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Fevered rumours that Kate Hudson and back-on-again boyfriend Owen Wilson are engaged are exactly that - just rumours, according to their reps.
News surfaced over the weekend that the pair was beginning to make wedding plans; an assumption no-doubt based on the fact that Hudson was photographed wearing a sparkler on her wedding finger while emerging from a restaurant in Boston last Thursday.
British tabloid News Of The World reported yesterday that the pair are engaged - twelve months after Owen allegedly attempted suicide after Hudson unceremoniously dumped him.
NOTW also claimed that Wilson popped the big question to Hudson while the pair was in Miami last week.
The newspaper claimed one of Hudson's pals confirmed the connubials and said they plan to wed in a ceremony next year.
A source reportedly said: "Kate supported Owen during his low patch and that proved to him she's the woman he wants to be with for ever.
"He picked out the ring and went for the biggest one he could find. He was nervous about proposing but Kate was thrilled and the whole thing was really emotional."
Hudson and Wilson re-kindled their romance in March of this year, following a storm of publicity that claimed Wilson had taken their break-up badly and tried to kill himself as a result.
The source added: "The engagement is a natural step forward for them both and Kate's ecstatic."
The denial
However, a rep for Kate tells OK! that the ring Hudson was papped wearing isn't a token of Wilson's love for her - it's merely a prop for a movie she's starring in.
"She's filming a movie called Bride Wars!" the rep explains to OK!. "She is not engaged."
What do you think? Are the loved-up couple trying to hoodwink us by playing the coy card?
Bad buzz
I hate to be the barer of bad news, but early buzz on the new Indiana Jones film isn't good.
The New York Times is reporting that a handful of web reviewers have slated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on website aintitcoolnews.com.
One poster, who identified himself as "ShogunMaster" said "This is the Indiana Movie that you were dreading."
Read all about it here.
I hope it's all cobblers. Indy can't bomb, surely?
Naughty nudie Moss
Kate Moss has reportedly been stripping for boyfriend Jamie Hince - and all in the name of art, darling.
Hince is said to be a bit of an artist, and has recruited Moss to be his muse on several occasions.
The musician - currently touring the US with his band The Kills - plans to put together a new exhibition of paintings, including a nude portrait of his supermodel girlfriend, Moss.
A source tells the Sunday Mirror, "Jamie has done a selection of paintings, including one of Kate, and plans to exhibit in a gallery after The Kills have finished touring."
The couple is reportedly "inseparable" and plan to tie the knot later this year.
Travolta ravolta
Miley Cyrus has bagged herself a new singing buddy.
The flesh flashing teenager has a fan in the one and only John Travolta, according to E!
"Johnny may sing [a duet] with Miley," Travolta's wife Kelly Preston tells the celebrity news website.
The Grease star's interest in warbling with Cyrus has nothing to do with generating positive pr for the beleaguered starlet, obviously.
When asked if she'd seen those Vanity Fair pictures, Preston said: "We [now] know Miley very well. And she's a sweetheart. All I know is that I know her personally and she's a really good girl with a great head on her shoulders."
Wino goes bush
Amy Winehouse sure does paint an unpleasant picture these days.
Last week she was photographed looking like some deranged feral creature.
Today, I bring you more shocking yet strangely beguiling pictures of the sick singer frolicking freely and looking worryingly emaciated.
Wino, reportedly working on her new album at a studio in Henley, Oxfordshire, took a break from recording and emerged looking like the wild woman of Borneo.
Is it just me, or are those pictures just jaw-droppingly disturbing?
Compare how she looks today, with how she looked a couple of years ago.
The transformation is amazing.
Sobriety slip?
Spider-Man actress Kirsten Dunst is said to have slipped off the wagon.
Dunst checked herself into rehab a few months ago amidst reports she was going through a major meltdown, and now the NY Daily News is reporting she's reverted back to her partying ways.
The recently rehabbed actress was reportedly spotted partying the night away for her 26th birthday.
Dunst partied hard last week at Bowery Electric, a trendy new rock bar in Manhattan, NYC, the website claims.
Spies say the actress "looked the worse for wear as she tumbled out of the bar and onto the street after midnight, with girlfriends gripping her arm".
Poor girl, she's probably still pining for former lover Jake Gyllenhaal. It can't be easy seeing gorgeous Gyllenhaal draped on some other bird's arm.
That ship has sailed, Dunst. Move on.
For memory's sake
Divalicious singer Whitney Houston was reportedly so scared of making a pig's ear of her comeback concert in London last week, she had the words to her hit songs taped to her dressing room wall.
Houston performed at the Caudwell Children Legends Ball on Thursday, and wowed the crowd with a run through of her greatest hits.
The singer, who's due to release her comeback album later this year, was adamant her performance would be flawless, so asked for the lyrics to various songs be printed and pasted in her dressing room - for memory's sake.
A source tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror: "Whitney was really nervous before her set. She didn't make any diva demands, and was polite to everyone. She spent 45 minutes reading the lyrics, mouthing the words and holding her hands as if in prayer."
Her prayers were answered, for Houston reportedly gave a flawless performance and brought the house down.
There's something inspiring and uplifting in Houston's rise from the ashes. I'm not a huge fan of her music, but I'm rooting for her. You go, girl!
Beckham's big screen debut
News just in says that Victoria Beckham has landed an acting role in Tom Cruise's new film.
Cruise is said to have personally asked for Beckham to make her acting debut in his new movie Hardy Men, a spoof of children's book series The Hardy Boys.
And according to British newspaper The Daily Express, Cruise initially asked Posh to design costumes for the film, and later suggested she also take an acting part.
No comment from Beckham's rep yet.
Meanwhile...
Tears for Tom
Tom Cruise's Nazi flick, Valkyrie, looks like it's never going to be released.
The film, based on a plot to assassinate Hitler, was originally mooted for a release in June, but got pushed back to October.
Well, the film's now pencilled in for a release in January 2009.
I sniff a bonafide turkey.
New kitten for TomKat?
Could TomKat be getting broody?
According to In Touch magazine, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise have been bitten by the baby bug.
A source tells the magazine that Holmes is feeling broody and wants a playmate for 2-year-old daughter Suri.
"Katie said she's got the itch," the source said.
"Now that Suri is more toddler than baby, she said she misses having an infant in the house. And, of course, she thinks Suri would make a great big sister."
But what does Daddy Cruise think?
"He said if Katie wants to make another baby, she doesn't have to ask twice," the source adds.
"He always wanted more. It was Katie who has been holding off. Until now."
Could we soon be hearing the pitter patter of another pair of little feet in the Cruise household?
Why not. It's not like Cruise is busy. His career's on the skids, so he might as well play the doting father instead.
Pose for me, baby
This makes my skin crawl.
Porny grandpa Hugh Hefner has reportedly offered Miley Cyrus the chance to pose naked for Playboy magazine - as soon as she turns 18.
Playboy hare Hefner saw the 15-year-old's controversial snaps in Vanity Fair last month, and now wants her to strip off completely for his men's magazine.
But seeing as she's below legal age to pose naked, he's willing to wait until she matures a bit.
Hefner says Cyrus would be "welcomed in the magazine".
The ageing sugar daddy, 82, also criticised the uproar that followed Cyrus' back-less shots for Vanity Fair.
"I think to make such a big to-do over something as innocent as those photos, I think is a reflection on how schizophrenic America is about sexuality."
He could be onto something there.
Talking about sexuality...
Grey's gay kiss
Grey's Anatomy had its first gay kiss last week.
The gay storyline was tastefully portrayed, despite the gay-bashing military father. American Beauty did that already, guys.
Britney's back
More of Britney's second appearance on US TV show, How I Met Your Mother.
She's actually rather good...
See here.
And on-set piccies of Brit Brit looking hot here.
Below the Barr
This is hilarious.
One upon a time, Roseanne Barr hit on George Clooney, way back before he became Gorgeous George ™.
George says: "I worked on her first series, and when I met her she said, 'You're really good looking, why don't you take me out behind the stage and make me stink.' She was unbelievably kind to me at a time when no one was."
Source: hollyscoop.com
Poolside passion
That's it; Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer are definitely an item.
Click here to see candid pics of the pair getting passionate at the poolside of a hotel in Miami last week.
The pair were snapped cooling down after a "rigorous gym session together", according to the Mail On Sunday.
If you ask me, the jury's still out on whether Mayer is a match for Aniston. Something isn't quite right about the pairing. I think he'll break her heart.
More piccies of the pair here and here.
It's gonna be a bad week for...
...Lindsay Lohan
Barely days after Lohan was accused of stealing some student's mink jacket, another person has claimed the actress also stole some of her clothes.
Last week a Columbia University student insisted Lohan swiped her $11,000 blond mink coat in New York City earlier this year. And now model Lauren Hastings says the Mean Girls star lifted thousands of dollars worth of items from her closet.
"Basically, I have two closets, a lot of the stuff was missing out of one and the next closet was almost completely empty," says Hastings on a video published by buzznet.
Hastings says that her clothing vanished during a late-night party hosted by her house sitter, and claims that Lohan put her sticky fingers into action at that time.
Watch a video of her making the claims here.
Lohan's rep has issued a stern denial, saying: "This is all not true. It's not what it seems."
I'm not so sure anymore. Is Lohan a clepto?
Sources: people.com, eonline.com, entertainmentwise.com
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Ashton and Demi's adoption plans: JustJared
Tina Turner and Cher do Oprah: popbytes
LaToya Jackson is morphing into Wacko: SOW
Ashlee Simpson calls Britney "trashy." Oh, the irony: CB
Uma Thurman sues Lancome, they sue her: YH
Britney and K Fed have phone sex: POP
Patrick Dempsey dyslexia had he: ICYDK
Suri Cruise is way too old for that: IDLYITW
Isla Fisher is still a red and white midget: Popsugar
Matt Damon sports the Pedostache: WIMB
Apologise for your mess, Nick Hogan: Celebslam
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