Nicole Richie seems to have postponed her planned wedding to boyfriend Joel Madden until after their baby is born in January. There were reports that she was going to marry Joel sometime this month, but it seems like they are going to wait as we haven’t heard much more about it.

This weeks’ National Enquirer claims that Nicole’s dad, Lionel Richie, told her to hold off getting married until after she had the baby. He’s also said to have promised to foot the entire bill:

[Nicole Richie’s dad] Lionel Richie keeps advising his fragile princess to postpone the wedding, avoid all the nuptual frenzy and just chill! Said a family insider: “Lionel doesn’t think Nicole can handle the stress, and told her: ‘Baby, in life it’s first things first!’” Knowing Nicole’s vulnerable and worried about delivering a healthy baby, Lionel’s assured her that as Father of The Bride, he’ll spend big bucks for a spectacular wedding whenever she wants it - but right now, he wants her to focus solely on the birth.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker’s column, November 12, 2007]

Nicole may be waiting to get married on the advice of her family, but she’s still preparing for the ceremony in little ways. Star Magazine reports that Nicole purchased costumes for her little dogs including a tuxedo for her Shih tzu, Honeychild, and a bridesmaid dress for Foxxy Cleopatra, her Pomeranian. That’s kind of cheesy, but it could also be cute:

[Nicole Richie] recently bought a canine tuxedo for her mutt, Honeychild, and a bridesmaid dress for her Pomeranian, Foxxy Cleopatra, from tony Santa Monica pet store The Wagging Tail. She wants the pooches to walk down the aisle with her when she weds her baby daddy.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, November 12, 2007]

Maybe the outfits were for Halloween, but since they could also serve as doggie wedding attire, it does sound like she’s planning for her pets to walk down the aisle with her. At least she has a soft spot for her animals considering how nasty and cold she’s rumored to be. Hopefully she’ll feel that way about her baby, too

Nicole Richie is shown in the header image on 10/30/07 shopping. Thanks to Splash News for this picture. She is seen with Honeychild and Foxxy Cleopatra in images found at Celebrity Dog Blog.

Joel Madden and Nicole Richie were recently in Australia while his band, Good Charlotte was on tour there. Madden said he loved it so much that he’s going to look for a condo there. He said he’s interested in spending at least a full season in Australia every year:

Joel said recently: “People keep saying to us ‘how come you spend so much time down there?’ and I just say that it’s the best place in the world.”

He added that they would love to spend a minimum of three months a year down under and are looking to buy a home together: “I’m going to have a look around tomorrow for a place, a nice condo.”

“It’s only one flight man. The lifestyle here is insane.

[From Fametastic]

Anything that keeps Nicole Richie away from the paparazzi for large chunks of time sounds like a good idea to me. Once she has the baby she’ll probably start parading it around LA in little golden strollers and designer clothes like Gwen Stefani did with Kingston.

The big Star cover story about how Nicole Richie is having “Pregnancy Trouble!” isn’t really much more than Richie being worried over Braxton Hicks contractions, which are mild sporadic contractions that are common in pregnancy and nothing to worry about. Six-months-pregnant Richie is said to be “constantly worrying about having a miscarriage,” and “a basket case” after some minor Braxton Hicks contractions in Australia while she was there with boyfriend Joel Madden made her fear that she was having premature labor:

Nicole Richie got the scare of a lifetime while she was thousands of miles away from home in an Australian hotel. The six-months-pregnant star was relaxing in her room with rocker boyfriend Joel Madden, who’s been on his Good Charlotte tour Down Under, when “she felt a deep pain in her lower abdomen like her stomach was seizing up. She believed she was going into labor.”

Although Nicole’s doctor told her it was just a Braxton Hicks contraction (when the uterus “practices” for labor) and perfectly normal, she’s still afraid the baby could be born prematurely. Says the source, “Her stress level is through the roof.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 29, 2007]

The article goes on to quote a doctor who provides a scary picture of how Richie’s baby would be fighting for its life if it were born at this point, as if that’s even an issue. And of course they speculate on what would happen to her unborn baby if she continued to do drugs and alcohol, when it’s pretty clear that she gave all that up when she figured out she was pregnant.

What’s more interesting to me is how Nicole is said to be acting like a total bitch, being typically rude to Joel’s fans and to the help. He’s said to be “mortified” by her behavior. At least she gets a pregnancy pass, but what excuse is she going to have once the baby is out?

Nicole Richie is shown on 10/2/07 carrying a couple of candy bars and walking to her car in Beverly Hills. Thanks to WENN for this photo.

Nicole Richie and fiancé Joel Madden have set a wedding date, and it looks like she could be waddling rather than walking down the aisle.

Nicole Richie is set to marry her lover and the father of her baby, Joel Madden, in a last minute ceremony on 13th October.

Sources in American reveal the couple have decided to tie the knot in a lavish wedding in Laguna Beach, California next month.

The Sun

Well, I can only assume that the date is for this year, I guess organizing a wedding when you are a celebrity is a little different than for us average girls. Instead of getting the best deal for flowers, you’re getting the best deal on the exclusive pictures. Instead of shopping for a dress, you could get your stylist to bring a selection to you. Instead of worrying about being too pregnant and unwell to make those aisle preparations, you can just hire someone to make all the preparations for you and all you have to do is turn up. Looking really nice, or if not just get the exclusive pictures retouched.

Seems to take some of the fun out of it to me!

Nicole is lucky to have all that help – she’s going to be busy undertaking an alcohol education course.

The course consists of 52 hours of group counseling, biweekly face-to-face interviews with counselors and the completion of 12 hours of alcohol education. Attending 12-step meetings is encouraged but not required.

According to the Santa Barbara Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the program hosts roughly 340 participants at any given time and will set Richie back $1,790, which she is required to pony up herself. Upon completion of the course, she will be eligible to get her driver’s license reissued by the state DMV.

On July 27, she was sentenced to four days in jail, fined $2,048, ordered to complete a minimum three-week alcohol-education course and placed on three years’ probation.

E! Online

Of course, Nicole has been court ordered to participate in the program, probably as part of the deal that got her in and out of jail in 82 minutes. I am impressed that Nicole is taking on more than what her sentence required, it shows a real commitment to staying sober and off the roads.

Nicole seems to be getting her act together, so I’m looking forward to her settling down and going back to her reguar day job of…er, being Paris’ best friend? An ‘It’ girl? What is it she does as a day job?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are shown outside Mr. Chow on 9/28. Thanks to WENN for these photos.

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.

Nicole Richie has postponed her planned wedding to Joel Madden amid concerns that she is taking on too much before the birth of their baby. Joel’s twin brother Benji Monk is about to marry his fiance, Sophie Monk, and word is that Joel wanted to have the weddings close together. Nicole put a kibosh on those plans due to stress.

Nicole successfully completed her whopping 82 minutes in jail for her second DUI and should be relatively stress-free apart from the fact that she’s due to give birth in January. Still, she didn’t want to risk it by throwing a big wedding now. I bet she just didn’t want to look “fat” in her wedding dress:

25 year-old [Nicole Richie] is refusing to have any sort of ceremony until after she gives birth to their baby in January 2008. “Everything is getting too stressful for Nicole,” says a friend of the celebutante. “Having a baby is the most important thing right now, and she knows it. She’s emotionally and physically exhausted, and the thought of organizing a wedding it too overwhelming.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, September 17, 2007]

The article also calls Nicole the “Yoko Ono” to her fiance’s band, Good Charlotte. She is said to be annoyed at the the groupies that surround her man and his bandmates and to nag him constantly about it. They quote a source who says “When Nicole is around the rest of the guys and their girlfriends, she is hard to deal with and not nice at all. This causes tension in the band that was never there before.”

Meanwhile there is a blurb this this week’s Enquirer that may explain why Paris Hilton was so quick to call Christina Aguilera “the most beautiful pregnant woman in the world.” They say that Nicole was deliberately cutting Paris off the guest list at her now-canned nuptuals because she was acting like a bitch as usual:

Paris Hilton [asked] “Is Joel Madden really the baby-daddy?” Clucked an insider: “Nicole says it’s the most insulting thing she’s ever heard - but even Paris has the nerve to ask the question!” How does Nicole respond? “With a salty eff-you.. then she cross them [Paris] off the list for her wedding!”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker’s column, September 17, 2007]

It’s a shame that bitchy back-biters like Nicole and Paris can’t be friends. They have so much in common.

I’m glad Nicole cancelled her wedding until after the birth of her baby. That way, we’ll be spared a lot of fluff news about her until January when she’s due.

Here is Nicole going to a fashion show at Bryant Park on 9/8. Thanks to Splash News for these pictures.

Amid all the “Nicole Richie pregnancy scare!” stories in this week’s tabloids is a much more amusing story about the tiny pregnant do-nothing. Nicole Richie was said to have been seen at a Santa Monica drug store with six boxes of Rogaine for women in her cart.

Pregnant headed-to-jail-bird Nicole Richie spotted [sic] at a Santa Monica drugstore looking pasty/skeletal, which explains those vitamin bottles stacked high in her shopping cart - but what really raised scoop-snoopers’ eyebrows were half a dozen boxes of Women’s Rogaine hair regrowth treatments. Said My Spywitness: “Nicole’s hair was looking thin and stringy.”

[From The National Enquirer, Mike Walker’s column, August 20, 2007]

Nicole has looked like she’s having hair loss for some time, and she usually hides it decently with extensions. In the latest photos of her pregnant she looks much healthier with no-longer stick thin arms and some baby cleavage. Pregnancy usually results in hair and nail growth, so maybe she won’t need that Rogaine, or maybe she’ll attribute her pregnancy hair to the effects of the stuff.

I looked up the recommendations for Rogaine use by pregnant women and it’s not forbidden, it just “hasn’t been tested on pregnant women” according to the package insert. It’s probably not a big risk if they’re not advising against it. I know I was vain and dyed my hair when I was pregnant, so it might be a similar situation.

One thing that Nicole might find annoying after she has her little baby is the fact that women often lose their hair postpartum. It could have something to do with thyroid levels, but I know I had thinner hair after I had a baby and it took a few months before it was back to normal again.

Nicole Richie is not my favorite person. She seems like a class A bitch, especially given the way she treated Lauren Hastings after Lohan stole a bunch of clothes from the unsuspecting model. Interestingly enough, in the Vanity Fair story about star f’ers that we published earlier, quotes Richie’s boyfriend Joel Madden as saying “You can always tell how cool someone is by how they treat the people around them.” Hopefully he’ll be a good influence on rude-as-hell Richie, or maybe he’s just as much of a bullshitter as she is.

Here are new pictures of Nicole and Joel in Soho yesterday, thanks to WENN. Her newfound cleavage and baby bump are well hidden, unlike photos from late last week.

A new article in Vanity Fair features profiles and interviews with some of the guys made famous for dating the tabloid darlings - Paris, Nicole, Britney, Lohan and Mischa. Their small Hollywood circle of debauchery and wasted opportunity is frequently referred to as a high school clique, in which Paris serves as the unofficial head Heather.

Titled “I’m With Her,” the article isn’t about the celebrities’ boyfriends so much as a recap of the shenanigans that we’ve publicly witnessed in the last few event-filled months. Not much was news to me, but it was fun to read a somewhat scholarly take on the fast pace of gossip.

The author, Nancy Jo Sales, details the way that dating a star can skyrocket a guy to fame - with a cost. The guys become known for banging the stars and not for their own maybe-talent. We all know what people said about kept man crap-rapper K-Fed, but he did seem to deserve the jokes at his expense, and he’s recovered nicely now that Britney’s gone down the shitter.

Cisco Adler, Mischa Barton’s goofy looking big-balled ex, is interviewed and comes off as a rather level-headed guy who isn’t too affected by all the talk about him. He says that he didn’t date Mischa because she was famous, and that he was just awed by her beauty. Cisco tells a sweet story about how he used to look at Mischa when she woke up in the morning. He says that his relationship with Mischa was the first time he didn’t cheat on a girlfriend, and that it was all the external factors that go along with fame that broke them up. Cisco also uses the old “they’re young and it’s hard to deal with fame” excuse to explain LohitneyParis’ bad behavior. His ex, Mischa Barton, doesn’t seem to have followed suit, though:

“I’m not some serial star-dater,” he protests. “Mischa’s the most beautiful girl on the planet. Sometimes I would wake up and see her on the pillow next to me and be like, Oooh, there she is …

“It wasn’t us that broke us up, it was all the other shit…”

Cisco says, “Look, they’re young, these girls, and they’re thrown this bucket of shit, and it makes them act kind of weird. If they were all locked in a room together they’d come out the best of friends.”

“Really?” I ask.

“Well maybe,” he says, “if they lived.”

It isn’t easy being a boyfriend of one of these much-sought-after starlets, Cisco says. “There’s no privacy. We were literally running away from paparazzi. They would camp outside my house.” When he’d finally had enough, he ended it, he says. “My dog died of pet-food poisoning, I broke up with my girlfriend, and this picture of my balls turns up on the Internet—that was the cherry on top.” Or maybe cherries.

He wistfully admits he misses Mischa. “I used to be a horrible cheater; in this last relationship I didn’t cheat once, I changed. Sometimes I used to cheat and go back and make love with my girlfriend on the same day! I used to get off on that. I used to think I was so dope.”

[From VanityFair.com]

Other famous boyfriends interviewed include rockers Joel Madden and Pete Wentz, who didn’t acknowledge at the time (the interview was conducted a few months ago) that he was with Ashlee Simpson. He just repeated the claim that he doesn’t think anyone is fully heterosexual or homosexual, and said he was dating a woman and that she was famous.

The interview saves the most famous star-fucker for last, K-Fed. At that point he wasn’t the standout parent in his estranged relationship with Britney, and was just emerging as less of a douchebag. They repeat the story where K-Fed was at a party and asked his next baby-momma to step up. There’s not much original printed from his phone interview, just the fact that he asserts he’s a playa:

“My moms used to call me ‘the Womanizer’ when I was younger. That says it all,” an amiable Federline tells me on the phone from his home in L.A. “I love women. I mean, I love women, you know?”

Maybe K-Fed should talk to Pete Wentz, who has a legitimate music career and is not so quick to assert his heterosexuality. Not that there’s any connection between the two, it’s just kind of jr. high when guys talk about how much they like getting laid.

Interestingly enough none of Lohan’s exes are interviewed, although many of her hookups including Pink Taco CEO Harry Morton and British reality star Calum Best are mentioned. Morton enjoyed a lot of free publicity for his food chain from his very public dalliance with Lindsay. He seems to have got the hell out of there in time to keep his sanity too. That seems to be key to dating one of the three disgraces effectively.

Thanks for Vanity Fair for the header photo, taken by Lohan’s ex, director Brett Ratner, in his disco basement.

The worst kept secret in Hollywood has been conformed. Nicole Richie is pregnant. She tells Diane Sawyer that yes, she is pregnant, “I’m almost four months.”

In the interview she adds this about her drunken driving conviction.

“I have a responsibility and it’s something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person who has lost a loved one from drunk driving, I would. Unfortunately, I can’t, but this is my way of paying my dues and taking responsibility and being an adult.”

She adds to OK! magazine.

“I was watching CNN about a month ago, and they happened to be talking about young people driving under the influence. They were flashing little kids (on the screen) who were killed by drunk drivers, and it broke my heart. It was a big wake-up call.”

All quotes taken from USA Today.

Well, she only had to get caught twice to work it out!! That jail sentence is a good idea, she might forget.

Nicole is looking really cute – maybe what Gwyneth says about pregnancy vitamins is true. Boyfriend Joel Madden appears with her for the interview, looking less cute.

In other pregnancy news, Christina Aguilera is finishing her world tour this week, after being given the all-clear by doctors. Still no word on her pregnancy from the singer, although her illness is being said than more than just a simple case of singing-impeding sniffles, she actually collapsed backstage. Two more nights, Chrissie, then a long haul flight back home, and you can put your feet up. And your swollen ankles.

Note by Celebitchy: Can I please gloat again for calling her pregnant back when I saw the “potbelly” pictures, before the Enquirer was even saying it?

Now that everyone is assuming Nicole Richie is pregnant, since she was photographed with a sort-of baby bump and hasn’t been seen out for quite a while (which in celebrity-speak is like a couple of weeks) they’ve moved on to speculating who the father is. She’s been with Joel Madden for months, but The National Enquirer features a side cover story in its next edition asking who the father is and including little square faces of four potential sperm donors. Ex boyfriends Brody Jenner and DJ AM are featured, along with one-time hookup Steve-O thrown in for good measure.

Entertainmentwise sums up the speculation, but they’re probably just going on the Enquirer cover details just like the rest of us:

The National Enquirer will claim that there were four men in Nicole’s life before she found out that she was pregnant.

Their report says that Nicole will not know for sure who fathered her child until the potential baby-daddies undergo paternity tests.

A source tells the Enquirer: “Nicole recently underwent a series of tests, including blood and urine screenings, which confirmed she is pregnant.”

Though she is yet to officially confirm the pregnancy, Nicole has been busy shopping for baby products in recent weeks.

[Entertainmentwise via Gossip Rocks]

All those guys were around months before Nicole got pregnant, so if she is knocked up by some miracle it’s doubtful that anyone by Madden is the father.

At a recent radio interview, a DJ started to ask Madden about his girlfriend’s pregnancy, saying “I have to ask…” Joel retorted “You don’t have to ask, you want to ask. I won’t answer. I don’t speak about home at work.” His twin brother Benji saved the awkward moment by saying “And I don’t speak about work at home.”

Header image is an older one of Nicole and Joel together from Splash News. Image below of the National Enquirer cover thanks to popbytes.

Not about eating though. But with Joel Madden.

Nicole Richie and boyfriend Joel Madden are currently house hunting in Los Angeles - just three months after the pair began dating. The star pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of driving while under the influence and faces up to a year in jail if convicted of a second DUI.

Richie, who lives in a West Hollywood condominium, and Good Charlotte singer Madden, who has a house in suburban Glendale, are searching for a new home to live in together.

A source tells Us Weekly, “Nicole hasn’t moved in with him yet…but they are looking at places.”

Wow, three months and they’re already contemplating moving in together. Call me old fashioned, but what the freaking hell? I mean how long do you think it will *really* last? This is Hollywood. Perhaps it’s the ultimate comfort knowing that Joel is going to finally get steady ass after being with the Virginal Duff. Or it could be Nicole knowing that she has a place to come home to after prison. Who knows?

Maybe this will be beneficial for Joel Madden. Maybe he’ll start writing good songs. Maybe Nicole Richie will start eating again. Maybe I’m effin’ delusional.

Thanks to Star Plus.