"It's insane how much is really going on and changing," Miley says. "But it's been so much fun, and I've just been really blessed to work with all the people I do get to work with." When she's not taping television shows or spending long nights on the tour bus, Miley enjoys doing the same things as other girls her age. "I just love being with my friends. Because I work so much, [we] mostly do sleepovers and hang out and play guitar." In fact, Miley says most of her life is just like an average teenager's-she even gets an allowance. "I get treated like a normal kid." Despite her rock star status, Miley says she thinks she has even less freedom than most kids her age. "I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone, just because I can't be out too late. My mom wants to keep me really safe," she says. "My dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what."

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Now that she is a teenager, Miley says she is allowed to date-but not necessarily without supervision! "I had one of my guy friends over and [my dad] was hiding in the kitchen. We were outside just hanging out, and I look around [and say], 'Why are the lights on?'" she says. "[My dad's] standing there with his German shepherd watching us, and I'm like, 'Dad, you're going to scare him! I'm not going to have any more friends!' But he watches every move." Billy Ray says it didn't quite happen like that. "I was kidding him because they knew I was there," he says. "It's not like I was spying." "Are you nervous about the whole dating thing?" Oprah asks. "Not as nervous as I am meeting you," he tells Oprah. "Meeting you-now that's nervous!"

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No Christmas Presents For Rocco, Lourdes and David

Guy Ritchie revealed that he and Madonna banned Christmas presents a few years ago and as a result they actually enjoy the holiday more now. But what about Lourdes, Rocco and little David? Do they enjoy getting no Christmas presents?

"We canceled Christmas a few years ago," Ritchie, the 39-year-old director of Snatch, told PEOPLE. "Stopped all the presents. And ever since [we] stopped the presents, we're are actually enjoying it."

So this year's celebration will be a quiet affair. "We are not sure what we are doing," he added. "Probably staying in London."

As for who's doing the cooking, Ritchie replied, "Well, it's not me!"

Does this have something to do with Kabbalah? Do they at least get Hannukah presents? Or a special dinner? And if Guy isn't cooking, who is? All burning questions that we need answered.

Posted on November 20, 2007
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Britney Loses Louis Vuitton Lawsuit

Britney's legal woes continue. LVMH the giant corporation that owns Louis Vuitton won its lawsuit to ban the viewing of Britney's video for the song "Do Somethin'" which is notable mostly for how shockingly in shape Britney was (this is in 1995). During one scene Brit and friends are riding in a pink Hummer that has a faux Murakami cherry print dashboard, which infuriated Louis Vuitton. We watched the video and you can barely see it. Anyway, they won big damages and the right to pull the video from the Interwebs.

LVMH's Louis Vuitton unit has won 80,000 eur in damages and the banning of a Britney Spears video which uses an unauthorised close-up shot of Louis Vuitton fabric, Le Figaro reported.

In the video, Spears appears in a car upholstered with Louis Vuitton fabric. The tribunal found the director of the video had clearly emphasised the Louis Vuitton brand, the report said. The tribunal ruled that responsibility for the unauthorised use of the Louis Vuitton brand lay with Sony BMG and its subsidiary Zomba as well as MTV Online, and not the singer herself.

That's about $120,000. You can see the video on YouTube here -- at least until Louis Vuitton pulls it down.

Posted on November 19, 2007
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Britney Loses Right To Drive With Her Kids in the Car

After K-Fed's attorney got a hold of the tape of Britney Spears running a red light with her court-appointed monitor and her two boys in the car, the commissioner in the custody fight signed an order saying that Britney can't drive with her two children in the car. The orders are sealed, reports TMZ.

We keep thinking her life can't get any worse and then it gets worse. What a nightmare. She also reportedly failed a drug test this week, testing positive for amphetamines. Her camp told the press that she was on an asthma inhaler, Albuterol, which could have caused the false positive (it couldn't, Albuterol is not an amphetamine). But other reports say that her lawyers argued today that she takes Adderall for Attention Deficit Disorder. That is an amphetamine and would cause a positive drug result. But if she's taking Adderall, why wouldn't she tell the drug testing people that first and show them the prescription?

Posted on November 16, 2007
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Lindsay Serves Her 84 Minutes

Well, that was fast. Lindsay served 84 minutes in the Lynwood Jail. Lindsay was arrested at 10:30 AM and checked out at 11:54 AM.

The charges stemmed from a July car chase and an arrest in May after she wrecked her car in Beverly Hills. After her July arrest, the star of the hit movie "Freaky Friday" checked into a rehabilitation center in Utah and spent more than two months there. It was Lohan's second stint in rehab this year after admitting she had been attending meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Lohan was also sentenced to 10 days of community service, three years probation and 18 months of an alcohol-education program. Jail sentences for minor crimes are often cut short by Los Angeles sheriffs, who manage the county jails, because of overcrowding. In August actress Nicole Richie of "The Simple Life" spent one hour, 20 minutes in jail for what was a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.

So her jail time is done, but she still has lots of community service to perform. If she gets popped again for DUI or drug possession, the judge is going to throw the book at her, no doubt. Stay sober, Lindsay!

Posted on November 15, 2007
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Hannah Montana Fans Are Furious

Miley Cyrus' fans are furious at her and are actually suing her fan club in a potential class action lawsuit. The disgruntled fans say that they were promised that they would get priority in purchasing tickets to Miley's big concert tour if they joined the fan club. Thousands were unable to get tickets for the sold out tour. (In case you don't know any obsessed tweens, Miley is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and stars in the hit TV show Hannah Montana.) In the concert, Miley spends half the show as herself and the other half in a blond wig portraying her pop star alter ego, Hannah Montana. Got all that?

Tickets for Cyrus' 54-date Best of Both Worlds tour sold out within minutes starting in August, sending desperate wannabe concertgoers-and scalpers-to the Internet, where sellers were asking for as much as $2,000 a pop for $63 seats. According to court documents filed on behalf of New Jersey resident Kerry Inman in U.S. District Court in Nashville, Interactive Media Marketing Inc. and Smiley Miley Inc. couldn't back up the promise of easier concert access in exchange for an annual $29.95 membership fee. The suit claims that tens of thousands of people like Inman could possibly join the suit, based on the popularity of the club's official Website, mileyworld.com. Inman states that she tried to get tickets to an Atlantic City show right when tickets went on sale, but came up empty-handed.

"They deceptively lured thousands of individuals into purchasing memberships, based on the understanding that by joining, they would be able to purchase tickets before they were offered for sale to the general public, and that's why we're suing," Inman's attorney, Rob Peirce, said in a statement. Peirce is based in Pittsburgh but filed the suit in Tennessee, where the defendants operate. "While the club and the Web site do not guarantee ticket availability, they explicitly state that members who log on shortly after tickets become available will have a good opportunity to get tickets," Peirce said. "In reality, the vast majority of club members, including those who logged on at the appointed time or shortly thereafter, were unable to obtain concert tickets."

Clearly, Miley has taken over for Hilary Duff and her fans are fierce.

Posted on November 14, 2007
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Britney Crashed Heidi Klum's Hallween Bash

Heidi Klum revealed to Ellen DeGeneres that Britney Spears actually crashed her Halloween party -- she wasn't invited at all. Once Britney she got there, she traded diapering tips with Heidi.

Ellen: Britney Spears went. She was invited.

Heidi: She wasn't.

Ellen: She wasn't invited?

Heidi: No. So, you could've come uninvited.

Ellen: Wow. And I had a better outfit than that.

Heidi: I'm sure.

Ellen: And she just showed up? She just invited herself?

Heidi: Yep.

Ellen: And did you talk to her?

Heidi: I did.

Ellen: Ah-ha. What did you talk about?

Heidi: You know, we were talking about babies and diapers, and she explained to me a lot of things about diapers I that didn't know.

Ellen: Really?

Heidi: You know these sticky things on the side? I never knew they were there. To close them in the front, I was always putting string around...I had no idea.

Ellen: Wow. So, it's great.

Heidi: It's very clever. I learned a lot of things.

Oh Heidi, making fun of Britney...meow! Come to think of it, she did go as a cat on Halloween, didn't she?

Posted on November 13, 2007
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What Britney's VMA Performance Should Have Looked Like

Here's a video of one of the rehearsals for Britney Spears' VMA performance. The rehearsal has a stand-in doing Britney's part and guess what? The choreography is excellent; it would have been a fantastic performance if Britney had only practiced and worked hard like her backup dancers. Even without any costumes or stage decorations, it's clear it was a great number. There was a big overhead lift that they didn't do in the actual performance, as well as some other moves that Britney didn't even try to do. How sad!



Posted on November 12, 2007
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George and Renee, Together Again

George Clooney and Renee Zellweger pose together on the cover of the new W Magazine to promote their new film, Leatherheads. The interview is pretty funny, here are some snippets:

George talking about Barack Obama: "I spoke to him two days ago for a half hour. I think that he's in that sort of doldrums, that midelection run, where you’re still trying to define what it is that you want to be."

George on copying shots from famous directors: "I sent apology letters to Mike Nichols and Sidney Lumet after Confessions because I just directly stole shots. But then I told Joel and Ethan that I've stolen shots from them, and they’re like, 'Yeah, we stole that shot from Capra.'"

George on his age affecting the script: "You can't try to hide your age and you can't try to pretend it isn't there. You have to use it as a tool."

George on Renee's role in the film: "In movies, so often the guy gets to be the one with all the answers. In this one, she’s the smart one. Which was incredible acting on her part."

George on directing Renee: "She's my friend, so I can be really direct. I can say, 'That's not a good angle,' and not try to manipulate her, saying, 'Well, maybe you’d be looking off over there because the moon is shining.'"

Renee on being directed by George: "I just get so proud that my head pops off. George is such a confident director, and he has no idea. And he's a nice person. It gets boring hearing that, but it's true. Every once in a while you get the real good guy. You've got your Jimmy Stewart. You've got your Paul Newman. Now you've got your George Clooney."

George on encouraging his fans to post fake sightings of him on Gawker.com's Celebrity Stalker page: "They had 6,000 locations for me in the first day."

Renee on Gawker Stalker:"Oh, I log on every day to see where George is. Oh my God, get your things! He's at Barneys!…The problem with that is with his schedule these days, the sightings were all true. He was in all 6,000 places that morning—before lunch."

Posted on November 9, 2007
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Tom Cruise Doesn't Own a Wallet

In a recent interview, Tom Cruise revealed that he doesn't have a cellphone, a watch or an email address. What is he, some kind of Luddite?

Hollywood star Tom Cruise has said he longs for the simple life - despite his £125 million fortune. The Mission: Impossible icon revealed he doesn't have a watch, a mobile phone, a wallet or an email address. The actor said: "I wear jeans, socks, shirt and a belt - all totally normal.

"I get my hair cut on the set. I have no iPhone, no mobile, no email address, no watch, no jewellery, no wallet. "I simply want to be with my children and make movies. I dreamed of the cinema as a child. I have had good luck. "My values for my children never change - love, responsibility, curiosity at the wonder of life.

"Every day is a gift. You must take your life in your hands, then you can reach any goal. "The message of life is you can make your dreams come true, only if you really believe in yourself." Cruise, 45, denied wife Katie Holmes, mother of his daughter Suri, was pregnant again. He said: "We are enjoying what we have. But we want lots more children."

Why doesn't he have a wallet? That's not living the simple life, it's just plain weird. What parent today doesn't have a cellphone? What if there's an emergency and his wife needs him? We hope this was lost in translation -- the original interview appeared in a German magazine.

Posted on November 8, 2007
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Shia LaBeouf Arrested

Actor Shia LaBeouf has really outdone himself in his quest to enter the ranks of the celebrity criminals. The young actor was arrested for drunken loitering at a Walgreen's in Chicago.

Shia LaBeouf, the 21-year-old star of "Transformers" and the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, was arrested early Sunday morning after he refused to leave a Chicago Walgreens at 2:30 AM. LaBeouf, who appeared to be intoxicated, was popped after he ignored a security guard's demand to leave the drugstore. LaBeouf, who is pictured below in a Chicago Police Department mug shot, was hit with a misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge and is scheduled to appear in court on November 28.

Who in the world gets arrested for being drunk at a Walgreens? Dude, that is so seriously uncool. We kind of hate to mention it, but this is the best he's looked in ages. Must be the tousled hair and happy grin. In any event, he's working it.

Posted on November 5, 2007
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New Spice Girls Video

Here's the new Spice Girls video for the song "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)." They look fabulous. They sound fabulous. We can't wait for the tour!



Posted on November 2, 2007
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