Celebrity News Page 1647

Nominations for this year American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Awards had been announced Monday April 16th during a press conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with Eva Longoria served as host alongside best friend Mario Lopez and NCLR President and CEO Janet Murguia.

On the television category, HBO's "Walkout", plus ABC's "George Lopez" and "Ugly Betty" are the nominees vying for the Outstanding TV Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie award. The series' male stars, including the likes of George Lopez and Michael Pena, are nominated for the Outstanding Actor- TV Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie award.

Stomping into new field, Will Ferrell has activated a comedy video site named FunnyOrDie.com through Gary Sanchez Productions, the company he established with Adam McKay.

Backed up by venture capital firm Sequoia Partners, the site is off to a sizzling start since quietly going up as a beta release Thursday, April 12, already having a short video featuring Ferrell and McKay racked up more than 1.5 million page views and generated more than 2 million streams. Entitled "The Landlord", the two-minute clip shows Ferrell as an apartment tenant forced to reckon with an angry landlord, who happens to be played by McKay's toddler daughter.

Dave Chappelle breaks the record of Dane Cook and Richard Pryor, entertained the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles for six hours and seven minutes on Sunday April 15th.

The comedian, walked out on the third season of his hit Comedy Central show May last year, hit the stage at 10:36 pm and continued cracking jokes until 4:43 am.

As if they want to put to rest the wrong split persistent rumors, Kirsten Dunst and Johnny Borrell showed up together, holding hands at the world premiere of her latest film project "Spider-Man 3" Monday April 16th in Tokyo, Japan.

Borrell joined his lady for the film premiere at Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills after his solo performance at HMV Shibuya earlier that day. The happy couple then made appearance at the after-party.

On sale: the nude photos of controversial supermodel Kate Moss.

Two nude photographs of Moss are to be auctioned off at Christie's auction house in London on May 31st. Both portraits, a 1996 print by Irving Penn and a two-meter square image by Albert Watson, are expected to sell for about £22,000 ($52,500) and £15,000 respectively, Christie's auctioneers said.

In the wake of wedding reports which details are still being kept under wrap, here comes a new report suggests that Rod Stewart is planning to marry fiancee Penny Lancaster in a lavish £1million June wedding.

The rocker is said planning to spend such amount of money on their big day which is set to take place at the exclusive Italian Riviera Portofino resort on June 16th. "They have hired a venue in the town and he is going to charter a couple of private jets to get his guests there. It is going to cost a small fortune but he wants it to be a memorable day," Britain's The Sun newspaper quoted a source as saying.

No joke, Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are engaged to be married.

Rumor has it that the action hero actor has popped the question to longtime girlfriend Flockhart, asking her to marry him after 5 years together.

It keeps going the way it's going. Madonna arrived in Malawi Monday April 16th amid rumors she's planning for another adoption.

Not taking into account the persistent rumors, the pop singer jetted into one of the poorest countries in Africa and one of the worst hit by the AIDS pandemic. Came along with her is adopted son David Banda and daughter Lourdes.

Just days after they were reported planning a double engagement party and wedding ceremony for later this year, comes a new report that suggests Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams have ended their romance.

Talk is heating up that Ryan was overheard telling a friend that he and Rachel have split up. The Daily News is reporting, at Los Angeles premiere of "Fracture" on Wednesday April 11th a friend asked the actor, "Where's Rachel tonight?"

Jesse Metcalfe? No, he isn't the one. Contrary to previous report, the hunk won't replace Daniel Radcliffe in the West End play "Equus." But Jamie Bell will.

Bell, the child star of Billy Elliot, is reported to be the next young actor to get his kit off in the controversial show. "Jamie is really excited about taking over and isn't at all daunted about stripping off," a source was quoted as saying.

In the wake of the release date of his upcoming record, Marilyn Manson comes clean about his relationship with new girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood. Hollywood's most kept-secret is no longer an unconfirmed speculation when the rocker spills the bean on his romance with the just 19-years-old actress, telling France's Le Parisien newspaper they started having an affair while he was still married to Dita Von Teese.

Justifying his being in love with his much junior, Manson who is 38, tells the newspaper, "I've found my double, my twin, with my new girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood. She's 19 and certainly that's very young, but that's not a problem for me. She likes the same things as me. She understands I like to get up when night falls and go to sleep at dawn."

More jobs swamp Victoria Adams. The former Spice Girl who is about to move to LA has been offered a spot on US hit talent show "Dancing with the Stars."

Rumors are swirling producers are keen to sign Posh Spice for the next season of the dancing show, with Victoria herself reportedly is taking the offer "very seriously."

Forest Whitaker is adding more into his award collection as he on Monday April 16th earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The actor, who has just won an Oscar as well as Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies this year for his role as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland," secured the Walk's 2,335th star.

Kylie Minogue is the next after Madonna and Stella McCartney. The Australian pop singer is the latest star to join with Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz, inspiring a limited swimwear line which will go on sale worldwide beginning in mid-May.

Instead of designing the beachwear line, Minogue will only give contribution to ideas while also appear in ads for the line, to be called "H&M loves Kylie."

This is the second time in within this month that Marc Anthony dealing with the law. The singer-songwriter, who has just agreed to pay $2.5 million in back taxes, interest and penalties, and his wife Jennifer Lopez are suing the National Enquirer in European courts over the tabloid's claims they were linked to a drug scandal.

The publication claims in its March 12 British and Irish editions, Lopez and Anthony were "caught up in a heroin scandal" while at the same time also reprinted a 2004 picture of Anthony standing beside photographer Michael Star, who is facing charges of heroin possession and child pornography in the U.S. To make matter worse, the article too quoted an alleged friend of Star as saying Star and Anthony were friends.