Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson
Nick Lachey was in Houston promoting his hit single, "What's Left of Me," when he got the call: His brother Drew's wife, Lea, was in labor in Los Angeles.
Although Nick was scheduled to fly to Miami as part of his 11-city radio tour, he canceled the appearance and hopped a flight to L.A. to be with his younger sibling.
On March 23, Drew and Lea, both 29, welcomed daughter Isabella to the family. For Nick, the event was bittersweet. Seeing his brother's baby made him realize how far he is from his own dream of having a family.
Since wife Jessica, 25, filed for divorce last December, the 32-year-old heartthrob has dated a string of beauties, including ex-beauty queen Lizzie Arnold, 26, and Laguna Beach hottie Kristin Cavallari, 19, but the relationships all fizzled fast.
The reason, says an insider, is because they don't hold a candle to Nick's first love — Jessica!
"The truth is, moving on from Jessica hasn't been so easy," says the source. "Nick is at the point in his life where he'd prefer to settle down, and Jessica is the only person he's ever considered having kids with. Every woman he meets, Nick winds up stacking up against Jessica."STILL STUCK ON ONE ANOTHER Nick isn't the only one who is finding it hard to move forward.
"Jess sees photos of Nick out with other women, and it's breaking her heart," says a source. Now Jessica is telling friends that she's having second thoughts about the end of their three-year marriage.
"Jessica is realizing that she and Nick never really had a fair shot," says a source. "The first two years of their marriage, they were never alone. They were shooting Newlyweds — how can you develop a deep, loving relationship in front of a camera?"
Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson have both been lonely lately, and their new romances haven't been working out.
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Kevin Get's A Job!
Kevin Federline
After two years of living off his wife's millions, Mr. Britney Spears finally earned some of his own cash — for a change. On March 25, Kevin Federline was hired to appear for three hours at Atlanta's Vision Nightclub.
The would-be rapper earned an estimated $20,000 fee for sitting in the club's "VIP circle" area (where guests could buy 10-person tables for $1,500 apiece), giving shout-outs to the crowd, and lip-synching when the DJ played his new song, "PopoZao." "It's unbelievable how high he ranked as a club draw," media promoter Chris Kappy, who arranged the gig, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Only Paris Hilton ranked higher in the survey we did.
He's just such an oddity."And not an ideal hire, either. Though he was booked to appear at 11 p.m., Federline and Spears, who were staying together at Atlanta's Ritz-Carlton hotel, didn't arrive until 12:30 a.m. — and slipped out at 2:05 a.m., almost an hour earlier than scheduled.
And while he was whooping it up, Britney "looked miserable," the source says. "At one point, Kevin was singing to her, and Britney just laughed at him!"
THE GOOD TIMES That's a sharp contrast to the previous week, when Federline and Spears, pregnant with their second child, were in a frisky mood — looking like a couple whose rocky marriage might actually be back on track. On March 21, Kevin's 28th birthday, Britney threw him a party at Las Vegas' Tao restaurant where, a source tells Star, "she sat on Kevin's lap and fed him appetizers."The couple and their friends feasted on Kobe beef, crispy tuna, Chilean sea bass and sweet shrimp — before heading to Pure nightclub.
There, Kevin and Britney, 24, about three months pregnant and clad in a low-cut black cocktail dress, "held hands, kissed, and danced on a VIP bed," a source says. The next day, they gambled at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino before returning to Tao, where he drank Veuve Clicquot and she had a Cosmopolitan.
They also engaged in some public tongue action on the dance floor. Says an eyewitness: "It looked like they were eating each other's faces!"A FAMILY AFFAIRTheir week wasn't all partying, though. On March 23, they shopped at Kids Karnivale in Las Vegas. Britney bought clothing for Kevin's 3-year-old daughter, Kori (who, she mentioned, is "taking dance classes," an onlooker reports).
For 6-month-old Sean Preston, she purchased miniature police, Navy and fireman uniforms, and "a little white Elvis costume for $100," the onlooker says.That was just two days before they appeared at Vision Nightclub in Atlanta, looking estranged.
"For most of the night, they didn't talk much," says a source. But according to a friend of K-Fed, this yo-yo routine is one constant in their marriage. "It's hard to keep up with their marriage because it changes day to day," the insider tells Star. "One day they're all kissy-kissy and smiles — the next they're at each other's throats."
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Jennifer Aniston Mum on Wedding Rumor
Jennifer Aniston
Things grew tense on Tuesday morning's Today show when Jennifer Aniston was asked about a rumor that Oprah Winfrey was planning to throw an $8 million wedding for her and boyfriend Vince Vaughn.
"I thought you weren't going to go there," Catherine Keener, Aniston's costar in the new movie Friends with Money, said to Today entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport as Aniston and costar Joan Cusack looked on silently. When Rappaport asked the question, Aniston had just finished saying she didn't mind giving interviews, so long as the topic was the movie, not her love life.
Rappaport acknowledged Keener's instinct to protect Aniston, but said she was still curious about the rumors because she herself had never been to an $8 million wedding. "And now you won't be," said Keener, as Aniston remained tight-lipped. "Friends with Money" opens in limited engagements Friday.
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Paris to Be Offered Mother Teresa Role
Paris Hilton
House of Wax notwithstanding, The Simple Life star Paris Hilton has yet to make a major impression on the big screen. That may soon change.
Film director T. Rajeevnath, who is based in Thiruvananthapuram, India, wants Hilton to play Mother Teresa is a movie biography he is planning about the Nobel laureate who worked among Calcutta's poor with the Missionaries of Charity. "Her features resemble Mother Teresa,"
Rajeevnath – whose films include his native country's hits "Moksham," "Janani" and "Thannal" – says of Hilton, according to the French Press Agency.
The filmmaker adds, "A meeting with Paris Hilton is scheduled for the end of April." Rajeevnath says he stumbled upon this casting idea when he saw a computer-generated image showing what he considers a close facial resemblance between the 25-year-old hotel heiress and the Albanian-born nun, who died in 1997. Pope John Paul beatified Mother Teresa in 2003.
Indian press reports say shooting in West Bengal and several foreign countries is scheduled to begin in early 2007, and casting is expected to be rounded out by Kamal Haasan in the role of a priest and Mithun Chakraborty as Communist leader Jyoti Basu.
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Hairdresser Pleads Guilty in Costner Case
Actor Kevin Costner and his bride Christine Baumgartner pose for a photograph at their wedding, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004, in Aspen, Colo.
A hairdresser hired for the guests at Kevin Costner's 2004 wedding has pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing the actor's laptop computer.
Pascal Bensimon, 45, was ordered to pay $1,500 restitution, serve two years of unsupervised probation and perform 25 hours of community service."I'm sorry for all of the trouble I've caused," Bensimon quietly told the judge Monday after pleading guilty to misdemeanor theft in a deal with prosecutors. "I want to go forward," he said.Pitkin County District Judge James Boyd told Bensimon, owner of an upscale Aspen salon, he had violated the Costners' trust. The laptop contained photos of Costner's wedding to Christine Baumgartner in September 2004. Pitkin County Detective Ron Ryan has said Bensimon wrote out a confession.Bensimon's lawyer, Pamela Mackey, told the judge she considered challenging the legality of the search that deputies conducted to get the computer.
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Tom Cruise's Revealing New Interview
Tom Cruise
As superstar TOM CRUISE awaits the arrival of both his first child with bride-to-be KATIE HOLMES as well as his highly anticipated blockbuster flick 'Mission: Impossible III,' he gets candid about his dyslexia, his volatile relationship with his father and his own childhood.
"I had no really close friend," he reveals in the April 9th edition of Parade magazine. "I was always the new kid with the wrong shoes, the wrong accent. I didn't have the friend to share things with and confide in."
Tom reveals that his father was also someone he was unable to turn to. "He was a bully and a coward," he says frankly. "He was the person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you."
The headline-making celebrity says the poor treatment actually taught him a lot. "It was a great lesson in my life -- how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!" he says. "For me it was like, 'There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him.' There's that anxiety."
Despite their tumultuous relationship, Tom says he did see his father one last time -- after a 10-year estrangement -- while he was terminally ill. "He was in the hospital dying of cancer, and he would only meet me on the basis that I didn't ask him anything about the past," he says. "When I saw him in pain, I thought, 'What a lonely life.' He was in his late 40s. It was sad."
The A-lister also opens up about his battle with dyslexia and recalls how perplexing it was for him to receive the diagnosis.
"The school took me to a psychiatrist to get tested," he says. "They said, 'Oh, he's dyslexic.' I'm labeled. It instantly put me into confusion. It was an absolute affront to my dignity."
It made him determined to get to the bottom of the condition. "I remember thinking, 'I've got to figure this out. What's normal? Am I normal? Who's to say what's normal?' I didn't understand what 'normal' is. It still doesn't make sense."
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Julia Roberts' Show Grosses Nearly $1M
Actress Julia Roberts, leaves the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater after the third night of previews of the Broadway play, "Three Days of Rain," Thursday, March 30, 2006, in New York. Roberts' Broadway debut grossed a whopping $988,298 for its first full week of preview performances, according to figures released Monday, April 3, 2006, by the League of American Theatres and Producers.
Julia Roberts was almost the million-dollar baby on Broadway last week. "Three Days of Rain," which stars Roberts, Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper, grossed a whopping $988,298 for its first full week of preview performances, according to figures released Monday by the League of American Theatres and Producers.
The eight performances, which began March 28, played to 101 percent of capacity (which includes standing room) at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, the league said. The Richard Greenberg play Roberts' Broadway debut opens April 19.
Other shows playing to capacity or better last week included "Wicked," "Monty Python's Spamalot," "The Pajama Game," "The Odd Couple" and "The Phantom of the Opera." Although "Phantom" was helped by discount offers, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has demonstrated surprising box-office muscle, particularly after becoming Broadway's longest running show last January.
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