Mommy Mariska Hargitay took her adorable son August to work with her on the set of Law and Order: SVU. What a cutie pie! I love how she is wearing a police badge and in costume. August is too young to appreciate what an amazing job his mommy really has.

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Wait. What? Reese Witherspoon either put her head down out of frustration or in an attempt to hide from the cameras. So many people think this relationship is purely a means to increase ticket sales for their latest movie, Rendition. I don’t know. I guess I am a romantic at heart because I think it’s the real deal. At least I hope so. Both Reese and Jake Gyllenhaal deserve someone special.

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First we heard Jessica Simpson will be pursuing a career in country music and now Jewel has decided to go the same route. She just signed a multi-album deal with a record label based out of Nashville. In an interview with Billboard she talks about her reasons and says she’s always been a little bit country.

“I’ve been wanting to do this record my whole career,” she tells Billboard.com, “but my label was always scared of country music. I’ve always had country songs on my records. If I had been discovered now, living in my car in San Diego, I think I would have been signed as a country act. As a singer/songwriter and as a storyteller, I’m old fashioned. I like a beginning middle and end to my songs. That’s pretty much just country radio now.”"

Jewel currently lives in Texas but has spent a lot of time in Nashville recently, hosting the reality show Nashville Star and making an appearance on country newcomer, Jason Michael Carroll’s album. She will also be a presenter at the CMA awards, coming up on November 7th.

What do you think, country fans? Is Jewel the real deal?

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Julia Roberts looks like the classic beauty that she is for the cover of Vanity Fair. She also sat down with the magazine to do an interview. Some of the quotes she gave them are pretty funny, especially when she gets to talking about diapers and weight loss

On the frenzy surrounding today’s young celebrities:

“I think it’s just grotesque. It’s like a circus sideshow. I don’t know why anybody would even want to go into show business these days, with all of the different magazines and shows. It just wouldn’t be worth it. And it’s too fast. Before, you could build a career over years and many movies. Now it’s like you do one good movie and they throw a ton of money at you and a ton of attention at you. You’re being constructed outside of yourself before you even know who you are, and what you are, and how you want to do it, and why you want to do it.”

On paparazzi taking photos of celebrities’ children:

“I just feel like it’s so demeaning the way they behave, and I hate the fact that I even put any of my energy into thinking about it or being stressed about it. And really, more than anything, it just has to do with my kids. There’s no reason to take pictures of celebrities’ children other than for people to say, “Oh, they’re cute.” I think magazines shouldn’t run pictures of people’s kids. I have a problem with that. I also have a problem with the whole notion that, if I have Henry in a sling, I’m hiding him. He’s a baby and I’m carrying him around, and so’s the lady across the street. I get pissed off, because I think that it’s inhuman to chase a woman with her children.”

On if her kids wanted to get into acting:

“I would call Natalie Portman’s mother. Natalie is such a good actress, but she seems like such a sensible person. I asked her about it one day when we were doing Closer, and she said she only worked with people that her parents trusted, and she only worked when it didn’t impact her school. So there were definitely guidelines. No one does it that way, but they did it, so it can be done. I hope I don’t face that, though, because I think kids should be kids and childhood should be filled with … you know that smell, when your kids come in and they smell like dirt and sweat and sunshine? That’s what I hope for my kids.”

On getting back into shape after having children:

“I have been working out, but listen, it is 97 percent genetics. Don’t let anybody tell you any crap about anything else, because that’s what it is: 97 percent genetics and 3 percent just get your ass moving. Because I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like.”

On diapers:

“I use Seventh Generation [chlorine-free, nontoxic] diapers for Finn and Hazel, and then I was turned on to the [plastic-free, flushable] gDiapers. Henry’s got a gDiaper on.… I would recommend them overall. It is flushable, but you’ve got to stir that thing! If you don’t really break it all the way up, it doesn’t go all the way down.”

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At the World Music Awards in Monaco we already saw Avril Lavigne’s red carpet arrival, but here she is in a rehearsal before the big show. Celine Dion was also there, Taking Chances with a risque silver dress…hahaha, sorry, I couldn’t resist Rihanna sang too. There are some pictures of her rehearsing (in plaid in the thumbnails) and performing (in black, above).

It looks like this was an amazing event! Click on thumbnails to enlarge.

This is unusual! We almost never get pictures of Lauren “LC” Conrad dressed down to this extent. Even when she’s filming for The Hills in her own apartment Lauren isn’t the kind of girl to be seen lounging around in sweatpants…or maybe that’s because the show is fake But we already knew that!

Anyways, I actually really like her laidback outfit. What do you think about LC’s casual look?

And Petra Nemcova was also at the event, looking relaxed and gorgeous as well! These two ladies look like they’re having a good time!

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Jennifer Aniston was seen this weekend in Portland. Jen kept her orange outfit fitting with the fall colors…she looks good! It’s too bad she doesn’t like to smile in candids, but we have to understand that some stars just do not court the paparazzi attention the way others do. After all these years she still seems uncomfortable with the attention that fame brings.