Maroon 5 star Adam Levine and British singer Natasha Bedingfield have reportedly struck up a romance.

Their friendship is said to have blossomed after the musical pair spent time together in New York while Bedingfield was recording her new album.

A friend close to the couple says, "Their friendship started to flourish while she was there". Levine's previous romances include Russian tennis beauty Maria Sharapova and actress Natalie Portman.

Source: Teen Hollywood

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Jennifer Aniston was shocked while filming nude scenes for new movie The Break-Up, as boyfriend Vince Vaughn had brought his parents along to watch the shoot.

But the former Friends star managed to overcome feelings of awkwardness in front of her co-star's family, when she realised they simply wanted to support their son.

She says, "His mom and dad were there for luck." "He's very close to them but I didn't feel intimidated. It was like finding a new family and they all made me feel completely welcome."

Source: Teen Hollywood

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David and Victoria Beckham reportedly renewed their wedding vows in a secret ceremony.

Just days before the couple hosted their Full Length and Fabulous pre-World Cup Party at their Hertfordshire mansion David surprised his wife with a romantic ceremony.

The 31-year-old England football captain arranged for the couple to renew their vows in front of their three sons Brooklyn, six, Romeo, three, and Cruz, one, and their full-time nanny.

A source told Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper: "It was a very intimate ceremony. David was dressed in white and said he had fallen in love with Victoria all over again. "He says they are getting on better since they moved into their house in Madrid and they are operating as a solid family for the first time in years."

David had arranged for white flowers to be floating in their pool and lanterns were hung in trees for the ceremony.

Source: AZ Central

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Metrosexual is out! Macho is in!

Beards, muscles, brawn. Could it be that the years of the metrosexual man are over and the macho man is back? "The new macho is the old macho," said Stephen Perrine, editor in chief of Best Life magazine. "It is about being competent and feeling traditional, filling traditional male roles."

The recent demise of Cargo, a men's magazine dedicated solely to shopping, has been hailed as a death knell of the metrosexual trend.

Perrine pinpoints the death of the metrosexual to a moment in last year's hit comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," when Steve Carrell's character has his chest waxed. "When they ripped the chest hair off Steve in 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' a whole generation of men said if that's what women want, I'd rather stay a virgin," Perrine said.

Leo Burnett, a Chicago advertising firm, conducted a global study of masculinity last year, which found half of men say their role in society is unclear and that they feel "less dominant" than in previous decades. More than 70 percent of men said advertising was out of touch with men's "reality," leading company executive Rose Cameron to recommend that advertisers "reassure men of their masculinity."

Advertising looks like it's starting to catch up. A recent Miller Lite ad campaign shows a round table of guys debating "man laws." Actor Jim Belushi just published an advice book titled "Real Men Don't Apologize," and Vince Vaughn's lovable brute in "The Break Up" is rocking the box office. "Whenever there's a trend, such as the more-manicured man called metrosexual, there's going to be a reaction against that, almost immediately after that, where you see a stronger man, kind of the 'machosexual,'" said Eric Wilson, a reporter for The New York Times.

There's good news for women who still go for guys who know about labels and skin care lines, Perrine said. "I think guys are still in touch with their feminine side but not wearing it on their sleeves," Perrine said. "It is those guys that go down into the coal mines and those guys who rush into the burning buildings. That's macho. It's not Kevin Federline with a wife beater and tattoos."

Source: ABC News

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Elisabeth Shue and her husband, Davis Guggenheim, welcomed a baby girl, Agnes Charles Guggenheim, on Sunday.

"Mother and daughter are happy and healthy," says rep Stephen Huvane. This is the third child for Shue and Guggenheim, who are both 42. They have a son, Miles, 8, and a daughter, Stella, 5.

Source: People

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Chatting on the field before Sunday's Tigers-Cubs game, actor Jeremy Piven and Cubs marketing chief John McDonough discussed how Piven would incorporate his signature line into his singing of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."

They came up with: "Hug it out, Cubs fans."

But Piven couldn't resist going word-for-word with his line from HBO's "Entourage." "Let's hug it out, bitches," he yelled to the crowd at Wrigley Field.

McDonough, while noting that Piven has been a loyal Cubs fan and friend to the team, was disappointed and issued an apology. "I don't know if professional adrenaline took over, but we don't ever want to introduce profanity into the seventh-inning stretch," he said.

--Thanks for the tip, Statboy!

Source: Chicago Tribune

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More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series "Saved by the Bell," is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.

"If the public didn't care, I as an entertainer wouldn't have been a success," he said.

Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts - at $15 or $20 (autographed) each - to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn't have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee.

The T-shirt has a photo of Diamond holding a sign that says, "Save My House." The back of the shirt reads, "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house." The third "e" was added to get around copyright laws, he said.

He's selling the shirts on his Web site: http://www.getdshirts.com .

The foreclosure order was filed last month in Ozaukee County Circuit Court.

Diamond appeared on Howard Stern's satellite radio show Tuesday to plead his case. "I'm doing great with my comedy, but this is definitely a low point," he said. "Real life comes in and affects you."

--I know Iceman has already purchased a shirt. Who else is in?

Source: IndyStar

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Have you seen the new Jamie Kennedy video, "Rollin' With Saget?"

If not, click here to watch. It's hysterical. Complete with a John Stamos cameo.

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If Lex Luthor seems more evil than usual in "Superman Returns," which opens June 28, you can thank the dis graced former chairman of Enron.

Kevin Spacey, who portrays the Man of Steel's biggest nemesis, tells the London Evening Standard: "There's a lot of Ken Lay in him this time. He is more smartly dressed than I think we have seen him looking before. I like to call the look, 'General Rommel goes to dinner.' "

Source: New York Post

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Brad Pitt may be making peace with Billy Bob Thornton in Calgary.

The two are set to team as producer and star of the drama Peace Like A River, which has scouted the city and now looks likely to shoot there in the fall, say Sun sources.

"There's a good sense (in the local industry) that it's coming," says one insider.

Pitt, who will be making the movie through his Plan B company, filmed The Assassination of Jesse James in southern Alberta last fall.

Pitt's presence put the city in the world spotlight with celebrity photographers stalking the streets for then-elusive pictures of Pitt and his paramour Angelina Jolie. Thornton, of course, was married to Jolie for two years.

Source: Jam!

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Has DJ A.M. already found a replacement for his ex-girlfriend, Nicole Richie?

A spy overheard the chatty publicist for fashion designer Monica Byrne confide to a partygoer at actress Zoe Saldana's birthday bash that the toothpick-thin turntablist was dating Byrne. Revelers at the Bombay Sapphire and Hollywood Life magazine-sponsored party at Aspen restaurant included Rosie Perez, Chris Evans and MTV's Coltrane Curtis.

Source: New York Post

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A judge in New York yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of Boy George after the singer failed to appear in court to explain why he wants to change his sentence for falsely reporting a burglary in October last year.

Judge Anthony Ferrara criticized the singer for failing to pay the $1000 fine or start the community service.

He also ridiculed the singer's suggestions for serving community service, which included a fashion and make-up workshop. But Ferrara said he would not order an arrest until a June 26 hearing on whether Boy George violated the terms of his sentence.

A lawyer for the former Culture Club star said his client was just attempting to arrange something more worthwhile than sweeping the streets of Manhattan, BBC News reports. Ferrara said the singer: "Doesn't serve himself well by not paying the fine (as) we know he has the means."

As previously reported, the singer- real name George O'Dowd- pleaded guilty in March to false reporting of a burglary at his Manhattan apartment, where police found cocaine. The charges for cocaine possession were dropped.

Source: NME

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Wedding Crashers actor Vince Vaughn's mother has been conned out of $25 million after falling for a scam investment scheme.

Sharon Vaughn, 64, was once ranked one of America's top money managers but was swindled by a false hedge fund promising a 10 per cent return. Carrie Coolidge of Forbes magazine tells the New York Daily News, "She was incredibly naive. Who would believe you'd get 10 per cent a month - and that they'd donate a portion of the proceeds to charity?"

According to reports, Vaughn has been helping investigators trap the scammers, but has lost her license and been forced to pay $809,000. Around $21 million has reportedly been recovered and repaid to investors.

Source: IMDB

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The jeweler known for putting diamonds on celebrities from Kanye West to Sir Elton John was arrested Thursday on money-laundering charges.

Police said Yakov Arabov, known throughout the hip-hop world as Jacob Arabo or "Jacob the Jeweler," was connected to a multistate drug and money-laundering ring.

Arabov, who appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Manhattan after his arrest, did not want to comment, said his lawyer, Daniel Gotlin. "It's been a difficult enough day for what they did to him," Gotlin said, declining to comment further. Bail was set for Arabov at $100,000, which the Russian immigrant immediately had paid.

The 41-year-old Arabov, who first came to fame in the mid-1990s as hip-hop and R&B artists started sporting his gem-encrusted pieces — was arrested at 8:30 a.m. on a warrant issued in Detroit by federal authorities. The authorities have charged him with conspiring with others to launder money in connection with a jewelry business.

Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Erin Mulvey said the arrest occurred at Arabov's midtown Manhattan store.

Source: Foxnews

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David Schwimmer can tell time on his own, thank you very much.

His publicist announced Friday that the actor was awarded $400,000 in a defamation suit brought against a former celebrity fundraiser who told the National Enquirer that the Friends star requested two Rolex watches in exchange for appearing at an event.

Schwimmer sued Aaron Tonken in October 2004 for saying that the actor wanted two of the timepieces, worth a total of $26,000, and that he had an invoice to prove that Schwimmer received the gift before showing up. It turned out that Tonken had purchased two watches, but they were for himself and a supposed business partner, whose credit card he used to make the transaction.

In his lawsuit, Schwimmer called Tonken a scheming pathological liar" and accused him of being "bent on castigating Schwimmer and other celebrities by concocting bogus stories...in an effort to justify [his] own deceit and lies."

Source: E!

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Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl and her boyfriend, musician Josh Kelley.

No wedding date has been set. The couple met last year when Heigl, 27, appeared in a video for Kelley's song "Only You."

"At the end of the shoot, I said, 'You're gonna go eat dinner with us, and you can't say no,' " Kelley, 25, said in October. "So we ate, drank and just started hanging out after that."

Source: People

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ET is reporting that Jennifer Aniston is sporting a new sparkling ring that is an estimated half-million-dollars and includes nine-and-a-half carats.

A source told ET that Vince Vaughn did purchase a reported half-million-dollar, nine-and-a-half carat ring, but Jen has yet to be spotted wearing the ring and her rep tells ET that his client is past the point of responding to any of these “ludicrous” rumors.

Jeweler to the stars Suzy Fabrikant showed ET a stunning rock similar to the one Vince reportedly bought for Jen, but she’s also staying mum about the whole transaction. “You’ll be seeing a very special yellow diamond on a very important woman," she said.

Source: Popsugar

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Jay-Z has taken hip-hop's most popular juice off the menu at his 40/40 club in NYC. He leads the way in boycotting Cristal both personally and professionally after the makers of the champagne turned their noses up at the hip-hop community.

He said: "It has come to my attention that the managing director of Cristal, Frederic Rouzaud views the 'hip-hop' culture as 'unwelcome attention'.

"I view his comments as racist and will no longer support any of his products through any of my various brands including The 40/40 Club nor in my personal life."

Cristal boss, Frederic Rouzaud responded: "I'm sure Dom Perignon or Krug would be delighted to have their business."

--This one's for you, Iceman!

Source: Dlisted

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No one is happier than Britney Spears that her husband, Kevin Federline, has landed a job.

The formerly unemployed dancer is the new face of Blue Marlin clothing, and pregnant Britney accompanied him to the ad-campaign shoot in L.A. this week. "She and [baby] Sean Preston showed up, and she told all the paparazzi how proud of Kevin she was," said a source. "The paparazzi went nuts - there was even a helicopter - and La Brea had to be shut down."

Today, the couple heads to Miami to celebrate Father's Day and the birthday of Federline buddy and club promoter Scooter Braun at Mansion.

Source: New York Post

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Cameron Diaz has had some work done. She was so impressed with the changes to Ashlee Simpson's nose, Diaz decided to trust Simpson's doctor with her own schnozz.

Diaz has had a slight bump on her nose since a surfing accident last year and wanted to correct it - and sources say she recently did just that.

Source: New York Post

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