July 28, 2008

George Michael seems set to end his touring career in an unforgettable way by preparing to treat his fans at his upcoming final two shows, to be held at the Earls Court, London, on August 24 & 25, with a special performance. According to the latest news George is planning to tap his fellow band mate on Wham!, Andrew Ridgeley to take the stage together at those concerts.

The news was revealed by a source who told TheSun.co.uk saying, "George is planning a series of surprises for his final shows." Moreover, confirming about the plan to reunite with his bandmate, the source added, "He's keeping his cards close to his chest, but many are predicting that he'll reunite with Andrew to sing a track or two."

News on his partner Rhea Durham's third pregnancy was first revealed in late April and the sex of the baby she's carrying was outed in late June amidst talks of their wedding plans. In his best attempt to clear the things up surrounding his forthcoming third child and his plans to wed the model, Mark Wahlberg breaks his silence to US Weekly, opens up about their planned big day and her due date.

Durham is set to give birth to their third child, a boy, "around the third of September," he told the magazine at Comic-Con in San Diego Thursday, July 24. "Mommy has had enough of daddy being away for work!" he added.

The mystery is solved. The man whom Petra Nemcova was spotted kissing at a club last week has been identified. Ending the much speculation surrounding the guy, it is claimed that his name is Bader Jafar and he's her new boyfriend.

Petra, a famous catwalk queen who has modeled such famous brands as Victoria's Secret and La Senza, raised eyebrows when pictures of her kissing a mysterious man on a balcony of a club in the south of France on Wednesday night, July 23 made their way online. The pics showed her wearing a mini, v-neck black dress while she was enjoying a night of clubbing with the man and a group of males in the VIP Room club in St Tropez, France.

It looks like Amy Winehouse might have to reschedule her plan to rest from the music world in September after the latest reports stated that she has received a huge offer to play at a gig in November. The singer reportedly will be receiving $2 million, if she agrees to play at a bash held by the prince of Brunei, prince Azim in that month.

The news was revealed by a friend of Amy who also said that the singer is still considering the offer. But if she takes it she would use the money to help her husband. "Things still need to be worked out but, if she does the gig, she will hand the fee straight to Blake who should be free soon afterwards. She thinks it will give him something to make a clean start with," Amy's friend said.

Going stronger with their love relationship despite their age difference, Milo Ventimiglia got a special birthday surprise from his actress girlfriend Hayden Panettiere. The actress, singer, and Grammy-Award nominee performed a surprise striptease for him on his 31st birthday.

She reportedly asked "the wardrobe girls to make her a Velcro lined version of the outfit she wears" on the hit TV series "Heroes" in which she portrays the character of self-healing cheerleader Claire Bennett. Morphing from her bouncy cheerleader character in the series to a bump-and-grind striptease, she then sang 'Happy Birthday' to Milo in front of cast and crew during lunch while at the same time also "ripped off the costume to show off her sexy red lingerie."

All attention is to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and their clan. Rumor has it that the celebrity power couple have asked their friend Bono to be the godfather for their newborn twins; Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

Jolie and Pitt, alongside their children, reportedly have been spending a week with the rock star at his home in a leafy village in the South of France. In return for his kind gesture and impressed by his humanitarian work, they then asked the U2 frontman to take on the role which he accepted immediately.

It seems that The Pussycat Dolls are still curious to do something with troubled pop singer Britney Spears especially after their previous project together didn't work out well. The plan was shouted by the group themselves in an interview with AccessHollywood.com.

Revealing about their plan to team up again with Britney, the Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger said, "We totally support her. Not everything makes the final cut but we want to do something with her in the future." Moreover, Nicole also stated her admiration over the "Toxic" singer stating, "We love her, we're all huge fans of Britney, always have been."

With the 2008 San Diego Comic Con wrapping up on Sunday, July 27, more and more news as well as posters and footages about upcoming feature films were pouring out. The last two days of the special event (July 26 & July 27) were filled with posters from "Watchmen" to updated report from "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra".

Providing a follow-up report to the previous San Diego Comic Con Wrap Up, Aceshowbiz let out the recap of these final two days at the Comic Con.

Rock chick Liz Phair is set to mark her comeback to the music scene with a new album as the follow up to Somebody's Miracle", that was dropped in 2005. Although she hasn't set a title and an official release date yet, the singer said that her upcoming record is almost done and it is set to due this fall.

Speaking about the process for the upcoming LP's work, to Billboard.com Liz stated, "All my sloppiness is in there. I fought all the way through, and I'm not letting anyone take it to a perfected style." She also added, "It has mistakes in it. It has layered background vocals of mine that just make an overall slop, but it's perfect slop."

Friday, July 25 was Trina's bad day. She and boyfriend, NBA player Kenyon Martin, were involved in a car accident in Belize late that night that left two children, ages 12 and 9, injured.

Per 7 News Belize, which broke report of the accident, Trina and Kenyon were in the country for a hip-hop peace rally and charity basketball game which took place on Saturday, July 26. They were traveling with a police motorcade from the airport when the Ford Excursion they were riding in was struck by a minivan on the highway.

Sean Bean was arrested for domestic assault, reports claimed. The "Lord of the Rings" actor reportedly was arrested at his home in Camden, North London, Thursday night, July 24 after a quarrel with his wife of five months, Georgina Sutcliffe.

According to the Daily Mail, Sutcliffe allegedly called police telling them she was being attacked by Bean following a heated argument. Despite his denial, insisted it was simply a domestic row that had got out of hand, Bean was detained to the nearest police station in Holborn. Being kept in custody for about 6 hours, he was released on bail at about 6 A.M. on Friday morning, July 25 after Sutcliffe dropped her allegations against him.

Just before the official music video for his latest single "Got Money" gets premiered on MTV later today (July 28) at 6 A.M., a short preview of Lil Wayne's clip has already streamed. The 30-second preview video, which also features the appearance of T-Pain, gave a lead of what the video is about.

On the short clip, Wayne sees him as a robber who is robbing a bank and being accompanied by two female assistants. Another feature beside the robbing scene, saw the rapper and T-Pain rapping and dancing together in a big room.

Having had Russell Crowe and Sienna Miller lining up for "Nottingham" apparently is not enough to keep it away from any problem. Words are the production of the latest and twisted Robin Hood movie which has been set to start in mid-August in London has been postponed indefinitely.

Reports claimed that there are a number of reasons posted by Universal Pictures regarding the production delay. In the first place, it is said that the studio expressed their concern over the possible SAG strike. Then, they want the shooting location, the forest, to be green and last but not least, Universal proposed that there is problem with the script written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris which has been rewritten by Brian Helgeland.

When Kristian Bush left his band Billy Pilgrim few years back, it was probably the right decision to make. The Knoxville native joined two other aspiring artists, Jennifer Nettles and Kristen Hall to make one third of Sugarland, a country trio that broke through the mainstream with their single "Baby Girl" in 2004. The trio has received a Grammy nomination, plus several other notable country awards and the now-duo are vying for another with their latest release "Love on the Inside".

The new album is available in two different versions; the deluxe fan edition that hits stores on July 22 and the regular one which will be in shelves a week after that. The deluxe version contains 12 songs, along with five extra songs including the live version of "Life in a Northern Town" that they performed with Little Big Town and Jake Owen, plus a downloadable video content. Meanwhile, the regular one will include only the 12 songs.

Offering no words at all to the press about his wife's much-reported second pregnancy, Ben Affleck finally confirmed that matter and the one lucky person to hear it is actor-director Kevin Smith. To People magazine the man claimed that Ben has told him about a new addition into his and wife Jennifer Garner's clan.

Smith told People at the Maxim magazine party on Saturday, July 26 in San Diego where he attended Comic-Con, "I saw him last week. Ben came over to watch my movie (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) at the house, and he told me, 'We're having another baby'." He continued saying, "I guess they are looking for a bigger place now."

Less than a week from its theatrical debut across the U.S. on August 1, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" celebrated its American premiere with the special first screening at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. The premiere event was held on Sunday, July 27 and marked with the rolling down of red carpet in front of the theater.

Attending the special celebration were director Rob Cohen and most of the cast ensemble, including Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Luke Ford, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li, Isabella Leong and Russell Wong. Other celebrities grazing the red carpet include Velvet Revolver's lead guitarist Slash and actress Phoebe Price.

It looks like Whitney Houston is getting closer in making her comeback to the music scene this year. The prove occurred after a song that reportedly will be on her upcoming record has streamed earlier this week. The new track which features the legendary diva's collaboration with Akon is being titled "Like I Never Left".

Unfortunately there is no further details whether the new song is being set as the first single for her upcoming record or not. Beside "Like I Never Left" another track that is being rumored to be one of the tracks on her new album is "Undefeated".

Exposing the life and presidency of the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush, Lionsgate Films present the first teaser trailer of the Oliver Stone's latest feature film project "W". The video footage brings in the lights into the years before Bush even set his eyes on the White House.

Providing the background story to his life, the compilation of clips highlights on Bush's getting into troubles with his partying and gambling antics. It displays him being such a troublemaker up to the point that he is driving drunk and being caught by the police. Halfway through the teaser, the video holds out a question, that is what drove George W. Bush from the brat he was to be the #1 person in the United States.

The YouTube video she made with best pal Mandy Jiroux mocking Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez is quick to spread all over the net. And Miley Cyrus is wasting no time to issue an apology to both stars following a number of criticism and negative review addressed to her for mocking the Disney stars.

The four-plus-minute video Miley made with her friend and back-up dancer Mandy, mocking that of Demi and Selena's which was made several months ago, garnered quite a bit of buzz this week. The clip shows Miley and Mandy mimicking what Demi and Selena are saying and doing on their video.

Just before staging her scheduled gig in Jakarta, Indonesia, Alicia Keys was caught in a little problem regarding the upcoming concert's promo. The trouble occurred after the ad for her upcoming gig was being protested by an organization, Tobacco Free Kids who accused that the posters for the concert's ad is promoting cigarettes to youngster.

The organization wrote a protest letter to Alicia herself, stating that the sponsorship materials for her upcoming gig seems to put her as the face and representative for a cigarette product, A Mild. "The sponsorship materials for the July 31 concert include massive billboards ringing the city which effectively make your face and name part of a tobacco advertisement for 'A Mild' cigarettes," the letter read.

Is she or isn't she? Reports on Lindsay Lohan involved in a motorcycle accident have been mounting since his father's confirmation to the New York Post that his daughter was "nearly" run over by a motorbike over the weekend and rushed to a hospital in New York.

Lindsay was enjoying a night of clubbing in New York City with her alleged lesbian lover Samantha Ronson when the accident happened. Unfortunately, she was sideswiped by a person driving a motorcycle outside a club on 32nd Street after a heavy night of partying, her father Michael Lohan told the New York Post.

Apparently, many moviegoers didn't believe in the latest "The X-Files" feature film adaptation. Debuted in theaters a week after "The Dark Knight" made its record-breaking performance in the box office, "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" is far from presenting another impressive box office result. In fact, the sci-fi mystery movie has to be satisfied placing in fourth below its fellow newcomer "Step Brothers".

Pulling in $10 million over the three-days weekend, the Chris Carter's tidbit could not overshadow the success of "X-Files" first movie version which was released on June 19, 1998 and opened atop the box office chart with $30.1 million. Nevertheless, the disappointing result of the flick that teams up David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson once again was not a surprise. Box Office expert Gitesh Pandya has predicted that it would bow in following "Dark Knight" and "Step Brothers" with less than $20 million.

Having already set his eyes on a new album, Snoop Dogg is still keen on promoting his latest LP "Ego Trippin'" by premiering a new music video for the album's latest single on July 27. The new clip, which was directed by Dylan "Pook" Brown, was filmed to accompany the new track titled "Those Gurlz".

The new video showed Snoop's affection to women as he featured lots of female models on it. On the clip, the controversial rapper was seen doing lots of activities such as dancing, playing chess and relaxing at a luxurious mansion with the company of the girls.

Shia LaBeouf is at it again, run-in with the law. The actor was injured in a car crash in Hollywood on Sunday morning, July 27 and was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), the Associated Press reports.

Chronicling on the accident, Sergeant S. Wolf of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told AP that Shia was allegedly making a left turn at a West Hollywood intersection at around 3 A.M. Sunday when his green Ford F150 pickup struck another car and rolled over twice. "It was immediately apparent to officers responding on the scene that LaBeouf was intoxicated and he was subsequently placed under arrest," Wolf told the AP.