayden James, Star magazine hears that the divorced pair could be on the way to reconciling. "The truth is, they're falling in love again," an insider claimed. "I don't think they ever really fell out of love to begin with!" The family friend added that "some kissing" has been happening of late.

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