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Shakira to Start Family After Album Release

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Music, Celebrity Babies, Pregnancies

Shakira with boyfriend Antonio de la RuaShe Wolf Shakira wants to have a baby.

The 32-year-old singer, who has been engaged to Antonio de la Rua, 36, for the last four years, admits that her biological clock is ticking and she’s desperate to start a family.

“I’m dying to have a baby. We both are. I’d like two and Antonio would like three. So probably after my next album, which comes out next year. I don’t think it could be sooner because in 2010 I’ll be touring as well. In fact, my biological clock is already ticking and I don’t know how to describe it. It’s just becoming a physical need now.”

The pop star, who met Antonio nine years ago in a restaurant in Argentina, knew straight away he was “The One”: “The minute I walked in, I saw him sitting, and I thought, ‘That man is for me, he’s the man of my life.’ I kept staring at him until I got to meet him that night. And then I just followed my intuition and everything worked out. Frankly, meeting him that night was like winning the lottery.”

Although Shakira is engaged, she doesn’t plan to marry Antonio anytime soon. She said, “I think it’s more romantic to be that eternal girlfriend. We’re happy the way things are. Our relationship is strong and steady.”


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Shakira Had Dance Moves at Birth

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Music

Shakira trained hard for her Latin pop sensation Shakira claims that she could belly dance from birth.

The “She Wolf” singer is famed for her hip-swivelling abilities and believes it isn’t something she ever had to learn, even though she did have lessons as a child.

The Columbian beauty said, “For me, it was, and is, more of a natural thing. It’s something that was practically given to me at birth, and for which I never had to train myself. These movements, they are inside me and I can call them back whenever I need them.”

Shakira realizes she is a sex symbol to men all over the world but insists she is “flattered” that guys find her attractive because she has never believed she is a beautiful woman: “I must confess that I feel very flattered - because I never have felt particularly sexy. Anybody who shows me like this is promoting my feminine vanity.”

But Shakira - who appears virtually naked in the video for “She Wolf” - admits it’s not easy looking as good as she does, and she has to stick to a rigorous training regime to stay slim and sexy:

“I trained really hard for the “She Wolf” video - almost a month. I wanted to look good and didn’t want to shame myself. There was no muscle in my body that did not hurt. I was in pain for days, simply because I’d gone too far.”


Leighton Meester Performs Alongside Weezer

Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Music, Television, Videos


From covering Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” to sharing the living room stage with Taylor Swift, Weezer’s front man Rivers Cuomo seems to enjoy cozying up to cute pop stars as of late. Cuomo has now moved on to aspiring pop princesses, like Leighton Meester.

During an All Hallow’s Eve show in New York, the Gossip Girl actress performed a supposedly-spontaneous duet for the band’s latest single,  “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To.”

While her voice is lost in the video (who wouldn’t be intimidated?), I’m more concerned about her multi-colored leggings, sci-fi-inspired jacket, and Amy Winehouse hair.

Read More | LA Times

Taylor Swift Disinterested in Partying

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Music, Drugs, Drunk, Parties

Taylor Swift and fellow teenage popstar Miley CyrusCountry’s sweetheart Taylor Swift has no intention to be a Hollywood wild child.

The “Love Story” singer says going clubbing and drinking alcohol doesn’t interest her unlike many other stars her age:

“I’ve been given the freedom to do whatever I want. I’m 19 - if I want to storm out of the house and go to a club and get drunk and take my clothes off and run naked through Nashville, I can do that. I just really would rather not. It’s as simple as that. It’s not like I’ve been beaten down by some corporation that’s forcing me to always behave myself - I just naturally do. Sometimes people are fascinated by the fact that I don’t care about partying, almost to the point where they think it’s weird. I think when we get to the point where it’s strange for you not to be stumbling around high on something at 19, it’s a warped world.”

Taylor also says she is getting revenge on the girls who used to bully her at school by writing songs about them.

“I would go to school and not have anyone to talk to, but what I could look forward to was going home and writing something about it. There’s where the revenge of writing a song about someone who’s means to you started. If you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.”


Mariah Carey pays for her entourage to go to Cannes

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Movies, Music

Mariah carey nick cannon cannes has paid for her entourage to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Mariah, who is renowned for her diva-like behavior, was told there were not enough free tickets for her staff to attend the prestigious event and see her new movie Precious. Rather than be separated from her team, Mariah shelled out for a number of exclusive passes to ensure they could all go together.

A source told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “Mariah’s really close with her team and couldn’t bear the thought of a couple of people not being able to come, so she paid for it out of her pocket. That’s virtually unheard of in the celebrity world.”

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Listen to Hayden Panettiere’s New Single

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Music, Television, Videos

Here we go again. There’s yet another television star who wants to make it as a singer. This time around (Heroes) is the one assaulting our ears.

In a recent interview on his radio show, the 18-year-old told Ryan Seacrest she’s invested a lot into her music. In fact, she’s actually been working on her album for four years. (I can only imagine what 14-year-old Hayden would have produced.)

Listen to her new single, ‘Wake Up Call’, and let us know your opinions. Am I the only one who thinks the music doesn’t match the tone of the video?


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Read More | People

Beyonce and Jay-Z: Headed to the Altar?

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Music, Engagements, Rumors

Beyonce, Jay-ZCould this simply be an April Fool’s joke…or is that what they’d like you to believe?

According to People, and Jay-Z have finally taken the next step in their relationship:  They’ve secured a marriage license.  A source tells the magazine that the lovebirds - who have been together since 2002 - obtained the paperwork earlier today in Scarsdale, New York.

Assuming the rumors are true, that means we should probably expect to hear wedding bells for the musicians sometime very soon.  The license hits its expiration date in 60 days.

Read More | People

DWTS Celebrity Updates: Laila Ali, Sara Evans

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Music, Sports, Television, Engagements, Pregnancies, Where Are They Now?

Laila AliMirror ball, schmirror ball.  Two former participants of have had much better things to celebrate in the past few weeks.

In an upcoming issue of Essence magazine, reveals that she will soon have an entirely new role to master.  The professional boxer - and Season Four competitor - is now becoming a mom.

Laila, 30, married former NFL player Curtis Conway last July, just a few months after her dancing run ended.  Although this will be the couple’s first child together, Conway, 37, already has two sons and a daughter.

Pregnant or not, Ali is still expected to return as co-host of this summer.

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Read More | People

Dolly Parton’s Large Front Causes Problems with Her Back

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Music

Dolly PartonAdd large breasts to a tiny frame and what do you get?  A postponed concert tour.

Although she was weeks away from promoting her latest album, has been asked to give herself - and her gals - a rest.

It seems the country singer, who is probably best known for being full of life as well as her full bra, needs to take care of some ongoing physical issues.  As Parton put it, “Hey, you try wagging these puppies around a while and see if you don’t have back problems.”

Unfortunately a prescribed break will mean a delay of her upcoming shows.  The tour - originally scheduled to begin at the end of this month - will now be pushed back until at least April.

Until then, Dolly’s next album, Backwoods Barbie, will be available in stores Feb. 26th.

Read More | Reuters

Babies on Board: Gwen Stefani, Martie Maguire

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Music, Pregnancies

Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, KingstonWith on the verge on delivering her twins, it’s time for a few more musicians to step up and take over the pregnancy pounds.  Cue and .

Although no official statement has been released from Stefani’s camp, the father-in-law of ‘s lead singer just revealed the private details to People magazine.  Who needs a publicist when they have family?  (A British paper is reporting the performer is already 13 weeks along.)  This pregnancy would mark the second child for Gwen and rocker husband, .  Their first son - the ever-so-stylish Kingston - turns two this May.

In other baby news, country artist (wait - are they still even considered country?) announced she too is expecting.  The performer will welcome another girl into her family.  (She had twin girls back in 2004.)  Combined with ‘s three children and ’ two, the total baby count for the group will now reach eight.  Hopefully they can now officially move on from that stupid George Bush nonsense to care about more important things.

Read More | People

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