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"Idol" Takes a Walk Down the Aisle

Former "American Idol" contestant, Katharine McPhee, married her longtime boyfriend in Los Angeles on Saturday. The 23-year-old wannabeen singer/actress and Nick Cokas (who is 42, by the way) were strictly platonic before Katharine auditioned for the hit reality show.

As Kat's star began to rise, so did the relationship. The two started dating and Nick became a strong support for the Suga-Mama as she struggled with the pressures of the show and her secret eating disorder. McPhee told People that "Nick is the love of my life. This is a once in a lifetime occasion and everything is just perfect." Katharine was recently dumped by her record label.


Joker Was No Laughing Matter for Heath


The NY Post reports that Heath Ledger locked himself in a London hotel for six weeks to prepare for his dark role in the upcoming Batman film. The late star became compulsive about perfecting every nuance of the twisted Joker, coming up with different voices and laughs -- he even kept a journal on what went on inside the mind of the character.

Meanwhile, friends and family of Heath Ledger -- including Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Sienna Miller, and Ellen DeGeneres -- gathered yesterday at the Sony lot in L.A. for a memorial service for the late actor, reports People.


The End is Near -- Studios and Writers Make a Deal


Hollywood went dark three months ago when the writers put down their laptops and walked off the set. The major sticking point for the WGA is compensation for programming distributed via the Internet, which eventually led to the complete breakdown of the talks in December.

With both parties walking away from the table (just in time for a long winter holiday), TV viewers were forced to watch reality television. Now, according to sources (via MSNBC), a tentative agreement has been reached, which could finish the script of this horror story by the end of the week.

Party Favors: Madonna Cracks the Whip ... Paula Abdul Sings ... For Celebs, One Assistant Just Won't Do


The Material Girl is still in charge. In her new music video, Madonna, 49, dresses up as a dominatrix and takes pleasure in whipping Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, says the Daily Mirror. ... All good things must come to an end. Paula Abdul is singing again on a CD for the first time since 1995 (via Yahoo News). ...In the high pressure and fast-paced world of fame, one personal assistant is not enough. The NY Post reports that some celebs employ dog nannies, wardrobe dressers, political advisers and even an eyelash technician to take care of their needs. Hard to find good help.

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31. Will do, Kelli. Looking forward to seeing you eat your words.

GO PATS

Posted at 5:49PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by Baseball Junkie

32. The 40 Year Old Husband? Kat can be in that movie.

Posted at 5:57PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by PTG

33. Congrats to the New York Post for "finding" out that Heath Ledger did an interview that came out from either Empire or Wizard Magazine OVER TWO MONTHS AGO where he mentioned the hotel stay while working on his version of The Joker.

Posted at 6:21PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by DC

34. Katherine McFee married a 42 year old?? Can anyone say 'desperate for a father figure'.... I just have one word for that: "ICK!"

Posted at 8:20PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by kelly dawn

35. Tom Cruise was a good friend of Heath Ledger's? Well, that explains a lot.....

Posted at 11:34PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by Genevieve

36. Madonna's facelift looks pretty darn good!

Posted at 11:35PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by Genevieve

37. I can understand the strike, but I don't get why it took nearly two months to come to any agreement. Last time I checked, I still paid for cable, so I guess that still makes me a customer of these networks and writers. So now the networks struck a deal but not before they lost a boat load of viewers, and the writers are getting a check for a couple hundred bucks a month, but now half their viewers are watching other prgramming. From now on, I'll just watch these shows after they come out in a downloadable fashion, so I don't have to be subjected to any more tiffs between the networks and writers.

Posted at 5:53PM on Feb 4th 2008 by Heather J Wade-Taylor

38. As far as the writers go, I think everyone should boycott their shows and see how they like it. We pay for cable tv, and the shows we are supposed to get then the writers go on strike and we are forced to watch game shows. Well, now I like the other shows so if the writers want to write or not, it makes no difference to me.

Posted at 4:04PM on Feb 5th 2008 by tigerlilly

39. Madonna is still trying to be young and nasty. I guess she will keep getting plastic surgery to "think she is young." I wonder when she is older, if she will look back on herself and her career and then ask herself, why she was so perverted. She doesn't even let her own kids watch TV..wonder why....they might see their perverted mom on there. What a way to make money, being nasty and perverted. I feel sorry for her. Hope she changes her life and then she won't feel so badly one day that she has ruined so many young girls lives that actually wanted to be like her. What ashamed!!

Posted at 7:46PM on Feb 5th 2008 by Debby

40. Yeah, I agree. Carrie really is full of herself, she is not at all the sweet girl who auditioned for American Idol anymore.

Posted at 7:48PM on Feb 5th 2008 by Debby

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