Nearly three and half years after they swapped “I dos” at their corporate-sponsored wedding, Star Jones and Al Reynolds are calling it quits. The National Enquirer reports the legal diva sent Al his walking papers a month ago.

A rep for Jones says the report is false, but the Enquirer goes on to say, “They hadn’t been seeing eye to eye for months and had already spent a great deal of time apart,” a friend of the couple told the Enquirer. “Finally, Star decided it was over. She told Al at the end of January that he had 30 days to get his act together or ‘get out.’”

The pair made one last public appearance at the Feb. 1 Baby Phat fashion show in New York City, but everything fell apart days later. That prompted Star to show Al the door ahead of schedule, the source said. “Al moved some of his things out of their Upper East Side apartment and returned to Miami, where he’d already been spending a lot of time recently.”

The Enquirer spoke to another insider who confirmed the breakup and revealed Star’s intention to make it permanent. “Star is planning to divorce Al.” As for reason behind the split, the source added, “I think Star felt Al had spent their marriage riding her success while she did all the heavy lifting. She resented it. Deep down, Star is a very old-fashioned woman who believes a man should support her emotionally, physically and financially. She now believes Al failed her.”
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Admit it. When Madonna was writhing around onstage in a wedding gown to “Like a Virgin” years ago, the last place you’d expect to see her was in something called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Time has a way of changing things. On Monday, Madge will come to the stage of the Waldorf-Astoria to accept enshrinement. Classmate John Mellencamp, who also churned out hit after hit in the 1980s, will join her.

The Dave Clark Five, whose lead singer Mike Smith died of pneumonia on Feb. 28, are being inducted as well as Philly soul legends Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, surf rockers the Ventures and blues harmonica ace Little Walter.

But Madonna?

She’s the pre-eminent pop star of her generation, who stayed a step ahead of trends while adding in shock value to keep herself in the news. Along the way she’s made sturdy, state-of-the-art pop such as “Material Girl,” “Crazy For You,” “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Cherish,” “Like a Prayer,” “Vogue” and “Ray of Light.”

Yet “if you think of rock ’n’ roll, Madonna is not the first name that comes to mind,” said Steve Morse, longtime Boston Globe music critic who was a member of the hall of fame’s nominating committee for seven years.

He considers her selection, particularly in her first year of eligibility, an embarrassment.

Her music was never played on rock ’n’ roll radio, he said. Some veteran rock artists like Deep Purple, the J. Geils Band, Steve Miller and Alice Cooper are still waiting for induction. Morse long and unsuccessfully argued on behalf of the late Gram Parsons.

“It seems like this is driven by commercial achievement and sales, rather than having anything to do with the rock ’n’ roll genre,” Morse said. “It’s really a commercial move. They’ll be able to sell more tickets to the museum and more people will watch the broadcast.”

With rock’s founding fathers already in the hall, the museum has broadened its meaning of rock ’n’ roll to include rap and pop artists. Grandmaster Flash last year became the first hip-hop artist to make it.

Madonna, who declined interview requests, will answer on Monday night.

he’s being inducted by Justin Timberlake. And unlike many contemporary artists — Madonna’s new album, “Hard Candy,” is dropping April 29 — she’s not scheduled to perform. Instead, she chose Iggy Pop, the ultimate crawl-around-on-glass punk rocker who shares her Michigan ancestry, to salute her work.

Tom Hanks will induct the Dave Clark Five, the ’60s British pop band behind the hit “Glad All Over.” Billy Joel will give the speech for Mellencamp, and Lou Reed speaks on behalf of fellow literate songwriter Cohen.
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Amy Winehouse, whose life is looking more and more like a reel life version of “Jackass Goes To Spring Break,” shocked onlookers at a club in London last week when she nasally inhaled vodka through a straw. Snorting alcohol gets it in the bloodstream much faster and but is so dangerous that the technique is known as a “gas chamber.”
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hen Diablo Cody (née Brooke Busey), former stripper and phone sex operator, took home the Oscar for best original screenplay for Juno, all of our preconceived notions about exotic dancers blew up like Ellen Page's stomach.

Could more exotic dancers, so willing to shake it for your dub, actually be using that money to finance artistic pursuits? Perhaps, through the haze of cigar smoke and beneath the layers of makeup, clubs are full of dreamers with well-developed left brains.

To investigate, Radar infiltrated some of New York's most popular strip clubs and found out what artistic aspirations strippers pursue when the lights go up and the clothes are back on.
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Matthew McConaughey is launching his own surf clothing line.

The 'A Time To Kill' star, who is well-known for frolicking in the surf shirtless, is developing a fashion line of swimming wear named j.k. livin, after his production company and catchphrase, "Just keep livin'."

The clothes, including T-shirts and Frisbees, will be available to purchase on McConaughey's website this summer.

A spokesperson for the actor, who will play a surfer in new film Surfer Dude, says, "It will be a one-stop shop for everything you need for the beach."
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Stripped down to her stockings and suspenders, the sensational senorita, 30, revealed her stunning new figure in this set of exclusive snaps.
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The mother of 4 admits going under the knife and basically reconstructing her entire body incluidng a tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) and breast lift. Rumor is she spent over $100,000 on the surgeries. It was worth it; she looks great.