Woody Harrelson has confessed he agreed to help launch a new German TV station under false pretences - he only traveled to Europe so he go to a famous beer festival.

The actor stopped off in Munich in October on his way to London - where he is about to star in a West End play - to help push new network Das Vierte.

But the party-loving former Cheers star had more on his mind than professional obligations - he was desperate to experience the city's famous Oktoberfest. He says, "I gotta admit the main reason I was psyched out to go was not out of my big allegiance to Das Vierte, but out of my desire to hit Oktoberfest again after some 10 years."

Source: Yahoo UK

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Brad Pitt has started the process to adopt Angelina Jolie's two kids, the actor's publicist informed the Associated Press on Friday.

A legal petition seeking to change the names of the children to Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt was filed in Los Angeles, publicist Cindy Guagenti said in a written statement.

"We are confirming that Brad Pitt is in the process of becoming the adoptive father of both children," the statement said. "No further comment is being made."

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Rumor du Jour:

Tori Spelling is supposedly pregnant with her Canadian lover, Dean McDermott's baby.

Um, she's not even divorced from her husband yet. Lovely.

Source: The People We Love to Hate

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Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are first-time parents, with the birth of their daughter Thursday night in Los Angeles, their reps confirm.

Affleck's publicist, Ken Sunshine, and Garner's spokeswoman, Nicole King, said the child was born at 6:26 p.m. ET Thursday, after several news outlets erroneously reported Garner had already given birth nearly five hours earlier. "Mother, father and baby are doing great," the reps said in a statement. No further details were released.

However, E! News says the couple had named her Violet.

Source: People

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When Kimberly Stewart, 26, unveiled her 5-carat engagement ring from Talan Torriero, 19, a week ago, most people assumed Stewart had financed it herself — after all, Torriero has no job besides his stint on the "Laguna Beach" reality show. Wrong!

Torriero did indeed buy the $75,000 bauble. During a shoot for the Bongo clothing line this week in L.A., Torriero was overheard telling pals he used his dad's credit card. Now that the brief engagement is off, "I should be able to get a full refund," he said hopefully.

Source: New York Post

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Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston might not be an official Hollywood couple, but they're certainly hanging out together in the northeast Valley, according to Scottsdale police.

Vaughn - who was driving with Aniston - was pulled over Tuesday at 12:20 a.m. near Indian Bend and Scottsdale roads by a patrol officer who observed a "demolished" registration sticker on the license plate of the actor's rental SUV, Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said.

The officer reportedly detected the smell of alcohol in the car, and Vaughn was asked to take a field sobriety test. The star of Swingers and Wedding Crashers was found to be under the legal limit, police said, though he was asked not to drive.

Source: AZ Central

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Christina Aguilera says she may change her name to Maria Bratman. The singer married music executive Jordan Bratman earlier this month.

Speaking to OK! magazine, she said: "I'll probably always be Christina Aguilera professionally, but I'm thinking of changing some legal things and going by middle name, Maria, and his last name."

The couple are currently on honeymoon in Bali.

Source: Ananova. Pic from Oh No They Didn't.

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Jessica was seen wearing her wedding ring around her neck:

So Carrie Bradshaw.

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Former Magnum, PI star Tom Selleck is making a return to the small screen in a forthcoming episode of Boston Legal.

The 60-year-old, who shot to fame as mustachioed Hawaii detective Thomas Magnum in the smash 1980's show, will play the ex-husband of Candice Bergen's character Shirley Schmidt. The episode will air on ABC in February and marks Selleck's first TV show appearance since he last cameoed in Friends in 2000, writes the New York Daily News.

Source: IMDB

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Paris Hilton will reportedly marry boyfriend Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos in Hawaii at Christmas.

Hilton has invited her mother and father, Kathy and Rick, along with sister Nicky and other close family and friends to stay at a hotel on the island of Maui for the holiday season, according to the New York Post.

The 24-year-old socialite told the paper, "We all stay at a hotel in Maui for Christmas, and then I'm hosting a party at Tao for New Year's with Nicky. Then I'll go skiing."

In October, Hilton called off her planned wedding to her boyfriend Paris Latsis, also a Greek shipping heir. She was also previously engaged to Tommy Hilfiger model Jason Shaw from 2002 to 2003.

Source: Ananova

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Reese Witherspoon's hunky husband Ryan Phillippe has been voted Hollywood's hottest dad in a new magazine poll.

The Crash star beat Will Smith and Johnny Depp in the new list, which was voted for by readers of In Touch magazine.

The full list is:

1. Ryan Phillippe
2. Will Smith
3. Johnny Depp
4. Brad Pitt
5. Benjamin Bratt
6. Matthew Fox
7. Tom Cruise
8. Jude Law
9. Guy Ritchie
10. Charlie Sheen

Source: Teen Hollywood

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Rumor as it that CBS is to announce that Katie Couric will take over as anchor of "CBS Evening News" any day now.

The Los Angeles Times reports, "CBS News President Sean McManus has been doggedly courting Couric to switch networks" and take Dan Rather's old slot. Her $13-million-a-year contract with NBC doesn't expire until May. Sources also say "Good Morning America" co-host Charlie Gibson will get the anchor chair of the late Peter Jennings at ABC's "World News Tonight."

Source: New York Post

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Traces of cocaine were found on Michael JacksonÂ’s underwear during a police raid, it was revealed.

The discovery emerged as the troubled singer faced new claims that he is abusing and trafficking drugs. Cops are secretly investigating allegations by former aides that Jacko, 47, is hooked on anti-depressants and painkillers. They say he pops up to 40 pills a day — and was seen falling flat on his face after injecting himself with a mystery drug.

Source: The Sun

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If you had to think of a celeb who was in desperate need of a gravy boat, chances are your first guess wouldn't be Tom Cruise.

But according to The Sun, a sneak peak at Tom and Katie Holmes' wedding list suggests otherwise. Mega-wealthy Tom and the future Mrs. Cruise are after a whole host of household essentials for their marital home.

The Sun has revealed that as well as the gravy boat, Tom and Katie are short of a dinner service, wine glasses and a coffee pot.

Guests, including Victoria and David Beckham, John Travolta and Kelly Preston and Kirstie Ally, can buy their gifts online from Neiman Marcus.

The list also pins down the date for the star-studded nuptials as October 21st, 2006.

Source: Ananova

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Britney Spears new son, Sean Preston, is to play the baby Jesus in his very own nativity scene this Christmas.

The pop princess, and husband Kevin Federline, have transformed his bedroom into the nativity setting in celebration of his first festive holiday. The singer has splashed out on the lavish decorations - which include six waxwork models and several life-size toy donkeys and cattle.

The 23-year-old singer is so excited about her first Christmas as a mom she has even bought a cherrywood style manger for her baby.

A source close to the star is quoted by Britain's Daily Star newspaper as saying: "It cost an absolute fortune. But at least she didn't have to buy a baby Jesus - because Sean is playing the part."

Source: FemaleFirst

--Something tells me KFeddy isn't playing one of the wisemen.

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Tom Cruise got grabby while in Shanghai on Wednesday.

When a reporter in the middle of a press conference took a phone call, the star reached over and removed the cell phone from the journalist's hand – and started speaking to the surprised woman on the other line.

"Hello. Xie xie. Ni hao. How are you?" said an amused Cruise, dressed in black, exhausting his limited Chinese vocabulary before going on to ask if the woman – the reporter's wife – was at work and about her marital status, the Associated Press reports.

Source: People

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Avril Levigne, who recently wrapped a world tour, is taking a break from music for a part in "The Flock," an upcoming Richard Gere/ Claire Danes movie.

Lavigne will be in New Mexico this week to film her handful of scenes, according to a spokesperson for her management, who said the 21-year-old singer is just testing the waters with a few lines in the indie crime drama. Lavigne went through the standard audition process to land the role in the movie, in which Gere plays a federal agent who has to track down a missing girl he is convinced has a connection to the paroled sex offender he is tracking.

Source: MTV News

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Ex-Creed frontman Scott Stapp created a ruckus on the set of Spike TV's "Casino Cinema" this week.

Stapp, who's promoting his new solo album, "The Great Divide," showed up "drunk," according to witnesses, and "was totally wild on set — cursing and giving the finger and dissing Bono and Dave Grohl."

The uproar was caught on camera and airs next Tuesday, including Stapp calling fellow guest Beth Ostrosky, Howard Stern's lissome girlfriend, a "bimbo." "Beth and Steve Schirripa were the total professionals, though, and made the best of the situation to get the filming done," the insider added.

Source: New York Post

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Actors Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper have signed up to join Julia Roberts on the New York stage in the revival of Richard Greenberg's Three Days Of Rain.

The play, which will mark Roberts' Broadway debut, will begin previews on March 28 and open on April 19 at New York City's Bernard B Jacobs Theatre. The limited run ends on June 18.

Source: IMDB

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You'll soon all be able to take 50 Cent home with you. Well, kind of.

The rapper is planning to release his own line of condoms and sex toys that he claims are modeled on him. Fiddy, 30, says: "I need to make a 50 Cent condom and a motorized version of me, which will have to be waterproof so you could utilize it in the tub.

"Blue is my favourite color, so it would probably be blue. But I don't know how big. I don't know if big is better because I'm not sure a man wants his woman playing with a really big dil--. "But I want to do something like that, to create something that's popular and exciting sexually for women."

Source: 3 am Girls

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