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Christina & Jordan's Sexy Secret: Naked Sundays

Christina Aguilera and her music exec husband Jordan Bratman have a sexy secret for keeping their marriage exciting – getting naked on Sundays.

"We claim ourselves to be coziest couple ever," the 26-year-old Grammy nominee (for her Back to Basics album) tells Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show Wednesday. "We have something called naked Sundays."

"Excuse me?" DeGeneres asks. "Did you say naked Sundays?"

"You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up," says Aguilera, admitting that some added heat is required even though the two have only been married for "a big whole year."

"[In November] we just celebrated our first anniversary, and on Sundays we just do everything in the house, and we're just cozy and laid back," she says. "We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other." We do everything naked. We cook naked."

DeGeneres suggests there is one thing they should avoid during their nude time: "Nothing with grease – that could splatter."

But Aguilera isn't deterred, saying: "Well, unless you want the grease."

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Jessica Simpson: Seeing Nick Lachey With Another Woman Hurt

Jessica Simpson says seeing Nick Lachey with another woman after their split was painful.

"Oh, it hurt me," Simpson tells Elle in its March issue. "Two or three weeks later? Yeah, I'd say it kind of hurt me."

(After their November 2005 separation, her ex was photographed with Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari. He's now dating MTV's Vanessa Minnillo.)

But Simpson, 26, says she's still in touch with Lachey, 33. "He's so much a part of my life, how could I not be? Any guy who's going to be with me from this day forward has to understand that."

She won't say whether that guy could be John Mayer, 29, with whom she's been linked off and on since the summer.

"I want to tell you everything, but I have to sew my lips together," she says. "It's hurt me in the past." (Still, a glimpse of her e-mail inbox reveals a block of about 10 e-mails from Mayer, including one with the subject line, "Texas girl.")

When the interviewer comments, "I feel that with this new privacy of yours, I'm going to wake up one morning, pick up the paper and read ..." Simpson interjects: "That I'm married! Maybe."

Asked if she's "totally in love right now," Simpson grins and says, "I didn't say yes."

If she's taking pains to keep her love life low-profile, it's because of the tabloid firestorm set off by her split from Lachey after they'd revealed the inner workings of their marriage on Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica.
I let people in on who I am and how I react to my husband," Simpson says. "That's a big deal. Celebrities don't do that. So I think they brought me down just because I stopped talking and because I have not spoken – and will not speak – about my divorce. And I think people feel like I owe them my reality right now."

She will say, though, that she thought there was hope for her marriage up until a few days before she and Lachey announced their split. So what changed? "I watched The Notebook on a plane home to Waco to be with my grandparents," she says. "It's a great love story."

The movie itself, she says, was "not what sealed it. I just figured out the statement. It was about that moment of desperation. I needed to breathe."

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Hefner, Larry King Weigh in on Anna Nicole Death

"I'm very saddened to learn about Anna Nicole's passing. She was a dear friend who meant a great deal to the Playboy family and to me personally. My thoughts and prayers are with her friends and loved ones during this difficult time."
– Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, in a statement to CNN

• "She was a special person; she was an unusual person. She was genuine; she was funny; she had some class. I feel very, very sorry for everybody concerned, but mostly for that little girl."
– Larry King

• "She had something magic ... This is a very tragic and sad day ... Personally I feel she did not recover from the loss of her son Daniel who was the love of her life."
– Paul Marciano, CEO of Guess jeans, in a statement to CNN

• "PETA is extremely upset by the news of Anna Nicole Smith's untimely death. She was a great friend to animals and used every opportunity to speak out against senseless cruelty. We always thought Anna Nicole was a perfect fit for PETA because, just like us, she not only hated cruelty to animals and loved her dog ... It is a tragedy when anyone passes away before their time, but with Anna Nicole, animals have lost a true hero and PETA has lost a good friend. We will miss her."
– People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, in a statement
"E! Networks is deeply saddened by the tragic news of Anna Nicole Smith's death. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones."
– E!, which broadcast The Anna Nicole Show from Aug. 2002 - Feb. 2004

• "Today, Anna Nicole Smith's grief-stricken and tumultuous personal life came to an end. Anna came to our Company as a customer, but she departs it as a friend .... Anna knew both the joy of giving life, and the heartache of losing a child. We pray that she is granted the peace that eluded her more recent days on earth, and that she finds comfort in the presence of her son, Daniel."
– Alex Goen, CEO of Trimspa, for whom Smith was a spokesmodel, in a statement

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Cisco Adler Opens Up About Nude Photo

Cisco Adler and Mischa Barton are still together, according to his rep, despite reports that the actress dumped her beau over a nude photo of him that surfaced last month.

"They are fine – very happy together," a rep for Contango Records, the label that handles Adler's band, Whitestarr, tells PEOPLE.

Update: Adler's rep later confirmed the breakup. Click here for the full story.

Barton, 21, was not exactly thrilled when the revealing picture emerged on the Web site ParisExposed.com – a situation that Adler, 28, refers to as "Ballgate" in a new interview.

"Mischa wasn't too excited, to say the least," Adler tells the New York Observer in Wednesday's issue. "I think it was actually worse for her than for me in some ways. So yeah, I'm gonna try to keep my pants on from now on."

In addition to the photo, ParisExposed.com displayed other items belonging to Paris Hilton that had been obtained when the contents of a storage unit she'd rented were auctioned off. (After Hilton, 25, sued the site's owners, a judge ordered it to be temporarily shut down.)

"Paris' s--- got stolen, and somehow she had a picture of me naked in there," Adler explains to the Observer. "That's Paris Hilton to you."

But Adler himself is unfazed. "I think it's pretty rock 'n' roll. You know, if it was like yesterday I would've freaked out, but then I looked at the picture and I was like, 'Oh, that's from like 2001. Whatever.' "

Barton's rep was not immediately available for comment.

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Anna Nicole, Howard & a Yacht Called 'The Cracker'

Anna Nicole Smith had a sense of humor about her background, and it was reflected in the name of her newly purchased sport yacht.

Ned Bruck, general manager of Reel Deal Yachts in Miami Beach, says that Smith and Howard K. Stern were really looking forward to enjoying their newly purchased Carver motor yacht, which they had christened "The Cracker."

"We were dealing mostly with Howard, but Anna came to see it when they were last in town," Bruck tells PEOPLE. "She liked the fact that there were two separate bedrooms and a forward deck to sunbathe and a salon living area."
Bruck says the 40-ft. sport yacht was a cream puff, with only 500 hours on the diesel engines, even though it was 10 years old. Their plans were to redecorate it to their tastes. He wouldn't say how much it cost but "it was not a million-dollar yacht," Bruck adds. "If they decided that they didn't like it, they could sell it fairly easily."

An interior designer was working with Smith to choose bedspreads; new flat-screen TVs and electronics had already been installed while the Cracker was in a Fort Lauderdale marina, being readied for the eight- to 10-hour sail to Nassau on Friday with a Bahamian captain at the helm, but without the couple.

Stern was at the boat Thursday when he got the call that Smith was in dire condition, Bruck tells PEOPLE.

He says he enjoyed meeting the couple, adding that they were looking forward to getting their first boat and enjoying the cruising lifestyle. "I liked him," he says about Stern. "Anybody in that situation is going to get a bad rap. But he was a gentleman. I think he treated Anna with respect and seemed to worship the ground she walked on."

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Kevin Costner, Wife Christine Are Expecting

Waterworld star Kevin Costner and his wife, Christine, are expecting their own little dipper, his rep said Thursday.

Christine is "doing well. She's excited," Costner told PEOPLE at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament on Friday. "I'm excited. My kids are excited."

How is he getting ready for the baby's arrival? Said Costner: "There's a lot of books to read!"

Costner, 52, and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner, 32, wed at his ranch near Aspen, Col., in September 2004.

On that day, Costner arrived at the stream-side ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage, while Baumgartner pulled up soon after in a vintage green pickup truck.

The couple met while golfing more than a decade ago, but didn't begin dating until they met again at a restaurant in 1998. Despite a brief split in 2002 and an almost 20-year age difference, the two are "like little kids together, really in love," close friend David Giammarco told PEOPLE at the time of their wedding.

This will be Baumgartner's first child. Costner has three adult children, Anne, 22, Lily, 20, and Joe, 19, from his previous marriage to Cindy Silva, which ended in 1994, and a 10-year-old son, Liam, from his relationship with Bridget Rooney.

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The Police: We're Hitting the Road

Following their reunion at the Grammys, The Police have announced that they are going back on tour together for the first time since 1984.

"Whenever the idea [of reuniting] would come up, I would say 'You are out of your mind, my head is some where else,'" the group's frontman, Sting, 55, told the audience during a rehearsal/press conference at the Whiskey a Go-Go in Los Angeles on Monday.

Explaining why now, after two decades, the punk-ska trio is reuniting, Sting said: "I woke up one morning about three months ago and this lightbulb went off in my head. 'I am going to call Andy [Summers] and Stewart [Copeland] and tell them that I think we should do a tour.' "

He said the decision has helped mend some old wounds from the past. "It is very healing," said Sting. "This is a part of my life that I sort of ran away from for 25 years. But it is a very important part of my life."

The band is notorious for their infighting, but Sting said they have gotten "wiser" with age. "We only fought because we cared passionately about the music – and also hairstyles," he cracked

Added drummer Stewart Copeland: "We never hated each other. We fought tooth and nail over the music, but as human beings we actually really liked each other."

Summers, the band's guitarist, jokingly referenced their more mellowed out nature, saying: "Now we do yoga and eat granola."

The tour will kick off on May 28 in Vancouver, then head to several U.S. cities, including New York and Boston, before going to Europe.

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Faith Hill, Tim McGraw's House Robbed

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's Los Angeles home was robbed over the weekend, police revealed Tuesday.

No one was in the house when burglars broke in sometime between Friday and Monday, said police Sgt. Lee Sands. A person who arrived at the home on Monday discovered the crime and then called the police.

Authorities would not comment on what was taken – except to say that an unspecified amount of money was missing. There are no immediate suspects in the case.

McGraw and Hill, both 39, were not in town during the incident, said Hill's rep, Paul Freundlich. The country singers, who have three daughters, live primarily in Nashville, Tenn.

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Vince Vaughn Helps Wish Jennifer Aniston a Happy Birthday

When Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn announced their split in December, their reps told PEOPLE they remained good friends – and it looks like they still are.

Vaughn, 36, was a guest at Aniston's 38th birthday party on Saturday at the Beverly Hills home of her best friend, Courteney Cox. (Aniston's actual big day was Sunday.)

The actor stayed for about two hours along with guests including Sandra Oh, David Spade, Patricia Arquette and Kathy Najimy.

Vaughn previously showed his support for his ex at the People's Choice Awards on Jan. 10. They each earned trophies for their romantic comedy The Break-Up, and upon accepting his award, Vaughn thanked Aniston and called her "one of the great people in Hollywood."

The two began dating in the summer of 2005 while filming The Break-Up. That June, Vaughn told PEOPLE of his costar: "She's awesome. She has just a wonderful warmth and likeability about her."

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Beyoncé: SI's Swimsuit Covergirl

Beyoncé Knowles isn't shy when it comes to performing – but she had to muster up her courage to pose for the cover of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

"It takes a lot of guts. I'm really a shy person," the singer tells the magazine. "But in my everyday world, as a musical performer, I'm playing a character. I had to tap that same character."

Making the SI cover for the annual top-selling issue propels the singer into an elite class of model whose ranks include Christie Brinkley, Elle Macpherson, Rachel Hunter, Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks.
"It's fascinating how many careers it's made, or how many have been made of it," says Beyoncé of the swimsuit issue. "They're always so beautiful."

Though the 25-year-old singer has been asked to pose in a swimsuit before, her mother says she wanted to wait for the right time. "At every shoot," Tina Knowles says of her much-photographed daughter, "they always bring some swimsuits and ask, 'Can we shoot in this?' It's always been 'No! When it's time to do swimsuits, it's going to be something big."

It doesn't get bigger than the coveted cover of SI.

To physically prepare for the shoot, the "Bootylicious" singer says she had to watch what she ate – which was especially tough because it was scheduled right after Thanksgiving. "At dinner, I kept thinking: this extra piece of pie will show up," she says. "I always make sure I celebrate it up, but I was so terrified with every little thing I ate this year."

Before the photo session, the singer relaxed by listening to some of her favorite music. "I listened to John Legend's new album. It's soothing, sexy and old school. It got me in the mood."

And once it got started, Beyoncé had a little help from her friends – and most of her family. "Kelly Rowland (of Destiny's Child) showed up. My mom was there; my nephew," she says. "Dad was going to come, but he said, 'Well, I'll, um, meet you in Orlando after the shoot. I'm not so sure that I want to see this. All my blessings; you're a big girl. But I'm not so sure I want to see it.' "

But dad had nothing to worry about. Beyoncé says she's proud of the pictures. "These are photos I can show my kids some day," she says, "so I can say, 'See, momma was beautiful. Look how good I looked!' "

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Sandra Bullock: Stop Asking When I'll Have Kids

Sandra Bullock didn't rush to get married – she wed Jesse James in 2005 at age 40 – so people should stop telling her to hurry up and get pregnant.

"How many times do people say, 'So, when are you going to have kids?' " she says in the March issue of InStyle. "Can I slap you now?"

For now, her two rescued dogs are her babies, despite recent reports that she was pregnant. "One hundred percent false," she says.

That's not to say that she and James, 37, aren't deliriously happy – even though the tattooed Monster Garage host might not at first look like her perfect match.

Before she got to know him, "I assumed he was a homophobic chauvinist, a bigot who kills people," she says. "And later I felt saddened by my assumptions because I wondered how many times I had written off people who truly were real."

Their relationship works, she says, because of "how the pistons shoot off in our heads. One idea begets 700,000 other ones, all requiring immediate attention. At least my addiction is understood by my partner, and hopefully we can help each other find the normalcy. It's our normalcy; it's not anyone else's. I finally felt I had a net for the real me."

And the real her is just as comfortable in a "ridiculously expensive dress" and Christian Louboutin heels as she is in jeans and dusty boots. So is there anything she couldn't wear? "A size 4," she cracks.

But she's realistic about her body. "We all have cellulite," she says. "So do supermodels! I've been to the shows, and I go, 'Stick figure has some cellulite!' It's nature. Without it, you're not human."

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Britney Spears Checks Into, and Out of, Rehab

Britney Spears checked into a rehab facility and then abruptly checked out, a source confirms to PEOPLE.

Spears, 25, checked herself into Eric Clapton's Crossroads Centre in Antigua "two or three days ago" but left after just one day and headed to Florida, the source tells PEOPLE.

TV's Extra first reported that the singer had entered a treatment facility. TMZ.com later reported that she checked out less than 24 hours later.

Spears has been a nightlife fixture ever since filing for divorce from Kevin Federline in November.

On Tuesday, her former personal assistant, Felicia Culotta, wrote in a letter to Hollywood.com's That Other Blog that Spears's friends and family were trying to get her help, but were not having much luck.

"There's just so much you can do to help a person," Culotta wrote. "I cannot convince her in ANY way to love herself. ... I cannot save her from herself, nor can I commit her to any type of treatment program against her wishes and will. I am throwing my hands up and realizing that I am helpless over another."

That was not the first sign that those around her were concerned. In January, Rudolph told USA Today that Spears realized her behavior had been harming her image. "She understands what's going on right now, and she calls it her 'rocky moment,' " he said. "Britney knows exactly what she needs to do."

Spears herself later wrote in a letter to fans on her Web site, "If I were you I'd be unhappy too if I had to read what I've been reading every day. But trust me, I get it. I know I've been far from perfect and the media has had a lot of fun exaggerating my every move."

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Justin & Cameron's Late-Night Reunion

Exes Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz reunited Friday night at the Whiskey Bar in the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood.

A patron tells PEOPLE that Timberlake had joined director Martin Scorsese and about eight other people at a table inside the hotel's exclusive bar. Timberlake, in a striped coat, chatted briefly with Scorsese (who directed Diaz in Gangs of New York) and others at the table.

Then, at about 1 a.m., Diaz arrived. "Cameron never joined their table," says the observer. "She just showed up and Justin got up and started talking to her. They were being very discreet.

"They weren't kissing or holding hands or anything, but they were being very friendly," the observer adds.

The pair, who broke up last month after nearly four years together, then walked out the front door together a half-hour later. Says the onlooker: "When I first saw this girl, I thought, 'That's not Scarlett Johansson or Jessica Biel.' Then it hit me – it was Cameron! She was low-key, her hair was dark and pulled back."

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Exes Tom Brady, Bridget Moynahan Expecting Child

Though they split up last year, actress Bridget Moynahan and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady are expecting a baby together, Moynahan's rep confirmed to PEOPLE.

The pregnancy was first reported by the New York Post columnist Liz Smith. Moynahan, 35, who is over three months pregnant, is said to be "healthy and excited," the paper reports.

This will be the first child for both Moynahan and Brady. A rep for the New England Patriots had no comment.

The actress, a former model who starred in the ABC drama Six Degrees, and the Patriots star quarterback, ended their three-year relationship at the end of last year.

Since then, Brady, 29, has been romancing Brazilian-born supermodel Gisele Bundchen, 26. The new couple, who a source told PEOPLE started dating just before Christmas, are in Paris over the weekend.

The pair caught the Academie du Spectacle Equestrian horse show at Versailles on Saturday before having dinner at the Café de la Paix, reportedly Bundchen's favorite restaurant in the City of Light .

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Selma Blair Talks About New Boyfriend

Selma Blair has a new guy in her life: Matthew Felker, the model-actor who kisses Britney Spears in her "Toxic" video, the actress tells PEOPLE.

Blair, who went solo at the Marc Jacobs fashion show in London on Friday, said at the event that she left her boyfriend in good hands.

"He's at home watching my dog," Blair said with a laugh. "I'm just here for the show. I just got here and I'm going home tomorrow. I'll see him then."

Blair, 34, says she met the 27-year-old Felker, whom the actress decribes as a writer, "through friends," though she's "not really sure" of the time frame.

One thing is for sure: Blair won't be debuting her romance with Felker at Sunday's Oscars parties. "I'll be sitting at home with my boyfriend watching it," Blair said. "I've gone every year to the Vanity Fair party but I've taken some time off acting, so I think it's time to take time off from showing up at acting events."

Blair, best known for her role in Cruel Intentions, finalized her divorce from husband of two years, Ahmet Zappa, last December.