Travis Barker may be in the hospital - but he's got a bone to pick with his ex-wife.
The Blink-182 drummer expressed his "deepest thanks" to fans via his MySpace page for their support during his recovery from a deadly plane crash in September.
But the 32-year-old also took a brief time-out to jab at ex-wife Shanna Moakler, who reportedly has been by his side since the ordeal.
"Despite any rumors you might have heard via my EX-wife Shanna Moakler, who I have not seen since the week I checked in, I've been treated amazingly well, both here in LA and an Georgia," Barker wrote.
Barker and fellow passenger DJ AM were the only survivors of a fiery Sept. 19 plane crash in South Carolina that killed four. Barker has been hospitalized since the accident, recovering from burns on his torso and lower body.
Moakler was photographed in tears - and oddly wearing a ring on that special finger - outside Barker's Augusta, Ga., hospital on Sept. 22.
The on-again, off-again couple briefly reconciled in 2007 after a lengthy separation, but finally divorced in February 2008.
"She is so devoted to him [and] he appreciates it so much," a source told People magazine in late September. "She's sticking by him. She is with him. Despite everything that's happened to them, they love each other."
Barker, who says he's now able to move his fingers on his right hand, later deleted the diss from his MySpace Celebrity blog, but left the message up on his actual MySpace page. via
Erykah Badu is pregnant again.
The singer, 37, announced she is expecting her third child at last weekend's Austin City Limits festival in Texas. She did not reveal the identity of the baby's father.
See Us' Baby Bump Hall of Fame.
In 1997, she welcomed son Seven with Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000 of the hip-hop group OutKast). At the time, her rep said she named her boy Seven because "it's a divine number which can't be divided."
Badu gave birth in 2004 to a girl, Puma. Her rep declined to reveal the father's identity, but denied that the singer named her daughter after the athletic shoe. via
When it came to saying their "I dos" again, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony doubled the fun, joining New York Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran and his wife Jessica for a joint ceremony, PEOPLE has learned.
"Carlos gave his wife a specially engraved ring and gave Marc and Jennifer special rings as gifts," a source told PEOPLE exclusively. "Carlos and Jessica renewed their vows first, then Jennifer and Marc went."
The vows came after a private dinner at Bradley Ogden and a good night rolling the dice. "They were both winning at the craps table and Marc kept saying that it was going to be a lucky night," the source said.
And as luck would have it, it was "nearly flawless," added the source. "Initially, they were supposed to do the ceremony outside on the suite's balcony but it was too cold, so they had to move it inside. That was the only thing that didn't go according to plan."
Inside, the couples were wed in the Caesars Palace's newly renovated Forum Tower Penthouse in the suite's rotunda. The suite only reopened Saturday, making Lopez and Anthony the first people to stay there since the renovation.
"Marc actually said the suite was so beautiful that it deserved its own zip code," the source said. "He thought it was perfect."
Wearing a black dress, Lopez looked "beautiful" as 12 people witnessed the ceremony, the source said. "Her parents didn't even see it because they were with the babies."
Following the nuptials, a butler opened a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne for the newly re-married couples. via
The main goal of the fundraiser for Barack Obama was to build a network of women to help the Democratic presidential candidate through the final weeks of his campaign. But at the high-priced, crowded forum on women's issues in a downtown Chicago hotel, it was Oprah Winfrey who rocked the house.
Though the media mogul's remarks were closed to non-fundraisers, several attendees took notes and relayed her remarks Friday afternoon.
Women would "midwife" the election, Winfrey told the crowd. Obama is "a leader [who] has risen up among us," said Chicago attorney Mina Mehta, quoting Winfrey, who also said Obama supporters were in the last 6 miles of a marathon.
"It really was motivating," Mehta said. "Very inspiring."
Hundreds of professional women — the Obama campaign said it was more than a thousand — paid $1,000 to $28,000 for seats in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers ballroom to hear speeches by Winfrey, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, Obama's wife, Michelle, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
Attendees included John Rogers, CEO of Ariel Capital Management LLC, Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel and senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett ("We're in the home stretch," she told reporters before disappearing inside). Barack Obama was to address the group Saturday.
Biden talked about the working class, opportunity and health care. He invoked his recent vice presidential debate with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin—"at least I think it was a debate," Biden said to laughter — and discussed squaring off on women's issues against a woman.
"Being a woman is not the same as being there for women—they are two different things," Biden said. This crowd cheered. Biden vowed he and Obama would carry forward their issues.
"Talk to your friends and your neighbors and your colleagues," Michelle Obama urged in her address. "Sit down with your mothers and your fathers and your sisters and your girlfriends and tell them about the issues at stake in this election." via
Angelina Jolie isn't giving away who she's backing in the U.S. presidential election, but she does have good things to say about Barack Obama.
The actress and activist tells the German edition of Vanity Fair that the Democratic contender for president comes down on the same side of several issues that she does.
Asked if she finds Obama and his background an example to her family, she replies, "Naturally that's good, but it's not a sufficient reason to vote for him.
"Obama fights for international justice, he wants to militarily intervene in cases of genocide, and close Guantanamo Bay. These are the things that could move me to vote for him, not his roots."
She then adds, "Naturally, an American president like Barack Obama would be nice for my family."
Jolie and actor Brad Pitt are parents to six children, three of whom were adopted from other nations _ Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.
Obama's family similarly has members from different countries: his mother is American and his late father was Kenyan.
Jolie's father, Jon Voight, has campaigned for Republican candidate John McCain. via
Star Jones is speaking out about how she was treated during her departure from The View in 2006.
“Those girls were hateful,” Jones says of her former co-hosts.
In a new interview in the November issue of Essence magazine, Jones also opens up about “falling into a depression” after losing her self-titled Court TV show last year; her ongoing dispute with Barbara Walters (“Barbara set me up”); and her divorce from Al Reynolds, which was finalized in September.
Responding directly to Reynolds’s infamous YouTube videos, in which he stated he “still loves” Star, Jones responds bluntly: “I’m not in love with him.”
Jones, who laid low after the abrupt cancellation of her Court TV show, is currently in talks to make a non-scripted TV comeback. The reason she’s ready to start over? A sense of renewal she says she gained after spending an Under The Tuscan Sun-style summer at an Italian villa with girlfriends, including Natalie Cole.
Posing poolside in a white dress and fireside in a slinky black number for the interview, the surprisingly svelte Jones – who dropped 160 lbs. after a 2003 gastric bypass surgery – also talks about getting back to dating.
While she doesn’t directly address her new relationship with executive chef Herb Wilson, whom she was photographed smooching in the stands at last month’s U.S. Open, she tells the magazine, “I want to fall in love again. I’m ready to love 24/7. I want happiness.” via