Britney Spears Getting Fatter

BRITNEY Spears is in a bad place!
The singer downs booze, pills & junk food to fight depression — and it’s causing her to pile on the pounds, reports American tabloid the National Enquirer.
“In just the last six months, Britney has gone from 118 pounds to nearly 150, her heaviest ever,” a source said.
“I think her meds probably keep her focused and under control, but they increase her appetite and pile on the pounds.
“Britney’s depression has escalated in the last six or seven months and she drinks alcohol and eats junk food to cope, gorging on burgers and tacos, high-sugar sodas, chips and blended coffee drinks.”
Recent reports claimed Spears wants to revive her acting career.
The If You Seek Amy hitmaker is said to have been encouraged to explore her movie and TV options following a number of recent cameo roles.
“Britney is very mindful that she has to evolve as an artist now she is heading towards her thirties,” revealed a source close to the star.
“Music will always be a part of her life but she has come to love acting and comedy especially. She is currently considering a few scripts — one is a comedy and a kind of parody of the pop star she is and the other is a more serious role which is an action movie.”

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LeAnn Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian get married in Malibu ceremony

LeAnn Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian, who began dating while they were both wed to other people, married Friday night in Malibu.

UsMagazine.com said the intimate ceremony took place on a private estate.
No other details regarding the nuptials were reported.
The couple met on the set of the Lifetime movie "Northern Lights" in 2008.
After separating from their respective spouses, they went public with their romance in August 2009 and announced their engagement late last year.

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Meghan McCain debuts mini makeover at Time 100: She bangs!

Meghan McCain arrived at the April 26 "Time 100" party in New York with a bit of a new look. Th senator's daughter, author and blogger arrived with her trademark curly blond locks all tied up so she could flash some distinctive new bangs.

Speaking with People, McCain also admits that she's also gone a little blonder. "Blonder is always better, for me," she says. "I'm from Arizona, which is like being from Texas. So I like big hair and blond hair -- and lots of makeup all the time."

The 26-year-old was one of the more fashion-forward presences at the event, also wearing a zipper-covered Alexander McQueen dress. So what do you think of McCain's blonder, bang-ier 'do? We're giving it a tentative vote of approval until we see it a few more times.

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Chelsy Davy and Prince Harry: Back On?

For one night, at least, Prince Harry managed to wrestle the romantic spotlight away from his brother.

With Great Britain counting down the days until Prince William's April 29 wedding to Kate Middleton, Harry has made headlines over the weekend for appearing at a private London club with ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy.

According to The Sun, the pair exited in the trunk of a Jaguar together around 4 a.m.

Security guards flanked the vehicle, but onlookers caught a glimpse of the on-again/off-again duo and told the newspaper: "Neither seemed the worse the wear for drink when they climbed in and they acted as if it was the most normal thing."

For Davy and Harry, it was the normal thing for five years, until a surprising split in November. On the heels of this hook-up, however, insiders say Harry has also invited Chelsy to his brother's nuptials.

They should officially be an item again in no time.

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'They raped me with their hands': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying details of mob sex attack in Egypt

• Correspondent reveals 200-strong mob 'tore her clothes to pieces'
  
• 'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be a torturous death'

Lara Logan has spoken out for the first time since her terrifying sexual assault in Egypt, describing how attackers 'raped her with their hands'.
The 39-year-old CBS foreign correspondent said she was convinced she was going to die when the frenzied mob tore her away from her film crew and bodyguard in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
A group of at least 200 men beat her, pinched her and tore at her clothes in a 40-minute attack that only ended when a group of women came to her aid.
She told the New York Times: 'For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...What really struck me was how merciless they were. 'They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.'
She revealed the terrifying details in an interview with the newspaper today, and is expected to speak about her attack at greater length in an appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday.
Ms Logan, who returned to work this month, has not previously spoken about the assault, which reverberated around the world and highlighted the dangers women face while reporting.
But she said these will be her first and last interviews about the vicious assault. She said: 'I don’t want this to define me.' She was attacked on February 11, on her first day back in the city - and the day Hosni Mubarak's government finally fell.

'What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence'

She had been forced to leave a week before after she was detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces.
Ms Logan and her film crew made their way to Tahrir Square, where a jubilant crowd begged her for autographs.
But suddenly, as she was preparing a report for 60 Minutes, the mood turned violent. The camera battery went down, forcing the crew to stop.
As they worked to replace it her Egyptian cameraman heard one of the men in the crowd say he wanted to pull her pants down in Arabic. She told CBS: 'Suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, "we've got to get out of here".
'I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.' She told the Times: 'That was literally the moment the mob set on me.'
Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News, told the Times her producer, Max McClellan, and her two drivers were 'helpless because the mob was just so powerful'.
He said her bodyguard managed to hold on to her for a while, but the mob proved too strong and carried her away. Mr Fager said: 'For Max, to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts.'
Ms Logan described how her hand was sore for days afterwards, and she only later realised it was because she had been holding on so tightly to her bodyguard's hand.
She told the Times: 'My clothes were torn to pieces.' The attack lasted 40 minutes. She was only rescued when a group of local women brought 20 Egyptian soldiers to her aid. Mr Fager said he hoped Sunday's interview would help raise awareness of the sexual violence women journalists face when reporting from conflict zones.

He said: 'There’s a code of silence about it that I think it is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break.'
CBS immediately flew her back to the U.S. The channel posted guards outside her Washington home, where she hid herself away to recuperate along with her husband Joseph Burkett and their two young children.
Mr Fager said: 'She was quite traumatised, as you can imagine, for a period of time.'
Four days after the attack, he and Ms Logan drafted a statement released by CBS, until now the only official comment.

It said she had 'suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers'.
Ms Logan said she made the decision to speak out soon after the assault, on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse'.
She said the statement 'didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of'.
While physical violence against men is often discussed by the media, sexual threats against female journalists are rarely mentioned.
Ms Logan said, with sexual violence 'you only have your word. The physical wounds heal. You don’t carry around the evidence the way you would if you had lost your leg or your arm in Afghanistan.'
Just two months after the attack, Ms Logan has already vowed to return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, but said she has decided she will not return to Middle Eastern countries while widespread protests are ongoing.

She told the Times: 'The very nature of what we do - communicating information - is what’s undoing these regimes. It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.'
More than a dozen foreign journalists have been kidnapped in Libya since the uprising began there.
Times journalist Lynsey Addario said she was groped and harassed by her Libyan captors, a story which Ms Logan said was a 'setback' to her own recovery.

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Penelope Cruz gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star

 

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LOS ANGELES – Penelope Cruz has been enshrined in concrete.
The Oscar-winning actress unveiled her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star Friday, flanked by leading men Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp.
The event is timed ahead of next month's release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," in which she stars with Depp.

The Spanish star says that when she came to the United States in 1994, she only knew how to say "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp" in English.
She jokes that now, she knows how to say "I want to work with Johnny Depp again."
The 36-year-old actress co-starred with husband Bardem in her Oscar-winning role in "Vicky Christina Barcelona." They welcomed their son in January.

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Lindsay Lohan cleared in rehab fight probe

Lindsay Lohan has one less legal problem to worry about after a prosecutor decided not to charge her in connection with an altercation while she was in a substance abuse rehab program in December.

Lohan, who faces a preliminary hearing on a felony grand theft charge April 22, could also go back to jail on a probation violation charge on the same day.

But the Riverside County, California, district attorney decided Tuesday not to pursue a possible assault charge against the actress for a December 12, 2010, incident with Dawn Holland, a Betty Ford Center staffer, the prosecutor's spokesman said.

"Our office has completed review of the case, and we will not file charges due to insufficient evidence," spokesman John Hall said.

Lohan checked herself into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, for substance abuse rehab on September 28, 2010, just days after she dodged jail on another probation violation.

A Los Angeles County judge later ordered her to remain in the drug rehab program until January 3 for failing a drug test while on supervised probation for a 2007 drunken-driving charge.

An incident three weeks after she was released from rehab led to her latest legal problems. She allegedly walked out of a Venice, California, jewelry store wearing a necklace that she had not paid for, according to police.

Lohan rejected a plea deal last week, setting the stage for next month's preliminary hearing and a possible trial.

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Jennifer Aniston: I Turned Down ‘SNL’ For ‘Friends’

Actors Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston attend the 2011 People’s Choice Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on January 5, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

NEW YORK (CBS) — Jennifer Aniston could have been a regular on “Saturday Night Live,” but decided to become Rachel Green instead.

The former “Friends” actress told Oprah Winfrey Thursday that she was offered a job on “SNL” but turned it down to do the hit sitcom.

Aniston’s “Just Go With It” costar Adam Sandler (an “SNL” alum himself) remembered the actress’ rebuff.

“We wanted Aniston to be on the show with us,” he told Winfrey of his early “SNL” days. “And I remember being on the ninth floor, where Lorne Michaels’ office was, and seeing Jen come in. I was like, ‘Oh my God, there’s Aniston. Is she about to be on our show? Wow, I’m gonna be working with Aniston?’ “

But, he added, she decided not to take the offer.

“‘She said no? She’s gonna do that ‘Friends’? What the hell is ‘Friends’?” he recalled.

“Did Lorne Michaels offer that to you?” Winfrey asked of the “SNL” gig.

“Yeah,” Aniston answered. “I was…you know, I had this show ‘Friends’ coming up, and I thought…yeah…They thought I was making a huge mistake.”

“But it worked out for you,” Winfrey deadpanned.

“Yeah, it did all right,” Aniston said. :D

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Jennifer Hudson releases new album

Fans of the singer can look forward to her long-awaited second album, "I Remember Me," out March 22. Hudson said the title of the album reflects her personal journey: "I'm excited about this album because it's almost like a renewal for me, reflected through the chapters of my life."

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Laura Prepon to guest star on 'Castle' as 'Nikki Heat' actress

Laura Prepon of That '70s Show is set to guest star on the ABC mystery series Castle as Natalie Gray, an actress who will play fictional heroine Nikki Heat in a film adaptation of protagonist Richard Castle's crime novels that will be depicted on the show.

Castle, played by Nathan Fillion, based his character Heat on Kate Beckett, a New York detective played by Stana Katic. The two have worked together to solve crimes since he initially asked to shadow her for research purposes.

Prepon, 30, is set to appear in a Castle episode in early 2011, an ABC spokesperson said. Her character, Gray, will travel to New York and shadow Castle and Beckett during a case, which revolves around the murder of a millionaire matchmaker.
Castle is currently on its third season.
Prepon shot to fame playing red-headed Donna on the sitcom That '70s show, which also launched the careers of Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. The series ran from 1998 to 2006. Prepon has since guest starred on House, M.D., How I Met Your Mother and In Plain Sight.

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DIANE LANE: ‘I’M WILLING TO BE WRONG!’

DIANE Lane says “willing to be wrong” makes her marriage work.
The actress — who married Josh Brolin six years ago — says a successful relationship needs a bit of give and take.
“It’s staying grateful, humble, willing to be wrong and thinking about the other person at least as much as you think about yourself,” she said.
“Put yourself in the other person’s moccasins, you know?”
Diane recently admitted she thinks Josh looks a bit like Jesus — because of his beard!
“He does look a bit like Jesus — a few people have said that,” she said.
“I think it’s funny but I really like the beard. I think it looks really cute.”

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Jennifer Lopez to Launch New Fragrance, Love and Glamour

Jennifer Lopez announced today that she will be launching a new fragrance in October. Called Love and Glamour, this latest scent is inspired by her own return to life on the A-list. Lopez pioneered the celebrity fragrance category back in 2002 and her other 16 fragrances have taken in a whopping $1 billion over the course of 16 launches. Not too bad for a girl from the block.

But how does Lopez feel about the other celebs who have jumped on the celebrity fragrance band wagon? “More power to them,” Lopez tells WWD. “I am very competitive, but I don’t look at it [as a competition.] I’ve always thought that authenticity, at the end of the day, wins, and the cream always rises to the top. I really don’t worry about other people, because I’m in competition with myself.”

Lopez, who is set to renew her vows with husband of six years, Marc Anthony this Saturday, also says that the creation of Love and Glamour was an “exacting process.” “I drive [Coty] a little bit crazy,” she said. “Because it’s always not signature enough. I go back and say things like, ‘Can we push the sandalwood a little bit more, can we make it a tiny bit more sexy?’ To translate that into actual chemistry is a difficult thing. Then they go back and say, ‘What does she mean by sexy?’ she explains to WWD.

But how did she come up with the concept? “What I always like to do is look at where I am in my life at the moment. [Here] it was right after the babies and was when I was getting back to work and getting back to what I do again. It just felt like a time of a lot of love and that seemed very romantic to me — I said it seems like love and glamour. As a name, Love and Glamour seemed like a really aspirational, fun and beautiful thing that we could work with in many, many ways.”

If your tastes in fragrance leans toward notes of Italian mandarin, guava and nectarine pulp, or if you’re a fan of, coconut orchid, you’re going to delight in Love and Glamour. But, will you buy yet another fragrance from Jennifer Lopez? Or have you had enough?

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