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For those who wait in anticipation for the birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's first child, marking the calendar from now on to June 3 is probably worth to be carried out as the actress has determined to deliver her offspring by the date at the latest, whether the process is natural or induced.

In their preparation, the twosome have already flown their obstetrician/gynecologist to Namibia's Burning Shore resort so that if Jolie has not yet given birth by the specified date she will get it induced instead.

Madame Tussauds in New York has on Thursday May 25th, 2006 unveiled its latest wax creation of Britney Spears.

The wax figure features the pop superstar suspended upside down from a stripper pole, appearing as she looked in 2000, before getting married or having a child.

As the fifth season of Fox's hugely successful reality program "American Idol" eventually came to its finale on May 24, it is the gray-haired soul singer Taylor Hicks who at last was named the show's winner after gaining the highest point of votes of million viewers all around the States.

Becoming the oldest "American Idol" winner to date, the Alabama native gloriously beat down beautiful ballader Katharine McPhee to secure a lavish recording contract while also will see his first-single release in the next few days. "Thank you America! I'm living the American Dream," so he joyously screamed at the end of the show.

Returning from their two-week honeymoon in Fiji, newlyweds Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott seems to have fixed on the same intention to start a family as they both like the idea of having a baby as soon as possible.

"I would love a little girl," so McDermott told Us Weekly. "We just would want a healthy one." Agreeing her husband's statement, Spelling added, saying "We are going to have many, so there's plenty of opportunity for a girl." Good luck for both of you then.

This year's Tony Awards sure will be a shining star-studded affair for the organizers for the event have revealed their plan to feature 60 celebrity hosts to represent each year of the theatre world's prize-giving ceremony as it celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Among the hosts, there certainly are notably names like Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Cynthia Nixon, Martin Short, plus Mark Ruffalo.

Following the debate whether Mischa Barton was really forced to leave Fox popular series of "The O.C" or not, the show creator, Josh Schwartz, finally gave his remark concerning the matter. Concluded to kill Barton's character, Marissa Cooper, in the series' season finale aired May 18, the man firmly claimed that the elimination was purely a creative decision and had nothing to do with the actress.

"She was a complete professional," he commented earnestly. Nevertheless, a source close to the program has informed that the character was actually killed to raise the show's profile as it lately had tough struggle in the ratings. "Everybody's talking about The OC again, and that's exactly what they want," so the person said.

The 41st annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards held Tuesday night May 23rd, 2006 saw the winning of several notable musicians. Among the many winners at the prestigious event, there was Brooks & Dunn who nabbed two awards all at once, one of which was for Vocal Duo category while the other one was for Song of the Year for "Believe".

Elsewhere, the Male Vocalist award went to Keith Urban and the Female Vocalist prize was given to Sara Evans. Besides them all there were also Rascal Flatts and Jason Aldean to mention some others, each of which brought home the award for the category of Vocal Group and New Male Vocalist. As of the Female Vocalist award the winner was Carrie Underwood who at the same time also won Single Record of the Year for "Jesus Take the Wheel".

Reports on the street mention that immigration officials have banned M.I.A. from entering the US. Further report claims that the singer has been failed in her bid to get a U.S. visa.

Explaining on what actually happens, M.I.A. reveals that she actually was scheduled to work with acclaimed hip-hop production pioneer Timbaland on the record. And in an online message posted at her MySpace site she said "I was mennu work with timber startin' this week...I'm locked out! They wont let me in! Now I'm strictly making my album outside the borders"

This time Teri Hatcher intended to take double duty instead of just one. The actress will voice a dual role opposite Dakota Fanning in "Coraline," an animated film based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 international best-seller, which features songs from They Might Be Giants.

There in the Henry Selick's direction, Hatcher plays both the mother of the title character, voiced by Fanning, and her other mother in a parallel universe. "Coraline" actually is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her flat leads to another world, with another mother, and another father.

Pete Doherty and the band he fronts Babyshambles, altogether, have been dropped from record label Rough Trade Records. Concerning that matter, the U.K. press over the weekend claimed that the decision to drop the band came after an incident last week during which Doherty squirted a syringe of blood over an MTV news crew.

"Rough Trade were in the process of renegotiating a deal, but the talks broke down because it just proved to be so difficult to deal with Pete and the people he surrounds himself with," so said a source. However, Rough Trade Records have denied claims that Doherty's controversial antics prompted the decision to let the band go.

Chris Martin, the frontman of music group Coldplay, is putting himself up for auction. The man has confirmed he will play an exclusive one-song gig in the living room of a child at the Canonbury Primary School in North London.

Not without reason but Chris agreed to play the show because Coldplay's business manager, Paul Makin, is in fact a parent at the school. Thus, the exclusive one-off performance by him has been auctioned for £5,000 (approximately $10,000).

Has been inspired by seeing the spring flowers during her pregnancy, Geri Halliwell at last comes to "Bluebell Madonna" to name her newly born daughter.

"What really clinched it for me was my mother telling me that the bluebell is increasingly rare, so it's a precious flower, which seems just right for my daughter," so Halliwell told Britain's Hello! magazine.

The on-again, off-again couple, Nicole Richie and Adam Goldstein are off again.

"We are confirming that we have amicably separated," the pair said in a statement released Monday May 22nd, 2006 by Richie's publicist, Cindy Guagenti.

While rumors on the street say that Nicole Kidman is going to hold her marriage with Keith Urban on June 25 later this year in Sydney, Australia, talk is heating up about actress and singer Bette Midler set to perform at the event.

It is said that Midler will sing the song "Wind Beneath My Wings," taken from the soundtrack of the film "Beaches."

Two concerts of The Rolling Stones, which both scheduled to be held later this summer in Paris, have been postponed. While released the confirmation, French organizers said Tuesday May 23rd, 2006 that the music act has yet set replacement dates.

The concerts actually had been slated for June 3 and July 2 at the Stade de France stadium, that's for everybody to know. Aside from the cancellation, an August 8 concert in the French Riviera city of Nice will still work as scheduled.