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Jim Carrey has agreed with girlfriend Jenny McCarthy that communication is the key to a good relationship.

A week ahead of Valentine's Day, Carrey quipped: "Every day is Valentine's Day, baby."

McCarthy revealed to People what makes a relationship work: "Say what you mean. No one has the energy for mind games. Communication. Being turned on by each other. Being each other's soulmate."

Carrey, whose new film is I Love You Phillip Morris, said: "When you're not turned on, there's generally something to talk about. So it's good to listen to that."

Of McCarthy, he said: "Jenny is the first person I've been with where I don't have a giant question mark above my head."

Joe Jonas is reportedly set to play a younger version of Balthazar Getty’s character on ‘Brothers & Sisters’ in a two-episode flashback that will focus on the history of the Walker family. That has to be the most random gig that the singer has gotten. Although if it is true, at least the Jonas Brothers member finally has something to do while on a break from his music career and maybe the show will pull in a younger audience. Rachel Leigh Cook is up against Courtney Ford and Nora Zehetner for the younger version of Sally Field and Kay Panabaker is playing the younger version of Calista Flockheart.

Heather Mills has revealed that former husband Sir Paul McCartney wooed her for months before they actually started dating.

The 42-year-old star, who is competing in UK reality show Dancing On Ice, used to be married to the Beatles legend but they divorced in 2008.

Mills is to talk about her marriage in a new show with celebrity psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly called Shrink Rap.

She said: "We were very, very in love. I was pursued for a few months. It was very flattering. How could you say no?"

An award has been created in the name of Robert Redford by the prestigious University of Southern California School of Theatre.

The prize will be titled the Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists and will be awarded on an annual basis to a recipient to pay tribute to professional accomplishment and "public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events and to inspiring and empowering young people," USC stated.

Madeline Puzo, dean of the school, stated Redford "embodies all that an Engaged Artist represents.

"He is a distinguished actor, an Academy Award-winning director, an ardent conservationist, philanthropist and environmentalist, a man who stands for social responsibility and political involvement and an artist and businessman who is a staunch supporter of uncompromised creative expression."

The award will be presented on February 10 in Beverly Hills at a fundraiser for scholarships to the USC School of Theatre.

Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey has revealed the first photo of his baby daughter Vida.

The 40-year-old star became a dad for the second time when his girlfriend Camila gave birth to daughter Vida on January 3.

They posted the image on their website along with the caption: "Here's a pic of our latest family member Vida Alves McConaughey...

"Thanks for all your well wishes our way, the future's lookin bright, just keep livin, Matthew & Camila."

The couple are also parents to 18-month-old son Levi.

It is the end of the road for Betty Suarez - hit TV show Ugly Betty has been cancelled.

US network ABC has announced the popular comedy series' current fourth season will be its last.

The show, based on a Colombian soap opera, made America Ferrera a star with her lead role as the style-challenged fashion magazine staffer.

“We've mutually come to the difficult decision to make this Ugly Betty's final season, and are announcing now as we want to allow the show ample time to write a satisfying conclusion,” executive producer Silvio Horta and ABC president Steve McPherson said in a joint statement.

“We are extremely proud of this groundbreaking series, and felt it was important to give the fans a proper farewell.”

Mark Indelicato, who plays Betty's nephew, Justin Suarez, said the decision was “sad”.

The 15-year-old said: “It's been an amazing four years... It's sad to see this come so unexpectedly but I think that we all recognise the tremendous work that we have done — and am very grateful for that.”

A Swedish model left court in Los Angeles yesterday (Wednesday) after listening to closing arguments in her boyfriend's murder trial.

Therese Fischer, 21, sat quietly at the back of the courtroom as lawyers summed up the allegations against Stockholm-born rapper David Jassy.

Jassy, 35, is accused of killing 55-year-old pedestrian John Osnes in a “brutal” attack during a 2008 road rage incident.

Prosecutors claim the music star, who calls himself DJ Monopoly, punched and kicked the jazz pianist before running over his unconscious body and attempting to flee the scene.

Jassy denies the five charges against him.

Jassy and Fischer, a pretty brunette, were on their way home from a nightclub in Hollywood, California, in November 2008 when the incident occurred.

According to Deputy District Attorney Sarika Kapoor, Mr Osnes yelled at the couple and “slapped” the front of their rented SUV after they came close to hitting him on a pedestrian crossing.

The court heard how Jassy then stopped his vehicle, got out of the car and aggressively confronted the 55-year-old before hitting him in the face.

“Mr Osnes was punched so hard his glasses flew off his face,” Ms Kapoor said.

The prosecutor told jurors how the rapper then “walked up to Mr Osnes while he was still bent over and kicked him right in the face”.

“He kicked him with enough force to leave a shoe print on his face and to fracture his skull,” she said.

As Mr Osnes lay unconscious on the ground, Jassy allegedly shouted “f*** you” before getting back in his SUV and driving over the pedestrian's body.

“He drove over his abdominal, his centre section and his torso,” Ms Kapoor said. “This was an impact which cause this person to be turned onto their side.”

David Beckham is planning to snap up the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team.

The revelation is a sensational one in light of Beckham's soured history with the club that adopted him as rugby's white knight saviour two years ago.

Beckham moreover will buy up the Galaxy and stay in the US, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

Beckham, who is on loan to AC Milan, has two seasons remaining with Galaxy. His wife, Victoria, was intent on staying in Los Angeles, the newspaper claims. She has launched fashion and accessory lines in her name and managed to turn her career red-hot with recent guest appearances on American Idol and The View.

Contained in his £128million ($206.5million) five-year contract with the Galaxy was the proviso he could buy a franchise for a new entrant to the MLS and he has set his sights on Montreal.

A US source revealed: "Montreal is a cosmopolitan, European-style city. As a result, they have a huge passionate support for football that doesn't necessarily exist in the US."

Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage's house has sold for a reported $4.95m.

But despite such a hefty price-tag, the 46-year-old star has made a loss on his Las Vegas residence, as it is actually worth $8.5m, according to reports.

Despite earning a whopping $20m per film, Cage, 46, has reportedly been plagued by financial problems after the US Inland Revenue sued him over unpaid taxes.

Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, has launched an independent campaign to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as California governor.

Von Anhalt, 66, a Republican, is German born and has no political experience. He gave a news conference in West Hollywood and unveiled a billboard of himself in military-style attire on Sunset Strip as part of a $300,000 bid for office.

Von Anhalt has been critical of Austrian-born Schwarzenegger over travel time out of California and his legacy for the state, calling it a "mess".

"Arnold is going to go, and California needs somebody new. It took always a German to clean out the Austrian mess. That was always the case, and it will happen here also."

Von Anhalt says he is a fiscal conservative who is liberal on social issues, supporting gay marriage, legal marijuana and a broad amnesty for illegal immigrants.

During the aftermath of Anna Nicole Smith's death in 2007, he was briefly linked to her infant daughter as one of several alleged fathers. Von Anhalt claimed to have had a 10-year affair with Smith.

Gabor, who turns 93 next month, is in poor health. He said: "My wife, when I married her 23 years ago, she was for me the first lady of California already, and now she gets the title officially."

Katy Perry and her soon to be hubby Russell Brand recently made their way back to Los Angeles where they celebrated the great news of their impending marriage with 50 of their closest family and friends. The couple threw an engagement party at Il Cielo in Beverly Hills last week. The singer’s mom, Mary Hudson, was seen sipping on cocktails and the crowd enjoyed a beautiful cake in a room decorated with red roses and candles. Who knew that the comedian was such a romantic? First, his elaborate proposal in India, and now this beautiful party. Most guys would actually shy away from these things but apparently not Russell.

Hollywood hunk Josh Duhamel laced up his trainers and pounded the pavement over the weekend to help raise money for the Haiti earthquake victims.

The actor took part in a two-mile run on Santa Monica Beach, CA, organised by the Red Cross.

There was a $10 donation to run, with all proceeds going to help the earthquake-ravaged country of Haiti.

Duhamel was joined on the run by British Bachelor reality star Matt Grant and Wizards of Waverly Place teen star Gregg Sulkin.

Christine Peake, CEO of The PeakPRgroup, who represents the Red Cross Santa Monica chapter and also helped organise the event, said: "Matt Kemp from the LA Dodgers was also there - he was terrific.

"Gregg Sulkin, who is the newest Disney star and is starring on Wizards of Waverly Place, was participating, too. He was certainly making all the younger runners smile and the girls swoon!

"Josh was the sweetest ever though, so committed to the cause, sincere and gave time to everyone, I could see he really cared.

"Josh really means to make a difference, and the Red Cross are thrilled to have him on their side."

Jennifer Garner has told how she underwent therapy to cope with the end of her first marriage.

The screen beauty, now married to Ben Affleck, said she was an emotional mess in the wake of her divorce from actor Scott Foley.

She said: "I had a lot of growing up to do. I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue. But back then I couldn't have a fight. I couldn't work things out because I wasn't able to say what I needed to say. I didn't have a voice. I didn't dare to express myself. It was a huge heartbreak for me to have something fail like that. I thought, 'Why did this relationship not work? What part of the failure is my responsibility?' So I went to work on it. I started therapy."

Alias star Garner, 37, told Parade magazine filed for divorce from Foley in May 2003 and officially split the following March 2004.

She married Affleck in June 2005. They have two daughters, Violet, four, and Seraphina, one.

Charlie Sheen's lawyer filed legal papers today asking an Aspen judge to allow him to communicate with wife Brooke Mueller while she is in hospital.

In the papers, Sheen's lawyer, Richard Cummins, requested a change in Sheen's current restraining order, to allow him to speak to Mueller at her hospital bedside.

Cummins wrote: "[Sheen] is concerned and feels the necessity to assist and care for his wife."

Mueller is currently in intensive care in an LA hospital with a reported 105-degree fever, for which she is being treated with antibiotics.

It is believed that the problem relates to oral surgery that Mueller underwent earlier in the week.

The Two And A Half Men star arrived at the LA hospital this morning, despite the restraining order, which states that the parties concerned cannot have direct contact or direct communication, although it does not prohibit them being in the same room.

Mueller's lawyer, Yale Galanter, confirmed that she will be released from hospital today and that he expects the hearing on the restraining order to still go ahead as scheduled this Friday.

Candy Spelling has said she has a 'terrific' relationship with daughter Tori after reconciling last year.

Candy, 64, and Tori, 36, finally put the past behind them in December last year after years of feuding.

Candy revealed that Tori recently nursed her back to health after she had surgery and she also looked after her husband Dean McDermott.

She said: "I recently had surgery on my neck.

"[McDermott] got in an accident when he was doing the motorcycles last week at the races... he smashed his left shoulder."

Talking about Candy's relationship with her Tori, she said that it's 'absolutely great. We are terrific!'

Australian actress Toni Collette won best actress in a comedy series at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles.

"Gee, thank you so much," said Collette, who received the award for her role in the US TV series The United States Of Tara. "The last time I came here 15 years ago I was on the loo [toilet] and missed my whole category."

Collette won out over fellow nominees Courteney Cox (Cougar Town), Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Lea Michele (Glee).

Collette was also honoured amongst her own community at the G'Day USA annual dinner dance in Hollywood on Saturday Night. The Globes are under way at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Nicolas Cage plans to pay back money he owes to the IRS.

The actor recently had a tax lien slapped on his real estate holdings that included $6.7 million from 2008. He said: "Over the course of my career I have paid at least $70 million in taxes. Unfortunately, due to a recent legal situation, another approximate $14 million is owed to the IRS."

In an exclusive statement to People, he said: "However, I am under new business management and am happy to say that I am current for 2009, all taxes will be paid including any to be determined state taxes."

Cage was last month slapped with a $13 million lawsuit from the mother of his son, Christina Fulton. She earlier blamed Cage's financial collapse on the actor's "compulsive, self-destructive spending".

He also faces at least one other lawsuit for at least $36.7 million from Red Curb Investments.

Sylvester Stallone was making a good recovery following serious neck surgery.

The UK Mirror reported he was out with Topshop boss Sir Philip Green having a rollicking good time at a top Hollywood night spot.

The newspaper said the pair and their respective wives were enjoying a "wild evening at fabulous West Hollywood restaurant Cecconi's".

Green's and Stallone's wives, Tina Green and the glamorous Jennifer Flavin, respectively were described as "dripping in diamonds" and getting along famously, the paper reports.

Stallone had just last week posted photos of his neck repair on his website that showed a three-pronged metal plate inserted into his cervical verterbrae. He suffered an injury on the set of The Expendables, a hotly anticipated movie that starred Brittany Murphy and will debut in August this year. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis also appear in the action flick.

Rosie O'Donnell has offered up her two cents to the Late Night Talk Show time slot war.

She said Leno's time is up and he needs to stand aside for Conan O'Brien.

"If you're privileged enough to drive the bus, you should say, 'Thank you' and drive it to the best of your ability, and when it's time for them to hire a new driver, you should say 'Thank you for allowing me to drive this as long as I did' and pass the keys to the new guy with red hair, and not try to flatten his tyres before he even gets going," the former daytime talk show host said.

NBC has moved Leno back into its late-night spot after giving O'Brien a short-lived run. O'Brien has stood up to the network, saying he won't be pushed back. O'Donnell also took to her blog to claim Leno "bullied his way back into college" to be quarterback once more.

O'Donnell brought out an old saw from the closet when she claimed that back in the 1990s Leno nixed a deal that was in the works for her to sit in for him on Friday nights.

Khloe Kardashian has said she got her hopes up when she recently thought she was pregnant, only to find out she wasn't.

The 25-year-old got married to LA Lakers star Lamar Odom in September last year after meeting just a month before.

She recently revealed in an interview that the couple were excited when they believed she was pregnant, but a pregnancy test revealed otherwise.

But Khloe said that she does feel ready to be a mum and wants another boy to equal out her mostly female family.

She said: "I think we don't have enough boys in the family. So I would love to have a boy."

Khloe's sister Kourtney, 30, gave birth to a baby boy, Mason, in December last year.

Novelist Jackie Collins claims she had a fling with movie legend Marlon Brando when she was just 15 years old.

Collins, 72, was at a party with her older sister Joan when the movie star saw her.

She said: "I was about to be 16. He sent someone over to me to say: 'Marlon thinks you're great-looking and have a great body and would like to meet you.'"

She added: "We had a very brief but fabulous affair. He was at the height of his fame and gorgeous."

Collins has since written 26 best-selling novels.

Hollywood actor George Clooney is to host a telethon to raise money for the tragic people of Haiti.

The Caribbean island was recently hit by an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 7, and 100,000 people are thought to have been killed.

Clooney, 48, revealed that he is planning to host the telethon to raise money for the Haitian people following the disaster.

The show will be aired on January 22 on all MTV channels and Clooney is trying to gather up his celebrity friends to get involved.

Producer Joel Gallen is already on board and he has already convinced performer Sting to participate.

Jennifer Aniston allegedly used a cell phone while driving in breach of California law.

Aniston, the star of The Bounty, was spotted holding a cell phone device up to her face while driving in a photograph that surfaced. She had her phone in one hand, while her other hand was on the wheel.

The incident repeats the 2008 flap over California First Lady Maria Shriver's cell phone driving, which caused her husband, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, considerable embarrassment. He managed to strike the right note between light humour and reprimand - while Shriver donated her "favourite old cell phone" to charity - in making an apology.

Schwarzenegger said: "Thanks for bringing her violations to my attention. There is going to be swift action."

There have been numerous reports that Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil will be getting married for the second time. Now there are alleged details regarding the wedding. Sources say that Wino and Blake will be professing their love for each other in an intimate ceremony next month in the Caribbean. Once Blake is cleared to leave the country and he finishes his court-mandated drug rehab program, he and Wino will head out to the singer’s once-second home of St. Lucia for the ceremony. Contrary to some reports, Wino’s parents are very much against the second wedding and begging relative not to attend the freakshow.

Kim Kardashian has denied that her sister Kourtney is engaged to boyfriend Scott Disick.

Kourtney, 30, and Scott, 26, recently welcomed their son Mason, but Kourtney's sister Kim, 29, shot down rumours that they are also engaged.

While on a radio show, she said: "They are not engaged to be married.

"I don't think Kourtney really is thinking about that right now. She's not really focused on getting married.

"I don't think she wants that responsibility right now.

"She's just having a good time loving being a mom. And I think she's just going to stick with that right now."

Kim Kardashian denies that sister Kourtney is engaged to Scott Disick

A citizen of LA has filed a creditor’s claim against the Michael Jackson estate on behalf of the entire city of Los Angeles. Jose Freddie Vallejos insists that it was illegal for the city officials to underwrite the King of Pop’s memorial last July for $3.3 million and feels that since the memorial only benefited the singer’s estate, it should pay the bill in full. My common sense says that it’s just about right but I doubt that it would actually happen. Heck, not even his kids have gotten any close to his money yet. And considering all the fiscal crap that California is in at the moment, paying for Michael’s funeral is nothing.

Conrad Murray is highly likely to be charged in the homicide death of Michael Jackson, TMZ reports.

The website claims sources say the criminal charge is "all but certain". TMZ also reports the slow moving multiple agency probe into the sudden death of Jackson last June 25 is making progress.

The Los Angeles Police Department has completed its investigation and will forward findings to the Los Angeles District Attorney within weeks.

The probe into the sudden death for which Jackson's personal physician Murray was present and which has been linked to a toxic and lethal mix of sedatives, most notably propofol Murray gave, was "exhaustive", said one source.

Propofol's status as a non-controlled substance and Murray's legal administration of the IV drug to Jackson - who was said to be dependent on it - are factors complicating the police case, sources noted.

Propofol is a strong sedative most often used for anaesthesia. Murray told authorities Jackson badgered him for propofol, which he called his "milk", and that he had been trying to wean him off the drug before he relented. In doing so, he had given Jackson other IV sedatives.

TMZ said sources believed the charge against Murray was likely to be involuntary manslaughter. Murray recently returned to practise in Texas.

Khloe Kardashian has said 2009 was a year she will "never ever forget".

The 25-year-old star married LA Lakers star Lamar Odom in September after meeting just a month before.

Her nephew Mason was also born last year after her sister Kourtney, 30, gave birth last month.

She said on her blog: "Happy New Year's everyone! I hope you all had a fun-filled (and SAFE) evening with your friends and families. 2009 was without a doubt the craziest and most incredible year of my life!

"I was blessed with so many wonderful gifts - from the opening of DASH in Miami, to the birth of my beautiful nephew Mason, and of course meeting Lamar, the love of my life... it was a year I will never ever forget!"

Tiger Woods could be hiding out in Africa as he lies low following his public fall from grace, according to a new report.

The golfer has not been seen since the bizarre car crash outside his home in Florida in November that led to a number of women claiming to be his mistresses.

In recent days there have been various unconfirmed rumours about his location, from being in rehab in Arizona and on a boat in the Caribbean through to a hotel in New York.

But now TMZ.com, who have broken various exclusives on the story, are reporting he may be in a different continent altogether.

According to the celebrity website, he told people the day after his Thanksgiving Day car accident that he would go to a friend's estate in Africa to completely disappear from view.

It was in South Africa that he reportedly proposed to wife Elin in 2003.

Mike Tyson will not face charges over claims he punched a photographer in an airport scuffle.

Paparazzo Tony Echevarria claimed the former heavyweight boxing champ hit him after he tried to take his picture at Los Angeles International airport last month.

But the Los Angeles City Attorney has ruled there is “insufficient evidence” to pursue the case and say Tyson will not be prosecuted.

Tyson, 43, had been arrested on suspicion of battery last month after an alleged confrontation with 50-year-old Echevarria outside the United terminal at LAX.

The photographer claimed Tyson had struck him once, causing him to fall to the ground. He was treated for a cut to his forehead at hospital.

Tyson claimed Echevarria, who was also arrested on suspicion of battery, had been harassing him, his wife Lakiha Spicer and their daughter Milan.

“Mike acted in self defence as a father protecting his child,” the boxer's spokeswoman said.

The LA City Attorney has also declined to press charges against Echevarria.

Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion ever when he won his title as a 20-year-old. But his life has been marred by accusations of domestic violence, rape and cocaine use.

The boxer was convicted of rape in Indiana in 1992 and served three years in prison. He was disqualified from a 1997 heavyweight title fight when he bit off part of Evander Holyfield's right ear, and in 1999 he pleaded no contest to misdemeanour assault charges in Maryland. In 2003, Tyson filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. He served 24 hours in an Arizona jail in 2007 after pleading guilty to cocaine possession and driving under the influence.