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Just days after the tragic death of boyfriend DJ AM, model Hayley Wood has released a statement, denying the rumors that the couple’s breakup caused the untimely passing. Hayley said “Any indication that this horribly tragic accident happened because of a rumored breakup is not only untrue but disgusting. We were very much together at the time of his passing, and I love him very much.” I can’t imagine the pain that she’s going through right now. I guess I still am fortunate to have not gone through any pain like losing someone so tragically. My condolences go out to Hayley and the rest of DJ AM’s family and loved ones.
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Emma Watson has proved herself on a lot of fronts, but her stellar table tennis ability is not well-known among them.

Co-stars in the Harry Potter series, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are said to have banned her from challenging them to the game.

The 19 year old who is enrolled to start at New York’s Columbia University has thrashed Radcliffe and Grint more than once.

Table tennis is a valued form of relaxation for Grint, 20. He kept a ping-pong table in his room during the shooting of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Radcliffe, 20, said recently that Watson, “wipes the floor with me every time I play her.”

Source: Splash News

Katy Perry joked in a recent interview that she was hoping to do her own version of the infamous Madonna lesbian kiss with none other than Miley Cyrus. While the rest of us just laughed at her humor, Miley just doesn’t get it. The skanky teen told E! “No thanks. She sang on my record. So I think she’s kind of getting back at me, because she was doing harmonies and backgrounds.” Too bad for her, Katy’s retort just made her look stupid. Katy said “6 weeks in a row at number one. And she recorded two of my old songs.”

The ‘Together Again’ star – who has been dating record producer Jermaine Dupri since 2002 – thinks Alicia is “wonderful” and admires both her beauty and talent. When asked who she would have a lesbian fling with, Janet replied: “I think I would pick Alicia Keys. I think she’s wonderful.”

Janet believes people often question the sexual orientation of Alicia and US TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey because they are such “strong” characters.

She explained: “They are strong women. Maybe they want to put something else behind it because of the strength. Like, you can’t be a woman and be strong, and there has to be something else to it.”

Although Janet is happy to speculate about lesbian flings, she insists she would be devastated if Jermaine revealed he was gay. She added: “I’d be upset because I want to be with him! It’s so funny because I joke with him, ‘It drives me crazy to be a girl sometimes, so in my next life I’m going to come back as a guy, and you’re going to be my b***h!’ ”

The 41-year-old star also revealed she wants gay marriage legalised and is worried she will “jinx” her relationship if she decides to tie the knot again. Janet said: “I think it’s about finding your soulmate. It’s finding that person you connect with, but most people don’t get it right. Look at me. The thing is I don’t know if I ever will or won’t get married again. I’m very happy where I am. I just think I jinx marriages, but that’s not going to stop me from loving.”

Janet was married to James DeBarge from 1984 to 1985 and to Rene Elizondo Jr. from 1986 to 1999.

Spice Girls watch out…Brit award winner Adele wants to form the next generation of female supergroup — with Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua, Lily Allen and Kate Nash.

That sounds like trouble to me.

She said: “Amy, Katie, Lily, Kate and me all come from the same school. All of us represent most women in the world. If we were in a band I think it would be the best band ever. You don’t need to be a doll with tanned legs, blonde hair, big boobs and good lips. I really don’t think you have to be like that any more. We’re not afraid to speak our minds. I think everyone is entitled to an opinion whether it is good or horrible.”

And Adele might be knocking on her old Brit school mates’ doors sooner rather than later. The teenage singer, whose debut album 19 shot straight to No1 last month, said: “I want it soon as I want to be a mum and to be a wife.”

Do you want to dance for Madonna so you can get the chance to dance WITH Madonna? The Queen of Pop recently held auditions for dancers on Thursday in Los Angeles with call backs taking place on Friday. The dancers are for Madonna’s upcoming projects (a tour maybe?) with Jamie King directing the circus. The chosen strong and versatile dancers will get professional pay with work starting on April 2008 with an indefinite termination date. When they came out with the audition’s description, hopefuls were told to bring knee pads and different shoes. Sounds like they had a definite work out on that one.

Rihanna has banned umbrellas from her UK tour.

The 20-year-old star has insisted the item be confiscated from fans, in case they injure themselves trying to copy the dance routine to her hit song ‘Umbrella’.

Andy McDonald, a security guard at the Aberdeen Exhibition Centre, where Rihanna performed on Monday, said: “We were taking precautions over a potential accident. We were told Rihanna’s song features dancing with umbrellas on stage. We didn’t want the crowd following her actions and someone getting their eye poked out.”

The decision follows reports of several injuries caused by umbrella-related incidents during Rihanna’s recent European dates. One fan due to attend one of the singer’s upcoming shows said: “I was really looking forward to whipping out my umbrella during the song. I have been practising the routine for weeks but it has all been for nothing.”

Just like ‘Milkshake’ once did for Kelis, ‘Google Me’ should do the same for upstart Teyana Taylor. The girl is only 17 years old and she’s already being dubbed as the next big thing by super producer Pharell who signed her to his record label. But we all know that you can’t go on just hype. But the song is a great hip hop anthem with a killer hook. You will definitely find it hard to not sing along to this one. “I’m a celebrity…” Oh yeah! Once this officially drops, people all over will be singing Teyana Taylor’s praises.

George Daniels, the husband of R. Kelly’s former publicist, gave an in-depth interview with LA radio station KJLH about the R&B singer’s inappropriate relationship with his 21-year old daughter Maxine. It was first rumored that the reason his wife parted ways with Kelly in the professional manner was due to the romance with their daughter but I guess that’s now a fact. What’s really creepy about this story is that Kelly has known the Daniels family since Maxine was a little girl.

At least he learned his lesson. He waited until the girl was actually legal before doing anything. Should we expect a new sex tape to come out soon?

Has it all got a bit too much for Blake? Amy Winehouse’s junkie husband narrowly cheated death after a drugs overdose in prison. The question is – was it a genuine accidental overdose, or was it a suicide attempt?

Blake Fielder-Civil was rushed to the jail’s hospital block when he collapsed in agony after taking what he thought was heroin. Guards found the 35-year-old writhing in pain and vomiting violently in a cell. They instantly set off alarms and activated emergency procedures to save his life.

A probe was launched and prison officers found he had taken a drug believed to be heroin, mixed with a toxic substance. A jail source said: “This was a close call, but he might not be so lucky next time. If he carries on taking so many drugs, he’ll end up dead before long.”

John Mayer has an interview in the March issue of Best Life magazine. What does the douche bag talk about? Himself of course!

“I accept myself as a very specific kind of guy and in that sense I’m a little like a woman, because my chemistry is so exacting…I can’t describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I’ve managed through my entire 30 years to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasoning’s and processes and have been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They’ve usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I’ve created with myself so well.”

Avril Lavigne, her Sum 41 front man husband Deryck Whibley and their friends were spotted enjoying a winter vacation in Miami on Monday. Now, I get why she’s wearing a jacket on the beach. And here I thought she was doing an Ashlee Simpson/Pete Wentz by going all emo.

Rumors have been running rampant that the Canadian punk rock princess has a bun in the oven but her reps have recently shot down the pregnancy rumors. Those rumors have been around for a couple of weeks now and it doesn’t look like she’s pregnant. Her reps may just be telling the truth – or maybe that’s what the jacket is really for.

While his soon-to-be ex-wife is off partying it up like mad in Hollywood, Silverchair front man Daniel Johns decides to debut a new look. I guess it’s his way of dealing with the divorce.

The rocker performed at the Big Day Out at Parklands last Sunday in Australia’s beautiful Gold Coast with a new head of blonde hair. You just have to love those blondes. I can’t believe that Natalie Imbruglia is letting this guy go! In my opinion, getting a divorce from him is definitely a loss for her. He is one yummy piece of man meat that’s for sure.

Ever since Britney’s crazy episode on January 4th, her exhusband Kevin Federline has had sole custody of the couple’s two sons. Court today may change that and allow very restricted visitation. How is it affecting her boys?

Inside sources say that neither boy has even asked for her once during the 9 days. KFed has kept them close and been with them full-time, not even allowing Britney to talk to them on the phone until he knows they are ok. A source says, “The boys are doing fantastic.”

We’ll see how the story progresses and what she gets after her court visit.

Hilary Duff made a big no-no for singers recently. At a concert in Mexico this past weekend, the singer/actress began singing into the microphone while it was still turned off. Her ‘backing track’ came on later and it was all good.

The video has already been posted on YouTube and you can check it out. There’s an obvious delay between her opening her mouth and “singing” and the track coming on. At the very least she didn’t do a monkey dance. That would have made the whole thing really obvious. She would have been booed offstage much like Ashlee Simpson was back in her SNL snafu.

Parents who shelled out hundreds of dollars for their girls to see Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus are in an uproar over a possible Miley/Hannah imposter.

According to concert goers, there is a point in the show where Hannah Montana is surrounded by her dancers and then covered with a black sheet. She then slips out a stage door and reenters through a different door. Thing is, it isn’t the real Hannah Montana that comes back.

Instead, according to OK! magazine, a body double comes in while Miley does a costume change. Many who paid high dollar for the concert are upset because they believe they were taken advantage of and treated like fools.

Hannah Montana may lose some fanas.

Much like a lot of celebrity moms in the past year, an official announcement has yet to be made but it’s quite obvious that Robin Thicke’s wife is pregnant. Actress Paula Patton was sporting a huge baby bump at a New Year’s Eve party that the couple attended. The R&B singer and his wife joined dad, ‘Growing Pains’ star Alan Thick at a Las Vegas bash.

Rumors have been swimming around for months that she was carrying a child since she showed a hint of a bump at the VMAs. That’s pretty much confirmed now. This is the first child for Robin and Paula. Congratulations!

It’s been nearly a year since it happened and we now know what the hang-up is in deciding whether to file vehicular manslaughter charges against Brandy. It’s that the singer may have been the victim and not the culprit.

A CHP source says that the woman who died in the car accident involving Brandy actually struck the vehicle in front of her before Brandy even made contact. What’s more, LA County Coroner spokesperson Captain Ed Winter says that toxicology reports show Awatef Aboudihaj, the woman who died, had slight traces of marijuana in her system at the time of the crash.

The one-year stature of limitations for filing charges runs out at the end of the business day this week. If the City Attorney’s office decides to file, they have to prove Brandy did something negligent which is said to be a difficult, if not impossible task.

If only Mariah Carey wasn’t on vacation in Aspen. I’m sure she would have had a mental breakdown when she heard just how one of her songs got murdered. And by someone the whole country adores too!

Miley Cyrus did the worst cover of ‘All I Want for Christmas’ on Disney’s ABC parade special. It was just awful. I can’t believe she could do that to Mariah… and us! At the very least, the Jonas Brothers did a lovely performance of ‘Girl of My Dreams’. It was lipsynched though. But it was still better than practically killing off the Christmas spirit!

From Scary Spice to just plain Scrooge, Mel B pocketed a whopping £10,000 from a Christmas fundraiser in aid of terminally ill kids.

Despite the estimate MILLIONS the Spice Girls are expected to make on their comeback tour, Mel refused to waive her appearance fee for helping the Make a Wish Foundation.

An insider at the store fumed: “All Mel B did was sing a couple of Christmas songs, sign autographs and mingle with the crowd collecting donations in a plastic bucket. And for that she pocketed £10,000 that should have gone to needy kids. Many people felt she should have waived her fee. It’s the least she could have done to help raise cash for the kids.”

Bah humbug. Who thinks Mel should get a lump of coal in her stocking this year?