Madonna's Adoption Delayed

• Madonna is in Malawi, asking the court for approval to adopt a second child. [Times of London]
• Madonna‘s adoption ruling has been delayed until Friday; the court has not revealed why.

The child in question is four years old and named Mercy; her unmarried mother died soon after she was born. Madonna brought both Lourdes and David to Malawi with her and David visited with his biological father. “I was very happy to see him,” the father told The Associated Press, adding that David did not recognize him. “He asked me who I was.” [Yahoo via AP, Guardian]

• Madonna has purchased land in Malawi so she can build a school for girls. Some residents are afraid they will lose their homes and fields. [People]
• Save The Children is not happy about Madonna trying to adopt and a spokesperson says: “What Madonna is doing verges on a puppy parade. People like her are looking for the most beautiful child. They wouldn’t choose a child with a disability or special needs. It doesn’t help to take one child out of an orphanage to a huge palace and buy them a pony.” [Mirror]
• Is a Russian model/pop star named Irson Kudikova about to get engaged to Mickey Rourke? [Page Six]
• Britney Spears had passed President Obama in Twitter Followers, taking the #2 spot (CNN Breaking News is number 1). She tweeted: “#2 People!!! You guys continue to make me SOOO happy! I truly have the best fans on the planet! CAN’T WAIT for TEXAS tomorrow… – Bri.” Then Ashton Kutcher stole the #2 spot. [PopDirt]
• This report claims that Britney‘s Gulfstream jet is a mess: “The plane is stocked with Twinkies, beef jerky and M&Ms,” says a source. “When she’s done, she just throws the wrappers on the floor.” Plus, there are two puppies adding to the chaos, who “scoot” around like crazy. [Star]
• Breaking: Victoria Beckham seen in flip-flops! [JustJared]
• Michael Jackson‘s son, Prince Michael I, might join MJ on stage at the first of his London shows. That would certainly be… interesting. [MSNBC Scoop]
• Apparently Zac Efron‘s ears are dirty, because he was recently pelted with Q-Tips by a paparazzo. There’s video, but chances are it will just make you sad. [ONTD]
• More Zac Efron ear wax news. What a world we live in. [TMZ]
• Rihanna went dancing and a spywitness says “It was like the queen of England was out clubbing. You couldn’t even get anywhere near her, between the bodyguards and the people wanting to touch her. And it was so morbid, too — it’s all because she was beaten.” [E!]
• By the by, there is nothing going on between Rihanna and Frankie Delgado. But you knew that. [TMZ]
• Miley Cyrus cried upon winning Favorite Female Singer at the Kids’ Choice Awards. “I really thought I was going to lose, so thank you, guys.” [E!]
• Some are saying the crying was staged because Miley already knew she would be winning the award. She Tweets: “For all the haters saying I knew about my KCA before hand have nooo idea what they are talking about! I was so suprised! 🙂 thank u again xo” [PopDirt]
• Neither Chris Brown nor Rihanna attended the Kids’ Choice Awards. Rapper Soulja Boy was sad! “I was looking forward to seeing them here,” he said. [Yahoo News via AP]
• A woman harassed Ricky Martin at a club in South Beach, where he and “several male friends” were trying to have a good time. [Gatecrasher]
• John Mayer works the short-shorts on his cruise, the “Mayercraft Carrier.” [The Superficial]
• Mariah Carey was seen drinking glasses of red wine with a straw. Classy! [Gatecrasher]
• Lipstick Jungle is canceled. For real this time. [EW]
• Paris Hilton attended Perez Hilton’s birthday Party in a convergence of things that seem so three years ago. [PopDirt]
• Fox is developing a dating show with “average-looking” people. By that, they mean overweight. It’s called More To Love and the bachelor is a “Kevin James type.” [Yahoo via Reuters]
• Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly boycotts Sean Penn films. Think Sean Penn cares? [Yahoo via Reuters]
• Joely Richardson has returned to work, ten days after her sister Natasha died. [The Sun]
• Ugly Betty star Ana Ortiz is pregnant and expecting a baby girl at the end of July. She says: “I’ve had a great experience so far. Talk to me in another month.” [People]
• Amy Winehouse is a thumbsucker. [People]
• Yes, the ShamWow guy punched a prostitute. Police say “Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons.” [The Smoking Gun, Hollywood Rag]
• Monsters vs. Aliens scared up $58.2 million at the box office; big numbers. [USA Today]
• But one of the reasons Monsters vs. Aliens made so much? 3-D tickets cost more. [NY Times]
• Rhys Ifans has been cast in the next Harry Potter flick; he’ll play Xenophilius Lovegood. [Daily Express]
• RIP composer Maurice Jarre, who wrote the music for Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence Of Arabia. [Independent]
• Blind item! “Which top actor got caught with his pants down in a club’s closet with two very unattractive women, which his friends all proceeded to laugh at?” [Gatecrasher]
• “I was assuming that [my character’s days were numbered] at one point and I got a lot of shrugged shoulders and shakes of the head, so I don’t know if that’s a yes or a no. No one will tell me and I don’t know how this is going to go. I don’t know if I live or die. I don’t know how Izzie fares.” — Katherine Heigl. [E!]
• “In the film we made penises, and I’m walking around them — we have made them more or less the same dimensions, but there are bug penises, giraffe penises, goat penises. They are like a forest of penises. … I was already playing a starfish, or a bug. I thought that stretch was much bigger, to be a sea creature than to play a male! But the real reason is sometimes [males] move more. For example, the female spider sits on the web, and she is three to five times bigger than the male, so he has to approach her. I was reluctant to do mammals, because they look so similar to us. But what’s interesting about the whale is the female puts her vagina on the surface of the water, out of the reach of the male. Then she can see the males fight and she can select which one she likes, and then she turns over and lets him get to her. I thought, I can do that!” — Isabella Rossellini, on playing the parts of animals, in her web series Green Porno. [NY Post]
• “I’m looking forward to knowing what’s going on – I still have no clue. The only thing I ever got right was the island moving, which was pretty good. But that’s it. I don’t know what the story is or where we will end up.” — Josh Holloway, aka Sawyer, of Lost. He also says when the show ends he will get a haircut: “One of our camera operators had a beautiful Mohawk. I’ve always wanted one.” [The Sun]
• “Rule one – you don’t play on the snooker table unless you’ve been asked. And, secondly, you never, ever, take the shepherd’s pie unless Keith Richards‘ broken the crust first.” — Mick Jagger, on touring with the Rolling Stones. [The Sun]
• “My first bra was not very exciting. I was a late bloomer-the last of my girlfriends to get one. It was this horrible training bra-type thing, but it prompted me to save my money and buy my own darn bra. My mom was like, ‘You can’t have the black lace one.’ And I was like, ‘Why not?’ I’ve never equated beautiful lingerie with seduction or sex. It’s not about trying to get a man. Not at all. It’s about surrounding myself with beauty in my everyday life-whether it’s a bra or a notebook. I want everything around me to be attractive because I look at it every day.” — Dita Von Teese. [JustJared]
• “The biggest misconception about me is that I am not a real person. The assumption is that my eccentricity is not who I really am, but it is. I have lost my mind.” — Lady GaGa. [NY Mag]