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Mel B and ex-husband Jimmy Gulzar squared off against each other in a Californian courtroom Tuesday.

The pair were in court for a hearing concerning their 10-year-old daughter, Phoenix Chi.

RadarOnline.com witnessed the former Spice Girl in a heated row with her lawyer in the hallway outside the courtroom.

They say she was visibly upset and was screaming at her attorney about Gulzar.

The courtroom was closed for the hearing.

Mel B met Dutch dancer Gulzar while on the Spiceworld Tour. They married in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire in 1998.

Their only child together, daughter Phoenix Chi, was born in Westminster, London, on February 19, 1999. This made her the first Spice Girl to become a mother.

Marital problems ensued, including allegations of abusive and inattentive behaviour by Gulzar, and the marriage collapsed by the end of 1999.

In 2000 Brown filed for divorce, which was finalised later that year.

The custody battle for her daughter was highly publicised; Brown won custody, but had to pay a large alimony settlement of £1.25million ($2.1million) to her ex-husband.

Mel B has another daughter, Angel Iris, 2, with former boyfriend Eddie Murphy.

She married long-term friend and movie producer Stephen Belafonte in a quiet ceremony in Las Vegas in 2007.

Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock has said she has stopped doing rom-com movies because they're 'terrible' and 'not funny'.

The 45-year-old star recently appeared in the comedy The Proposal, which is out on DVD later this month, and said she doesn't think the movie is a typical rom-com.

She said to UK magazine Shortlist: "I don't call this a romantic comedy. I call it a motion picture.

"It reminds me of the films from the Thirties and Forties, where there was a landscape and a story, and drama was allowed to be in there. You can't have good comedy without drama in it."

Talking about romantic comedy movies, she added: "I stopped them six or seven years ago. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad.

"They're not funny, and they shouldn't be called romantic comedies because most of the time they're not romantic. And they don't generally write well for women in romantic comedies.

"I love my comedy too much... It wasn't being done in the way that I loved and could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it, so I decided to abandon it."

It seems that Evan Chandler, the father of the child who claimed back 1993 that Michael Jackson sexually abused him, has committed suicide. He was 65 years old… kind of a late bloomer when it comes to suicide, wasn’t he? A police spokesperson said the following about the event: "We have ruled it as suicide because he was found with a gun held to his body. He had a single bullet wound to the side of his head. There was no note but officers did find medication in keeping with a serious medical condition." Probably something left over from Michael Jacskon’s old stash. Who knows, maybe Evan Chandler was in the meds business and couldn’t live with the thought of one of his best clients was no more. Either that or there is something that still smells fishy with regards to Michael Jackson’s child molestation case… the plot thickens.

Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon snuck off to Ojai in California for a relaxing weekend with her two children, Ava and Deacon.

Witherspoon took some time away from the bustle of Hollywood to spend quiet downtime in the hip locale.

Witherspoon, who is dating actor Jake Gyllenhaal, took her children to the farmer's market on Sunday and stopped off at a bookstore, where Deacon picked out a book.

Witherspoon has been promoting her new fragrance, while Gyllenhaal will soon promote his latest movie Prince Of Persia.

New Moon star Michael Sheen has said he thinks his co-star Dakota Fanning looks 'more scary' than him in the upcoming flick.

The 40-year-old actor plays evil Volturi member Aro in the second chapter in the Twilight saga and said that Dakota, 15, who plays another Volturi member Jane, is evil in the flick.

He said to UK newspaper Daily Record: "I actually think Dakota looks more scary than me - so angelic, yet so weird - like an angelic Red Riding Hood. It's quite thrilling to have Dakota Fanning calling you 'master'.

"I think we can now reveal that we actually had to tone Dakota down. Her natural personality is too evil, so we had to tell her to turn the volume down on her wicked nature."

The Hills star Stephanie Pratt, who was recently charged with a DUI in California, will enter a 30-day rehabilitation program.

The younger sister of Spencer Pratt pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanour count of DUI in a Los Angeles court hearing. Pratt was arrested in the early hours of the morning after she attended the birthday party of Hills co-star Holly Montag, the sister of Spencer's wife, Heidi. The celebrity couple, Spencer and Heidi, were not in attendance at the party.

Stephanie, who spoke out about the positive side of learning from the incident, has revealed she will enter the rehab program as an in-patient. She said she was close to her parents and described her arrest as a "set up". But the budding reality TV star was also able to count her blessings out of the experience.

Harry Potter actor Tom Felton has defended his co-star Daniel Radcliffe and said he is 'all right' following his recent drug allegations.

Radcliffe, 20, has denied recent reports that a picture showed him smoking cannabis at a party and his Harry Potter co-star Felton, 22, has said he is coping with the recent reports.

Felton said to UK show GMTV: "Yeah, very briefly. I haven't seen him over the weekend but I spoke to him to make sure he was OK and he seems to be dealing with it all right.

"He's just come to the terms with the fact that not always are the press on his side."

Talking about being the heroes of young children, he added: "Yeah, I think especially for Daniel more than anyone really. And it doesn't make it easier when people are publishing articles that aren't true.

"And obviously I feel for the guy. I know he's got a very strong head on him and I know he'll sail through this one easily. But yeah, it's not easy. No one can do it better than Daniel."

Hollywood director Clint Eastwood has been awarded one of France's top honours.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy not only welcomed the Oscar-winner into the French Legion of Honour but elevated him to a ranking normally out of bounds for foreigners - commander.

The honour is one of the nation's highest and is reserved for those who have made great cultural contributions to the country.

Eastwood happily welcomed the honour as he referred to France as his 'second home' before jokingly calling Sarkozy, 'my President'.

The actor and director added: "This is a wonderful honour.

"It is just a great pleasure for me. I really love France. I love movies, and I love the appreciation that the French people have for movies."

The 79-year-old doesn't plan on wasting any time in using the respect his hard-earned award will give him.

He joked: "As a commander of the arts and letters, I think I will go out on the streets of France today and throw my weight around!"

Angelina Jolie's dad Jon Voight has confirmed that he has reconciled with his famous daughter.

The 70-year-old admitted that he and Jolie, 34, have got back in touch after they fell out in 2001.

Voight said to Us Weekly: "We're in touch, but not regularly. We love each other and that's the most important thing."

The father-daughter duo fell out in 2001 after Voight appeared on TV and appeared emotional as he asked her to get help for her "serious mental problems".

A family friend added that the twosome "met face-to-face" in February and have been talking ever since.

The friend added: "Angie made the initial contact. Brad [Pitt] has been supportive - a key factor in her reaching out."

Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson was arrested and taken away in handcuffs after getting into a fight with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday.

Both Tyson and the photographer - who has not yet been named - were charged with battery.

Both men were arrested after the run-in occurred in Terminal 7 near a United Airlines counter.

Tyson told police a photographer struck him in an attempt to provoke him, and Tyson allegedly punched the snapper and grabbed his camera, police said.

Los Angeles Airport police Sgt. Jim Holcomb said the photographer told police the ex-boxer - known for biting off an Evander Holyfield's ear in the ring - hit him and he went down.

“The photographer suffered a minor laceration to the forehead,” Holcomb said.

“There's a lot of different versions to the story.

“That's all going to come out later. But in this particular case, both individuals are going to be pressing charges for battery.”

Tyson was originally being held in a cell at LAX, but was pictured as he was moved to a downtown Los Angeles jail, Holcomb said.

A spokesman for Tyson said the boxing legend was travelling with his 10-month-old daughter and he was acting in self-defence when he was confronted by an aggressive photographer.

Adam Lambert was recently in attendance for the premiere of Columbia Pictures’ ‘2012’ at the Regal Cinemas LA. The singer wasn’t there just because he wanted to catch the film. The 27-year old American Idol alum actually has a song featured in the movie called ‘Time for Miracles’. And if you’re wondering, Adam went solo on the red carpet as he recently split from his interior designer Drake LaBry recently. I wonder if he’s already dating around. I don’t think that he’s the type to just sit around. No former drag queen is. And I’m still waiting on some smoking gun on why Adam and Drake really split.

Mel Gibson is an old hand at fatherhood, which comes as no surprise given he's up to his eighth go-around.

Oksana Grigorieva, the father of Gibson's second daughter, Lucia, says Gibson is a pro: "Mel's very hands-on. He was amazing while he was here for a short visit. He has been very doting and nurturing. He is incredible with children, very kind."

Gibson could only spend three days with the child who was born on October 30. It is his eighth child and Grigorieva's second.

The Russian singer gushed: "He's an amazing person and he treats everybody equally. That's what I know. I know him as a very kind and generous person, embracing his friends and family. He's tremendous as a dad, unbelievable. He's ecstatic. He is very much in love with her already. She just wins people's hearts, she's so beautiful and tiny."

Gibson, 53, was filming The Beaver when he flew to Los Angeles to be at Grigorieva's side for the birth a month ahead of the due date. Gibson missed the birth but he arrived a few hours later and spent three days with his new family before returning to the film set last Monday.

Oksana said: "I was at home then I got rushed into hospital and, eight hours later, I could look at her beautiful face. Mel came just a few hours later because he had to fly from New York."

She added that her relationship with Gibson was solid: "We've always been very spiritually connected and emotionally, too. We've always been very close. Having children is an overwhelming feeling, beautiful."

Twilight actor Kellan Lutz has said he is more excited about the third film in the series Eclipse than the second and latest movie New Moon.

Lutz, 24, plays the role of Emmett Cullen in the hit film series, and the second instalment New Moon hits theatres on November 20.

He admitted that the new film is a "great" movie but he is more excited for the third offering.

Lutz said: "Eclipse is a masculine movie. I love it. All the stunts I was able to do by myself. It's an action movie!"

Talking about Eclipse, he added: "It's going to be one of those movies where guys who aren't fans of the Twilight series but like seeing a good kick*** action movie are going to see it.

"And they're going to bring their girlfriends who are anti-Twilight because they don't want to be on that bandwagon. Then they're going to come and fall in love with it, too."

Lutz revealed his other intentions as he hopes it will turn him into the new Jason Bourne.

He said: "I have a great team and we're really focused on becoming that new action hero. I want to be Jason Bourne... and take over that franchise. I love doing stunts and shooting guns and doing fight scenes."

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is continuing his Hollywood hot streak as he signs up to star in and produce two high-profile new films.

The actor, who had back-to-back hits with Borat and Bruno, has now set up his own production house and already created a bidding war with its first project.

The unnamed picture, written by the same team as his last two and set to star Cohen, landed his outfit Four by Two Films a seven-figure dollar deal after Columbia Pictures beat two other studios.

At the same time, the new company has also made a deal for Accidentes (OK), another Cohen vehicle.

The film will see the actor play a Latino ambulance-chasing personal injury attorney who becomes a hero of the Los Angeles working class after helping an immigrant win a judgment against a wealthy employer.

The 16-year-old son of Sean Penn, Hopper Jack, will not face charges following an arrest last week at his high school in Malibu.

A source close to the case told RadarOnline.com exclusively the district attorney's office closed its investigation of Hopper after drugs allegedly found in his possession were found to be prescribed to him.

Hopper was taken into custody at the time of the alleged discovery but the DA decided not to pursue charges. The type of prescription medication in question was not revealed.

Source: Splash News

Russell Brand is thinking of ditching his wild and woolly look for a clean-cut, Hollywood one.

He said: "I can't keep always playing long-haired, scruffy men, otherwise my career would be limited."

Brand was said to have been advised to seek a barber's assistance in order to play the lead in a remake of Dudley Moore's Arthur.

Brand, in discussing his look, has revealed a burning ambition to play the part of the volatile Napoleon Bonaparte.

He said: "I was hoping one day to play Napoleon but I can't play Napoleon as this shaggy-haired, bearded raconteur."

He said he also had another character in mind. "But I did also want to play Rasputin, so that'll be good, I can look like this."

Source: Splash News

FlashForward actress Gabrielle Union has opened up about her own rape ordeal after reading about a gang-rape in Richmond, California, last weekend that left her "sickened and really sad".

The Cradle 2 The Grave star wrote on her blog about her own nightmare, after she was left "sad more than anything" by the news of the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at a high-school dance, where as many as 20 people are believed to have watched without calling for help.

"After googling the gang rape story in Richmond and reading comments on blogs, it just leaves me sickened and really sad," the actress wrote.

"The fact that race and socio-economics have been used to explain away a brutal gang rape... [is] just sad... a lack of regard for violence against women."

Her anger led her to relive her own horrific attack.

She wrote: "When I was 19 years old, I was raped.

"I was working at a shoe store in California, and the store was robbed. The person robbing the store ended up putting a gun to my head and raping me...

"I blanked out and had an out-of-body experience, like I was hovering above seeing this horrible thing happen to someone else... not me.”

She added: “That's why I now lobby for state legislatures across the country and the federal government to help raise funds and awareness for rape crisis centres...

"My goal is to never hear the words 'Me too' from someone, after I say, 'I was raped.'"

U2’s may have had a concert at the Rose Bowl in Southern California but it was seen all over the world via YouTube. The live webcast was watched by nearly 10 million people which is considered as a big win for the company. That has to be an understatement considering that the 2 and a half hour concert was YouTube’s largest streaming event ever! The rebroadcast of the concert has also been watched by over 1.1 million viewers. I guess the high cost of the band’s show is worth it after all. We just have to look past the fact that they have yet to make profits off of it.

24 star Keifer Sutherland has splashed out $700 - on a bar bill.

The generous actor bought drinks for all the crew from the hit show after they recently wrapped an episode.

Keifer and the crew popped into The Spot bar in San Pedro, California, at 7am, after working all night on the show. They stayed in the bar until about 1pm - and Keifer bought all the crew and everyone else in the bar a drink.

The total bill - without food - came to $500 - and Keifer then tipped the bar staff a whopping $200 on top.

Keifer who was, according to the report on TMZ.com, drinking Scotch and Coke, had a driver pick him up when he left the bar.

Source: Splash News

Sean Penn's 16-year-old son was reportedly arrested last week at his school in Malibu.

According to RadarOnline.com, Hopper Jack Penn was taken into custody by the LA County Sheriff's department.

But as he is a minor, officials will not release details as to why he was arrested or if charges have been filed.

A senior LA County Sheriff source confirmed that Penn was arrested at the school he attends in the posh Malibu area.

Hopper's arrest has come at a difficult time for Penn - in August, his actress wife Robin Wright Penn filed for divorce, insisting that unlike previous occasions when she withdrew divorce papers, this time she has no plans to reconcile with her husband.

Source: Splash News

Soccer superstar David Beckham will rejoin AC Milan on loan in December, his US club Los Angeles Galaxy have confirmed.

The England star will officially move to the Italian giants on December 28 and will stay with them until the end of their Serie A season on May 16.

He will return to the Galaxy in July, when he aims to play for England at the World Cup in South Africa. Galaxy officials have not revealed the terms of the loan.

Beckham said in a statement: “I need to give myself the best chance possible to make the World Cup squad, and playing for Milan on loan will help me to do that.

“I genuinely enjoyed my time at Milan and I look forward to meeting the players and staff again.”

Beckham, who faced an angry backlash from Galaxy fans over his move to Milan last season, also thanked the club's chief executive Tim Leiweke and manager Bruce Arena “for allowing me this opportunity.”

He insisted: “I'm committed to LA Galaxy and MLS in the long term and remain as passionate as ever about growing the game of soccer in America. I'm completely focused on ending this season on a high note with my club by winning the MLS Cup.”

The deal means Beckham will miss the start of the 2010 Major League Soccer season.

Delta Blues, executive produced by George Clooney, will soon bust onto television screens.

The crime-themed drama that focuses on a Memphis cop was given the green light by cable television network TNT.

Delta Blues' main character moonlights as an Elvis Presley impersonator who lives with his mother. The network has aired successful cop shows The Closer, Saving Grace and Dark Blue.

Whether or not Clooney actually appears as the main character in Delta Blues remains to be seen. The actor has been lighting up the big screen, meanwhile, with a slew of new movies including Up In The Air.

Delta Blues is the result of a 2008 collaboration between Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and Warner Horizon. Smokehouse has since moved over to Sony.

This Is It, a cinematic tribute to Michael Jackson, debuted in Los Angeles to a star-studded red carpet world premiere at the Nokia Theater.

Celebrity guests at the unveilling of a movie that has already aroused much controversy included

Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Paris Hilton, Neil Patrick Harris, Paula Abdul, Katy Perry, Adam Lambert, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.

Members of Michael Jackson's family were said to be attending but not his mother, Katherine, or his three children, Prince Michael I, Paris Katherine and Prince Michael II.

Director of This Is It, Kenny Ortega (pictured) wiped tears from his eyes as he greeted guests. The film's verdict will be attributed to Ortega who has met a storm of criticism over the movie and handling of Jackson's legacy. Ortega was a longtime friend of Jackson and his choreographer for the UK 50-date tour he never undertook.

Ortega said he expected audiences would be surprised by "the intimacy".

"It's unguarded and raw and real, and Michael is there and available to us all, and lovely and kind," he said.

The film, which is a documentary drawn from 100 hours of rehearsal footage, is expected to gross $400million together with a new album, according to one estimate.

Ortega said: "We went in there to make a film for the fans. To help them understand what it was - what Michael's dream was for This Is It. So that guided us and helped us make our choices ... This is for them. This is for the fans."

These are the high-school yearbook photos of alleged ‘Hollywood Burglar Bunch' gang members Rachel Lee and Diana Tamayo.

Lee, 18, and Tamayo, 19, both studied at Indian Hills High School in Agoura Hills, California.

In the candid pictures from three yearbooks spanning from the class of 2006 to 2008 a bright future was predicted for the pair.

Lee was awarded merits for her style and was twice named ‘Best Dressed' in the end of year photos.

Tamayo's beaming grin didn't go unnoticed either as she was voted as having the ‘Best Smile' in 2007.

She was also pictured alongside a mystery man as the ‘Cutest Couple That Never Was.'

Tamayo was quite the devil during a Halloween party in 2007. She can be seen wearing a daring red dress with a pair of horns as an accessory in more yearbook photos.

Lee and Tamayo are also pictured together during happier times enjoying their school year.

Lee was arrested in Las Vegas last week after being suspected of organizing a plan to steal cash, jewelry, clothing, luggage, purses and other items from several celebrities.

Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge and Megan Fox were allegedly victims of the ‘Hollwood Burglar Bunch.'

Lee and a gang of her friends are being investigated for the $2 million jewelry heist at Paris Hilton's home last year.

Patridge's home was broken into on Feb. 23, while Lindsay's home was burglarized on Aug. 23 with an estimated $128,000 in jewelry, designer clothes and accessories taken.

Diana Tamayo, 19, Courtney Ames, 18, Nicholas Prugo, 18, Alexis Neiers, 18, and Roy Lopez Jr., 27 were believed to have worked as Lee's accomplices for the robberies.

Actor Nicolas Cage's father, August Coppola, has died at the age of 75.

Coppola, a literature professor, was the brother of director Francis Ford Coppola and uncle of film-maker Sofia.

A spokeswoman for Cage, Annett Wolf, said August died on Tuesday after a heart attack. He was dean of creative arts at San Francisco State University.

Cage spoke about why his dad chose literature and not film earlier this year. "My father, who I think was being groomed to be a medical doctor, always had an interest in books," he said. "He was just interested in literature and philosophy and that was his calling. That was before Francis decided that he was going to be a film-maker."

Cage said his father was the oldest of three children. "Carmine, my grandfather, came to America [from Italy] and it was really because of his skills as a flautist - he was a first chair flautist for Toscanini - that we kind of came out of ... almost like a poverty situation. So it was the arts that did that."

In addition to Cage, August is survived by two other sons and five grandchildren.

Anna Nicole Smith's longtime companion Howard K Stern and two doctors have been ordered to stand trial on charges of furnishing the late model with drugs.

After a three week preliminary hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J Perry ruled there is enough evidence to require Stern, 40, and physicians Khristine Eroshevich, 61, and Sandeep Kapoor, 41, to stand trial. They are charged with conspiring to illegally provide controlled substances to Smith. All three have pleaded not guilty.

The decision came after Judge Perry took home a 45-minute video to watch that purportedly showed Anna Nicole under the influence of drugs provided by her lawyer-boyfriend.

After it was announced that the three will stand trial, Anna Nicole Smith's mother Virgie Arthurs said she was 'thrilled' with the court's ruling.

A friend of Virgie revealed: "She is absolutely thrilled with the judge's decision. All she has ever wanted is justice."

Smith, 39, died from an accidental prescription drug overdose on February 8,

2007, after unsuccessful efforts to revive her in a Florida hotel room.

Michael Jackson’s father who apparently loved him so much during his lifetime is now very keen on showing his affection since the pop legend has passed away. In a recent interview in which he was talking about his son, Joe Jackson said the following heart-warming words: "He's worth more dead than when he was alive. I'd rather have him alive." So touching... Who can tell that Michael Jackson’s dad is lying in half that statement, raise both your hands! Strange… that felt like a draft! Really, that many… come on, he’s an honest man, how many times has he not proven it up until now?

Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner got cozy in California last weekend when they attended a hockey game together and then went to a Beverly Hills hotel after the game. The country singer and the actor watched the Columbus Blue Jackets take on the Los Angeles Kings. Although some reports are saying that the two teenagers spent the night together, a source confirmed that Taylor actually stayed with her mom Andrea. There’s been a lot of speculation regarding the two Taylors relationship since last July when they were spotted kissing on the set of ‘Valentine’s Day’. Whether or not they are together, I think they look cute.

Former Lost star Harold Perrineau has said he would return to the show if asked.

Perrineau, 46, played the role of Michael Dawson and it was rumoured that he was one of the stars that would be returning to the hit TV show in its final season.

However, the actor has denied he will be reprising his role for the upcoming season.

He told E! Online: "Honestly, no one has asked. But if I was asked to come back to Lost, indeed I would say yes. We all started that journey together, and I would love to be able to end it with everybody.

"It would be a great thing to do, to get to say goodbye to them all at the same time. I would love to go back and hang out a little bit."

A-Team star Bradley Cooper has reportedly told girlfriend Renee Zellweger that he "wants space" after striking up a friendship with an LA producer.

Bradley, 34, and Renee, 40, had reportedly grown close after going on holiday to Vancouver and Barcelona.

However, it has now been claimed Bradley has told Renee he isn't ready to settle down and has struck up a friendship with Hollywood producer Holly Wiersma.

A source said to British newspaper the Daily Mail: "Bradley is enjoying his status as a hot successful star and doesn't want to settle.

"He's told Renee he wants space - but at the same time he's started getting flirty with Holly."