This Week: It's Official
It was a week of ministers officiating at weddings, celebrities making all sorts of official announcements, officials making various decisions, and a famous TV network across the pond officially embarrassed by the country's biggest official of them all.
Nicole Richie is officially off the hook — for two weeks. A court commissioner on Wednesday delayed her driving-under-the influence trial until Aug. 16 so a defense expert can testify in the case.
It's official: Eva Longoria and Tony Parker are married. Longoria swears she was no bridezilla at their lavish weekend. She said that people around her that day were all pointing out how calm she was. "I actually don't stress about anything," she said.
Actress Tori Spelling officiated at a same sex wedding at her Chateau La Rue after being ordained as a non-denominational minister. The wedding will be featured on her Oxygen reality show, "Tori & Dean: Inn Love."
Photos: Eva & Tony's Wedding
Diddy and his on-again off-again girlfriend Kim Porter are officially split. Diddy announced the split first, and then on Thursday Porter issued her own statement, saying that she decided to end the relationship.
An author of a new French-language biography about Jim Morrison disputes the official story of how, and more importantly where, the lead singer of The Doors died. He says that Morrison was found dead in a toilet in a nightclub bathroom, not in his apartment bathtub as in police reports. He believes two drug dealers took Morrison's body from the club back to his home.
Rachael Ray gave the official word on the state of her marriage: happy. The talk show host said that she and her husband were drinking margaritas (yum!) and planning their wedding when a friend text-messaged her to warn her about Internet rumors the couple were splitting.
Springfield, Vt., was named the official hometown of "The Simpsons." The southeastern Vermont community beat out 13 other Springfields, including Oregon's, to be host of the premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" on July 26.
Officials for the Miss New Jersey pageant announced Thursday that they're going to let Amy Polumbo continue her reign and represent the state in the Miss America contest. "I feel like I was crowned all over again," the relieved beauty queen told reporters.
The BBC had egg on its face after saying Queen Elizabeth II stormed out of a photo shoot for her official portrait in May. A BBC documentary showed her majesty snapping at Annie Leibovitz after the celebrity photographer suggested she remove her tiara. Then they showed footage of the queen supposedly leaving in a huff. Turns out that the footage was edited out of sequence and she was actually walking in to the photo shoot, not out.
Photos: There She Is, Miss America
Clay Aiken officially announced that he's taking steps to "prevent any foot wandering in the future." Aiken made that statement after he got into a dispute with a fellow passenger on a Continental Airlines flight to Tulsa for a show Saturday, after he rested his foot on her armrest.