According to the rumor mill, which has been churning for a while now on this one, actress Naomi Watts is pregnant with her second child. The Aussie is allegedly four months along.
Watts is married to fellow actor Liev Schreiber, with whom she has son Alexander, who will turn one this July. Watts' best friend, Nicole Kidman, is due this year as well, just a few months before Naomi, if the rumors are true. Hey, no time like the present to get moving with making your family. Have all the kids now and then get back to your original shape and all that movie-making business, eh?
Is there no end to the drama that is the Lohan family? Just when it seemed that they were going to settle down and stay out of the headlines, up pops a secret love child. Well, maybe she's a secret love child, maybe not. The paternity test that Lindsay Lohan's dad Michael says he took earlier this week should clear that up in about ten to twelve days.
In the meantime, mama Lohan is just "shocked" to find out that during a marital separation back in 1994, her husband may have impregnated another woman. What's more, Michael Lohan has known about 13-year-old Ashley since the girl's mother became pregnant. According to Kristi Kaufmann, she and Michael had a brief affair and then he dumped her. When she found herself pregnant, she tracked him down and told him. But then he up and disappeared. Despite her efforts to find him, she says she didn't hear from Michael again until he contacted her from prison, where he was serving time for securities fraud. At that time, she says he admitted that he always knew the child was his and that he and Ashely began corresponding, although they never met.
Michael doesn't dispute most of that story, except the part about Ashley being his kid. He says that at first, he believed she was, but recently came to realize that the timing of Kaufmann's pregnancy didn't add up. "She had me so convinced. She had me snowballed," he says,
If Micheal is the father, he says he plans to do right by the girl. But according to Kaufmann, his track record for doing the right thing isn't all that great. "He was supposed to take a paternity test seven years ago, but he disappeared off the face of the earth," she says. "I just want this to be resolved and the truth to be told."
Angelina Jolie has been admitted to a Nice hospital (that's Nice the city in France, not nice the adjective, although I assume it IS a pretty nice hospital) to await the birth of her twins. Jolie is reported to have checked in to for "surveillance" rather than because anything is imminently wrong (or even imminently happening). So far, there are no reports of labor, false or otherwise, and hospital spokespeople say that Jolie will not have the babies any time soon.
Jolie and baby daddy Brad Pitt have been living in France with their four children -- we wonder if Brad is home with the kids while Angie is kicking back in the maternity ward? We hope so -- a little R and R would be good for her, and Brad seems like the kind of dad who would have endless fun things planned for the kids. Although they probably have some extra people around to help, which lessens the likelihood that the kids will just eat hot dogs and mac and cheese until their mother comes home.
Joking aside, we hope that Angelina has a safe birth, and that the babies are healthy. And we promise to keep you posted on their arrival.
Many of you may remember the television show Arrested Development. While critically acclaimed it didn't get much viewership, despite being very funny and witty. Perhaps it was because the show centered around yet another dysfunctional family, this one set in affluent California. Many, however, possibly a little too much, related to the crazy antics of the family and were sad to see them go when the show was canceled after three seasons.
Now, the stars of the show have another chance to reclaim some glory as Arrested Develoment becomes a movie, like many shows before it--the Simpsons comes to mind; while Homer and Bart put the "D" in dysfunctional, their show wasn't canceled. Jeffrey Tambor, who plays the imprisoned (and escapee) patriarch of the Bluth family, is especially excited to be rejoining his fellow castmates on the big screen, which includes Jason Bateman (on whom I've had a crush since I was a kid) and Portia De Rossi.
Are you looking forward to the Arrested Development movie? Are the Bluths your favorite dysfunctional tv family, or are the Simpsons more your speed?
Many of you know Jason Segel. He recently starred in the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall and basically stole the movie away from the leads in Knocked Up. He was also the pitiful love interest, if you could call it that, in television's Freaks and Geeks and currently stars in the hit How I Met Your Mother. Segel wrote a lot of the Sarah Marshall movie, and is now being offered a highly coveted writing position: writing a Muppets movie!
Disney has slated Segel to write the upcoming Muppets movie, but the write/actor commented the film will not be a modern take. Says Segel, the new Muppets film will be retro and 80's styled, with the plot surrounding the gang's getting back together to save the studio.
This will be the first Muppets movie to hit the big screen since 1999's Muppets from Space. If I recall that film didn't do as well as The Muppets Take Manhattan, despite cameos (which Segel promises will happen in the new movie). Is Segel the "write" man for the job? Only time will tell. At press time no release date had been set for the new film. I've always been a hug fan of the muppets, so I'll be seeing it regardless. Hopefully, I will actually get to see it in the theater--so Segel better make it worth getting a babysitter!
Is Gwyneth Paltrow expecting again? Well, the rumor mill would have us think so. For a while now, speculation has been building that the Oscar-winner is either with child or planning to be that way a third time.
Now, it seems more likely than ever that the star, who is married to and has two children with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, is carrying a third proverbial bun in the oven. She was recently spotted with what is being called a fuller, more curvy figure. Now, that could mean she ate a sandwich or something--we all know how the media likes to jump all over any woman who bothers to consume anything other than iceburg lettuce.
Paltrow also recently commented to Harper's Bazaar Magazine that she is willing to go through a pregnancy a third time because the result is so amazing. She also commented that her father, the late Bruce Paltrow, regretted only having two children. Paltrow is already mom to Apple, who is four is you can believe it, and Moses, two. At least these sorts of rumors aren't as bad as the other kind that always circulate about Hollywood stars--that they're having a crisis in their marriages. You'll also recall not too long ago Paltrow commented she was interested in adopting, perhaps from Brooklyn.
If you are one of the most well-known singers in the world and are spotted spending time with a celebrity divorce attorney with a barracuda reputation, tongues are going to wag. However, when the celebrity involved is provocateur extraordinaire Madonna, it's also possible that she simply picked a lunch date sure to garner the week's biggest headline.
Little David Banda's adoption by Madonna and Guy was just finalized at the end of May and for his sake, as well as for Lourdes, who has grown up with Guy as a step-father, and Rocco who is the spitting image of his filmmaker dad, one hopes that Madonna was just hand-delivering a copy of her new album and rather than beginning the process of dissolving a seven-year-marriage deemed no longer salvageable.
Ok, I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to be totally honest. Recently, a friend of mine revealed that when she went into the hospital to have her first child, wherein she had a Cesarean, she was offered and took advantage of free liposuction while she was in there.
My pal said she figured they were in there already, so why not go for it? Within a month of having her baby, if that, she was back in her regular jeans. Meanwhile, here I am, going about it the regular old way of the vajayjay, and I got nothing but running fourteen miles a day trying to get my butt back to its original, non-Texas size.
My friend said, however, that when she had her second child (also C-section, not VBAC), she was not offered such a thing. When she asked the doctors and nurses looked at her like she was insane. Her first child was born in New York City, her second, upstate. Perhaps it was a city trend. Perhaps it was because she had a rather large baby in there. Perhaps it was because she had a scheduled C-section. Perhaps it was NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So. Were you offered a free bit of lipo when you went under the knife? 'Cuz if so, it might explain why all those Hollywood moms look pencil thin ten minutes after giving birth. And, it may be reason enough to sign up for an elective C-section!
Not too long ago, Scott Baio was looking for love. The Happy Days star eventually found it, with Renee Sloan, and soon after was set to become a father. In November 2007, Scott did become a father, to baby girl Bailey Deluca. Then, disaster struck. His newborn daughter was diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening metabolic disorder. The star kept the entire thing under tight wraps, even as he and Renee tied the knot.
Says Scott: "It was the worst time in my life.... The disease is a constant in your brain. It never leaves you." After over two months of testing, it was revealed little Bailey had tested a false positive. While Scott and his wife felt relieved, he noted that the scare put everything in perspective.
I can't imagine what it must have been like for them to go through such a thing. I feel for any parent who has medical concerns about a child. I used to spend all my time worrying about my son; now I split that time between worrying about him and my unborn daughter. Baio was incredibly lucky that his baby's illness turned out to be only a scare--many parents are not so lucky. Still, scare or no, it's all a part of being a parent--welcome to parenthood, Scott.
Stewi Griffin (of television's Family Guy) make want Gwen Stefani dead, but somehow I can't get enough of her. The singer and business woman, who has her own line of clothes, bags and perfume, is set to be mom to baby number two any day now, but she and husband rocker Gavin Rossdale don't know the sex.
Rather than choosing to find out, they are going the other way and keeping the suspense until the last minute. But, how to buy? How to decorate? How to have fun while you wait (outside of your reunion with No Doubt)? Not a problem. The rockers plan on having a Goth baby and painting the child's nursery black.
Rossdale is quoted as saying this to OK Magazine in regards to whether he was going pink or blue with the nursery. I'm sure Gwen,already mom to Kingston, was amused at the remark if anything. The whole thing is probably a joke, but I wouldn't put it past these two to actually follow through with it! I wonder what color Kingston's room is!
Hear that sound? That's the rumor mill rolling again. This time it's in the direction of Ashlee Simpson. Word has it that the newly-married singer is set to follow in the footsteps of Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie by having twins.
The breaker of the news? Her new husband, rocker Pete Wentz. In a recent radio interview with Arizona's John Jay and Rich, Wentz apparently referred to his unborn child as "them," sparking the rumors. Wentz was quick to respond to the rumors saying that it was early in the morning and since he didn't know it the baby was boy or girl he mistakenly referred to the unborn child as "them."
Only time will tell how many little Simpson-Wentzes are in Ashlee's skinny belly. My guess? It really just is one. But hey--you never know! Good luck, Ashlee and Pete!
Funny man David Spade is set to be a dad. The funny man and former Saturday Night Live star, 43, is set to be a first-time dad with ex-girlfriend, Playboy playmate Jillian Grace.
According to In Touch Magazine, the couple dated briefly last year and the Playmate has recently revealed she is expecting. Spade has not come forth and publicly acknowledged the child to be is his, but says he is prepared to accept responsibility is that is the case.
Well, it's only a matter of time before the truth is revealed--so good luck and hopefully congratulations to Mr. Spade! if he is the daddy, then the baby stands to be beautiful and funny.
In a tale that could very easily have a bittersweet ending, possibly ailing actor and philanthropist Paul Newman has quietly turned $120 million in earnings from the Newman's Own company over to charity. Friends of Newman claim the actor is battling lung cancer.
Newman and his family have tried for some time to keep his illness, which for all intents and purposes remains unconfirmed, under wraps. Some think the turning over of the NO profits is a signal that Mr. Cool Hand Luke is dying and that the rumors are true. Not so, say others, who confirm the star did so in honor of his 80th birthday to make sure his charities would continue receiving his funds after the inevitable.
As you may know from my past rantings writings, Paul Newman, at any age, will always occupy a large part of my heart. And it's not because he's a big movie star. That helps, for sure, but it's more that he's been married to the same woman since the 50's, that he gives to charity and doesn't make a big show of it, and that the only questionable film choice he's made was The Color of Money. Still love him--at any age--and always will.
Ever since the whole Brangelina escapade, wherein it was claimed she gave birth to her twins but, in fact, did not, in what is now being referred to as Brangelina-gate (at least by me), I'm not sure whether or not to believe the latest headlines. According to reports, actress Jessica Alba has given birth.
The Sin City star and her new husband Cash Warren welcomed a baby girl into the world yesterday in Los Angeles. The baby, named Honor Marie is the first for both. Us Weekly is promoting the story.
Alba and Warren have had a busy six months planning for their new arrival--they secretly got married without even inviting close friends and relatives and moved into a $4 million house. Alba recently made headlines for claiming no money offers had come rolling in for pictures of the new baby and that she has no plans to cash in.
Congratulations to Jessica on the birth of little Honor Marie!
Many celebrities, it seems, don't believe in natural childbirth (and by that I mean through the vajayjay, not without drugs). Many women don't either, and they schedule c-sections (or their doctors do it for them). While I agree there is a real need at times, especially in emergency situations, for a Cesarean, I don't agree at all with the elective kind. It seems like a waste of money and resources, and could lead to other potential dangers associated specifically with having a C. Maybe I feel this way because my mother, who had to have one, got such a bad infection in hers she couldn't take care of me when I was born! Maybe I also feel this way because I've come in contact with doctors who feel their dinner reservations are more important than a woman having her baby, so they just schedule the woman in rather than take a chance on her interrupting them!
Angelina Jolie, who had her daughter Shiloh, now two, via Cesarean, is now keen to have her twins the old school way. Set to bear the babies in her mother's native France, Ms. Jolie has confided to a "source" that she was disappointed she had to have Shiloh via C-section and is really hoping she'll be able to give birth to the twins the old-fashioned way. Given our recent discussion about VBACs, vaginal birth after Cesarean, I wonder if her doctors will even let her! In France she may have more of a choice than a woman might here.
The source, who blabbed everything to OK Magazine, also claims Ange won't go full-term with the babies. I seem to recall reading that multiples tend to come early, but that's probably just heresay! According to the source, the prospect of early delivery is what sent Ange and her brood to France earlier. Only time will tell when those babies are born and how it happens. Either way, let's hope for a safe and speedy delivery! Good luck, Ange!
Is there no end to the drama that is the Lohan family? Just when it seemed that they were going to settle down and stay out of the headlines, up pops a secret love child. Well, maybe she's a secret love child, maybe not. The paternity test that Lindsay Lohan's dad Michael 
Angelina Jolie has been admitted to a Nice hospital (that's Nice the city in France, not nice the adjective, although I assume it IS a pretty nice hospital) to await the birth of her twins. Jolie is 
If you are one of the most well-known singers in the world and are spotted spending time with a celebrity divorce attorney with a barracuda reputation, tongues are going to wag. However, when the celebrity involved is provocateur extraordinaire Madonna, it's also possible that she simply picked a lunch date sure to garner the week's biggest headline. 
In a tale that could very easily have a bittersweet 
Ever since the whole Brangelina escapade, wherein it was claimed she gave birth to her twins but, in fact, did not, in what is now being referred to as Brangelina-gate (at least by me), I'm not sure whether or not to believe the latest headlines. According to reports, actress Jessica Alba has given 
Many celebrities, it seems, don't believe in natural childbirth (and by that I mean through the vajayjay, not without drugs). Many women don't either, and they schedule c-sections (or their doctors do it for them). While I agree there is a real need at times, especially in emergency situations, for a Cesarean, I don't agree at all with the elective kind. It seems like a waste of money and resources, and could lead to other potential dangers associated specifically with having a C. Maybe I feel this way because my mother, who had to have one, got such a bad infection in hers she couldn't take care of me when I was born! Maybe I also feel this way because I've come in contact with doctors who feel their dinner reservations are more important than a woman having her baby, so they just schedule the woman in rather than take a chance on her interrupting them!
