Celine Dion Preparing for Twins

Songstress Celine Dion is happy to announce she’s expecting twins.  The singer underwent her sixth in-vitro fertilization recently and is fourteen weeks along in her pregnancy, with the gender of the twins to be confirmed next month.

Celine Dion and Rene Angelil

Dion and husband René Angelil already share one child together, nine year-old René-Charles.  Dion and her manager-husband married in an ultra-lavish ceremony fitting for the Canadian diva.  As a bride, Dion wore a lavish gown by designers Mirella and Steve Gentile, featuring a sweetheart neckline, a necklace with rows of diamonds and a twenty-foot train.   The bride complemented all this with a nine pound crown featuring 2,000 Austrian crystals.

With news of the arrival of their twins, Angelil commented, “We’re ecstatic.  Celine is just hoping for a healthy pregnancy.  She was hoping for one baby and the news that we are having two is a double blessing.”  Dion has been experimenting with in vitro fertilization for a while now, and also credits acupuncture as a helpful tool in getting her pregnant once again.

Splitsville for Heidi & Spencer?

The drama continues for Hills couple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt as there are rumors abound that the pair are headed for divorce.  TMZ reported earlier this week that Montag was planning to move out of the house she shares with Pratt and to sell her engagement ring.  An unidentified rep for the reality TV star said, “[she] is looking to move out due to all the fake bad press that Spencer controls.”  Meanwhile Montag moved out of the home and into the beachside house with one of her best friends, Jennifer Bunney, with whom she plans to shoot a reality TV project in July.  Bunney recently told reporters, “Heidi has spent so much time with Spencer and now she wants to be able to spend more time with herself and her friendships.”

Montag and Pratt are stars on the popular reality TV series, The Hills.  Since becoming famous, the pair have been featured on a number of tabloid covers for a variety of antics, including Montag’s ten plastic surgeries and several feuds.  The pair had a very public marriage, which was splashed all over the tabloid covers.  For the wedding, Montag wore over $1 million in diamonds from designer Neil Lane, including a pear-shaped diamond floral necklace with multiple diamond chains.

Valerie Bertinelli: Getting Engaged When You’re 50

TV star Valerie Bertinelli recently got engaged while vacationing with her boyfriend, businessman Tom Vitale, in Italy.  Vitale, 48, proposed to Bertinelli, 50, during a romantic night spent in Florence.   The actress confided, “We’d talked about getting married, but I was still shocked.  It was sweet when he asked me because he was so scared.  I was like ‘Are you kidding me?’”

Valerie Bertinelli

Both experienced the dissolution of their marriages in 2004, and began dating.   Meanwhile, Vitale felt that the time was right to propose when the couple were in Italy.  “If the time wasn’t right, I wouldn’t have asked.  We’re both still a little afraid of commitment, but then we were over there, and it was like our souls calibrated.”

Bertinelli says there’s already a wedding set for this Fall and that she’s leaving all the wedding plans up to Vitale.  “He already knows the different kinds of bells he wants to go off during the ceremony.”

As for any engagement ring details, Bertinelli is keeping her lips sealed.  But she is sure to praise her fiancée for appreciating her as she is.  “I never felt more beautiful at any weight than when Tom looks at me.  He loved me no matter what.  In his way, he’s teaching me to love myself just as I am.”

No Wedding Gifts for Brand and Perry

Katy Perry and Russell Brand are not big on tradition.  The couple got engaged in India atop an elephant, and have caused quite few headlines with some of their projected wedding plans.  One of the more outlandish ideas was the couple’s plans for making their dogs the possible ring bearer.  But the most transgressive of all their ideas may be their no-gifts policy.  And yet, Brand explains, “Given that Katy and I both have good jobs, we don’t want any presents.  It would be a massive indulgence.”

Russell Brand and Katy Perry

Brand’s “Get Him to the Greek co-stars have a few recommendations for him, however.  Nicholas Stoller says that Perry and Brand might need “a waffle maker” and a “really fancy hair dryer”, while Brands other co-star, Kali Hawk, says they might need some “diamond, platinum, titanium-encrusted flat irons.”  Meanwhile, newlywed Elizabeth Moss adds that “you got to invest in the good sheets and towels…Those are things you don’t buy yourself.”  Essentials!

Perry and Brand originally met at the MTV VMA Awards, while Brand was hosting. Apparently Brand shamelessly flirted with Perry and the pair obviously really hit it off.  Since then, the pair have been inseparable, traveling everywhere from Thailand to London to India to Los Angeles.  No wedding date announced yet, but all can expect it to be a perfectly unconventional bash.

Sienna Miller and Jude Law Engaged?

On-again, off-again couple, Sienna Miller and Jude Law, may have recently decided to tie the knot behind the scenes. Reports are surfacing that the pair plan to marry in Gloucestshire this summer. Miller is 28, while Law is 37. The pair were engaged once before, but broke up after Law confessed to having an affair with the nanny. One source says, “They have put the past behind them and want to move on.”

Jude Law and Sienna Miller

Miller has starred in a number of Hollywood flicks, including the cult-fave, “Factory Girl”. She also made the coveted cover spot on Vogue’s acclaimed “September Issue” in 2008. A source says that the couple “don’t want to jinx things by talking about [the engagement], but they have told their nearest and dearest that they would like to get married in the summer.” Miller apparently wants a “bohemian-style” wedding and has even asked her sister, Savannah, to design the dress. Let’s hope they get to the part where Jude gives Sienna a diamond engagement ring!

Brand and Perry and their Wacky Wedding

Comedian Russell Brand and pop star Katy Perry are almost certain to not have a typical wedding this year. The pair engaged on New Year’s Eve of last year atop an elephant in a private tent in India. It was then that Brand presented Perry with an engagement ring covered in diamonds. But, as elaborate as Brand’s India plans were, Perry is not letting him touch the wedding planning side of things…and Brand seems fine with that.

“If you’re getting married, the girl does it.” When asked if he was at least helping a little, Brand sarcastically scoffed, “No way, man. I’m just looking out the window.”

But it seems that behind-the-scenes Brand may be somewhat of a “bridezilla”, as Perry calls him. “He’s a total bridezilla. He’s like a freak. He’s always buying bride magazines. Everytime we go out for breakfast, he’s like, ‘Can we just stop and get a bride magazine?’” And meanwhile, Perry admits that she can’t quite focus on planning her wedding until she finishes planning her next album. “I have to plan my record first and then I’m going to get to my wedding. But I’m really excited about that, too.”

And even though he’s left out of the wedding plan, Brand still isn’t ruling out Vegas for their wedding location. Brand even joked about a naturist wedding recently. “We are going to do the wedding naked! All the families will be naked!” Brand seems quite the jokester regarding his wedding to Perry. He says he hopes for a possible “Vegas wedding, married by Elvis Presley.” Something tells us Perry might rule that out.

Nicole Kidman the Happy Housewife

Nicole Kidman has been one of the most acclaimed actresses of this generation.  This Australian actress enjoyed much of the nineties starring in several art house successes, such as To Die For and Eyes Wide Shut, alongside then-hubby Tom Cruise. Kidman then had a huge mainstream success with Moulin Rouge, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.   It was no surprise then when she took home many awards, including the Oscar, in 2003 for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours.   But these days Kidman is happily staying at home in Nashville, not working as much and being a good wife and mother.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban

The pair married in 2006, but not without a sequence of elaborate pre-wedding festivities, including some fabulous bachelor and bachelorette parties.  Their wedding was held in North Sydney at a chapel overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Sydney Harbor.  They even decorated the chapel with white freesias, gardenias and carnations.   Of course, Nicole’s style was classic and certainly the talk of all the guests.  Kidman arrived in a cream-colored 1948 Rolls Royce, wearing a simple ivory tulle wedding dress designed by Nicolas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga.  She walked down the aisle carrying a simple bouquet of white roses.    The couple also asked for no gifts at their wedding, but for guests to donate to the Sydney Children’s Hospital.  Kidman’s wedding ring featured three huge diamonds surrounded by several smaller diamonds.

The couple has had their ups and downs, with Urban having a stint in rehab.  But these days Kidman happily announces that the couple never spend more than three days apart.  “I think I’ve reached a point in my life where I’ve slowed down a lot, so it’s not difficult.  My priority is very much keeping my family together and not being away from them.”  Kidman says.

Kidman and Urban had a child in 2008, named Sunday Rose.  A friend exudes, “She’s never been healthier.  She is absolutely radiant and enjoying nesting and homemaking with Keith at their new home in Nashville.”

How Do Melanie and Antonio Keep Their Marriage Alive?

Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas have one of those elusive things in Hollywood: a long-lasting marriage.  Even though many speculated that it wouldn’t work out in the beginning, the couple are still together and going strong.  And when asked what keeps theme together?  “There is one virtue that is very underrated and that’s passion.”  It almost sounds like a perfume commercial!  No surprise that Banderas was unveiling his new fragrance called The Secret, with wife Melanie by his side.  “If you lose your passion, all these other virtues that are way more important, they just fall.”

Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas

So what else can help salvage a marriage, Antonio?  Hard times, he says, can make a marriage stronger.  Only weeks ago, Antonio and Melanie were on the red carpet for the new Shrek film, with Melanie disclosing how she’s conquered her 30 year-old problem with addiction.  Melanie was also singing Antonio’s praises, saying “He did everything.  He has been an amazing man.”  Antonio also told how the entire family participated in the rehabilitation process.  “We went to the place where she was doing it, we participated in all the therapies…everything, everybody in the family.  It’s tough, but at the same time, very rewarding.”

So what else can help salvage a marriage, Antonio?  Hard times, he says, can make a marriage stronger.  Only weeks ago, Antonio and Melanie were on the red carpet for the new Shrek film, with Melanie disclosing how she’s conquered her 30 year-old problem with addiction.  Melanie was also singing Antonio’s praises, saying “He did everything.  He has been an amazing man.”  Antonio also told how the entire family participated in the rehabilitation process.  “We went to the place where she was doing it, we participated in all the therapies…everything, everybody in the family.  It’s tough, but at the same time, very rewarding.”

“We have been in crisis sometimes and we knew that if we just waited to cross that tunnel that we were just in, at the end we were going to be stronger.  We believed, very much, in each other and we’ve been battling with everything that happens in our lives because at the end we knew there was a reward.  And the reward in my case was her.”

The loving couple first met on the set of the movie Two Much in 1995 and she said it was love at first sight.  The couple had a whirlwind romance.   Banderas reportedly gave Griffith a $150,000 engagement ring crowded with diamonds, while Griffith gave Banderas a Picasso.  The pair eventually wed in the Spring of 1996 in a “private low-key ceremony at the Westminster register office in London.”

Letterman Reconstructing His Marriage

It was only just recently that David Letterman admitted to an affair with an intern who worked for his show. And now, in the wake of that disaster, Letterman seems quite eager to pick up the shards and move on. Making a rare appearance on the Regis & Kelly show this week, Letterman opened up about his affair with an intern. Commenting on the affair and the outcome of his marriage with Regina Lasko, Letterman said, “Because you think an explosion has taken place and you’re looking at the shards and you say, ‘Well, can we put this back together?’ And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won’t be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way.”

David Letterman

Lasko and Letterman, who have been dating since 1986, planned a surprise marriage last year at a Montana courthouse. Letterman’s truck reportedly got stuck in the mud on the way to the ceremony. There was also no news on whether Letterman and Lasko exchanged wedding rings, though all indications say that Letterman and Lasko are not a conventional married couple. About the decision to marry after over two decades together, Letterman later had this to say: “I had avoided getting married for, like, 23 years. And people say, ‘Geez, Dave, you were together so long. Does it feel any different?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, it does’.”

Carrie Underwood’s Ring Bearer: Her Dog!

So by now we all know that Carrie Underwood will be walking down the aisle sometime soon.  And now it’s been revealed that she plans to have her beloved chihuahua play ring bearer!  “He’ll be one  of the ring bearers–” the country star revealed. “I don’t know if I’ll give him the actual ring.  He would probably run away with it or eat it or something.

Carrie Underwood

Named Alice, Underwood treats the dog like she was her very own child.  “It would be like if I was getting married and I had a child–of course my child would be in the wedding!”

Underwood might want to consider having someone else carry the wedding ring if it’s at all as opulent as the engagement ring.  The singer became hockey player Mark Fisher’s fiancée in December and has worn a flawless yellow diamond ring surrounded by smaller diamonds worth $150,000 ever since.  Wedding details have slowly been trickling out since their  engagement.   Underwood has revealed that the “dress is in the works” and that it will be pretty and simple and glamorous.”  At one point Underwood was talking about a smaller ceremony, but it turns out that that’s unlikely to happen.  “There are so many people.  He has a huge family; they’re all really close.  My family is big, but we’re not that tight-knit.  His is about three times the size of mine.”