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Celebrity News :Fergie will marry actor Josh Duhamel in January 2009??

Stacy Ann Ferguson
(born March 27, 1975),better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was a member of the kids' television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. Ferguson was also a co-host of the television show Great Pretenders. She is a vocalist for the hip hop/pop group the Black Eyed Peas, as well as a solo artist, having released her debut album, The Dutchess, in September 2006.The album has so far spawned five Billboard Hot 100 top 5 singles (3 of which went to number one) making The Dutchess the seventh album from a female artist to spawn five Top 5 hits.

Los Angeles, CA- Fergie will marry actor Josh Duhamel in January. The 33-year-old "London Bridge" singer and the "Transformers" star will tie the knot in Southern California over the second weekend of January.

It has been claimed many of Fergie's "Nine" co-stars, including Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard and Daniel Day-Lewis, will attend the ceremony.

The 36-year-old actor proposed to Fergie - whose real name is Stacey Ferguson - in 2007, after three years together.

At the time, friends said the singer was "the happiest girl on earth."

A source said: "She is working with Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld on getting her fantasy gown. They are taking their time to get everything right. They only plan on getting married once."

After announcing the engagement, Fergie insisted she was in no rush to tie the knot and wanted to ensure everything was perfect for her big day.

She said: "I have a big stack of wedding magazines. I want to go home and spend time with my family and just take some time to think about everything."

Personal Life

In April 2007, she gave an interview in which she admitted that she went on a sex and drugs spree when she turned eighteen, saying: "I have had lesbian experiences in the past. I won't say how many men I've had sex with — but I am a very sexual person."In December 2007, when asked "Bisexuality and homosexuality are often either frowned or mocked upon in certain circles. Does that bother you?", she replied "No, it doesn’t bother me. I’m just me."

Ferguson was featured on Maxim's Hot 100 Women of 2006, and voted in at position #36.In 2007, she was voted in at #10.

Ferguson has stated in several interviews that she is an avid user of hypnotherapy, which she used to overcome her crystal meth addiction and to relax.

Celebrity News :Fergie will marry actor Josh Duhamel in January 2009??



Celebrities Scandal : Hilary Duff & her sex life!!

Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, pop singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, Duff gained fame for playing the title role in the television series Lizzie McGuire. Duff went on to have a film career; her most commercially successful movies include Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and A Cinderella Story (2004).

Duff has expanded her repertoire into pop music, with three RIAA certified Platinum albums and over thirteen million albums sold worldwide.Her first studio album, Metamorphosis (2003), was certified triple platinum and she followed it up with two more platinum albums, Hilary Duff (2004) and Most Wanted (2005). Duff's last studio album, Dignity, was released in April 2007 and was certified Gold in August 2007.

She has also launched a clothing line, "Stuff by Hilary Duff", and two exclusive perfume collections with Elizabeth Arden. Duff and her mother were listed as producers for the movie Material Girls,As of September 2008[update], her upcoming films include animated comedy Foodfight!, and independent films Greta, Safety Glass and Stay Cool.

Hilary Duff is setting the record straight on her lap dance talents, relationship status, and what she has and has not said about her sex life.
First off, the former tween star tells Maxim Magazine that she never claimed to be a virgin, as was written in 2006.
"You know what? I was quoted saying I was a virgin, but I absolutely did not say that," she says in the Janury 2009 issue. "That's nobody's business but my own."
But the alleged misquote is hardly the worst the 21-year-old has had written about her.
"I've been accused by the press of giving lap dances at clubs," she says. "I mean, little ol' me? It's shocking... And they're so descriptive about these lap dances. I don't even know how to do a lap dance!"
While she may not be well-versed in lap dancing, the singer is no stranger to getting sexy onscreen, as evidenced by her sexy new music video for the single Reach Out.
"I was ready to do something different. The intent was not to be overtly sexual; I'm not naked. I do have little shorts on in it."
She says she is no longer a tween star -- much to the chagrin of parents.
"Mothers come up to me and say, 'Don't ever change; you're such a good girl,'" she says. "I am a good girl. But how can I say I won't ever change? That's impossible."
At the end of the day, Duff -- who is dating hockey star Mike Comrie -- says, "I'm a relationship person.
"Now it's all over the Internet that I'm getting engaged to my boyfriend," she says. "The truth is, I just like to wear rings!"
Celebrities Scandal : Hilary Duff & her sex life!!



Miley Cyrus Scandal : Miley Cyrus perform at a private holiday party for 1 Mill??


Houston, you have a pop star. Well, at least a high-powered Houston lawyer does.

E! News has learned that Miley Cyrus is in Houston to perform at a private holiday party being thrown Sunday night by Houston attorney Mark Lanier.

Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992)is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Cyrus is better known for starring as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in the television series Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel.

Cyrus became a sensation after Hannah Montana debuted in March 2006. Following the success of the show, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs from the show. In December 2007, she was ranked #17 in the list of "Forbes Top Twenty Superstar Earners under the age of 25" with an annual earning of US$3.5 million.As of December 2007, she is working on a movie spin-off of Hannah Montana, titled Hannah Montana: The Movie which set to release on April 10, 2009.

A source in Texas says that Cyrus and her entourage arrived Saturday and she is set to perform tonight at Lanier Law Firm's "Christmas Cheers and Charity" party, an annual fete that hosts more than 7,000 guests.

Invitations went out last month featuring a pop-up Cyrus and promising "Texas Bar-B-Q, fajitas and amusements."

The source estimates that Cyrus, 16, and her team of dancers and musicians will receive "close to $1 million" to perform at tonight's exclusive bash.

The party, which benefits the charity Guatemala SANA for needy Guatemalans, is no small affair. Previous guests include Dolly Parton and the Dixie Chicks. It will take place at a sprawling ranch in suburban Houston.



Nicely covered in a black number was Jennifer Aniston, who looked stunning as she walked the red carpet with costar Owen Wilson at Thursday's Los Angeles premiere of their comedy ‘Marley and Me,’ at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood.

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American film and television actor. She became famous from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s for playing the role of Rachel Green in the popular US sitcom Friends, a role for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She has starred in several Hollywood films. While most of her film roles have been in comedies such as Bruce Almighty, Office Space, Rumor Has It, and the romantic comedies Along Came Polly and The Break-Up, Jennifer Aniston has also appeared in films from other genres, such as the crime thriller Derailed.

The family-friendly dog movie is "a true story, about a family and their life," said Aniston.

The 39-year-old actress had recently posed nude for the January issue of GQ magazine; when questioned about the message Jennifer Aniston wants to convey by posing in nothing more than a necktie for the cover, she replied, “I wasn't trying to make any kind of statement!”

To support his girl, Boyfriend John Mayer had arrived 10 minutes before Jennifer Aniston and Wilson. She looks scorching, he said of the actress, who posed coyly on the cover with only a patriotic tie covering her lady bits. On grabbing his copy of the magazine, Mayer said, “Don't make me hold it. ... Because when I touch it, angels die."

No matter how smitten the musician is, Jennifer Aniston still seems to have not been over her divorce to Brad Pitt.

Jennifer Aniston jokes that maybe she and Brangelina are all secretly best buddies. "The funny thing is that people don't realize we all go away to the Hamptons on the weekends."
Really?
"No. But can you imagine? That'd be hysterical. I've got Zahara on my hip, and Knox ..."

Jennifer Aniston in nothings and still talking about her divorce, is it 2005 again?

But the actress thinks it’s not her, it’s the media which has some kind of an obsession with her divorce from Pitt and she just cannot understand it.

"We don't not talk. When there's something to congratulate or celebrate, there's always an exchange. But there's no charge on it," said the former ‘Friends’ star, and went on to clarify she has no tiff with Angelina Jolie.

Aniston insists that she's happier than she's ever been with beau John Mayer. "We care deeply for each other, and we're just trying to figure it out," she said but thrashed the marriage and child rumors. "I am not having his baby. And I have not popped the question."

“I feel more comfortable today than I ever did in my 20s or early 30s.” Aniston told GQ. “I’m healthier. I’m more at peace in my mind and with my body.”

Miley Cyrus Scandal :Miley Cyrus drive Porsche?
Miley Cyrus
gets a Porsche, Hugh Jackman host the Oscars, Paul Anka gets assaulted, Wyclef Jean gets foreclosed and Candance Cameron gets skinny.

Hugh Michael Jackman(born 12 October 1968) is an Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning Australian actor of film, theatre and television, known mostly for his roles in several major Hollywood films, including Van Helsing and X-Men.

Paul Mustapha Abdi Anka, (Arabic: بول مصطفى عبدي أنكا‎) OC (born 30 July, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese origin.He became a naturalized US citizen in 1990.

Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hits songs like "Diana," "Lonely Boy," and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder." He went on to write such well known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for which he was paid $5,000 per episode and Tom Jones' biggest hit "She's A Lady," and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song "My Way."

Miley Cyrus got a Porsche. Yes, Miss Hanna Montana, who just turned 16 a few weeks ago, now has a Porsche. Before you start thinking she is another spoiled child star, you must know it was a gift. Miley Cyrus got a early Christmas present from her mother. The Porsche is her Mom's old Porsche. See Miley is not spoiled after all. Miley Cyrus also received a Golden Globe nomination early in the week. Her song from the movie Bolt "I thought I lost you " received the nomination.

Hunky Hugh Jackman will host the Oscars this year. Hugh Jackman was named People magazines sexist man alive.

Candance Cameron former Full House star has lost lots of weight. She shares her secrets in US Weekly. Candance Cameron is now a size zero. Candace did it all without diet pills or surgery. I wonder what her brother Kirk Cameron think of his hot sister.

Wyclef Jean Home Hits Auction Block today in Miami Florida. The home is worth a whooping 2.4 Million dollars. Maybe Wyclef Jean needs to get the Fugees back together again. Wyclef has sold more than 30 million albums in his career. Now it seem Wyclef is the one who need a dollar bill girl. According to AllHipHop.com, "court records also show that Jean has not paid employees who worked on the home. The entertainer has yet to comment on the situation." The recession is hitting everyone hard even Wyclef. Now even Wyclef Jean is saying where's my money at.

Veteran entertainer Paul Anka was assaulted by his wife Anna Anka. Poor Paul got a piece of Ice thrown at his head and had to get staples. Anna Anka was arrested. It seems poor Mrs. I guess Anna may be on Santa's naughty list this year. Throwing a chunk of ice at your husband that's just cold.



Emma Watson - Ready to going nude?
Following in the footsteps of her "Harry Potter" counterpart Daniel Radcliffe, 18-year-old Emma Watson says going nude for a role is perfectly OK.

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is a French-born British actress who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger, one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series. Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having acted only in school plays.From 2001 to 2007, she starred in five Harry Potter film instalments alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. She will return for the final two instalments: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due to be released in 2009, and the two parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.Watson's work in the Harry Potter series has earned her several awards and more than £10 million.

In 2007, Watson announced her involvement in two non-Harry Potter productions: the made-for-television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and an animated film, The Tale of Despereaux. Ballet Shoes was broadcast on December 26, 2007 to an audience of 5.2 million and The Tale of Despereaux, based on the book by Kate DiCamillo, will be released in 2008.

The baby-faced teenager, who has garnered legions of fans for her role as innocent Hermione Granger, admitted this weekend she would go naked for her art.

"Yes. For Bernardo Bertolucci. It ... depends," said the actress, referring to the Italian director.

But she quickly rationalized, "I'm not getting my kit off any time soon, but it is part of my job."

Upon even more reflection in the interview the young star revealed she is aware of the issues her tender age presents.

"I'm at a strange age. I'm not a woman yet, but I'm not a girl any more. "

While she doesn't feel quite like a woman, Watson's certainly dressing the part: The actress stepped out at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Tale of Despereaux" on Sunday looking very much like a grown-up in a semi-sheer dress.

But film companies aren't quite ready to see little Hermoine Granger as a big girl, she says.

"They say, 'Oh, in a couple of years you'll be perfect for this.' I'll be like, 'Yeah, but I want to be studying English then, so it's going to be quite tough to choose between the two,' " she explains.

Radcliffe, on the other hand, shouldn't have any problems being viewed as an adult: The 19-year-old has taken it all off in the play "Equus" over the span of two years on both sides of the pond.



The Good And Bad News about Gillian Chung!

Hong Kong publisher Next Media, best known for its aggressive and flamboyant reporting styles and paparazzi-style photographs, has been slapped with a HK$175,000 (US$22,600) fine for indecency.

The fine was issued by a Hong Kong court after it found seven cases of indecent photographs published in the company’s magazine. Among them were pictures of pop singer Gillian Chung.

Chung, one half of pop double act Twins, was snapped while changing backstage at a concert in Kuala Lumpur in 2006.

That provoked record numbers of public complaints to Hong Kong's Television & Entertainment Licensing Authority. Canto-pop star Jackie Chan and other celebs also petitioned for tighter rules on paparazzi-style photography.

Next Media's "Easy Finder" magazine which was responsible for publishing the photos, has since been forced to close down.

Gillian Chung to return with new tv series

A still of the TV series "The Spirit of the Sword" featuring Gillian Chung (R) and Nicholas Tse, released on Saturday, August 16, 2008.
Hong Kong singer and actress Gillian Chung, half of the Hong Kong pop duo Twins, will return to the public limelight with a new TV series.

the TV series "The Spirit of the Sword", featuring Gillian Chung and Hong Kong singer and actor Nicholas Tse, will be broadcast in Hong Kong on August 25.

Chung's career has been on hold for half a year after a nude photo scandal earlier this year.


A member of pop group the Cheetah Girls is taking legal action after raunchy photos of the Disney star were stolen from her laptop.


Adrienne Eliza Bailon (born October 24, 1983) is an American singer, actress, songwriter. She was a part of the former girl group trio 3LW, and is a current member of The Cheetah Girls with Kiely Williams and Sabrina Bryan as part of the actual group, and as an actress in Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name and latter sequels which brought the latter group to prominence.

Adrienne Bailon, one of the three Cheetah Girls who has starred in several hit movies with the girl group, is fuming after the racy snaps were leaked online.

The photos were allegedly taken as an anniversary present for the 25-year-old's boyfriend Robert Kardashian, and show the star posing nude in a hotel room.

A rep for Bailon said the star was "absolutely distraught".

"It's not a scenario where she purposely leaked the photos for attention. This was never really expected."

In a statement through her spokesman, Bailon apologised to fans.

"The photos that have surfaced of Adrienne Bailon were stolen from her laptop over a week ago at an airport in NY and sent to several media outlets.

"These photos were taken in private. Adrienne will be pursuing legal action against the person or persons sending these private photos out.

"She is deeply sorry for any pain this may have caused to her fans".

The scandal comes after several raunchy photo scandals involving Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus and High School Musical actress Vanessa Hudgens.

Cyrus was involved in a controversial "topless" photo spread in Vanity Fair magazine, and Hudgens has had several nude photos leaked online.


Miley Cyrus has announced she’ll return for a few more episodes of her hit Disney cable show, “Hannah Montana,” and then she tackles another Disney project — a sequel to the Chicago-set 1987 comedy “Adventures in Babysitting.”

Adventures in Babysitting is a 1987 comedy film written by David Simkins, directed by Chris Columbus, and starring Elisabeth Shue, Bradley Whitford, Maia Brewton, Anthony Rapp, Penelope Ann Miller, Keith Coogan, and a brief cameo by blues singer/guitarist Albert Collins. Although it is set in Oak Park and Chicago, Illinois, with much of the action taking place in the city itself, the movie was filmed primarily in Toronto.

Fellow tween star Raven Symone will co-star in the sequel, currently titled “Further Adventures in Babysitting.” The movie is set for a 2010 release.

According to Variety, Tiffany Paulsen (“Nancy drew”) is writing the script.

The original “Adventures” starred Elisabeth Shue as a suburban Chicago high school senior whose dull night of babysitting is interrupted by a call for help from a friend. Madcap misadventures ensue. (Our favorite bit part: a young Vincent D'Onofrio as “Thor.”)

Though the film was set in Oak Park and Chicago, much of the filming was done in Toronto.


Miley Cyrus becoming a licensed driver??
Even though Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus has been celebrating her 16th birthday for the better part of months now, she actually turns 16 tomorrow and like many other teens her age, she's excited by the prospect of becoming a licensed driver.

Unlike some of her contemporaries, Miley is pretty confident about her ability to drive. Cyrus recently said, "If you know how to ride a horse, you
can definitely drive a car."

In other non-driving, non-16th birthday Miley Cyrus news, her latest animated film Bolt, in which she voices the role of Penny opened in American theaters yesterday. She is also considering releasing a country album sometime in the future.

Miley previously celebrated her 16th birthday with a charity fundraiser held at Disneyland. Proceeds of the event were donated to Youth Service America, a youth volunteer organization. 5,000 people attended the event that featured Cyrus giving a live performance of four of her Breakout songs.



Miley Cyrus becoming a licensed driver??


Celebrities News : John Travolta Duet with Miley Cyrus?


John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and Pulp Fiction.


Miley Cyrus's bluff has been called by Stephen Balwin after Cyrus him he could have a guest spot on her Disney TV show if he had her initials tattooed on his arm.
When Balwin turned up in Cyrus's hometown to show her his new tattoo, she agreed to keep her end of the bargin and he will be appearing in a future episode of Hannah Montana.
Meanwhile John Travolta has dubbed her the new Olivia Newton-John after he teamed up with Cyrus in the recording studio. He says, "The whole country is in love with her (Cyrus), as am I. She's got the equivalent of what Olivia Newton-John was to Grease."
Madonna has decided to become a film director. Her brother Christopher Ciccone said: "Apparently she wants to be directing and that's what she'll be doing. Two directors in the family is never going to work."


Celebrities News : John Travolta Duet with Miley Cyrus?

Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston may have denied they are romantically linked, but their actions apparently speak louder than their words. The alleged lovebirds recently spent their night together, watching a movie in Burbank, California.

Miley and her rumored beau Justin caught a late-night showing of the animated film "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" on Friday, November 7. The "Hannah Montana" starlet and the 20-year-old model were seen keeping a safe distance between each other. But the two looked happy as they made their way to the theatre.

"They mostly kept a safe distance between each other, but flirtatiously smiled and laughed as they made their way to the theater," an eyewitness revealed. "The 15-year-old starlet could hardly keep a huge grin off her face and even resorted to biting on her scarf at one point to stifle her giggles!"

In previous news, Miley Cyrus is allowed out on dates with Justin Gaston, without a physical chaperone because her mom Tish Cyrus has found another way of checking up on the teen actress. Tish allegedly keeps a close eye on the Disney cutie during her dates by bombarding her with intrusive text messages. "If you look at my text inbox, it's mom, mom, mom, mom. She'll send them constantly," she said.


Celebrity News :Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson - engage?

Kendra Leigh Wilkinson (born June 12, 1985 in San Diego, California) is an American television personality and glamour model. She is best known for her role on the E! reality series The Girls Next Door as Hugh Hefner's third girlfriend after Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt.
Wilkinson is the older of two children. Her mother, Patti, was originally from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and had been a cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles. Her father, Eric, left her family when she was four. Wilkinson grew up in Clairemont, a middle-class community in central San Diego, and attended Clairemont High School, from which she graduated in 2003. She played softball for six years with the Clairemont Bobby Sox. When she left high school she began working as a glamour model, and also briefly worked as an office assistant for a dentist.

First comes word that Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson is looking to start a family in the next two years and now, an engagement announcement! Just this week, she told OK magazine that she “can’t wait” to have kids but also said, "We're all so very young and we have all that time to live — and we'll end up married with kids one day," she said. Today, it is being reported that Kendra is engaged to NFL star Hank Baskett. E! Online reported that Baskett proposed atop the Seattle Space Needle last weekend and both families were there to witness and celebrate. The families were in Seattle to watch the Eagles take on the Seahawks.

If the engagement seems sudden after her breakup with Hugh Hefner, fans need not worry. Hef wishes nothing but the best for his former girlfriend. “Kendra Wilkinson has met someone who she would like to spend the rest of her life with. His name is Hank Baskett, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, and he popped the question last Saturday,” he said in a statement to Access Hollywood. He continued by saying that he gives her his blessing and will even be giving her away at the wedding ceremony, which will take place next June at where else? The Playboy mansion.
It seems that all of the cast members of The Girls Next Door have moved on, with the exception of Bridget Marquardt. Holly Madison recently took her relationship with magician/illusionist Criss Angel public. Hef is currently dating 19-year-old twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon and was seen with them at Playboy’s annual Halloween party. Bridget, however, seems to be staying put in the mansion, as Hef’s girlfriend. She and Hef spent some time apart recently, while she headed around the world to film a new show for The Travel Channel.

Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii,to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas.His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student.They separated when he was two years old and later divorced.Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.
After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools, such as Asisi, in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979.Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several years and then back to Indonesia to complete fieldwork for her doctoral dissertation. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995.


Barack Obama swept to victory - first black president!!
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told a jubilant hometown Chicago crowd estimated at nearly a quarter-million people.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Iowa and more. He captured Virginia, too, the first candidate of his party in 44 years to do so.
On a night for Democrats to savor, they not only elected Obama the nation's 44th president but padded their majorities in the House and Senate, and in January will control both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1994.
A survey of voters leaving polling places showed the economy was by far the top Election Day issue. Six in 10 voters said so, and none of the other top issues — energy, Iraq, terrorism and health care — was picked by more than one in 10.
Obama's election capped a meteoric rise — from mere state senator to president-elect in four years.
Spontaneous celebrations erupted from Atlanta to New York and Philadelphia as word of Obama's victory spread. A big crowd filled Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.
In his first speech as victor, to an enormous throng at Grant Park in Chicago, Obama catalogued the challenges ahead. "The greatest of a lifetime," he said, "two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century."
He added, "There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face."
McCain called his former rival to concede defeat — and the end of his own 10-year quest for the White House. "The American people have spoken, and spoken clearly," McCain told disappointed supporters in Arizona.
President Bush added his congratulations from the White House, where his tenure runs out on Jan. 20. "May God bless whoever wins tonight," he had told dinner guests earlier.
Obama, in his speech, invoked the words of Lincoln and seemed to echo John F. Kennedy.
"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder," he said.
He and his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, will take their oaths of office as president and vice president on Jan. 20, 2009. McCain remains in the Senate.
Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, returns to Alaska as governor after a tumultuous debut on the national stage.
He will move into the Oval Office as leader of a country that is almost certainly in recession, and fighting two long wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.
The popular vote was close — 51.3 percent to 47.5 percent with 73 percent of all U.S. precincts tallied — but not the count in the Electoral College, where it mattered most.
There, Obama's audacious decision to contest McCain in states that hadn't gone Democratic in years paid rich dividends.
Shortly after midnight in the East, The Associated Press count showed Obama with 338 electoral votes, well over the 270 needed for victory. McCain had 141 after winning states that comprised the normal Republican base, including Texas and most of the South.
Interviews with voters suggested that almost six in 10 women were backing Obama nationwide, while men leaned his way by a narrow margin. Just over half of whites supported McCain, giving him a slim advantage in a group that Bush carried overwhelmingly in 2004.
The results of the AP survey were based on a preliminary partial sample of nearly 10,000 voters in Election Day polls and in telephone interviews over the past week for early voters. Obama has said his first order of presidential business will be to tackle the economy. He has also pledged to withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months.
In Washington, the Democratic leaders of Congress celebrated.
"It is not a mandate for a party or ideology but a mandate for change," said Senate Majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
Said Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California: "Tonight the American people have called for a new direction. They have called for change in America."
Democrats also acclaimed Senate successes by former Gov. Mark Warner in Virginia, Rep. Tom Udall in New Mexico and Rep. Mark Udall in Colorado. All won seats left open by Republican retirements.
In New Hampshire, former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen defeated Republican Sen. John Sununu in a rematch of their 2002 race, and Sen. Elizabeth Dole fell to Democrat Kay Hagan in North Carolina.
Biden won a new term in Delaware, a seat he will resign before he is sworn in as vice president.
The Senate's Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, survived a scare in Kentucky, and in Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss hoped to avoid a December runoff.
The Democrats piled up gains in the House, as well.
They defeated seven Republican incumbents, including 22-year veteran Chris Shays in Connecticut, and picked up nine more seats where GOP lawmakers had retired.
At least three Democrats lost their seats, including Florida Rep. Tim Mahoney, turned out of office after admitting to two extramarital affairs while serving his first term in Florida. In Louisiana, Democratic Rep. Don Cazayoux lost the seat he had won in a special election six months ago.
The resurgent Democrats also elected a governor in one of the nation's traditional bellwether states when Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon won his race.
An estimated 187 million voters were registered, and in an indication of interest in the battle for the White House, 40 million or so had already voted as Election Day dawned.
Obama sought election as one of the youngest presidents, and one of the least experienced in national political affairs.
That wasn't what set the Illinois senator apart, though — neither from his rivals nor from the other men who had served as president since the nation's founding more than two centuries ago. A black man, he confronted a previously unbreakable barrier as he campaigned on twin themes of change and hope in uncertain times.
McCain, a prisoner of war during Vietnam, a generation older than his rival at 72, was making his second try for the White House, following his defeat in the battle for the GOP nomination in 2000.
A conservative, he stressed his maverick's streak. And although a Republican, he did what he could to separate himself from an unpopular president.
For the most part, the two presidential candidates and their running mates, Biden and Republican Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, spent weeks campaigning in states that went for Bush four years ago.
McCain and Obama each won contested nominations — the Democrat outdistancing former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton — and promptly set out to claim the mantle of change.
Obama won California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
McCain had Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
He also won at least 3 of Nebraska's five electoral votes, with the other two in doubt.


OBAMA - Set The Future of America!!!
Obama is the first person of African-American descent (he is of multiracial parentage) to be nominated by a major American political party for President,and the first person of African descent to be elected President of the United States of America. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he became the first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.

From Harlem, to the avenue in Atlanta where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born, to Oakland, Calif., Americans black and white celebrated Barack Obama's election with tears, the honking of horns, screams of joy, arms lifted skyward — and memories of civil rights struggles past.
An estimated 100,000 people who had crowded into Grant Park in Chicago to greet Obama erupted in cheers and jubilantly waved American flags as TV news announced the Illinois senator had been elected the first black president. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who had made two White House bids himself, had tears streaming down his face.
Gatherings in churches and homes spilled outdoors, with people dancing in the streets.
In Harlem, the roar of thousands of people gathered in a plaza near the legendary Apollo Theater could be heard blocks away.
In Oakland, Calif., on the other side of the nation, traffic stopped in Jack London Square as celebrating drivers honked and crowds took to the streets, dancing to the music of a live band.
"This has been a long time coming," said Linda Bogard, 57, who wore a bright orange vest and matching baseball hat studded with rhinestones spelling "Obama" and threw her hands up in the air as if in prayer. "It's been a good fight and a great victory."
In the nation's capital, hundreds of residents spilled into the streets near the White House, carrying balloons, banging on drums and chanting "Bush is gone!" Along U Street, once known as America's Black Broadway for its thriving black-owned shops and theaters, men stood on car roofs, waving American flags and Obama posters.
Nearby, at historically black Howard University, hundreds of students erupted in cheers, broke into song and chanted, "Yes, we did!"
"To be so young and have a voice in this election means a lot," said Najauna Muschetta, who was celebrating her 19th birthday.
Elsewhere, there were smaller, quieter celebrations.
In Cleveland, Obama supporters gathered at a house party and held champagne flutes above their heads for a toast. "To the first African-American president in the history of the United States!" they shouted.
In Tampa, Fla., cheers and applause broke out in a crowded bar as CNN called the race for Obama. The blare of cars honking outside wafted through the bar's open front door.
"It's a landslide! It's a landslide!" shouted 51-year-old Mark Bias, who was dressed in a tall satin Uncle Sam hat and red, white and blue cape. "This means that America will be back on the right track again," said Bias, who co-owns what he described as a "gay pride" shop.
"What it really means for the country is that there's going to be a major change in the direction ... (for) the priorities of the regular person, and not just the wealthy," said Carrie West, 54, as bar patrons chanted "O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma."
At Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached, Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights hero, was emotional as he took the pulpit before Obama's victory was announced.
He said he was hardly able to believe that 40 years after he was left beaten and bloody on an Alabama bridge as he marched for the right for blacks to vote, he had cast a ballot for Obama.
"This is a great night," he said. "It is an unbelievable night. It is a night of thanksgiving."
As the news of a projected Obama victory flashed across a TV screen, men in the nearly all-black crowd pumped their fists and bowed their heads. Women wept as they embraced their children, and many in the crowd high-fived and raised their arms.
Screams of "Thank you, Lord!" were heard throughout the sanctuary as the Rev. Al Sharpton took the stage with his arms raised in victory.
"At this hour, many of us never, ever, even until the last days, felt that we would ever see this," he told the cheering crowd. "We are grateful to those who paid the price."
The audience joined hands as the Rev. Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer led a prayer for the president-elect before singing "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," which is regarded as the black national anthem.
"Sisters and brothers, it looks like we have moved from Bloody Sunday to Triumphant Tuesday," Warnock said, referring to the Alabama march led by Lewis that was violently suppressed but sparked support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "It's morning in America."
Martin Luther King III told the crowd that history was being made.
"Our father used to say that a voteless people is a powerless people," he said. "Something different happened in this election cycle."
Surveying the scene, Mattie Bridgewater whispered from her seat, "I just can't believe it. Not in my lifetime."
Bridgewater said she went to the same elementary school as Emmett Till, the boy from Chicago whose murder in Mississippi was one of the catalysts of the civil rights movement. Both she and her 92-year-old mother, who still lives in Chicago, voted for Obama.
"I'm sitting here in awe," she said. "This is a moment in history that I just thank my God I was allowed to live long enough to see. Now, when I tell my students they can be anything they want to be, that includes president of the United States."




OBAMA - Set The Future of America!!!


Celebrity News : Judge give Britney Father control on personal and business affairs???

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star on the television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994.
After a brief membership with the pop musical group Innosense, Spears signed a recording contract with Jive Records, releasing her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999. The album established her as a pop icon and "bona fide pop phenomenon", credited for influencing the revival of teen pop in the late 1990s.
The music video for "...Baby One More Time" and Spears's appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine also established her as an international sex symbol, garnering controversy over the influence of her public image on teenage girls.
Spears's personal life began to gain substantial media attention after her marriage to Kevin Federline in 2004. Their marriage ended two years later, resulting in an ongoing custody battle over their two children, born in 2005 and 2006.Spears released her fifth studio album Blackout in 2007. The following year Spears began recording her sixth studio album Circus.
Spears is ranked as the eighth best-selling female recording artist in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America with 31 million certified albums and one of the world's best-selling music artists having sold an estimated 83 million records worldwide.Spears also holds the title to multiple Guinness World Records.


The father of pop singer Britney Spears was granted indefinite control over her personal and business affairs by a judge in Los Angeles, a court said.
The judge, Reva Goetz, had placed the troubled star under the conservatorship of her father Jamie Spears on February 1 after she was hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation.
The measure was extended until the end of this year and was prolonged indefinitely by the judge on Tuesday after a new hearing.
Spears' lawyer Samuel Ingham said that the singer, who was the highest earning female artist from 2000-2005, had no objections to the ruling.
Since February, Spears, 26, has shown signs of rebuilding her life, staying away from the spotlight and working on a new album to be released on December 2 containing the single "Womanizer" which leapt to the top of the music charts.
Over the summer, she reached a divorce settlement with ex-husband Kevin Federline after a lengthy legal battle that granted him custody of their two sons, aged two and three. She has visiting rights.

Celebrity News : Judge give Britney Father control on personal and business affairs???







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Celebrities News : Gwen Stefani Shows Off her Baby??

Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) is an American recording artist and fashion designer. Stefani fronts the rock band No Doubt, whose 1995 album Tragic Kingdom propelled them to stardom, selling 16 million copies worldwide. It spawned the singles "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and "Don't Speak". The band's popularity went into decline with its fourth album, Return of Saturn (2000), but Rock Steady (2001) introduced reggae production into its music, and generally received positive reviews.


Two months after giving birth, Gwen Stefani is showing off her newest bundle of joy: Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale. The singer, who was spotted with the newborn at a Beverly Hills library on Wednesday, posed with son Zuma in a photo taken by her father, Dennis, and posted on No Doubt's Web site. "Gwen, Gavin, Kingston and Zuma are all doing well and enjoying being a party of four," reads a message accompanying the photo.Dad Gavin Rossdale recently told PEOPLE that juggling two sons with wife Stefani hasn't been too challenging. "One is one, and two is 10. That's all we know," he joked. "[But] it's not so bad. We've got it down now, you know." Older brother Kingston, however, is having a tougher time. "It's like, here is this guy, and he's not leaving. [Kingston] is getting used to that," Rossdale said. "Obviously, there are moments that he's bugged out that someone is in his spot with his mom."

Kardashian has two sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, and one brother, Robert. She also has stepbrothers Burton Jenner; Brandon Jenner; and reality TV star Brody Jenner; stepsister Casey Jenner; and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.O.J. Simpson is Kardashian's godfather.

While attending high school Kardashian worked at her father's music marketing firm, Movie Tunes.

In 2000, Kardashian married music producer Damon Thomas; their relationship ended in divorce in 2004. In 2007, she began dating Reggie Bush.

Someone crashed Kim Kardashian's 28th birthday party Saturday night in Las Vegas, but she definitely didn't mind.

Kim spent her actual birthday on Oct. 21 in a New Orleans hospital as her NFLer boyfriend Reggie Bush recovered from knee surgery. So Bush, whose New Orleans Saints played without him today overseas in London, decided to repay the favor.

Kim, sisters Khloe and Kourtney, Robin Antin and others, were partying in Kim's hotel room at the Luxor on Saturday night when the doorbell rang just a half hour before they were to head down to the nightclub LAX.

When Kim opened the door, there stood Reggie, who the Saints coaching staff had given the OK to fly to Vegas at the last minute. "He is doing better than expected and returning to the field soon," says an insider.

Of the surprise, Kim tells E! News exclusively, "We had the best time! It was a birthday I will never forget. He wins the best boyfriend award!"


Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981),[1] commonly known as Beyoncé (pronounced /biːˈan.sei/), is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools, and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of girl group Destiny's Child, the best-selling girl group of all time.

Knowles recorded with various artist for "Just Stand Up!", a charity single for the "Stand Up To Cancer" charity. This charity aims to raise funds for cancer research through the acts and offerings of the celebrity world. Joining Knowles on this charity single was Mariah Carey, Natasha Bedingfield, Leona Lewis, Rihanna, Leann Rimes and Mary J. Blige. The song was brought to public attention recently when it was performed live by most of the stars at Fashion Rocks 2008 in New York City—this show was broadcast simultaneously on all major American networks on September 5, 2008.


Celebrities News : Beyonce would like to be known as "Sasha Fierce"??
She may have one of the most recognizable names in the industry, but R&B star Beyonce would like to be known by a jazzy new name for her upcoming double album.
Following in the footsteps of other famous entertainers known by their alter egos — Eminem (Slim Shady), Prince (The Artist Formerly Known As …) and Garth Brooks (Chris Gaines) —Beyonce has christened herself “Sasha Fierce.” The album, aptly titled “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” is due in stores on November 18, Reuters reported.
For years, Beyonce has explained how Fierce would take over as she performed on stage. But with the new album, she is taking it a few steps further, creating a MySpace page for Sasha and explaining the bizarre name change in a statement.

Additionally, she has set up a cryptic MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/sashafierce) that gives a "lucky person" the opportunity to receive a personal message and a gift bag valued at $500.
As George found out, nicknames usually do not work when they are self-bestowed. His colleagues thought he should be called Koko the monkey. In real life, rapper Eminem had better luck with his alter ego "Slim Shady," which he said came to him while he was on the toilet.
Beyonce released her previous solo album, "B'Day," to coincide with her 25th birthday in September 2006. It debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop chart and yielded the No. 1 single "Irreplaceable."
"Sasha Fierce is the fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side and more glamorous side that comes out when I'm working and when I'm on the stage," the statement from the former Destiny’s Child front-woman reads.
"I have someone else that takes over when it's time for me to work and when I'm on stage, this alter ego that I've created that kind of protects me and who I really am."


Pregnancy hoax

On September 24, 2007, rumors began circulating that Cyrus was pregnant.The cause of the rumor was an image of a page of J-14 Magazine circulating on the Internet entitled "Miley's Meltdown" and saying, among other things, "Miley herself confirmed the pregnancy rumors during a J-14 interview".J-14 immediately responded saying that, "Someone doctored the "This Just In" article that appeared on page 16 of J-14's July 2007 issue" and that "this story is completely fabricated!"The real story on J-14's Page 16 magazine was about 'Miley's Gross Habits' told by her co-stars on the set of Hannah Montana.


FBI raids Miley Cyrus' alleged hacker, seizes hardware!


A hacker who allegedly uploaded pictures of 15-year-old Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus onto the net was raided by the FBI on Monday.

Agents carried away three computers and a mobile phone for forensic examination after raiding the Murfreesboro, Tennessee, home of Josh Holly. The 19-year-old allegedly bragged online that he'd broken into the TV star's Gmail account (messagemebaby@gmail.com) and downloaded suggestive pictures, which reportedly included pictures of the underage star "posing provocatively" in her underwear and snaps of her in a wet T-shirt and baring her midriff while posing in front of a mirror in a bathroom.

Holly (aka TrainReq) is yet to be charged with any offence. He reportedly admitted breaking into Cyrus's webmail account and the star's webmail page, which shared the same password, after successfully accessing the star's MySpace control panel. He allegedly boasted about his exploit in interviews with bloggers and other interested parties, Wired reports, claiming that he used social engineering trickery to gain access to the MySpace admin panel.

The teen miscreant claims he was able to gain administrative access to MySpace systems after posing as a admin buddy of another administrator, and requesting login credentials via IM messages. The hacker allegedly gained free run of MySpace's systems for 16 hours until MySpace realised something was wrong and revoked the compromised login credentials


Celebrities News :$60 Million Divorce Deal for Madonna and Guy Ritchie??

Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire) is an English screenwriter and film director.

Ritchie was born on 10 September 1968, the second of two children born to John Vivian Ritchie and his first wife, the former Amber Parkinson.Ritchie, who is dyslexic, was expelled from Stanbridge Earls School, one of the most prominent institutions specialising in dyslexia in the UK, at the age of 15.[1]. He has stated that drug use was the reason for the expulsion; his father, however, has said that it was because his son was caught "cutting lessons and entertaining a girl in his room."
In addition to his elder sister, Tabitha, a dance instructor, Ritchie has a half-brother, Kevin Bayton, who was born to Amber Parkinson when she was a teenager and given up for adoption.
From 1973 until 1980, when they divorced,Ritchie's mother was married to Sir Michael Leighton, 11th baronet, a descendant of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Lord Leighton. As a divorcée, she is correctly styled as Amber, Lady Leighton.

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It was only Wednesday when Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced they were divorcing, and already they've reportedly reached a decision on how much money Madonna will have to pay.

GUY RITCHIE will get at least £20million in cash and properties worth many more millions in his surprise settlement with MADONNA, it emerged last night.

The 40-year-old film director gets the couple’s 1,200-acre country estate and a swanky London pub.
The cash is to cover their London properties a family townhouse in Marylebone, a ten-bedroom property next door and two mews cottages each.
The total value will be around $60million enough for Guy to walk away satisfied.
The director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and RocknRolla already had an estimated £25million fortune.

Guy will also be happy to get the couple’s Punch Bowl pub in Mayfair and the Ashcombe House estate in Berwick St John, Wilts.
Madonna, 50, on tour in the US, keeps her New York and Los Angeles homes without having to delve deep into her estimated £300million fortune.
A source close to the couple told The Sun last night: “The negotiations were relatively painless. Guy knew what he wanted and Madonna knew what she was keen to keep.
“There was a spell when Guy was in a mood to dig his heels in, but he decided this arrangement seemed reasonable and a long battle over money would make life unbearable.”
Madonna is being represented by famous divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton, who played a pivotal role in protecting SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY’s fortune from his ex-wife Heather Mills this year.
Shackleton negotiated with Guy’s lawyers in a day of frantic phone calls. They are expected to reach a compromise over their kids — Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and David Banda, three.
Earlier, Guy hit out at Madonna’s claims he was mean with money. A source said: “He is furious — it’s the complete opposite.

“It’s Madonna who’s mean with money, even though she has ten times as much cash as Guy. She rarely dips in her pocket for anything.”
Pals also said Guy now plans to bed as many women as possible. The source said: “Guy has always been very popular with women. They have thrown themselves at him throughout his marriage but he has always been utterly faithful.
“Now it’s all over he plans to have a little fun — something that has been missing from his life for far too long.”
Meanwhile, we can reveal that Madonna went to New York in August to ask best pal GWYNETH PALTROW for advice on whether to save her marriage or get a divorce.
She told actress Gwyneth she was considering staying with Guy because she is “terrified of being alone”.
The source said: “They decided it would make sense to end the marriage before it became even more painful.”


Marcia Talks About Sex, Drugs, Recovery



The Brady Bunch is an American television situation comedy based around a large blended family. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969 to March 8, 1974 on the ABC network and was subsequently syndicated around the world.

In 1965, following the success of his TV series Gilligan's Island, Sherwood Schwartz conceived the idea for The Brady Bunch after reading an article in the Los Angeles Times that said "40% of marriages [in the United States] had a child or children from [a] previous marriage." He instantly set to work on a pilot script, called Yours and Mine, and passed it around the "big three" television networks of the era. ABC, CBS and NBC all loved the script, but each network wanted changes to it before they would commit to filming it. Schwartz felt that his script was perfect, and although he had the interest of all three networks in America, he decided to shelve it.
Despite the similarities between the series and the 1968 theatrical release Yours, Mine and Ours starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, the original script for The Brady Bunch pre-dated the script for the film. However, the success of the film was likely a factor in ABC's eventually ordering the series.
As Marcia Brady on "The Brady Bunch," Maureen McCormick projected an image of the wholesome girl next door. But off camera, she spiraled downward into drug addiction and depression.
Now 52, McCormick writes about her struggles in a new memoir, "Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice," hitting stores Tuesday. She discusses her romance with TV sibling Barry Williams, her dates with Michael Jackson and Steve Martin, cocaine binges and parties at the Playboy Mansion and the home of Sammy Davis Jr., an unwanted pregnancy and trading sex for drugs.
McCormick was 14 when "The Brady Bunch" debuted on ABC, running from 1969 to 1974. Despite her role as a sunny Miss Perfect, she struggled privately with anxiety and insecurity, the youngest of four children born to a mercurial father who abused and cheated on their mother.
"As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world," she writes in the book, published by William Morrow. "Yet there I was, hiding the reality of my life behind the unreal perfection of Marcia Brady. ... No one suspected the fear that gnawed at me even as I lent my voice to the chorus of Bradys singing, `It's a Sunshine Day.'"
When "The Brady Bunch" ended, she took up a hard-partying lifestyle in Hollywood, using drugs including cocaine and Quaaludes. She struggled to regain her earlier success, landing some TV and movie roles, but developed a reputation for unreliability due to her addiction, even botching an interview with Steven Spielberg because she was high.
After interventions, stints in rehab and experimental therapies, McCormick began getting sober in 1985 when she married actor Michael Cummings, with whom she has a daughter, Natalie. She continued to fight depression through therapy, medication and the help of "Brady" cast mates.
McCormick, who is also a singer, starred on the Country Music Television reality series "Gone Country" and "Outsider's Inn." She also confronted her weight issues several years ago as the winning contestant on the VH1 reality show "Celebrity Fit Club."
As for her iconic role, "I'll always be struck by how much a part of people's lives Marcia is and always will be. But now I'm not bothered by the connection. It took most of my life, countless mistakes and decades of pain and suffering to reach this point of equanimity and acceptance," she says.


Acting career

In 2008 Kim branched out into acting and starred in the 2008 film Disaster Movie as Lisa alongside Carmen Electra and Vanessa Minnillo. The film spoofed disaster films and the film received negative reviews and had mild success at the box office. Kim has been confirmed to be appearing in another project entitled Deep in the Valley playing Summer Eve. In 2007 Kim appeared as the female lead in the music video for the hit single "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" from Fall Out Boy.

Dancing With The Stars

Kardashian was one of 13 participants on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars; She was partnered with Current DWTS Champion Mark Ballas.Kardashian was the 3rd contestant voted off the show on September 30th, 2008.


Celebrity News : "Dancing With the Stars" - will make Kardashian body sexy??

NEW YORK — Kim Kardashian hopes that her stint on "Dancing With the Stars" will help her firm up her famous booty.

"I really want to be toned. Every girl has her insecurities, whether she is skinny or not. You want to look good when you’re on vacation in a swimsuit," the pin-up reality star told OK! magazine.

But she doesn't want to lose her curves.

"I don’t even think that’s really possible. I’m going to probably have kids soon, so I want to have the perfect body before then. It’ll be harder to get in shape afterward, so why not do it now," she told OK!

"I know that I'm not a stick-skinny girl, and I don't want to be or try to be," she adds.

Meanwhile, she's already lost a few pounds on the show.

"Nothing too crazy yet, but I heard that you really start to lose weight when the show starts," Kardashian tells OK!

But Kim says she "looks a lot bigger on TV."

"When I meet people, the first thing they say is, 'Wow, you're so much smaller than I thought.' I look about 15 pounds heavier. I'm only 115 pounds, and everyone thinks I'm like 130 or 140. It's bizarre. I'm a size 2!"

Kardashian's fans recently accused her of lying when she claimed to have a 26-inch waist.

“I am a size 27 jeans,” Kim wrote in her blog last Friday. “My measurements are 34, 26, 39. But remember I am 5’2” and ½ and everyone carries their weight in different places.”

When fans begged to differ, Kardashian fired back:

"I am really sick and tired of people being so mean and nasty and assume I am lying,” she wrote, adding, “JUST FOR YOU NON-BELIEVERS, I WILL POST A VIDEO BLOG OF ME SHOWING YOU GUYS MY SIZE 27 JEANS LATER TONIGHT!”

The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star then filmed the tags from three pairs of her favorite jeans and put on each pair for the camera.


Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American magazine publisher, and best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, and founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises

Early life

Hefner was born in Chicago, the son of Grace Caroline (née Swanson) and Glenn Lucius Hefner. He went to Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School in Chicago, then served in the U.S. Army during the closing months of World War II.

Hefner graduated from the University of Illinois in 1949 with a major in psychology and a double minor in creative writing and art. He explains that some of the ideas for the Playboy magazine came to him while he was a student there. Despite spending less than three years in college before graduating, Hefner found time to edit the magazine Shaft and sold cartoons to magazines. His first salaried job was with a firm that produced and printed cardboard cartons. In 1949, Hefner also completed his time at Northwestern University, where he wrote a term paper examining U.S. sex laws in light of the newly published Kinsey Institute research on male human sexuality.

After serving in the subscription department and as a copywriter for Esquire, he left in January 1952 after being denied a $5 raise. He worked at Children's Activities, then took his biggest gamble in 1953 by lending his furniture for $600 and raising $8,000 from 45 investors -- including $1,000 from his mother ("Not because she believed in the venture," he told E! in 2006, "but because she believed in her son") -- to launch Playboy. The undated first issue was published in December, 1953 and featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover, as well as in nude photographs inside. In a possible homage to this fact, Hefner owns the crypt in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California, beside that of Monroe



Celebrity News : Hugh Hefner opens up about Holly Madison breakup??

Hugh Hefner is down a girlfriend. Hefner and Holly Madison, one of E!'s "The Girls Next Door," are no longer dating. Hefner said he's been "down in the dumps" about the split.

The 28-year-old model-actress stars in the reality series with Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt as one of the 82-year-old publisher's girlfriends who live with Hefner in the Playboy Mansion.

"If Holly says it's over, I guess it's over," Hefner said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "She's still here in the house. Until a few days ago, we were still sharing the same bed."

Hefner was surprised to hear Madison discussing their breakup, but acknowledged he knew a split was imminent after he told Madison that they would never wed or have children.

In a video posted on TMZ.com Tuesday, Madison said she's no longer with Hefner. She also said she is "still filming stuff together" with Wilkinson and Marquardt.

Hefner said Madison learned the pair would never have children or get married six months ago, adding: "The fact that she was depressed after that, I didn't know at all. That was a revelation in the last days and weeks. Quite frankly, we thought when the time came, we would make a combined statement and we expected that combined statement would be somewhere in the weeks and months ahead."

"The Girls Next Door" premiered on E! in 2001 and is in its fifth season. Hefner said he and the three women are committed to a sixth season, but he plans to seek out new live-in lovers. Hefner said 19-year-old Playmate twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon are living in the mansion, but they're aren't his girlfriends — yet.

"It's now apparent there will be some new faces in my personal life and on the show," he said. "There's been moments that I've been down in the dumps about all this, and (personal assistant) Mary (O'Connor) told me to cheer up and pointed out that there are girls lined up outside the front gate. At my age, that's hard to believe, but it seems to be true."

Hefner's relationship with his remaining two girlfriends — Marquardt, 35, and Wilkinson, 23 — may also be in flux. Hefner said Marquardt is in Europe filming the new Travel Channel series "Bridget's Beaches," and Wilkinson may soon move out of the mansion and get her own apartment. Hefner said E! is interested in spin-offs with all three women.

The Playboy mogul expects to maintain a business relationship and friendship with Madison, who — along with Marquardt — originally was one of seven girlfriends living with Hefner in 2001 after his separation from Kimberley Conrad. Wilkinson was later asked to move into the Playboy Mansion in 2004. Hefner said he may again seek out seven — or more — girlfriends.

"It's a big house," he said. "And I'm not going to live alone. I'm definitely not going to live alone."



Celebrity News : Hugh Hefner opens up about Holly Madison breakup??