Celebrity news update

Keeping up with the red-carpet crowd, so you don't have to:

• Nicole Kidman is 41 years old, and pregnant with country singer Keith Urban's baby.
• Keira Knightley talks about the nude scenes in her new movie: "I always bare my breasts. . . . I said, 'All right then.' It was very simple. . . . It was a sex scene." Indeed, Keira has been known to have "wardrobe malfunctions" before.
• Tween idol Jesse McCartney poses for the cover of a British gay magazine. This is one of those celebrity situations where a geezer like me had to ask himself, "Who the heck is this person?" He is set to play Frank Hardy in an upcoming "Hardy Boys" remake. He was in a USA cable series. Other than that, as far as I can tell, he's just a 21-year-old actor famous for being cute.
• Gee, when your movie title is "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," think you're going to have problems with the ratings board? You're right.
• Britney Spears briefly returned to her hometown to see her jailbait sister Jamie Lynn give birth. The baby arrived, and Britney departed. Unwed mother Jamie Lynn chose an appropriately trailer-trash name ("Maddie Briann") for her baby. It's like the Snopeses got their own reality series.
• Brittany Snow (another one of those "stars" I had to look up) says she has a "girl crush" on Natalie Portman. What a terrible thing, to be obsessed with Natalie Portman.
• Video: Jessica Simpson interviewed by a country music station.
  
• Former supermodel Christie Brinkley is going through a bitter divorce, with all kinds of kinky allegations. She never should have dumped Billy Joel.
• Two more "stars" I never heard of, Lauren Conrad and Audrina Partridge, in bikinis. (Kind of a slow week for the paparazzi, I guess.)

If that's not enough celebrity news to satisfy you, go to WeSmirch, the gossip blog aggregator, for lots more.