Actress Selma Blair thinks that fellow Americans are too obsessed with celebrity lifestyle and people in her native country spend too much time idolising those in the public eye, such as actress Lindsay Lohan and her family. Speaking about the forthcoming American version of the Australian TV show Kath + Kim – in which she plays spoilt daughter Kim Craig – Blair says, “You don’t think there are some deluded Americans? Hey, how about all of us! “Everyone here is obsessed with tabloid celebrities and their lives and wanting to be like that, just like Kim. “In America you have the people who watch the Lohans’ reality show and want to be like Dina and Ali Lohan and live in a house with a throne in it. Everywhere! They’re just everywhere!”

Selita Ebanks & Nick Cannon before their split.

Selita Ebanks, the one-time fiancée of Nick Cannon, has done well in her modeling career. She made it into the top 15 of the World’s Richest Models list. Selita Ebanks and Nick Cannon were engaged but split in October 2007. Selita was once linked to New York Giants defensive player, Osi Umenyiora.

Several media sources claimed that Nick Cannon has married Mariah Carey. The story is here.

Once again, Forbes magazine has compiled its list of the world’s top 15 earning models. The figures are approximated amounts after currency conversions.

Nick Jonas and Selena Gomez have not officially confirmed they are dating, but in recent separate interviews, the couple accidentally “spilled the beans”.

Selena Gomez recently was interviewed by Twist magazine and confided, “While we were slow dancing…my crush and I had our first kiss!. Selena continued, “After it, I leaned back and I said, ‘You cheated.’ And he said, ‘Why’ and I said, ‘I don’t kiss on the first date.’ Then he said, ‘Well, I never really play by the rules.

Then Nick Jonas, of the Jonas Brothers, had an interview with “Girls Life” magazine and stated, “On one date, the girl said to me, ‘I don’t kiss on the first date.’ So I said, ‘I don’t follow the rules.’”

Hmmm… that sure raises some eyebrows doesn’t it? Their romantic interviews describing their partner sure sound similar!

Selena Gomez, 16, recently said she doesn’t “have a boyfriend right now. I go on dates and have crushes and stuff, though.”

Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas, 15, both wear purity rings.

“It’s something I made a promise to myself about,” Selena has stated.

Another slipup! Although Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas haven’t gone public with their love, Selena recently added fuel to the fire in another interview.

When gossip website liesangeles.com told the teen star that she and the youngest Jonas Brother “make a cute couple,” she smiled and said, “Thanks!”

And she didn’t stop there, gushing about her maybe-boyfriend: “He is a very good-hearted guy and he’s very passionate about what he does.”

So do you think Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas should go public with their romance?

Everything is falling into place for  Britney Spears’ big comeback tomorrow, with the release of her new album Circus.  And yesterday (November 30) her sons  Jayden James and  Sean Preston were spotted arriving at Newark Airport in preparation for the big event.

The two toddlers were picked up by Brit’s parents Jamie and Lynne Spears following their Transamerican flight from their home in Los Angeles, California.
Meanwhile, the “Gimme More” singer, herself, arrived into NYC’s JFK International Airport yesterday from London, England following a mini-European promotional tour last week.

Along with her new album hitting stores tomorrow (December 2nd), Brit will also be celebrating her 27th birthday with a Big Apple party.  Talk about a big day!

Sean Penn was born in Burbank, California, on August 17, 1960. His father, Leo Penn, was a director and his mother, Eileen Ryan, an actress. In high school he rubbed shoulders with Martin Sheen’s boys, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, and after graduation, joined the Los Angeles Repertoire Theater Company. He then appeared in several TV productions, including an episode of “Barnaby Jones”, before landing the part of an overzealous cadet in the hit Taps (1981).

Soon thereafter, his turn as pothead surfer Joe Spicolo in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) made him an overnight sensation. His next project was 1983’s disturbingly violent prison drama Bad Boys, followed by Crackers (1984) and the WWII-era Racing with the Moon (1984). While the latter was not a box office hit, Penn got great reviews for playing a young man on the verge of shipping out. Then, according to the critics, Penn outdid himself again in the espionage thriller The Falcon and the Snowman (1985).

After his tumultuous marriage to and divorce from Madonna, which included his infamous roughing up of the paparazzi and the disappointment of Shanghai Surprise (1987), Penn would resurface with Colors (1988), a timely, riveting story set in L.A.’s gang-ridden neighborhoods. Sean Penn the actor has at times stepped aside for Sean Penn the director. His films to date include The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995) and The Pledge (2001); Penn’s directorial efforts are light on action but heavy on the emotion, with actors given plenty of room to flex their thespian muscles.

It was for 1995’s Dead Man Walking that Sean Penn received an Academy Award? nomination for Best Actor. Though he did not win, his performance as a racist, hate-filled death row inmate was brave and heartrending. Then would come celebrated turns in 1997’s She’s So Lovely alongside wife Robin Wright Penn, Hurlyburly (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998) and Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown (1999). In 2002, he received his second Best Actor Oscar? nod, for I Am Sam, in which he played a mentally-handicapped man fighting for custody of his daughter. His latest outing was in Mystic River (2003), a Clint Eastwood drama set in Boston.

Hollywood couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are sinking over $1 million dollars into a private school that that will offer healthy organic meals, laptops for students, and learning based on “equity” and “respect” to create “citizens of the world.” But are parents being told of this schools ties to the Church of Scientology?

The school, called the New Village Academy will be using some of the same teaching methodology used within the Church of Scientology and has people from the church hired to put this into action.

Will Smith and Jada have home-schooled their children but have spoken about wanting to open a school where their children, Jaden, 9, and Willow, 7, can receive an education that contains their belief system.

Although they are not disclosing this information openly, Will Smith and Jada are paying for the pre-kindergarten through sixth grade school in Calabasas, Calif., and they have the group of Scientologists, including the Director of Learning, Director of Qualifications and Artistic Director, heading up the program.

The executive director of the California Association of Private School Organizations, Ron Reynolds, stated that it’s not the Scientology teaching methods but the school’s non-disclosure about it’s religious affiliation. Ron Reynolds said, “School should be forthright about its purposes. And if it’s a religious school, I don’t see why it wouldn’t wish to announce its religious affiliation loud and clear,” Reynolds said.

While the affiliation with Scientology is not made apparent, in the glossary of educational theories, it lists “study technology,” an “educational model developed by L.R. Hubbard.” L. Ron Hubbard is the founder of the Church of Scientology.

There has been speculation that Will Smith was affiliated with Scientology, but he has never stated that fact in public. During an interview with Access Hollywood, Smith said, Smith spoke about Scientology: “I was introduced [to] it by Tom [Cruise], and I’m a student of world religion. I was raised in a Baptist household, I went to a Catholic school, but the ideas of the Bible are 98 percent the same ideas of Scientology, 98 percent the same ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism.”

Natalie Portman, 26, and Scarlett Johansson, 23, were co-stars in “The Other Boleyn Girl” but their friendship seemed to have extended beyond. They were at the Berlin premiere of their movie when they took the time to share a romantic kiss. Natalie might have initiated the kiss to dispel her own fears of being a boring actress. She told the press that she thought of herself as being boring. Scarlett rushed to Natalie’s defence and said that she did not think that Natalie was boring.

“The Other Boleyn Girl” is a film of 2 sisters, Mary and Anne Boleyn in a film re-make of the book by Philippa Gregory. The book was selected to be made into a film because it was a bestseller.

Sarah Silverman just landed a $2.5 million deal to pen a book of comedic essays for publishing giant HarperCollins.

She is regularly voted one of the hottest women in the world and now Access Rising Star Sarah Shahi is bringing that fire to television as “Life’s” sexy detective Dani Rees.

The gorgeous gal plays a complicated policewoman, one whose personal troubles spill over into her professional life. As a result, Rees gets partnered with the most unpopular guy on the force – Charlie Crews (played by Damian Lewis).

As the premise of the show goes — Crews was falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. After winning his release, a handsome legal settlement, and his job back, the show follows Crews as he is reinstated as a detective and sent into the field. As he investigates and solves crimes, he does it alongside the smoking-hot Rees.

Shahi’s character, Rees, has plenty of troubles of her own. In the first few episodes, viewers learn Rees got stuck with Crews because of a previous drug problem that sent her to rehab. Her character might also be a sex addict too.

Real life is much more sweet for Shahi. The Texas native, who is of Persian and Spanish decent, grew up a beauty queen. She’s also a former cheerleader, who twirled her pom poms for the Dallas Cowboys.

As far as her acting pedigree goes, Shahi has been featured in a host of primetime hits. She made guest appearances on the Jennifer Garner fronted “Alias,” “The L Word” and CW favorite “Supernatural.”

Fans will definitely remember her for her very sexy scenes with Tony Soprano in the final season of the popular HBO show “The Sopranos” too. Shahi played the lovely Vegas-vixen who Tony shared a lost, peyote-inspired weekend with, following his nephew Christopher’s “untimely” death.

New York City’s Carnegie Hall was overflowing with beautiful people as Glamour Magazine held their 2008 Women of the Year Awards last night (November 10).

“Eyes Wide Shut” actress Nicole Kidman and her hunky country crooner hubby Keith Urban looked blissful as they arrived on the red carpet, with Nic sporting a spaghetti strap ivory-colored dress while Keith opted for a dark suit and tie.
Also stealing plenty of paparazzi attention was  Kate Bosworth, who kept it simple-yet-sexy in a sleeveless black and white knee-length dress teamed with a pair of black heels.

Natalie Portman turned her fair share of heads in a girlie black sleeveless dress, while Fergie looked busty in a cleavage-baring white floor-length gown.

Other celebrities gracing the red carpet in serious style included Sarah Michelle Gellar, Taylor Swift, America Ferrera, and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.