Buzz Briefs: Gwen Stefani, Tom Cruise
Singer Gwen Stefani Is Pregnant With Second Child
Singer Gwen Stefani, is pregnant with her second child with her British rocker husband Gavin Rossdale, according to several news reports Tuesday.
Celebrity Web site People.com quoted Douglas Rossdale, Gavin's father, as saying, "the whole family are delighted."
"We are very much looking forward to another grandchild," he said.
Stefani, 38, and Rossdale, 40, who gained fame in British rock band Bush, have one other child, a son named Kingston who was born in 2006. Stefani and Rossdale were married in 2002.
California native Stefani rose to record stardom singing for the band No Doubt in the 1980s and 1990s. "Love. Angel. Music. Baby" was her first solo album. In 2006, she released another solo effort, "Sweet Escape."
Tom Cruise Getting 1st Ducati 200 Horsepower Superbike
Cruise is scheduled to take delivery of the Desmosedici RR at Beverly Hills Ducati this week. Only 1,500 of the red-and-white Moto GP racing replica motorcycles will be made and Cruise gets the first.
Michael Lock, chief of Cupertino-based Ducati North America, said the Desmosedici RR "is the impossible dream - made possible."
"We are delighted to be able to deliver the world's first production unit here in the USA to Tom Cruise, who is a well-known Ducati enthusiast," Lock said in a statement.
Jamie Lynn Spears' TV show, "Zoey 101," Launches 4th Season
The younger Spears sister's popular TV character is back at her fictional California boarding school, although the pregnant 16-year-old star of the children's show "Zoey 101" is continuing to stay out of the limelight herself.
"Zoey 101" concluded its third season last month, shortly before Spears, younger sister of Britney Spears, announced she was pregnant with her teenage boyfriend's child. The show has continued to air in repeats since then, with little fanfare from the network, leading to speculation that its fourth season might be shelved.
"The new season is under way. It premiered last night," Nickelodeon spokeswoman Marianne Romano told The Associated Press on Monday.
Filming of the show's fourth season, which was planned to be its last even before Spears became pregnant, was completed last summer.
The third season ended with a cliffhanger episode in which Spears' Zoey Brooks moves to England with her parents, only to learn that her longtime school friend Chase is in love with her.
The new season begins with another plot twist in which Chase (played by Errol Flynn's grandson Sean Flynn) persuades his family to send him to school in England, learning afterward that Zoey has returned and professed her love for him.
Spears, who once helped promote the show heavily, has kept a low profile since announcing that she is pregnant, and that Mississippian Casey Aldridge is the father.
"She is on hiatus," her publicist, Holly Shakoor, said Monday.
New York Judge Denies Foxy Brown's Plea For Medical Travel
State Supreme Court Justice Melissa Jackson ruled Thursday that she will not let Brown go to Los Angeles' House Clinic for the exam and repair of a defective cochlear implant, the Manhattan district attorney's office reported Monday.
Brown, 29, revealed her hearing problems during a court appearance in 2004. Her petition to Jackson said that her condition was worsening in jail and that she faced serious harm to her hearing unless she had the cochlear implant reprogrammed and repaired.
Prosecutors say Brown can get the treatment she needs in New York, but her attorneys say she requires the treatment of specialists at House Clinic.
Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was sentenced in September 2007 to a year in jail for violating probation. Jackson had put her on probation after she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault of two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon in August 2004.
Brown's albums include "Ill Na Na" and "Chyna Doll," and she is known for her sexy outfits and racy lyrics. Her lawyer, Laura M. Dilimetin, had no comment on the ruling.
Garrison Keillor Lets Fanatical Fan Off The Hook
Keillor had accused Andrea Campbell, 43, of Hawkinsville, Ga., of stalking him by making unwanted visits and sending him bizarre gifts, including a petrified alligator's foot, dead beetles and poems.
A hearing on Campbell's appeal of the restraining order was canceled. It had been set for Monday.
"The parties mutually agreed to dismiss based on Ms. Campbell's commitment not to have further contact with Mr. Keillor," said his attorney, Mary Stumo.
"I guess he felt he couldn't defend what he had put in the affidavit, and I guess he realized it was all just a big misunderstanding," Campbell told the St. Paul Pioneer Press for a story to be published Tuesday.
Campbell said she "held a space of love and forgiveness and just let the universe work its magic, and I think his conscience got to him."
While she said she has no intention of contacting Keillor again, she told the newspaper she is working on a book about how she believes she and Keillor influenced each other's creative processes.
"Late Late Show" Host Craig Ferguson To Become U.S. Citizen
No need for any more honorary citizenships for talk show host Craig Ferguson. He's going to be the real deal.
The "Late Late Show" host announced Monday that he got a perfect score on his citizenship test, taken Friday in Los Angeles. The Scottish-born Ferguson will officially be sworn in a few weeks from now.
"All of you people born here, if you had to take that test well, Canada would be building a fence right now," he said on his CBS show Monday.
It started as a joke last June, when Ferguson received a letter from the mayor of Ozark, Ark., granting him "honorary citizenship" in the town for his kind words about its catfish. Ferguson started a campaign to get the designation elsewhere and is now an honorary citizen of 16,109 communities nationwide.
Deciding to become a citizen of the nation at large required him to take a test with such questions as "What month is the new president inaugurated?" and "Who is the chief justice of the Supreme Court?"
He made it. And in the true American spirit, was already joking that President Bush's final State of the Union address "was like a farewell, special edition of 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"'
"I'm getting cocky for someone who is not yet a citizen, aren't I?" he said.
Delta Burke To Star In Hallmark Channel's "Bridal Fever"
Delta Burke's latest role has her playing a romance novelist and expert husband hunter who has gone through six marriages. In real life, the actress says she's still "crazy in love" with actor-husband Gerald McRaney.
Married for 18 years, the couple renewed their vows last year on the 20th anniversary of the day they met on the set of "Designing Women." McRaney guest-starred on the long-running hit and Burke fell for him.
"Mac loves me no matter what," she said in a statement from the Hallmark Channel.
"He loved me when I got as big as a house. He loved me when I was a blonde. He didn't tell me he hated it until I went back to brunette. He has loved me through my up times and my down times. He still thinks my body looks great, and I can certifiably tell you it does not!"
The 51-year-old actress has battled her weight through the years and has her own clothing line for larger women.
Burke and Andrea Roth of "Rescue Me" co-star in "Bridal Fever," airing Saturday on the Hallmark Channel. Their cynical characters discover love after losing hope. Burke's role reminded her of her "Designing Women" character Suzanne Sugarbaker, who was married multiple times.
"NBC Takes "Law and Order" Producer To Court
NBC Universal is acting out "Law and Order" by taking the show's executive producer to court.
The studio wants the court to clarify a contract it signed with Dick Wolf.
Wolf says the contract essentially guarantees him a kill fee, or payment for producing 48 extra episodes of "Law and Order" if NBC Universal decides it doesn't want the show anymore.
But, the studio says in the court papers it has made no such promise.
Wolf's spokeswoman accuses NBC Universal of "trying to rewrite an existing contract."
Along with the "Law and Order" mothership, Dick Wolf produces "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Law and Order: Criminal Intent."