Uma Thurman is already a mother of two from her previous marriage to Ethan Hawke, and her boyfriend of a few months Arki Busson has two children with model Elle Macpherson, but are they planning on expanding their brood together?

Entertainment Wise points out that an otherwise fabulously toned Uma was sporting a little pot belly at the annual Nobel Concert in Norweay, which she hosted.

The dress kind of looks like it’s bunched up around the middle, like maybe when it was first purchased it fit better?

Uma recently admitted that her ex-husband was right, she couldn’t commit to both her career and motherhood.

“(Hawke) claimed I couldn’t be a full-time mother and actress. I insisted I could. But I couldn’t. I really try to give all of myself,” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

“I wouldn’t even read a script that wasn’t shooting in New York because I needed to be home.

“It’s a very difficult balance. I’ve thought about quitting but I love it too much, and now I’m a single mother so I can’t quit,” she added.

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Uma and Arki were rumoured to be engaged in October, but her rep denied the reports.

Is Uma Thurman pregnant? I hope so, becasue there’s nothing worse then being told you look like you’ve got a pot belly.

Note by Celebitchy: It does look like a pregnancy bump to me. Uma is 37 and her boyfriend Arpad Busson is 44. Thanks to WENN for these pictures, also featuring Kevin Spacey at the The Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway on 12/11/07.

I’ve decided that Celebitchy is officially the most accurate pregnancy spotter on the planet. She was the first to guess Nicole Richie was pregnant, and now she’s beaten the tabloids by declaring Cate Blanchett pregnant a month before the actress confirmed it. Everyone has their skills; Celebitchy can spot the tiniest pudge on a person’s stomach, and I can… latch on to her mad skills and write articles confirming it. Yeah, that’s all I got.

Cate Blanchett is pregnant with her third child, the actress confirmed Saturday night in her native Australia, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. “Yes, I am,” Blanchett, 38, said at the Sydney premiere of her film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, according to the paper. Informed of rumors that she is carrying a boy, Blanchett reportedly responded: “You know more than me. It’s early days yet. It’s due in April.”

The actress and her writer-director husband, Andrew Upton, already have two sons: Dashiell John, 5, and Roman Robert, 3. As for expanding her family, Blanchett recently told W magazine that she was “not going to wait forever. … God, I’d love it to be now. I’d love it to be next week.”

[From People]

Blanchett also confirmed that she will spend more time at home and less time traveling for the sake of their kids. She noted that Dashiell is five years old now, mentioning, “He needs to be settled, and I respect that.” I feel like I should send flowers or balloons or something… but probably to the bump spotter more than Blanchett. I wonder if Celebitchy knows who’s going to win the Superbowl?

Like Angelina Jolie’s year off (that might not have started yet or might have been postponed until she gets less offers for roles) sources say Cate Blanchett is about to step away from Hollywood for a while. The dignified actress and mother of two, who lives in Australia with her husband of ten years, playwright Andrew Upton, is said to be taking a year off to spend time with her family.

As soon as filming wraps up on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cate Blanchett is packing her bags and leaving Hollywood for at least a year. The Australian-born actress is heading Down Under to “get back to her roots and recharge her batteries,” a pal tells Star. Adds Geoffrey Rush, who costarred with [Cate]… in Elizabeth: The Golden Age: “She adores her two children, and she misses them terribly when she’s traveling around the world making movies.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, November 5, 2007]

Cate Blanchett might have a more pressing reason to take time off. The normally super-thin actress looks like she’s pregnant with her third child, and has been wearing suspiciously fuller outfits lately. I would say we’ll either hear an announcement from Cate or her news will be more evident soon, much like JLo and Christina Aguilera’s pregnancies being obvious, but unannounced. Cate was a guest on BBC show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross last week and looked like she definitely was pregnant. She wore a loose dress, but a bump was visible from some angles.

Cate Blanchett is shown at the premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age in London on 10/23/07, thanks to WENN.

A little over two weeks ago, we were declaring Cate Blanchett pregnant after she gained some weight and was looking suspiciously fuller than normal in the stomach area. In the latest photos of Blanchett out at the premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age this weekend in Rome, she is wearing a lovely strapless dress with plenty of pleats across the midriff and a lime green sash and train to detract from that area. Blanchett hasn’t been seen out in a form-fitting outfit in at least two months.

Blanchett is at the Rome film festival to promote Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The film is being criticized for playing fast and loose with history and for being too melodramatic. It currently has a low 28% aggregate critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Although the film is not that well-received, Blanchett is receiving praise for an incredible repeat performance as the queen of England, and there’s Oscar buzz around her role:

Fictionalizing history is a noble literary crime that goes back to Shakespeare and Homer. The real issue arises when it makes the drama feel inauthentic. And some of The Golden Age’s more opulent excesses — from its torrid score to its painterly vistas of a digital armada — have a counterfeit ring.

But the cast keeps it real. Even if his Raleigh is overwritten, Clive Owen makes a delicious meal of the role. Unlike Joseph Fiennes, Elizabeth’s unctuous lover Robert Dudley in the first film, this smouldering suitor has charisma to match the queen’s. Returning as spymaster Walsingham, Geoffrey Rush uncovers a realm of pathos beneath the cunning. As Bess, Abbie Cornish has the allure of a young Kate Winslet. And Samatha Morton crackles as Mary — even if her beheading is staged with the elegance of a coronation, rather than the botched hack job that actually took place.

Blanchett, meanwhile, is magnificent. There’s an emotional translucence in her pale chameleon features. The intelligence is visible. You can see moods play across her face like wind on water: fear, whimsy, flirtation, suspicion, calculation, rage — and iron resolve. As a politician empowered by fashion, she’s equipped with a fantastic repertoire of wigs and costumes, culminating in her appearance as an armoured warrior on a white horse, unleashing the fury of God and England on the invading horde. Female roles do not get more heroic.

[From Macleans.Ca]

Elizabeth: The Golden Age also stars Geoffrey Rush, Samantha Morton, and Clive Owen and is currently out in US theaters.

I’m surprised the tabloids haven’t yet called Blanchett pregnant given all the signs, but she has two children and has been married for ten years. It’s not as sensational when a celebrity gets pregnant if it’s not her first child and she doesn’t make it known that she’s yearning for a baby. Blanchett has two boys, Dashiell John, who will be six in December and Roman Robert, who is three and a half. Her husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton.

Blanchett is shown at the premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age at the Rome film festival with her co-star Geoffrey Rush on 10/20. She is also seen at a photocall for the film on 10/19. Thanks to Splash News for these photos.

When Cate Blanchett showed up at the premiere of The Darjeeling Limited on October 1 wearing a striking loose turquoise dress with a thick silver stripe detail it just looked like she was being fashion-forward as usual. From looking at quite a few pictures of Cate recently, I think it’s safe to assume that she was hiding a growing bump and that she’s pregnant with her third child.

On September 10th she showed a hint of a bump at the Elizabeth: The Golden Age screening at the Toronto Film Festival. She wore a gorgeous black v-neck cap-sleeve dress with purple and red pleated details. She’s a thin woman and showed a definite little bump that could indicate that she’s pregnant.

Ever since, she’s played it safe with loose clothing. She appeared at the screening of the Dylan biopic I’m Not There at the New York Film Festival last night wearing a cowl-neck black loose dress with a diagonal sash across her tummy. She looks a lot fuller in the stomach area.

In candids of her out in NY yesterday she’s wearing a straight plain gray dress and it does look like she has a bump!

Cate Blanchett lives with her two sons and her husband of ten years, playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, in her native Australia. Her oldest child, Dashiell John, will be six in December and her youngest, Roman Robert, is three and a half. I bet she’s expecting another one soon, and if so congratulations to her!

Cate told W Magazine in a recent interview that she wants more children soon:

More children are also part of the larger plan. She’d like a couple more, and sooner rather than later. “We’re not going to wait forever,” Blanchett says, downing a rather large vitamin pill before tucking in to a plate of crispy eggplant. “God, I’d love it to be now. I’d love it to be next week.”

Maybe she was already pregnant at that point, but if not it sounds like she was trying.

Thanks to Splash News for the first four pictures below, and PRPhotos for the rest.

Cate Blanchett has got to be one of the hottest actresses around, just recently winning best actress at the Venice film festival for her portrayal of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There. But like many actresses in award winning roles (I’m thinking Charlize Theron in Monster, Nicole Kidman in The Hours) she didn’t just rely on her acting ability, she also used some socks.

She said: “My friend put a sock down my trousers and that kind of helped me walk like a man.

“My husband Andrew wouldn’t come near me. He was utterly repulsed by it.”

The 38-year-old star - who has been married to writer Andrew Upton for 10 years - previously revealed she flattened her bosoms for the role.

She said: “I had to strap those breasts down and just go for it!”

Sydney Morning Herald

You know, it doesn’t surprise me at all that her husband found it kind of gross. That combined with the flattened breasts would have turned most men off, and the ones that get turned on by it probably aren’t husband material!

Cate’s also getting excited about another project – The Hobbit. After the huge success of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, there has been endless talk about making the prequel into a film. She says she’d love to do it, jumping on the bandwagon the other LOTR actors Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen. But, she’s only interested if Peter Jackson is the director, and he’s not talking to New Line Cinemas after they ripped him off of profits from the LOTR trilogy. So, Tolkien fans like myself, don’t get too excited just yet, but maybe we’re one step closer.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Cate Blanchett is shown at the Toronto film festival at the premiere of Elizabeth, The Golden Age on 9/9/07. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.

Just days after the release of Ben Afflecks latest venture, a movie he directed about a child who goes missing, was postponed because of similarities to the Madeleine McCann case, suddenly we have talk about who will be playing her parents in a movie.

Australian actors Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe have been tipped to star in a movie about missing English toddler Madeleine McCann.

At least two movie studios are believed to be planning dramatisations of the saga surrounding the four-year-old’s disappearance from her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal in May.

The Daily Express said studio executives were “beginning to whisper” about possible A-list names to play Madeleine’s parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, who have been named as suspects in the case by Portuguese police.

“Obviously, it’s not something that people are going to be making a lot of noise about yet as the investigation is still continuing - anyone who spoke publicly about such a project would come in for a great deal of criticism,” an unnamed movie insider told the newspaper.

Sydney Morning Herald

Interestingly, the two actors considered for the role are Australian, which is the country where the Lindy ‘a dingo ate my baby’ Chamberlain case was tried in the 1980’s. Lindy was found innocent of killing her daughter after six years in jail when it was found evidence in the car was false. There are articles circulating about the similarities between the two cases. There have been multiple movies made about Azaria Chamberlain, so I wonder if the rumour has come about because the cases are similar?

Apart from being considered for a movie or two, Russell Crowe has been a busy man this week – going and supporting an American football team with a pep talk.

He also made a big impression on the University of Michigan football players, who were treated to a pregame speech last Saturday by Crowe, a friend of coach Lloyd Carr.

“I didn’t really know what to expect,” Michigan tailback Mike Hart said. “He was a cool guy. He was funny. Those kinds of guys you think they’d be more uptight, more serious all the time. He was kind of laid back. He looked like he had a good time.”

Added linebacker Shawn Crable: “You see him in ‘Gladiator,’ then he comes in and he has this Australian accent. It’s like, where did that come from? It’s different, calling people blokes and stuff.”

Crable said that Crowe delivered a message - in the Australian accent, of course - about playing as one.

“His speech was nice,” Crable said. “It got us fired up.”

After watching Michigan’s 38-0 win over Notre Dame, Crowe participated in the postgame news conference, then went out to dinner that night with Carr, the coach said.

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For those of you wanting to know why he’s there, it’s probably because he owns an Aussie rugby league team. They’re called the Rabbitohs, and I’m not entirely sure what role he plays as their owner, but I can tell you he’s trying to eliminate the gambling machines from the club bar and made it a more traditional bar with bands and beer. Maybe to improve the venue, maybe just to get a venue for his lame band to play in.

It Ain’t the Algonquin … but it’s worth pulling up a chair

Security was tight. For the first time, NEWSWEEK’S annual OSCAR roundtable was held in public, at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. We made sure to keep a few of the celebrities’ names secret, and arranged for all of them to arrive via an inconspicuous side entrance to the theater.

I’m actually a little hard pressed to get my celebitchy all the way on for this really rather charming Oscar roundtable with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Cruz and of course — Leonardo DiPorkChop. All possibly up for nominations tomorrow at 5:30 AM EST.

Everyone really plays to type –but they are excellent performers:
Mirren is earthy and witty; Brad is wickedly self-deprecating (with a little chummy Clooney deprecating thrown in for kicks); Penelope is charmingly honest and has good stories with great punchlines; Cate Blanchett is a touch too ethereal and hair twirly (from some angles gorgeous from some others … very like a haddock); Forest Whitaker is the leaven in the lump (and clearly Paris Hilton’s role model for success as a wonky eyed wonder) … and Leo DeCaps once again takes himself far too seriously – Brad takes him down a couple of pegs more than once – but his need for peggage far outstrips any one man’s efforts. Listen I liked him in Gilbert Grape … but its been rapidly downhill since.

I’m not a huge Pitt fan, but his off screen demeanor is starting to win me over.

On the minus side - I don’t know who the interviewers are … but they are pretty low brow and both have a terrible nasal intonation and that same oddly ingratiating manner that the bearded creep on “The Actors Studio” has … really makes your skin crawl … but it does also highlight what attractive speaking voices (except for the Porkchop) these actors have – I kind of started to get the grouping .. I guess we will see tomorrow morning who powers through to the Finals.

Highlight:
Mirren and Cruz sharing padded butt stories — I did not see that one coming.

It’s most definitely worth a listen, watch, and read (ain’t the multi-media web grand — just coming at you in all directions).

Is there such a thing as a facial expression coach? Surely there are acting coaches who can help celebrities perfect their smile for the red carpet. You know who I’m referring to - poor lemon face Renee Zellwegger. She’s just got to train herself to stop making that sour pout. Her dress, undoubtedly Carolina Herrera, is safe and decent. She looks like she’s going to a cocktail party instead of an awards ceremony.

And Beyonce is ready to play Vegas in that metallic number. Somehow Cate Blanchett makes that lace assymetric black dress with the skinny belt work. She takes calculated fashion risks and unlike - say, Gwen Stefani, she usually pulls them off.

Jennifer Love Hewitt looks like she’s going to the prom in that copper number with the big bow, but I have to say her hair and makeup look gorgeous. It looks like smoky metallic eyes and neutral lips are in. Cameron Diaz didn’t get the memo.

Pictures from Gossip Rocks.

Just as Demi Moore has an interview published in Vanity Fair in which she reveals details of her relationship with a husband nearly 16 years her junior, Cate Blanchett says she doesn’t get why women date younger men and that she could never do it:

Cate Blanchett says she doesn’t understand why a woman would date a younger man. In “Notes On a Scandal,” the 37-year-old plays a teacher who has an affair with a 15-year-old student. “I blushed my way through the entire movie,” she told the Scottish Daily Record. “I just don’t understand women who go out with younger men. Even women who date men only five years younger than them, I can’t relate to it. . . .I would understand sleeping with a 60-year-old more,”

So she didn’t mention Moore specifically and is just talking about a role, but I couldn’t resist inventing a rivalry where there is none. In the original article she also says she “loves” Brad Pitt, but that “I don’t love him in the sense that I love my husband but I adore him.”

I wouldn’t be too quick to believe all this crap though, The Scottish Daily Record that had this supposed interview with Cate Blanchett recently apologized for making up fake quotes in which Nicole Kidman dissed Angelina Jolie.

Demi Moore, 44, told Vanity Fair that she definitely wants kids with her husband Ashton Kutcher, who will be 29 next month. She also says that her relationship with Kutcher caught them both off guard. Her candidness must have paid off as she’s on the cover of the magazine this month.