VH1's My Fair Brady stars Adrianne Curry and Christopher Knight were married Monday evening, PEOPLE has confirmed.
The couple exchanged vows in front of 250 friends and family during a traditional ceremony at the Christ Episcopal Church in Curry's hometown of Joliet, Ill.
The bride wore a custom-made cream-colored Alvina Valenta gown and carried a bouquet of black roses.
Her seven bridesmaids wore red evening dresses, while the groom and the groomsmen wore matching tuxedos.
In a romance made in reality-TV heaven, Curry, 23, who won the first season of America's Next Top Model, met Knight, 48, who played Peter Brady on the '70s hit The Brady Bunch, when they filmed the fourth season of VH1's The Surreal Life" in 2004.
Adrianne Curry and Christopher Knight
In attendance at their wedding were former Brady Bunch stars Barry Williams (Greg Brady), Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady), as well as VH1’s The Surreal Life co-star Joannie “Chyna” Laurer.
"About 14 days after I met him, I bought a bridal magazine," Curry told PEOPLE in March, about meeting Knight. "I started researching." Last year, VH1 chronicled the couple's courtship on another reality show, My Fair Brady.
Knight proposed to Curry in the show's season finale. "It was a quiet engagement," he told PEOPLE in November.
Since then, "I've noticed that she just listens to me slightly less. By the time I'm married, there will be nothing left to listen to." Their nuptials will be documented on VH1's My Fair Brady Wedding Special premiering on VH1 in July.
This is the first marriage for Curry. Both of Knight's previous marriages ended in divorce.
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Liz Taylor Refutes Alzheimer's Reports
Liz Taylor
her first TV interview in three years, Elizabeth Taylor – no stranger to tabloid gossip about her health – has denied recent reports that she has Alzheimer's and is at death's door.
Speaking to Larry King on CNN Tuesday night, the 74-year-old screen legend – who at one point jokingly offered King her hand so he could put a wedding ring on it – said, "Oh come on, do I look like I'm dying? Do I look like or sound like I have Alzheimer's?"
Attempting to explain the stories, Taylor said they're written "because they have nothing else dirty to write about anybody else. Some audience out there ... they like scandal. They like filth. And if they want to hear that I'm dead, sorry folks. I'm not. And I don't plan on it."
Still, Taylor, on the show to promote her upcoming precious-jewelry line, was in a wheelchair.
When King asked why, she blamed "my back, which has been chronically bad since I was a teenager." She added that she was born with scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, and has osteoporosis.
Is she in constant pain? King asked. She is, she said. Will she ever marry again? (Taylor has famously been married eight times.) "Are you asking?" she replied with a laugh.
Taylor, a longtime AIDS activist, also told King that she doesn't think a cure will be found, but there will be major advancements in treatment.
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Beyonce Celebrates 25th Birthday with CD
Beyonce Knowles
Beyonce Knowles has big plans for her 25th birthday on Sept. 4: She will release her second solo album, B'Day, internationally. It will be released in the U.S. the next day, Billboard reports.
The first single from the CD, "Déja Vu," features a guest appearance by Knowles's longtime squeeze, Jay-Z.B'Day – for which Knowles co-produced, wrote and arranged all the tracks – will be the successor to the former Destiny's Child singer's 2003 solo debut, Dangerously In Love.
That album topped the Billboard 200, won five Grammys and has sold 4.3 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Knowles completed B'Day after wrapping the movie Dreamgirls, which was warmly received at a preview two weeks ago at the Cannes Film Festival.
Set for a Dec. 22 release, the musical costars Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover and Jennifer Hudson.
Speaking to reporters after the preview, Knowles said she had lost 20 lbs. to play the super-svelte Deena Jones, the lead singer of the Dreamettes – a '60s-style group loosely modeled on the Supremes.
"At the beginning (of filming), I was my normal weight," she said. "I actually gained a little bit, but then I lost 20 lbs. when I went from young Deena to old Deena.
I wanted it to be something more than just make-up and hair. I wanted to see the change."
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Today Says Goodbye to Katie
Katie Couric
NBC's Today show said goodbye on Wednesday to its co-anchor of 15 years, Katie Couric. "Farewell, friend," co-host Matt Lauer said at the opening of the special three-hour edition, citing Couric's "more than 15,000 interviews, millions of laughs and countless cups of coffee."
Plunking a box of tissues on the desk, Lauer said to Couric, "This isn't for you. It's for me." "I'm feeling happy and sad and completely out of control, and you know how much I like that," Couric told Lauer, who noted that his outgoing partner is "a control freak."
This fall, Couric will assume her new role as anchor of the CBS Evening News. Meredith Vieira will take her place on Today in September, while Rosie O'Donnell fills Vieira's seat on ABC's The View.
For weeks, VIPs from Julie Andrews and former President Clinton to Condoleeza Rice and Sting have been issuing video farewells to Couric. Dateline co-anchor Stone Phillips even sat at his piano and played a song about her, set to the tune of the Ray Charles's "Ruby": "They say Katie, you're like a flame/ Into our lives you came/ And in your eyes we see/ Heartache for NBC."
"You've held America's hand during a lot of difficult times," news anchor Ann Curry told Couric on Wednesday while Lauer gave his partner a kiss on the cheek.
Al Roker struggled to keep his emotions in check during the tributes to the loved ones Couric lost to cancer (her husband, Jay Monahan, and her sister Emily).
He also cited the number of lives she may have saved by encouraging viewers to get checked for colon cancer. When it was Couric's turn to return the compliments, she said of her colleagues, "They're not just coworkers. They're lifelong friends." Then, turning to Lauer, she said, "And I know I'll never have a partner like you – because I'll never be working with a partner again."
Among the images during the send-off was a message in lights on Chicago's Wrigley Field: "We will miss you Katie. Good luck."
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Jolie's baby delivered by Cesarean
Angelina Jolie
The African-born daughter of Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was delivered by Cesarean section in a weekend surgery and birth that "went flawlessly," Jolie's doctor said on Tuesday.
Details of the birth, which occurred on Saturday at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in the Namibian town of Swakopmund, were first disclosed in a statement the couple furnished exclusively to People magazine.
Pitt's publicist, Cindy Guagenti, later confirmed the magazine's report.
The infant, named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, weighed 7 pounds (3.18 kg) at birth and was described as healthy, though a surgical delivery was necessary because the baby was in a potentially risky feet-first breech position in the womb.
"Angelina underwent a scheduled Cesarean due to breech presentation," said Dr. Jason Rothbart, the couple's Los Angeles-based obstetrician, who oversaw the delivery.
"Brad was with Angelina in the operating room the entire time and cut the umbilical cord of his daughter. The surgery and birth went flawlessly," he said.
Rothbart added that the doctors, nurses and other staff who assisted him were "amazing," and he called the delivery "a team effort."
"We would like to deeply thank the staff of the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital for all their kindness and commitment in assuring the successful birth of our daughter," Jolie, 30, and Pitt, 42, said in a joint statement.
The infant Shiloh joins their two adopted children, Cambodian-born son Maddox, 4, and daughter, Zahara, an Ethiopian native who is about 15 months old, in a blended celebrity clan recently labeled "the World's Most Beautiful Family" by People magazine.
But so far, no pictures of the family's latest addition have emerged. Photographers from all over the world have flocked to the southern African nation in hopes of capturing first images of the newborn that are expected to be worth millions of dollars.
Jolie, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1999 movie "Girl, Interrupted," and serves as a goodwill ambassador for UN High Commissioner for Refugees, took a shine to Namibia during production on the 2003 film "Beyond Borders."
Jolie and Pitt became acquainted in 2004 while working together on the film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," a dark comedy in which they co-starred as a couple of assassins whose marriage gets rocky when they're assigned to kill each other.
Rumors of an affair between the twice-divorced Jolie and Pitt heated up after the actor and his ex-wife, former "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston, split up in January 2005.
While their relationship quickly became one of Hollywood's most talked-about open secrets, Pitt and Jolie only confirmed their romance about five months ago, when they announced she was pregnant with his child.
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