Jennifer Aniston has said that she’s quit smoking. She hasn’t done it for her health or for the sake of our ailing planet, no, she’s quitting smoking so that she can sing in a god-awful musical:

She probably figrues that since she can only do one character and all her movies suck, she may as well try to jazz it up with a change of genre. It may work for her, and it should provide hilarious fodder to mock her with for years to come.

Tom Cruise has said that the gossip columnists who make fun of his erratic behavior are simply unhappy people:

Tom may have been referring to a recent interviewer who dared question Scientology’s ability to cure the reading disorder dyslexia, from which Tom admittedly suffers.

Tom then got pissed when the reporter mentioned Kidman and his adopted children and stormed off. At least the re are foreign journalists willing to state the obvious about Scientology. Tom certainly can’t stand to be challenged, although he does give fabulous quotes!

Saying that someone is motivated by unhappiness is an obvious oversimplification. It’s like a mom telling her grade school child that the bully is jealous of him. Cruise should stick to vague, happy quotes and try not to get upset or bring any more attention to the fact that he looks like a fool to everyone.

And here he is at a press conference for Mission Impossible 3 in Rome, and at the London premiere last night. Yes, he did attend, and supposedly Katie gave him permission.

Other stars pictured at the press conference and premiere include Keri Russell, Michelle Monaghan, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and his supposed girlfriend, and Maggie Q.

Update: Cruise spent 4 hours talking to fans outside of the MI3 premiere in London last night!

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David Beckham’s BMW X5, worth roughly around $125,000 USD, was stolen from a shopping center parking lot in Madrid on Good Friday. It is the second car he’s had stolen in five months.

Beckham’s car had all the latest anti-theft devices, including a low-jack, but thieves used a computer to somehow start the car and bypass security. A crime syndicate that fences luxury automobiles for resale in Eastern Europe is suspected of the crime.

As a consolation prize, Beckham received a free top of the line Audi Q7. All of his teammates got one too, as part of Audi’s sponsorship of Real Madrid. The car is worth about the same as the one Beckham just got stolen, and he requested most of the trimmings, adding about $35,000 USD to the car’s worth.

Here’s Beckham getting his free car, and out with his wife Victoria at The Ivy restaurant on 4/24.

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There’s a rumor that Brad Pitt requested that Catherine Zeta-Jones’ character meet an untimely death in Oceans 13, due to the nasty comments about his relationship with Angeilna made by her husband, Michael Douglas:

Brad may seem like a pansy now that he’s holing up in Namibia with Angelina, but he may be capable of being fierce when someone mocks him. Or maybe Angelina put him him up to it.

Update: Al Pacino has joined Oceans 13.

Angelina’s exclusive interview from Namibia with Ann Curry will air on the Today show tomorrow morning at 7am and on Dateline Sunday at 7pm. Angelina says she doesn’t talk about her relationship with Brad either to the press or with Brad himself and that she hopes to bring awareness to the need for education for children around the world.

She also said she knows the sex of the baby, but won’t reveal it.

Here’s a picture of Angelina with Anne Curry.

Michelle Rodriguez chose 5 days of jail time instead of performing 240 hours of community service
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Britney Spears decided to get rid of her nanny as a result of Sean Preston’s supposed fall from a high chair:

Britney also asked for a doctor’s advice, who told her not to put Sean Preston up “on any high surfaces where he could roll off.” Yeah, that’s not common sense or anything. Britney wanted to hire the doctor full time, but he declined. He must have realized that trading in a medical practice to become a nanny to celebrity isn’t a wise career move.

MSNBC’s The Scoop goes on to attribute Britney’s non-attendance at Kevin’s show last week to her fear of leaving the baby alone with the neglectful nanny. We heard a few different versions, which we reported earlier. One had Kevin asking Britney to stay away so that he could get all the attention and another had Britney jealous that Kevin had asked Paris Hilton to come to the show. Either of those sound more likely.

Maybe Britney will snap out of it soon and take charge of her life. If she’s really pregnant, she’ll need to get her act together so that she can care for two babies. She’ll need to be more responsible even if she does get better staff.

Here’s Britney and her nanny in some pictures from late February.

Update: here’s a link to an Us Weekly scanned article about Sean Preston’s accident.

Paris Hilton has two lawsuits pending against her. One is $10 million defamation case filed by Zeta Graff for a story that Paris invented about Graff attacking her in a night club in July, 2005. Paris arranged to have the fabricated incident leaked to Page Six, which is otherwise a bastion of responsible journalism.

There is another defamation lawsuit against Paris by party planner Brian Quintana. He was granted a three year restraining order against her after she made threatening phone calls to him, famously calling him a “lazy Mexican.” Quintana was friends with Paris, until he is said to have told Paris’ boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos III, to dump her to get back with Mary-Kate Olsen.

Paris is not allowed to get within 100 yards of Quintana, unless they’re at the same party.

Now Quintana is willing to drop the lawsuit - if Paris will show up at the launch of the nightclub he’s now running, Teddy’s, which was recently closed for underage drinking and mismanagement.

That’s pretty generous and business-savvy of Quintana. Whether Paris shows up or not, he just got a ton of free publicity for the club.

Here she is getting out of her car. I know - thrilling - but she does seem to get caught behind the pop-up door for a moment.

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Tarantino will direct a long-awaited film about guitar great Jimi Hendrix.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt was seen with new psuedo-blonde hair in a blunt cut two days ago. She’s been sporting god-awful granny updos and a “Darth Vadar” helmet head and now her gorgeous dark hair has been replaced with a very bad blonde-ish flat blunt cut.

Please, JLove - break up with your hairdresser. He (or she, more likely) is incompetent. You’re such a nice person, you’re probably afraid of hurting their feelings and that’s why you put up with all those bad hairstyles. (”It’s not that bad,” you must tell yourself.) It is that bad, JLove, we’re sorry. You need to move on.

Update: TMZ has a video of Jennifer Love hewitt and her new hair shopping.