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Nick: I Want Children of My Own

Only a day after Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo were getting physical – dancing and kissing – at the Manhattan club Butter, the hunky singer was on TV discussing children – and how eagerly he anticipates having them.

"I'd like to believe I'll have a family and have kids of my own," Lachey told Extra in an interview that aired Tuesday. "For me, it's what I look forward to more than anything else."

As for whether that future family includes Minnillo, Lachey would only say: "She's a great friend. I'll leave it at that."

After laying his life bare when he and his now ex-wife, Jessica Simpson, starred in their MTV reality show Newlyweds, Lachey says, when it comes to relationship revelations, "That's the one thing I learned, that's a part of my life I'm going to keep private from now on, and we'll leave it up to everyone's imagination."

Not that he was entirely coy about discussing Simpson, whose new album A Public Affair, hits stores Aug. 29. (Lachey's What's Left of Me, which he has been promoting heavily, has so far passed the 500,000 sales mark.)

"I'm a huge fan of hers, I always have been," he says. "I wish her nothing but the best with everything she does in life including her singing career. She deserves every bit of success she's had."

As for his own life, he admits, "What I've learned to do is try to ignore the stuff being said. You can't change it or stop it from happening, so worry about the things you can control. Live your life the best way you know how."

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Lindsay Lohan Sent to the Hospital

Lindsay Lohan was hospitalized Wednesday in Los Angeles, PEOPLE has confirmed.

The actress, who is filming the movie Georgia Rule in the area, was taken to an L.A. hospital very early Wednesday morning.

"She was overheated and dehydrated," Lohan's rep, Leslie Sloane-Zelnick told TV's The Insider, which was first to report the story. "She was filming in 105-degree weather for 12 hours."

A friend of the actress tells PEOPLE that prior to her hospitalization, Lohan was at the Chateau Marmont and then the nightclub Guy's. Confirms an observer at Guy's, "She was definitely partying. She wasn't over the top, but having a great time."

Another Lohan pal tells PEOPLE the actress has been "shooting in 120 degree weather. She told me it was hotter than when she was shooting in the Herbie (Fully Loaded) fire suit."

The 20-year-old Prairie Home Companion star spent several hours in the hospital, where she was given a Vitamin B shot. She is expected to return to the set Thursday, according her rep.

"She is fine," Sloane-Zelnick tells PEOPLE. A source close to Lohan adds that the actress is currently at her hotel resting.

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Prince & His Wife Are Divorcing

Prince and wife Manuela Testolini Nelson are divorcing, PEOPLE has learned.

Alan Eidsness, the lawyer representing Prince, confirms that a divorce action was filed at Minnesota's Hennepin County District Court on May 24. The documents are sealed.

Prince (full name: Prince Rogers Nelson), 48, and Testolini Nelson, 29, a former employee at Prince's charitable foundation, were married in 2001. She took her husband's last name.

Testolini Nelson, a Toronto native, is the founder and president of Gamillah, Inc., which operates, among other ventures, a production company and a line of designer candles. She is also involved with nonprofits including YouthCARE and United Communities Against Poverty.

Prince, who is working on a follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2006 album 3121, was previously married to backup singer and dancer Mayte Garcia from 1996 through 1998, when their union was annulled.

Reps for Testolini Nelson had no comment; Prince could not be reached.

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Jada Pinkett Smith: Suri Is 'Gorgeous'

Suri Cruise has remained out of the public eye since she was born on April 18 – but Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's daughter is "gorgeous," Jada Pinkett Smith tells PEOPLE exclusively.

"She's one of the sweetest babies I've ever met in my life," Pinkett Smith says. "She's an absolute beauty and she's Daddy's little girl."

Pinkett Smith and her husband Will Smith have visited with Suri twice, both times at Cruise and Holmes's Beverly Hills mansion.

"She's beautiful and they're very happy and they need to be left alone," says Pinkett Smith, who described Suri while talking to PEOPLE about her participation in last weekend's Philadelphia anti-violence event, Party 4 Peace, run by pal Charles "Charlie Mack" Alston. "She's the cutest little baby. She's got a head full of black, beautiful hair."

And how are mom and dad doing? Cruise is "excellent" and Holmes is "a great mom and she's loving every single second of it."

Earlier this month, another famous friend, King of Queens star Leah Remini, also said she saw Suri, who "looks like Tom and Katie. She's just beautiful."

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Justin Timberlake: I Support Lance

Justin Timberlake says his former 'N Sync bandmate, Lance Bass, who reveals that he's gay in the new issue of PEOPLE, has his support.

"Lance is one of my great friends," Timberlake said in a statement issued by his rep, Ken Sunshine. "I support him and wish him all the happiness in the world."

Bass, 27, tells PEOPLE he hesitated to come out during his time with 'N Sync: "I knew that I was in this popular band, and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything."

Another former 'N Sync-er, Joey Fatone, tells PEOPLE, "He took years to really think about how he was going to tell everyone. I back him up 100 percent."

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Carmen Denies Jamie Foxx Date Rumors

Witnesses swear they spotted the newly single Carmen Electra hanging out with Jamie Foxx at the Hollywood club Element last Saturday – but Electra says that's just not true.

In fact, Electra, who recently separated from husband Dave Navarro, says she was home watching TV – with Navarro – PEOPLE reports in its new issue.

Of the Foxx rumor, Electra tells PEOPLE, "Dave thinks it's funny, but I'm upset because there's not one ounce of truth (to it)."

Though officially split, Electra and Navarro still live together for now and are still "so connected," says a source close to Electra. "There's a positive way of remaining friends."

For his part, Navarro "isn't moping around or depressed," says a source.

Indeed, at the July 23 taping of Rock Star: Supernova, he wore his wedding ring, but still gazed at cohost Brooke Burke and exclaimed, "Damn, she's hot."

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NASCAR's Kurt Busch Weds

NASCAR driver Kurt Busch wed Eva Bryan Thursday evening at a private estate in Eastville, Va., PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The couple exchanged traditional vows before 250 guests on the front porch of Point Farm, an estate owned by longtime Bryan family friend Dan Hoffler. NASCAR's motor racing outreach chaplain Dale Beaver presided.

The bride arrived in a white, horse-drawn Cinderella carriage and was walked down the aisle by her father, Gary Bryan, as an eight-piece ensemble played the wedding march.

After the ceremony, guests were to have cocktails inside the Hoffler mansion before heading to the reception, held in a tent overlooking Virginia's Eastern Shore.

The party's theme, "glow," was to be reflected in the chandeliers and candles lining the tent. Wedding planner Janet Bell tells PEOPLE she worked closely with Bryan to create a "very warm, old-world-type romantic effect, with clean, modern touches."

Busch, who turns 28 on Aug. 4, and Bryan, 29, have been together for exactly three years. They met on July 27, 2003, when Jeremy Brickhouse, a member of Busch's racing team (and high school friend of Bryan), fixed them up.

"Jeremy told me Kurt was a veterinarian," says Bryan, a former customer service rep at First Virginia Bank who now serves as vice president of Busch's racing company. "But we met right after a race at a sports bar in Charlotte, and since Kurt had finished second, his face was all over the televisions in the bar. So the whole veterinarian thing lasted for about two minutes."

The couple began dating, and moved in together in early 2004.

According to Busch, he was immediately impressed by how Bryan took his occupation and fame in stride: "She didn't seem phased that I was a racecar driver and not a veterinarian. That was attractive, because people do have a lot of stereotypes about drivers."

The couple got engaged on July 27, 2005, while on vacation in Prague. Their wedding date, precisely one year later, is no accident. "Kurt is very superstitious," says Bryan. It also happened to be an off-weekend for NASCAR.

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Will Ferrell & Wife Expecting Baby No. 2

Will Ferrell and his wife, Viveca Paulin, are expecting their second child, the actor announced Thursday on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

"My wife is pregnant again," Ferrell told Leno.

Asked by Leno if he is indeed the baby's father, Ferrell joked, "I'm not the father. Chuck Norris is the dad."

Ferrell, 39, and Paulin, 37, wed in 2000. They have a 2-year-old son, Magnus.

When Paulin, an art auctioneer, was pregnant with their first child, Ferrell said he kept her entertained by leaving comedic voicemails at their Hollywood Hills home. "I left her this message: 'You think you're so hot walking around all pregnant and saying, Look at me!' " Ferrell told PEOPLE in 2003. "And she loved it, because she so doesn't feel that way."

Ferrell's new comedy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, opens Aug 4.

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Idols 'Hang Out' with the President

American Idol winner Taylor Hicks and his fellow finalists, including runner-up Katherine McPhee, visited the White House Friday – but President Bush provided the entertainment.

"We gave him some presents," Idol's Ace Young tells PEOPLE. "On behalf of Taylor winning, we gave him a harmonica that said American Idol on it that he attempted to play. He didn't sound bad! And Taylor gave him a Soul Patrol T-shirt and he said it'll be his new jogging shirt. And I gave him an Ace beanie. He said it's a little too hot for the beanie, but he'll save it for winter."

The President, who posed for photos with the Idols and gave them a tour of the Oval Office, asked them how long it had been since they'd seen their families and told them, "This is the highlight of my day."

"Before we walked in," Young says, "everyone was asking who voted for him. … A majority (of us) didn't. But when we walked out, every single person said, 'Wow, what a great guy!' It felt like we were just hanging out with him."

Elliott Yamin missed the first part of the visit with the President. About five minutes after it started, he was seen racing down the hall toward the Oval Office, wiping his brow and saying, "Phew!"

"He was sleeping!" Young explains, adding that the Idols – who have been on the "American Idols Live" tour since July 6 – arrived in Washington, D.C., at 5:30 a.m., and that some of them have been having a hard time sleeping on the bus that takes them from city to city.

Before meeting the President, the Idols, accompanied by finalist Paris Bennett's mother, Jamecia, were given a tour of the White House by the First Lady's press secretary, Susan Whitson – Hicks's onetime 9th-grade English teacher.

A favorite stop? The library, where the Idols took books off the shelves looking for a secret passageway – to no avail. "We lost Kellie (Pickler) for a little while," says Young, laughing. "We thought she'd found something! When we were up in the Oval Office, Kellie told President Bush we'd been looking for secret passageways. In a joking manner, he said, 'Yeah … don't.' "

The visit came just hours before the Idols hit the stage at D.C.'s Verizon Center – the first time McPhee performed with them on tour since recovering from bronchitis and laryngitis. "She hasn't shown any nerves," says Young. "She'll get right back into it."

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Mel Gibson Arrested for DUI

Mel Gibson was arrested for a driving under the influence early Friday morning in Malibu, according to the booking report.

Gibson, 50, was pulled over on the Pacific Coast Highway, sheriff's spokesperson Steve Whitmore tells CNN. Officers on patrol said Gibson was driving at an "excessively fast speed," according to Whitmore.

"The investigation is ongoing," Whitmore told the Associated Press. "As we would do with anyone, we don't want to release any more since the information is fragmentary."

Gibson was stopped at 2:36 a.m., charged with a misdemeanor and posted $5,000 bond, according to booking papers.

Gibson's rep, Alan Nierob, said he was looking into the matter.

Gibson, who has admitted to past problems with alcohol, ran a red light and collided with another car in 1984 while driving drunk. In 1991, he joined Alcoholics Anonymous.

Gibson's 1995 film, Braveheart, which he directed and starred in, won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. His newest film, Apocalypto, set in the Mayan civilization of several centuries ago, is due out in December.

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French actor Jean Reno, star of The Da Vinci Code, has wed for the third time - one day before his 58th birthday.
According to the Associated Press, the actor married model and actress Zofia Borucka, 35, at the city hall of Baux-de-Provence in southern France.

Witnesses included director Ron Howard, singer Johnny Hallyday and France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Sir Elton John and Charles Aznavour are among guests expected at an evening reception.

Born Don Juan Moreno y Jederique Jimenez in Morocco in 1948, Reno has four children from his previous marriages.

Working in both French and English, his films include Leon, Mission: Impossible, Ronin and Godzilla.

In The Da Vinci Code he played Captain Bezu Fache, the policeman who suspects Tom Hanks' character of murder.

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Paul McCartney Files For Divorce

Paul McCartney has finally filed for divorce from his estranged wife Heather Mills McCartney, according to British news reports. The former Beatle is allegedly citing unreasonable behavior, but his wife of four years is vowing to fight the case vigorously in both Britain and America.

"Heather's going to be filing her own counterclaims about matters both in this country and America," her U.K. rep tells PEOPLE. Because there is no pre-nuptial agreement, at stake is a share of the 64-year-old musician's fortune – estimated to top $1.5 billion – along with the custody of their 2-year-old daughter, Beatrice.

A McCartney insider told the Daily Mirror that the couple split last May because of Mills' "unreasonable behavior," which included being "rude to the staff" and "argumentative".

The rep for Mills, 38, refuses to comment on claims about her conduct. "Any view she has on her divorce will be handled discreetly. She does not feel the need to repudiate claims that she may be headstrong or feisty," he tells PEOPLE.

He adds: "We have no way of knowing if he filed for divorce."

A rep for McCartney declines to comment on either grounds for divorce or if in fact papers have been filed in London, but friends of McCartney say he simply wants a "clean break". He was photographed in his hometown of Liverpool on July 28 and, significantly, was not wearing his wedding ring.

In Britain, once documents are filed, the quickest a marriage can be dissolved is six weeks. However, with his wife's insistence on counterclaiming, it is going to be a long and winding road to a financial settlement – then divorce.

"It's a battlefield and it has become mind-boggling, not just because of Paul's fame but because of the constant stream of stories," says a long-term friend of the musician. "But now with Heather announcing she is prepared to fight, things are just going to get uglier."

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Pamela Anderson, Kid Rock Tie the Knot

Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock had a wedding ceremony Saturday on a yacht in Saint-Tropez, PEOPLE has confirmed.

"She was the most beautiful bride I've ever seen – like a modern-day Brigitte Bardot," Jimmy Choo owner Tamara Mellon tells PEOPLE about Anderson, who wore a white string bikini to her nuptials. "Kid Rock was a total rock star. He gave her a good kiss. Everybody was crying." Adds Elton John's husband David Furnish: "It was a real rock n' roll wedding."

This is the second union for Anderson and the first for Rock (real name: Robert Ritchie) – and, apparently, there are more to come. "I'm going to get married a few times this month to the same guy," Anderson, 39, said July 26 during a news conference in Las Vegas. "We had to do Malibu, we've got to do Detroit, and we've got to do Nashville."

Anderson and Rock, 35, began dating in spring 2001. They became engaged on April 11, 2002, in the Las Vegas desert, but split the following year. Still, when they ran into each other early this month in Saint-Tropez on a mutual friend's yacht, the feelings were still there.
It was like we'd never been apart," Rock told PEOPLE on July 11. "(I) love her to death." Anderson announced their engagement on her Web site on July 18.

So why the whirlwind nuptials? "It's just timing," Anderson told PEOPLE on Wednesday. "It's being in love, obviously, and it's time for me to move on with my life and get on with the rest of it with my kids."

The British Columbia-born Anderson has two sons, Brandon, 10, and Dylan, 8, with ex-husband Tommy Lee, to whom she was married from 1995 until 1998. Her kids were with her when she ran into Rock earlier this month. "It was so nice to see them," Rock told PEOPLE.

At their Saint-Tropez wedding, the bride planned to wear custom Jimmy Choo heels, according to a source.

Detroit-born Rock has a 16-year-old son, Robert James Ritchie Jr., whose mother is Kelly South Russell, a Detroit auto worker.

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Gibson 'Ashamed' About His Behavior

Mel Gibson released a contrite statement through his publicist Saturday regarding his DUI arrest in Malibu early Friday morning.

“After drinking alcohol on Thursday night, I did a number of things that were very wrong and for which I am ashamed," the statement read. "(After) I was stopped by the L.A. County Sheriffs ... I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable. I am deeply ashamed of everything I said, and I apologize to anyone who I have offended."

Gibson, 50, added in the statement, "I have battled the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse."

Hollywood gossip website TMZ.com posted four pages of what it alleges is a copy of the police report, which details the Oscar winner screaming profanities and anti-Semitic slurs at authorities after being pulled over for speeding on the Pacific Coast Highway on Friday.

Weekend-duty sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John Hocking would not confirm that the police report posted on TMZ was legitimate. He also had no comment on allegations by the Web site of a cover-up, since on Friday sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said that Gibson was "arrested without incident."

"Our investigation has not gotten that far, but we're trying to put out the facts regarding the case. It's still being determined what actually occurred," Hocking tells PEOPLE.