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What's Next for Star Jones Reynolds?

After an explosive week in which she announced to PEOPLE that she'd been fired from The View, and then publicly traded barbs with former cohost Barbara Walters, Star Jones Reynolds is ready to move on.

Starting July 10, she'll serve a weeklong stint hosting HGTV's House Hunters, helping home buyers navigate the New York City real estate market, PEOPLE reports in its new issue. But after that her calendar is clear.

Still, she's optimistic. As she told PEOPLE of her job loss, "Yeah, this is an obstacle, but inside every obstacle is an opportunity."

She's already found plenty of TV viewers. Her June 29 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live was watched by nearly 3 million people, triple the show's usual ratings. And the next day, Today's Al Roker filled a full 20 minutes talking to Reynolds about her departure from The View.

Will she be able to keep her seemingly loyal fan base? "How this pans out for her career all depends on what she does in the next 18 months," says media analyst Bob Thompson. "Even if she tries a bunch of things and none of them work, I don't think she's going to end up on The Surreal Life 9."

One thing is for certain: She's already surrounded by supporters. After her rough week, she and husband Al Reynolds spent the Fourth of July weekend at their home in the Hamptons, where on Saturday night they went dancing at Southampton's Pink Elephant club.

"She and Al were holding hands the whole time and having so much fun," says a source. "She got a very warm welcome. A lot of guests were congratulating her on how she handled everything leaving The View."

As close friend LaTanya Richardson Jackson (wife of actor Samuel L. Jackson) tells PEOPLE of Reynolds, "She's incredibly hurt, but she's also incredibly resilient. She's moving on."

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Sheryl Crow: I Still Love Lance Armstrong

Sheryl Crow's breakup with fiancé Lance Armstrong was "devastating," the singer says in a new interview, adding, "I definitely still love him and always will love him."

Crow tells Vanity Fair in its August issue, "I do think about Lance every day. And I think about his kids every day." Armstrong is dad to Luke, 6, and twins Isabella and Grace, 4.

Crow, 44, and Armstrong, 34, announced their split in February after two years of dating and an engagement that lasted a little over five months. Just 17 days later, Crow was diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer.

After getting the news, she first called her parents, she tells Vanity Fair, and then sent a Blackberry message to Armstrong, who was on a solo road trip from Lake Tahoe to Oregon. "I actually turned around to make the drive to L.A.," Armstrong, himself a cancer survivor, tells the magazine. "We talked along the way and she said, 'You know, I just don't think that's a great idea.' "

"It was difficult," says Crow. "I know he wanted to be there. I would have loved for him to have swept in and carried me through." But ultimately, she says, she realized she had to rely on people who could "really just be there for me all the way through this – emotionally, unconditionally": her family.

These days, Crow is back to work, performing and writing music – and that's part of her healing process. "I still feel bruised," she tells the magazine. "I still feel really raw and vulnerable – not just from the breakup but the whole experience. … But the nice thing about my job is that there is a catharsis that I get to experience when I play some of this stuff."

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Russell Crowe, Wife Have a Boy

Russell Crowe and his wife, Danielle Spencer, have welcomed a baby boy, the actor's rep, Grant Vandenberg, confirms to PEOPLE.

Tennyson Spencer Crowe was born at 7:27 a.m. on Friday in Australia at Sydney's Royal North Shore hospital, and weighed in at 8 lbs.

"Mother, father and baby are doing extremely well," Vandenberg tells PEOPLE.

Crowe, 42, and Spencer, 35, are also parents to son Charles Spencer Crowe, born Dec. 21, 2003, in Sydney, Australia.

Crowe and Spencer married in April 2003 at the Gladiator Oscar winner's Australian ranch.

At January's Golden Globes, Crowe broke the news that they were expecting their second child, declaring on the red carpet, "Dani is pregnant again. … She's due in July."

In March, he revealed that the baby was a boy, telling Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, "Just for you, Charlie is going to have a brother."

Crowe said Charles was aware that a sibling was on the way. "He knows where the baby is in Mommy's tummy and knows that he was a baby once and there's another baby coming along," Crowe said. "And we said, 'Bubba, what do you want to call your brother?' and his first option was Pumpkinhead. But then the next day, he revised it and he changed it to Stinky."

Crowe added that he would be in the delivery room with a video camera during the delivery of the baby.

Perhaps no one has enjoyed Spencer's pregnancies as much as Crowe. When she was carrying Charles, he said on Australian TV, "Dani is 14 weeks and three days. So it is a lot of fun, and she is feeling all the effects of it."

Spencer appreciated Crowe's comments, according to rep Wendy Day. "She gets his sense of humor," Day said at the time. "He actually is very attentive and sympathetic and sensitive to Danielle as she goes through her morning sickness."

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Heidi Klum searches for the next great designer on the third season of Project Runway, debuting on Wednesday. PEOPLE looks at the supermodel's quest plus other events to watch for in the coming week:

SUNDAY, JULY 9: After weeks of deafening cheering and partying in the stands, the World Cup comes to a close as France and Italy go toe-to-toe for the final tournament in Berlin. And though Italy has a slight edge, oddsmakers predict it could be anybody's game. Catch the action on ESPN (12 p.m. ET).

TUESDAY, JULY 11: Now that he's recovered from his concussion after falling out of a tree in Fiji, Keith Richards and his fellow Rolling Stones are hitting the road in Milan for the European leg of their "A Bigger Bang" tour. "Excuse me, I fell off of my perch!" Richards said on the band's Web site about delaying the start of the jaunt. "Sorry to disrupt everyone's plans but now – it's FULL STEAM AHEAD! Ouch!" The stadium tour will wrap in Horsens, Denmark, on Sept. 3.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12: As Heidi Klum says in the promos for Project Runway, "everyone is on pins and needles" to see what happens in the third season of the addictive Bravo show. Expect a meltdown or two and some cringeworthy comments from judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia as 15 designers vie for the top prize. Everybody's favorite mentor, Tim Gunn, kicks off the two-hour premiere with a casting special (9 p.m. ET).

Prepare to be scared: Nightmares & Dreamscapes, a four-part TNT miniseries based on Stephen King's short stories, kicks off with the episode "Battleground," starring William Hurt as a hit man who gets the tables turned on him. Other episodes of the creepfest feature William H. Macy, Kim Delaney and Henry Thomas of E.T. fame. (9 p.m. ET and airing July 19, 26 and Aug. 2).

NEW THIS WEEK:
• Movies (now in theaters): Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley; A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr.; Once in a Lifetime (documentary), narrated by Matt Dillon
• Music (in stores Tuesday): Thom Yorke, The Eraser; The Devil Wears Prada (soundtrack); Muse, Black Holes and Revelations; NOW 22, various artists; Aretha Franklin, Live at Filmore West; The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy; Steve Earle, Live at Montreux, 2005

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Survivor's Stephenie LaGrossa Gets Married

Survivor: Palau and Guatemala castaway Stephenie LaGrossa wed her longtime boyfriend, high-school history teacher Michael Ward, 33, on Friday in Seaside Heights, N.J., the Jersey Shore town where they first met.

The wedding had a beach theme, with the motto "Life's a Beach" printed on fans, drink stirrers and candles. "We're huge beach people," LaGrossa, 26, tells PEOPLE. "He loves to surf. I love the beach. We wanted to definitely have something on the beach."

Guests included Palau winner Tom Westman and Guatemala champ Danni Boatwright.

LaGrossa, a former pharmaceutical sales rep who now models and makes TV and personal appearances, grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia and now lives in Toms River, N.J.

She was a fan favorite on 2005's Survivor: Palau, in which she outlasted every one of her Ulong tribemates and even fended for herself in their desolate camp. But when she joined the competing Koror tribe, she was voted off the island.

Later that year, she competed again on Survivor: Guatemala, a reunion show in which she went up against other competitors from previous seasons. She made it to the final two, but ultimately lost the $1 million prize to Boatwright, a Kansas beauty queen.

While on Palau, she received a romantic – and funny – letter from Ward. "My boyfriend kissed his letter with, I think, eye shadow he found at my house, because it was orange!" she told PEOPLE. "He wrote, 'Here's a kiss from me to you with your own lipstick – or at least I think it's lipstick.' I was laughing so hard!"

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Extreme Makeover Dentist Weds Ex-Apprentice

Extreme Makeover dentist Dr. Bill Dorfman and former Apprentice contestant Jennifer Murphy were married Friday evening, their reps confirm to PEOPLE.

The couple wed in a non-denominational ceremony at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., in front of 300 guests, including Donald Trump, Esther Williams and several of Murphy's former Apprentice costars.

Murphy wore a gown by Samin Haute Couture and diamond drop earrings from Beverly Hills jeweler XIV Karats, which also designed the couple's wedding bands.

The pair got engaged last Christmas, when Dorfman proposed to Murphy with a 3-carat, radiant-cut diamond ring surrounded by trapezoids.

Dorfman, 47, and Murphy, 27, met at the 2004 Miss USA pageant, when she was Miss Oregon and he was in the audience. But their romance didn't bloom until a year later, when Murphy was cast in an ad for teeth whitening by Dorfman's company, Discus Dental.

On ABC's Extreme Makeover, Dorfman was described as a "cosmetic dentist to the stars." He has three daughters, Anna, Charlotte and Georgia.

According to her personal Web site, Murphy co-founded and serves as president and CEO of a real-estate development company and works as a business and marketing consultant.

The newlyweds are scheduled to leave this weekend for their honeymoon in Fiji.

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Brigitte Nielsen Weds Italian Beau – Again

Brigitte Nielsen married her fifth husband, Mattia Dessi, a former model from Italy, at the five-star Radisson SAS Golden Sands Resort & Spa in Malta on Saturday, PEOPLE has learned.

Nielsen, who turns 43 on July 15, and Dessi, 28, held a wedding ceremony in the Dominican Republic on Feb. 21, 2005 – but the nuptials were not legal because Nielsen had not finished divorcing her fourth husband, former race car driver Raoul Meyer.

Last year's ceremony "was more like an official engagement," Nielsen's longtime friend and manager, Luigi Balduini, tells PEOPLE. "They put it on the news that it was a marriage, but it was an engagement, because she was still legally married."

This time though, it's the real deal. Nielsen "is pretty excited," Balduini tells PEOPLE. "She is like a little child. She is pretty happy."

Nielsen is no stranger to unconventional situations. The 6-ft.-plus Danish actress's relationship with former Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav, whom she met in 2004 on VH1's The Surreal Life, was chronicled on another reality series on the network, Strange Love, in 2005.

The show ended with Nielsen apparently choosing Dessi over Flav, but Balduini downplayed Nielsen's involvement with the hip-hop star, telling PEOPLE last year that it was "more of a strong friendship – but it's very heavy."

Nielsen was previously married to Sylvester Stallone (husband No. 2) and involved with former NFL star Mark Gastineau, with whom she has a teenage son, Killian. She has three other sons with ex-husbands Meyer and photographer Sebastian Copeland.

Nielsen began her career as a model for such designers as Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace. In the mid-1980s, she made the transition to acting, starring in such action pictures as Red Sonja, Cobra, Rocky IV, and Beverly Hills Cop II.

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Jim Carrey & Jenny McCarthy Get Serious

From a romantic helicopter ride to a Radiohead concert date night, the goofball duo of Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy are getting serious with each other, PEOPLE reports in its new issue.

Holding hands at the June 29 Radiohead concert in Los Angeles, the pair "were having so much fun," says a fellow concertgoer. "It was like you were watching a romantic comedy."

When three mothers approached Carrey to tell him their kids were fans of his 1994 film The Mask, the actor whipped around, eyes bulging, and gave them his trademark “Sssssssssmokin’!” – prompting a fit of giggles from all the women, including his date.

What’s smokin' in Carrey's life these days is his romance with McCarthy, 33, which began quietly a few months ago but has shot into public view in recent weeks as the rubber-faced pair step out everywhere from a June 16 helicopter ride in Santa Monica to a Fiona Apple concert a few days later.

The 44-year-old comedian, says a source close to him, "is very happy."

As is McCarthy, who has been uncharacteristically mum about her new love. "I'm so brutally honest and tell people everything about my personal life, it's really hard not to," she told Access Hollywood, adding that Carrey is "an amazing person."

The couple have more than just a silly streak in common: Carrey has a daughter, 18-year-old Jane, with first wife Melissa Womer; McCarthy has a son, 4-year-old Evan, with director John Asher. (McCarthy and Asher filed for divorce last August.)

For now, the twosome seem focused on simply having a good time. "They were laughing and smiling," says an observer at the Radiohead concert. "They just look like such a great couple."

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Jolie's Dad: 'I Haven't Seen Shiloh'

Actor Jon Voight is still hoping to reconcile with daughter Angelina Jolie – and to see Jolie's own new daughter, 6-week-old Shiloh Nouvel.

Speaking to PEOPLE at Monday night's Los Angeles premiere of You, Me and Dupree, Voight, 67, said he saw the photos of Jolie, Brad Pitt and Shiloh that ran in the magazine recently.

"I never saw Angie's face more happy," he said. "Deep, deep peace that never has been there before until this. Beautiful, beautiful look. Both Brad and Angie looked so happy."

He added, "I haven't seen Shiloh yet. I'm looking forward to it."

Referring to Jolie, Voight said, "And no, we haven't spoken. … I don't, I didn't have any communication with her."

In interviews, Jolie, 31, has said she was upset by the way Voight cheated during his marriage to her mother, French actress Marcheline Bertrand, now 54. The couple split when Jolie was a toddler.

After attempts at reconciliation, Jolie and Voight have been estranged for two years. "I don't hate him," she told the Philadelphia Daily News in November. "I simply feel we only have so much energy in this life."

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Nick Lachey to Hit the Road

Nick Lachey, seen over the past week cuddling inside New York's hot spots with new squeeze Vanessa Minnillo, is now ready to get back to work.

With his nine-week-old solo album, What's Left of Me debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard Album Chart and now having sold more than 500,000 units, his Jive Records label on Monday announced Lachey's first-ever solo concert schedule.

With Lachey's "What's Left of Me" tour scheduled to take place in North America this September and October, "fans around the country will be able to see him perform live for the first time. These shows will be performed in a series of smaller theatres, allowing intimate concerts with fans," Jive said in a statement.

The 26 cities on the tour include Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Orlando, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Toronto, Philadelphia and New York. The tour kicks off on Sept. 20, in Albany, N.Y.

Lachey's first single from his album, the title track "What's Left Of Me," peaked at No. 5 on the singles charts, where it has remained in the Top 20 since its debut. A second single, "I Can't Hate You Anymore," will hit the airwaves July 24.

With his divorce from Jessica Simpson, after three years of marriage, now official for a second week, Lachey spent the early morning hours of July 4 at Manhattan's Butter kissing, cuddling-and getting lap dances from Minnillo.

They also spent an afternoon at sports bar Third and Long, where they competed in a friendly game of foosball and checked out the France vs. Portugal World Cup game.

"They were really laid back, just having a good time," bartender Gene Loughlin told PEOPLE. "They were having fun."

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New Mom Angelina Jolie Back to Work

Angelina Jolie is about to take her first acting job since the birth of her and Brad Pitt's daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, on May 27.

The Oscar winner will lend her voice to the DreamWorks animated feature Kung Fu Panda, in which her character, Tigress, will teach martial arts to Po the Panda, who will sound remarkably like Jack Black (because that's who's supplying Po's voice).

The movie is due for release next May. According to Variety, Po works as a waiter in a noodle shop but needs to build up his strength. Enter Tigress.

Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Ian McShane and Lucy Liu are also in the cast.

This marks a reunion of sorts for Jolie and Black. Two years ago they could be heard in Shark Tale.

In December, Jolie will be both seen and heard in The Good Shepherd, a CIA drama directed by Robert De Niro and costarring De Niro and Matt Damon. It will be Jolie's first movie since Mr. & Mrs. Smith, on which she met Pitt.

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Jessica & Nick Together Again?

Jessica Simpson has been tapped as cohost of the Teen Choice Awards, and she may have her work cut out for her at the Aug. 20 event. Not only is she a nominee, but so is her ex-husband, Nick Lachey, and his new squeeze, Vanessa Minnillo.

Simpson is nominated for choice movie breakout performance – for her role as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard – as well as for choice red-carpet fashion icon and choice hottie. Meanwhile, Lachey is nominated in the male hottie category and Minnillo is up for choice TV personality.

Simpson and Lachey, who costarred in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica, finalized their divorce on June 30 after three years of marriage. Recently, Lachey has been spotted spending time with Minnillo in New York and Los Angeles.

The eighth annual Teen Choice Awards, during which winners will be presented with surfboard awards, will air live on FOX (at 8 p.m. ET). Simpson's cohost will be announced at a later date, the network said Tuesday.

Voters can cast their ballots until Aug. 11 on the Web sites Teenpeople.com, MySpace.com, Ign.com and Fox.com.

Up next for Simpson, 26, is a starring role in the comedy Employee of the Month, which opens Sept. 15. Her new album, A Public Affair, hits stores Aug. 29.

Lachey, 32, is scheduled to kick off his "What's Left of Me" tour on Sept. 20 in Albany, N.Y.