Sounds like Phase Five to us, but who’s counting?
“J.Lo, Phase Two” isn’t a new summer movie — it’s a state of mind for the actress-singer. “I feel like this is my phase two, like it’s a new beginning,” Jennifer Lopez tells InStyle magazine in its August issue. “Like everything I did before really doesn’t matter.”
After two failed marriages and her much-publicized romances with Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Ben Affleck, the 34-year-old pop star seems intent on not leaving a trail of glitter (and gossip) wherever she goes.
“Maybe I was a little bit careless in the past,” she says. “I’m not a perfect person. I make mistakes. I just feel like I’m in a better place about who I am. I follow my heart. That’s the one thing I can say about myself. And I love that about myself.”
In early June, Lopez reportedly married singer Marc Anthony in a small ceremony at her Beverly Hills, Calif., home.
All she’ll say about Anthony is: “We have a great working relationship. I have to keep my work and my personal life separate. Otherwise it gets blurry, and it gets messy.”
The players say Brandy, you’re a fine girl
Now Brandy really gets to show what a good wife she would be.
Last week, music producer Robert Smith denied previous reports that he had been married to the singer, saying that was a ruse to protect her image when she was pregnant with their daughter.
But Brandy’s new beau, pro basketball player Quentin Richardson, surprised her this week with an engagement ring — an 11 1/2 -carat one, valued at $1 million.
Sounds like somebody’s a big, fat liar
Anthony Anderson, the rotund comedic co-star of “Kangaroo Jack” and the original “Barbershop,” has been arrested and charged with aggravated rape while shooting a movie in Memphis, Tenn.
An unidentified woman said the 33-year-old actor lured her into a trailer on the set of his latest film, “Hustle & Flow,” and that he and the assistant director sexually assaulted her.
A spokesman for the “happily married family man” said Anderson “absolutely denies the heinous charges.”
Does that mean Maya Rudolph has to go, too?
More bad news for the Versace clan: Designer Donatella Versace is in rehab for cocaine addiction, reports The New York Post.
The 49-year-old, perpetually tanned queen of the fashion world has quietly checked into a center for the drug-plagued at an undisclosed location, says a top industry source.
Versace and her brother, Santo, were catapulted to the top of the family’s hot clothing business after their brother, Gianni, was gunned down outside his Miami Beach mansion in 1997.
And Hef, of course, is always the player
Ever dreamed of hanging out at the Playboy Mansion? A video game coming this winter will let you do just that, along with such cyber celebrities as Carmen Electra, Tom Arnold, David Copperfield, Willa Ford, Jose Canseco, Uncle Kracker, Andrew W.K. and Melissa Joan Hart.
But gamers who hope to be anyone other than Playboy head Hugh Hefner will be sorely disappointed. “The player is always Hef,” a publicist said.
The birthday bunch
Actor Dick Wilson (Mr. Whipple) is 88. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 65. Singer Paul Anka is 63. Jazz saxophonist David Sanborn is 59. Actor Ken Olin is 50. Actress Delta Burke is 48. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush is 46. Country singer Neal McCoy is 46. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 43. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 41. Actress Vivica A. Fox is 40. Director Christopher Nolan (“Memento,” “Insomnia”) is 34. Actor Tom Green is 33. Actress Christine Taylor (“The Brady Bunch Movie”) is 33. Actress Hilary Swank is 30. Actress Jaime Pressly is 27.