Dad-to-be Brad Pitt gets saddled with the kids--and loves every minute. The actor went on a fun bike ride with partner Angelina Jolie's adopted children in Africa. With 16-month-old Zahara strapped safely to his back he watched with pride as Maddox, age four, rode next to him on a tiny bike with [training wheels] and a red crash helmet. Brad, 42, is in Namibia with Angelina, 30, who is due to give birth to their first child together any day now. But despite the nervous wait he seemed totally relaxed as he cycled in the bright sun.

Los Angeles, CA :: On-and-off-camera couple Jennifer Aniston, 37, and Vince Vaughn, 36, attended a press junket at the Casa Del Mar hotel this past Friday for their upcoming film The Break-Up (opens next Friday, June 2nd). Jen and Vince arrived and left in separate cars but both wound up together at luxury hotel 'Shutters On The Beach' located at 1 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, California 90405.

- Michael Jackson is all set to marry his third wife - his children's nanny Grace Rwarmba.

- The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins says he won't wear a catsuit ever again.

- Nikki Sanderson has forced her man Danny Young to bin snaps from the days when he dated Jodie Marsh.

- Eva Longoria is having three of her four tattoos removed by laser. The one thats staying - of boyfriend Tony Parkers intitals - is in an "intimate area."

- Groupies have started attending AA meetings in Los Angeles in the hope of seeing Colin Farrell there.

- Tom Cruise has a new found passion for gardening and was spotted by neighbours planting dozens of rose bushes.

Los Angeles, California :: Hollywood's golden couple, Ryan and Reese celebrate their seventh year wedding anniversary in two weeks. The pair went on a double date last week with Ryan's best friend Breckin and his wife, Deborah Kaplan. They all had dinner together at Japanese restaurant HamaSaku and dessert at Carvel Ice Cream Store in Santa Monica. Ryan Phillippe, 31, and Breckin Meyer, 32, run production company Lucid Films with fellow actor Seth Green, 32.

London, England :: Former Atomic Kitten (UK pop group) Natasha Hamilton sure is one chick who's made her dreams come true. Prince William, 23, got a little lip (and tongue) action over the weekend with Natasha, 23. The hunky heir leaned in for a polite kiss but Natasha couldn't control herself and went in for the kill. What will Will's girlfriend Kate Middleton think? Prince William met Natasha in the backstage Green Room at The Prince's Trust 30th Live concert held at the Tower of London this past Saturday.

Irish boy band WESTLIFE are thrilled about TAKE THAT's comeback, because they cherish the competition.

The FACE TO FACE hitmakers complain there has been no-one to challenge their reign as the UK's favourite boyband.

Westlife singer NICKY BYRNE says, "Bring it on. It's about time there was some decent competition." Take that are currently performing a reunion tour, ten years after they split.

Jack Black and musician wife Tanya Haden, who eloped in March, are expecting their first child, a boy, early next month.

The actor broke the news this weekend while doing publicity for his new movie, Nacho Libre, which opens June 16, USA Today reports.

"I think I will be good when it comes to playtime," said Black, 36. "I don't know how good I'll do with the discipline."

Black and Haden, 34, first met as students at Crossroads, a private high school in Santa Monica, Calif., and started dating in April 2005. They exchanged vows in a private ceremony in Big Sur, Calif.

Duane "Dog" Chapman, star of A&E's reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter, married his companion of 16 years, Beth Smith, on Saturday in a sunset ceremony on the Big Island of Hawaii.

"I've already been cuffed and shackled by Beth anyway," Chapman, 53, said before the ceremony. "She's Italian and tough."

The nuptials took place a day after the death of Chapman's daughter, Barbara Katy Chapman, 23, who was killed in a car accident near her home in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Associated Press reports.

After Barbara's death, Chapman had talked with his 10 surviving children – two of whom he had with Smith – about whether he should proceed with the wedding.

"They all decided unanimously they should celebrate the wedding and her life," said A&E senior vice president Michael Feeney.

Besides his trademark mullet, Chapman wore white jeans to match his white leather vest, boots and American Indian jewelry, representing his heritage. Boris Krutonog, the show's co-executive producer, was his best man.

Smith wore an off-white lace gown with nude backing designed by Eduardo Lucero, the AP reports.

The wedding and reception were held at the sprawling Hilton Waikoloa Village. The couple had planned to honeymoon in Fiji, but may postpone their plans because of the death of Chapman's daughter, Feeney said.

The wedding will be featured on the Aug. 8 episode of the show.

Jessica Simpson and Colin Farrell have been signed up to present winners with their prizes at the MTV Movie Awards.

It will be one of the first public appearances by Farrell since December, when controversy filled the media over drug abuse.

The awards ceremony will take place on June, 8, and a host of other celebrities have been signed up to announce winners. Kevin Spacey, Samuel L. Jackson, Dane Cook and Amanda Bynes are among the new names that will join the already star-studded presenters list.

The group are expected to tour North America later this month and throughout June without the bassist.

"Owing to fatigue following an intensive period of touring, Andy Nicholson shall be taking a rest and will not be accompanying Arctic Monkeys on their forthcoming tour of North America," the band explained in a statement.

They added: "Nick O'Malley shall be standing in for Andy on the tour which begins in Vancouver on May 27th. We all wish Andy a speedy recovery."

The band are due to return to Europe in July for festivals, including T In The Park (July 9).

Also this summer there's a planned visit to Australia and Japan, before coming back to play the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals at the end of August.

She might be 45 years old, but Heather Locklear can still behave as if she were back in high school. The actress is evidently upset that her estranged husband, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, has hooked up with Denise Richards, the estranged wife of Charlie Sheen. Denise was at home minding her own business the other day when she heard Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" playing from the street outside. She peeked through a window and saw Heather and a girlfriend in her car with the song blasting. Heather and her friend thought their prank was hilarious. Denise called the stunt "very high school."

With Sony Pictures' The Da Vinci Code earning a massive $224 million worldwide its first weekend, Times is reporting that the studio is already looking towards a possible follow-up.

According to Jeff Blake, vice chairman of Sony Pictures, the studio is hoping to bring another novel by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, to the big screen:

Tom Hanks could return to star as the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who appeared in the book and will be the hero of Brown's next novel. Mr Blake said: "We are very interested in filming Angels and Demons. We hope that the relationship with Dan Brown will be a long one. That could be the next project."

Angels and Demons was the reclusive author's third novel after he gave up his job as an English teacher. It tells the story of Langdon's brush with a shadowy secret society, the Illuminati, and his frantic quest for the world's most powerful energy source, in the company of a beautiful Italian physicist whose father, a brilliant physicist, has been murdered.

"The Da Vinci Code" was Brown's fourth book.

Lindsay Lohan showed a remarkable knack last week for being in the same place at the same time as Paris Hilton's most recent ex-life partner, Stavros Niarchos.

Witnesses stared openly as the two "kissed and held hands" at the popular junior-jet-set hangout Butter on Monday.

"Lindsay went back with him that night to his hotel room," one source tells me. "He was staying at Soho House, but her room was crosstown at the Mercer."

The two intersected twice last week at Bungalow 8, although they apparently left separately. Most recently, young Stavros exited the Chelsea lounge around 2:45 a.m. Friday, while Lindsay was still inside when my spy called it a night at 3:30.

Cillian Murphy thinks that he makes a "very pretty" woman.

The star - who dressed as a woman for his role as Kitten in the film 'Breakfast On Pluto' - says he loved getting in touch with his feminine side so much be developed a love of facials.

He said: "I loved it. I looked like my sister, who's very pretty. I even started to treat myself like a lady.

"It involved buying a lot of products, getting facials and massages and just thinking about stuff that most men generally don't think about."

To prepare for the role the Irish actor spent a lot of time dressed as a woman and going to clubs for cross-dressers.

He confessed: "To research the role I went out with some transvestites to clubs in London... I really enjoyed wearing drag."

HOLLYWOOD and Broadway star Hugh Jackman has revealed the "inner demons" that have driven him since his British mother abandoned him as a child in Australia.

The 37-year-old actor has previously been reluctant to explain why his mother vanished from their home in Sydney when he was eight.

But now that he has two adopted children of his own, the $20 million-a-film actor says he finds it easier to talk about his tangled relationship with his mother, Grace, who lives in southeast England.

Jackman said he wondered whether coming from a broken home had fuelled his drive to succeed in Hollywood.

Jackman's mother and his father Christopher emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. His father became a successful accountant but, for his mother, bringing up five children proved too much.

One day she vanished, reappearing later in England. Her two daughters, Zoe and Sonia, joined her, but sons Ian, Ralph and "baby" Hugh stayed with their father.

"My mother was not well. She was probably suffering from undiagnosed postpartum (postnatal) depression after she gave birth to me - so bad that for my first 18 months, I was brought up by my godparents," he said.

"I always hoped she would come back, but I never blamed her for anything that went wrong. At the time, I was miserable and angry, and my brothers and I used to fight all the time.

"My father tried his best, but he was very stretched raising three boys and he worked long hours so we were often left to fend for ourselves."

He said he first channelled his anger into sports at Knox Grammar School, where he played rugby. If he made a tackle, he would go into a "little white rage".

Jackman turned to acting in his 20s. He turned down a role in Neighbours but in 1998 won plaudits as Curly in the National Theatre's revival of Oklahoma! in London.

A year later, he was offered the role of Wolverine in the X-Men films.

It was a one-two encounter between Axl Rose and Tommy Hilfiger. The rocker and designer capped a Thursday evening out at a new club called The Plumm in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood with midnight fisticuffs.

"There was an issue between the two of them," Plumm owner Noel Ashman told The Associated Press.

The scuffle reportedly started after the Guns N' Roses front man moved the drink of Hilfiger's girlfriend, Dee Ocleppo.

"I moved his girlfriend's drink so it wouldn't spill," Rose told the Los Angeles radio station KROQ on Friday. "It was the most surreal thing, I think, that's ever happened to me in my life."

According to the 44-year-old singer, Hilfiger, 55, smacked him in the arm and told him to put the drink back.

"He just kept smacking me," Rose said.

Attempts to reach Hilfiger or a representative were not immediately successful.

Rose was there to play a surprise set for "Rent" actress
Rosario Dawson for her 27th birthday party.

Elton John launched an expletive-laden tirade against the press in Cannes on Saturday while presenting an award to a young actor during the annual film festival.

At a ceremony held by luxury jeweller Chopard, everything seemed to be going smoothly enough as John presented the Chopard Trophy to young Canadian actor Kevin Zegers, who co-starred in the film "Transamerica" with Felicity Huffman.

"He (Zegers) is only 21 years old, already he showed incredible talent and maturity," said John, wearing dark glasses and accompanied by actress Elizabeth Hurley.

"I sincerely believe he will be a huge star and a great actor for many, many years to come."

Then, as photographers called out during his address, he added: "If you saw 'Transamerica' ... I'm talking ... you fuckwit, fucking photographers you should be shot, you should be all shot. Thank you."

After handing the award to a smiling Zegers, he added: "They are a nightmare".

John, who is 59, is no stranger to strong language. Most recently, viewers complained when he swore during the Paul O'Grady Show on British television.

Nicole Richie and Adam "DJ AM" Goldberg are planning to marry, according to socialite's famous father Lionel Richie. On the same day US reports claimed the pair had split for the second time in five months, Richie told reporters in London they will marry and he will provide the entertainment. Speaking at the Prince's Trust charity concert on Saturday, the hitmaker revealed, "I told her, 'Honey, you do what you want and just send me the bill.' Of course I am going to be there for her, and I'll be singing - there's no way I couldn't. I'm really happy that it's working out for her." Richie and Goldberg have been dating since 2003. They split in December last year, but reunited earlier this year. On Friday a US publication alleged Goldberg had dumped Richie.

Quentin Tarantino has cast Black Eyed Pea Fergie in his new horror movie, Grind House.

The singer -- real name Stacy Ferguson -- has had some acting experience, having appeared in Be Cool and Poseidon, as well as various TV shows. And apparently Tarantino thinks she’ll bring sex appeal to his new movie.

Grind House is a collaboration with fellow director Robert Rodriguez.

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