A couple of weeks ago there was a story that Salma Hayek was planning a triple wedding to take place in three different cities that would put Eva Longoria’s over-the-top nuptuals to shame. The heavily pregnant Mexican actress was going to hold ceremonies in her hometown of Mexico, in Paris where her fiance, Francois-Henri Pinault, is from, and in LA.

All that might be for show, because there are small clues Salma is dropping that suggest she’s already married.

On a visit to tony L.A. department store Fred Segal on August 15… when it was time to pay for her purchases, Salma plopped down a Visa card issued to Salma Hayek-Pinault. Ten days later, during the baby shower at ther Hollywood Hills home, the Oscar nominee kept calling Francois-Henri, who was there, her “husband.”

A civil ceremony makes sense, says an insider, explaining, “For Salma, the thought of having a baby out of wedlock was unacceptable.”

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

The article says that Salma still plans on having her multiple weddings despite the fact that she might be already hitched.

Salma recently said that she won’t move to Paris after her baby is born and that she will stay in LA to work on her production company making films for a Latin audience.

When you have your baby, are you going to stay in the U.S. or move to France?

Hayek: I’m going to stay and run this company. I had to make a choice. . . . I could just say I will give it all up and be a housewife in Paris. But I said, “No.” I was so lucky because I found myself a man who is a great businessman. And he loves it that I work this hard. He has a lot of respect for what I do. . . . He knows how important this is to me. This is a mission. We have been working for this all our lives. It’s a breakthrough, and in my lifetime, I want to see a change.

[From LATimes via Celebrity Baby Blog]

Salma is said to be due sometime soon, and she looks like she’s carrying a big baby. It is thought that Salma is having a girl, as gift cards at her baby shower on August 25th were made out to “Valentina.”

There was also a story in last week’s Enquirer about how very pregnant Salma refused to take a handicapped parking space at Fox studios when she was there for a business meeting. She said she wouldn’t want to take the space away from a handicapped person and walked quite a way to get to her meeting.

Congratulations to Salma and Francois-Henri if this news is true. She certainly doesn’t need to have a huge wedding with lots of guests to get married properly, but if she wants that too more power to her.

Salma and Francois-Henri are shown at the Costume Institute Gala on 5/7/07 thanks to WENN.

Salma Hayek, 40, is due to give birth to her first child in January later this Summer, according to Celebrity Baby Blog. Her fiance, 45 year-old Frenchman Francois-Henri Pinault, is the head of the company that owns labels like Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, and Balenciaga.

With Salma’s star salary and her husband-to-be’s wealth, they can certainly afford any kind of wedding they can dream up, and Salma is sparing no expense. She’s said to be planning three fabulous ceremonies, one in her Mexican hometown, another in Francois-Henri’s base of Paris, and yet another in LA. The guest list will number over 300 for each reception!

[Salma Hayek] wants to hold ceremonies in her hometown in Mexico; in Paris, where her billionaire fiance is from; and in L.A., where she’s currently based, an insider tells Star!

Salma wants to invite 300 of their closest family and friends, including BFFs Penelope Cruz, Demi Moore and America Ferrara, to each of the receptions!

[From Star Magazine print edition, August 20, 2007]

The article goes on to quote the insider as saying that Salma’s wedding “Will blow Eva [Longoria]’s gathering out of the water.”

That’s awesome, although the last time I heard of a celebrity couple holding multiple receptions, it was Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock and we know how well that worked out.

Salma is going to be seven months pregnant though! That takes nerve to throw a huge wedding when you’re that far along. I got married after I had my baby as it was not a big priority for us to be married before he was born. It seemed easier for us to wait.

With three huge ceremonies and Salma’s celebrity friends in attendance there are sure to be plenty of pictures. I wonder which magazine she’ll sell the exclusive rights to. Maybe Hello!, or perhaps she’ll split it up among the glossies. You can’t blame her. She could probably pay for the whole thing with the money she’ll get for photo rights.

Update: Thanks to commentor Kim for pointing out that Star was wrong about Hayek’s due date. Celebrity Baby Blog estimates that it is later this summer. It looks like she will give birth before the wedding.

Salma and her fiance are shown in the header image at the Costume Institute Gala on 5/7/2007. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Salma Hayek’s dog saved her from what could have been a tragedy. She was sleeping on the couch after coming down and woke up to her dog frantically tugging at her arm. It turns out the gas was on, which may have explained her headache. If her pooch didn’t wake her up she could have died:

Salma Hayek’s dog saved her life on the day of the Golden Globe Awards, The Insider’s Pat O’Brien reports.

The Ugly Betty creator explains that she “had a headache and went to lie down” and was awakened from her nap by her dog, Diva, grabbing at her sleeve and trying to pull her out of the house. The 40-year-old actress then realized that the gas was on in her house.

Hayek credits Diva as being the reason she was there to celebrate with the rest of the Ugly Betty cast later that night. The ABC series won two Golden Globes on Monday, including best television comedy and best actress in a TV comedy for its breakout star, America Ferrera.

My dad has a similar story from his childhood about a dog pulling him out of an old truck he was sleeping in to save him from a fire in a field. Us is asking people if they’ve ever had a pet save them, so I’ll be unoriginal and ask you guys if something similar has happened to you.

Here’s a clip of Salma taking off her top on Ugly Betty, which you’ve probably already seen.

Metallic and white dresses were the trend at last night’s Golden Globes. Reese Witherspoon is a standout in a formfitting canary dress with a subtle braided belt and ruby red shoes. She looks incredible.

Hayek and Garner were lovely in white, while Miller looks ridiculous in a metallic and white too-tight dress. I never quite understood her appeal.

Witherspoon, Hayek, Garner, and Miller were all presenters at the Globes, which was said to be rather boring and long overall. I taped it, but didn’t watch it yet. It’s six hours later here than EST so I have an excuse. What did you guys think?

Pictures from Hollywood’s Best and Gossip Rocks.

Salma Hayek is wearing a dress made for a lesser-endowed woman at a press conference for “Ugly Betty,” the critically acclaimed show she produces. She’s just so stacked. Commentors on the bulletin board where we found the pictures are divided as to whether Hayek has breast implants or not. I have no idea, but they look great to me.

In a story that sounds like a PR stunt, ABC’s pompous Bachelor reportedly found an envelope in a NY city taxicab containing $50,000 worth of jewels labeled “Salma Hayek.” Hayek’s incompetent assistant accidentally left the borrowed jewelry in the cab and The Bachelor was the next person to hail it. He called up the ABC studios, eager to return the goods:

According to the website IMDB, Hayek is a lucky girl. The celebrity accidentally left some jewellery on the back seat of a New York taxi cab. The Frida star estimates the value of the gems to be at nearly $50,000.

Hayek was planning to wear the pieces to a benefit party, but her assistant left the jewels in the car. Lorenzo Borghese, the star of The Bachelor, happened to be the next customer for the cab, and returned the jewels.

Hayek, 40, explained, “The guy that’s like the prince in The Bachelor gets in the cab right after, somewhere random in New York and sees an envelope that says ‘Salma Hayek’. He called (TV network) ABC and said, ‘I think Salma Hayek just lost $50,000 worth of jewelry,’ and they gave it back. Isn’t that fantastic?”

It’s a good thing the writing on the envelope wasn’t in Italian, or The Bachelor would have had to call someone to translate it for him.

Hayek is seen at the AFI Film Fest last Thursday night with Penelope Cruz and Eva Mendes. Cruz was honored by the film festival for her 15 year career as an actress. Pictures [via]

“Poseidon,” a remake of the 1976 thriller “The Poseidon Adventure,” premiered last night in LA. It features Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barret, Richard Dreyfuss, and Emmy Rossum.

It’s getting bad reviews, and from the looks of the trailer, below, it’s a bit too scary for our tastes.

Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas has a cameo in the film. She does not look pregnant in these pictures, but she does look plastic. She’s wearing black so it’s hard to see if she has a tummy buldge, though.

Here are Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Mia Maestro, Salma Hayek, Fergie, Jacinda Barrett, Jerry Lewis, Kevin Dillon, Freddy Rodriguez, Emmy Rossum and Pamela Sue Martin at the premiere and after party.

Salma Hayek stars with Colin Farrell in “Ask The Dust,” which opened in limited release in the US in March, and received mixed reviews. “Ask the Dust” is the story of the sadistic relationship between a struggling novelist and a Mexican waitress in the 1930s, and is based on the 1939 novel of the same name by John Fante.

The film opened in Madrid for its European premiere yesterday, and Salma Hayek attended. She also appeared at a photocall for the film today.

Hayek has said that she doesn’t like the Hollywood lifestyle and that she tries to avoid it by living on a farm in the country. She also says that she faced blatant discrimination as a latin-American actress trying to break into film. Hayek is now single after a string of long term relationships and is enjoying the process of finding herself.

“Ask the Dust,” starring Salma Hayek and Colin Farrel, is the story of the sadistic relationship between a struggling novelist and a Mexican waitress in the 1930s. It is playing in limited release.

Hayek stars as the beautiful Camilla Lopez. She put on weight for her character by eating hamburgers and suffered hypothermia while filming an ocean-set love scene. Farrel was a gentleman on set and did not sneak a peek at Hayek while they were both naked while filming. He was also comfortable with his nudity, and did a little naked dance to help Hayek relax for the the scene. Hayek was so moved by her character’s plight that she broke down and cried when she tried to read the book that the film was based on.

Celebrities in attendance at the party after the NY premiere last night included Hayek, Lindsay Lohan, Petra Nemcova, Iman, and Indina Menzel.

Fifteen more pictures after the jump.

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While filming an ocean-set love scene with Colin Farrell in their upcoming movie “Ask the Dust,” Salma Hayek got hypothermia:

When the filming wrapped, Farrell gave Hayek a first edition of the novel that inspired the picture, but it made her so emotional that she couldn’t read it:

Hayek is quite intelligent, so I won’t make a crack that she thinks it would be cool to read any book eventually. With most other actresses, that joke would fly.

Update: Supposedly Farrell didn’t even look at a naked Hayak during their sex scenes. What’s wrong with that guy?