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New mother TORI SPELLING insists she’s the luckiest woman alive after getting home from hospital with her new baby.
The former BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 actress has posted on her MySpace.com website telling fans she’s back home after ""the most amazing week".
Spelling gave birth to baby LIAM at Cedars Sinai Medical Center last week (ends16MAR07).
She writes: "We are finally out of the hospital and spent our first day at home with little Liam. I might be a biased mommy but he is so beautiful. I just stare at him in amazement. I can’t believe I have been given this unbelievable little gift.
"I feel like the luckiest girl in the world… I had no idea you could love someone you’ve only known for four days this much. But my heart is jumping out of my chest with love."

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RUSSELL CROWE’s stint as a sports owner began in style in Sydney, Australia earlier today (19MAR07) when his Rabbitohs beat city rivals the Roosters at Aussie Stadium.
More than 24,000 fans turned out to see the derby which kicked off the new Aussie Rules Football season.
A delighted Crowe cheered his team to a crushing 18-6 victory and then joined players in the locker room to personal congratulate them on their success.

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Former SPICE GIRLS star VICTORIA BECKHAM stunned fellow first class passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to London last month (FEB07) when she refused all offers of food and would only drink peppermint tea.
Stewards and stewardesses fussed around the WANNABE singer, but she had few diva-like requests - and even brought her own teabags for the 11-hour flight.
One fellow passenger says, "She was very pleasant and she’s really very pretty in person but she’s very thin.
"If you can go for 11 hours on nothing but peppermint tea, it’s little wonder she’s so skinny."

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LEONARDO DiCAPRIO’s aides have confirmed the movie star held secret talks with Israel’s Vice Premier SHIMON PERES during his chaotic trip to his girlfriend BAR RAFAELI’s homeland last week (beg11MAR07).
Peres, Israel’s former leader, requested a meeting with the TITANIC star after learning of his visit, and asked the actor and activist to use his star power to help promote conservation and peace in the Middle East.
According to sources, DiCaprio was thrilled to meet the Israeli dignitary and promised to help on both issues.
DiCaprio’s representatives have confirmed the meeting took place, which was a high point of an otherwise troubled trip for the actor. Two of his bodyguards face charges after fighting with photographers during DiCaprio’s visit to a holy site, and the actor was forced to cut short his trip on Thursday (15MAR07) after learning his aunt had died. He flew to Germany for the funeral.

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Former DAWSON’S CREEK star JAMES VAN DER BEEK is to return to the football field to play a pro-athlete in the upcoming US adaptation of British TV drama FOOTBALLER’S WIVES.
It’s not the first time the actor has suited up to play an American footballer - Van Der Beek played a high school quarterback in VARSITY BLUES.

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Quirky moviemaker JOHN WATERS’ new TV series ‘TIL DEATH DO US PART is being promoted by a comic book.
The programme, in which Waters plays THE GROOM REAPER, looks back at marriages that ended with one partner killing the other and debuts in America tonight (19MAR07).
A graphic novel, featuring an animated Waters, was sent out with trade papers this morning.

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Gothic thriller PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER and prison drama FOUR MINUTES lead the nominations for the 57th German Film Awards with eight nods apiece.
Both films are up for Best Picture and Best Director honours.
The other Best Film nominations are EMMA’S BLISS, WINTER JOURNEY and THE COUNTERFEITERS. The winners will be announced on 4 May (07) in Berlin.

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Supermodel ELLE MACPHERSON’s sister MIMI has been banned from driving for nine months in Australia after pleading guilty to a drink-driving charge.
The pretty blonde, real name MIRIAM GOW, was pulled over by police on the Gold Coast Highway at Broadbeach on 30 November (06) after they spotted her driving at night without lights.
She registered a blood alcohol reading of .147 per cent - almost three times over the legal limit.
She told the court earlier today (19MAR07), "I’m extremely sorry, there’s just absolutely no excuse." Macpherson was also fined AUS$1,050 ($839/£432).

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US R&B star ROBIN THICKE is in talks to pen his debut film score for his wife PAULA PATTON’s new movie THIS WEDNESDAY.
The DEJA VU singer will play a female pimp in the gritty drama, which is based on writer/director CHRISTINE CROKOS’ short film HEROINE HELEN.
If Thicke does score the film, it won’t be the first time he has worked with his real-life wife - she played his love interest in his latest video LOST WITHOUT YOU.

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Music mogul SIMON COWELL is turning his experiences as a TV talent show judge into a new drama.
The AMERICAN IDOL and POP IDOL star has teamed up with the brains behind hit British TV series FOOTBALLERS’ WIVES to create a new project about a celebrity couple forced to judge a reality TV show after their marriage falls apart.
Shooting on ROCK RIVALS will begin this summer (07) in the UK. The series will debut in Britain later this year.

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The rocker who ditched HILARY DUFF to date NICOLE RICHIE has a seedy secret past when it comes to sex encounters with his fans.
GOOD CHARLOTTE frontman JOEL MADDEN often found himself hiding in closets to avoid fights with the jealous boyfriends of devotees who neglected to tell him they weren’t single.
He recalls, "Back when we were on our first tour, you’d always meet some hot girl at the show and would have six hours to kill, so you end up going to her house. But you don’t know she has a boyfriend.
"You end up hiding in the closet when he comes home. There were plenty of those (incidents).
"There was never a time when I actually got chased down by a boyfriend… I just had to wait until the girl got him out. I would be sitting in the closet, sweating bullets for, like, an hour." The LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH & THE FAMOUS singer admits life on the road is very different now he’s in a committed relationship and brother and bandmate BENJI is engaged to marry actress SOPHIE MONK.
He explains, "Sometimes a girl will come on the bus and we’ll be in the middle of a conversation or something, and she’ll be like, ‘Oh, this is not what I was looking for. I was kind of hoping for drunken nudity and stuff.’ We disappoint a lot of people."

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Country star BUCK JONES was hit and killed on Saturday (17MAR07) after breaking down on a remote Texas road.
The aspiring singer was trying to get his bearings, after a burst tyre force him to pull over, when he was struck from behind by an alleged drunk driver.
The driver who hit him is being held on an intoxicated manslaughter charge.
Jones, 33, became a cult sensation in 2005 after releasing the album LUCKY STAR. He was on his way to perform when he lost his life.

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GOOD CHARLOTTE’s war of words with former drummer CHRIS WILSON has been reignited in a new Penthouse magazine spread.
Wilson, who quit the group in 2005, claimed his former bandmates owed him money and withheld equipment he owned, but the group, led by brothers BENJI and JOEL MADDEN, have consistently denied his claims.
Now, after months of silence, the bitter dispute has begun again after Joel Madden revealed to Penthouse magazine that he had personally funded the drummer’s rehab stint shortly after making Wilson a permanent member of the group.
Madden says, "He just went completely downhill with drugs and everything. It got out of control and it started to affect his playing and him showing up.
"Finally we just couldn’t do it anymore. We even paid for his rehab.
"He got mad at us and left to start this other band. But then about 16 months after, when things didn’t work out for him, he hits us up and was like, ‘You guys owe me money.’ But we didn’t owe him s**t." In response, Wilson tells the magazine, "They paid for the rehab, but then they stopped paying me and made me pay back almost all of it. Those dudes, they’re f**king crazy." Madden admits the ongoing war of words has been trying on him, adding, "He (Wilson) was like a bitchy ex-girlfriend. I hope I never see him again."

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LATEST: Music mogul PHIL SPECTOR stunned legal analysts in Los Angeles this morning (19MAR07) by sporting a new look as he turned up for the first day of jury selection in his upcoming murder trial.
The record producer ditched the zany wig he wore for a court date last year (06) and instead sported a long BEATLES-type hairstyle and long black coat.
The only flamboyant thing about his attire was a large-collar yellow shirt he wore.
More than 70 potential jurors were interviewed in court in Los Angeles this morning.
Spector’s trial is likely to get underway at the end of next month (APR07).
He faces charges he murdered actress LANA CLARKSON, whose body was found at Spector’s Alhambra, California mansion in 2004.

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LATEST: Former supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL began mopping floors at New York’s Sanitation Department earlier today (19MAR07).
The British beauty will perform cleaning duties for five days, after being ordered by a Manhattan judge earlier this year (JAN07) to undertake community service as punishment for throwing a mobile phone at maid ANA SCOLAVINO.
Campbell has been allowed to perform her cleaning duties in private, in a bid to avoid the press furore which surrounded pop star BOY GEORGE’s community service stint in the city last year (06).
Despite being warned by sanitation boss ALBERT DURRELL "not to wear heels" to work, Campbell arrived at the Lower East Side building at 8am in a pair of stiletto boots, although she was also carrying a pair of work shoes.

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LATEST: Hollywood actress ANGELINA JOLIE arrived in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi earlier today (19MAR07), to obtain a visa for newly adopted son PAX THIEN so she can take him home to the US.
The actress arrived in the country last Wednesday (14MAR07) with her Cambodian son MADDOX to finish the adoption process for three-year-old Pax.
But the adoption will only become final once US officials in Hanoi approve paperwork to allow him to travel to America.
Jolie and partner BRAD PITT are now full-time parents to four children under the age of five: Maddox, five; Pax Thien, three; Ethiopian ZAHARA MARLEY, two; and their sole biological child SHILOH NOUVEL, 10 months.

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Hollywood actor LEONARDO DiCAPRIO has reportedly ended his trip to Israel after learning his beloved aunt had passed away.
The TITANIC star and his girlfriend BAR RAFAELI were visiting the model’s homeland last week (ends16MAR07) when he heard the sad news.
DiCaprio flew to Germany to attend the funeral of his aunt RENATE in the city of Oer-Erkenschwick, reports German tabloid Bild.
The sister of DiCaprio’s mother, IRMELIN, died in a hospital at the age of 65 and was buried on Thursday (15MAR07).
Since arriving in the city, the movie star has spent his time comforting his grandmother HELENE.

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Veteran British actress DAME MAGGIE SMITH has slammed contemporary thespians for being "too fame hungry".
The HARRY POTTER star laments today’s stars, who are prepared to strip off in a bid to further their career, insisting there is "no mystery" left in the acting profession.
The 72-year-old says, "When I started acting, it wasn’t about fame. It was about acting.
"What is required of actors today is beyond credence - it seems to be vital that you tell the world everything about your private life and remove every single garment you possess while you are about it.
"There is absolutely no mystery any more."

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