June 11th, 2008

As for why she had decided to join the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lopez, well that’s because she sees ‘fragrance as just a natural expression’ of love.

“For me, beauty really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind – a state of love, if you will. So, I see fragrance as just a natural expression of this state of love,” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

“Scent expresses a woman’s confidence and sensuality. It’s how she embraces her body, her mind and her strength,” she said.

However, admirers or the rapper/actress will have to wait a bit, for the perfume will only be released next year.

Actress Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott have welcomed a second child, the former “Beverly Hills 90210″ star’s spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. Stella Doreen McDermott was born on Monday afternoon in Los Angeles, Spelling’s representative said in an email to AFP. Spelling, 35, and McDermott, 41, already have a one-year-old son.Spelling is the daughter of legendary late American television producer Aaron Spelling, the creator of hit shows such as “Beverly Hills 90210″ and “Charlie’s Angels.

OK, I’m back. But instead of paying attention to the mountain of new releases facing me this week, or the surprising box-office success of Sergei Bodrov’s Genghis Khan epic “Mongol,” countering the tsunami-like summer hits “Iron Man,” “Kung Fu Panda” and “Sex in the City,” let’s consider an irrelevant pseudo scandal.

Testimony officially ended in the R. Kelly trial this afternoon as the judge ordered jurors to report back Thursday for closing arguments.

The jury was dismissed without any mention of a faulty stipulation regarding the accuracy of a DVD shown in court.

The prosecution learned Monday night that images from the sex tape at the center of the child pornography trial were compressed and lost significant detail when they were transferred to the DVD, Assistant State’s Atty. Shauna Boliker said. The prosecutors blamed the error on “dumb lawyers” who simply wanted the DVD to more easily show shortened clips from the original video. The state swore to its veracity in a stipulation, a statement read to jurors in which both sides of the case agree on an item.