Avril Lavigne wore horizontal stripes again in an attempt to foil the cameras from capturing her growing baby bump at the Hot Hollywood awards. She also wore a horizontally striped top to the earlier “Volvo for Life” awards ceremony on April 12th.

Life and Style speculated that Avril is pregnant over a month ago, and Avril’s friends say she wants children right away. She plans to marry her live-in boyfriend, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, this summer in a traditional church wedding with a rocking reception.

Avril has lent her name to a list of media-savvy artists who are against the recording industry’s strongarm tactics to try to “protect” recorded music. She and Deryk have joined the Canadian Music Creators Coalition to speak out against DRM locks on music files, and the practice of suing fans for music distribution.

Here is Avril at the Hot Hollywood Awards on Wednesday night. More pictures from the event are at alavigne.com.br.

Jamie Foxx took time off from his full schedule of sex to stop by MTV London studios while Tom Cruise was taping an interview to congratulate him on the birth of his baby daughter, Suri. Foxx delivered a pink crib full of Burberry baby accessories to the actor, and gushed about what a nice guy he is:

Tom may not have 95 bodyguards, but he does have an armoured car now. He bought a $180,000 USD armoured vehicle after receiving death threats against him and Katie.

Tom Cruise has joked that he asked Jamie Foxx to be an uncle to Suri:

Tom’s kind of funny, and with all these feel-good stories it’s easy to warm up to the guy. I have to remind myself that he’s touring around Europe while his wife is stuck at home with a new baby and the Scientology freaks, though. Have her parents even come to visit her yet?

There are a few more Cruise stories that we’ll post with the pictures from the MI Paris premiere shortly.

Here is Cruise at the MTV London studios with Jamie Foxx and with his daughter, Isabella. [via] She looks like she really looks up to him. The poor girl.

Angelina revealed in an interview with Anne Curry that her due date is about a month away. She is now said to be expecting a boy that they’re planning on naming Africa:

People reported a couple weeks ago that Jolie bought clothing suitable for a little girl and was overheard saying that she was expecting a girl, so chances are high that either one of these rumors is true.

Meanwhile the Jolie-Pitt Naimibian wedding rumor is further fueled by the fact that Brad bought a special “wedding crystal” that local custom dictates grooms give to brides on their wedding day:

As Millie commented on our article about the rumored Namibian wedding, maybe Angelina will go through with it - as long as it’s a local ceremony and not legally binding in the states.

Thanks to Just Jared for these screencaps from Angelina’s Today show Interview. It aired this morning at 7am and will be shown in full on Dateline on Sunday at 7pm. Just Jared also has parts of the interview transcribed. Angelina is advocating for education for children around the world.

The Today show interview is not on YouTube yet, but you can watch it online with Internet Explorer only (cause it’s MSNBC of course). Here’s the video.

Here is another interview with Angelina from her pre-Brad days. She discusses a boy in Africa that she met during her UN ambassador work who particularly moved her. Try not to cry when you watch it.

I don’t like Gwyneth Paltrow because she’s pretentious, so take my criticism or what it is - but why is she going out at night already? She just had a baby not even three weeks ago. Maybe she only popped out for a couple of hours, but newborns need to nurse about every 2-3 hours at that age. She could have pumped or he could be on formula, not that there’s anything wrong with that. If she’s nursing you’re not supposed to introduce a bottle until they’re a month old, though.

Yes, it’s really snarky to criticize her for getting some time alone, but you know, she’s so snotty and ungrateful that she deserves it.

Here she is at New York’s Food Bank Can-Do Awards Dinner on 4/25. Micheal Stipe was obviously there too. [via]

Britney Spears decided to get rid of her nanny as a result of Sean Preston’s supposed fall from a high chair:

Britney also asked for a doctor’s advice, who told her not to put Sean Preston up “on any high surfaces where he could roll off.” Yeah, that’s not common sense or anything. Britney wanted to hire the doctor full time, but he declined. He must have realized that trading in a medical practice to become a nanny to celebrity isn’t a wise career move.

MSNBC’s The Scoop goes on to attribute Britney’s non-attendance at Kevin’s show last week to her fear of leaving the baby alone with the neglectful nanny. We heard a few different versions, which we reported earlier. One had Kevin asking Britney to stay away so that he could get all the attention and another had Britney jealous that Kevin had asked Paris Hilton to come to the show. Either of those sound more likely.

Maybe Britney will snap out of it soon and take charge of her life. If she’s really pregnant, she’ll need to get her act together so that she can care for two babies. She’ll need to be more responsible even if she does get better staff.

Here’s Britney and her nanny in some pictures from late February.

Update: here’s a link to an Us Weekly scanned article about Sean Preston’s accident.

So Us Weekly is claiming that Britney is like, 100% pregnant.

They have a picture of Britney covered up while holding Sean Preston as proof, and will presumably publish some of her in the bikini in their print edition.

We’re not believing it until we see it for certain. It still seems like a recycled rumor.

Here’s the back of Britney’s head as she drives a mini cooper convertible. She is working on her new album with the guy in the passenger seat. [via]

Update: popbytes has a small picture of the article scan.

Just Jared has these beautiful candids of the Jolie-Pitts in Namibia, published in Hello! Magazine. The couple obviously posed for the pictures and most likely gave the proceeds to charity.

The accompanying article covers the recent news you’ve already heard about the couple in a very flattering light. Brad and Angelina didn’t grant an interview or provide any new quotes, and let their “philanthropic adviser” speak for them.

There are some interesting tidbits in the article. One passage about Angelina’s revelation that she needed to make a difference in the world is particularly touching:

They may have found some peace in Namibia now that the government is on their side and they’ve deported some pesky photographers. They’re undoubtedly hoping to take some of the heat off by releasing these beautiful pictures.

Tom Cruise told the crowd at the opening of Mission Impossible 3 in Rome yesterday that he loves changing his newborn’s diapers and revealed that Katie is breastfeeding:

My husband changed our baby a lot right after he was born, too. It’s not that bad if they’re breastfed. At least Katie is breastfeeding. We were concerned that she would use the barley-based formula that L. Ron Hubbard recommended. We were also worried that the baby would be abandoned for its first day in accordance with Scientology tradition, but that may not have happened.

Cruise initially said that he had cancelled all promotional appearances for the film due to the birth of baby Suri, but must have been unable to stay away. He said Katie gave him permission to go to the premiere in Rome, but she may have done it half-heartedly, as Jaunted mentions:

The London premiere of Mission Impossible is tonight. We’ll have to see if Tom attends that too.

Update: Cruise will be in London. Go figure.

Here are pictures of Tom in Rome yesterday at the MI3 premiere. He stood on top of a car to get a better view of the crowd. [via]

Nicole Kidman was photographed leaving a Starbucks in the Hamptons on 4/21 while clutching a pile of papers. Commentors on the bulletin board where we found the pictures note that she looks like she’s covering a baby bump, especially in a side picture (shown inset) that seems to show a lower-stomach bulge. No one noticed that she’s wearing what looks like a wedding ring on her left ring finger, though, suggesting she may have already married her boyfriend of less than a year, Keith Urban.

People have suggested Nicole is pregnant for a few weeks, and that she’s planning a wedding to country singer Keith Urban. With these new pictures of Nicole hiding a baby bump and wearing a wedding ring, she may be confirming that both rumors are true.

Meanwhile someone made up the quote from Kidman wishing just Katie Holmes and her baby well, and seeming to deliberately leave Tom out:

If Kidman is indeed pregnant and married, the press will soon be focussing on her and not as much on her freaky ex and his new baby.

Pictures [via]

Britney Spears’ seven month-old son, Sean Preston, has fallen several times according to sources close to Kevin and Britney. He’s said to have fallen off the bed twice and off the couch at least once.

Another article states that Sean Preston also rolled off the couch when Kevin was supposed to be watching him, outraging Britney:

Kids fall, and my son rolled off the couch at that age when I was actually watching him. It wasn’t that far and he seemed fine, but it was scary. Of course when a child falls more than a couple of times it is cause for alarm, especially when the baby ends up with fractured skull! Kevin probably wasn’t paying attention to Sean Preston at all, and he deserves much more than a few harsh words from Britney.

Now Britney is said to be afraid of losing Sean since she’s in the system with the Department of Children and Family Services. Considering how poorly the agency handled abuse claims against Michael Jackson, Britney doesn’t seem to have much to worry about.

Britney has received a lot of bad press for driving with her baby in her lap and getting investigated by social services. An online poll in Us Weekly found that only 27% of the people who responded would let their kids play at Britney’s house.

Here are pictures of Britney out shopping without Sean Preston yesterday. TMZ has a video of Britney walking to her car. The person videotaping asks “Is everything ok with Sean?” and she nods yes and gets in the car.

If you look closely you can see that she’s wearing a locket with a little picture of Sean Preston on it.

Pictures [via]