Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has been spotted house hunting Los Angeles - only adding to the speculation her soccer player husband David Beckham will soon play for an American club.

The Wannabe singer was spotted viewing lavish houses in the star studded neighbourhoods of Beverly Hills. One house in particular was only five doors away from close friends Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

There have been long-running rumours that Real Madrid star David will finish his career in America after his contract at the Spanish club expires next summer (07).

Alexi Galas, president of the soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy, has already confirmed he would be interested in singing the British star.

The Spice Girls will reunite for the Princess Diana memorial concert, according to a report.

All five former members are apparently in discussions over a comeback at the Wembley Stadium gig being organised by Princes William and Harry for July.

"The girls have all been waiting for the right opportunity to come along and this is it," a source told The People. "They agreed they would only do something extra special - so what better than the Diana concert?"

He added that the drive for the idea had come from Victoria Beckham. "Victoria got the ball rolling by getting in touch with the other girls," said the source. "They have discussed it in the past few weeks and all have said 'yes'.

"If everything goes to plan they will headline the gig and sing their most famous hits such as 'Wannabe' and 'Say You'll Be There'."

A source close to the Royal Family said the Princes would be delighted if the plan worked out. "It would be a dream come true for Wills and Harry if it comes off," he said. "They have happy memories of the girls' performances from childhood. They are involved with the plan and very keen for it to happen."

The group will also release a greatest hits album around the time of the gig, according to the paper. They previously considered reforming for Live8 but reports said the idea was blocked by Mel B.

Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds, a film producer and the ex-wife of singer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, are dating, she reveals.

The couple have been seeing each other "for about a month and a half," Edmonds said at the New York premiere of Dreamgirls, which she attended with Murphy on Monday.

When asked if she was happy she smiled and said, "Yes, very happy. We're having fun."

Previously, Murphy had been seeing former Spice Girl, Melanie Brown. A rep for the comedian said, "We do not comment on Mr. Murphy's personal life."

Edmonds split from "Babyface" in October 2005 after 13 years together.

Even Mary J. Blige was impressed: She won a whopping nine times at Monday's 2006 Billboard Music Awards, including R&B/hip-hop artist of the year, female R&B artist of the year and R&B/hip-hop album of the year (The Breakthrough) and song of the year ("Be Without You"), as well as Hot 100 airplay song of the year.

Sporting white go-go boots and a sparkly mini-dress, the 35-year-old singer – who had rocked the house with her "Enough Crying" and "Take Me As I Am" medley – told reporters backstage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas: "I've never received this many awards at any time in my career, ever.

"I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does," she said, Billboard reports.

Chris Brown, who calls his music "hip-hop with a swagger," was named new artist of the year, male artist of the year and artist of the year. "I'm 17. That's crazy, it's mind-boggling," said Brown, the Associated Press reports. "My mom, she still keeps me humble. She tells me to take out the trash, ya know, clean my room."

American Idol's Carrie Underwood and Atlanta rapper T.I. each took home five statuettes. T.I. dominated the rap category, winning artist and album of the year for (King).

In both overall and country categories, Underwood took album of the year (her debut effort, Some Hearts) and artist of the year.

Rihanna said after she was named female artist of the year, (she also won female Hot 100 artist of the year and Pop 100 artist of the year): "I really can't feel my legs – this is phenomenal. That was a really tough category." She had competed with Blige and Beyonce.

Nelly Furtado, Kenny Chesney, Three Days Grace and the soundtrack to Disney's High School Musical snared one award each. Stevie Wonder also presented his longtime friend Tony Bennett with the Billboard Century Award.

A downcast George Clooney's eyes welled up with tears at Monday night's Hollywood premiere of his latest movie, The Good German, when the subject turned to Max, his 300-lb. pet pot-bellied pig who just died.

Asked how he was doing in light of the loss of his devoted companion, who had lived with him for the past 18 years in his Los Angeles home, Clooney, 45, said: "I'm good. I just got home this morning, or this afternoon, so it's strange not having him sitting on the carpet in the house, but, you know… sad, actually.

Recalling his best memory of Max, who was often featured in interviews with Clooney (who referred to him as "Max, the star"), the two-legged star said, "Oh, there are plenty of them. He got me in a lot of trouble that pig, in general, (and) scared the hell out of a lot of delivery people, too."

Clooney – who had informed USA Today that there would be no successor because, "I think Max covered all my pig needs" – was also overheard at the premiere as saying something about cremation.

She's not married, but she is dating, and the prospects are high for everything – including children, says Hilary Swank.

"I am to the point that I'm so optimistic that most people tag me as naïve," the double Oscar winner said at a press gathering to promote her new movie Fiction Writers.

Though she didn't talk about the new man in her life (she's been seeing her agent, John Campisi), Swank did say that being single is "a big change" after her eight years of marriage to actor Chad Lowe – and revealed that she'd like a family.

"I definitely would like kids someday," says Swank. "That's definitely something that I've always thought about as a very, very young girl."

She added, "I just love kids and that would be an important thing to happen for me someday … whenever the time is right."

In the new movie, Swank, 32, plays a schoolteacher whose career interferes with her marriage. Asked how this situation compared to her real-life relationship with Lowe, Swank said "From (my movie character) Erin's point of view … there's like a support that is missing, an enthusiasm that's missing."

She said that such a lack of support "kills you, because this person that is supposed to be in your life, sharing your life, who loves you supposedly more than anyone and is supposed to understand you more than anyone, is trying to bring you down when you already have enough of that out there in the world. … I think that people who are scared don't allow someone else to be fully realized."

For his part, Lowe has been a subject covered in Swank's interviews before, which hasn't always been happy about. In November he said that he was upset when Swank, talked publicly about his substance-abuse problems, but he'll always love her.

Keith Urban reunited with wife Nicole Kidman Sunday in Los Angeles, but his rep says that the singer is still undergoing treatment for alcohol abuse.

"At this stage in (Keith's) treatment patients are occasionally allowed to leave for short periods of time," his rep says. "Keith is not out of rehab and is not back home in Nashville."

Urban, 39, checked into rehab on Oct. 19, saying in a statement at the time: "One can never let one's guard down on recovery and I'm afraid that I have."

"I deeply regret the hurt this has caused Nicole and the ones that love and support me," he added.

Kidman, 39, visited her husband at the facility where he was being treated before returning to the London set of The Golden Compass last month.

Prison Break actor Lane Garrison was involved in a car accident in which a 17-year-old male was killed on Saturday, according to police.

A sport utility vehicle that Garrison, 26, was riding in with three teenagers jumped a curb and hit a tree in Beverly Hills at 11:50 p.m., police said.

Garrison, who plays "Tweener" on the Fox jailhouse drama Prison Break, received minor injuries. Two 15-year-old girls, who were also in the car, were both injured – one critically. The teenage boy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Police are investigating the cause of the accident and trying to determine who was driving the car, Beverly Hills Police Sgt. Michael Hill tells AP. (The SUV was registered to Garrison, the Associated Press reports.)

"There have been no charges. The case is under investigation. There has been no confirmation of information regarding what happened," says Hill. "The ID of the driver is still to be determined."

Police declined to release the names of the victims because they are minors.

“It was great to have Brad there, to have that buoyancy. Brad’s open and funny, and he makes me laugh. He makes me think about the style of a film in a way I hadn’t thought about it before. He asks questions about the script that I wouldn’t even conceive of asking. He’s a very aesthetic being, and I’m probably quite an emotional being. So for me, selfishly, he brings that out in me.” — Cate Blanchett on working with Brad Pitt on their film Babel

Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reportedly been seeing a marriage counsellor in a desperate bid to save their six-year union.

The 'Hung Up' singer and her film director husband have allegedly been seeing top marital therapist Tricia Barnes after their relationship hit "rock bottom", following the couple's controversial adoption of a Malawi baby.

A source told Britain's People newspaper: "The marriage is near rock-bottom. They've been putting on a united front in public but behind closed doors their marriage has come under strain. The publicity surrounding the adoption has created a difficult atmosphere in their home. After a heart-to-heart they decided to seek the help of a marriage guidance specialist."

Guy and Madonna's relationship - which has previously been rocked by the singer's busy work schedule and her fascination with the Kabbalah - reportedly came under a new strain after Guy felt left out from the highly-publicised adoption battle for fourteen-month-old David Banda.

The source added: "Madonna and Guy both dote on little David but it is her attitude that can irritate and upset Guy. She drove the whole adoption process from start to finish and Guy was left trailing in her slipstream just nodding and going along with things."

As well as David, the couple have two other children - six-year-old Rocco and Lourdes, ten, from Madonna's relationship with fitness trainer Carlos Leon.

US band The Killers were forced to cancel a gig in Dublin because frontman Brandon Flowers has bronchitis.

The concert, due to be held at the Point Theatre on Thursday night, was set to be their biggest and last show on their European tour.
In a statement the band said they are "devastated to disappoint" but claim it was "impossible to go ahead".

The show will not be rescheduled because of US tour commitments. Refunds will be available for ticket holders.

Onscreen lovebirds Rachel Bilson and Adam Brody, who play a cute couple on The O.C. and have also dated offscreen since 2004, have decided to call it quits.

“They’ve been done for a few weeks,” a friend close to the couple tells Life & Style. “They are just done. That’s all there is to it. There’s no drama. They just ended it.”

That may explain why Adam showed up solo to a party on Nov. 28 for the U.S. premiere of Volkswagen’s concept car Tiguan in LA.

“He was definitely acting like a single guy,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style.

According to nightlife insiders in LA, he’s been spending a lot of time without Rachel at the clubs with his guy friends.

Reps for the two would not comment.

Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor walked the red at London’s premiere of Miss Potter (no relation to Harry) in Odeon Leicester Square.

Miss Potter tells the story of of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children’s book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”, and her struggle for love, happiness and success. US release dates: Dec. 29 (limited), Jan. 12. UK release date: Jan. 5.

Other Miss Potter co-stars at Lancaster House for after-party: Emily Watson, Oliver Jenkins, and Lucy Boynton.

Will Smith was honored last night by the Museum of the Moving Image at its 22nd annual black-tie Salute on un the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The program was taped last night and will air on Friday, Jan. 12, 2007.

It was a family affair! Will, 38, was accompanied to the event by wife Jada, 35, and son Jaden, 8. Will’s finest moments were screened in front of other big names including Jamie Foxx, Eva Mendes and Thandie Newton. Will’s latest film, The Pursuit of Happyness, co-starring son Jaden will be released by Sony Pictures on Dec. 15.

Louis Walsh is supporting Sharon Osbourne in the battle to win the X Factor after being upset by Simon Cowell's slating his act.

"I'm going to support Sharon 100 per cent and hope she gets the Scottish vote," Walsh said on ITV2 show The Xtra Factor, following the departure of his final act The MacDonald Brothers from the competition. "Scotland doesn't like you, Simon," added the reality show judge, in reference to Cowell's constant criticisms of the sibling singers.

Simon Cowell has two acts left competing on the X Factor as it enters the penultimate week - youngsters Leona Lewis and Ray Quinn. Walsh will be backing Osbourne's remaining act in the Over 25 category - Ben Mills.

Beyonce performed on The Today Show at NYC’s Rockefeller Center to promote her new film Dreamgirls. She gave quite the variety of animated faces through her performance of “Irreplaceable” and “Listen.”

Comedian and radio host Russell Brand has been chosen to host next year's Brit Awards ceremony, it has been revealed.

The show will be broadcast live for the first time in almost two decades. The last time the famous awards ceremony went out to a live audience was in 1989 on a famously shambolic night involving Samantha Fox and Mick Fleetwood.

Oasis are already set to receive an award for their outstanding contribution to British music, as well as the British single of the year being voted for by viewers.

The ceremony, held at London's Earl's Court, will be broadcast on February 14.

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar will reteam with Penelope Cruz for his next project, according to reports.

The pair most recently collaborated on the acclaimed Volver and will make El Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In) together in the near future.

According to Variety, the project is a very loose adaptation of Thierry Jonquet's 1995 novel Mygale, about a plastic surgeon's vendetta against the men who have raped his daughter.

"My next film will be totally different from the previous sixteen," Almodovar told Spanish newspaper El Pais. "It's a very tough story about revenge. It has nothing to do with Volver or my life."

Snow Patrol members Gary Lightbody and Nathan Connolly have revealed plans to record solo albums in the New Year.

Singer Lightbody and guitarist Connolly will both concentrate on individual material when the band's tour ends in January. However both members insist the move does not signal the end for Snow Patrol.

Lightbody said: "I'm going to go off and do something on my own in January. (But) we'll always be together - just like the end of Grease."

Meanwhile, Connolly said of his solo plans: "I don't know what it'll end up as. It'll be melodic and tuneful but we'll see what happens when I finally get round to doing it."

Playboy model Vida Guerra has revealed her plans to start an all-girl pop group to challenge the likes of Girls Aloud and the Pussycat Dolls.

According to reports, the model is launching her pop career in 2007 and is currently busy creating a back-up band of "drop-dead gorgeous dancers and singers".

Guerra said, "I wanted hot girls with great bodies. The choreographers were like 'Wow, that's good. Other artists usually pick ugly girls because they want to be the one who shines on stage.'

"I want eye-candy. I got an Asian girl, an Indian girl, two Spanish girls, two black girls...and a white girl. I've got the best of everything."

Russell Crowe has been dropped by his publicist because of his fiery temper.

Robin Baum has been credited with calming the storm after many of the actor's infamous temper losses. However, the PR representative is fed up with Crowe's uncontrollable mood swings, and has stepped down from her position with immediate effect.

The actor will now have to use his agent as a makeshift publicist, until such time as a replacement is found.

Model Sophie Anderton fell unconscious after being allegedly attacked in a London nightclub on Saturday.

"Some drunk attacked me as I was leaving my friend's birthday party," the Love Island star told the Daily Mirror. "It was so painful I fell down the stairs and was out cold. I've cancelled a holiday to Spain as I can't walk."

The newspaper reports that Anderton is currently on crutches and has reported the alleged incident to police. She faces a battle against time to recover for a proposed trek to the North Pole early next year.

Take That were the object of the desires of the female soap stars after their recent Audience With... performance.

The reformed boy band were reportedly mobbed by the actresses at the show's after party, with the need for bouncers in some cases.

One source reveals: "The women were going mad for the lads. Jason even had to have a security guard attached to him to fend them off."

However, the security was not entirely necessary in the band's opinion, and despite being accompanied by their girlfriends, the boys were more than happy with the situation.

Jason Orange laughed: "The female attention is great - it's better this time round!"

Take That star Mark Owen will marry his long-term partner Emma Ferguson next summer, according to reports.

The Sun quotes the Celebrity Big Brother winner as saying: "I popped the question and Emma said yes. I can’t believe it. I’m so lucky. We plan to get married in the summer."

Owen revealed the news to the tabloid at the aftershow part for ITV1's An Audience With Take That on Saturday

Amy Winehouse has denied that she has an alcohol addiction, despite rumours circulating in the tabloid press.

Winehouse has been the target of a number of newspapers of late and recently appeared on TV show Never Mind The Buzzcocks looking a little under the influence.

However, speaking to 6music, she denied the allegations, saying that her family and friends had no concerns: "If they were genuinely concerned, I don't like to worry people I love.

"The tabloids aren't worried about me so they can do what they want."

Director Steven Spielberg was amongst five star to be honoured with an award for their contribution to US culture.

Motown star Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton and conductor Zubin Mehta also picked up the prestigious award for The Kennedy Centre.

The quintet all received tributes from friends and co-stars at a gala performance in Washington that was attended by the President.

In keeping with tradition, the award winners were not told who would be making their tribute.

Spielberg received two tributes, one from each of his leading actors, Tom Hanks and Liam Neeson.

Hanks also invited World War II veterans and a Holocaust survivor onto the stage to thank the director for his films.