Gwen Stefani is a (step)mom:

The London Mirror reports the No Doubt frontwoman's British hubby, Gavin Rossdale, has just learned he has a daughter.

DNA tests have reportedly confirmed the Bush rocker, 37, is the father of 15-year-old model Daisy Lowe (mom is London-based designer and singer Pearl Lowe).

"Yes, it's true but out of respect to all parties concerned, I've no further comment," Rossdale is quoted as telling the paper.

Gwen, who wed Rossdale in 2002, is said to be "devastated" by the news.

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L.L. Cool J is not one to shy away from sharing his sexual know-how.

In the November issue of Blender magazine, he reveals two of the oddest things that have been licked off his abs. "A couple of boxes of Jell-O in a tub of cold water and chocolate syrup," the rapper recounted. "That's the craziest."

He also recommends another way to liven your sex life: "Get yourself a brand new shower curtain, throw it on the bed, squeeze some baby oil all over that joint, and do a little slip and slide. I have done that many times."

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1 I'd think it would be hard for the guy to find the neccesary....traction...on an oiled up shower curtian??

Posted by: Jen at October 20, 2004 09:44 AM (XBgIU)

2 I agree with you, Jen - - but then we all have our own "thing" and that must be his

Posted by: at October 20, 2004 11:35 AM (dUIpl)

3 oops - that comment above is me

Posted by: Uptown Girl at October 20, 2004 11:36 AM (dUIpl)

4 not gonna lie, that's bizarre.

Posted by: camille at October 20, 2004 01:05 PM (c4eno)

5 Doesn't sound too strange or even unique to me but I could have lived without the mental image.

Posted by: Nanc' at October 20, 2004 01:37 PM (98muT)

6 Maybe if there was something handy to hold onto for traction - like a bedpost? or a chandelier? And the mental image actually isn't bothering me too much I'm just sayin'

Posted by: Kelly at October 20, 2004 03:36 PM (q1zn/)

7 I'm with you, Kelly. Definitely not minding the mental image. And who knew he and his wife have been married for ten years! Isn't that like 40 years in Hollywood terms?

Posted by: robin at October 20, 2004 03:50 PM (qM8fh)

8 You can also take the sheet off of a waterbed, and do the "slip and slide" that way. I'm just saying!

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A mother's love is truly special:

A Marion County judge on Monday sentenced an Indianapolis woman to 18 months in prison for helping her 5-year-old son smoke crack cocaine.

Andrea Wilkey, 40, oheld the lighter n Aug. 6 while her son inhaled from a homemade pipe, police say. Her son tested positive for cocaine the next day.

Wilkey told police she was smoking crack in a "bong" made out of a baby food jar, glass pipe and rubber tubing.

Wilkey left the room, court records say. When she returned, her son was sitting at the table near the bong and asking to use the drug. "Come on. Let me do it," he said, according to records.

The mother said she then struck a lighter to the cocaine and watched her son inhale, according to records.

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So the partners decided where our firm trip is going to be this year: Miami--South Beach. I'm really pumped because it will be a nice break from the December chill of Indiana, and I've never been there.

We'll be staying here, which I've been told is only 2 minutes from South Beach.

Has anyone been there? Are there any shops, bars, clubs, etc. you highly recommend? If so, let me know! Don't want to miss anything!

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1 Lawren, nice working vacation you'll have Hey, wasn't that hotel in our property textbook? The last time I was in Miami I was too young to recommend anything specific, but grab one of those Lonely Planet books. I know they have one for Miami and I've used them for my trips to Seattle, Portland, London, Paris and they have never steered me wrong!

Posted by: Brian D. at October 20, 2004 08:49 AM (OZHJ2)

2 I've been to Miami many times and sicne you will be in that area just walk outside and you'll find a thousand things to do within the first thirty minutes. The restaurants are great, the dancing sexy, the drinks fun and the shopping fabulous. Can you tell Miami is one of my favorite places? There are a few spots I think are great and worth visiting - - let me look them up and get you the addresses. Also when you get to the FB and check in have their concierge give you all the tourist tips for those who don't want to do tourist things - - that way you'll be off the beaten path and have a lot of fun I'll drop you a note later today with info

Posted by: Uptown Girl at October 20, 2004 11:40 AM (dUIpl)

3 You rock, UG!

Posted by: Lawren at October 20, 2004 11:43 AM (sql83)

4 I bet I'll be joining you when I get that sweeeet public interest job I'm gunning for. ;-)

Posted by: Kevin at October 20, 2004 11:41 PM (GW18l)

5 girl, i think i learned about the FB in property class...wasn't that an ancient lights case...why yes, i am a nerd, why do you ask?

Posted by: Kelly P. at October 24, 2004 10:20 AM (e0ylE)

6 Collins Ave is where all the clubs and bars are... shopping? Everywhere you look is a shop... just bring money and dress hott or you're not getting in the bars.. check out the Delano hotel - nice bar scene (right on the water), Rummy, Mint, and a cab drive away is Nikki Beach (bar/restaruant/club on the water named after the owners daughter that was killed in drunk driving accident). Enjoy!

Posted by: at October 25, 2004 07:07 PM (6krEN)

7 oh and be sure to hit aventura mall!

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Congratulations! You are Gabrielle Solis, the
ex-model with everything she's every wanted a
rich husband, a big house and John, the
17-year-old gardener.


Which Desperate Housewife are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

--At first this was slightly disheartening because she has such an empty marriage. But, then I reminded myself that ALL the possible outcomes of the quiz have screwed up lives. And then again, I could handle having a gardener that looked like THAT!

--Stolen from Daniel.

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1 Congratulations! You are Bree Van De Kamp, the Martha Stewart on steroids, whose family is about to mutiny. --what does this mean? i don't watch the show!

Posted by: Kelly P. at October 19, 2004 02:25 PM (4adEQ)

2 Oh God, Kel. She's the craziest!

Posted by: Lawren at October 19, 2004 02:49 PM (sql83)

3 Desperate Housewives is one of the best new shows of the season, if you ask me. It leads into Boston Legal, which is just great because of James Spader and William Shatner (Denny Crane!). DH also follows my favorite cryfest -- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I'm the world's biggest cornball and don't mind admitting that I love that show too. I'm sorry...this wasn't about me, was it? :-p

Posted by: Kevin the Interloper at October 19, 2004 03:35 PM (qb+8W)

4 Oh, and for the record:
Congratulations! You are Susan Mayer, the divorcee
and single mom who will go to extraordinary
lengths for love.

Which Desperate Housewife are you?
brought to you by Quizilla Huh. I can dig it.

Posted by: Kevin the Interloper at October 19, 2004 03:37 PM (qb+8W)

5 Kevin--couldn't agree w/ you more about Boston Legal. It's the bomb.

Posted by: Lawren at October 19, 2004 03:42 PM (sql83)

6 Well, of COURSE, she's the craziest...what more would you expect from me? And I have heard great things about both Desperate Housewives and Boston Legal...i have a hard time switching from my old standbys: Cold Case, Law & Order: CI...I think i might have to make the move, though!

Posted by: Kelly P. at October 19, 2004 03:52 PM (4adEQ)

7 Why I felt compelled to take this I do not know, but apparently I'm Edie Britt. To which I say, who's Edie Britt? Which tells me I should have stayed away - but damn, it's like peanut butter ice cream. It's there, it must be consumed!

Posted by: MartiniPundit at October 19, 2004 04:44 PM (fLdsW)

8 I LOVE Boston Legal. It is my newest guilty pleasure. I usually catch the last few minutes of DH. It does look cool. I have no idea how well these quizes will work on me, but Congratulations! You are Lynette Scavo, the ex-career woman who traded the boardroom for boredom, mixed with moments of sheer panic as the mother of four unmanageable kids. I'm laughing at that result for so many reasons!

Posted by: Brian D. at October 19, 2004 05:08 PM (vPrv/)

9 I just watched the show for the first time this past week and LOVED it!! It's hilarious!! So, Boston Legal is good too??? According to the quiz, I am a Susan. This seems appropriate---Locking myself out of my house while I am naked, and then being discovered by my new crush is right up there with my luck!!!

Posted by: Eli at October 19, 2004 06:39 PM (MTqwP)

10 I'm Gabrielle too

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How you know you've found "the one"--by Angelina Jolie:

Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie believes the man who understands her sadomasochistic needs and ties her up will be "the one".

The Tomb Raider star tried to engender trust in her marriages to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton by introducing violence into their sex lives, and she wants to push the boundaries even further with her next lover.

Jolie explains, "A lot of my relationships just weren't honest enough. So I took them down different paths toward violence or wildness... to try to find somebody to hold me down and make me feel. S&M sex can be misinterpreted as violence. It's really about trust. I like to push boundaries, both emotional and sexual, with another person. That's when I've felt the sexiest. I've been in both submissive and dominant roles because I want more. I've never been tied up. I have a feeling the person that does it will be the one. I think that's what I'd like."

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Rod Stewart has confessed he can't manage sex as often as he used to.

The star admits his stamina in the bedroom isn't what it once was and these days he actually prefers kissing. Rod is dating model and photographer Penny Lancaster.

According to Femalefirst quoting the Radio Times he said: "As the years go by we don't get it up as often as we used to. It's quality now, not quantity. Kissing is very important." The 59-year-old singer also admits on occasions he turns down his beautiful girlfriend Penny Lancaster's requests for sex because he is just too tired.

He added: "I just believe in a nice glass of wine in the evening, football and sex, and a lot of music in your life."

--I'm not sure why Rod felt like he needed to share all that. Doesn't he know there are drugs he can take to help this?

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Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes is bringing animation hit Shrek to Broadway in a musical adaptation of the Dreamworks movie.

The Road To Perdition star will have creative control of the New York production, while Tony-nominated stage director Jason Moore, who took charges of puppet musical Avenue Q, will direct the show in 2006.

Mendes told the New York Times newspaper, "There isn't the sort of corporate pressure being exerted that this has to be done for a set pre-release date." Moore enthuses, "'There's a supreme challenge in bringing an animated world to the stage and making it theatrical. But what's so wonderful about Shrek is that anarchic attitude placed in a fairy- tale world that I think will thrive onstage."
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Also, in Broadway News:

Former American Idol runner-up Tamyra Gray has been tapped to make her Broadway debut in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bollywood–style musical Bombay Dreams. Gray plays a beautiful film director caught in a love triangle involving her fiancée and a handsome young Indian movie star.

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Thought I'd share with you some of my recent better finds:

SlingStay: The invisible grip for keeping slipping sling backs in place while keeping you stylish and sexy.

GalPal Deoderant Remover: You know those stripes that show up on your sides after you slide on clothes? Get rid of deodorant streaks quickly without water. Gal Pal can be used over and over.

Stella, by Stella McCarney: Two sorority sisters got this for me for my birthday, and I love it. It smells great!

E.L.F. Cosmetics: Ladies, this is a golden find. I read about ELF online, as well as in magazines. I shared the website with the ladies at my law office, and we ordered some. We ALL love what we ordered. I'd highly recommend the glosses, eyeliner, eyeshadow. OH--and I forgot to mention the best part--EVERYTHING IS $1!!! No joke. It's not too good to be true. The products are great. Trust me on this one. If you can't find the line in your local drugstore, you can order online like I did. I ordered 3 glosses, a black eyeliner (comes w/ a sharpener too), and an eyeshadow quattro. Everything including shipping came to UNDER $10.

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Victoria Beckham, the former Spice Girl called "Posh" for her sophisticated persona and sense of style, is now passing her keen sense of fashion onto the world as a designer.

The British wife of superstar soccer player David Beckham will reportedly launch a new denim line called "VB Rocks" in Japan later this month. "I'm using my brain for the first time in a long time," she told The New York Post. "I'm doing what I love and know something about." The collection of jeans is also scheduled to hit the United States in a couple of weeks, during Fashion Week in Los Angeles.

--Using your brain for the first time in a long time? What? Being a Spice Girl wasn't intellecutally stimulating? That just shocks me.

--I'm also not sure what I think of the new blonde locks.

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There are going to be a lot more lawyers in Indiana today. At 10 a.m., we all get sworn in--and then, we're official. I believe we even get our attorney numbers today. After what has seemed like an endless amount of hoops to jump through, I'm finally starting to see the end.

Ahhh, to be a member of the most loathed profession on the planet.

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1 Sworn in to be sworn at. Welcome to the 'cult'.

Posted by: rita at October 18, 2004 07:32 AM (xYQ/O)

2 Congrats girlie!! Have a GREAT day!

Posted by: Susan at October 18, 2004 07:34 AM (v3AAJ)

3 Excellent, more targets for all those lawyer jokes ;-) Congrats, you've a big time lawyer now LKM

Posted by: Brian D. at October 18, 2004 08:34 AM (l2OV4)

4 Congrats - just no channeling dead children or chasing ambulances.

Posted by: Norman at October 18, 2004 08:57 AM (sANa9)

5 Big smiles. I love official ceremonies, I always get teary eyed. Hope you get to celebrate today and are not stuck in a hearing until 3am.

Posted by: Lynne at October 18, 2004 10:05 AM (fKtwY)

6 I saw this great joke today, but I'm not sure if it is a lawyer or a engineer joke.

Posted by: M@ at October 18, 2004 11:27 AM (f2jsN)

7 Lawren, a huge congrats to you girlfriend! A Lawyer... wow! That is big time, you must be so proud of yourself. You go girl, kick ass and take names.

Posted by: Lori at October 18, 2004 12:27 PM (kmcg6)

8 Well done! Best wishes as you *officially* embark on a new chapter of life!

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Man vows to eat only pudding until he can watch football in the Virgin Islands.

Read all about it here.

Do my buddies at Gamblin' and Ramblin' care to wager how long this will last? He's at 32 days thus far...

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...who's the vainest of them all? Mary-Kate and Ashley!

From the Daily News: What's the one thing missing from NYU freshmen Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's fabulous new 5,725-square-foot, $7 million Morton Square apartment?

According to a Lowdown spy, the pint-size twins have asked an interior decorator to find and install "skinny mirrors" designed to shave off pounds from their already gaunt frames.

Quipped the spy: "If they appeared any skinnier, they would be invisible to the naked eye."

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He's the voice of the "priceless" MasterCard commercials.

Be fair and don't look it up--it will be more fun to see people's guesses. I was SO wrong!

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1 Without doing any looking whatsoever, my first guess -- and it is just a guess -- is Daniel Stern; the same guy who did The Wonder Years. But my confidence level is low in my answer. Now I shall go look it up. :-)

Posted by: Kevin the Interloper at October 15, 2004 08:41 AM (qb+8W)

2 Wow! Was I wrong!!!! LOL

Posted by: Kevin the Interloper at October 15, 2004 08:47 AM (qb+8W)

3 Hmm. He sounds familiar, but I've never thought about it. Is it a Baldwin brother? Off to look it up...

Posted by: Daisyhead at October 15, 2004 08:52 AM (GPjhM)

4 Ahhhhh...heehee! I would have never guessed. I don't know too much about him.

Posted by: Daisyhead at October 15, 2004 08:54 AM (GPjhM)

5 It's somebody famous? I thought it was just a generic announcer guy ...

Posted by: brykMantra at October 15, 2004 10:49 AM (NKQZR)

6 Ha! I looked it up, and I *NEVER* would have guessed him ... anyway, I wouldn't recognize him if I saw him, much less by his voice. I think I've only seen him in one thing (hint: A Cameron Crowe film). I thought y'all were talking about somebody REALLY famous, like the guys who do the Honda and Volvo commercials ... !

Posted by: brykMantra at October 15, 2004 11:00 AM (NKQZR)

7 Yeah, I was completely blown away by who it is. That's some good trivia!

Posted by: jen at October 15, 2004 01:00 PM (dM/OM)

8 Never heard of him. I'm behind the curve of famous people again?

Posted by: Ith at October 15, 2004 01:31 PM (1zntW)

9 Ith, I think you'd recognize his picture if you saw it. Try IMdB.com

Posted by: jen at October 15, 2004 03:38 PM (dM/OM)

10 I cheated simply because I honestly had no idea. Now that I know the answer I still have no clue who he is. All the things he has been in I have never seen and many I've never heard of. I guess he's famous to someone, just not me!

Posted by: Brian D. at October 15, 2004 04:14 PM (bN0LQ)

11 Yeah, that's who I thought it was. I'm not so keen on him anymore after he left the long-term 7-month pregnant girlfriend for the just-out-of-her-teens girl.

Posted by: Susan at October 15, 2004 05:39 PM (Kddhy)

12 Jen, IMDB is the first place I went when I found the name. Still hadn't a klew who he was

Posted by: Ith at October 15, 2004 07:48 PM (OBtmO)

13 Wow. I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up!

Posted by: Shannon at October 15, 2004 09:31 PM (9savD)

14 I've heard of him; I've seen some of his movies but I can't really place him. I really do like his ex though and I used to like his present squeeze. Now...not so much but, of course, his actions appear to have not cost him work.

Posted by: Nanc' at October 15, 2004 10:05 PM (98muT)

15 Okay ... I can honestly say I've never heard of him, seen him (that I can remember), and I've never seen anything he's been in off of IMDB

Posted by: Tony Rosen at October 16, 2004 12:13 AM (mnxQt)

16 I had to look it up, because I had no idea who it was...what a surprise, though! I too thought it would be someone random, only known as the "Priceless MasterCard Guy" kind of like the Sprint PCS Guy.

Posted by: Stacy at October 18, 2004 02:32 PM (nM8Hz)

17 Seen the name, but don't recall seeing any of his movies.

Posted by: david at October 19, 2004 06:59 AM (1+76a)

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Here's a way to get men to vote:

Ukrainian voters are being offered a free striptease in a bid to win their votes for a presidential candidate.

Campaigners for current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich organized the free striptease shows in the Santa Fe bar in Donetsk hoping they could get people to re-elect their man, local media reported.

One organizer said: "We hope the voters will remember who gave them this show for free when they go to the ballot box."

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Who's gettin' some?

The French have topped a survey as being the people who have sex the most. A survey found the French have sex 137 times during one year.

Condom Company Durex has released the result of its latest world sex survey, Las Ultimas Noticias reports. The survey interviewed 350 thousand people in 41 different countries across the globe.

The Japanese got last place in the survey as they have sex in average 46 times during a year.

In Latin America Brazil got first place having sex 96 times in 365 days.

The British won the title for being the people who take longer getting warmed up for sex, 25 minutes in average.

The survey has also revealed that all over the world people have an average of 10.5 partners throughout life.

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1 Well this is odd as we came up with the same post independent of each other! I swear I didn't peek as I wrote mine last night and saved it. Great minds think alike LKM

Posted by: Brian D. at October 15, 2004 11:30 AM (lvMQT)

2 Too funny!

Posted by: Lawren at October 15, 2004 11:50 AM (sql83)

3 Strange that the Japanese are likely ranked #1 in the number of porn films produced every year, yet rank last on this list! Must just be the "underground" part of the culture that really gets into it, whereas the rest steer clear. How sad.

Posted by: Iceman at October 15, 2004 03:09 PM (Kohcy)

4 And you know that how, Iceman?

Posted by: Lawren at October 15, 2004 03:12 PM (sql83)

5 That French statistic makes sense. When I was in France, I quickly discovered that what we consider "heavy petting" is like holding hands over there.

Posted by: Kevin at October 15, 2004 04:56 PM (dkKQn)

6 This is a shocking result. Last year it was the Rumanians and they were having sex more than 180 times a year. What happened to the Rumanians? Meanwhile, this does take some of the pressure off as the girlfriend and I have always tried to stay ahead of the Rumanians ...

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And in the dysfunctional life of the Hiltons:

Newlywed heiress Nicky Hilton has reportedly split from husband Todd Meister after their quickie Vegas nuptials two months ago. The duo is working on an annulment, per Us Weekly. (Shocker).

Meanwhile, Paris Hilton has popped up in a third homemade porn video, according to London tabloid The News of the World, which claims to have footage of Hilton romping with "the daughter of a world famous pop star" and having sex with two men at the same time. (Shocker again).

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Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio set to play himself in upcoming Fox comedy, The Ralph Show, according to Daily Variety. The show will explore the "humorous and vaguely humiliating aspect of celebrity," according to executive producer Todd Holland.

--I still think his best role was in The Outsiders.

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Britney Spears wants to change her name to Federline, but fears the move will upset her fans.

The "Toxic" singer - whose September 18 marriage to dancer Kevin Federline was made official last week - is keen to show her devotion to her new husband by taking his surname, and is determined to defy the objections of devotees. She told the German magazine Bunte, "I probably will, Britney Federline, I like that. Society probably won't allow me but I would like to change it."

--Society won't let her? Last time I checked she can do (and has done) whatever the hell she wants. Maybe she knows it will be too much paperwork to change it back in 6 weeks when this relationship implodes.

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For years after the legendary screen siren's death, it was believed that Veronical Lake's remains had been scattered off the coast of Florida by her friends.

However, for mysterious reasons, it seems some or all of her ashes never made it to their intended destination. Instead, they were reportedly passed among friends and acquaintances and eventually ended up at a small antique shop in upstate New York. Now, the vintage store in the Catskills plans to honor the blonde bombshell with a look-a-like contest this weekend. After the tribute, the current owner of the ashes may reportedly try to sell them.

--I think I'd like to be cremated, but I guess now I need to put something in my will indicating what I'd like done with them. I don't want to end up somewhere random like that! On an unrealted note, didn't Kim Basinger play a Veronica Lake look-alike in LA Confidential?

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