Nick Lachey reveals in a new interview that he used to put on Jessica Simpson's shoes and walk around in them – "It was sort of a kinky thing we liked to get into," he tells Elle magazine.

Other revelations from Lachey, 32, in the post-marriage interview include him owning up to "typically (being) an overly sensitive person, I lay my heart out there too often." For instance, he tells Elle, "I've never been shy about crying. Sometimes we're so scared of our emotions that we rob ourselves."

He's also a proponent of candid conversation ("I haven't even realized my full dirty talk potential," he claims) and expresses a degree of surprise over the marital breakup, blaming it in retrospect on "the exposure" the two had on their own MTV reality show, Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica.

Source: People

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Hold off on buying that first edition of "Dianetics" as a wedding present for Tom Cruise and his pregnant fiancée, Katie Holmes.

The buzz is that the engagement of the happy couple has hit a few bumps and, after reportedly tense holidays spent at Holmes’ house, wedding plans may have been put on hold. With a new year beginning, Cruise “decided to take the opportunity to mend fences with the family of his fiancée, Katie Holmes,” according to the upcoming issue of Life & Style Weekly. It didn’t go so well.

“Tom and Katie ended up leaving — three days earlier than planned,” according to a “close friend” of Cruise. “Katie was in tears, but that’s standard when it comes to dealing with family matters and Tom.” A spokesman for Cruise denies the story, but there have been previous reports that Holmes’ lawyer father is not thrilled with the prospects of the two getting hitched.

“My honest opinion is that the wedding’s not going to happen,” a “friend of the couple” told the mag. “Neither one of them seems as enthusiastic as they once did about marriage.”

Source: MSNBC

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Ben Affleck had to sell off his lips when he realized he'd dashed out for diapers without his wallet just before Christmas.

The movie star was caught short at the cash desk of a late night convenience store, according to In Touch magazine, and had to ask fellow shoppers to help him out. According to bystanders, desperate Ben refused to sell his Boston Red Sox baseball cap and instead settled on kissing a fan, who offered to pay for the diapers.

"According to sources, he told the giggling store clerk, 'I've got to come back with these or my wife will kill me.'"

Source: Yeeeah!

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Mariah Carey is planning to invest some of her singing fortune into buying up a London hotel - so she can personalize it to suit her exact needs.

The singer has hit out at the lack of gender-orientated accommodation in the British capital, and vows to improve the situation with her own foray into the hotel business on her planned move to the UK.

She says, "I'm thinking of buying a hotel in London. It would have the best nail and hair place for the girls and a separate salon for the guys." "And the lighting would be fantastic - everyone would look a billion dollars."

Source: Teen Hollywood

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Lindsay Lohan was released from a Miami area hospital Thursday, after being treated for an asthma attack, her publicist said. "She's on her way home," said spokeswoman Leslie Sloane Zelnick.

Lohan's mother and manager, Dina, was quoted Wednesday as saying her daughter was improving after being hospitalized Monday night and that she planned to take her home to New York to recuperate.

The 19-year-old actress-pop singer was in Miami for New Year's Eve.

Source: Yahoo

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Two television stations are refusing to broadcast a new NBC series about an Episcopal priest who abuses painkillers, has a gay son, a promiscuous straight son, a daughter who deals marijuana, and a wife who drinks too much.

Conservative Christian groups have condemned the depiction of Jesus as blasphemous, accusing the writers of portraying Christ as tolerant of sin in talks with the priest.

NBC affiliates KARK in Little Rock, Ark., and WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind., said sensitivity to viewers led them not to air "The Book of Daniel," which debuts Friday. In Little Rock, the WB affiliate has arranged to show the drama instead.

"If my action causes people in our community to pay more attention to what they watch on television, I have accomplished my mission," Duane Lammers, WTWO's general manager, said in a statement on his station's Web site.

Source: New York Daily News

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Queen Latifah has become the first hip-hop artist crowned with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

"I think the reason I am here is to inspire African-American women who are rappers, full-figured women to know that they can do it, too," Latifah, 35, said Wednesday at the unveiling of the sidewalk's 2,298th star.

Family and friends, including actor Terrence Howard, cheered for Latifah, also an actress, singer, spokeswoman and producer. "Who would have known that in the '70s, when a pink 8-pound baby girl was born, this is where she would be today. She came out screaming, 'Look out world, here I come,"' her mother, Rita Owens, said.

Source: Jam!

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Tracey Edmonds, the wife of Grammy-winning R&B singer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, has filed for divorce after 13 years of marriage.

The papers, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, cite irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, the Associated Press reports. The couple announced in October that they were ending their marriage, and that they had been separated for some time.

"It is with deep regret that we announce our permanent separation. We remain best friends," they said in a statement at the time.

Source: People

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Veteran journalist Ted Koppel, who built ABC's "Nightline" into an American institution over 25 years, will join the Discovery Channel to make news documentaries, the channel said on Wednesday.

Discovery Communications said Koppel, 65, would be managing editor at the channel and would be joined by longtime executive producer Tom Bettag and eight other former "Nightline" staff.

Koppel's departure from "Nightline" in November after 42 years with ABC News was part of a generational shift in U.S. television news.

Source: Yahoo

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Click here for the entire roster of nominees for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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E! counted down the top TV clips of the year. No matter how many times I watch #1, I still laugh. God bless Bobby and Whitney.

Click here to watch. Who knew they were so well-versed in political discourse? (Make sure you watch the whole thing. You'll think it's over and they're moving on...but they're not).

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Emmy-winning Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart has a new gig: host of the 78th Annual Academy Awards on March 5, it will be announced Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The paper reports that Stewart, 43, secured the deal right before Christmas.

The funnyman hosted the Grammy Awards in 2001 and 2002, and his selection by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences follows reports in recent weeks that last year's host, Chris Rock, was not being asked back (at least not in 2006) and that veteran host Billy Crystal refused the Academy's offer to return.

Source: People

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Lindsay Lohan sure must have had an action-packed New Year's Eve weekend. After she was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Monday night for an "asthma attack," the hard-partying hottie was visited by a female friend bearing a clear plastic bag full of goodies.

A picture of the bag seen shows that the friend brought Lohan a pregnancy test in addition to playing cards, mouthwash, Coke and a box of Cocoa Puffs.

Source: New York Post

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It was a rough few months for Julia Roberts and hubby Danny Moder, sources say. Three years after they wed, the pair were fighting constantly, the sources say, mostly because Julia reneged on a pledge to stay home with 13-month-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus for three years so that cameraman Danny, 36, could focus on his career.

Instead, without asking Danny, the Pretty Woman star, 38, agreed to make her Broadway debut in a three-month run of the drama Three Days of Rain this spring. Friends feared the two were headed for a split, until, about three months ago, Julia turned to an unlikely source for help: Oprah Winfrey.

Why would Julia turn to the never-married talk-show queen, 51, for marital advice? "Oprah is one of Julia's best friends, and she knew that Oprah would give her straight-up honest advice and really tell it like it is," a source close to Oprah says. "Oprah cares about Danny and loves the two of them as a couple."

And, according to the source, it appears that Oprah has taken Julia's marriage woes to heart, burning up the phone lines urging her friend to save her marriage. "Oprah was really there for her," says the source. "She counseled her during all those conversations."

Source: Star Magazine

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Producers of much-anticipated movie The Da Vinci Code are considering staging the film's European premiere at the Louvre art gallery in Paris, France, where the story begins.

Film executives are impressed with record-breaking figures from last year, which show more people than ever before visited the famous gallery, which houses the Mona Lisa among other great works. And they believe many tourists were inspired to make the trip by the book the film is based on, written by Dan Brown.

Director Ron Howard was given special permission to shoot the movie in the Louvre, where the gruesome beginning of the book takes place. More than seven million people visited the gallery last year - a new record attendance.

Source: IMDB

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Divorce Is ON!

The topsy-turvy relationship of Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards appears to be back off, as her rep said: "Denise is moving forward with divorce proceedings."

On Wednesday, lawyers for both Sheen and Richards asked that the case be removed from Los Angeles County Superior Court and handed over to a private arbiter, retired commissioner Jill Robbins.

Source: People

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Now you too can have your very own Brokeback Mountain Oscar statue.

Click here for the Ebay auction.

Source: Defamer

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Where one door closes, another opens – especially when it comes to beauty boutiques and A-list actresses.

Just a month after Scarlett Johansson's role as the face of Calvin Klein fragrances came to an end, the bombshell blonde actress has been swept up by L'Oréal Paris to represent its new colour line: HIP High Intensity Pigments.

"It's wonderful to be working with L’Oréal, a company that has celebrated independent women for years," says Scarlett. "I'm very excited to be part of this campaign, which is modern and fashion forward." The Match Point star, who is thought to have made $1 million-a-year through the cK contract, is estimated by industry sources to have been wooed by a $3 million-a-year deal this time around, according to WWD.

HIP is expected to generate sales of $50 million in its first year and Johansson's contract will likely include the promotion of further make-up and haircare products in the future. Her first ads for the brand will air during the Golden Globes, of which L'Oréal Paris is the sole beauty sponsor, on January 16.

Source: Vogue UK

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It's time to nominate your favorite blogs for the 2006 Bloggies.

Click here for the nomination ballot.

If you're reading this, I'm SURE MP&S is your favorite entertainment blog, right?????

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George Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh are planning a third film in the Ocean's Eleven franchise.

They are aiming to put Ocean's Thirteen into production later this year, according to Variety. Brian Koppelman and David Levien have already written a script for the movie which would be produced by Jerry Weintraub Productions for Warner Brothers.

--Usually more Clooney on the big screen is always a good thing, but Ocean's 13? Not sure about this one...

Source: Ananova

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