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Forget the parenting classes these two allegedly attended. Jamie Lynn Spears and her mom, Lynne, are no longer sticking together during the teenager’s unplanned pregnancy, reports National Enquirer. According to the tabloid, the “Zoey 101” star is leaving Lynne’s luxurious Kentwood, La., estate and hightailing it to her other parent’s pad.

“Jamie Lynn is moving to Los Angeles to live with her dad,” an insider told the Enquirer. “She wants to be settled in before the baby is born in March or early April — and she wants to be closer to film projects she’d like to start after giving birth.”

But Jamie Lynn’s plans to become a working mom aren’t the only reason Britney’s little sis decided to go west. Lynne’s decided that the teenager’s baby daddy, Casey Aldridge, is off limits.

“Jamie Lynn loves Casey and wants to marry him, but her mom is dead set against it,” an Enquirer source said. “Jamie Lynn knows that once she’s out from under her mom’s thumb in Kentwood, she and Casey will be together.”

Lynne also worries that once her little girl’s in Los Angeles, she’ll fall under another negative influence — Lynne’s older daughter Britney! “Jamie Lynn knows Britney smoked and drank during her pregnancy — and because Britney’s boys turned out fine, Jamie Lynn thinks her baby will be fine too,” the source confided.
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Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and chief defender of its strike-threatened Oscar show, took the gloves off on Monday. Well, one glove anyway.

At the annual nominees’ luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Monday, the usually congenial Mr. Ganis gave the assembled actors and filmmakers something of a lecture. But it was a sweetly diplomatic one — about the importance of keeping Oscar night on track, even if striking screenwriters picket the ceremony.

While noting hopeful signs in talks between writers and production companies, Mr. Ganis said, “Regardless of those circumstances, which are beyond our control, we will be presenting the awards as scheduled.”

A film producer and former studio chief who generally favors the soft pedal, Mr. Ganis stopped short of telling the nominees that they really ought to show up for the ceremony, which is scheduled to be broadcast by ABC on Feb. 24.

But, he reminded the gathered film stars, who included George Clooney, Ellen Page and Viggo Mortensen, the Academy Awards are not just about business but also about recognizing cinematic achievement.

“It would be such a terrible shame if, through no fault of yours and no fault of ours, the current conditions prevented us from shining that brightest possible light” on the very people who were gathered at the luncheon to bask in what he called their “nominee-ness.”

And to bolster his point with a little humor, Mr. Ganis displayed an official certificate of nomination that read, “Must be present to win.”

During the lightly lubricated lunch (sushi and elaborate salads to go with the open bar), Mr. Ganis spoke in front of several hundred people, including actors like Hal Holbrook and Casey Affleck; directors like Tony Gilroy and Michael Moore; producers like Scott Rudin; and executives like Robert A. Iger, who is the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company.

The mood was lighter than it might have been just last week, given reports that writers and production companies have tiptoed close to an agreement that could end a three-month strike by the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East before Oscar night.

Within the striking guilds a ferocious debate has divided writers into two groups: those who would grant the Oscars a truce in order to use the ceremony as a bully pulpit, and those who would inflict damage on the studios, and ABC, by chasing celebrities away from the show.

The threat of pickets wrecked last month’s Golden Globes ceremony. The usual red carpet fashion procession and scenes of supping celebrities were replaced by an elaborate, and star-free, news conference after actors — prodded by the Screen Actors Guild — boycotted the show.

A rapid end to the labor dispute would let the academy turn its attention back to its annual fight against windy acceptance speeches. At Monday’s lunch, however, Mr. Ganis’s own remarks clocked in at nine minutes. [source]

Jennifer Aniston is "really upset" Angelina Jolie is pregnant.

The former 'Friends' star, who divorced Brad Pitt in October 2005 following five years of marriage, is said to have taken the news of Angelina's alleged pregnancy extremely badly.

A source close to the actress said: "Jennifer is putting on a brave face, but inside she is really upset. She wasn't prepared for how she'd feel when she saw the pictures of Angelina and her bump.

"It took her by surprise because it was further proof of just how much Brad has moved on with his life compared to her."

Jennifer, 38, also resents Angelina because she never had a child with Brad.

The source added to Britain's Star magazine: "Jennifer is desperate for kids. She can feel her biological clock ticking and is scared that she has left it too late. She keeps saying that she wishes she'd had kids with Brad and that, if she had, maybe things would have worked out differently.

"Splitting up with Brad was the hardest thing Jennifer ever went through, so hopefully she'll get over this latest hurdle. She's made of strong stuff."
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The Spice Girls have put on their raunchiest show ever in a bid to convince fans they are as close as ever.

On Friday, the reunited five-piece disapointed fans in Australia, China, South Africa and Argentina when they u-turned on a previous promise to perform in the countries.

In a statement, the group blamed "personal and family commitments" for the reason behind their decision to cut their 'world tour' short.

Following the announcement, the Spice Girls returned to Canada for a two-night stint at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, where they performed their raunchy display.

In a bid to quell rumours the group had fallen out with each other, they went to extreme lengths to show their closeness on stage in Toronto last night.

Scary Spice Melanie Brown roused the audience when she groped Victoria Beckham's surgically-enhanced breasts.

Despite four of the five girls being mothers, they showed they could still be as sexy as ever when they strutted on stage in tight PVC outfits.

The five-piece smouldered as they sauntered around on stage leading hunky male dancers around on chains.

Keeping to her schoolgirl style, Baby Spice Emma Bunton wore a laced-up PVC mini-dress, while Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm showed her raunchy side in a full-length leather catsuit.

Since the end of tour announcement, reports have suggested the bandmembers were struggling to agree on tour and the group tension was the real reason behind the shortened tour.

Mel B was said to be missing her new husband Stephen Belafonte and two children Phoenix Chi and Angel Iris and is hoping to capitilise on her rejuvenated fame Stateside following her appearance on Dancing with the Stars last year.

Melanie C, who was always the most relunctant to take part in a Spice Girls reunion, is also reported to have had enough of the tour.

Beckham has blamed herself for the split, claiming "I'm not in the music industry any more. I'm in the fashion industry".

Sources claim Beckham angered her bandmates when she suggested they all get matching tattoos to mark their comeback.

Posh had booked hubby David's regular tattooist Louis Molloy on 24 January at the Middleton Studio for all five to have their "bonding" etchings.

But only Vic turned up, and was livid at the other girls for not showing up.

The ensuing blow-out resulted in the girls having an unholy row about controlling attitudes, which was the beginning of the end for the tour.

A source said: "Victoria was very excited about the girls getting their tattoos, and thought it was an excellent gesture to bond them together.

"She had booked David's tattooist, and initially, all the girls were excited about it."
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The celebrity industrial complex is many things, but genuine it is not. With so much money at stake—a recent study of troubled pop star Britney Spears pegged her value to the economy at between $110 million and $120 million, and she doesn't even sing anymore—it's difficult to accept the things celebrities say or do at face value, no matter how legitimate a reason they offer up. But everyone has that one famous person who, despite how cynical publicist denials and staged paparazzi shots and canned interview responses have made us, we consider to be the real deal. Ours is actually Matt Damon—he's always shied away from spotlight, he doesn't open his mouth unless he has to, and, when he does, it seems like he's given thought to what he's saying.

In this spirit, we asked a bunch of people who they considered to be the most genuine celebrity—that is, the one individual they thought exuded authenticity in how they conduct themselves. The anti–Paris Hilton, if you will. Not surprisingly, the man who received the most votes was George Clooney (our boy Damon actually placed second). On the female side, the squeaky clean Jennifer Garner led the pack, followed by Jennifer Aniston. Below, our list of the 50 most genuine celebrities, in alphabetical order.

Jennifer Aniston: "The combination of the Brad Pitt breakup and the Oprah gabfest and the crying in Vanity Fair have all made her appear very vulnerable. And it doesn't seem like an act or a publicity ploy."

Judd Apatow: "He's been fired from enough places for not compromising his integrity that I know that, especially now, with an amazing track record and the ability to do basically whatever he wants, he would have even less reason to compromise."

Alec Baldwin: "You know he's an asshole, but he's hilarious. Even when he chewed out his preteen daughter, you got the sense that he clearly cared."

Dave Chappelle: "The guy walked out on a $50 million contract because he didn't feel his comedy was honest anymore. How many other people would do that?"

Don Cheadle: "Some guys just have an effortless charm that makes them seem like they are totally in control in all situations. Cheadle has it on camera. And I bet he has it off camera, too."

George Clooney: "I feel like he doesn't put up with the magazine machine the way that most people do. He may actually be as cool as the dominant alpha male he plays. He's got an old-school air about him. Plus, that Darfur shit is for real."

Zooey Deschanel: "She's like Chloë Sevigny before Chloë was Chloë, except she's way better. She has that quirky indie appeal that seems authentic."

Matt Damon: "He didn't marry a celebrity and he's always awkward and withdrawn on talk shows, which means he's a normal person. There's this great bit about him in a GQ story where he is taking a piss and the interviewer writes about how loud it is because Damon really isn't giving him anything else to work with. He seems entirely unconcerned with the trappings of fame."

Daniel Day-Lewis: "His body of work is proof enough that he is singularly interested in acting as a craft. There's just no way you're gonna see him in Meet the Parents just to make a quick buck."

Johnny Depp: "He doesn't seem to compromise much, and he's a really fucking good actor. He puts the lie to the myth that you can't be a big star in Hollywood without being a big Us Weekly red-carpet celebrity."
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The New York Giants' thrilling win over the New England Patriots was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, with 97.5 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said Monday.

The game eclipsed the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million, set when Dallas defeated Pittsburgh in 1996. Only one other show in American broadcast history was watched by more people, the "M-A-S-H" finale in 1983, which drew 106 million viewers.

Sunday's game had almost all the ingredients Fox could have hoped for: a tight contest with an exciting finish involving a team that was attempting to make history as the NFL's first unbeaten team since 1972.

But the Giants ended New England's bid for perfection, 17-14. Throughout the game, the teams were never separated by more than a touchdown.

Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who was to appear on David Letterman's "Late Show" on Monday, also won bragging rights over his brother: Last year's win by Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts was seen by 93.2 million people, now the third most popular Super Bowl.

Fox, a division of News Corp., charged $2.7 million for 30 seconds of advertising time on the game.

An eye-popping 81 percent of all TV sets on in the Boston area Sunday were tuned in to the game. In New York, the audience share was 67 percent.

The audience peaked between 9:30 and 10 p.m. ET -- the fourth quarter -- with 105.7 million people watching, Nielsen said.

There were signs even before gametime that Fox could be headed for a record. The opportunity for a team to make history with football's first 19-0 record was a powerful draw. The Giants and Patriots also had a tight contest in late December that drew strong ratings.

The Giants' underdog run had also captivated the nation's largest media market, making up for the only potential weakness in the event as a drawing card: the lack of geographical diversity in the competing teams.

There were past Super Bowl games with higher ratings, topped by the 1982 game between San Francisco and Cincinnati (49.1 rating, 73 share). That indicates that a larger percentage of homes with televisions were watching the game. But since the American population has increased, along with the number of people with TVs, the actual number of people watching this year was higher.

The Giants-Patriots game's actual rating (43.3 rating, 65 share) was the highest for any Super Bowl since 1997. That means 43 percent of the nation's TV sets were tuned in to the game, and 65 percent of the TV sets that were turned on were watching football.
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Britney Spears' father will remain temporarily in control of the pop star's personal and financial affairs while she is evaluated in a hospital psychiatric ward, a court commissioner ruled Monday.

The decision came after lawyer Adam Streisand unsuccessfully sought to enter the case as Spears' attorney, saying she told him by phone that her father, James Spears, should be removed from the case.

"She has expressed to me very strongly that her father not be the conservator," Streisand said. "There has been an estrangement for quite some time. With him as conservator, that is causing her more agitation and more distress."

Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz rejected Streisand's request to represent the singer and extended her order granting James Spears temporary conservatorship until February 14. He was given control on Friday.

She also appointed a physician to evaluate her competence to make decisions.

In addition, Goetz went a step further in distancing Britney Spears from her friend and sometime manager, Sam Lutfi.

The singer was ordered to have no contact with Lutfi, specifying she can't reach him by phone, text message or any other means. Goetz also extended a restraining order against Lutfi.

Court spokesman Allan Parachini said the restraining order has not yet been served on Lutfi, but he declined to elaborate.

In a text message to The Associated Press, Lutfi said: "I have no problems with anyone writing anything negative against me. My image is not of concern, hers is."

Lutfi did not immediately respond to further questions left in text and phone messages.

Streisand, who conservatively placed the singer's estate assets at $40 million, said he believed he had been authorized to represent the singer.

Court-appointed attorney Samuel Ingham said he had interviewed Britney Spears on Sunday at UCLA Medical Center and determined that she didn't understand the court proceedings, and that "she lacks the capacity to retain counsel."

Streisand argued that she hadn't been given any notice of Ingham's plan to interview her, saying Ingham appeared at the hospital unannounced.

Vivian Thoreen, attorney for James Spears, said her client should continue to be conservator because "his daughter is in great distress."

"He's not here to take over her assets," Thoreen said. "He's here to get her medical help. He's here to take over while she's healing."

Britney Spears was originally to be released Sunday after a 72-hour mental evaluation. But doctors and a ward medical officer cited California law to keep her for two weeks, said a person close to the pop star who requested anonymity.

The state law allows patients to be kept for medical treatment if they are found to be gravely disabled or a danger to themselves or others.

Streisand also said one of Spears' entities is being audited by the IRS.

Earlier Monday, a child custody hearing was held but continued because of Spears' condition.

Lawyers for Britney Spears, her ex-husband Kevin Federline and her conservators met behind closed doors. The hearing was to deal with efforts by Spears' legal team to withdraw from the case, but the lawyers abandoned that effort last week.
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Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon barred the singer from contact with her two small children after she refused last month to relinquish the children to representatives of Federline after a court-sanctioned visit.

On that occasion, she was also taken to a hospital for psychiatric observation but quickly released.[source]

Six months after leaving Cirque Lodge in Utah, Lindsay Lohan is opening up about her party-girl image, getting back to work and how she's ridding her life of bad influences – and the wrong people – by sharpening her instincts.

"There are friends that have been hard to hang out with because they've gone done a different path," the actress, 21, tells the U.K. edition of Glamour for its March issue, in her first interview since being in rehab. "But it's hard because I'm the kind of person who wants to trust everyone."

Despite the temptations put before her and others of her generation – Lohan expresses empathy for Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse – she insists she's comfortable with her own company.

"I'm fine being alone during the day, but I hate being alone at night. I like having friends around me, but now I'd much rather be at home," she says, pointing out that she now suddenly has more hours of the day to fill, which she tries to do by writing in her journal and watching TV.

"That's not to say I'll never go to a club again," she says, "because I'd be lying."

Finally, asked what she believes is the biggest misconception others have about her, Lohan replies, "that I don't have my head in the right place. That, and probably that I'm not a good person ... because actually I am."[source]