Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnant at 16

Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister has just announced that she is pregnant. The celebrity gossip magazine OK! covers the story in its forthcoming edition.

The father is her longtime boyfriend Casey Aldridge. Jamie Lynn, who is 12 weeks into her pregnancy told OK!, “It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected.” Jamie Lynn, who is a high school student in Lousiana, has said that she will keep the child and raise it in her home town in order to give the baby a normal life.

Nickelodeon, which is just finishing the third season of Jamie Lynn’s show, “Zoey 101”, said in a statement, “We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well being."

Friday, December 7, 2007

Elin Nordegren Wins Libel Lawsuit Over Fake Nude Photo

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — The wife of golfer Tiger Woods won $183,250 and an apology Friday from an Irish magazine that published an abusive article and a faked nude photo of her.

Trevor White, publisher of The Dubliner, conceded that the article — published in September 2006 when Ireland was hosting the Ryder Cup — "was cheap, tasteless, and deliberately offensive. It was also completely untrue."

The article visibly angered Woods during the opening day of competition, which the United States lost to Europe. His wife, Elin Nordegren Woods, welcomed the settlement in a statement Friday.

"The false and deeply offensive article in The Dubliner magazine, with the accompanying photograph of another woman wrongly claimed to be me, caused great personal distress to me and my family," she said.

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Monday, December 3, 2007

02138 Publishes Private Information About Facebok Founder, Mark Zuckerberg

02138, a Harvard-based website, published an article last week about fellow Harvard students of Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole the idea for Facebook from them.

The website also posted documents that were filed by the students in their lawsuit against Zuckerberg. These documents, which give details of Mr. Zuckerberg's social security number, his girlfriend's full name and the address of his parents, were odered to be "sealed" by the judge in the case.

The editor of 02138 said that they had been obtained the documents legally and therefore the site had clearance to publish them.

Imus In The Morning is Back on the Radio

Imus In the Morning returns this morning to radio on WABC Radio (770 AM) seven months after getting fired for his racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team.

To get the show off with a bang, Imus will interview two presidential candidates, Democrat Chris Dodd and Republican John McCain.

One Laptop per Child - Coming Soon

The One Laptop per Child Foundation and Taiwan’s Quanta Computer have begun the mass production of laptop computers at a factory in China. The laptop, called the XO, is lime-green-and-white and runs on free Linux software.

The foundation was started by Massuchesetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2005. Negroponte has been traveling and meeting world leaders to help get his computers into the hands of elementary school students in the developing world and elsewhere.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Jennifer Love Hewitt Gives The Skinny On Her Body

Jennifer Love Hewitt has spoken out about some photos taken of her by the paparazzi while on holiday in Hawaiia with her fiancé, Scottish actor Ross McCall.

Jennifer had this to say on her website: “What I should be doing is celebrating some of the best days of my life and my engagement to the man of my dreams, instead of having to deal with photographers taking invasive pictures from bad angles. I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family. And like all women out there should, I love my body.”