TV chef Jamie Oliver is getting his teeth into fatherhood after wife Jools gave birth to a baby girl.
A spokesman for the Naked Chef said they were "delighted" with their new addition and added: "All concerned are doing well."
Oliver is setting up a restaurant in London for which he willbe training the staff. He was planning to make a TV series about the venture, called Oliver's Army, but last month the BBC broke off negotiations because of his other commercial interests.
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Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker reportedly banned a guest appearance by Britney Spears because she feared the provocative young singer would make her look like a dowdy old maid.
The celebrity magazine US Weekly said Parker, 36, "threw a fit" after learning the curvy 20-year-old would feature in an episode of the saucy American show.
"I worked too damned hard to get this show to where it is today, and I'll be damned if I'm going to be upstaged by a Mouseketeer," Parker is said to have ranted, referring to Britney's television experience as a youngster on The Mickey Mouse Club show.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger will produce but not star in the post-apocalyptic drama I Am Legend and is courting Will Smith to take on the role of the last man on Earth.
The film, which Schwarzenegger has been attached to for several years, is an adaptation of a Richard Matheson novel set in Los Angeles after a biological war.
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Johnny Depp is to star as Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in a new movie, Neverland, which begins filming in London later this year.
The film follows the story of how Barrie wrote the children's classic after striking up a friendship with four fatherless boys and their mother at the turn of the century in London.
Depp most recently starred in From Hell and Blow.
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Glamour doll Barbie will portray Rapunzel in a new straight-to-video movie set for release in the US during October. The computer-animated film will be made by Artisan, best known for The Blair Witch Project.
