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Tom and Katie Comfort Accident Victims

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes helped comfort a pair of shaken accident victims Saturday night, PEOPLE has learned.

A rep for the couple confirms that Cruise, 44, and Holmes, 27, were on their way home from the airport after a trip to Salt Lake City, Utah, for an exhibition soccer game (their friend David Beckham and his team, Real Madrid, beat Real Salt Lake 2-0), when they saw a couple on L.A.'s 101 Freeway who had apparently just been in a car accident.

The engaged pair and parents to 4-month-old daughter Suri checked to make sure the passengers, Jon Henningsen and his wife, were not seriously injured, then waited with them until the police and fire department arrived on the scene.

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Courteney Cox: 'I'm in Therapy'

Courteney Cox and David Arquette seem to have one of the happiest marriages in Hollywood – and Cox says a trip to a therapist smoothed out a recent rough patch.

"We were just in Sardinia for a vacation," Cox, 41, tells Life magazine in its new issue. "We got into these fights two nights in a row over stupid stuff. But I could see how relationships break up if you don't go, 'What are we doing!?' So we went to a therapist, and he broke it down for us.

"He said, "Courteney, can you see how David gets embarrassed to have any kind of public fight?" I don't scream, but I have no problem saying what I'm feeling in the moment. David's the opposite. So if I need to get something out, I have to say, 'David, can you come talk to me for a minute outside?' Had I done that, (the fights) wouldn't have gotten nearly as big."

Another key to their seven-year marriage: "We just really like each other," Cox tells Life. "He gets a kick out of me, and I get a kick out of him. We're a good balance for each other. He likes the fact that I'm so gregarious – although it can also make him very uncomfortable – and I like the fact that he is so sensitive. We're a great team."

The mom to Coco, 2, and star of the upcoming sci-fi family film Zoom, also says she's started seeing a therapist on her own.

"My friend Laura Dern sat me down and said, 'Okay, this is going to be a big year for you; here's a list of things you need to do.' One of them was to write down all the things I liked about myself. She saw that I was being too frenetic – that I wasn't enjoying life as I should. I didn't know it, but she could see it as a friend. Then she said, 'I want you to go see my therapist.' I'm a great caretaker. But one thing I'm not good at is taking care of myself. My goal for this part of my life … is to be more nurturing to myself."

As she approaches 42, Cox says she feels more confident, although she admits "aging isn't for sissies. … People who read a magazine can look at the picture and go, 'She looks great for over 40!' But guess what? That's not what I look like. Lighting is everything. When you're in your car and you look in the mirror and the sun's beaming in, you're like, 'Wow, times are getting tough.' "

And, as she recently told PEOPLE, she and Arquette are hoping for a second child. "We're not trying yet," she says. "We're revving up the engines. I'm only ready 'cause time's a-ticking. If I was 34, I'd wait another year, because I like those three-to-four-year gaps. I want Coco to be helping me with the next one. One child is hard. Two is probably harder."

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Kanye West Engaged to Girlfriend Alexis

Rapper and producer Kanye West is engaged, several sources have confirmed to PEOPLE exclusively.

West, 29, proposed to his girlfriend, Alexis, while overseas for two weeks recently, sources close to the singer tell PEOPLE.

Alexis, whose last name and occupation were not immediately available, was West's girlfriend prior to his October 2002 car accident, one source says.

A rep for West had no comment. This will be the first marriage for the Grammy winner.

West began his rise to fame as a producer for Roc-a-Fella Records, where he gained notice for his work on Jay-Z's 2001 album The Blueprint. He has also produced hits for artists including Ludacris and Alicia Keys.

But his career was nearly derailed by a near-fatal car accident in 2002, which inspired the single "Through the Wire" from his 2004 debut album, The College Dropout.

That record earned Grammys for best rap album and best rap song, and during his acceptance speech West thanked the car accident, saying it made him realize that, "If you have the opportunity to play this game called life, you have to appreciate every moment."

His second album, 2005's Late Registration, won Grammy awards for best rap album, best rap song and best rap solo performance.

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Kate Hudson, Chris Robinson Separate

Actress Kate Hudson and her husband, Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson, are splitting, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The You, Me and Dupree star's rep, Brad Cafarelli, confirms that the couple are separating after nearly six years of marriage.

Hudson, 27, and Robinson, 39, wed on New Year's Eve 2000 after dating for about a year. Their son, Ryder Russell, was born Jan. 7, 2004.

In September 2004, while shooting Skeleton Key in New Orleans, Hudson told PEOPLE about her relationship with Robinson since Ryder's birth: "We're sharing something so gigantic now. I think it's the best we've ever felt being together."

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Shanna Moakler joins Dancing with the Stars

Shanna Moakler has a new partner – dance partner, that is. The Meet the Barkers star, whose split from husband Travis Barker was announced recently, will compete with pro dancer Jesse DeSoto against other celeb/dancer pairs on the third season of Dancing with the Stars, ABC said Monday.

The show, which kicks off with a two-hour season premiere on Sept. 12, will also feature actor Harry Hamlin (husband of Dancing season-two alum Lisa Rinna), Kill Bill star Vivica A. Fox and Saved by the Bell actor Mario Lopez.

Other celebs who will compete for a mirror-ball trophy include MSNBC news anchor Tucker Carlson, talk-show host Jerry Springer, Monique Coleman from the Disney Channel's High School Musical, country singer Sara Evans, pop star Willa Ford, onetime teen idol Joe (formerly Joey) Lawrence and NFL champ Emmitt Smith.

Also returning as judges are former ballroom dancer Len Goodman and dancer-choreographers Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba.

Previous Dancing with the Stars winners include Drew Lachey, who earned first place with partner Cheryl Burke in February, and season-one champ Kelly Monaco, who later danced against runner-up John O'Hurley in a viewer-decided rematch (which O'Hurley won).

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Drew Barrymore Says She's Ready for Kids

Drew Barrymore is ready to start a family, she says.

"I definitely feel the beginnings of a tick tock," Barrymore, 31, tells InStyle in its September issue. "Whether I have children or adopt – whatever form a family comes in, I would absolutely love to have it."

And she's getting more domestic, she says: She won a Project Runway-style dressmaking contest on the set of her new movie, Lucky You, and says she plans to start saving sewing kits from the hotels she stays in with her boyfriend, Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti.

Still, she admits, "I can't cook. Fab makes a few good things, but we mostly order in."

Another thing has changed as she's gotten older (she stresses that she's "31 and a half"): She's become more comfortable in her skin. "You learn to love your body," she says. "You can't look at models and feel bad about yourself. I'm not the kind of girl who can stuff her face with pasta all the time and not gain weight."

To stay healthy, "I've been running and doing yoga and Pilates, and I love the way it makes my mind and body feel," she says. "I really don't obsess about it."
But even though she's ready to be a mom, she hasn't quite processed that fact that she's a grown up. "Am I going to walk home from work one day … and realize I'm a homeowner? That I run a production company and have responsibilities and a long-term relationship?" she says.

"All of those things are so adult. I keep wondering when it's going to hit me. Maybe it never will. And that's okay."

The new issue of InStyle hits newsstands Aug. 18.

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Courteney Cox: I Lean on Jen Aniston

Last week Courteney Cox told Life magazine, "I'm a great caretaker." But who takes care of her during tough times?

"There are a few people that I would go to," Cox, 42, told PEOPLE Monday night at an event she hosted at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles to benefit the EB Medical Research Foundation. "But I would say my mom and Jennifer (Aniston)."

Cox and husband David Arquette were on hand to support a family friend whose child suffers from Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), an incurable genetic disorder that affects about 25,000 people in the U.S. and causes skin to become as fragile and easily torn as tissue paper. Its sufferers are known as "butterfly children" because their skin can be damaged by even the lightest contact.

Why did Cox get involved with the charity? "This horrible genetic problem that no one knows about – there's not enough awareness out there," she said. "I feel so fortunate because David and I – having Coco, we were so blessed. I would say that that's where my heart is most."

Cox is also the spokesperson for Kinerase Clear Skin Collection and Vitamins, which, through the end of October, is donating 5 percent of proceeds to the EB Medical Research Foundation.

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Raymond's Brad Garrett, Wife Secretly Split

Everybody Loves Raymond Emmy winner Brad Garrett and his wife of seven years, Jill Diven, have quietly split, he tells USA Today.

Garrett, 46, says that he and Diven had kept their separation a secret from his coworkers and even his parents, and that he and his ex – whom he considers "an extraordinary woman" and "the greatest mom in the world" – are on good terms.

The pair officially separated this April, according to court papers filed last month. Garrett was on tour with his stand-up act in December when the pair decided to split, USA Today reports.

Garrett and Diven have two children, Max, 7, and Hope, 6.

"Our No. 1 focus is our kids and parenting," Garrett tells the paper. "We will always be friends because we will never be single parents. We will always be two parents."

Still, he says, "You can't stay together for the kids, because kids know everything. Sure, it's daunting to have Daddy move out, but when he's back two days later, and he gives Mom a hug, and everyone goes to lunch – that's what it's about."

Garrett, who stars in the new FOX sitcom 'Til Death, still keeps a room in the Woodland Hills, Calif., mansion he shared with Diven, and she has space in his 1940s Spanish-style home in Malibu, which she found for him while he was on Broadway earlier this year in a revival of The Odd Couple.

Diven was a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas when she and Garrett met, and he proposed to her on the Raymond set on Aug. 25, 1998, with his castmates, crew and the audience as witnesses, PEOPLE reported at the time. They married the following May 18 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, with son Max, then 8 months old, dressed in a tiny tux.

Diven tells USA Today that she has "nothing but positive things to say about Brad. We both realized we're best friends, and we're always going to be best friends. People grow apart. We could do the 'he said-she said' thing, but that's not us."

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Baby No. 2 for Real World's Puck

David "Puck" Rainey, the young rebel from MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, is all grown up – and recently became a dad for the second time, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

Puck, 38, and his homemaker wife Betty, 39, confirm that son Rocco Kokopelli Rainey was born on Aug. 6. The baby, whose middle name is an homage to a prehistoric Native American fertility deity, weighed in at 8 lbs., 9 oz. He joins brother Bogart, 4.

Rocco "looks like a combination of both of us, which is probably lucky for him because I'm kind of ugly," Puck tells PEOPLE.

When it comes to being a dad for the second time, Puck turns serious. "I love babies," he says. "Having your own baby gives you a capacity to love something a lot differently. I didn't have the capacity to love things in the same way before I had a kid. I had dogs and fish and plants, but never a kid. I had little Bogart and it kind of changed me a lot. And now, Rocco. I really just like looking at him."

Puck became one of reality TV's first antiheros in 1994 as a spiky-haired, hygienically challenged bike messenger on MTV's third season of The Real World.

Since then, he's appeared in Eminem's 2002 video for "Without Me" and on MTV's Cribs; he and Betty, a former stand-in for actress Debi Mazar, even married on the air on MTV's Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Sexes in July 2002.

These days, the family lives in Mission Hills, Calif. Puck manages the SPÄK motorcycle shop in downtown Los Angeles and, with a friend, runs a custom-granite business in Fremont, Calif.

Of his kids' unusual names, he told PEOPLE last month, "The deal was that the first baby was my choice. His name is Bogart Che Peyote Rainey, so he's cool. This time Betty gets to pick, and I wish I could talk her out of it. It's a combination of my dad's name and her dad's name, so it's Rocco. We can call him Rocky or Roc!"

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Rachael Ray's Special Guest: Oprah

When Rachael Ray's new talk show kicks off in September, one very special guest will be in the house: Ray's friend and mentor, Oprah Winfrey.

On Aug. 3, Winfrey, 52, made a surprise stop at the New York City set of Ray's show, where she hung out for the entire taping, met the audience, got a full tour of the set and shared some on-air coffee talk with Ray.

Afterwards, Winfrey, who rarely appears on other people's shows, headed to the airport for a flight to South Africa, where she is working on her Leadership Academy for Girls, due to open in January.

Ray's hour-long syndicated program, The Rachael Ray Show, premieres Sept. 18. The episode with Winfrey will air during its first week.

However, the show will not be celebrity-driven. Ray, 36, says she expects guests, including her husband, lawyer and musician John Cusimano, to relax and get their hands dirty by cooking with her or playing foosball.

The show is coproduced by King World and Winfrey's Harpo production company. On advice Winfrey has given her, Ray said last month, "She tells me to be myself. She doesn't chime in or call up and say, 'This is how you can be more like Oprah.' She's pretty busy with her own job."

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Elizabeth Vargas Welcomes a Baby Boy

ABC news anchor Elizabeth Vargas has given birth to a baby boy, PEOPLE has confirmed.

Samuel Wyatt Cohn, who was born on Wednesday with a full head of hair, weighs in at 7 lbs. 9 oz.

This is the second child for Vargas and her husband, Grammy-winner Marc Cohn, who sings the hit song "Walking in Memphis." They also have a three-year-old son, Zachary.

Both mom and baby are doing "incredible" – and Samuel looks very much like his adorable big brother, according to proud dad Cohn.

In April, when she was five months along, Vargas, 43, told PEOPLE, "I feel bigger. Any woman who's been pregnant twice will tell you, you get bigger faster the second time."

This time around was harder on her as well. "I'm more tired, I feel sicker," said Vargas, though she admitted that moms-to-be "perhaps have more of a glow. The only time I have decent fingernails is when I'm pregnant or nursing."

Vargas had co-anchored World News Tonight with Bob Woodruff, who was injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Jan. 29. He is still recovering.

On May 23, Charles Gibson was named anchor of the newscast after Vargas was to go on maternity leave. She is due to return in the fall to her hosting duties on ABC's 20/20.

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Jennifer Aniston Sets the Record Straight: 'I'm Not Engaged!'

Jennifer Aniston, in an exclusive interview today with PEOPLE, denied published reports that she and Vince Vaughn are engaged, calling the stories "insane" and saying that "people are getting fed a lot of bull."

"I'm not engaged and I don't have a ring and I haven't been proposed to," Aniston said in a telephone conversation she initiated to debunk the engagement rumors. "Normally we don't even acknowledge these things because they're endless, at this point, the thing that got me was that I was getting phone calls from Greece! My Aunt Mary in Greece is getting accused of lying! I mean, they're getting angry.

"My dad calls and he says, 'Honey, it's on the CNN crawl,' and I'm going, 'Wait a second!' When it starts to travel over into the Today show and CNN and supposedly reliable and accurate news programs, then you just go, 'This is insane.' People are getting fed a lot of bull."

As for the recent report detailing Vaughn’s alleged proposal aboard a private jet following a Mexico vacation in late June, Aniston says she had to laugh. "It's so funny, with Vince, it's like the joke we had. I said, 'Okay, so you're on a romantic location. You've got the beach, you've got the sunset, but no, no, you're going to wait for an airplane ride,' " she says. "'First of all, are you going to try and curb my fear of flying? Are you trying to trap me on a plane?'"

As for her relationship with Vaughn, whom she met last year while filming The Break-Up, "We're just being," Aniston says. "We're having a good time."

So, as reported, no wedding on the beach? No white dress? "No," she says, with a laugh. "I mean, it couldn't be more of a 'No.' "

Aniston says she was moved to speak once the reports were picked up widely by mainstream media. "I don't feed into that," she says of the steady stream of rumors about her personal life. "We (her friends) don't talk about it. We don't hash it out because it's not true. The only reason I'm saying something is because if we're listening to the news, we're supposed to be believing in the news,” she says.

"Tabloids are going to lie all the time. You’re prepared for that. But it's the news. And you think, 'Well, we need to trust what our newscasters are saying when we have this horrific situation that's actually taking place in the world, I mean, we are getting reported the truth, right?'

"The American people need to believe (the news)," Aniston says. "Please. Get it together. So that's all."

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Blink-182 Rocker & Wife Welcome a Son

Former blink-182 singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge and his wife, furniture designer Jennifer, have welcomed their second child, Jonas Rocket DeLonge, the musician's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

The baby, who was born at 5:03 p.m. on Wednesday in Los Angeles, weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz., and measured 20 1/2 inches.

The couple already have a daughter, Ava Elizabeth, who turned 4 on July 15.

The new arrival certainly won't lack for proper furnishings. In January, Jennifer launched a line of high-end kids' furniture that has won fans including Courteney Cox and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Ava is "our No. 1 tester," Jennifer told PEOPLE in April. "She helps pick out colors – she's a little artist."

Friends since high school, Tom and Jennifer began dating in 1996 and married in 2001, a year after she received a B.A. in fine arts from San Diego State University and started a now defunct interior-design business.

"She's always had such a desire to create and use her amazing mind," Tom told PEOPLE. "That's part of the attraction."

Jennifer also supports her husband's work: While pregnant with Jonas, she and Ava traveled by bus with Tom this spring as he toured the U.S. and Europe with his new band, Angels & Airwaves.