Madonna To Marry Jesus?

Madonna and Jesus Luz are reportedly planning a “commitment ceremony” in front of a rabbi at the Kabbalah Center in New York. Oooh, and a source says:

“Lourdes mocks him by calling him The Babysitter, because he is so young. She likes him, but also likes winding him up.” Hee hee, “get off the babysitter!” [Mirror]

Robin Wright Penn talked to Gotham magazine for the June issue — obviously before Sean filed for divorce — and said: marriage is “real work, but that’s what you sign up for. And it pays off beautifully, it really does. The outcome, the reward is so great because then your love grows out of those hard times.” Now Sean Penn is allegedly seeing Natalie Portman. So. [Page Six]
Oprah! At Duke! Doing a commencement speech! And getting an honorary degree! She told students to “stand proudly in your own shoes while you help others stand in theirs.” And! “One of the best ways to enhance your own life is to enhance somebody else’s.” [Breitbart]
Oprah sent a film crew over to Blackburn, Scotland, to Susan Boyle‘s house. In the interview, which will be broadcast today, Boyle says: “I am not lonely. Everyone has been so nice. I’ve got millions of new friends now.” [Telegraph]
Paris Hilton spent a romantic week in Anguilla with boyfriend Doug Reinhardt, and updated her Twitter page constantly, with messages like “Love being in Love 🙂 Best feeling in the world” and “Playing some golf together 🙂 Golfing is fun” and “Loving life with my love” and “Lovers in paradise” and “My smooches from a secret island.” Lots of pix of her kissing the dude, too. [Daily Mail]
Christian Bale‘s part in Terminator Salvation was originally much smaller; the film’s main character is not actually John Conner, played by Bale, but Marcus Wright, played by Sam Worthington. Director McG said the script had to be adjusted to “integrate” Bale more. [Hollywood Reporter]
When Jennifer Lopez‘s daughter Emme was about three weeks old, she discovered a lump on the child’s head. “We both got very nervous, very very nervous, and I just remember my heart sinking to my feet,” Lopez says. “I looked at [Marc] and I said, ‘You know if anything happens, I’m not going to be okay, you know that right?'” Emme was fine but Lopez was inspired to work with Childrens Hospital Los Angeles to help medical services to the less fortunate. “I started to wonder,” Lopez said, “what if I couldn’t afford a doctor, or receive the medicines, the procedures?” [Yahoo News via E!]
Who were the stars at the White House Correspondents Dinner? Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Eva Longoria Parker, Owen Wilson, Donatella Versace, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Kerry Washington, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick, Kenneth Cole, Jason Wu and “a smattering of mayors, diplomats and ambassadors.” Donatella went in 2008 and says ths year “was much better.” Then she told everyone to “get ooooout.” [WWD]
More from the WHCD! Rahm Emanuel seated next to Barbara Walters! Jon Hamm was there! Donatella Versace was hanging out with Jonathan Rhys Meyers! Political pundit Craig Crawford asked Jason Bateman a question! Ludacris had a “long talk” with Bill O’Reilly! [Politico]
According to this report, at the WHCD, “No matter who’s in the room, the Obamas outshine all challengers.” [MSNBC]
Noted political junkie Ben Affleck missed the WHCD! He was sick. [mediabistro.com]
New York Mag: How did you deal with everyone in the room eating steak?
Kate Hudson: Oh, I ate it.
Stella McCartney: If you just give up meat one day a week, it has, like, the biggest impact environmentally.
Kate: Well, I’m interested in change.
Stella: You can do that! Unless you’re like some kind of caveman carnivore…Or are you a cavewoman?
Kate: Uh, me? I don’t eat meat every day! Are you out of your mind? I’d have a heart attack!
Stella: Jolly. So she’s fine. She’s good. [NY Mag]
Re: Rihanna nude pix: This paper points out that she has many tattoos, none of which are see in the images purported to be her. [NY Daily News]
Chris Brown says he didn’t leak the Rihanna pix. [The Sun]
All that cardio pays off between the sheets! A stripper says Michael Phelps “should get another Olympic gold for marathon love-making!” because “the sex lasted for about three hours.” [NY Post]
Miss California Carrie Prejean‘s lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to the website hosting her underwear pix saying she was underage and that one shot is a Photoshop manipulation; the site has responded: “Your client’s publicity rights are substantially inferior to the right of the public to consider, discuss, agree and/or disagree with Ms. Prejean’s actions and views. This is not conduct for which your client’s consent is required.” Oh snap. [TMZ]
By the by, Carrie Prejean has recorded a phone message for National Organization for Marriage, asking people to donate money and sign a petition against gay marriage. [TMZ]
And! Those “topless” pix? Taken well-after Carrie Prejean turned 18, not when she was 17, as she claims. [TMZ]
Amy Winehouse had a crappy performance at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, but the tourism minister says: “It’s a shame it did not go better but we will bring her back in the future. We fully support her and hope she can get well. We have a lot of admiration for her.” [The Sun]
Swine flu be damned! Hugh Jackman will head to Mexico to promote Wolverine. [Mirror]
Quentin Tarantino talks Inglourious Basterds, 70% of which is in French or German. “When you see the Germans speaking English with a German accent or sounding like British thespians, it just seems very quaint,” he says. “That’s one thing I don’t want this film to have.” Execs at the studio are not worried about the heavy use of subtitles: “Tarantino is a universal language,” said one. [NY Times]
Rachel McAdams has an environmental website, green is sexy, and says: “It’s funny because when people come to my house they think everything is broken because I don’t have anything plugged in. Guests are always saying things like: ‘You need a new light bulb here’ and I go around to the lamp and say: ‘You’ve got to just plug it in!”‘ [Sydney Morning Herald]
“WARNING: This may hurt your eyes… Beth Ditto strips down to her Spanx.” Eh, fuck you, Daily Fail. [Daily Mail]
Kim Kardashian is getting married! Eventually. “So many people rush into it and it’s all this pressure because they see we’ve been together for a while,” she says of beau Reggie Bush, whom she has been dating since 2007. “But, we’re heading there. When we’re ready, we’ll know.” [People]
Boy George has been released from jail — early — and lost a few pounds during the four months he was in the slammer. [Daily Mail]
This report says Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell are secretly engaged but don’t want to make a formal announcement lest Heather Mills make some kind of scene; McCartney’s rep is quoted about the rumor, saying, “There is no truth in it whatsoever. They have not become engaged in any shape or form. It is utter nonsense.” [Daily Express]
Jerry Hall was writing an autobiography — being called an “explosive, tell-all account” of her life with Mick Jagger — but the book has been abandoned. Apparently the publishers were “disappointed” with the lack of Jagger dirt. In JERRY’S autobiography. There was, however, a lot of gossip about Carla Bruni… [Daily Mail]
Bjork sang with the Dirty Projectors at “her smallest gig of the year” Friday night in a bookstore in NYC, in front of 300 people. [NY Times]
“Serial dater Geri Halliwell‘s relationship gets serious as she meets aristocrat lover’s parents.” [Daily Mail]
Nineteen year old JoJo Simmons, son of Rev Run Simmons of Run-DMC, was caught rolling a joint in his BMW and has been arrested and charged with a bunch of stuff. [UPI]
Awww, on Mother’s Day, Florence Henderson, aka Carol Brady, says, “I get mail from all over the world, 122 countries.” [UPI]
Shirley Jones, 75, who was the mom on The Partridge Family, may pose nude for Playboy. Her husband/manager says, “Mature women are relevant.” [Page Six]
Is Kylie Minogue gonna get hitched to her hot hot Spanish boyfriend? [Daily Mail]
Nia Vardalos talks about becoming a mom of a toddler — overnight. She adopted a 3-year-old from a foster family agency and says her daughter “arrived without an instruction manual. I didn’t know if she had a sleep schedule, food allergies – there wasn’t even a note pinned to her shirt. She just walked in and looked up at me, like “got lunch?” [People]
Barbra Streisand‘s personal assistant: Busted on drug charges in Malibu on Wednesday. Cops found cocaine, methamphetamines and a weapon in her car. Sometimes people who help people who need people need a bump. [LA Times]
Label exec Irv Gotti says he is dropping Ashanti from The Inc. They haven’t been on speaking terms for some time; in 2007 Gotti told Wendy Williams he and Ashanti had sex even though he was a married man. [MTV]
Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell tore his calf muscle during the first song in a concert in Atlanta. He finished the show and then took an ambulance to the hospital; doctors are telling him to stay off the leg for a few days. [AP]
If you have £500,000, you can buy David Beckham‘s “modest” childhood home in east London. [BBC News]
Blind item! “Which married TV actor used the Correspondents Dinner as an excuse to meet up with his occasional mistress?” [Gatecrasher]
“I wasn’t familiar with rugby league beforehand and I don’t profess to be an expert now. But everything I do know about rugby league, I know from Russell Crowe.” — Rachel McAdams, who became friends with the Aussie while shooting State Of Play and even watched a game with him via satellite at three in the morning. [Sydney Morning Herald]
“I wanted audiences to think, ‘This guy could easily rip someone’s head off’, so I worked hard to achieve that physique. I ran and had to lift very heavy weights. Every morning I’d get up and there was a part of me that just wanted to collapse, but you just have to keep going, it’s full-on testosterone. When I’m training, I’m fairly obnoxious, I really make a big thing of it and there is a lot of noise. I play driving music like Metallica that I would never otherwise listen to. I consulted a bodybuilder and what I realized is that how you look is 30% how you train and 70% how you eat. No carbs after lunch. Six to eight chicken breasts a day, two at each sitting, 4,000 calories in total. I really enjoyed eating pizza at the end of the movie, trust me, and I had half a dozen beers on the final day of shooting.” — Hugh Jackman, on achieving the look of Wolverine. [Mirror]
“I knew I had to build a body, and I ate a lot of wheat and chain-smoked. That will do it! The woman had to feel like she really had been drinking for 25 years. Now, I have not been drinking for 25 years. I’m a relatively healthy individual, so the first thing I had to do was make myself look like I was super-wrecked, which took a bit of time.” — Tilda Switon, on playing a “ferociously dedicated alcoholic” in Julia. [USA Today]
“I see Amelia as that fast-talking, Katharine Hepburn type of woman. She’s powerful and authoritative with some chutzpah. I am much more cautious, I don’t take as many physical risks as her. I see her as a woman who’s ahead of her time but also having fun, embracing that sense of adventure; it’s about believing in yourself and your passions and making the most of the time that you have in life.” — Amy Adams, on playing Amelia Earhart in Night A The Museum 2. [Daily Mail]
“Jack is gun crazy. Over here you can buy real guns. I have this horrible thing: I can see this movie in my head where he’s messing around and shoots himself in the foot. Sharon goes to me, ‘Oh darling, he’s been surrounded by guns all his life.’ But there is a difference between an air rifle and a 45-calibre pistol. I said to Jack, ‘If someone got into your house would you be willing to use the gun?’ He said, ‘Sure.'” — Ozzy Osbourne. [Daily Express]
“We visited Panzi Hospital where IMC is training doctors and which has become world-renowned because of its incredible work with thousands of women who are in need of surgical repair for a condition called ‘fistula,’ a severe gynecologic rupture. It’s a frighteningly common condition in eastern DRC because of lack of obstetric care, and the epidemic of rape. Panzi Hospital’s Founder and Director is Dr. Denis Mukwege, often referred to as “the savior of women ” and was named by a prestigious Nigerian newspaper as African of the Year in 2008. He shared some of his experiences with us and as you can imagine, they are horrific. The youngest rape victim he has had to treat was a three year old girl.” — Sienna Miller, who is in the Congo, working with International Medical Corps. [Huffington Post]