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Jodie Sweetin, who starred on TV’s Full House” for eight seasons, is a new bride according to Celebrity Website Celebtv.com

Sizzling Sweetin, 25, exchanged vows with Cody Herpin, 30, last Saturday at the Little Church of the West, a Las Vegas Strip wedding chapel, CelebTV.com said, citing a marriage certificate from the Clark County recorder’s office.

Sweetin played middle daughter Stephanie Tanner on “Full House.”

This was the second trip down the aisle for Sweetin, who split from Los Angeles police officer Shaun Holguin in 2006 after four years of marriage.

Onscreen older sister Candace Cameron served as maid of honor for her first set of nuptials.

In an interview on Good Morning America in February 2006, Sweetin talked about her two-year battle with a methamphetamine addiction, which eventually resulted in an intervention attended by TV dad Bob Saget, John Stamos and the Olsen twins, followed by a six-week stay at Promises in Malibu for an intensive treatment program.

Best motion picture - “The Departed”
Best foreign language film - “The Lives of Others”
Best documentary feature - “An Inconvenient Truth”
Best animated feature film - “Happy Feet”
Best Short Documentary - “The Blood of Yingzhou District”
Best Short Animated - “The Danish Poet”
Best Short Live Action - “West Bank Story”

Best actor in a leading role - Forest Whitaker for his role as Idi Aminfor the film “The Last King of Scotland”

Best actress in a leading role - Helen Mirren for her role as Queen Elizabeth for the film “The Queen”

Best supporting actor - Alan Arkin for his role as Grandpa for the film “Little Miss Sunshine”

Best supporting actress - Jennifer Hudson for her role as Effie White for the film “Dreamgirls”

The infamous pop music princess is at it again. On Friday evening, the 25 year old, Britney Spears was spotted in Sherman Oaks, San Fernando Valley with her new look.

She was at a tattoo shop called “Body and Soul” getting a tattoo of a red and pink lips on her wrist. “She just wanted something real small on her wrist, something dainty,” Max Gott a tattoo artist told KABC-TV “She got some cute little lips on her wrist.”

ABC news interviewed Emily Wynne-Hughes who was reported to be in the tattoo shop with Britney. Emily asked Britney why she shaved her head, “She (Britney) basically just said that she was tired of having things plugged into it and she didn’t want anybody to touch her”, Emily told the reporter. “It seemed like she was just sick of it all!” Emily described Britney’s mood as very distraught and disturbed, “She was very scatter brained”.

Well, first of all it was Take That (minus Robbie), now Irish band Boyzone have reformed and will be going on a reunion tour.

The band broke up in 1999 after Ronan Keating left to pursue a solo career. Industry insiders describe getting all five members signed again as a “massive coup”.

Keating was the only member of the band to have success as a solo artist. He was apparently reluctant to leave his successful solo career but has bowed to pressure from the fans and agreed to give the band another try.

Keating along with other band members Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Keith Duffy and Shane Lynch will be playing their greatest hits on the tour. Depending on how successful the tour is the band may release an album of ne

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It has been announced that 8-year-old Bindi Irwin will star in her own wildlife series starting next year. “Bindi, The Jungle Girl” was already filming when Bindi’s father, Steve, died tragically at the beginning of last month.

The show will air on Discovery Kids in the United States and a publicist for the channel said initially the show was “going to be a father-daughter thing,” and that “Steve and Bindi were very enthusiastic about doing the show together.”

According to Steve Irwin’s manager and friend John Stainton, the Crocodile Hunter will appear in the show, as some scenes were already shot before he passed away.

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Madonna has been forced to leave Malawi without the son she chose to adopt a few weeks ago. The child’s father has claimed him back, despite the fact that the child was in the care of an orphanage.

The boys mother last year and the child was placed into care, the father alleges that this was a temporary step. He said that he always planned to bring the child home after his circumstances improved.

Yohane Banda speaking to a British newspaper said that he feared the boy, David would die of malaria a disease which had killed his other two children.

“I suppose deep in my heart I always imagined that when he was better, or I had got another wife, I would go and take him back,” Banda told the Mail on Sunday. “I did not think anyone would want to take him away.”

Freddy Fender, known as the “Bebop Kid” died yesterday aged 69. He had been diagnosed as suffering from lung cancer early this year and he died surrounded by his family in Corpus Christi, finally at peace.

He had a hard passage from the Mexico border where he was born, battling with long term drug and alcohol abuse. The legacy of this was diabetes which in turn needed a kidney transplant.

His biggest hit was “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” climbing to No. 1 on the pop and country charts.Other hits included “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” which got to number one on the country charts, as did “Secret Love” and “You’ll Lose a Good Thing”.

Fender born Baldemar Huerta was so proud of his Mexican heritage that he nearly always sang a part of his hits, even if only a phrase in Spanish. “Teardrop” had a verse in Spanish.

Heather Mills McCartney yesterday stepped out wearing a definite statement, her thirty five dollar teeshirt designed by Ed Hardy.

On the one hand the tattoist Ed Hardy is based in California,and Heather was photographed at Heathrow, where she was returning from Los Angeles.

However an ex fashion model can not have been unaware of the media attention, and the statement she had to be making.

And while the words may not mean that much to Miss Mills, they certainly will to her estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney, 64. Their divorce battle has become increasinngly more acrimonious.

Heather has attempted to protect your financial stake by hiring hired Anthony Julius, who achievbed fame as Princess Diana’s divorce lawyer.

Sir Paul has retaliated by hiring Fiona Shackleton who acted as the divorce lawyer for Prince Charles. He will be no doubt anxious to protect his fortune which is reputed to be around eight hundred million pounds.

Muhammad Yunus the founder director and owner of the Bangladeshi Grameen Bank has been awarded the 2006 Peace Prize.

It is not often that capitalism and social conscience go together in the same sentence, and that was the reason the Grameen Bank was formed, to bring social responsibility into the world of banking.

The foundation of the work of the World Bank is what is described as macro economics, where economists look at the big picture. For fifty years the World bank and the IMF have created grandiose schemes to eliminate poverty, and in general they have all failed abysmally.

Micro economic theory on the other hand could not look at a smaller picture. The bank target women as the primary lenders. The theory behind this is that women have a reason to employ the family finances for the benefit of the whole family.

John Lennon had he lived would have been 66 yesterday, but John Lennon was shot dead in 1980 by Mark Chapman.

It was decided that Chapman’s release would not serve the best interests of the community, his crime has been described as bizarre!. Whilst Chapman has adjusted to prison life well he had a history of mental illness before murdering Lennon.

Mark Chapman, aged 51, will continue to be incarcerated for at least two more years at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility.

In a written decision the parole panel concluded: “The panel remains concerned about the bizarre nature of this premeditated and violent crime.

“While the panel notes your satisfactory institutional adjustment, due to the extremely violent nature of the offence your release would not be in the best interest of the community.”

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