Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Report: Charlie Sheen to start prison term Monday; is Mariah Carey pregnant with twins?; Splitsville for Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth?

 

Report: Charlie Sheen to start prison term Monday

Charlie Sheen will serve 30 days behind bars for his Christmas Day altercation with his wife after reaching a plea deal with Colorado prosecutors.

The actor spent part of Christmas Day in an Aspen jail after a fight with Brooke Mueller at the couple's ski retreat.

And now TMZ.com reports Sheen will plead no contest to misdemeanor assault and serve 30 more days in jail.

He will enter a no contest plea to third degree assault and begin serving time on Monday. A felony menacing charge against the actor will be dismissed.

Sheen is expected to serve 17 days. He will also be required to complete 36 hours of anger management classes.

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Mariah Carey pregnant with twins?

Mariah Carey and her husband, Nick Cannon, are expecting twins, according to a tabloid report.

The R&B; superstar has failed to put a stop to rumors she is pregnant with her first child after she was spotted leaving a fertility clinic in Los Angeles last month.

Carey further fueled the reports by mysteriously dropping out of Tyler Perry's upcoming movie, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf."

Her representative revealed the decision was based on medical reasons, stating, "She is not doing the movie because her doctor advised her not to. More than that I cannot comment further."

Now the National Enquirer reports the "Hero" hit maker is expecting a double bundle of joy.

An insider tells the publication, "Mariah is gushing that she's going to have twins. Mariah and Nick both want a big family."

And Carey has already begun to scale back her work commitments to prepare for motherhood, starting with Perry's film. The source adds, "Mariah told her handlers that she's taking an unofficial family time break, and she's keeping her work load light for the rest of the year."

The singer has been dogged by pregnancy reports ever since she wed Cannon two years ago and last year the couple turned to top designer Kenneth Bordewick to help style a nursery for the new Los Angeles-area home Carey and Cannon bought.

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Dennis Hopper to be buried in New Mexico

Dennis Hopper will be buried in the New Mexican town he fell in love with while filming his iconic movie "Easy Rider," according to a report.

The actor shot parts of the classic road film in Taos, N.M., in the late 1960s, and spent several years of the next decade living in the area.

Civic bosses in the state even marked the Hollywood legend's 74th birthday on May 17 by declaring it Dennis Hopper Day.

And according to "Entertainment Tonight," the star will be laid to rest in state on Wednesday.

Family and friends will be flown out from Los Angeles, where the actor lived in the later years of his life.

Hopper died on Saturday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 74.

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Bradley Cooper was in awe of his buff 'A-Team' body

Bradley Cooper transformed his body so dramatically for his shirtless scenes in "The A-Team" movie that when he watched a scene from the film, he was certain his head had been superimposed on a model's body.

"The Hangover" star is playing Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck for the big screen version of the hit 1980s show, and cut out all sugar and salt from his diet while beefing up for the role.

After filming a fight scene with co-star Liam Neeson, director Joe Carnahan called Cooper over to watch the clip - - and the star couldn't believe how buff he looked on camera.

He tells Details magazine, "I had to literally transform my body. As the movie progressed, I got in increasingly better shape. There's this one fight scene with Liam Neeson toward the end, where it's, like, the apex of the work. We finished and Joe's like, 'Brother, come here, look at this,' and he played it back, and I swear to God, it looked like my head was digitally superimposed onto someone else's body.

"I was like, 'This cannot be me -- that's the way I look?' It was so f**king surreal, because as a kid I only fantasized about looking that way."

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Amy Winehouse's dad reveals she's dating again

Amy Winehouse has finally moved on from her troubled relationship with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil -- she is dating a "normal bloke." according to her dad.

The pair divorced last July following a turbulent two-year marriage, during which the couple sank into a drug abuse. They reunited at the beginning of 2010 and vowed to wed for a second time.

But the couple's hopes to start all over again fell apart after photographs emerged of the "Back to Black" singer getting close with a neighbor in the garden of her London home.

Reports suggested furious Fielder-Civil called off the reunion, leaving Winehouse free to embark on a new relationship with filmmaker Reg Traviss. And the singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, is thrilled his embattled daughter is finally "moving on" from her ex.

He tells Scotland's STV, "I am happy she's got a new boyfriend ... (a) normal bloke. I am happy she's moving on with her life. She's a wonderful family girl, she deserves to get on with her life and enjoy herself a little bit more. ... Things have been difficult for her."

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'Glee' star Jane Lynch weds

"Glee" star Jane Lynch has wed her partner, Lara Embry, in Massachusetts.

The couple exchanged vows at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland on Monday.

Star reports only 21 guests attended the nuptials, which were held on the restaurant's outdoor patio, overlooking Sugarloaf mountain.

A restaurant employee tells Star, "They've been planning the event for the past few months. We were all so excited. They're really great people."

Lynch and Embry, a psychologist, chose to wed in Massachusetts because same sex marriages are not legal in California, where the couple lives.

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Leann Rimes: 'Eddie Cibrian and I aren't homewreckers'

Leann Rimes has finally spoken out about the breakdown of her marriage and her subsequent relationship with co-star Eddie Cibrian, insisting she "doesn't regret the outcome."

The singer/actress has remained silent since she was caught kissing Cibrian on camera last year while she was still married to dancer Dean Sheremet.

Rimes and Sheremet filed for divorce shortly afterward, and Cibrian also split from his wife, Brandi Glanville, so the stars could be together.

A year on from the scandal, Rimes admits she regrets the way events unfolded but she's happy to have Cibrian by her side.

She tells People magazine, "I take responsibility for everything I've done. I hate that people got hurt. But I don't regret the outcome."

Rimes confesses their friendship "tipped over" a few months after filming Northern Lights and they embarked on a love affair: "It was very emotionally driven. I never once thought what I was doing was OK."

But the 27-year-old is adamant there were problems in her marriage before her romance with Cibrian started. She admits she and Sheremet tried to work out their differences but it became "very apparent it wasn't a marriage that fulfilled either one of us."

She adds, "I was out of balance. My marriage was out of balance. There was something missing."

But Rimes despises being called a "homewrecker" because Cibrian and Glanville's marriage was already fractured too.

She says, "The hardest thing to hear is someone call either of us a home wrecker because we didn't walk into a perfectly happy marriage and ruin it."

The star is refusing to rule out another wedding in the future, but insists, "I don't know what the future holds, but I know it holds Eddie. I'm really happy. I've moved on, and I hope there can be some forgiveness and acceptance."

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Sarah Ferguson knew businessman was a fake

Sarah Ferguson has vowed to trust her instincts in future after revealing she knew deep down the bogus businessman at the center of her latest royal scandal was an undercover reporter.

In a candid TV chat with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, the Duchess of York has spoken out about her shame following a British tabloid set-up, in which she was secretly filmed agreeing a cash deal for access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew.

She admits she should have known better because she had her doubts about the Asian businessman offering her the cash upon their first meeting.

Ferguson was so convinced she was meeting a News of the World reporter she insisted he sign a confidentiality agreement before she would discuss anything with him - and then had her aides check his identity out.

She told Oprah, "I sat there and thought, 'He's a journalist; he's a News of the World journalist, I know he is, I'm going to leave.'

"Just before I get up, I said, 'I need you to sign a confidentiality agreement. ... I'm sorry to be so rude, but I think, in this day and age, we have to...' so everybody shakes (hands) and says, 'Yes, we agree,' and I'm thinking, 'Well, there's no way I'll see him again, so I'll just leave.'"

But when a background check on the bogus businessman suggested he was for real, Ferguson agreed on a second meeting in London.

And now she's mad for not trusting her gut: "I instinctively knew. ... I actually told him, 'You are a News of the World journalist...' I could tell."

The undercover reporter refused to sign the confidentiality agreement prior to the second meeting, insisting he had to run it by his lawyers the following morning, but Fergie still went ahead with the dinner meeting that led to the scandal.

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Bret Michaels feels lucky after Gary Coleman tragedy

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Rocker Bret Michaels feels lucky to be alive after hearing how tragic Gary Coleman died of the same type of brain hemorrhage he survived just weeks earlier.

The Poison front man faced the battle of his life after suffering a near-fatal hemorrhage last month, and he's still recovering from the medical emergency.

His good fortune was hammered home at the weekend following the death of former "Diff'rent Strokes" star Coleman, who died on Friday, just two days after a fall at his Utah home caused an intracranial hemorrhage.

Michaels tells "Extra," "Gary Coleman having a hemorrhage, basically from the very same hemorrhage that I had, and passing away is extremely sad.

"And on the very day that I'm gonna try to start up my tour. I'm one of the lucky ones, who made it through."

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Madonna rep denies surgery report

Madonna's publicist has shot down reports the pop superstar is planning an extensive cosmetic overhaul this summer, insisting there is "no plastic surgery on her calendar."

The Material Girl turns 52 in August, and is rumored to be preparing herself to go under the surgeon's knife in a bid to look younger.

British tabloid reports suggest the singer has booked herself in for an eyelift, lip and cheek fillers, breast implants and Botox.

But according to Madonna's spokesperson, the only thing the star will be scrutinizing over the summer is her upcoming movie about the abdication of British monarch Edward VIII.

The rep tells GossipCop.com, "Madonna is directing a movie all summer. (There's) no plastic surgery on her calendar. (It's) all fiction."

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John Corbett lied to mother over 'Sex' role

John Corbett told his mother he was on a two-week vacation in Ireland when he was shooting his role in the "Sex And The City" sequel in Morocco because he was under orders to keep his involvement in the film a secret.

The actor had a recurring role in the hit TV show, playing Aidan Shaw, the on/off lover of Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie Bradshaw.

He wasn't involved in the first movie, but is back in his role in "Sex and the City 2," much of which was filmed in the African country, and he had to keep the news secret from all his friends and family.

Corbett even lied to his mother about his whereabouts during the shoot so she wouldn't become suspicious.

He tells "Access Hollywood," "I told my mother I was going to Ireland for a little vacation for two weeks and she bought it, because I had to. Plus ... she's got a big yapper (mouth). She would have called everybody, and we got away with it. We really got away with it."

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Catherine Zeta-Jones still struggling with sickness

Catherine Zeta-Jones canceled another performance in her Broadway show, "A Little Night Music" this weekend as she struggles to shake off a virus.

The Welsh actress pulled out of several shows over the last few weeks after falling sick, returning to the stage late last month.

But the "Chicago" star proved she is still not in full health after scrapping plans to appear in a matinee performance on Sunday.

Zeta-Jones was also due to sing at a charity fundraiser for the Actors' Fund later that night, but her appearance at the event was also canceled.

The 40-year-old was reportedly willing to perform despite her illness, but was ordered to stay home and rest by her worried husband, Michael Douglas, according to the New York Post.

A source tells the newspaper Zeta-Jones is feeling "deeply frustrated" by her inability to get back on stage.

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