Singer Robbie Williams told everyone that he quit smoking in order to shape up for the British celebrity soccer tournament, “Soccer Aid.” The Sun reported it on 5/21 as it was real news:

Williams looks pretty gulty to be caught smoking outside the reception for the upcoming game yesterday. He must be more afraid of dealing with withdrawl and gaining weight than letting his team down.

“Soccer Aid” is a fund raiser for UNICEF. Robbie Williams leads the team for England, with the “Rest of the World” team lead by Gordon Ramsay. Teams match ten celebrities with six World Cup soccer greats. Argentinian football great Diego Maradona has joined the “Rest of the World” team. Coverage is on Britain’s ITV (launches automatic sound), and Robbie’s team won the first match last night. The final game airs on Saturday at 7:00 pm

Angelina Jolie’s personal obstetrician has been flown to The Burning Shore resort where the famous family is staying in Namibia. The couple is said to have converted a suite in the hotel where Angelina will give birth. If Angelina doesn’t have the baby by June 3rd, she’ll be induced. Everyone agrees that the birth should be uneventful since she’s super fit:

Jolie is said to be doing yoga in preparation for the birth, and should be well prepared when her time comes.

Meanwhile there’s a good reason why so few pictures of Angelina and Brad have come out lately. Photographers and journalists are really intimidated by the Namibian government and the thuggish Jolie-Pitt security team. Many are threatened with deportation, and one photographer spent a few days in jail before being released without charge:

Someone managed to snap Brad riding his bike with Zahara dangerously strapped on his back without a helmet, so there’s at least one paparazzo around.

The first picture of the baby-to-be has commanded nearly $5 million from an American magazine. You can hardly blame photographers for hoping to secure their retirement with an unlikely shot of the newborn.

Update: Angelina’s brother, James Haven, has been flown to Namibia. Jamie accompanied Angelina to the 2000 Oscars for her best supporting actress win, where Angelina sparked controversy by kissing him on the lips. She is now said to want Jamie by her side for the birth of her first biological child.

The PopBitch e-mail newsletter reports this week that Paris Hilton got fingered at a club by a strange guy and acted like nothing was happening:

That’s possible, but it sounds like a nasty rumor someone just made up.

New NFL quarterback Matt Leiner, Paris’ latest fling, seems to have taken his teammates advice to stay away from her as we reported last week. Ted Casablancas reports that Leinart has a new girlfriend in Arizona, where he’s training with the Arizona Cardinals:

Paris must not care mutch. She was photographed with 50 Cent’s hand on her boob at a party in Cannes this week. That makes it seem more likely that she was fingered by a random guy at a club.

As Jossip points out, Lindsay Lohan isn’t the only one with a firecrotch. Paris was photographed in her “modeling days” wearing flame-encrusted panties, as shown above.

Here she is coming back from Cannes. [via]

That guy holding Sean Preston in those pictures last week wasn’t the new nanny - he was Britney’s producer, JR Rotem. OK! magazine says they’re having an affair and that the baby may be his and not K-Feds!:

If it’s true that’s great news for Britney, and the support from her new boyfriend should help her dump Kevin! She reposted that poem damning K-Fed on her website, and everyone is saying that it means she’s ready to go public with the break. The two haven’t been seen together in weeks.

Here she is with her new boyfriend outside of a Starbucks in Malibu yesterday. Look how he holds the door open for her!

Update: Rotem is also working with K-Fed on his album, so it makes this a little harder to believe. Rotem has discussed Britney and Kevin’s struggle with the hoardes of paparrazi that follow them and seems to feel sorry for the couple.

Also, I’m not sure it’s Rotem in these pictures. Here is a picture of JR Rotem. Do you think it’s the same guy? It could be an older picture of him. The nose and facial features are similar, but I’m just not sure.

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I am going away for a four day weekend and will return on Tuesday. In the mean time, check out the gossip sites below. In honor of American Idol, here are some of the past stars of the Google Idol lipsync contest. If you’re bored and have headphones at work, Google Idol is totally entertaining.

Back Dormitory Boys do the Backstreet Boys:

Pomme and Kelly do Aretha Franklin:

There’s also an entertaining performance from two guys from Austria competing in the webcam competition doing the Backstreet Boys. They’re called “Bayrock Company” and are on the google idole homepage now to the top left.

Have a great holiday and I will see you on Tuesday.

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We took a couple days off, and are technically still on vacation. Babies were born, people died, we got more comment spam - the world went on.

In these new pictures of Nicole Richie on the beach in Malibu on Sunday she looks like she gained a little essential weight. She’s still vastly too skinny, but you have to give the poor waif a little credit. She must have had a sandwich in the time between December and now, because there’s a slight difference. It could be the fact that she’s cleverly hiding her sternum beneath a scarf, but her stomach looks a little more filled out, and her legs are less skinny. It looks like a 5-7 pound weight gain. She isn’t a normal weight by any measure though. Picking her apart probably won’t help her face up to her problem, but we couldn’t resisit.

According to one of Nicole’s friends, her drastic weight loss was caused by an addiction to the over the counter weight loss drug hoodia.

Nicole’s friend sounds like she’s covering up for her other addictions.

Thanks to celebworld for reposting the older picture of Nicole in a bikini for comparison.

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A British radio station has blanned James Blunt’s trite repetitive music from the air - saying that listeners don’t like it and they need a break.

People hate Blunt enough to demand that a radio station stops playing him, and even the station manager admits that Blunt’s popularity does not reflect popular taste.

James Blunt’s boring Hallmark card music used to suck even worse - he’s being sued by a producer who claims that he reworked six songs on Blunt’s album “Back to Bedlam.” The producer has a good reputation in the industry, having worked with Dido in the past. He says that Blunt lacks musical skill and needed a lot of his assistance on the album but screwed him out of any royalties once he hit it big.

Here’s Blunt with his trademark dumb ass look on the Today Show yesterday morning. He is also shown at the Ivor Novello Awards on 5/29. He looks really high. That must be how he copes with his lack of talent.

A columnist for Britian’s The Guardian discusses Internet commentary on Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt’s odd name.

Shiloh is a hebrew name of course, but it could mean several different things:

“Nouvel,” which means “New” in French, should be spelled “Nouvelle,” its French feminine form, since it’s part of a girl’s name. Brad and Angelina may have made the grammatical error deliberately, though:

This makes sense, since Brad loves architecture and has admitted it’s one of his passions.

Brad is also narrating a show for PBS on environmentally friendly architecture called “Design: E2.” It will air in June.

A commentor on “A Socialite’s Life” noted that Pitt also gave Zahara her middle name, Marley:

Angelina should have let Brad name the baby, since Nouvel is a much prettier name - and much easier to pronounce - than Shiloh.

In related news, Angelina and Brad are showing their gratitude to Namibia by donating $300,000 to benefit the country’s state-run maternity wards. Their newborn has been offered Namibian citizenship from the grateful government.

Here are some pictures courtesy of JustJared that were probably taken at the World Economic Forum with a cameraphone. Until they come back to the states, scrounging for old low-res pictures is probably as good as it gets.

Update: pictures are from the Mr. and Mrs. Smith set during a break from filming.

Britney has been seen out with a cute young guy toting Sean Preston around, and we breathlessly reported Thursday that she’s rumored to be dating her record producer, J.R. Rotem, and this may or may not be him. The guy was named as J.R. Rotem in earlier pictures of the two out getting coffee last week. Some people are still saying he’s the record producer, while most claim he’s the manny:

Lainey’s Gossip says that it’s Rotem and that he’s so fond of Brit he’s wearing the Baby Bjorn. They also claim Britney has a schoolgirl crush on her helpful producer, which is why she’s been wearing bright red lipstick and making an effort with her appearance.

In the only pictures we could find of Rotem, he looks similar to Britney’s help, but it doesn’t seem like the same guy. Britney was also photographed in her car with a guy said to be Rotem on 4/24 - before she canned her old nanny - and his hair is darker than this new guy.

If that is really producer J.R. Rotem, he’s hanging out with Britney a lot and is going above and beyond by wearing the Baby Bjorn. We doubt it’s the same guy.

If that’s the Manny, he’s not observant enough since Sean Preston is chewing on a piece of paper in the pictures below.

As to Britney’s crush/affair and to whom it’s with - the truth may be somewhere in between. She’s taking better care of herself, and it could be due to the influence of her new male nanny. She also has had more public appearances lately, it’s spring, and she’s recording a new album. She’s ready to dump K-Fed and her dumpy self.

Britney has reportedly kicked her husband K-Fed out of the couple’s California mansion. He hasn’t been photographed with Britney in weeks, and she’s been all over the place looking halfway decent with a new guy who bears a resemblance to her record producer. No wonder people say she’s having an affair.

Thanks Millie!

Pictures are from May 25th and May 27th. [via] Only the first two pictures are high res.

Update: This manny’s name is actually Perry, he’s got a girlfriend and is not having an affair with Britney as far as we can tell, and you can read more about him here.

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