Jeffs Celebrity Gossip Blog

Snoop Dogg has reportedly been banned from entering the United Kingdom ever again, following his brawl at Heathrow Airport last month.

The rapper was involved in the now-famous brawl after being denied entry into British Airways' first class lounge, and was subsequently banned from flying with the airline. He also received a caution from British police only a few days ago.

According to reports, Snoop has now been banned from entering the UK ever again, without exception. Apparently his previous criminal convictions in the US played a large role in the decision.

The star is likely to lose a lot of money from performance fees.

Ronan Keating has admitted that he is having second thoughts about a Boyzone reunion.

Rumours that the band are getting back together have been circulating since the start of the year, but Ronan originally ruled out the possibility.

However, after witnessing first hand the success of the reunited Take That, he has said he may be considering it after all.

Keating said: “I saw Take That last Friday. They were completely brilliant. When the lads appeared I hadn’t heard a noise like it since Boyzone’s last concert. I was feeling ‘This would definitely be nice again.’ ”

And Ronan said that the former band mates would be meeting up this week: “I’m seeing the guys, we’re probably going out for dinner on Thursday. We’re hanging out and chatting and that’s all totally cool. So never say never — but there’s nothing planned.”

Uri Geller has bought the house Elvis lived in before he moved to Graceland.

Geller and two partners bought the Tennessee home for $905,100.

"We are unbelievably pleased. This is a piece of history," Geller said. "We intend to restore it to its old glory. We would like to bring sick children there (for tours), Palestinian children, Israeli children, American children. "Hopefully one day we might get approval to turn it into a museum."

The singer lived in the house for 13 months before moving to the now famous Memphis estate Graceland where he died in 1977.

Geller, who made an original bid of $300,000 for the property, met Elvis in the '70s after the King asked him to perform his spoon bending trick for him.

Robbie Williams is shacked up with Tara Palmer Tomkinson, according to reports.

Closer magazine says the pair have been spending all their time together since getting together. A source said: "For about ten days they just stayed in bed watching DVDs and eating takeaways – it all sounded very intimate.

"Tara also visited Robbie at his recording studio so he could play her his new song."

Palmer Tomkinson failed to deny the reports, but at least revealed that her last celebrity relationship was over. "I'm mortified someone blabbed about my private life,” she declared. "I got burnt with James Blunt and I will not talk about Robbie. If you want to ask him what he thinks ask his management."

Don't be surprised if Brandon Routh's acting career takes off faster than a speeding bullet. After languishing in bit parts in TV soaps, 26-year-old Routh has been plucked from obscurity to play the legendary Man of Steel in Superman Returns. Some might call it fate, as he does bear an uncanny resemblance to Christopher Reeve, the only previous actor to bring the role to the silver screen. It seems Routh's towering physique and lantern-jaw good looks made him the obvious choice for director Bryant Singer.

Singer himself is no slouch in the comc-book genre having successfully directed the first two X-Men films. His genius lies in lifting iconic superheroes off the page and bringing them to life for millions of obsessive comic-book fans. So appealing was the notion of doing just that with Superman Returns that Singer passed up the chance to direct the final installment of the X-men trilogy.

A shroud of secrecy has been thrown around the film and Brandon himself is tight-lipped when it comes to revealing details. He will say that his Superman has to deal with some "fairly modern psychological issues".

"Superman returns to Metropolis after a five-year absence and finds things have changed," Brandon says. "But I don't want to give away too much. You'll have to see for yourself."

If you can't bear the though of watching an entire film with the Man of Steel lying suping on a psychiatrist's couch bleating on about his emotional deficiencies, don't worry. "There's plenty of action," divulges Routh, "and I do most of my own stunts." So grueling were the demands of the role that he spent almost a year bulking up his already impressive frame. Routh needed to be super-fit in order to withstand hours of filming suspended in wire harnesses, and his training regime reincluded movement classes to help the actor similate flying. Hours were expended posing on blocks with cameras on cranes swooping around him -- exhausting work, but the end product will undoubtedly propel the superhero to new heights.

Let's hope Brandon Routh is ready for megastardom. Growing up in Iowa, he sported Superman pajamas and worked himself into a frenzy when he saw the original 1978 film on television. "I became so excited that I gave myself a migraine. I don't really rememeber watching it. I was throwing up everywhere." Superman Returns is out on July 14.

Paul Bettany has just arrived from London and Barcelona, where he was doing press for "The Da Vinci Code," after time in Mozambique and elsewhere in Africa, where wife Jennifer Connelly is shooting a film.

A renaissance man? An actor with eclectic tastes? An artist determined not to repeat himself?

"Just out of boredom, that's why you really do it," Bettany told The Associated Press in Los Angeles before heading to the Cannes Film Festival, where "The Da Vinci Code" was picked as the opening night film.

"Like with `Wimbledon,' I'd never been in a romantic comedy before. I wondered what's that sort of like? So I tried one, and then wanted to keep going on trying new things. It would be dull otherwise."

The British actor, who turns 35 on May 27, was offered the role of albino monk-assassin Silas after previously working with director Ron Howard on "A Beautiful Mind," in which he played a phantom buddy to Russell Crowe's schizophrenic character. Bettany met Connelly on the film, which earned her the supporting-actress Academy Award.

Though Bettany had not yet read "The Da Vinci Code," the role was an easy sell when Howard called.

"I took about nought-point-two seconds to answer, and said yes," Bettany said. "What was going on in my head was, monk-assassin, Ron Howard, 40 million copies sold. If you say no, at that point you should go, `I should just get on a plane and go home.' That's quite a lot of things that are already right about it."

Add a cast led by Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou and Ian McKellen, a lurid hunt for the Holy Grail and a religious firestorm over author Dan Brown's speculations that Christ and Mary Magdalene were married, and Bettany found himself at the center of one of Hollywood's most anticipated productions.

Bettany said he had avoided reading "The Da Vinci Code" partly out of "some ghastly English snobbery. ... I just thought it wasn't going to be my cup of tea." Once he took the part, Bettany went out and bought a copy, devouring it in two days.

"There's an absolute motor that sort of drives it, and it's sort of like a guilty pleasure, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that," Bettany said.

Bettany was born into a theatrical family, his father and grandmother working as actors and his mother spending time as a stage singer.

Initially raised as a Roman Catholic ("a lot of guilt, and I still smell the incense"), Bettany then attended Church of England and Methodist congregations as his father experimented with different Christian branches.

Now "fanatically atheist," Bettany said he was not prepared for incessant questions about the religious debate over the novel, which theorizes about a conspiracy to cover up Christ's marriage and villainizes the Catholic group Opus Dei, whose leader helps orchestrate dark deeds in pursuit of the Grail.

Monk Silas is an extremist Opus Dei member who practices "corporal mortification," wearing a barbed chain on his leg and flogging himself during prayer.

"When I went out to buy the book, I bought it in the fiction department. I didn't buy it from the philosophy and personal growth department. A theological discourse as we all know is not a page-turner. I, like most people, read it like a beach novel over two days," Bettany said.

"I would be surprised if there's much furor over the movie. Personally, I've only noticed it in America. Nobody mentions it in England or France. The only place it's been mentioned is here, and I've yet to meet anybody that is sort of offended. And if we have offended anybody, if I have offended anybody, they're Christians, so I'd ask them to forgive me."

After early success in British theater, television and film, with a notable turn as a criminal mad dog in "Gangster No. 1," Bettany clicked with U.S. audiences as ribald poet Chaucer in "A Knight's Tale."

Following "A Beautiful Mind," Bettany worked again with Crowe as a shipboard doctor in "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World." In "Wimbledon," Bettany was a fading tennis veteran who becomes an underdog sensation after striking up a romance with a hotshot American player (Kirsten Dunst). He co-starred with Nicole Kidman in "Dogville," director Lars von Trier harsh indictment of America.

Most recently, Bettany was the black-hearted mastermind who holds Harrison's Ford's family hostage in the high-tech heist tale "Firewall."

Bettany got into acting after a prolonged period of grief and isolation after his younger brother died in a fall. He said he made the mistake of talking about his brother's death and its aftermath in interviews before but now declines to discuss it to avoid "me having to have a bad day because I've had to go back to the darkest place in my personal history."

He's effusive about his family with Connelly, though. Besides a stepson from Connelly's previous relationship, Bettany has a son of his own with the actress and looks forward to more kids.

"I would like to just repetitively make children and practice making children in between," Bettany said.

SIR IAN MCKELLEN originally criticised the casting of American stars ELIJAH WOOD and SEAN ASTIN as hobbits in THE LORD OF THE RINGS, because he believed the roles should have been given to English actors instead. But the two young actors, who played FRODO BAGGINS and SAM GAMGEE, proved the veteran actor wrong with their diminutive performances, perfectly recreating the tender relationship enjoyed by JRR TOLKIEN's true heroes. He says, "I was doubtful about the casting of Frodo. I thought Elijah was far too pretty. "I thought it was a mistake to have two Americans play those parts. I thought it was an essentially English relationship, one of class. "(But) Elijah could not have been better."

In New York City on Saturday, Nicole Kidman hosted the 30th Anniversary gala for the organization UNIFEM. Her date? Keith Urban, who she admitted is not just her boyfriend. "He's my fiancé," Kidman exclusively said on Monday.

Kidman, who has been in New York's Hamptons region shooting an untitled film for director Noah Baumbach, is a goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women. The organization works to empower women around the world both politically and economically.

UNIFEM's achievements include organizing women voters in Liberia, who elected the first female president of an African country, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and linking Rwandan women basket weavers with Macy's, which is now selling their wares online and in New York.

The organization has also worked to combat violence against women. UNIFEM has helped get female genital mutilation banned in Egypt and other countries where it was common and legal; it has also changed laws in Peru and Costa Rica that allowed rapists to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims.

KATE MOSS happily engaged in a lesbian kiss with British socialite JEMIMA KHAN for a charity donation of GBP60,000 ($108,000). The supermodel, who was dogged by controversy after she was photographed snorting cocaine last year (05), was due to kiss business tycoon PHILIP GREEN after he paid for the pleasure at a recent charity auction for the Hoping Foundation For Palestinian Refugee Children. But Green declined to accept a passionate one-minute kiss from Moss in the presence of his wife TINA, so he handed the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to the person he outbid.

Mel Gibson is privately raging over Tom Hanks' blockbuster movie The Da Vinci Code - a film that refutes everything that devoutly religious Gibson holds sacred.

"Mel isn't going public with his feelings about the film or the book, but he's furious over all the attention it's getting," says a source.

"He feels that if he went public with his feelings, it would only garner more headlines and buzz for the film and that's the last thing he wants."

Johnny Depp is desperately trying to give up his smoking habit for the sake of his children. The Pirates Of The Caribbean star rolls his own Bali Shag cigarettes and has been forced to drastically cut back the amount he smokes - and now he's trying to give up altogether.

He says, "I'm not far away from quitting. I've cut down quite heavily ... It's such a dumb addiction. And with the kiddies, man, just being a parent - you start worrying 10 years ahead of the curve."

Samaire Armstrong dumped her last boyfriend after he failed to support her through a dental surgery ordeal. The sexy actress was far from impressed when the unnamed beau refused to take care of her after she had her wisdom teeth removed - so she broke off the romance.

She says, "I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands. I got my wisdom teeth pulled, and I guess maybe I expected a little bit more support. That was just the straw that broke the camel's back. If you're not going to be there for my wisdom teeth, you're not going to be there."

But Armstrong isn't wasting any time in finding a new beau - her father and brother, both Marines, are on the hunt for a few good men "in the Corps."

The $160 million disaster film "Poseidon" capsized on its maiden voyage in North America, allowing Tom Cruise's struggling sequel "Mission: Impossible III" to retain the weekend box office crown.

According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, "Poseidon" opened at No. 2 after selling just $20.3 million worth of tickets for the three days beginning May 12. The third installment in Cruise's action franchise earned $24.5 million.

The soggy opening for German director Wolfgang Petersen's costly remake of the 1972 epic "The Poseidon Adventure" was not unexpected. Surveys of moviegoers in the weeks before its release had indicated a distinct lack of enthusiasm.

"While we had hoped for a slightly stronger opening, it's a little premature to assess the financial viability of the movie," said Dan Fellman, president of domestic theatrical distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

"Poseidon" also earned $4.4 million after opening in six Asian markets, No. 1 in four of them -- Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

After 10 days, the total for "Mission: Impossible III" stands at $84.6 million. Its drop from last weekend was a modest 49 percent. Most big films usually drop between 50 percent and 60 percent in their second weekends.

The spy thriller also held up well overseas, where the total rose to $129.2 million.

Those were some rare pieces of good news for Cruise, whose bizarre antics in the past year were blamed for the movie's underwhelming $47 million bow in North America last weekend.

The film is clearly trailing its predecessors, although exact comparisons are difficult because they both opened on the Wednesday before the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend at the end of May, while the latest one opened on a regular Friday. After 12 days, 1996's "Mission: Impossible" had earned $107.2 million, and the 2000 sequel $130.7 million.

Industry observers expect the new film to finish up somewhere between $150 million and $185 million. The first one made $181 million and the second one $215 million.

The movies were released by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc.

It has been a rough start to the summer for effects-laden Hollywood extravaganzas. But hopes are high for Sony Corp .'s adaptation of the controversial Vatican bestseller "The Da Vinci Code," which opens worldwide next weekend.

Also new this weekend was the Lindsay Lohan teen romance "Just My Luck," which opened at No. 4 with a modest $5.5 million. Not surprisingly, 80 percent of the audience was female and 70 percent aged under 25, said distributor Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.

The No. 3 slot went to former chart-topper "RV," which earned $9.5 million in its third weekend -- a drop of just 14 percent, the lowest in the top 10. Sony's Robin Williams comedy has earned $42.8 million to date, and is playing strongest in the U.S. heartland and suburban markets, the studio said.

1. Mission: Impossible III -- $24,514,000
2. Poseidon -- $20,325,000
3. R.V. -- $9,500,000
4. Just My Luck -- $5,500,000
5. An American Haunting -- $3,689,000
6. United 93 -- $3,583,000
7. Stick It -- $3,239,000
8. Ice Age: The Meltdown -- $2,975,000
9. Silent Hill -- $2,200,000
10. Hoot -- $2,125,000
11. Scary Movie 4 -- $2,080,000
12. Goal! The Dream Begins -- $2,003,000

Lindsay Lohan has reportedly spent the night with Paris Hilton’s ex-fiance, Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis.

Sources close to Latsis say Lohan stayed at the greek shipping heir’s Beverly Hills mansion last night and now they are planning to meet up in the South of France at the Cannes Film Festival later this week."

Flint, Michigan's MC Breed has been sentenced to serve a year in state prison for failure to pay over $200,000 in child support.

On Thursday (May 11), Genesee Circuit Court Judge Richard Yullie ordered 34-year-old MC Breed, whose real name is Eric T. Breed, to prison for violating his probation in lacking to make payments for child support.

Breed pleaded with the Court, saying that he is broke.

"I'm in so much debt right now that it makes my head spin every time I think about it," Breed said.

The judge however, showed no mercy for Breed's plea of being broke claiming that records show that his case dragged on for an extensive amount of time.

Yullie also noted that Breed had previously pleaded guilty in the fall of 1999 to attempted no support.

"Someone looking at this file would ask me why did I give Mr. Breed so many opportunities?... You have not met your obligations you have in respect to supporting these children."

Before being sentenced by Judge Yullie, Breed faced another judge for a separate child support case.

Genesee Circuit Judge Archie Hayman also sentenced Breed to serve a year in confinement in the county jail, with the provision that he can participate in the work release program if he could find a job.

But Judge Yullie's judgment to a year in prison without the work release program supercedes Judge Hayman's ruling.

Before Judge Yullie rendered a judgment, Breed apologized for all of his "inconsistencies" and said that he'd given up on his pursuits of the rap game.

Additionally, the rapper also had outstanding warrants in the Detroit area for failing to a pay speeding ticket and operating a vehicle with a suspended license.

But these extra penalties were waived since he was heading to prison.

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is speaking out about the recent criticism she has received from the Hip-Hop community.

In the past few weeks, rappers Ludacris and 50 Cent have openly condemned Winfrey, who appeared on Ed Lover's Power 105.1 radio show yesterday to defend her side of the story.

"I listen to some Hip-Hop. I've been accused of not liking Hip-Hop and that's just not true," she said. "I got a little 50 in my iPod. I really do. I like 'In Da Club.' Have you heard the beat to 'In Da Club'? Love that, love Jay-Z, love Kanye, love Mary J. Mary J. is one of my friends."

The backlash against Winfrey sparked last year after Ludacris appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote his co-starring role in the film Crash.

While discussing the movie's racial subject matter with the other cast members, Winfrey interrogated Ludacris about his notoriously raunchy lyrics.

The rapper addressed the incident in the May issue of GQ Magazine, stating that Winfrey edited his comments out of the show.

He also revealed that he wasn't invited to appear on the show initially, and that he felt Winfrey's questioning was inappropriate considering the fact that he appeared on the show as an actor.

"What I got was that by having rappers on her show, she feels like she is empowering in them. It was like being at someone's house who doesn't really want you there," Ludacris told GQ. "I don't see why Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle, who I am huge fans of, it's OK for them to go on Oprah. They speak the same language as I do, but they do it through comedy, so I guess that's acceptable to her."

Winfrey said she and Ludacris continued their conversation after the show, as she attempted to explain why she put the rapper in the hot seat.

"I said 'Look Ludacris, you are so smart. You are one of the brilliant guys. I used to have the Klan on and the skinheads on and I looked out in the audience and I saw contact being made between the guys in the audience and the stage and they were like, 'Yeah get her, get her, get her, Bud,'" she said. "At that moment, I was doing nobody any good putting those people on because I realized that that platform was being seen and heard by a lot of people who weren't as smart as I am.

"My idea was, I want y'all to know that this is what's going on," Winfrey continued. "And I said to Ludacris, 'A lot of people who listen to your music aren't as smart as you are. So they take some of that stuff literally when you are just writing it for entertainment purposes.'"

Ludacris isn't the only rapper who has claimed to be offended by Winfrey's actions, however.

50 Cent told the Associated Press that rappers are a rarity on her show.

"I think she caters to older white women." 50 said, adding that "Oprah's audience is my audience's parents. So, I could care less about Oprah or her show. I'm actually better off having friction with her."

While Winfrey expressed her love of Hip-Hop to Ed Lover, she also decried the misogyny prevalent in the music and stressed that there are many different aspects of Hip-Hop.

The media mogul said she personally felt the worldwide impact of rap during an encounter with a security guard for African political leader Nelson Mandela.

According to Winfrey, the guard greeted her group by saying "Hello n***as."

Winfrey explained to Ed Lover that the guard thought it was the norm because they watched videos and listened to rap music.

Lover later told Winfrey that he would never use the word 'b***h' again.

Hip-Hop's power is undeniable, Winfrey acknowledged, as she noted the music's growing influence years ago, as well as the accompanying responsibility.

"Years and years ago, Quincy Jones and I had this conversation about the evolution of Hip-Hop and what it really means to our culture," Winfrey said. "Hip-Hop is like jazz and gospel music, evolved from the people, a form of protest, a form of expression so you can't deny that, nor would I try. But I do believe there needs to be awareness of who we are, how we got here and what that means about staying here."

Nicole Richie and Mischa Barton, along with Mischa's sister and a friend of Nicole's, took a break from their usual rounds of clothes shopping to stock up on some much needed nourishment Saturday at a Beverly Hills grocery store.

Perhaps too exhausted to walk down the aisles herself, Richie rested her tired bones while being carted around the store by her friend.

The awesome foursome exited the store, with purchases in tow, as Richie told the waiting paparazzi to "go to the beach."

Paris Hilton’s mother can only imagine what her celebrity daughter got her for Mother’s Day.

That’s because thieves stole the gifts before Kathy Hilton received them.

A gift bag containing nearly $10,000 worth of Christian Dior shoes, sunglasses, handbags and perfume was taken from outside the Hilton home, spokesman Elliot Mintz said Monday.

The younger Hilton “spent three or four hours shopping to put together this wonderful collection of things for her mom,” Mintz said.

A delivery person set the package down outside the home’s gate to ring the intercom when a passenger in a passing car snatched the gifts.

“A fellow just whizzed by and grabbed the package,” Mintz said.

The Hilton family celebrated Mother’s Day by going out to dinner, he said.

Victoria Beckham has reportedly had a new tattoo to commemorate the first time she had sex with husband David.

The former Spice Girl arranged to have '8th May' - the night the pair got intimate for the first time inscribed on her wrist.

The mum-of-three, who already has 'DB' tattooed on her arm, chose the design after football ace David treated her to a weekend at Paris' swanky Ritz hotel for the romantic anniversary.

A friend revealed: "David had remembered their first night of passion from all those years ago. It was only when they were together alone that he reminded her what anniversary they were celebrating."

The source added: "Victoria hadn't remembered the exact dates - but she was bowled over when David told her during dinner. She knew then that she had to commemorate the occasion with something permanent."

Victoria approached British tattooist Louis Molloy -who has etched all the couple's tattoos - about engraving the date on her arm in Roman numerals.

Vince Vaughn is convinced tabloid journalists reluctantly write about him - because they hate the fact he's dating Jennifer Aniston.

The modest star admits he feels like an unwelcome soap opera star when he reads stories about himself in the US tabloids - because journalists are always trying to write him "off the show".

He explains, "I've never taken the tabloids, and that, seriously - you realise that they're just doing their job and they're just trying to sell stories, and that, but I think they've got to be really disappointed, on some level, that I'm kind of a guy that they have to put in the tabloids.

Oasis have announced that they are to take a year off following their recent world tour.

The Manchester band have been touring their Don’t Believe The Truth album, and had planned to release an EP of songs left over from the recording sessions, but have decided instead to take some time off and work on new material.

Speaking to 6music, guitarist Noel Gallagher said: “We had a couple of tracks left over from the last record and in our own heads we thought they were good enough to be released as an EP. We went back and listened to the tapes and we reckon we can get it better, so we're having the year off instead”

Oasis hope to have their new material out in 2008 .

Geri Halliwell has given birth to her first child - and it's a baby girl.

Pop star Halliwell gave birth in London yesterday with her mother Anna Maria by her side, but the father Sacha Gervasi was not present.

The baby was brought into the world by the same doctor who delivered David and Victoria Beckham's child Brooklyn, after they recommended him to Geri.

A source at the hospital said: "The birth went well. Mother and baby are doing fine."

Calum Best, 24, could be among stars gearing up to attend the launch of Peter Stringfellow's new West End venue.

No doubt the 65-year-old legendary club owner will pull out all the stops to make sure the opening of Stringfellow's Soho is amazing.

So far, he's splurged more than £5 million on this, his second London club.

We also reckon we'll bump into the likes of smoothie Simon Cowell, 46, and gorgeous girlies Stephanie Savage, Hayley Marie and Carly Krupa when the super trendy hot-spot opens on June 1.

It wa practially the battle of the best beachwear when gorgeous girls hot-footed it to Marbella for the official opening parties at Puerto Banus. And there was no missing ex-Atomic Kitten Natasha Hamilton, 23, sauntering down the street in her lovely lime green number.

The singer's ex-boyfriend Fran Cosgrave, 28, and father of her three-year-old son Josh, is also having fun in the sun with his weekend DJ slots.