Sunday, March 15, 2009
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.
Labels: Americas NexT Top Model, Britney Spears, celeb baby, Charlie Sheen, jade goody, kevin federline, lionel richie, steve martin
Friday, February 13, 2009
Serena and Blair may jokingly put down vegetarian food, but Gossip Girl Dreama Walker, who plays Hazel Williams on the show, is now worshiping seitan.Walker has embarked on a 30 day vegan adventure, motivated partly by her watching the Joaquin Phoenix narrated documentary Earthlings.
So far, Dreama's enjoying it and says she will probably continue, but does what to experiment to see how her body will react to eating dairy again.
Sounds like Dreama should also pay Rob Sedgwick a visit. She absolutely loves vegan ice cream!
"It's uncanny how much the soy ice cream tastes like real ice cream!!" she exclaimed during her interview with Ecorazzi.
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According to the Nielsen ratings...
For the fourth week in a row, the estrogen-packed talk show The View came out on top of the daytime Nielson ratings with 4.42 million viewers last week!! Yes, beating out Oprah.
As well as being #1 for daytime, The View was also the second most-watched show by women for the week.
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Steve Martin insists he's unfazed by poor reviews for his new movie The Pink Panther 2 - insisting comedy is "not a critics' medium".
"To me, Inspector Clouseau is the comedian's Hamlet. It's one of the most difficult roles to play, I think," Martin said at the Berlin Film Festival, where the film is showing out of competition.
"Comedy is not a critics' medium," he added. "It just isn't."
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Hilary Duff is looking to land a role in Twilight sequel New Moon.
The Lizzie McGuire star, 21, was heard backstage at Mercedes Benz Fashion week talking to Twilight star Peter Facinelli about how badly she wants to star in the second movie based on the books by author Stephanie Meyer, reports HollyScoop.
"Hilary told Peter how bad she wants to be in the next Twilight movie," a source said. "Hilary said that she would want to be one of the vampires in the movie."
I thought she was working on being in the Bonnie and Clyde remake?
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Rock legends Van Halen have put plans for a new album on hold - so the band's youngest member Wolfgang Van Halen can finish high school.
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Rocker Jon Bon Jovi is suing a former employee of his Arena football team Philadelphia Soul, accusing the man of copyright infringement.
The Arena Football League (AFL) team was crowned champions in 2008 and each player was given a special ring to commemorate the occasion. The Bon Jovi frontman and officials at Philadelphia Soul claim ex-sales manager Joe Krause illegally made his own version of the championship rings and sold them on to the public.
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Congratulations to Kevin Costner and his wife Christine Baumgartner, who have just welcomed a baby boy into the world!
Christine gave birth to Hayes Logan Costner last night, coming in at 8 lbs., 15 oz., according to MSNBC.
The name Hayes is reportedly a "cowboy character" in a Western film that Costner intends on making in the future. This is second boy for the couple, who also have a son named Caden Wyatt.
In other celebrity baby news, Mira Sorvino has just announced that she's pregnant with her third child with husband Christopher Backus!
Labels: Bon Jovi, celeb baby, christine baumgartner, christopher backus, dreama walker, Gossip Girl, hilary duff, kevin costner, mira sorvina, Oprah, steve martin, the view, twilight, van halen
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