Celebrity Unofficial

August 2006 is going to be a month for Brooke Burke to mark on her calendar as a big one. First, Tommy Lee broke the news to the world on an L.A. radio show last week that she is expecting her third child. Then, she received a surprise proposal Saturday night from former Baywatch star David Charvet.

She says that she and Charvet have known each other for years but only started dating last year during the filming of last year’s “Rock Star: INXS” which she hosts. From the tenor of the article, it seems like this marriage may have some legs other than the soon-to-be baby. Unlike many Hollywood marriages, the couple have known each other for a long time and neither of the two is currently in the harsh spotlight of A-list living.

Given the timing of the pregnancy, I’d expect to see the two tie the knot in the next couple of months before the birth of the baby. Good luck to them both on their engagement and the pregnancy.

Tags: Brooke Burke, Celebrity Babies, Celebrity Marriage

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Britney Spears recently talked to People magazine about her current pregnancy and told them: “It just kind of happened.“

Umm…hon…pregnancy doesn’t “just kind of happen.” Without getting too graphic about it, you made it happen. With a slew of birth control options, including abstinence, “it just kind of happened,” is a complete cop out. She chose to have a second baby, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. I fully support her decision to have a second child: it’s every self-supporting parent’s right to conceive again whenever they choose. But at least take responsibility for your choice.

On another note, she also told People that she and Kevin don’t know the gender of the baby yet despite already being eight months along and ready to give birth (via Caesarian again) within the next month or so. It’s understandably starting to weigh on her, and she plans to take a break from having children and get back to working out at the gym after she gives birth.

To get back into shape, she’s going to have leave behind her current craving:

“Crunching ice and chocolate, oh my God,”she says.”I’ll get up in the middle of the night and I’ll get a Hershey’s bar, the real big ones, and I’ll put it in the microwave and melt it and eat it. It sounds disgusting, but it’s so satisfying.”

Don’t worry Britney, there are plenty of women with the same chocolate craving, and they don’t have the pregnancy excuse…

Tags: Britney Spears, Celebrity Babies

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Despite rumors to the contrary, Suri Cruise isn’t a figment of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ imagination.

Tom and Katie took baby Suri to a birthday party for Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s son Jaden at an L.A. roller rink where one person said, “Suri is a beautiful baby with no deformities that I could see. She has gorgeous dark, curly hair and looks like Tom.”

On the way home, Cruise and Holmes came across a couple who had just been involved in a car accident and stayed with them until emergency services arrived. Many articles have proclaimed Tom a ‘hero,’ but that would be overstating the case: he and Katie did something kind, but it wasn’t exactly hero stuff.

I’m of the mind that this whole demonization of Tom Cruise and his relationship has been a lot of piling on by very petty people. Has he been over the top in some of his public demonstrations? Of course. But the reality is that there are a whole lot of women who would give their right arm to have their significant other (let alone Tom Cruise) be so open about how in love with their wife they are. Many would give a few fingers just to hear it privately, so cut him some slack there…

As far as “hiding” Suri, I can’t blame them. A baby is a baby is a baby, no matter whether it’s the child of a celebrity or not. I can understand the public clamor to see Suri, but I can also understand the desire of her parents not to parade her around as if she were some sort of accessory akin to Paris Hilton’s chihuahua.

I don’t agree with Tom Cruise on many of his “religious” stands, but things like this show that he’s not a bad guy at heart. I say give him and Katie a break and let them enjoy being new parents for a little while…

Tags: Celebrity Babies, Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise

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Esquire magazine came out with its’ annual Best and Worst Dressed Lists, and they named Britney Spears’ baby, Sean Preston Federline, as “Worst Dressed Man in the World.”

C’mon guys. This is the worst kind of cheap shot for a few reasons: 1) the target is a baby…a baby!, 2) the target can’t fight back…because he’s a baby!, 3) he doesn’t even dress himself…since he’s a baby!! and last but not least 4) the title is “Worst Dressed Man in the world,” but he doesn’t even qualify as a toddler, let alone a man…because he’s a baby!!! Are you seeing a pattern here yet?

There are plenty of reasons to ridicule the way Britney and Kevin have behaved over the last couple of years, but there’s a real red line when it comes to taking it out on an infant. The attempt to sell magazines by exploiting a baby is so dirty it just oozes disgusting, nasty, amoral opportunism at its worst.

The editors really do owe the family an apology. There is no excuse for bringing the baby into their sleazefest…

Tags: Britney Spears, Celebrity Babies

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