Prince Harry has turned 21.

The Prince is currently training to be an Army officer at Sandhurst College. And he'll be marking the big day by appearing on a limited edition gold coin - just as his big brother William did when he celebrated his 21st in 2003.

--Can he seriously be that old?

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The WB Network has signed separate talent holding deals with actor-singers Nick Lachey and Brandy. The network will seek to place them in upcoming series or will create projects for them.

Lachey, one half of the married team featured in the MTV hit series "Newlyweds," is no stranger to WB, having guest-starred on the series "Charmed." He also put in appearances on the ABC series "Hope and Faith." He has been attached to a few comedy projects in recent pilot seasons that didn't materialize.

Brandy, star of the UPN series "Moesha," last appeared in her own MTV reality series "Brandy: Special Delivery," which chronicled the birth of her first child. In 2004, she had a development deal with Fox Broadcasting Co., Disney-owned studio Touchstone TV and producer Storyline Entertainment for her own half-hour series, which didn't materialize.

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Well, I have to give credit where credit is due. BritBrit and KFeddy actually picked a fairly normal name for their new son:

Preston Michael Spears Federline

In a statement to People Magazine, Spears and husband Kevin Federline said: "We are ecstatic to announce the birth of our son! Everyone is happy, healthy and doing wonderful. Thank you all for your love and well wishes!"

Miu, from A Socialite's Life, has the scoop on Preston's first meal.

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Rapper Kanye West was left red-faced recently when his mother Donda discovered how much money he spends on pornography.

The singer loves the close working relationship he has developed with his mom since their college days but admits constantly having her at his side can sometimes be embarrassing.

He says, "I was an English major and she (mother) was head of the department. Now she is my manager, and that can be tricky sometimes. She's like: 'Kanye, did you spend $500 at the porn store?' "Come on, get the f**k out of here! I'm 28 years old and I have to explain to my mother.

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According to a source, camera crews have just begun shooting a reality show based on Teen Vogue. The premise? One of the characters from MTV's docudrama, "Laguna Beach," is interning for the magazine.

Lauren Conrad, or L.C., the "Laguna Beach" heroine and narrator, whom The New York Times' television critic Virginia Heffernan recently called "a sweet-looking, if studiedly made-up, California supergirl," is said to be toiling under Vogue senior West Coast editor Lisa Love.

Sources within Condé Nast said this is a test run for a "Laguna Beach" spin-off, though others have said it's possible the episodes would just be incorporated into the show's regular season.

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Actress Portia De Rossi decided to go public with her sexuality after Ally McBeal castmate Greg Germann outed her in a New York bar.

The Australian blonde was still struggling to come to terms with the fact she was a lesbian when perceptive Germann, who played her boss on the legal series, guessed that she was hiding her sexuality. She recalls, "I'd been on the show for about two months before we had to go to New York to do press, and Greg Germann and I were talking in the bar one night and he said, 'There's something about you I can't quite put my finger on... Are you gay?' Of course, I stammered and stuttered, and looked at the ground and went, 'Uh... uh... uh... maybe, I don't know. I think so. I'm not sure.' He looked at me and said, 'Have you struggled with it...?' That was so profound."

A couple of years after her heart to heart with Germann, De Rossi went public with her romance with Ringo Starr's stepdaughter Francesca Gregorini after the couple were caught by the paparazzi in 2001. She recalls, "Every single family member, every person I worked with, everybody knew all at once. There was no turning back, and it was a relief."

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Convicted hip-hop star Lil' Kim is taking inspiration from domestic goddess Martha Stewart as she prepares to begin her year-and-a-day jail sentence.

The rapper - real name Kimberly Jones - is set to be incarcerated in a Connecticut prison on September 19th after being found guilty of lying to a Grand Jury - but she hopes she will handle the experience as well as Stewart.

The 64-year-old recently completed a prison term and a period of house arrest following her conviction for lying about a stock sale, and Jones is amazed that Stewart "came out (of jail) looking better than when she went in". She tells the New York Daily News, "Her courage and strength is definitely encouraging."

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When Carlos Santana collaborates, big things tend to happen. That might be why Outkast's Big Boi, Mary J. Blige and Black Eyed Pea Will.I.Am are among the many artists who signed on for the guitar great's latest album.

All That I Am, due November 1, features Big Boi and Blige on a track called "My Man" and Will on "I Am Somebody." Other guests include Bo Bice on "Brown Skin Girl," Sean Paul and Joss Stone on "Cry Baby Cry," Aerosmith's Steven Tyler on "Just Feel Better," Anthony Hamilton on "Twisted," Los Lonely Boys on "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love" and guitar virtuosos Robert Randolph and Metallica's Kirk Hammett on the aptly titled "Trinity," according to Santana's publicist.

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Starring in MTV's reality show 'The Osbournes,' wasn't so kind to Kelly Osbourne's mental state reports Ananova.com.

Osbourne told German magazine Brigitte Young Miss: "No one can imagine how it is for a 15-year-old to suddenly become one of the most famous teenagers in the world - without even doing anything to earn it. "The whole world was discussing how I talk, what I eat, who I hang out with. I couldn't understand it and just numbed myself with heroin and pain killers, until I had no passion or dreams left."

Soon-to-be 21, Kelly said that her mother sending her to rehab was, "gruesome" but necessary. "I had cramps and diarrhea, I had to puke all the time and I sweated like a pig. I went to hell and back. My body hated me."

She continued: "But one day the poison was out of my body and I felt like a newborn baby. I went to the studio and just poured it all into my new album."

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A judge signed an arrest warrant Wednesday for former NBA star Dennis Rodman after he missed a court date for an arraignment on two alleged traffic violations.

Court Administrator Christine Yuhas said no effort would be made to seek out and arrest Rodman. "But if he shows up again in Colorado, we'll pick him up," she told the Rocky Mountain News.

Rodman was charged with speeding and reckless driving after he was stopped July 26 in a $250,000 Lamborghini on a highway near the mountain town of Frisco, about 70 miles west of Denver. Officers allegedly clocked him going 98 mph.

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French actor Gerard Depardieu, who owns vineyards, restaurants and a famously large appetite for the finer things in life, says in a cookbook being released in English this week that he always wanted to be a butcher.

"My eye will roam with equal pleasure over the face of a beautiful woman as it will over the cuts of meat displayed in a butcher's shop window," Depardieu writes in "My Cookbook." Depardieu, who grew up in the provincial town of Chateauroux, south of Paris, says his parents could only afford meat in the first week of each month - and then it was usually horse meat.

Depardieu's love of food is legendary. He owns two Paris restaurants with his French actress-girlfriend, Carole Bouquet. His favorite dish, says the "Green Card" actor, is jellied rabbit with a glass of cold white wine - for breakfast.

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Rumor has it that Brit gave birth to her little Cheeto today...

We'll see if it turns out to be true.

UPDATE: It's confirmed.

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1 I didn't think she was due until November...because it was around my birthday. I keep thinking I would have gotten a CNN Breaking Alert email had she really given birth.

Posted by: Stacy at September 14, 2005 03:27 PM (8KYh5)

2 If she names the kid "Chito," because she thought it sounded so cute, I am going to blame you, completely.

Posted by: Cynde at September 14, 2005 03:39 PM (teZim)

3 Well then...I stand corrected, but was still expecting a CNN Breaking News alert.

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The cast of Darren Star's "Kitchen Confidential" couldn't wait to celebrate the show's premiere on Fox next Monday. They flew in from L.A. and partied Saturday night at Les Halles on John Street — and it brought on a case of nostalgia for some of Star's crew who started "Sex and the City" with him years ago.

"The cast is so nice and sweet. It is kind of nice to see that — because it will all change," said an insider. "This is exactly how the cast of 'Sex' was before the show took off. Then they became nightmares." The stars of the show, Bradley Cooper and Owain Yeoman, were a hit with the ladies — with one woman becoming so enamored with Yeoman she offered to be his consort for the evening — despite Yeoman's girlfriend sitting nearby.

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Mr. T may soon make it onto classic-TV network TV Land. Mr. T has signed a deal to star in a pilot for the channel called "I Pity the Fool," in which he'll dole out advice and try to help people in difficult situations. Lions Gate TV is producing the project.

"We are very excited to work with Mr. T and Lions Gate on 'I Pity The Fool,'" says Sal Maniaci, head of development for TV Land. "By putting Mr. T in an unfamiliar environment, viewers will have the experience of seeing him back up his famous words and attitude with concrete actions. "I Pity the Fool" will find Mr. T acting as a "motivational guru" helping people improve their personal and professional lives. Mr. T will use his own varied life experience as basis for his strategy to help others.

The pilot is set to go into production in October.

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Eva Longoria's man, San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker, stands up for his woman.

At a party in Longoria's honor, held by her pal and stylist Robert Verdi at Da Silvano, Longoria told said: "The French tabloids are regurgitating a bunch of old interviews I gave a long time ago where I said I wouldn't mind dating several guys at once. So now they are printing: 'Eva cheats on Tony!' and Tony is so upset he offered to call the mayor of Paris who knows the tabloid people to try and stop it. He just wants to protect me. He is so great."

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Justin Timberlake will move to London next summer so he can star on the West End stage.

The singer is desperate to break into theatre after impressing with his first steps into movie acting - Kevin Spacey has already endorsed his acting credentials after the pair co-starred in upcoming film Edison. According to reports, Spacey - artistic director at the city's Old Vic Theatre - has offered Timberlake a role in his production of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues, which he has already hired acclaimed filmmaker Robert Altman to direct.

A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "Justin has been looking for a chance to have a go at a theatre role. It fits in with his bigger plans." According to reports, Timberlake and girlfriend Cameron Diaz will rent a house in London, where the actress has filming commitments next year.

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Shannon Elizabeth added a naked twist to the all-day scavenger hunt the "American Pie" actress holds on her birthday every year.

This time, the 20 contestants — including Mila Kunis, Alfonso Ribeiro and Elizabeth's new love, Aussie race car team manager Andrew Robillard — had to strip periodically in order to gain bonus points to win the grand prize: a bottle of Cristal, a bottle of Água Luca Brazilian rum, an MP3 player and unlimited one-year Napster downloads.

The teams — fueled in part by Agua Luca rum mojitos, martinis and pomegranate juice shots, decamped from Elizabeth's Los Feliz hilltop house and proceeded to pose for nude photos in front of the Improv on Melrose — and turn naked somersaults at the Los Angeles Zoo. The bareness continued at an unnamed friend's property, where the competitors ran a nude obstacle course — while being pelted with water balloons.

The day ended at Elizabeth's house with "a grand finale in the flesh," one spy said — refusing to clarify further. Elizabeth must have bared the most because she and her three teammates, including Ribeiro, claimed the prize.

--Um, why was Carlton there?

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Folks are still talking about Matthew McConaughey's recent performance at a John Mellencamp show at the Hollywood Bowl.

The Texan, who was famously arrested in 1999 for smoking weed and playing bongos in the buff, jumped onstage looking "completely out of it" and sat in on "Little Pink Houses." A source reports: "He couldn't open his eyes, he didn't know any of the words . . . He just kept hitting his bongos randomly and muttering . . . When he finally left the stage, Mellencamp looked relieved and told the crowd, 'I'm glad he's a good actor at least.' " McConaughey's reps had no comment.

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Renee Zellweger is reportedly in talks to star in a remake of Cabaret.

The actress would reprise the role of Sally Bowles made famous by Liza Minnelli.

According to Sky, Zellweger said: "I do love a challenge as an actress and this would be one of the biggest."

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"Unfabulous" star Emma Roberts has been signed to play Nancy Drew, the teenage detective, in 'Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills,' according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The film will be an updated version of the long-popular book series, which dates back to 1930. The Nancy Drew mysteries have been a presence on-screen since 1938. Roberts, the niece of Julia Roberts is also daughter of Eric Roberts.

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