No more Spice Girls? Sorry
The news we have been dreading to hear: The Spice Girls are reuniting.
The Mirror in London reports the girl band composed of Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Mel B and Mel C (right) have agreed to sing together in a one-time (we pray) performance for the Live Aid II concert in London’s Hyde Park on July 2. The benefit show hopes to persuade leaders of the G8 nations to work to end poverty.
Brooks pops question to Yearwood at show
Garth Brooks may have retired from performing, but he still knows how to steal a show.
Wednesday night, in front of 7,000 fans in Bakersfield, Calif., Brooks proposed to fellow country music star Trisha Yearwood. The marriage will be the second for Brooks, who has three children, and the third for Yearwood.
Brooks was one of 10 music stars honored at the “Legends in Bronze” event at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace. Other musicians honored with bronze statues were Owens, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, George Jones and George Strait.
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In an interview with Marie Claire magazine, Angelina Jolie says she never slept with Brad Pitt.
“We got on great,” Jolie says of Pitt. But the relationship “absolutely not” was more than friendship. “To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not, could not look at myself in the morning if I did that.”
Pitt separated from Jennifer Aniston in January after 4 1/2 years of marriage. Aniston filed for divorce in March, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Justin Timberlake will play a gay man in the NBC comedy “Will & Grace” this fall. US Weekly says Timberlake will play the “bad-boy” lover of Sean Hayes’ character Jack for three episodes.
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Tom Cruise said the breakup of his marriage to Nicole Kidman had nothing to do with his relationship with the Church of Scientology.
“She is not a bigot,” Cruise told “Access Hollywood” in an interview broadcast Thursday. Many reports since the couple divorced in 2001 claimed her rejection of Scientology.
He said: “With my children, like anything I believe, it is their choice in what they want to do – and they are Scientologists.” Asked if Kidman agreed, he said: “Oh, yeah, absolutely.”
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Rod Stewart will be a father for the seventh time, the Mirror reported. The singer’s fiancée, Penny Lancaster, is expecting the couple’s first child, the newspaper reported. Stewart and his estranged second wife, model Rachel Hunter, still have not finalized their divorce.
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Jessica Alba may have played an action star in the short-lived Fox series “Dark Angel,” but in real life, the actress says she’s clumsy.
“It’s not unnatural for me to feel nerdy,” Alba was quoted by TeenHollywood.com. “I do goofy things all the time. I trip, I knock things over. The other day, I bashed myself in the head with a (car) door. … I am not a coordinated person; I just play coordinated people.”
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Russell Crowe may be a softy after all. The Oscar-winning actor told The Associated Press how 18-month-old son Charles has transformed his life: “My life has changed for the better, and in an immeasurable way. Every single day of my life I get 30 or 40 extra cuddles that I didn’t get before, and, quite frankly, I don’t know how I survived the days without them.”
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When Michael Caine discovered how the classic film “Casablanca” was written, he was flabbergasted. “I met one of (the) scriptwriters and I was in awe of him, asking him how he managed to pull off this chaotic, multicultural script,” Caine was quoted by contactmusic.com. “He told me the majority of it was written in his car, waiting for the lights to change (in the Hollywood Hills). I laughed, because I know those lights, and they certainly are slow.”
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
