In these photo's released by CBS, pop singer Britney Spears shares a laugh with host David Letterman on the set of The Late Show with David Letterman, Tuesday, May 9, 2006 in New York. Spears announced on the show that she and husband Kevin Federline are expecting their second child.
Britney Spears is expecting her second child, she told David Letterman during a surprise visit to his Late Show on Tuesday.
"Don't worry, Dave, it's not yours," the singer joked. "Oh. Well, I think that's good news for both of us," Letterman responded. Spears, who walked out onstage unannounced after a commercial break (and then read off the evening's Top 10 List), gave no details about herself, including her due date. She also never mentioned her husband, Kevin Federline – though earlier in the program Letterman and bandleader Paul Shaffer made a wisecrack about him.
"I think that K-Fed is, you know, would have to be getting awful busy at a quick rate," to be expecting another child, said Shaffer. "Well, what else does he have to do?" Letterman quipped.
After Spears came out, she said of their banter: "I liked the whole prep. It was cool I think you did a very good job." "So, we've established now that you are, in fact, pregnant, is that right?" asked Letterman. "Yes sir," Spears replied. Spears’s appearance was a last-minute arrangment that came about after the singer’s rep called and "said (Britney) wanted to be on the show and this is what she'd announce," a Late Show insider told PEOPLE.
"We were psyched." Spears, 24, and Federline, 28, already have a son, Sean Preston, who was born in September of last year. For Federline, this will be his fourth child. He already has a daughter Kori, 3, and son Kaleb, 1, with actress Shar Jackson. Of the anticipated addition to the family, "Kevin would love another little girl," a pal tells PEOPLE.
Spears wed Federline in September 2004, and the pair began talking about starting a family soon after. "I can see myself as a mom. Next year at 23, I am so there," she told PEOPLE shortly after the wedding.
Just four days short of the couple's first wedding anniversary, she had accomplished that goal. As for her career, Spears told PEOPLE in February, "I'm going to (get back to work), but I'm going to do it with definite balance for my baby because I want him to have the best of both worlds." Spears, who lives with Federline and "Sean P" in their newly remodeled home in Malibu, calls motherhood "such an intense experience."
Of her domestic life out of the spotlight, she added: "I'm happy. I'm very blessed. I have a beautiful home, a wonderful family, supportive, loving people around me. I have a great life. Recently, she briefly returned to the spotlight by making a guest appearance on Will & Grace.
Meanwhile, Federline is following in his wife's footsteps: His debut album Playing with Fire is scheduled for release in August.
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Tom & Katie Take Tiny Town By Storm
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
The tiny blue-collar timber town of Aberdeen in western Washington (pop. 17,000) may be best known as the home of the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, but Tuesday night it embraced the most famous movie star couple in the world: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, there to attend a makeshift premiere of his Mission: Impossible III at a local mall. Among the 2,000 fans who turned out to see the duo was Wal-Mart employee Kevin McCoy, 27, who won a Yahoo!
and Paramount Pictures-sponsored online trivia contest – and "was shocked" when someone called a few weeks ago to say he'd won a private screening of the movie for about 200 of his closest friends.
Cruise and Holmes, parents of 3-week-old daughter Suri, arrived fashionably late before stepping on to a 175-ft. red carpet that had been borrowed from a Seattle event planner. But the enthusiasm of the couple and the crowd was anything but second-hand.
Cruise autographed anything and everything: headshots, DVDs, posters, baby clothes, hats, baseball mitts, a life-size cutout of his Jerry Maguire character, the hood of someone's car and even copies of the PEOPLE cover story announcing Suri's birth. Asked by PEOPLE where was the baby, Homes replied: "She's home."
Aberdeen's pro tem Mayor, Bill Simpson, declared it was "good to share in McCoy's winnings" and the premiere – which took nine days to prepare for – was the biggest celebrity event to happen in the coastal logging town since Metallica surprised a fan for an MTV contest in 1996.
"But, today, May 9, 2006, is now officially Tom Cruise Day at South Shore Mall in Aberdeen," said Simpson as he presented Cruise and Holmes with a plaque and official city pins. "We are so honored to have you here. You are welcome back any time."
As for McCoy, his brush with Hollywood was "surreal," he told PEOPLE, adding that he wasn't sure he was ready to go back to processing photos at Wal-Mart the next day. "I can't really call in sick because everyone knows I was here tonight," he said. "But, we'll see."
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Lance's Ex Felt Smothered by Marriage
Lance Armstrong and ex-wife Kristin Richard
Lance Armstrong's ex-wife, Kristin Richard, revealed to Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday that the road she shared with the Tour de France record holder was far from smooth. Although the 1999-2003 marriage produced three children before it ended in divorce, the union also left Richard feeling "smothered," and turned her from an opinionated career person into a "yes" woman, Richard, 34, said on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
"You and Lance looked like you had it all," said Winfrey, noting that Richard was swept off her feet by the stellar athlete, married him, had three children quickly and moved to the French Riviera. Richard, however, said that her role was strictly to cheer on Armstrong, prompting Winfrey to advise women not to make the same mistake. "It wasn't Lance saying, 'You should be like this' or 'Do this.' It wasn't him making a mandate and me being a mouse. It was me trying to emulate whatever I thought would be the perfect wife or the perfect mother," said Richard, promoting an article she's written for the April Glamour magazine titled "What I Wish I Had Known About Marriage."
"We think we're trying to please somebody for the sake of our marriage, but then if you ask Lance today if he appreciated that, I think he would probably say, 'Well, that wasn't the woman that I fell in love with,'" added Richard. As for first meeting Armstrong she said: "He had just finished up his chemotherapy. He was bald and cute."
But once they were married she surrendered her job and her dog, as well as her independence, said Richard, who admitted also to being blinded by the huge diamond ring Armstrong gave her when they got engaged.
"I paid more attention to the rock on my left hand than to preparing myself for the journey ahead," Richard wrote in the article, which Winfrey said reduced her to tears. "This is why I never got married," said Winfrey. "I just wanted to always be myself." Richard characterized her current relationship with her ex-husband as "good" – though "it's taken work and effort," she said.
As for her own life now, "I love God, my family, my friends, red wine, fireworks, going for a long, sweaty run, laughing until no sound comes out and taking my time," she said.
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