Australian gossip rags are reporting that Nicole Kidman did invite her ex, Tom Cruise, to her wedding with Keith Urban last weekend. He didn’t attend, but sent his regards. His two adopted children with Kidman did attend:

Earlier reports that Tom sent Nicole a picture of Suri for her 39th birthday with the message “a very nappy birthday” were false, and were undoubtedly made up in England, where most of the fake gossip originates and nappy is a common colloquialism for diaper. Nicole was also said to have wished “mother and baby well” after the birth of Suri, but that turned out to be made up, too. It could be true that Tom sent his regards after the wedding, but we’ll probably never know.

Nicole and Keith are back in Nashville after departing their honeymoon in Tahiti on Saturday. They left at night to avoid photographers, and boarded a jetboat to a chartered flight, which took them to the Island nation’s capital, where they caught a private jet home. Their honeymoon was probably not as peaceful as they were hoping, considering that Eva Longoria and Tony Parker crashed their resort.

Nicole is no longer on pregnancy watch after she was photographed looking super-fit in a bikini. Both she and Keith are headed back to work:

Here are lower resolution pictures of Nicole and Keith on their honeymoon, and some higher resolution candids of them back in Nashville. [via]

- Lil’ Kim is getting out of jail just in time for 4th of July [popbytes]
- Brandy taking Star Jones’ place? [Concrete Loop]
- David Hasselhoff was injured in the hand or maybe the arm in a freak “shaving” accident [Mollygood]
- Co-editor gets fired at Gawker ’cause they want to be “mainstream” Maybe I’ll be able to read it now since it was too high-brow for me before. [Jossip]
- Lindsay Lohan celebrates her 20th birthday [PopSugar]
- 2006 World Cup Babes [The Bastardly]
- Rush Limbaugh and Mary-Lynn Rajskub?! [Tabloid Whore]
- Celebrity Photoshop with Ashanti, Beyonce and Halle Berry [Faded Youth]
- Freddie Prinze Jr. took a crap in Matthew Lillard’s trailer for a laugh [DListed]
- Victoria Beckham walks her bra. [Hollywood Tuna]
- Rachel Weisz looks fabulous [I'm not obsessed]
- High class madam says that Time Warner CFO Wayne Pace was one of her biggest clients [Blog NYC]

Here are a bunch of pictures of ‘Lil Kim at various events in honor of her early release from jail today. Thanks to Hollywood’s Best for these photos.

Britney Spears claims the glowing happy pictures that came out in US Weekly of her posing with Kevin were, like, totally stolen. She’s said to be “evaluating legal options” against the magazine. You know that Britney released the photos herself after her “Dateline” debacle, and is just saying that to make it seem like they’re really stolen:

We seriously doubt this is true because the pictures are all cute and seem to come at a time when she needs good publicity and wants to make it seem as if everything is fine in her marriage. It’s also seems like too much of a coincidence when compared with the recently leaked Brangelina baby shower pics.

Reader Missy notes that Britney and Kevin may look happy and privileged in these pictures taken on a private jet, but that Kevin is suspiciously hiding his ring finger. Someone must have “forgotten” to wear their wedding ring.

You’ve undoubtedly heard about the Brangelina baby shower pics that were released to a few blogs and media outlets with the promise of 450 more. It turns out that Angelina’s kissing brother, James Haven, took his camera to BestBuy in LA but forgot to remove the memory card. BestBuy outsourced the job to Precision Camera in Enfield, Connecticut, where two guys thought they hit the jackpot. They might have, if they would have been smart enough to take basic precautions like using a proxy server and an anonymous e-mail address. Instead they used an easily traceable account and the feds raided their place of employment and one of their homes to recover the pictures. They probably would have been caught anyway, but it might have taken a couple of extra days.

They dodged a legal bullet since it was determined they didn’t do anything illegal:

What I want to know is why the secret service got involved in a stupid celebrity photo leak case. How much taypayer money did that cost?

The two guyswho leaked the pictures, Bill Keyes, 36, and Adam Beckwith, 20 something, may not be arrested or charged, but Brangelina’s lawyers are out for blood and they’re going to get them to pay. Hopefully they’ll get some decent pro bono support and will be able to avoid being sued.

Here are the Brangelina baby shower pics.

J.Lo’s first ex husband, Ojani Noa, is unable to publish a tell-all book about their relationship now that Lopez won a case against him publishing the book. He signed a confidentiality agreement with Lopez in late 2005 as part of his settlement payout for a breach of contract lawsuit against her. Noa claimed that Lopez had him unfairly fired from his manager position at her Pasadena restaurant, Madre’s.

In April Noa told Lopez’s attorneys that he’d put the book out unless she paid him a cool $5 million. Of course the diva wasn’t having that and sued him in an attempt to block the book, which is said to have juicy details like J.Lo cheating on P.Diddy in 1999 with Marc Anthony. Unfortunately J.Lo was successful and we won’t be able to get our hands on the novel, but one detail did come out: Noa claims Lopez does Santeria on her enemies to get back at them:

I believe this, because Lopez was said to have consulted a Santeria advisor at the time of her upcoming wedding to Ben Affleck. The voodoo guru told her to call it off:

That’s pretty funny and we hope more dirt gets released on Lopez even though the book was blocked. If she’s gullible enough to believe in voodoo, maybe Lea Remini will successfully convert her to Scientology.

Here she is in the videoshoot for “I’m gonna be alright,” which was released in 2002. [via]

Naomi Watts, 37, is now on pregnancy watch, and it’s largely due to the loose tops and ill-fitting dresses she’s worn out to recent events. She’s been on pregnancy watch since wearing two different frilly dresses with tummy coverage to the Oscars. We were even declaring her pregnant after she wore a poncho to the Tribeca film festival in late April.

Then we saw some high-res photos of Naomi in a sheer, but loose top in mid-May. You could see her stomach through it and it was flat.

Watts may just be wearing loose tops because they’re in style. Reese Witherspoon was called pregnant after she was seen in some loose clothing and it turns out that wasn’t true at all.

Watts has made some comments that she’d like to start a family, though, and Australian reports have her pregnant already:

If she is pregnant it’s very soon along. She was photographed playing tennis on June 18th. Her top was pulling up and she did not have a stomach, although it’s a little hard to tell. She was seen at the MacBeth In The Park 2006 Summer Benefit on June 28th in an empire-waist dress, which surely helped feed the rumors.

We really doubt it’s true, although we hope it happens soon for her and Liev if they are indeed trying.

Here is Naomi in the photos we mentioned. She is seen with her boyfriend of over a year, actor Liev Schreiber, 38, and with Jessica Lang. Reader Millie let me know that Lang was not gracious about the latest remake of “King Kong” after having starred in the other remake from 1976. She said she wouldn’t be seeing Peter Jackson’s version of “King Kong” and considered it too commercial.

Pictures [via]

Kate Bosworth, 23, has a starring role in “Superman Returns,” but she still seems to be uncertain about her star status. She says she was waiting to be replaced as Lois Lane, and that it’s easy to be insecure in Hollywood.

She got the role of Lois Lane in “Superman Returns” on the recommendation of Kevin Spacey, who directed her in “Beyond the Sea.” Director Bryan Singer saw a screening of the film and asked Spacey how she was to work with. Spacey had nothing but praise for the young actress, and Singer cast her in the role of Lane shortly afterwards. Bosworth was insecure about the big production, though, and was waiting for the axe to drop well into her work on the film:

Bosworth started her career in a role of a friend of the young girl in “The Horse Whisperer” at the age of 14. She was an accomplished rider and went to the audition on a lark. She had her big break in the surfing film “Blue Crush” in 2002 and went on to play in “Wonderland” and “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton.”

She says she’s turned down roles that required nudity, but she leaves the option open by saying that she’s not sure how she’ll feel about it in a few years.

Now that Bosworth is in a blockbuster film, the buzz is that she’s about to hit it big in Hollywood.

She doesn’t see the lack of privacy and stalkerazzi as a problem yet, and is more concerned about her status in Hollywood:

Bosworth says she’s not engaged to Orlando Bloom and won’t elaborate other than to say she’s “very happy.”

She was recently voted the sexiest Lois Lane over Teri Hatcher and Erica Durance.

One of Kate’s eyes is half hazel and half blue, and she has been asked to wear contact lenses to hide it in every movie she’s appeared in - except for “Superman Returns.” Director Bryan Singer liked Kate’s eyes the way they were and now the Lois Lane dolls have eyes that are two colors, just like the actress.

“Superman Returns” is doing well at the box office, with $21 million on its first opening day.

Here is Kate shopping at Gucci in NY on 6/27. I don’t like her smock dress with the black belt and think she looks like one of the women who works at the cosmetics counter at a department store. Otherwise she’s gorgeous. [via]

Coco Cox pulled her mom’s top down while they were swimming. Courtney seems to think it’s funny, and these pictures are pretty cute. My husband appreciated them too.

Jennifer Aniston sent Courteney Cox a bizarre present for her 42nd birthday on June 15th - a transexual performer that looked like her character Rachel Green from “Friends”:

Too bad there aren’t any pictures of the tranny with Courteney. That would have been much better than Tori Spelling and her tranny inpersonator.

Courteney has a great beach body and hasn’t succumbed to the super-thin look of some celebrity mothers. There’s a picture of her power walking with weights in the latest Us Weekly.

Pictures from Egotastic via Mollygood.

Nicole Richie was supposedly back with DJ AM for the third time, and was seen getting lunch with him at In-and-Out burger on June 20th. It’s hard to keep up, though. Us Weekly says:

(From Us Weekly print edition, 7/10/06)

Richie is playing the delicate game of trying to stay fuck-buddies with her ex to minimize the breakup pain, but keeping her options open. She was spotted with unlikely beau Matt Dillion at Hollywood hotspot Chateau Marmot last week:

(From Us Weekly print edition, 7/10/06)

Even if Dillion only spent five minutes with Richie, that’s plenty of time for a meaningful relationship to develop. Both Busta Rhymes and Kevin Smith’s pal Jason Mewes claim to have had quickies with the tiny socialite.

Richie and Dillon make an unlikely couple, but Dillon seems like a good guy who’s mature enough to commit at least. Maybe something will come of it.

Dillon will next star in the comedy “You, Me and Dupree” as Kate Hudson’s husband. Owen Wilson plays an unwelcome houseguest.

Here is Richie at the opening of Club Social Hollywood on 6/27. Matt Dillon is shown with director Brett Ratner at a party for the president of the Dominican Republic on 6/23, and at the Dolce & Gabbana party where he hooked up with Nicole Richie on 6/22. He is also seen with his brother, Kevin, at the “Entourage” Season Three New York Premiere after party on 6/7. Only the first picture of Richie is high resolution.

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Charlize Theron was given the “Spirit of Independence” award at the LA film festival yesterday. Theron says that it’s a misconception that you’re typecast once you do indie films and can’t make the transition to blockbuster movies. That’s probably true if you’re a statuesque blonde with great talent, but not if you’re a short fat character actor:

With an academy award and a new serious role in the works, Theron doesn’t have to worry much about her career.

The Spirit of Independence Awards were presented by Virginia Madsen and Jimmy Smits and also honored directors Steve Collins and Amy Berg.

Here is Charlize at the Spirit of Independence awards with the Target dog, and her boyfriend, actor Stuart Townsend. Her left hand is not visible in these pictures, so we can’t see if she’s wearing that wedding ring again.