Jennifer Garner Will Play Momma-to-be on "Alias"

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If you’ve been waiting for confirmation that Jennifer Garner is pregnant, wait no more. A loose-lipped exec at "Alias" has been speculating about next season and offered this revealing little observation: "I'm sure kickboxing is probably out."

He was talking about changes that will need to be made to the show to accommodate the pregnancy. The exec was none other than the "Alias" creator, J.J. Abrams, who gave an interview to Access Hollywood. He’s blabbing about Jen's condition -- even if she and new husband Ben Affleck are not.

, "It will affect (shooting)," said Abrams. "But I think we have overcome a lot of other issues and things. I think the show will be a little bit different because of it, but Jennifer is so excited about everything right now..."

Exited, he means, about the recent wedding and the baby on the way. Why is it that celebrities won’t fess up to such things? It’s not like she and Ben will have any fewer paparazzo goons waiting outside their house. Denying it only keeps her fans and the tabloids speculating.

As for the plot lines for the 5th and final season of "Alias," Abrams suggests the writers will include Garner's growing belly into the episodes. "I think every alias she plays will just be a pregnant person." he said. No fun! Just make Sydney Bristow pregnant all season. After all, there are rumors that the May 25th finale will have a cliffhanger, plus show special agent Vaughn (Michael Vartan) finally proposing marriage to Jen's Sydney, so the pregnancy would tie in nicely. Fans can only hope...

If she is three months along, they the happy couple should expect a baby Ben or Jen by November.

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Tom Wins it All on Survivor: Palau as Ian Weeps and Wilts

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In the end, Tom Westman wanted $1 million dollars. Ian only wanted to be liked by his friends. And they both got what they wanted.

After hanging on (literally) during the longest immunity challenge in the show's history, the 41-year-old New York firefighter also made it through the jury vote to defeat Katie Gallagher at the live finale of "Survivor: Palau." And with a shave and a hair-cut (see photo), he manages to look a stunning 41 again, instead of a grizzly old 60...

"When I saw how young the cast was, I thought, 'This is gonna be perfect,'" Westman said of the game. "They're not going to know I'm a physical threat until it's too late for them. I didn't get to play that game. I played it hard. I played it as myself. While some people think that may not be too bright strategically, it did work out for me."
, And it worked out well since he only had to outlast Ian "try not to be stupid again" Rosenberger who gave up in the final test after sitting on a metal disk for 11 hours and 55 minutes. But, so stupid he was! Prior to that, his big mouth got him into trouble as usual when he said, "I win the challenge then Tom goes home. I don’t win the challenge then all of a sudden Tom’s my best friend again." Some things are just better left unsaid.

In a difficult immunity challenge, everyone had to climb a tower, swim, and figure out the combination to a lock. Tom wins again. Tom told Jenn that he was staying loyal to his friend Ian, but Ian opens his mouth and tells Tom that it would have been a tough decision if he had won the immunity challenge. Tom then questions himself as to why he is being loyal to Ian.

Jenn was a goner in the first tribal council which ended up in a 2 to 2 split between she and the teary-eyed Ian who just can't get his stories straight, as noble a friend as he tries to be. They went through a fire-building challenge which Ian won. Bu-bye Jenn!

The final immunity challenge required the players to stand on a buoy for as long as they can and no one is gonna beat Tom at endurance. Katie lasted all of 5 hours which is nothing in this type of test. Tom and Ian stand for nearly 12 hours – making it the longest "Survivor" challenge ever -- before Ian finally wilts – after Tom promises to take Katie to the final two. Ian plays the integrity card and forfeits a shot at the $1 million prize by saying that Tom and Katie's friendship is more important to him than winning. Ha! Like the skinny idiot will be invited to hang out with millionaire Tom after all this is over? Not! Even Tom was surprised, saying later that he was about to fall off the post giving Ian the win.

So Ian bags it and Tom and Katie face the jury. Right away, the 7 jurors make the obvious note that Katie was not exactly the a personal of value to her tribe. She was a do-nothing who didn't contribute and therefore didn’t deserve to get the grand prize. Tom wins in a landslide, with only Coby, the first member of the jury, casting a ballot for Katie. He gets a shiny new truck in addition to his $1 million, which he says will take care of college tuition for his kids.

"I still have physical effects," he says of the final immunity challenge, which took him 12 hours to outwit and outlast Ian. "The feeling of numbness in my legs is still there. It was brutal. But my only shot of winning was to win that challenge."

Congrats to Tom who definitely gave it his all and deserved to win.

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Jessica Alba Gives Her Family a Little Love. And Shock Treatment

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With three big movies coming out this year, Jessica Alba's career couldn’t be hotter. And recently she told the British movie Magazine Hotdog that one of her biggest thrills is freaking out her family with some of her film roles.

She said she couldn't wait for their reaction to her semi-naked lasso-whipping stripper in the dark thriller "Sin City" and believes it’s important to open their eyes to the world. "I love shocking my parents so no, I'm not worried about them seeing the film. They live a very suburban life, just going to the supermarket and the shopping center. It's nice to shake it up a little and expose them to new things."
, And God forbid that her folks view her as a sex symbol since it is something she doesn’t see in herself. She gives all the credit to a skilled team of make-up artists on set. "After five hours of hair and make-up I can look sexy in the right push-up bra."

"But then so should anyone after five hours in hair and make-up and the right push-up bra."

Next on the list, our girl Jess will be in the bikini-clad shark thriller "Into The Blue." She told Premiere magazine that she loved the work and that if she hadn’t become an actress she would have studied marine biology. But, she’s warning fans that she won’t be looking very, um, sexy in this film.

"Just try to look sexy in a diving mask. With the suction and my full lips, I look like a fucking parrot. My close-ups were not cute!"

The movie is due out in early summer.

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Britney Spears Reveals She's Let Herself Go. A Little Bit.

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Pregnant pop star Britney Spears is warning her fans they will never see her looking sexy again. Siting her love of junk food, she said, "I think I'll always have a weight problem."

Since getting married, Spears has adopted a new image of barefeet, dirty jeans, baggy clothes, trucker hats, tracksuits, and no make-up. While the other teen queens are coking, vomiting and starving themselves to be thin and chic, and spending a fortune on designer outfits and hair weaves, Britney is opting for WalMart Grunge. And it's not even good grudge. Teen Hollywood reports that she said, "I don't look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, I'm the most beautiful girl in the world. Look at me.' I see my imperfections, I see my flaws." And she added, "I just don't care."
, "I walk out of my house in my pajamas, with no make-up on and I just don't care because that's how I feel more comfortable. If you want me to wear a fancy dress to go to Starbucks, then you are completely wrong. After I got married I was one of those people who let themselves go a little bit."

Really? We hadn’t noticed.

Love to hear that you’re normal, Brit. But we don’t believe a word of it – the "not caring" part, anyway. Becauuuussse … News is out today that she’s signed up to produce and star in a new film, "Trading Paint." The movie will focus on the rivalry between two NASCAR drivers who survive a near-fatal crash and a chick who reunites them. Filming will begin sometime after Britney has the baby … um, that is, if she cares about things like jiggling a fat butt and trying to have a successful film career in superhot, superthin Hollywood.

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Ian Will Have a Corvette Summer Thanks to Survivor: Palau

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Crocodile Tears were flowing on last night’s episode of "Survivor: Palau" and they weren't coming from the real crocs in the lagoon. Katie and Ian finally had their blow up and will have to deal with the fact that, friendship aside, there’s too much money at stake to be honorable and faithful now.

And what's up with Katie? Is she actually putting ON weight? There were a couple of shots of her from last night’s episode that made you look again – she’s definitely chubbier while everyone else is rail thin. How does that happen on a 36-day diet of coconut and fish? She's putting on weight faster than that big guy on "Lost" who looks like he's got his Own Private Idaho potato farm on the other side of that island.

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Thin Lindsay Lohan is Reaching Vanishing Point

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It seems the more weight she loses, the older Lindsay looks. And not in a good way. In a matter of months, Lindsay Lohan has gone from perky healthy-looking boob-enhanced Fez-dating brunette of 18, to a freaky skinny no-boobs Fez-says-she’s-crazy blonde. Of 18.

, Lindsay is a lot more interesting than those mind-numbingly over-exposed stars – achoooooJessicaSimpson! – and she's never boring. Over-exposed at times, but that's in part due to her crazy father and his lengthy arrest record.

Doesn't anyone have the nards to tell Lindsay that she’s starting to look sick, like that uber-skinny Mischa Barton? Ya hate to see someone who’s an idol to teen girls be so obsessive about being stick thin. If they were every there, the boob implants are gone (was that the exhaustion trip to the hospital?). The rest of Lindsay is deflating too. And she doesn’t look 18 anymore. She looks like she’s 30. And hungry.

So memo to Lindsay: Once you swallow food, keep it there. And don’t be doing the wild-eyed Olsen Twin thingy of sitting in a restaurant and ordering a plate of food to stare at.

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See You On The Other Side: Ozzy Osbourne Talks with Alice Cooper

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In an interview with rock legend Alice Cooper (on his Nights with Alice Cooper radio show) Ozzy Osbourne talked about the upcoming Ozzfeast, great rock bands, and clean living. Alice even asked Ozzy about his recent appearance on The Dr. Phil Show. Alice: "Isn’t he the anti-Christ?" Ozzy: "He’s not the anti-Christ. Uhhhh, isn’t that you or I?"

In other news, the Prince of Darkness discusses his 2003 off-road accident on a 4-wheeler that put him in intensive care. Despite making a full recovery, the former Black Sabbath bat biter admits he still angry with himself over the crash.

"It pisses me off. I've flipped a car at 100 miles an hour and walked away. Then I nearly die going 3 miles an hour on a pissing quad bike. It's like falling off a lawn mower! Not a very rock star death."
, It's true: Ozzy nearly didn't survive the low-speed crash. "I died on the way to the hospital, than they got me going again, and I died in hospital. I was in a coma for eight days."

And unable to scream "Shaaarrooon!" for eight whole days. But then he's been in a state of suspended animation for years now so I don't think the whole coma thing would have bothered him much.

Now, officially back from the dead and living large -- we don't know where at the moment, he prefers England but the US is cheaper to live he says -- he's gearing up for his European tour which kicks off June 9th, and the North American Ozzfest begins July 15th.

Listen to the interview Ozzy did on Nights with Alice Cooper radio show.

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Simon Cowell Offers His Thoughts on the Abdul Allegations

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British music mogul Simon Cowell has called the allegations that his fellow American Idol judge Paula Abdul had an affair with a contestant "a publicity stunt."

While Corey Clark claims he had an affair with the singer/judge when he was competing on the show in 2003 – Cowell clearly believes he only wants another 15 minutes of fame.

Cowell believes that Clark has made up the allegations and added, in typical Simon fashion, that "it was quite obvious that this was actually just a huge plug for his appalling new album. I mean it was just terrible. It wasn't great." And who calls it better than Simon when he says someone's performance reeks?
, "I have to say, in defense of Paula, I've worked with her now four seasons. You would've heard rumors of this stuff. You know what it's like when you work on a show."

"It was all news to me and I think it was all news to her, and I think it's just another controversy on American Idol," Cowell said. "I think she's half hating it and half loving it. We make a reality show, these things happen. I don't think anybody believed the guy. I don't believe a word he said and I think the audience is more intelligent than that."

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Ewan McGregor Says Star Wars Fans are Wierd

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Scottish actor Ewan McGregor has some advice for obsessive Star Wars fans: Get a life.

The actor, who plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, is baffled by some of the fans of the sci-fi saga and their utter devotion to the fictional world. He has refrained from actually criticising the films, only saying that he found working on the 3 movies "uninspiring." He rightly points out that they are not actor’s films, but works that focus on special effects.

But of the Star Wars fans, McGregor finds them odd: "There's this huge following, which is weird. They have big meets and conventions, and I find it all a bit frightening. Once this guy met me at a stage door when I was doing a play in London. The guy yelled, 'Obi-Wan. Do you have any advice for a trainee Jedi?' I just said, 'No, don't be so ridiculous.' It's just so weird, it really is."

Angelina Jolie Discuss Her Movie -- and Brad -- in Vanity Fair

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The divine Angelina Jolie is featured in June’s Vanity Fair magazine just in time to rustle up some publicity for the release of her new movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" which comes out June 10th.

In the article, Angelina spends time talking about the movie, but mostly talks about what it’s like being Angelina Jolie. The actress has got a lot to juggle these days what with being a single mom to a 3-year-old, making movies, doing press junkets, and being one of the most stalked celebrities around. But more important, now that she’s adopted little Maddox from Cambodia, she’s been moved to try and get the world’s attention on the plight of refugees in third world countries, in much the same way the late Princess Diana took up the cause of victims of land mines.

, In addition to visiting refugee camps in more than a dozen countries (Pakistan and Sierra Leone just this week), she has donated more than $3 million dollars to relief organizations, and has pledged to donate a third of her income in perpetuity. Now that is putting your money where your mouth is. Awesome, Ang.

She has a good sense of who she is and what she can do. In the interview, Angelina remarks that she needs to be in character when she speaks before Congress in Washington: "When I’m here, there’s a side of me that I just get into focus. I get my notes, my pen. I get my head together. And I do want to cover my tattoos, get into my suits, look clean, don’t dress too sexy, and just try and present the woman that I’m not sure I am, but would like to aspire to be."

As for the rumors about her romance with Brad Pitt, she called most of the stories "absolute bullshit." But it makes one wonder if the two will eventually hook up once his divorce from Jennifer Aniston is final. News out of London is that Pitt is supposed to be making a new movie there about a true story involving an attempted raid on the Millennium Dome. The website Itv.com is reporting that he is looking for a home in West London, which would move him closer to Angelina, who just so happens to live full-time in Buckinghamshire, on the outskirts of London.
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