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CSI: MIAMI star EMILY PROCTER was prompted to take a pregnancy test after an old woman appeared to her in a dream and told her she was about to be come a mother.
The actress announced earlier this year (10) that she is expecting her first child with her musician boyfriend Paul Bryan.
Procter admits the pregnancy came as a surprise but she was given a "bi zarre" clue in a dream.
She tells US Weekly, "I actually had no idea that I was pregnant, and i n the middle of the night I had this dream. There was this old woman, and she said, ‘Honey, you’re pregnant!’ And I said, ‘No, I’m not. There’s no way.’ "I thought that dream was so bizarre, and when it (the pregnancy test) was positive, of course I told my boyfriend. We were like, ‘Wow! That is unbelievable.’" The baby is due in December (10).

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MICHAEL DOUGLAS is adamant he lives modestly compared to other millionair es - insisting he and his wife CATHERINE ZETA-JONES are "not extravagant" with their money.
The actor owns homes in Bermuda and New York, as well as other properti es in Spain and the Turks and Caicos islands, but admits he was stunned b y the wealth displayed by some bankers while he was researching new movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
And Douglas insists his own lavish lifestyle pales in comparison to som e wealthy citizens’.
He tells Britain’s Live magazine, "One of these guys (bankers) has a mo torcycle that costs a million dollars that is flown all around the world with him. These guys go shooting in Spain, they have the Vertu $70,000 mo bile phone. Right now they’re into G5 Gulfstream jets - some have more th an one….
"I don’t own a plane - we rent. In the summer we’ll charter a boat for the family. I am not extravagant… We don’t throw many parties…" But Douglas concedes the only time he does spend money unwisely is when he is picking out presents for his wife.
He adds, "I am always buying her something. Catherine loves antique jew ellery."

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KATHERINE HEIGL is having second thoughts about becoming an equestrian af ter injuring herself in a horse riding accident at her Utah ranch.
The Knocked Up star recently took up competitive horse training on her sprawling 25-acre estate, but admits she’s "having a hard time getting ba ck in the saddle" after losing control and splitting her knee open in a f all.
She explains, "I have no idea what I’m doing… it’s very difficult.
"He (the horse) is great and he wasn’t trying to kill me but I just los t control and I couldn’t stop him. The more upset I’d get, the faster he’ d go. He was running into the walls and I just leaped off of him into the se iron bars and I stood there bleeding watching him go berserk and I wen t, ‘What have I done?’" And the actress admits she’s lucky she jumped off when she did, because her injuries could have been much worse. She says, "I split my fingernai l open and cut my knee, it wasn’t that bad. I didn’t break anything." (JM

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MICHAEL DOUGLAS and his wife CATHERINE ZETA-JONES are considering taking their kids out of school for a round-the-world family holiday once the ac tor finishes his cancer treatment.
The Fatal Attraction star was diagnosed with throat cancer last month ( Aug10) and is currently undergoing an intensive course of chemotherapy an d radiation treatment as he battles the deadly disease.
But Douglas remains optimistic about his prognosis and is already makin g plans to mark the end of his treatment - he wants to take his partner a nd their two children, Dylan, 10, and Carys, seven, on a year-long vacati on.
He tells Britain’s Live magazine, "Catherine and I are talking about ta king the kids out of school for a year and trying to go around the world - that would be nice…" Douglas admits he has a long list of ambitions left to achieve and his cancer battle has made him determined to complete them.
He adds, "There are other things I want to do at this stage in life. I would like to finally learn some Spanish. But my focus is my family." (LR

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DAWSON’S CREEK star JAMES VAN DER BEEK is a first-time dad after welcomin g a daughter at the weekend (25-26Sep10).
The actor’s wife Kimberly Brook gave birth to baby Olivia on Saturday ( 25Sep10) and Van Der Beek announced the news via his Twitter.com page.
In a series of posts, he wrote, "Had the blessing of becoming a father over the weekend… Couldn’t come close to describing this bliss even if I had 140 million characters… I apologise in advance for any obnoxiousl y precious new-dad Tweets that may follow. I’m under her spell…" The 33-year-old star wed Brook last month (Aug10). He was previously ma rried to actress Heather Ann McComb.

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British rapper PLAN B had to fight prejudice when he started out as a rap per - because critics wrote him off as a "wannabe black man".
The singer/rapper - real name Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew - gained a cu lt following ahead of the release of his debut album Who Needs Actions Wh en You Got Words in 2006.
But the star admits he faced a wall of criticism when he started out, b ecause he is a young white man from a tough council estate in London.
He tells Britain’s The Sun, "I have an imagination and ideas but when I started out, because I spoke the way I spoke and I dressed the way I dre ssed, people didn’t take me seriously. But I was never bitter about that.
"I understood why I was treated like that - because I sounded just like all the other kids in my generation that shouldn’t have been taken serio usly because they were f**king idiots.
"Kids on the streets could connect with what I was doing because I was speaking their language and writing about what they were doing. But the p eople outside of London who didn’t live in that environment and didn’t re alise it existed thought I was exaggerating it or glamorising it.
"So they completely got me wrong, wrote me off and judged me as this ig norant white rapper from a council estate, which I’m not. The next challe nge was to show those people that I was not a wannabe black man from a co uncil estate."

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Welsh singer CHARLOTTE CHURCH decided to end her engagement to rugby star GAVIN HENSON after he "changed" during a trip to the Arctic Circle for a U.K. reality show.
The couple ended its five-year relationship in May (10), just months af ter Henson asked for her hand in marriage.
Church admits that both parties had time to think while Henson was in t he Arctic taking part in TV endurance contest 71 Degrees North - and she was prompted to split from the sports hunk when he returned a different m an.
She tells Britain’s Heat magazine, "He’s a lot more grown up and open. I think he learned a lot about himself and he’d never had time to sit bac k and reflect before.
"He’d been so busy with rugby, and that’s such a psychological game. I think that lived in his mind rather than any sort of self-discovery. So h e was always quite closed.
"When he proposed, I was overjoyed. It was amazing. I really was going to marry Gav and spend the rest of my life with him. But then he came bac k… and he’d changed and I’d had time to think.
"We had both had a change of heart - so we were both of the same mind."

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YOKO ONO paid tribute to NOWHERE BOY director SAM TAYLOR-WOOD at the film ’s premiere in New York City - insisting her late husband JOHN LENNON "wo uld have loved" his depiction in the movie.
Taylor-Wood’s Lennon biopic was unveiled in the Big Apple last week (be gs20Sep10) and Ono was in attendance at the red carpet event.
And the veteran singer made sure the director was aware of her apprecia tion by taking the microphone during the film’s introduction and praising Taylor-Wood for her attention to detail, according to New York Post goss ip column Page Six.
Ono said, "John would have loved it… because you know the pain he wen t through in his childhood. It made him a very wise person." Taylor-Wood, 43, attended with her partner, lead actor Aaron Johnson, 2 0, who she met on set. The couple became parents to a daughter, Wylda Rae , in July (10).

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British singer/director PLAN B faced a constant threat of danger while sh ooting his new movie in a tough London neighbourhood as the crew was targ eted by local thugs.
The rapper/actor has stepped behind the camera for his filmmaking debut Ill Manors, which is set in the deprived area of Forest Gate, East Londo n - where the star was brought up.
And Plan B - real name Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew - realised how far h e had come since he walked the neighbourhood’s mean streets, after witnes sing locals’ negative reaction to the shoot.
He tells Britain’s The Sun, "During filming, we’ve had bolts and screws thrown at us from the top of f**king council estate towers. We’ve been t o crack houses where there are dirty needles lying around. And a gang wer e about 30 seconds away from smashing my face in.
"We were filming outside a station and brought attention to ourselves. One of our actors accidentally bumped into one of these kids and they jus t lost it. I was so close to kicking off but I knew I couldn’t.
"I knew it could end up messy. I’ve had my head kicked in before - a lo t of times - so I was ready for it. I tried talking to one of the blokes, reasoning with him, but he didn’t want to hear it. I wasn’t scared. I’ve done well controlling my temper so I wasn’t about to ruin it all." But the star admits he is glad the actors and crew got to see how the p eople in urban estates live - because it backed up his shocking script.
He adds, "That’s the world that the film was depicting. And if there wa s anyone on that set who thought what I had written for this film was an exaggeration, they don’t think that now."

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Rapper PAUL WALL has been accused of beating a fan with a microphone duri ng a concert in Texas on Sunday night (26Sep10).
The hip-hop star was performing with fellow rapper Slim Thug at the Low Low Car Show in San Antonio, Texas.
A video, obtained by TMZ.com and recorded at the event, appears to show a man in the front row waving his middle finger at the star, who leans d own to exchange words with the concert-goer before allegedly hitting him with a microphone.
The footage appears to show Wall - real name Paul Slayton - being dragg ed to the back of the stage by security guards.
The fan was subsequently removed from the venue and no police report ha s been filed, according to the website.

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Former BEE GEES star ROBIN GIBB has played down rumours he enjoys an ‘ope n marriage’ - insisting he and wife DWINA are more "conservative" than mo st couples.
Reports suggesting the couple enjoy relations outside their 24-year mar riage hit the headlines last year (09) after the singer fathered a child with his 34-year-old housekeeper.
The news appeared to cement long-held speculation that the pair had oth er sexual partners, following comments Gibb made to U.S. shock jock DJ Ho ward Stern in the 1990s about the pair’s love of threesomes.
But Gibb has backtracked on his risque remarks, insisting he was only j oking with Stern and that he enjoys a "free relationship" with his wife r ather than a sexually liberated one.
He tells Britain’s Daily Mail, "It wasn’t a serious interview. Howard S tern was making up stories about his wife and other women, so I plugged i nto the joke. I was having fun in his world.
"We’ve never really said we have an open marriage. People like to imagi ne you’ve got a certain lifestyle, but it’s not quite like that at all…
We actually have a very conservative relationship - more so than the ave rage couple. We don’t drink or smoke. We’re not partying all the time. My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
"Look, we’re not stuffed shirts. We have a free relationship. We give e ach other time and space to pursue activities - that doesn’t mean other p eople. But people have got to see it in terms of freedom of sex, because that’s the way they think. The average person can’t get it into their hea d that you don’t have to be talking about the physical the whole time. Yo u can have individual freedom of space without that."

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KYLIE MINOGUE will lead the way at this year’s (10) ARIA Awards after sco ring two nominations ahead of Australia’s most prestigious music prize-gi ving.
The pop superstar will compete for a pair of honours - Best Female Arti st and Best Pop Release for her latest album Aphrodite - at the ceremony in Sydney in November (10).
Aussie rockers The Temper Trap look set to dominate the show with five nominations, including Best Group and Most Popular Australian Album for C onditions, while Powderfinger will compete in four categories.
Other acts up for awards include Sia, Empire Of The Sun and Gabriella C ilmi.
The trophies will be handed out at the Sydney Opera House on 7 November (10).

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90210 star TREVOR DONOVAN has been hit with a lawsuit from a credit card company over allegations he owes more than $42,000 (=C2=A328,000) in unpa id bills.
Legal documents were filed on Monday (27Sep10) accusing the actor of ap plying for a card with Wells Fargo back in 2006 and running up a massive debt which has gone unpaid.
The money is being chased by executives at a firm called Investment Ret rievers, who filed the lawsuit in a bid to recoup $42,469.69 (=C2=A328,31 3.13) as well as interest and attorneys’ fees, according to TMZ.com. (LR/

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PARIS HILTON is hoping to put her recent drugs conviction firmly behind h er by turning her attentions to charity work.
The socialite was handed a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to a ttend an "intensive" substance abuse program after pleading guilty to coc aine possession following her arrest in Las Vegas last month (Aug10).
Hilton subsequently scrapped a promotional tour of the Far East after s he was refused entry to Japan because of her drugs bust, and since she ha s been back home in California, the hotel heiress appears to have adopted a "healthy" new lifestyle with gym sessions and a new diet.
And now Hilton is making plans to visit sick kids at The Children’s Hos pital in Los Angeles this week (beg27Sep10) to teach them how to paint.
In a post on microblogging site Twitter.com, she writes, "Went to Micha el’s Art Supply Store today, bought a lot of fun art projects. Going to T he Children’s Hospital this week to do art with them." The news comes just days after Lindsay Lohan, who was jailed twice this summer (10), made a trip to visit homeless teenagers at a shelter in L.A .. The outing came just two days after the troubled actress was released f rom prison on bail, stemming from a probation violation and two failed dr ug tests.

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Troubled comedian ARTIE LANGE made his return to stand-up comedy at the w eekend (24-25Sep10), performing for the first time since his alleged suic ide attempt in January (10).
Howard Stern’s sidekick was hospitalised in New Jersey after reportedly stabbing himself nine times with a kitchen knife in a desperate bid to e nd his life.
But Lange appeared to have put his past problems behind him when he mad e a surprise appearance at New York City club the Comedy Cellar. The funn yman performed two shows, on Friday (24Sep10) and Saturday night (25Sep10 ), and received a warm welcome from the crowd at both, telling the audien ce, "Oh, you guys are going to bring a tear to my eye." Fellow comic Dan Naturman, who was at the event, tells New York Post go ssip column Page Six that Lange made light of his recent troubles and men tioned he had been receiving treatment over the last few months.
He says, "(Lange) mentioned the fact that he had been in a psych ward f or the past eight months and that he was playing Scrabble with one of the other patients. But the guy was so scary that whatever word he spelled, Artie would say: ‘OK… let’s count it up.’"

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Hollywood bosses have confirmed they are searching for a new location for THE LORD OF THE RINGS prequel THE HOBBIT in the wake of a dispute with N ew Zealand actors’ unions.
All three previous The Lord of the Rings movies were filmed in the coun try and director Peter Jackson, who will produce the new picture, has urg ed union executives to reconsider their planned boycott because a relocat ion would seriously harm New Zealand’s entertainment industry.
The stand-off revolves around movie bosses’ refusal to sign a deal with local unions amid allegations of "unfair treatment" of performers, and o ther organisations in America, Canada and Britain have all backed the boy cott.
Executives at the movie studios behind The Hobbit have now spoken out t o condemn criticism of Jackson and his film crew, insisting they are "exp loring all alternative options" to make sure filming goes ahead as planne d.
The joint statement from New Line, Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) reads, "(We) are concerned by the recent allegations of unfair tre atment of actors in New Zealand… we believe that in this case the alleg ations are baseless and unfair to Peter Jackson and his team in Wellingto n who have been tireless supporters of the New Zealand motion picture com munity.
"Motion picture production requires the certainty that a production can reasonably proceed without disruption and it is our general policy to av oid filming in locations where there is potential for workforce uncertain ty or other forms of instability. As such, we are exploring all alternati ve options in order to protect our business interests." The union dispute is the latest in a long line of problems which have h it The Hobbit in recent months - the film is currently on hold due to ong oing financial problems at MGM, and director Guillermo Del Toro quit in M ay (10) due to the lengthy delays.

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ELIJAH WOOD is single again after splitting from his longtime girlfriend, according to U.K. reports.
The Lord of the Rings actor has been dating model/musician Pamela Racin e for five years since they met on the set of 2005 movie Everything Is Il luminated, which featured songs from her band Gogol Bordello.
But the 29-year-old Hollywood star is now said to have ended the relati onship.
A source tells British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, "Elijah just didn ‘t want to settle down. The last thing he wanted to do was hurt Pamela, b ut she’s pretty cut up about the break-up."

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Lawyers working for soccer superstar DAVID BECKHAM have served a $25 mill ion (=C2=A316 million) writ on hooker IRMA NICI - accusing her of causing him "great mental anguish" with allegations they slept together.
Nici hit headlines around the world last week (begs20Sep10) when she se nsationally claimed Beckham had paid for her services on two occasions in 2007.
The sportsman immediately launched legal action against Nici and In Tou ch magazine, which published the story - and on Monday (27Sep10) a repres entative served papers on Nici in New York, alleging the former prostitut e has falsely accused Beckham of "criminal and adulterous activity".
The nine-page dossier states Nici’s allegations have "adversely affecte d him in his professional life as an athlete, endorser and charity spokes person" and imply that he risked the health of his wife - former Spice Gi rl Victoria - by bedding a sex worker.
Beckham is demanding a massive $25 million in damages for libel, slande r and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and is pressing for t he case to be heard in front of a jury.
The documents state, "The defamatory statements about Beckham are libel lous and slanderous. These statements falsely accuse Beckham of criminal and adulterous activity. The defamatory statements expose him to hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy because they inaccurately portray Beckham as an unfaithful husband who put his wife’s health at risk by engaging in sexual acts with prostitutes." A separate section adds, "Nici’s defamatory statements falsely portray Beckham as having engaged in immoral and criminal acts by soliciting pros titutes for extramarital affairs." A representative for the star initially served the papers by jamming th em underneath the windscreen wipers of Nici’s car as she tried to flee in New York on Monday afternoon - but she was later handed the writ at her lawyer’s offices.
A source tells Britain’s The Sun, "She looked totally unfussed as she l ooked through the writ for the first time. She just smiled and didn’t loo k bothered. It is yet another outrageous show from her."

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