April 2007

Out and about

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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden at Bondi Beach in Australia

Hilary Duff at the National Kidney Foundation gala

Selma Blair and Debra Messing at the Tribeca premiere of Purple Violets

Kate Moss modeling her clothing line in a Topshop window

Kirsten Dunst at the Today show

Ginnifer Goodwin and Elijah Wood at the Tribeca premiere of Day Zero

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. at a Tribeca event

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Natalie Portman Helps Poor Women

Natalie Portman is endorsing "life-changing" micro-loans for the world's poorest women.

The 'V for Vendetta' actress has been working with FINCA International, an organisation which gives small loans to impoverished people in developing countries, and is fully behind the project.

Natalie, 25, told US TV show 'This Week': "I have met mothers younger than I am who were forced to work in poor conditions for low pay because that was the only job they could get.

"Getting this loan enables them to start their own business out of their own house and be with their children. It changes the whole system.

"If a woman can't tell her child, 'I can feed you tomorrow, I can pay for your school', then what happens? What do they do? What do they choose?

"It's really trying to reach the poorest of the poor and offering banking services to them."

The Beckham's Mansion Near TomKat's

David and Victoria Beckham are set to move into a £15 million mansion near Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

David and Victoria - who are moving Stateside in the summer after the soccer star signed a deal with Los Angeles Galaxy - are said to be keen on the seven-bedroom Beverly Hills property because of its secluded location.

A source said: "It's been a long process trying to find the ideal home but this one ticks the most boxes.

"The fact it is so close to Tom and Katie's house is ideal for Victoria."

The mansion boasts a tennis court, home cinema, swimming pool, seven bathrooms, six fountains, two acres of landscaped gardens and a separate guest apartment.

Courtney to auction off Kurt's stuff

Courtney Love plans to sell former husband Kurt Cobain's belongings, twelve years after the Nirvana frontman committed suicide. "I'm going to have a Christie's auction," Love told spinner.com. "[My house] is like a mausoleum. My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant Hefty bag full of flannel f***ing shirts. A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to Teen Spirit - that's what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we'll just f***ing sell... Everyone's been positive and behind me on it. We'll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity." An rep for AOL, which runs spinner.com, announced today that no date has been set for the auction. Although Love has had a few boyfriends since Cobain's death, including actor Edward Norton, she says he's still a big part of her life. "I still wear his pajamas to bed," she says. "How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt's pajamas?"

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Ellen to do show from bed

Ellen Degeneres hurt her back so badly over the weekend that she will be doing her show from a hospital bed this week. The popular host has had to reschedule a planned show from a Delta Airlines flight later this week, and was also forced to cancel a charity event in Chicago on Saturday. Guests for the week include Lindsay Lohan and Ryan Seacrest.

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United nations

London goes nuts for Kate Moss's Topshop collection - ICYDK

Tom and Katie step out for dinner with Brooke - Just Jared

Madonna's got a new 'do - MollyGood

Shirley Manson hits the stage and sings with Gwen Stefani - Popbytes

More celebs at Coachella - Dlisted

Britney's date with Howie Day - Popsugar

Inside Posh & Becks' new home - I'm Not Obsessed

Pregnant Jaime Pressly hits the club scene - TMZ

Angelina opens up about A Mighty Heart - Us mag

Britney's secret gig canceled

Britney Spears's secret comeback gig has been postponed. The singer had been working hard for a gig at Forty Deuce in LA last Wednesday, but canceled at the last minute. "She wants to get back to performing on a small scale before she gets back in front of a big crowd," says a source of Spears's choice of venue for the show. Details are not known about the cause of the cancellation, but insiders speculate it was management-related, and that someone decided the popstar wasn't quite ready. As reported late last week, Spears is scheduled to perform three shows this week in San Diego, Anaheim, and on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.

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Elisabeth is pregnant; Roseanne suggested as co-host

More news from The View... Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck announced this morning that she is pregnant with her second child. "Like, I'm totally three months pregnant," Hasselbeck said on today's show. "I figured that we're going to be lonely without you," she said to fellow host Rosie O'Donnell. "So, Tim and I thought we should get busy and maybe make a little co-host." Hasselbeck and her husband, football quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, will welcome the baby in November. The couple have a two-year-old daughter, Grace, and don't plan to find out the new baby's gender until the birth. ABC released the news in a statement just prior to the airing of this morning's show. In other View news, sources say Roseanne Barr is reportedly the top contender to take Rosie O'Donnell's spot on the show next year, though Barr's rep denies the story. "She's a piece of work, she's a character, she says what's on her mind and she's funny," says an insider. Barr avoided directly answering the question when asked by Larry King last week. "I'm not looking for the job," she told the CNN host. "Well, I want $10 million, like Rosie." Since O'Donnell announced her plans to leave the show last week, several big names have been circulating as possible replacements, including Joan Rivers, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathie Lee Gifford, Connie Chung, Bette Midler and Kathy Griffin.

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Young actress welcomes daughter

Australian actress Keisha Castle-Hughes and her boyfriend welcomed a daughter last week, according to her rep. Castle-Hughes caused a stir when her pregnancy was announced as she was only 16 at the time. Now 17, she and her 20-year-old boyfriend have been dating for three years and live in New Zealand. Felicity-Amore was born on Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. weighing 7 lb, 6 oz. At 13, Castle-Hughes was the youngest actress nominated in the Best Actress Oscar category for her role in Whale Rider.

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Boy George arrested for assaulting gay escort

80s popstar Boy George (whose real name is George O'Dowd) has been arrested in charges of assault and false imprisonment in London after a male escort told police he was grabbed and chained to a wall in the singer's apartment. The escort told a British newspaper he was invited to O'Dowd's home after meeting on a gay website and agreed to pose for photos in kinky outfits for $890. O'Dowd and another man are accused of jumping the man and handcuffing him to a hook, and after the second man left, O'Dowd allegedly brought out sex toys and whips and told the escort, "Now you'll get what you deserve." The man said he was able to yank the hook out of the wall and ran to the nearest newsstand to call the cops dressed in underwear and a T-shirt. "I was convinced I was going to die," the man told a British paper. O'Dowd has been released on bail.

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Britney caught speeding

Britney Spears was stopped by police on Friday night on Sunset Boulevard. "She was pulled over for speeding," a Beverly Hills police sergeant confirmed. "She was warned about her speed and let go. She was not cited." Spears has been working hard on her comeback album, with frequent visits to the Millennium Dance Complex in LA and trips to the studio to work with producer (and brief fling) JR Rotem. "Everyone talked about how happy she looked to be back in the studio," says a source. "She came in focused from the start. She's always been a pro when it comes to her music."

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Lindsay confesses love for paparazzi

While Lindsay Lohan seems to have tamed her problems with alcohol, she admits she has another addiction: shopping. "I talk about my impulses with my therapist - I have a shopping problem," the actress told Nylon mag. She also revealed that she kinda likes the paparazzi: "I get embarrassed about the paparazzi if I'm in a chic restaurant, or when I was in the AA meetings... I feel really disrespectful because those people are doing that for themselves and it's no one else's business. But that was the only time it was embarrassing. Other times, I obviously like it... I wouldn't ever want them to not take my picture... I'd be worried. I'd be like, 'Do people not care for me?'"

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Natalie endorses loan programs

Natalie Portman is lending her star status to support microloans. The Star Wars actress has been working with FINCA International, an organization that provides small loans to people in developing countries. Portman described meeting young mothers who only had access to low-paying jobs working in poor conditions and says, "And then they're able to get a loan and start their own business out of their house and be with their children. It changes the whole system... If a woman can't tell her child, 'I can feed you tomorrow, I can pay for your school,' then where do they go? What do they do? What do they choose? It's really trying to reach the poorest of the poor and offering banking services to them."
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