Nick Cannon (of “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” and “Drumline” fame) has broken up with his abso-freaking-lutely beautiful Victoria’s Secret model fiancé, Selita Ebanks. She’s one of those models that is gorgeous but not in a slutty way. Such a shame. Maybe is she looked more like a skank, he would have stayed with her (you’ll have to forgive me; I’m having bitter man issues today).

“Nick Cannon and Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks have called off their engagement and split up, Ebanks’s rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. ‘Selita and Nick are taking a break to focus on their careers but still very much love each other and remain the best of friends,’ says her rep, Melissa Raubvogel. Cannon’s rep declined to comment.

“The breakup comes just five months after the Drumline actor made a proposal that lit up New York’s Times Square – literally – as he asked Ebanks to marry him with the help of a jumbotron. By August, Cannon, 26, was more measured when it came to nailing down wedding details, telling PEOPLE, ‘We haven’t really talked about a lot of that stuff. You’ve got to take it slow.’

“As for Ebanks, 24, she said earlier in the summer that the pair had some fundamental differences between their ideal ceremony. ‘He’s all about the bling and having a big wedding. Me? I’m all about the courthouse.’”

[From People]

Okay first off, the jumbotron? You’re a semi-famous C-list type star, you’ve at least got a couple million to your name, and you propose on the jumbotron in Times Square? I can think of few places as unromantic as Times Square, and few visuals as unappealing as jumbotron. That must have been so romantic, as she’s stepping out of the cab, horns blaring, into a pool of gum and vomit. Cannon takes her hand, and a bum starts screaming at them. Then she arcs her head upward to look at the jumbotron, and he drops to one knee, realizes his pant leg is now soaked in urine, and then asks Selita to marry him. Sounds like it got off to a great start.

I’m not sure that I buy the notion that he wanted a big, blinging wedding while she wanted the courthouse. That sounds like something someone would say so that she could have the big, tacky wedding and not be labeled Bridezilla. But like I said, I’m having a bitter man day, so don’t listen to me. Listen to the girl who got proposed to with vomit on her shoe. I assume.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Nick Cannon and Selita Ebanks at the 6th Annual GM Ten on February 20th. Header image at the Poiret, King of Fashion - Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Pete Doherty must be quite a catch, it’s just I don’t see it. Perhaps it’s his ingenuity, making his cat its own little crack pipe? Perhaps it’s his bedroom abilities? I don’t think it’s his musical talent, since as far as I can tell he doesn’t spend a whole lot of time making any. Still, he must have something going for him, with his rumoured engagement to model Irina Lazareanu.

“I very recently got engaged,” the Romania-born, Canada-reared Lazareanu, 25, is quoted by the fashion-industry trade paper as saying at Tuesday’s fashion shows in Paris. No wedding date has been set, the paper adds.

Lazareanu and Doherty have reportedly known each other for 10 years and have long been linked through his band – she was a backup singer – as well as with fellow musician (and friend) Sean Lennon.

A rep for Lazareanu’s agency would not confirm or deny the engagement. But a friend who was with her backstage Tuesday told PEOPLE, “She had a huge rock on her finger and when I asked her about it, she said she was engaged.”

People

Irina is friends with Kate Moss, she was featured when Kate guest-edited Vogue, and was the face of her Top Shop collection.

Pete was given a chance to kick his drug habit before his next court hearing by judge Davinder Lachhar. This is a result of his negative drug test results over the last six weeks. Pete is appearing in court charged with – what else? – drug and motoring offences.

Kate Moss might be feeling like it just isn’t her week – her ex-fiance is now marrying her friend and she’s in trouble for wearing false eyelashes. While most of us think that a well placed false eyelash is the ultimate in flirt power, it seems wearing them in a mascara advertisement gets you in trouble with British television watchdogs.

Rimmel’s “Magnif’eyes mascara” adverts broke the rules by using images which may have exaggerated the product’s benefits, it added. And the television advert’s claim that the mascara gave “70 per cent more lash lift” could have misled viewers because it referred to a change in appearance, not actual lash length.

J Walter Thompson, the advertising agency behind Rimmel’s campaign, told the authority that Moss’s eyelashes were “cleaned up and enhanced” in post-production but did not explain the extent to which their appearance had been changed.

It insisted that Moss did not wear false lashes at the shoot but supplied no evidence to support its denial.

Independent

I thought everyone knew that false eyelashes were used in make up advertisements, particularly the recently panned Penelope Cruz ad where her lashes look like a couple of spiders are dancing on her eyelids. Truth in advertising, what next?

Note by Celebitchy: Kate Moss has been blabbing to friends that she’s engaged to her new boyfriend, musician Jamie Hince of The Hills, so it’s possible that Pete and Irina’s engagement was prompted by that news.

Barely a year goes by that Pamela Anderson doesn’t indulge in a long term relationship that seems a little dubious – like her bikini clad wedding to Kid Rock that ended after four months, apparently because of her cameo in Borat. Perhaps when he watched the movie that was the first he’d heard of her sex tape with Tommy Lee?

Of course, her current beau is Rick Solomon, the man from the One Night In Paris sex tape, so at least she doesn’t need to conceal that part of her past from him, although for his sake I hope he never watched Barbed Wire.

Onetime Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon, a former boyfriend of Paris Hilton, applied for and were granted a marriage licence in Las Vegas on Saturday, the syndicated TV show Access Hollywood has reported.

Representatives for Anderson and Salomon were not immediately available for comment.

Sydney Morning Herald

Pam had previously told Ellen Degeneres that she was engaged.

Pamela has been married twice before, to Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, and Rick Solomon was married to Shannon Doherty and has two children with first wife Elizabeth Daily. Maybe Pam’s boys Brandon, 11, and Dylan, 9, could be playmates with Rick’s girls Hunter and Tyson of the same ages.

Just because the wedding is in Las Vegas doesn’t mean it’s going to happen right now quickie style – that’s where Pammy works with magician Hans Klok. Rick also works there as a poker player, which means the previous engagement she was talking about to Ellen was to Rick. Well probably.

“I paid off a poker debt with sexual favors, and I fell in love,” Anderson, 40, told DeGeneres. “It’s so romantic. It’s romance.

“I’m not really engaged. I don’t know what I am,” Anderson added. “We may never get that far. We’re in love. This is nice.”

E! Online

Paying off a debt by sexual favours? I can’t imagine anything more romantic.

Note by Celebitchy: Paparazzi photo agency X17 is reporting that Pam and Rick got hitched in Vegas this weekend. There’s no proof other than a rumor, but I would assume that Pam would cash in on the pictures, even if it was a just a drunken trip to a hotel chapel followed by a cheap buffet feast. She wouldn’t be ashamed.

Matthew McConaughey, 37, and his girlfriend, Brazilian model Camilla Alves, 22, are currently in the romantic city of Paris and it looks like he might have chosen the same setting as Tom Cruise to pop the question. Camilla was seen with what looks suspiciously like an engagement ring on her left ring finger.

There was a story about a month ago that Matthew was going to propose to Camilla, and that he was planning to move out of his trailer on the beach and buy a mansion for her.

Matthew can certainly afford spacious digs. He is still getting plenty of movie roles and was just announced as the replacement for Owen Wilson in the comedy Tropic Thunder. According to IMDB, McConaughey has four movies coming out next year, and is announced for another that will be released in 2009. I wonder if he’ll squeeze a big wedding in there too.

Does this mean that Matty is settling down? Will he buy that mansion in Malibu instead of continuing to live out of an airstream trailer strewn with bachelor memorabilia? Time will tell. I would like to see him become a dad too, but considering how young his girlfriend is there’s certainly no hurry.

Thanks to SplashNews for these pictures.

Hilary Swank, 33, has been dating her Creative Artists agent probably since April of 2006, when they were first spotted exercising together and looking flirty. Their relationship went public in August, 2006 when they were photographed on a romantic holiday in Rome.

Swank’s boyfriend, John Campisi, 40, was only separated from his wife of 11 years at the time his romance with Swank was made public last summer. Not only had he not yet filed for divorce at that time, at least four months after he started cheating or “exercising” with Swank, he even had a toddler at home.

It was Campisi’s wife who filed for divorce after receiving the public humiliation of seeing pictures of her husband kissing and holding hands with Swank on a romantic vacation in Italy.

Now their divorce is about to be made final, and Swank and Campisi plan to get married as soon as he’s legally available. After that, Swank is planning for a baby:

Hilary Swank is planning to marry her boyfriend and former agent John Campisi as soon as his divorce becomes final in a few weeks - and she wants to start a family right away, say sources.

“Don’t be shocked if Hilary gets pregnant soon after she walks down the aisle with John,” a source told The Enquirer.

She’s now free to wed, having finalized her divorce from Chad Lowe.

“It’s just a matter of waiting for his divorce to clear the courts - it’s expected to be final by November,” said the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, October 1, 2007]

I’m thinking a guy who leaves his wife and child for you without settling his affairs at home first is not that great of a catch, but maybe it will work out for Hilary this time.

Hilary Swank is shown yesterday at the launch of the Guerlain fragrance Insolence, which she represents. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Comedienne Kathy Griffin has landed one of the world’s richest bachelors, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. She brought the huggable guy to the Emmys with her, and looked like she was wearing an engagement ring, although she wouldn’t comment when asked about it, saying “I don’t kiss and tell.”

On an appearance on Larry King about her censored Emmy speech she said “What do you make, Lar? You make a few million a year? He craps that out for lunch. I mean this guy has so much money — but I love him for his personality.”

It looks like Wozniak became smitten with Griffin from afar and pursued her, coming to see her perform in July. He is said to have left her a gift basket with items for her dog before they met. That’s sweet!

Just one year after a bitter a divorce from husband Matt Moline, it looks like Kathy Griffin may be ready to walk down the aisle again. We spotted Griffin with boyfriend and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at the Emmys, and the fiery comic was sporting what appeared to be an engagement ring. “I don’t kiss and tell,” the usually forthcoming Griffin told Usmagazine.com.

The couple did reveal that they met in Saratoga where Wozniak came to see Griffin perform. “I was a fan of hers before we met,” he tells Us. “I love her personality and her quick thinking. I think we have so much in common.” Quips Griffin, who later shared chocolate covered strawberries with Wozniak at the Entertainment Tonight party at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, “The thing is he doesn’t realize that I am the brains of the operation and he is like some dumb bimbo that I picked up!”

[From US Weekly]

People are saying that Wozniak isn’t much to look at, but I would take an average-looking good guy who is successful any day over a hot one who can’t rub two sticks together. Remember the first season of that stupid dating show “Average Joe” from 2003? The woman who was trying to find a mate, Melana, ended up at the end with the choice of a funny as hell moderately chubby but cute guy, Adam, who was an Internet millionaire with his own bar in NY city, or a hot but dumb waiter who still lived with his parents. She picked the hot dumb guy! (The average guy that everyone loved, Adam Mesh, got a spin off show in which he picked another chick, but that didn’t last predictably and now he’s married to a woman that was his neighbor.)

Anyway Kathy Griffin looks like she made a good choice, and if she’s at all inclined for the good life she can most likely indulge to her heart’s content. You go Kathy!

Steve Wozniak picture from Commons.Wikimedia.org. Kathy Griffin picture from the Emmys thanks to PRPhotos.

Joel Madden has pledged to marry Nicole Richie, his girlfriend who is five months pregnant with the couple’s baby. He told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show that they would get married, and that he was committed to Nicole:

“Obviously, marriage is in our future,” Madden told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday. “I don’t know when or where or how, but right now our priority is our family and is the baby.”

The singer added: “That’s all we’ve been thinking about. We are in love and are really happy.”

[From People.com]

A story last week had Nicole postponing the wedding until after the baby was born as she wanted to avoid the unnecessary stress. Nicole is said to be planning an all natural medication-free birth and seems to be acting in the best interest of her child. If only she could get an attitude adjustment.

It is possible that Madden was making such a public statement about his plans with Nicole due to the sensational new cover of Star this week. The cover features an old picture of Madden’s ex, Hilary Duff, on his lap. A forlorn-looking pregnant Nicole simpers on the cover and the headline reads “Joel CHEATING on pregnant Nicole… with Hilary?”

I thought Hilary Duff was dating a hot young hockey player and if there is some insider information about a potential meeting with Madden I bet they just ran into each other out somewhere and made awkward ex conversation. A paparazzo might have seen it at one of the clubs these young stars frequent and given the non-salacious details to the tabloids.

Meanwhile there’s a cute story in this week’s Enquirer about Joel busting his ass to get Nicole some ice cream when they were in NY:

In Madhattan [sic] spending a quiet evening in, pregnant Nicole Richie and Joel Madden vegged and watched TV - until Mommy-to-be suddenly moaned she had a powerful craving for caramel ice cream from fave La Maison du Chocholat in Rockefeller Plaza. After 20 minutes of resistance, Daddy-to-be surrendered and raced several blocks to the store - but it had just closed! Knowing Hell hath no fury like a pregnant dame jonse-ing for whatever, Joel banged on the door until an annoyed salewoman yelled through the glass: “We’re Closed!” Panic-stricken, Joel shouted back: “She’s pregnant - she’s craving caramel!” Suddenly softening, as members of The Sisterhood do when they hear baby talk, the woman took pity. Moments later - after telling her: “I will now have a little peace and quiet, thanks to you!” - Joel hotfooted back through the Big Apple streets.. just another lovestruck sap, a la “Guys and Dolls,” clutching his doll’s precious ice cream!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker’s column, September 24, 2007]

Joel is not leaving Nicole anytime soon. The guy is making desperate ice cream runs for her and talking about getting married.

Last week’s Star Magazine had Joel and Nicole fighting over whether to live on the west or the east coast, with Joel wanting to live in NY while Nicole wanted to stay put in LA. Star must have it out for them, not that I wouldn’t mind seeing them flame out while Nicole ends up a single mom with all the help in the world.

Thanks to popbytes for the header image.

Can James Bond ever be a sensible married man? Wouldn’t it ruin those cheesy lines? What will he do to fill in those dull evenings when he’s away from the missus and no bad guys are near?

Whoops, I seem to have Bond’s glamorous life confused with Daniel Craig’s somewhat more prosaic one. He has a long term girlfriend, and reports from Britain indicate they may be engaged.

The British actor reportedly proposed to film producer Satsuki Mitchell during a romantic break in Italy.

Mitchell has been spotted wearing a huge ring on her wedding finger ever since the summer vacation.

It will be second time up the aisle for Craig who married British actress Fiona Louden with whom he has a child.

Their daughter Ella was born in 1992.

Female First

His fiancé may have some competition – when has Bond ever been known for his monogamy? – after Daniel confessed to being turned on by his co-star Nicole Kidman.

In an interview with W magazine, Craig says: “Nicole turns me on. Not in a sordid, horrible way — well, come to think of it!”

Herald Sun

Daniel is currently filming the next Bond instalment, which should be full of more bangs and fast cars. After all, he’s the greatest Bond of all time, or at least the one that pulls the most cash at the box office. If you ask my mum, she likes Pierce Brosnan, grandma likes Roger Moore, and I’m partial to Sean Connery. If only because of this fabulous quote, about his good looks winning him film roles. In the early 1960’s Sean told Ruth Park “I reckon I have about five more years work in my face.”

Well, we’re all wrong sometimes. It’s not always a bad thing.

37 year-old perpetual bachelor Matthew McConaughey might be ready to abandon his trailer on the beach lifestyle and become a married man. Star Magazine reports that he plans to ask his model girlfriend, Brazilian hottie Camilla Alves, 24, to marry him. He is also said to be moving out of his small Airstream trailer and into a mansion more suited for two:

“Matthew has never been so in love with any woman and would do anything within his means to make Camilla happy - including propose,” a friend tells Star

While he wants to keep the engagement on the down-low, the Texan has been kicking around the idea of a beachside wedding next spring. “Both Camilla and Matthew are extremely close to their families and want to make sure everyone they love will be able to celebrate with them,” says a source. “It’s going to be the party of the year!”

Meanwhile, to show his commitment, Matthew has agreed to move out of his beloved trailer and set up house with Camilla in a beachfront Malibu mansion!

[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 27, 2007]

Last month there was a story that Alves asked McConaughey to clean up his messy trailer, which was said to be full of memorabilia and other bachelor junk. She was said to be hankering for a house, and Matthew certainly has the means to purchase a nice one. If this story is true she may have gotten her wish along with a more firm commitment from the hunk.

Does this mean that shirtless pictures of McConaughey won’t be a dime a dozen anymore? I can’t see him giving up his outdoor exercise exhibitionism, even if he has a nice new gym in that huge house he might buy. I would love to see this guy married with kids, but I have a feeling that it might take him a little longer than next Spring to take the plunge. He doesn’t seem the marrying type.

McConaughey and Alves are shown on 7/30 after Sunday lunch at Taverna Tony’s, where Liev Schreiber had his paparazzi encounter last weekend. Thanks to Splash News.

One of President Bush’s twin daughters, Jenna, 24, got engaged on Wednesday. Her boyfriend of nearly two years, Henry Hager, 28, popped the question. Hager is a former White House aide and worked for Bush’s re-election campaign under Karl Rove. Good to see they’re keeping the conservatism in the family. Jenna is the less pretty/more drinking/less intelligent/ of Bush’s twins. She is said to take after her father.

“Jenna Bush, one of President Bush’s twin daughters, is engaged to be married to her long-time boyfriend, Henry Hager, the White House announced Thursday.

“No wedding date has been set for Jenna’s wedding to Hager, said Sally McDonough, press secretary for first lady Laura Bush. The two were engaged on Wednesday.

“Hager, who is attending the University of Virginia School of Business, has been a White House aide and worked on Bush’s re-election campaign. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hager of Richmond, Va. The groom-to-be’s father is a former lieutenant governor in Virginia and former director of Virginia’s Office of Commonwealth Preparedness.

“The younger Hager has been dating Jenna, 25, for several years, and is often seen with her at family Bush functions and formal events, such as a White House dinner in November 2005 in honor of Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.”

[From the Associated Press]

Shunning the family’s long preference for Ivy League schools, Jenna attended the University of Texas at Austin – supposedly because, even as a president’s daughter, she couldn’t get in to his alma matter. Jenna also takes after her father, having two arrests related to underage drinking in April 2001 and trying to use a fake ID to buy alcohol in May of 2001. She pleaded no contest to both. Jenna has reformed a bit since graduating from college. She’s worked in the Washington DC public school system, written a book (I would assume it’s ghostwritten, but who knows) and worked for UNICEF. According to Wikipedia “She is currently teaching at a shelter several days a week as part of an internship for UNICEF’s Educational Policy Department in Latin America, specifically in Panama.”

Jenna came in at a respectable 17th in FHM’s “Most eligible Bachelorette” competition. The criteria included wealth and looks. I would have found this all a lot more interesting if she was marrying someone with a little more kick to him than Karl Rove’s former employee. I know the Bush twins have rebelled a bit in their own way, but wouldn’t that have been a lot better?

Picture note by JayBird: Header image is Jenna Bush at Book Expo 2007 in February. Image thanks to WENN.