Celebrity Gossip

Capping off a year of setbacks, comebacks, and a new bundle of joy, the Spears family has another surprise in store – a wedding!
Britney Spears’s big brother, Bryan Spears, 31, is newly engaged to Graciella Sanchez, 36, and the pair plan to wed soon – possibly over the New Year’s holiday, sources says.
The couple have […]

A suggested New Year’s resolution for Matt Dillon: Slow down.
On Tuesday night, the actor, 44, was pulled over in Newbury, Vt., after state troopers clocked him driving 106 mph in a 65 mph zone.
Dillon, who was driving a rented 2009 Chevy Impala, was taken to a station in nearby Bradford, where he was photographed, fingerprinted […]

Charles Barkley was arrested early Wednesday in Arizona on charges of driving while impaired.
Police say they noticed Barkley, 45, running a stop sign in the Old Town section of Scottsdale at about 1:30 a.m. Officers pulled Barkley over, took him to a nearby mobile command post, and administered a blood test after declining to submit […]

Talk about six degrees being too close for comfort. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are the latest known victims of Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
“I can confirm that they had investments with Mr. Madoff – no further specifics or comment beyond that,” Bacon’s rep, Allen Eichorn, told New York Magazine Tuesday.
As for reports that […]

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo may be feeling the pain from torn cartilage in his ribs – not to mention his team’s blistering loss to the Philadelphia Eagles over the weekend – but he does have one thing going for him: Jessica Simpson.
The athlete’s girlfriend “rushed to his side as soon as she found out […]

Personal troubles or no, Britney Spears is still the hottest human being on Planet Earth, according to USA Today’s annual Celebrity Heat Index, which measures how much exposure a star gets in print and online.
Brit got more media attention than anyone else for 11 weeks this year, meaning she earned the top spot on the […]

After two decades together, Woody Harrelson and his girlfriend Laura Louie made it legal on Sunday.
The 47-year-old actor and Louie, 43, “were officially married yesterday on the island of Maui,” his rep says.
The intimate ceremony was attended by family and friends.
The couple have three daughters, Makani Ravello, 2, Zoe Giordano, 12 and Denni Montana, 15.

Zooey Deschanel is ready to walk down the aisle.
The actress and singer, 28, and Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard, 32, who is also in the indie band the Postal Service, got engaged before the holidays, a source confirms.
Gibbard presented his new fiancée with a three-carat diamond and platinum Neil Lane ring, according to […]

How does the son of a couple rock stars spend the Christmas holiday? Learning to roller skate!
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale took their eldest son Kingston, 2, to Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale on Dec. 23 for an afternoon on wheels.
“It looked like it was Kingston’s first time roller skating, and the little guy looked so […]

Don’t believe the holiday engagement rumors swirling around supermodel Gisele Bündchen and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
Brady’s father, Tom Brady Sr., told The Boston Globe on Friday that reports of his son’s engagement were “rumor, rumor, rumor … We don’t know a thing about it. Nobody told me. We talked to him and there’s […]

Taylor Swift has opened up about her past relationships, but when it comes to romance, the 19-year-old singer says she was a late bloomer.

“I was 15 and the oldest out of all my friends to have not kissed a guy,” Swift tells Your Prom magazine for its spring issue.
Now she’s making up for lost time […]

Meet B. Mo!
Proud parents Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz took the holidays as a reason to show off their newborn son, Bronx Mowgli, on the Web.
The couple posted a “Happy Holidays” greeting addressed to “all our friends” on Wentz’s site, friendsorenemies.com, that reads, “We decided to share the best gift we could ever receive with […]

Jennifer Aniston met up with friends David and Courteney Cox Arquette and their 4-year-old daughter Coco Wednesday for their annual Christmas Eve dinner at Mastro’s Steakhouse in Beverly Hills.
“Jen and Courteney chatted non-stop,” a source says. “Jen was also very sweet to Coco and the two giggled together.”
While Aniston’s beau John Mayer remained on the […]

The same week Paris Hilton was burgled out of nearly $2 million in jewelry from her Sherman Oaks, Calif., home, she’s added a customized $200,000 Bentley Continental GT to her garage.
While it may look pink in photos, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that this British bit of heaven on wheels is actually rose-colored. It also […]

Paris Hilton says police needn’t look far to find the culprit who broke into her new mansion early Friday morning and stole nearly $2 million worth of jewelry and personal items.
The heiress believes it was an inside job.
“I think whoever did this, definitely has been there before,” Hilton, 27, told E! News Monday at the […]

Contrary to most others in the American workplace this year, Britney Spears’s father, Jamie Spears, just got a salary increase: to about $75 an hour.

On Monday, a Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner boosted by an additional $51,000 the elder Spears’s payment for acting as his daughter’s conservator, the Associated Press reports.
Since February, Jamie, 56, has […]

Kellie Pickler just returned from a whirlwind USO tour of military bases around the world, and the exhausted country singer says she can’t shake two things from her mind.
“Seeing the faces of over 20,000 military men and women (that is forever imprinted in my mind),” Pickler writes in a new post on her MySpace blog. […]

Christina Aguilera got all dressed up for her birthday – and not in a gown.
The singer celebrated her 28th birthday on Dec. 18 with a Clockwork Orange-themed bash at Beverly Hills’ SLS Hotel along with husband Jordan Bratman and pals Nicole Richie and Joel Madden.
Arriving by a private party van, the singer and her friends […]

Bridget Marquardt may have lived in the Playboy Mansion with Kendra Wilkinson, but she hardly recognizes her former housemate – and The Girls Next Door castmate – anymore. And that’s not a bad thing.
“She’s doing amazing, she’s so in love,” Marquardt, 35, said of Wilkinson, 23, who recently became engaged to NFL player Hank Baskett. […]

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s secret wedding in the Bahamas may have surprised fans, but it also caught someone else off guard – one of Cannon’s ex-girlfriends.
“I definitely was shocked like everybody else,” Christina Milian, who dated her Love Don’t Cost a Thing costar in 2005, tells Rap-Up magazine in its Winter 08/09 issue, on […]

It takes more than minor surgery to keep down Taylor Swift!
The singer – who recently had her wisdom teeth removed – has been blogging through the pain, keeping fans posted on her recovery.
“So I’m laying in bed, half asleep,” she wrote Thursday on her MySpace Celebrity blog. And the pain? “I’m feeling it.”
But Swift – […]

Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds won’t be playing mom and dad anytime soon.
“I’m 24 years old! I’ve got a lot of time for that,” the actress, who got hitched Sept. 27, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview to air Thursday.
“I love to work and I’m enjoying myself right now,” Johansson said at the premiere of […]

Some tidbits seem obvious. “Once I’ve worn a dress, I can never wear it again,” Paris Hilton tells Esquire.
But what you may not know, says the heiress, 27, is what happens next: “I give them to charities and they auction them off to help people with breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, and AIDS.”
What’s more, says Hilton, […]

His longtime love Angelina Jolie was recently named the highest-paid woman in Hollywood, and he’s not far behind, taking home $20 million for his new flick The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But when the holiday season rolls around, Brad Pitt says he and Jolie aren’t big spenders for their brood of six, preferring making […]

Jodie Sweetin recently underwent an emergency investigation by an Orange County, Calif., family court for allegations of substance abuse raised by her estranged husband.

“It’s primarily alcohol [abuse] but there’s also concern regarding methamphetamines,” Robert Benavente, the lawyer for her ex Cody Herpin, says.
Sweetin’s lawyer strongly denies the claims. “Jodie absolutely has not relapsed into using […]

It’s been a big year for Jennifer Aniston: A new home in Beverly Hills, a new boyfriend (musician John Mayer, 31) and a new comedy, Marley & Me (costarring Owen Wilson), which hits theaters Christmas day.
The Hollywood star sat down to answer questions submitted by readers about life, love, finding happiness – and canine jealousy.
How […]

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony took a break from diaper duty with twins Max and Emme Tuesday night, when they opted for a romantic, adult dinner at Andrew Hewitt’s new Pacific-Rim-inspired Beverly Hills restaurant, Luau.
The couple snuggled together in a booth, feeding one another Kobe meatballs and enjoying – as they ate with their hands […]

Lauren “Lo” Bosworth says she was surprised to learn that her Hills costars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt tied the knot while in Mexico away from family and friends — and after a night of tequila and champagne.
“I always thought they were going to get married,” Bosworth said on The Hills: Live After the Show […]

Diddy and Kim Porter have had a longtime on-again off-again romance – but the pair celebrated in style together when the music mogul threw an intimate birthday bash for her in West Hollywood Monday.
Nearly 30 guests, including Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo and husband Chris Ivery, co-star Sara Ramirez and reality TV’s Lisa Gastineau, gathered […]

While former couple Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling made headlines this summer after a little bit of PDA in Toronto, a source says the two actors are both “openly single” right now.
Gosling “is still close to McAdams’s family and he still speaks to Rachel, but they are both openly single,” the source says. “He still […]

Watch out, Harvard. She’s not even three years old, but little Suri Cruise is a bona fide brainiac, boasts her proud papa.
“Her vocabulary is incredible,” Tom Cruise said Monday night at the New York premiere of Valkyrie.
Still, his favorite words are some of the most simple. “I love hearing ‘I love you, dada,’ or, ‘I […]

Madonna has reached a divorce settlement with Guy Ritchie, according to the singer’s rep.
The pop star will pay her ex between $76 million and $92 million, her spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg tells the Associated Press.
Rosenberg says the figure includes the value of their country home Ashcombe, in western England, as well as the couple’s London pub, […]

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber welcomed their second child.
“I can confirm Naomi and Liev had a baby boy yesterday,” said the actress’s rep.
A couple since 2005, Watts, 40, and Schreiber, 41, already have a baby boy, Alexander Pete Schreiber, born July 26, 2007.
Earlier this year, Watts boasted of her first-born, “He’s turning pages in the […]

He’s only 2, but Jayden James Federline already knows how to upstage his famous mama.

“I want to wish everybody out there a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” Britney Spears says in a video greeting posted Tuesday on her Web site. “And I want to thank all of my fans for making my album, […]

It’s a boy – again!
The singer’s rep confirms that Usher and his wife Tameka have a new addition to the family: a baby boy.
“Usher and Tameka Raymond welcomed their second son, Naviyd Ely Raymond, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2:33 a.m. weighing 5 lbs., 13 oz.,” says the rep. “Tameka and the baby are doing fine.”
Naviyd […]

Kate Walsh and her husband, Alex Young, are divorcing.
According to court papers obtained, Young, 37, petitioned for a divorce, citing irreconcilable differences in his Nov. 22 filing.
The Private Practice star, 41, wed Young – a production co-president at 20th Century Fox – on Sept. 1, 2007, in the town of Ojai, just north of Los […]

Macaulay Culkin’s sister, Dakota, was struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles this week, police confirm.
The 29-year-old stepped in front of a car in West L.A. just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday and was rushed to UCLA hospital with massive head trauma, according to LAPD spokesman Richard French. She died the following day.
“The […]

Jennifer Aniston puts on a necktie and leaves the rest in the hamper for a provocative GQ cover and sassy interview that addresses rumors about John Mayer.
“I am not having his baby. And I have not popped the question,” the actress, 39, tells January’s GQ (on stands Dec. 23).
Aniston also pokes fun at her recent […]

Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez celebrated Thanksgiving with his family in Miami before heading off to spend time with Madonna just days after her preliminary divorce from Guy Ritchie was granted, according to reports.
Rodriguez scored a front-row seat at Madonna’s South Florida concert Wednesday night at Dolphin Stadium, where he helped the pop diva stay cool […]

Suri Cruise had something special to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: a few famous playmates.

Suri, 2, and the family – including parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and siblings Connor, 13, and Isabella, 15 – were joined by David and Victoria Beckham and their three sons, Brooklyn, 9, Romeo, 6, and Cruz, 3, to spend […]