Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles is currently in legal proceedings with her husband and the singer’s manager Mathew Knowles. The soon to be former couple decided to release a statement to The Associated Press regarding their divorce, saying “The decision to end our marriage is an amicable one. We remain friends, parents, and business partners. If anyone is expecting an ugly messy fight, they will be sadly disappointed. We ask for your respect of our privacy as we handle this matter.” Boo! With one of their kids being such a music cash cow, I was hoping for loads of drama to come out of their divorce.
It seems Rihanna’s problems do not revolve only around her incident with Chris Brown… what a surprise, huh? The singer has not talked with her father in over a year, even though she claims to have done her part in trying to reestablish the connection. This is what Rihanna said on the matter: “I’ve been the one trying to reconcile with him forever. I haven’t heard from my father in over a year. I try though, I reached out to him. I did my part. Now it’s on him.” Of course her father is saying exactly the opposite. Wow, it looks like Rihanna’s family is a really be tight unit, doesn’t it? Didn’t they all get along better when she was still in a relationship with Chris Brown?
Joel Madden has said his daughter Harlow is “so happy” to be a big sister to new brother Sparrow.
The 30-year-old Good Charlotte singer became a dad for the second time when girlfriend Nicole Richie, 27, gave birth to son Sparrow James Midnight on September 30.
Madden said: “I love kids, I love working with kids, I love being around kids.”
Asked about how Harlow has adapted to being a big sister, he said: “She loves it. She’s so happy, she’s just psyched. She totally gets it. It fit in perfectly there – hasn’t been a hitch.”
Madden said that parenthood is much easier the second time around: “Well, one, it’s a boy – so you’re not as precious, so he’s going to be a little tougher.”
Gordon Ramsay brought his wife and two daughters along to a US TV interview – and admitted that his kids often catch sneaky glimpses of his foul-mouthed telly antics, despite not being allowed to watch his shows.
The British chef’s wife Tana and daughters Matilda and Holly joined him at the Good Day LA studios, as he plugged the new US series of Hell’s Kitchen, and laughed as the hosts teased fiery Ramsay about being a “pussycat” at home.
Dad-of-four Ramsay, who also showed off his tanned stomach, was asked if he lets his children watch his shows.
He replied: “Oh no, not yet. A few more years.
“Although they do sneak down and they have these occasional little sort of movies together in their bedrooms, where they get the DVDs.
“Then they remind us the next morning at breakfast, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe (contestant) Robert was so arrogant last night.’
“We’re like, ‘How do you know?’”
Ramsay said of Tana: “Tana does the cooking at home. She’s a great chef.”
The F Word star showed off his LA tan as the hosts introduced their next guest – perma-tanned actor George Hamilton.
Michael Jackson’s sudden death re-opened the wounds of the family of Heath Ledger.
Similar circumstances of suspected drug use and the loneliness of a star have brought back the pain of the discovery of Ledger’s death in January, 2008, said Heath’s father Kim Ledger.
“On the day Michael died, I spoke to my daughters and former wife Sally and we all had such a down day,” Ledger told a women’s magazine in Australia.
But Kim has now taken a tougher line on Ledger’s death.
“At the end of the day, we’re all responsible for what goes into us and I blame Heath for not being responsible,” he said.
Ledger was found to have taken prescription drugs signed for by three different doctors on three countries.
A recent story in Vanity Fair magazine has claimed a combination of drugs, a break-up with Michelle Williams and insomnia caused Ledger’s death.
Kim, his former wife and Heath’s mother, Sally Bell, and one of Heath’s sisters took to the stage to accept a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the star in Los Angeles.
Jade Goody’s husband Jack Tweed has visited his wife’s grave just hours after he was released from prison.
Tweed, 21, was released from an Essex prison after serving half of a 12-week sentence for assaulting a taxi driver.
Goody died in March this year after losing her battle with cervical cancer. The couple married just weeks before she passed away.
Tweed will be having a party in a local nightclub to celebrate his release. Magistrates told him that he would have received a harsher sentence if it wasn’t for his “personal circumstances”.
Actress Andie MacDowell doesn’t believe women should always be the ones to give up their career and bring up children.
MacDowell, 51, is married to former model Paul Qualley and they have three children – Justin, Rainey and Sarah-Margaret. MacDowell admits she was the main breadwinner when her children were growing up.
Asked if she felt guilty about being a working mother, she said: "I think there’s always guilt, but I was always the breadwinner, so why was society torturing me? Why does it keep trying to put the burden of childcare on the woman?
"I think that if the woman is making more money, then what’s wrong with the man nurturing a child and taking what has traditionally been a woman’s role – and feel good about doing it?"
She added: "There are still stereotypes which are unjust and unrealistic because society has changed so much. At the same time, if you do have a man willing to take care of you, it’s a great choice to stay home and look after your children. But I don’t think your children have to turn out to be derelicts or bad people if you have to work.
It seems that the singer’s biological clock was to blame for the split between her and Lance Armstrong three years ago. Lance Armstrong was the one who made the news about Sheryl Crow’s relationship-killing biological clock public as he said recently: “She wanted marriage, she wanted children; and not that I didn’t want that, but I didn’t want that at that time because I had just gotten out of a marriage, I’d just had kids.” Too bad for Sheryl Crow… it seems mother nature got the best of her. But, at least it’s to late for her biological clock to interfere with any of her further relationships since it probably rang a long time ago.
Actress Natascha McElhone has spoken out about the death of her husband and how she gave birth to their third son alone.
Natascha, 37, was four months pregnant with her third child when her husband Martin Kelly died suddenly of a heart condition. They have two older sons Theo, now eight, and Otis, five.
She gave birth to son Rex in October last year, just five months after Martin’s death, and chose to give birth alone. She said: “It just felt right somehow.”
Natascha added to Britain’s Hello! magazine: “If Martin couldn’t be there, I couldn’t replace him with someone, as that would have felt very strange. I wanted to be on my own because that was the way it was going to be.”
She added: “I was going to be my baby’s only parent so I may as well get used to it. But I was fortunate to have the most brilliant obstetrician. He knew Martin, so he was wonderful.”
Talking about her late husband, she said: “He was the most magical father you could wish for. I often used to look at him in action and think: ‘Wow! I would have loved that as a kid.’”
She added: “He had this gift for doing the unexpected and turning everything on its head, which children adore, whereas I tend to gravitate towards the safer and more obvious.”
Natascha added that she still talks about her husband with their two older sons.
She said: “We speak about him all the time. He’s very present in our lives. They don’t really ask questions, but I think kids live very much in the moment and I anticipate that, later on in their lives, they will have many.”
On May 20 it will be a year since Martin’s death and Natascha plans to remember the day as a “happy” one. She said: “It’ll be a happy occasion; a celebration of his life. Martin was such a huge man in every way and so very funny, so there is a lot to celebrate.”
Katie Price and Peter Andre’s youngest son Junior already has a way with the ladies.
On a visit to a resturant, during the family’s recent stay in the US, the three-year-old demanded their belly-dancing waitress gave him a kiss.
“I want to kiss girls on the lips,” the tot said. After puckering up no less than three times, a lipgloss-covered Junior told the camera: “I’ve got lipstick.”
Even Andre, a renowned ladies’ man before meeting wife Katie, seemed shocked at how forward his youngest son is becoming.
He said: “That kid is unbelievable, I never got to do what he’s doing, that’s too much. Three years old, kissing a belly dancer on the lips, three times.”
Or at least not too soon, as Julia Roberts says. She stated the following in a recent interview: “My first instinct is that if my children wanted to be artists, that they wait. I would prefer that they just wait as long as they can.” A good approach, you have to admit, but Julia Roberts should know that if her children wait too long they will find themselves in the inability to fulfill their desires. It is such an interesting paradox that sometimes you never really know what you want to do and it is too late to do it when you finally find out. Will Julia Roberts be able to avoid this paradox? Find out next week or maybe in a couple of years!
The Coldplay singer recently admitted that his father seems to be much more of a rock star than himself. Chris Martin said this about his father, Anthony: “My dad is more of a rock star than me. He embraces the lifestyle. People think having your dad on tour would cramp your style. But I don’t have any style – he’s got all the right moves. He’s living the dream. I’m going to check he hasn’t trashed the hotel room before we leave each city.” We could probably say that here the expression “like father, like son” applies the other way around. Chris Martin’s dad probably took his son’s example. He’ll probably pick up a guitar and start his own band sooner than you’d expect.
It was reported that Usher cancelled on the chance to perform for Clive Davis at the 2009 Grammy Salute to Industry Icons honoring the music mogul due to an emergency with his wife Tameka Foster. There are no further details on the surgery that she underwent in Brazil this past weekend but Usher’s camp just released a statement regarding her condition. They say “Tameka Foster is in stable condition after suffering complications from routine surgery in Brazil. Her husband, Usher, is with her at the hospital. No further details will be released, and the family requests privacy at this difficult time.” Routing surgery in Brazil. Why Brazil?
Any person would be heartbroken upon losing a young son and John Travolta is no different. It is certainly a rude shock and something that might alter life completely for this actor.
“He never dreamed of this – their relationship was so close,” family attorney Mike Ossi told press. “He always said ‘I’m happy as long as my kids are happy.’ He is heartbroken … To bury your son is the worst thing you can ever do.”
I think people are really shocked themselves and it is really immeasurable to quantify the pain and grief that John and his entire would be going through at this time.
The latest reports say that a caretaker found Jett in an unresponsive state at nearly 10AM on January 2, 2009 and then Jett’s father John tried desperately to bring his son back to life.
“He didn’t want anything to happen to that boy, and he kept on trying to revive him,” Ossi said. “He did mouth-to-mouth until they had to physically remove John to take Jett to the hospital.”
Jaden Smith would soon cease to be known as the son of Will Smith considering the way his career is moving up. The whole Smith family which included his dad, mom Jada and his sister were a sight to behold at the red carpet during the premiere of Jaden’s latest movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. The young Smith, who co-stars with Keanu Reeves in this movie, plays the 8-year old stepson of Jennifer Connely (who plays the role of scientist Helen Benson) who succeeds in making contact with Reeves (Klaatu) who is a humanoid alien in this movie.
The science fiction movie which talks about environmental degradation is Jaden’s first movie after he was seen in the critically-acclaimed “The Pursuit Of Happiness”. His fans will however get more of him as he was chosen to star in the new version of “The Karate Kid” movie. A good match, shall we say considering that Jaden is a martial arts practitioner. The movie was a hit wayback in 1984 and it is expected to be even a bigger hit with Jaden in the movie. Chris Murphy is preparing the script for the movie which will start filming in Beijing next year.
“The Karate Kid” will be produced by Overbrook Entertainment, the same company that produced “The Pursuit Of Happiness” as well as Jerry Weintrub who is known for launching the original Karate Kid movie franchise. In the meantime fans may already be lining up for his new movie with Reeves which was shown in theaters starting December 12.
The actor recently declared that he is happy with his very unusual family. He had his seventh child with his present wife, Dina Cruiz. Thus, he has seven children with four different women. He relates the event: “I love my dysfunctional family. Dina fell pregnant on our honeymoon. After a few weeks, she said she felt a little nausea. She asked me to stop at a gas station so she could buy one of those sticks. She came back and said, ‘We’re pregnant.’ At least nobody stood there with a shotgun when we got married!” He was 66 at the time so he must’ve really been packing from his old western days if he managed to get his wife pregnant at that age. Great going Clint! A fine show of force against the expansion of the Jolie/Pitt brood.
Brad Pitt says that he ain’t too good at cooking things but in the same tune he insists that Angelina Jolie is no better than him and said that at best she’s only been able to prepare “cereal” for him.
The Hollywood couple has six children and raises all of the six together, but Pitt admits in between the two both are not gifted with even basic skills to be able to conjure up a meal for their family – because they just can’t cook.
But Brad you guys have what scores of the Hollywood couples do not and that is you remain good friends and partners to one another despite not being officially married. Marriage at times means being bound by a relationship and breaking a relationship is not always the easiest of thing to do.
You always put in your best efforts to save it but here you guys are not bound but yet to remain faithful and bounded by love and affection.
Star Wars’ Princess Amidala may be a toughie when it comes to battling intergalactic decisions but here’s one decision she found out is really tough to live up to—going back to her parent’s home and living with them. Portman admitted she made the wrong decision to move back to her parents’ home after she broke up with Devendra Banhart, her musician boyfriend.
Portman and Banhart met during the filming of the music video Carmensita last March. She allegedly moved to Los Angeles to be closer to Banhart but now that they are not together anymore, Portman opted to return home to her parents. And while the two have remained friends after the split up they need time and space away from each other.
This 27-year old star who was a revelation in Boleyn Girls said she is temporarily residing with her parents because she is homeless. However, she added that living with them is a difficult experience. At first, she thought it was cool being able to go home to a good meal but it later turned out to be troublesome.
The last time Portman was in the news was when she admitted her regrets about stripping for the movie Hotel Chevalier. Her sex scene with Jason Schwartzman in the movie required her to be naked and while she is not a prude, she regretted the fact that her photos ended up in porn sites.
Jennifer Hudson has been taking covers of a lot of celebrity weekly magazines, the most recent being People, after the brutal murders of her mother, brother and young nephew. The singer and actress has been left devastated and searching for answers. William Balfour, the star’s 27-year old brother-in-law, is considered the main suspect in this case. He is out on parole despite a drug bust. For some reason, the corrections department declined to revoke his parole, allowing him to remain on the streets. The ex-con was also imprisoned for over 7 years for charges of attempted murder and vehicular hijacking.
