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The New York Daily News has an article today alleging that Beyonce is pregnant, and that’s the real reason for her “quickie nuptials” to Jay-Z last Friday. We still have yet to receive any official confirmation of a wedding from the couple or their reps, but some random details have leaked out about the ceremony, including a photo of Beyonce’s alleged bouquet. It’s super tacky and reeks of Tina Knowles. The Daily News seems to think Beyonce’s got a bun in the oven, and that’s the real reason the longtime couple finally tied the knot.

Did a pregnancy send Jay-Z and Beyoncé running down the aisle? Buzz is building that this weekend’s quickie nuptials were actually a shotgun wedding. It would be the second for the Knowles’ family: At just 17, Beyoncé’s little sis, Solange, wed boyfriend Daniel Smith in the Bahamas after learning she was pregnant.

While reps for both J and B are neither confirming nor denying baby talk, the diva has indicated in the past that she’d like a big family: “I want to get married, and I really want a family. In a perfect world I’d have two boys and a girl.”

[From Rush & Molloy]

That seems like a whole lot of speculation to me. First off, we have no reason to believe it was a quickie wedding. Just because the press wasn’t informed about it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been in the works for months. It seems like the fact that it was a small ceremony that happened 3 days after they got their marriage license makes people think it was a hastily made decision. Jay Z and Beyonce have always kept their relationship really low profile. It’s quite likely they’ve been engaged for a while.

The way Beyonce and her mom go all-out on everything (some would say to a ridiculously tacky extent), I highly doubt they’d rush a once-in-a-lifetime event like Beyonce’s wedding. I think based on the Daily News’ evidence, we could accuse just about every bride of being pregnant.

Lynne Spears, still dealing with two daughters whose lives have gone off the rails, is now demanding that younger daughter, pregnant teen Jamie Lynn, draft up a pre-nuptial agreement before marrying her babydaddy, Casey Aldridge. Sources say that Lynne has come to terms with Jamie Lynn’s decision to marry Aldridge, but still harbors doubts about the boy’s intentions and level of commitment, which is why she suggested the pre-nup.

Pregnant teenager Jamie Lynn Spears has a diamond ring on her finger, but there are still obstacles to overcome before she and Casey Aldridge, 18, can be married. Her mother, Lynne Spears, has insisted that the couple sign a prenuptial contract to protect the Zoey 101 star’s assets.

“The contract is already drawn up and ready to go,” an insider confirms to In Touch. “Lynne’s not sure marriage is a good idea, but she’ll go along with that if that’s what Jamie Lynn wants — as long as Casey signs the contract.”

A Spears family confidant says that Lynne, who flew home to Kentwood, La., to celebrate Jamie Lynn’s April 4 birthday, is worried about Casey. “He doesn’t seem as committed to the relationship as Jamie Lynn,” says the confidant, adding that the family is aware of the rumors that he’s cheated. “Lynne is keeping an eye on him.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

Lynne is the one responsible for the Britney/K-Fed prenup as well, which probably saved Britney from losing half of her fortune during the ugly divorce and ongoing custody battle. While it’s true that Brit has been ordered to foot the bill for her ex’s attorney, and pay child support to him since losing custody of the children, K-Fed has no claims to her fortune other than the original $300k settlement he got when the divorced was finalized. Lynne actually did something right there! Funny how Lynne is smart when it comes to her daughters’ fortunes, but can’t seem to handle all the other aspects of decent parenting, isn’t it?

Jamie Lynn Spears is shown on 4/31/08, thanks to Splash News.

Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant and officially engaged, all at the tender young age of 17 (as of this Friday). The actress was spotted wearing an engagement ring a little over a week ago, and since then fiancé Casey Aldridge’s cousin (and a few of Jaime Lynn’s friends) have confirmed the impending nuptials. OK! claims to have several exclusives on Jaime Lynn’s wedding plans – though of course we have to wait until it’s on newsstands for all of the specifics.

OK says Jamie Lynn will wait until after the baby is born to marry Casey. Her friends speculate that she’ll want to set the date several months after the birth so that she can get her figure back in order to wear her perfect wedding dress. There’s also a bit of talk about her dream wedding – though something tells me that in Jamie Lynn’s dreams, her wedding was never supposed to happen quite so soon – and probably not with her new baby at the ceremony.

The Zoey 101 star is expecting her first baby in late June with boyfriend Casey Aldridge, and is happily riding out the last months of her pregnancy with Casey by her side. After announcing her pregnancy exclusively to OK! in December, Britney Spears’ little sis has been busy lying low in her hometown of Kentwood, La. As OK! was the first to report, Jamie Lynn and a cousin recently registered for her baby shower at a Babies ‘R’ Us store in the nearby city of Baton Rouge.

And those closest to Jamie Lynn tell OK! the teen plans to stay true to her small-town roots, most likely exchanging vows with Casey in Kentwood at “Serenity,” the estate owned by Britney — who obviously leads the list of possible bridesmaids. “She’ll have the baby there, and soon after, she will also get married there,” says a pal of the teen. “I expect she’ll want to wait at least several months to get her figure back so she can wear a beautiful wedding gown and then have her dream wedding.”

[From OK!]

You can’t help but worry for anyone who gets married at 17. And to be fair, you can’t help but worry for anyone who has a baby at 17. Putting the two together seems like a lot of pressure on such a young couple. They’re certainly better off financially than any other 17-year-old couple I’ve ever heard of, but money doesn’t equal maturity. Hopefully Jamie Lynn’s got a better head on her shoulders than some of her family members… or will at least hire a very, very qualified nanny.

Here’s Jamie Lynn showing off her engagement ring while running errands near her Louisiana home on April 1st. Images thanks to Splash.

Minnie Driver, who is reportedly almost five month’s pregnant, has refused to comment on the father of her baby, simply saying that she wanted to keep him out of the media glare. In an interview with Girl Magazine before she confirmed her pregnancy, she said she had a boyfriend at the time that was “not famous and is an Australian.”

Driver’s costar on FX series “The Riches,” Eddie Izzard, made a comment that suggests that the father of Minnie’s baby is already out of the picture. At least that’s what I read into it:

Minnie is keeping mum on the father of her baby, but her The Riches co-star Eddie Izzard says she’s ready: “She’ll be a good parent because you need love, and as long as you have one parent giving love then the kid’s going to do great,” Eddie tells In Touch.

[From In Touch, print edition, April 7, 2008]

Maybe they asked him “How do you think Minnie will cope with being a single parent?” but it sure sounds like he’s saying she’s single now. That could be why she declined to name the father.

Driver, 38, recently said that she’s doing well with her pregnancy and that she feels “really good, happy and healthy.” She said it was “great just to be able to eat” and that the only thing she craves is olives.

Minnie Drive is shown on 3/20/08 at a screen of “Trembled Blossoms,” thanks to Splash News.

The Huffington Post points to a throwaway mention in the Fox411 Entertainment column, in which Roger Friedman gives Stop Loss a glowing review and mentions as an aside that Ryan Phillippe’s presumed girlfriend, Abbie Cornish, is pregnant:

Phillippe is not the only good actor working in “Stop Loss.” Peirce has stocked the film with talent: Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are his army buddies, Abbie Cornish (whom Phillippe met on the set and apparently is having a child with) and Timothy Olyphant also are featured to great effect.

[From Fox411 via Huffington Post]

This made me scour the photo agencies for recent photos of Cornish and she didn’t show up at the premiere of Stop Loss on March 18th. The last event photos I could find of her were at the Sydney premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age in November. The most recent paparazzi photos I could find are from December and she was seen kissing Ryan and hanging out with his kids. Cornish was wearing a loose top but she didn’t look pregnant or anything from those faraway photos.

Fox news could be right, and it seems curious that Cornish didn’t show up at the premiere, but maybe she just wants to keep a low profile after all the rumors.

Phillippe has gone a long way toward repairing his image recently with candid and funny interviews on the talk show circuit. He held his own with Howard Stern last week, and came across as both open and gracious about his divorce and his ex wife’s new boyfriend. He didn’t directly answer a question about whether an affair with Cornish broke up his relationship with Reese, and answered “That’s what they say. It’s funny to me. A story gets told and then it becomes truth to everyone else. And unless you hold some kind of bizarre press conference where you refute everything … they take on a life of their own.” Ryan also said “no comment” when asked about Abbie by a USA Today journalist.

We’ll have to see if Cornish resurfaces and if she looks pregnant. When Stern asked Phillippe if he would consider getting married again, he said “I would imagine someday, yeah.”

Ryan repeated that sentiment to USA Today, adding that he would like to have more children too:

“I can see doing it again, yeah. And I can certainly see possibly having children again. I’m pretty young, and there are many beautiful things about that idea of marriage and family. It just doesn’t always work out perfect for everybody. But I’ve done all I’m going to do in terms of talking about that part. It’s fair to her [Reese] and fair to myself to move on.”

Abbie Cornish is shown below on 11/4/07 at the premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age in Sydney, thanks to Splash News. These photos are not to show that she looks pregnant here at all, they are just the last event pictures I could find. She is seen in the header on 10/1 at the Elizabeth premiere in LA. Still of Ryan Phillippe is from USA Today.

The “Angelina and Brad buy a French villa” story is false, according to the guy who owns the estate. This week’s Star Magazine features “exclusive photos” of “Brad & Angelina $20M French Dream Home,” but In Touch talked to the owner, who says he only wishes Brad and Angelina would take that money pit off his hands and doesn’t know how the rumor got started:

Although US Weekly reported that the couple made an offer on the 850-year-old Mas de la Chappelle St. Sixte in the Provence region, the real owner, James Butler, tells In Touch… “I wish that it were true, but it’s completely false. Don’t know where they got that one. Our house is for sale, though. They are welcome to come look at it!”

[From In Touch, print edition, March 31, 2008]

This story had a lot of people, including us, speculating that Angelina would give birth to the Shiloh sequel(s) in France. US Weekly even added the convincing detail that “According to a second source, Jolie, 32, has had ‘long conversations’ with the American Hospital of Paris about delivering there.”

It looks like US Weekly’s “source” was wrong and that Angelina may chose a stateside location for the birth instead. OK! Magazine had the story in their March 17th issue that Angelina was probably planning to give birth in the suburb of Austin, Texas where the family is holed up while Brad shoots the film Tree of Life. OK! didn’t claim to have much insider information, and just said that “it seems highly likely that the rapidly approaching birth of the second Jolie-Pitt biological baby will occur on American soil.”

The Jolie-Pitts are also said to be building a house in Berlin, Germany and they already own an apartment there. Until the magical moment comes, we don’t know where in the world the baby(ies) will be born and if Angelina will be inking domestic or foreign digits on her upper arm, or if she will be adding one line or two.

Priscilla Presley may have been tricked by those questions the paparazzi throw at celebrities when they’re on their way somewhere. A clip shown on TMZ TV has a photographer asking the “Dancing with The Stars” contestant “How do you feel about Lisa having twins?” and she answers “It feels great!”

The rumor that Lisa Marie was having twins was first reported in Star Magazine and picked up by other outlets. It was never confirmed or acknowledged by Lisa.

Priscilla’s daughter Lisa Marie was upset after initial media reports called her fat when she was first photographed earlier in this month. She sued the Daily Mail for their nasty article comparing her to her bloated father before his death and called the media “like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight.” She has since blogged that she is happy with the support she received after that incident, saying “Your overwhelming support has not gone unnoticed. It has been heart warming to see. It has made me very happy.”

Priscilla Presley performed extremely well on her first week on “Dancing with The Stars.” She did a foxtrox with with her partner Louis that was fluid and elegant and drew praise from the judges. It’s got to be an exciting time for the 62 year-old Scientologist. She may have two more grandchildren arriving at once and it looks like she’s going to be on “Dancing With The Stars” for a few more weeks.

Here’s a clip of Priscilla on “Dancing With The Stars”

And the clip of Priscilla confirming her daughter’s pregnancy:

Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley are shown on at the William S. Paley TV Festival - Elvis 68 Comeback Special on the 40th Anniversary on 3/14/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

INFDaily snagged this picture of Fergie leaving a sushi restaurant with her fiance, Josh Duhamel, and she’s looking pregnant. She was really pretty before all that plastic surgery, so their baby is likely to be cute. Or it could suffer from “Rumeritis” and end up with the worst features from each of them. You never know how that wheel of fate is going to spin.

People were whispering after the Grammy Awards that Fergie looked pregnant in that yellow dress she wore. Her mom called into Ryan Seacrest’s show afterwards and said that she was “absolutely positive” that her daughter was not pregnant and that people must be starting that rumor due to her engagement.

Five weeks later and it looks like the evidence is growing. If she is pregnant, congratulations to both of them. This looks like a pregnancy and not a Kate Hudson fashion-type situation, but I could be wrong. Commentors on D-Listed note that they attended her Houston concert yesterday and that she didn’t look pregnant at all:

i just saw her at the houston rodeo tonight. she is not pregnant…or at least not showing. she had tight clothes and no tummy. fergie was really puffy looking. that could be the result of so many different things.

her performance at the rodeo….um….to be nice….it was interesting.

[Comment by sarah jean on D-Listed]

Just got back from her concert in houston and she is def NOT pregs!!! she was dancing and showing her stomach! and she looked like a toothpick!

[Comment by Rodeo Houston on D-Listed]

My vote is on a pregnancy, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Thanks to INFDaily for the header image, which was used by permission. You can see more photos of pregnant Fergie on their website.

Minnie Driver was on Leno last night, and she sang a song from her last album, “Seastories.” When she came off to talk to Jay afterwards he joked about her weight and she confirmed that she was pregnant.

Driver’s CD came out in July of last year so I assumed that the real reason she was on Leno was to confirm her pregnancy, but she also is promoting “The Riches,” her show on FX. The second season will only have seven episodes due to the writer’s strike, and it starts airing on March 18.

“Are you pregnant?” Leno asked, after joking about her weight.

“Yes, I am,” she replied. “I don’t know why they call it morning sickness… I am sick morning, noon and night, but it’s a fair trade-off.”

Driver said she likes being pregnant “more than anything else.”

[From US Weekly]

According to Splash News’ description with the picture above, Driver “told Leno that she wanted to keep the father private and away from the media glare.” I’m kind of hoping there’s some sort of scandal to go along with this one, like the guy is some famous married actor, but it’s probably just that Minnie doesn’t want a big deal made out of her pregnancy. She’s been followed by the paps more after the rumor came out that she was pregnant, and she often looked annoyed in those pictures. Maybe she just doesn’t want to become a target of photographers or the gossip press, and figures the best way to do that is not to say much.

Driver is 38 and this is her first child. Congratulations to her and the unnamed dad.

Here’s Driver singing “Mockingbird” last night. I am looking but haven’t been able to find the clip of her coming on to talk to Jay.

When I read the Daily Mail article comparing pregnant Lisa Marie Presley to her late fat father I was pretty surprised. Even though the journalistic standards for the Daily Mail are lower than American tabloids, and involve making fun of skinny women’s knees regularly, I was amazed to see how rude they were to her. They included a side-by-side picture of pregnant Lisa next to fat Elvis. They did mention halfway down the article that she was rumored to be pregnant, but that didn’t get in the way of trashing her for moderate weight gain. The NY Daily News did the same thing.

The Daily Mail’s article has been removed, but I quoted the NY Daily News in an earlier article, and they were super nasty to her:

Wearing a grungy yellow hoody and sweatpants, greasy hair pulled back, and no makeup to conceal her splotchy skin as she shoveled food into her bloated face, it’s hard to imagine the former bombshell that looked so much like her mother.

The singer and philanthropist, whose ex-husbands famously include Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson, is rumored to be pregnant with fourth husband Michael Lockwood’s child, which might explain some of the dramatic weight gain.

[Article originally on NY Daily News’ website, which has since been re-worded]

That’s not very nice considering that the National Enquirer reported her pregnant a few days before those pictures came out, and you can see that she has a pregnant-looking tummy. The Daily News has since changed the wording on that article to be a lot more flattering to Presley, saying, “If it looks like Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie, now 40, has had a few too many of those peanut-butter and deep-fried banana sandwiches her father famously enjoyed, it’s because she’s eating for two! Presley is pregnant with her third child, her rep confirmed to People Magazine.”

The misogynistic body critics over at the Daily Mail are getting their asses sued by Presley, though. If only every celebrity would sue the Daily Mail for every stupid article they write, maybe they would be put out of business.

Presley wrote a scathing response to the very cruel articles about her. She blogged on her myspace that it was personally upsetting, and called it “nothing short of irresponsible and disgusting”

After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant.
Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight. Starting with a London publication and then New York and Chicago all writing false defamatory degrading stories about all of the dark possible reasons I could be putting on weight.

[From Lisa Marie Presley’s myspace blog]

Let’s hope she gets an apology and a hefty settlement from these assholes. Maybe they’ll think twice about running articles every day trashing people for not staying young, thin and perfect forever.

Lisa Marie Presley is shown at Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party on 2/10/07.