WORLD EXCLUSIVE: See Jennifer Lopez's Twins!

Originally posted Thursday March 20, 2008 07:00 AM EDT

World exclusive! Here's your first glimpse of Jennifer Lopez and her twins, Max and Emme, born Feb. 22 in Long Island, N.Y.

This week's issue , on newsstands Friday, features 12 pages of new photos of the pop star with husband Marc Anthony and their 1-month-old bundles of joy inside their Long Island home and nursery.

The happy new parents spoke candidly the pregnancy, addressing everything from Jennifer's weight gain to rumors of infertility. For all the details, pick up the new issue, on newsstands Friday.

Rick Salomon Now Claims Fraud in Pam Anderson Marriage

Originally posted Friday March 21, 2008 06:30 PM EDT

Pamela Anderson isn't the only one claiming fraud in her brief marriage – now estranged husband Rick Salomon is making the same allegation.

A month after Anderson sought an annulment rather than a divorce, Salomon also filed papers to annul the two-month union.

Like Anderson, he checked the box marked "fraud" as the reason for the annulment, say the Superior Court documents filed Friday.

Neither has explained why the fraud allegation is being made.

After just two months of marriage, Anderson, 40, filed for divorce from Salomon, 39, in December, citing irreconcilable differences.

They were married last October in Las Vegas during a 90-minute break between the magic shows in which Anderson was appearing.

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Gave $8 Mil to Charity

Originally posted Friday March 21, 2008 02:30 PM EDT

News cameras have captured Brad Pitt building homes in New Orleans, and now federal tax filings for the Jolie Pitt Foundation have documented the good works that Brad and Angelina Jolie are doing behind the scenes.

All told, they gave more than $8 million in donations in 2006, with Pitt putting in $4,402,317, and Jolie donating $4,123,613, the Huffington Post reports, citing newly released federal tax filings. (These latest figures don't include 2007 – in which, among other charitable efforts, Brad's Make It Right Foundation raised $5 million.)

In terms of dispensing their funds, according to records for 2006, the foundation handed out $2,367,935, including $1 million to both Doctors Without Borders (International Division) and to the Global AIDS Alliance.

Additional gifts included $137,935 to the Namibia Red Cross Action Program (their daughter Shiloh was born in the African country); $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation (the late journalist's widow, Marianne Pearl, was played by Jolie in A Mighty Heart); $100,000 to Global Green U.S.A. and to the Epidermolysis Bulloma Medical Research Foundation.

In addition, $20,000 went to an art park in Los Angeles, as did separate $5,000 donations to two orphanages that Jolie had visited.

More Good Works

In terms of Pitt's work in Louisiana, Jolie's costar in the movie Wanted, Morgan Freeman, told at the Pathfinders to Peace Forum and Gala, "We were in contact with Brad about the situation in New Orleans" – and he called Jolie "such a wonderful woman."

Said Freeman: "Aside from all that physical beauty, she's a real person."

David Beckham Gives Anderson Cooper a 'Tattoo Tour'

Originally posted Friday March 21, 2008 01:35 PM EDT



We all know David Beckham's first two passions (soccer and family), but as the superstar tells Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes this Sunday, the guy is also obsessed with his ink.

"I think everybody's got a way of expressing their feelings, and mine is through my tattoos," Beckham says of his 15 body tattoos. He also shows Cooper the likenesses of wife Victoria Beckham (on his left arm) and the three cherubs on his right arm (for sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz).

Also revealed on the CBS interviewing (airing Sunday): Beckham, 32, has the option to purchase a Major League Soccer team in the United States when his contract with the L.A. Galaxy runs out, sometime in 2011.

But before that, he's got some soccer to play. Beckham wrote on his blog Thursday: "The new MLS season is less than two weeks away and I’m really looking forward to the first game against Colorado Rapids. This is my first full season with the Galaxy, so obviously I want to stay fit and play as many games as possible this year."

Amanda Overmyer: Fame Won’t Be a ‘Unicorn That I Keep Chasing’

March 21, 2008

Getting cut from American Idol on Wednesday wasn’t the end of the world for Amanda Overmyer. The nurse from Mulberry, Ind., is ready for what’s next and she hopes that it’s singing rock ‘n’ roll. But being a star isn’t a priority. Of her 15 minutes of fame, she says, “I’ll take it for what it is and move on.” Overmyer spoke to reporters Thursday, the morning after her elimination, and revealed what she told Kristy Lee Cook up on the Idol stage, what it means to be the “quintessential rocker chick” and whether or not she plans to invite any of the Idols to her upcoming wedding.

You showed a positive attitude about leaving the show. Are you optimistic about where you’re headed?
[Wednesday] wasn’t the most traumatic thing that’s happened in my life. I just got voted off of a TV show. I was thankful to be there and privileged to have millions of Americans vote for me just to keep me on [that long] … I’m cut out of a different mold of everyone else on the competition; I found that very warming that I had that much support.

What did Kristy Lee Cook say to you up there?
She thought it was her and I told her to chill out and stop worrying, that it would be alright.

What were your favorite and least favorite performances?
The two that I did on the big stage were equally my favorite just because I was more in my element there with the crowd in front of me. My least favorite would have been all the group numbers we had to do … I didn’t like performing them and doing all the choreography and stuff but as far as recording them and doing all of that, I actually was very strong at it. I have a choir background from high school.

Do you think the distinction of being a rocker chick hurt you or helped you in the competition?
Being my own personal style helped me as far as being the quintessential rocker chick, I guess, but as far as the competition itself I wouldn’t say that it necessarily helped me because young kids aren’t going to relate to me as easily as they do the other ones.

Now that you’ve had some major exposure, are you motivated to be a big star? Or are you okay with going back and having your old job?
I’m a very ambitious and driven person by nature and I’m going to take calculated risks to achieve success, but … success to me is a strong healthy family and success in whatever job you do and I wouldn’t have it in me if this is just 15 minutes of fame. I’m not going to chase it my whole life trying to get it back. I’ll take it for what it is and move on. Hopefully, it’s not. Hopefully I can make a career out of this, but it’s not going to be that unicorn that I keep chasing.

You have a wedding coming up. When is your wedding and would you invite your fellow contestants to attend and maybe sing?
I’d surely invite at least a couple of them and I don’t have any date at all. It’s been all pending with what happens.

Was your fiancé your rock throughout the whole thing?
I was more his rock through the whole thing because he was home alone and I bet that was pretty hard, being alone in a house while all the excitement is going on 2,000 miles away.

So what’s your plan for the immediate future?
I thought about it as far as what I’d like to do but I haven’t had any talks with management or anything like that on what the best way of going about it will be. I mean, I have zero experience in this industry and I’m completely as green as they come so I’m not going to venture to say this is what I’m going to do because I don’t know what the best way to go about it is so I’ve got to ask some people. But it will definitely be the southern rock genre. I definitely want to get out and tour and do the big biker alleys and things like that, but its just how to get there is what I need to be educated on.

Lindsay Lohan Sex-Tape Rumors: Not True

Originally posted Friday March 21, 2008 09:15 AM EDT

here appear to be a lot of nude celebrities on the Web this week, but one of them is not Lindsay Lohan.

Earlier this week, celeb blogs began circulating a photo of what some speculated was a screengrab from a video featuring the actress with ex-boyfriend Calum Best – but those rumors are now being debunked on two fronts. A spokesman for Best tells U.K. newspaper The Sun: "it is definitely not Calum," and other celebrity bloggers have found an old X-rated video (not starring Lohan) that appears to be the origin of the video screen grab

Nicolas Sarkozy's Ex-Wife to Wed in New York

Originally posted Friday March 21, 2008 03:25 PM EDT

France's former first lady, Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz, plans to wed her boyfriend, Moroccan-born public relations executive Richard Attias, in Manhattan Sunday.

Ciganer-Albeniz, 50, and Attias, 48, left Paris Tuesday to get ready for the nuptials and settle in at Attias's Greenwich, Conn., home.

Attias is reportedly hosting a Friday night reception – and the couple plan to attend a Saturday performance of the Broadway show Mamma Mia before their wedding the following day.

On Sunday, the couple will wed in a civil ceremony before 148 guests, to be followed by a reception at Rockefeller Center, according to a source.

Among the expected guests are the couple's children from previous marriages – including Ciganer-Albeniz's 11-year- old son Louis, from her marriage to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Both the bride and groom are expected to wear Versace.

Ciganer-Albeniz and Sarkozy divorced on Oct. 18 after 11 years of marriage. The French President wed former model Carla Bruni on Feb. 2.

Celebrity Apprentice: Finalists Piers & Trace Speak!

March 21, 2008

Celebrity Apprentice is down to the final two! British tabloid editor (and America’s Got Talent judge) Piers Morgan, and country music star Trace Adkins have used their business acumen and boardroom battle tactics to impress boss Donald Trump each week to get to get to the final boardroom, where one will be hired and one will be fired. With one week to go before The Donald makes his decision, we up with the two very different contestants by phone to ask them about their chances of winning, how they got to the finals and how the show has changed them.

PIERS MORGAN

Are you surprised to be one of the final two?
I am very surprised. When I think back to day one, I look around the room and I didn’t recognize half of these people who were American celebrities, and they sure didn’t recognize me. It was quite clear that there would be a lot of friction amongst the thespians in the group, who are used to having an entourage telling them how wonderful they are all the time, and me, who was telling them about their limitations in life.

Speaking of friction, are you and Omarosa good friends now?
She’s been emailing me, but I’m not interested at all in having any contact with her again in my life. I’d never heard of her until I came out here. Her only claim to fame is that she is the most unpleasant creature ever unleashed on American TV.

So, you’re not going to be pen pals any time soon?
I’ve got an idea for a reality show, which I’ve suggested to Donald Trump: Celebrity Executions. And Omorosa would have to participate. You choose 10 very annoying, pointless celebrities from reality TV world, and they all scrap it out in challenges. The last one left gets executed on national TV. That would be great! Can you imagine the ratings?

How has the show changed your profile in America?
I’m in various cities, doing America’s Got Talent auditions at the moment, and it’s massively different than what I’m used to. It’s been endless people coming up and saying things like, “I’m so glad you killed Omarosa.” I’ve gone from being this pantomime villain on America’s Got Talent to a national hero purely because I got rid of Omarosa! So I’m quite pleased about that.

What do Americans feel about your, um, frankness?
People see it over here as being ruthless and tough. People in Britain don’t see it that way at all. I’ll go out to dinner with Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsey, and we have a laugh about the way the Americans conceive us to be so vile, because compared to some of the people we know in Britain we’re actually quite nice.

Who do you think will win Celebrity Apprentice?
We’ll see what happens. You’ve got Trace, a classic all-American cowboy who played a very gracious game. He’s a good guy. But I personally believe in the end, this is a business game, and the winner should be the person who has displayed the best overall business skills — winning challenges, pulling in big celebrities, helping the charities. If you add all that up then you have a pretty compelling argument that it should be me.

TRACE ADKINS

Are you surprised you are one of the final two?
You know, I guess, a little. I didn’t really know what to expect. I didn’t go into this thing with any preconceived ideas or any delusions that I would win the thing. I just did my best.

Why did you sign on for this in the first place?
I actually turned them down when they called me the first time or two. It was really when it was put to me that this was strictly about charity and what an opportunity it would be for me to raise awareness of something I care a lot about. [His daughter suffers from food allergies, and his charity is the Food Allergy Network.]

What was your strategy to keep winning?
Just keep my head down and let them kill each other off. And maybe come up with a decent idea or two every now and then.

What was the most difficult task?
I really had a strong dislike for any of the tasks that required going into your Rolodex and begging people for money. It’s not something I dig doing. That’s what got Piers to the finals. That’s all that got him here, his ability to call in markers. I don’t do business that way. Piers, I guess he’s got a lot of people who owe him money, I don’t know.

Who do you think will win Celebrity Apprentice?
It just depends on how they’re going to judge the thing, and where they’re going to put the most weight. If it’s strictly on the money, then I’ll probably lose.

Do you have a whole new fan base now?
I’ve had a lot more people recognize me. I’ve been at Disneyworld the last two or three days and getting stopped by people in the parking lot. I’m hearing the Apprentice thing a lot. Actually I had a lady in the park today stop me and started crying because she has a kid who has food allergies. So that was a cool thing. This show was a great idea, whoever came up with it.

Lauren Conrad: I Don’t Feel ‘Betrayed’

March 21, 2008

Lauren Conrad is speaking out on claims that she was feeling “betrayed” by her friends Audrina Patridge and Brody Jenner — and insists, “I love them both.”

In a posting Thursday on her MySpace Celebrity blog, Conrad, 22, wrote:

Hey! I just wanted to take a moment to clear something up. I recently did an interview to talk about the show coming back on and what everyone had to look forward to. Unfortunately it was turned into yet another “poor me” story. The article itself is a nice one but it follows headlines that, in no way, represent my words or feelings. I do not feel betrayed by Audrina or Brody. I love them both and said nothing to contradict this. I understand that headlines sell magazines, but I value my friendships above magazine sales any day.

On a more positive note, I got to see some of the first episode yesterday and it looks amazing. I’m sooooooo excited for everyone to see Paris. Best wishes and I hope everyone tunes in Monday.

With The Hills premiering Monday night on MTV, Conrad also reveals a bit more about her family, her image and secrets behind making the show in, of all places, The Wall Street Journal.

In the profile, Conrad acknowledges that she and Jenner “have an odd relationship,” but it works, because “he’s a cute guy who’s okay with filming.”

As for LC’s image, Conrad’s publicist talks openly with the newspaper about building Conrad as a fashion “brand” — and about the need for Lauren to party responsibly when she’s hitting the hot clubs. “It’s the same conversation you’d have as a parent with a child,” said the rep. Conrad’s father Jim adds that they watch the blogs — and if they see her appearing tipsy in a photo, “We will tell her to ratchet it back.”

A.J. McLean: I Can Finally Speak My Mind

Originally posted Friday March 21, 2008 04:00 PM EDT

Taking a long-awaited side trip, A.J. McLean says his first solo project will let fans know "who I am outside of the Backstreet Boys."

"It feels good, man. It's really been 15 years in the making," McLean, 30, tells .

While he's not leaving the group, and will soon be heading out on a European tour with his band-mates, McLean is stepping out on his own for two concert appearances this Sunday and Monday in California, performing songs from his album that comes out later this year.

"Once I got sober things really kind of kicked into gear for me," says McLean, a recovering alcoholic now six years sober. "Everything I was feeling, I started just putting it down with pen on paper and applying music to it."

Audiences who catch his solo shows (including shows at small venues throughout Europe after the Backstreet tour ends May 15) won't get a boy-band show.

"There are no dancers, no big flashing lights – it's just about the music and about me." he says. " I can speak my mind, say whatever I want to say, and not feel like I have to be censored. It's me being myself and I'm not a kid anymore. If I want to say the S-word on stage I can do that. I'm 30 years old. I can talk about what I want to talk about."

How do the other Backstreet Boys feel about it? "The group is very supportive of him," says a source close to the band. In fact, the source adds, "You will most likely see the group members at the shows in Los Angeles and London."