Emma To Quit Harry Potter ?

I really love school. After the stress on the set, being among students is a marvelous change indeed

– Emma said.

After the filming of the Harry Potter movie, young 17 year old British actress Emma Watson plans to stop her acting carrier for a little. In other words, Emma wants to return to school.

- I really love school. After the stress on the set, being among students is a marvelous change indeed – said the actress who plays Hermione in the movie about the famous wizard.

Emma first played Hermione Granger at the age of 10. Along with ‘Harry Potter’, Emma is acting in a movie called “Ballet Shoes” and also in this one she plays a schoolgirl.

Seventeen-year-old Em is currently swotting for A-levels in Geography, English Literature and Art, between filming commitments.

And when it comes to success, her sights her set high on both the acting and academic fronts.

“Well, I guess I have motivation because I really want to go to uni, so I make sure I get all my work done because I know it’s going somewhere,” she said.

Camera-Shy Nicole, Stupid-Free Tara

Is Nicole Richie and Joel Madden’s unborn baby genetically predisposed to dislike the paparazzi? Australia’s Herald-Sun says the stork-expecting squeezes are attempting to get shutterbugs to back off by claiming their spawn is camera shy. Nicole, who’s tagging along with Joel as he tours Down Under with his band, Good Charlotte, reportedly refused to pose for pictures as they exited a Brisbane eatery this week. An enterprising pair of radio producers tried presenting the tumescent but still tiny starlet with a big bouquet of flowers in hopes of getting her to say cheese, to no avail. “We handed them to her and she was very nice,” one of the guys tells the paper. “She said ‘thank you’ but still refused to be photographed and Joel told us that the baby ‘didn’t like the flash.’”

In other ankle-biter news, Pam Anderson’s assertion that she’s “not pregnant, just happy,” seemed true enough Wednesday night, when OK! spotted her whooping it up at a Sin City hot spot with new hubby Rick Salomon. The mag says the cartoonish blonde was drinking champagne while breathing in Salomon’s second-hand smoke, behavior that would seem to belie rumors she’s in the family way.

Scarlett Johansson and Woody Allen are totally over that whole muse thing. “We’ve joked about that word,” the stacked starlet says in the November issue of Elle. “Woody says, ‘You appear and my writer’s block is cured.’” But just because she functions as the filmmaker’s creative laxative and he’s cast her in three of his last four films that doesn’t mean she’s his artistic inspiration. “This is a stupid phrase that journalists use all the time,” the Woodman tells the mag of the muse musings, “a cliché with no meaning and bearing no resemblance to anything in Scarlett’s life or my life.”

Tara Reid isn’t just proficient in playing a big brain on screen (what, you didn’t find her portrayal of a genius anthropologist in the craptacular “Alone in the Dark” convincing?), but she’s also quite the egghead in real life. Says who? Says Tara. “I think the reason I never ended up in as much trouble as Paris [Hilton] or Lindsay [Lohan] is that I’m not stupid,” she explains to FHM, which kindly Photoshopped her scantily clad bod back to its 1999 heyday, “so I’d never do a lot of the things those girls do, and I’ve always had good friends around me.” The aging starlet, 31, whose smarts couldn’t save her from a bad breast enlargement, lumpy liposuction or a seminal boob flash that helped usher in the ladyparts-exposing era, simply can’t understand her “bad girl” reputation. “I’ve never been arrested,” Tara points out. “I wonder if some people start thinking, ‘We made this girl out to be bad just for having a good time.’ I don’t think I should ever be punished for being happy.”

Janice Dickinson’s idiotic quixotic quest to become the most lifelike Madame Tussaud’s wax figure ever continues unabated. Us Weekly reports the ridiculously refreshed former model, 52, went back under the knife on Monday to get a tummy tuck and “mini neck lift,” deciding on the latter procedure in an apparent what-the-hell, two-for-one moment. According to a source, “Janice knows people will think she didn’t need a tummy tuck,” but she’s apparently been complaining about “a lot of extra skin” and longed for “tighter abs.” The neck lift was thrown in because she figured “she might as well since she was going under.” (And suddenly, the nightmare that is Janice’s nip-tucking begins to make a whole lot more sense …).

Lindsay Denies Dropkicking Mom-ager Dina

“I have good people in my life now. I am surrounded with people that don’t use me and who love me for me.” So stated Lindsay Lohan to In Touch upon her release from rehab last week. But has the self-control-lacking, new boyfriend-nabbing starlet decided that her mom-cum-manager Dina is no longer one of those “good people”?

On Wednesday, OK! magazine claimed Lohan, 21, had handed her lots-of-leeway-giving mother her walking papers.

“Lindsay fired Dina as her manager,” a source alleged to the mag, adding, “The two haven’t even spoken in weeks except to fight.”

The reason for the purported pink-slipping: Lindsay was “livid” that Dina granted “Access Hollywood” a tour of a luxurious high-rise condo in New York she recently redecorated for her.

A “well-placed source” chimes in to the New York Daily News that LiLo, whose career is currently on life support, has been investigating alternate management options for several weeks.

But it seems the ostensible leaf-turning the actress underwent in rehab doesn’t extend to abstaining from nepotism.

Dina, who has loudly denied her reputation as her doppelganger daughter’s enabler excuse generator party pal, is still very much a part of her life.

“Dina remains Lindsay’s manager and, more importantly, her mother,” the actress’ rep assures (or not — your call) TMZ.com.

Coincidentally (or not), the rumors of Dina being kicked to the curb coincided with Lindsay reunion with her long-estranged pop, who insists he has no interest in his daughter’s career (this, despite the fact that he’s never met an entertainment news show camera he doesn’t like).

“I don’t know anything about it at all,” he tells “Extra” of the mom-axing rumors. “I don’t get involved in Lindsay’s business dealings. I want to be there as her father and hope Dina can be there as her mother as well.”

Uma’s Stalker Scare

Uma Thurman is probably breathing a little easier right about now. The New York Post and TMZ.com report a guy who’s allegedly been stalking the ethereal actress for two years was picked up by the NYPD on Friday near her Manhattan home.

The criminal complaint accuses one Jack Jordan, 35, of sending Thurman threatening letters, constantly hovering around her house and trying to see her on a film set, among other worrying behavior.

“I feel afraid that if I see you out again with another man, I will want to kill myself,” a message left at her building last month reportedly read. “Maybe even after we meet.”

Uma, who recently denied reports she’s engaged to moneybags boyfriend Arpad Busson, is also said to have received a drawing showing Jordan walking on a razor’s edge while she’s pictured nearby digging a grave.

“He feels that he and Uma Thurman are fated to be together,” a police detective maintained in the complaint. “Since he came to New York, he has been sleeping in a car on her block among other places and has been trying to see her in person and continues to love her.”

Jordan’s concerned family reportedly convinced him to seek treatment at a mental health facility, but when he was released over the summer, he drove from California to New York and began staking out Thurman’s residence, repeatedly asking to see her.

Reese & Jake, Paris & Stavros

When last we checked in with the elusive and possibly mythic entity known as Gyllenspoon, they were spied “deep, deep in conversation” at a party, having supposedly reunited, yet again, after their “harshest split yet.” On Wednesday, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal kept out of each other’s personal space at the Los Angeles premiere of “Rendition,” although their game of keep-away will likely do little to quell talk of their supposedly hot-and-cold coupling. The latest chatter comes courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times, which claims the willowy Oscar winner, whose divorce from Ryan Phillippe was finalized this week, and the unfortunately be-whiskered actor have recently “enjoyed several quiet dinners” at her house (a location chosen to escape their capture on camera, natch). Gyllenhaal has also supposedly spent some “significant” time getting to know Witherspoon’s kids, Ava, 8, and Deacon, who turns 4 this month. The paper says dinner guests have included Jake’s sister, Maggie, and her baby daddy, Peter Sarsgaard, and there’s been talk of a family trip to Hawaii over Thanksgiving. (Hey, you know what we’d give thanks for? A photo — even a blurry one — of Reese at least making eye contact with Jake’s dreamy baby blues.)

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem didn’t just get “very touchy-feely” at the New York Film Festival last weekend. They also got hands-on during a beach getaway to the Maldives earlier this month, as seen in newly surfaced and smokin’ hot snaps of the Spanish thespians engaged in a series of steamy, swimsuit-clad clinches.

Has Paris Hilton already grown bored with her chiseled Swedish charity case? People reports the starlet enjoyed a “supersecret date” with former flame Stavros Niarchos in Los Angeles a few days back. But James Bond they ain’t. The mag says their cloak-and-dagger attempts to go undetected at the movies involved Hilton hanging out in the ladies’ room as the Hellenic hottie bought tickets, with the two then rendezvousing in the darkened theater.

Despite achieving fame, fortune and an NBA-playing husband in the form of Tony Parker, Eva Longoria wants us to know she really is just like us. Too bad she apparently thinks we’re ’50s housewives. “I’m very domestic,” the “Desperate Housewives” star tells the London Daily Mirror. “I clean, I sew, I do Tony’s laundry.” That’s not all. She’s also “a great chef” who cooks “every day” and makes “an amazing tortilla soup.” Alas, “Tony doesn’t like Mexican food,” admits Eva. What’s a domestic goddess to do? Why, whip up a “lemon pasta with pork chops and mushrooms” that’s now his “favorite thing,” of course. Longoria also shares her procreation plans with the paper, joking (we think) that “Desperate” creator Marc Cherry “has forbidden me to get pregnant this year” (Marcia Cross‘ twin-bulging belly forced script revisions last season). For now, “we’re going to spend time as a married couple and build a solid foundation together before we bring our child into the world … I believe God will bless us with the baby when the time is right.”

Witherspoon-Phillippe Divorce Is Final

Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon

Witherspoon-Phillippe Divorce Is Final

Oct. 10, 2007, 2:33 PM EST

The Associated Press

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe are officially single.

The couple’s divorce was finalized Oct. 5, according to court documents.

Witherspoon cited irreconcilable differences when she filed for divorce on Nov. 8, 2006. The couple were married for seven years and have two children, 8-year-old daughter Ava and 3-year-old son Deacon.

Witherspoon, 31, and Phillippe, 33, co-starred in the 1999 movie “Cruel Intentions” and were married that year. Their separation was announced last October.

Witherspoon won the best-actress Academy Award for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in 2005’s “Walk the Line.” She can next be seen in “Rendition,” co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal, which is due out later this month.

Phillippe’s screen credits include “Crash,” “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Breach.”

Court documents confirming the divorce were first posted by the celebrity Web site CelebTV.com.

Pam’s Honeymoon Hissy Fit, Pregnant Pause?

It’s been bad omens galore for newlyweds Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon, from their cardboard wedding cake and pigs-in-a-blanket hors d’oeuvres to the bride’s less-than-endearing nickname for the groom, specifically, “Scum.” Now, just days after their quickie Las Vegas nuptials, rumblings of trouble have begun, along with yet another round of pregnancy speculation.

Let’s start with the déclassé duo’s purported problems. A “close associate” of the top-heavy, thrice-married blonde tells the Chicago Sun-Times they had a “huge fight” soon after they pledged to love each other for better or worse (we’re guessing it’s mostly gonna be “or worse”), until death do they part.

Salomon was supposedly miffed that Anderson, who wedged in the 90-minute knot-tying ceremony between performances of her magic act with Hans Klok, made “flippant comments” to the crowd during the post-nuptial show, announcing, “Hello, I just got married. It’s a big day. A big day at the office.”

While such touchiness seems strange for a guy who not only filmed his passion-light, X-rated hanky-panky with Paris Hilton but also married the notoriously temperamental Shannen Doherty, it may not have been the only honeymoon hiccup.

According to the paper, Pam pitched “a huge fit” when Rick suggested they — you guessed it — bust out the video camera to document their love.

A “screaming match” ensued, claims the snitch, during which Salomon is said to have pointed out they “could make a [bleeping] fortune!”

But Anderson, who a decade ago waged a legal battle over profits from her so-called honeymoon video with tough-sex-act-to-follow Tommy Lee, allegedly responded, “I am not a porn star!”

But is she a mommy-to-be? Last week, Pam pooh-poohed a tabloid report that suggested she’s sporting a “bit of a bump” (“Not pregnant,” she wrote on her blog, “just very happy”), but In Touch remains convinced she and Salomon had a shotgun wedding.

The mag believes she’s two months along, a discovery it says she made — via a home pregnancy test — on Sept. 29, the same day the pair applied for a marriage license.

“Pam says that the pregnancy is fate and an incredible blessing,” a mole tells the magazine.

But is it a blessing she wanted to remain under wraps?

The cautious actress, 40, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage shortly before her marriage to Kid Rock went belly-up last November (the rocker recently voiced his suspicions about her claim), “begged” her skeevier half to “keep the news secret until she had reached three months, but he broke his promise,” says the source.

That allegedly gave Anderson pause about proceeding with their planned Oct. 6 aisle-walk, but her so-called desire to give sons Brandon, 11, and Dylan, 9, a sibling supposedly trumped her “misgivings” about her future spouse.

“She’s listening to her heart,” posits a confidante. “Rick adores her and will be the best husband she’s ever had.” Adds an equally optimistic insider, “Pam says that after all these years of looking, the right one was right there beside her the whole time.”

As for Kid Rock, he continues to take ungentlemanly potshots at his ex-wife, with the latest heckling taking place during his appearance Monday on the “Late Show With David Letterman.”

When the subject turned to Pam’s marriage to Salomon, the resentful rocker offered the groom some belated advice he says he wished he’d received, joking, “Why buy the cow, when you get the milk for free?”

(He’ll be here all week, people — try the veal!)

The creaky quip was met with a collective groan from the crowd, which prompted Kid to tell them to “lighten up.”

He then made a stab at sincerity by adding, “I wish them much happiness.”

Romance Report: Cruz & Javier, Uma Engaged?

Will it be third time lucky for the office romance prone Penélope Cruz, whose previous hookups with leading men Matthew McConaughey (“Sahara“) and Tom Cruise (“Vanilla Sky“) fizzled out? The New York Post reports the Spanish beauty is cozying up to handsomely scruffy countryman Javier Bardem, her co-star in Woody Allen’s recently wrapped (and still untitled) Spanish project. The pair, whose professional relationship dates back to 1992’s “Jamón, Jamón,” was spotted at the New York Film Festival last weekend looking “very touchy-feely,” an eyewitness tattles to the paper. “They held hands when they thought no one was watching and she kissed his cheek, and he put his arm around her.” Cruz, 33, and Bardem, 38, were also caught on video — albeit shaky, grainy, nighttime video — looking thisclose as they hugged it out on a sidewalk. “She just glows when she talks about him,” a Cruz confidante tells the Chicago Sun-Times. “He just dotes on her.” The actress, who since her summer 2006 split from McConaughey has been linked to both Orlando Bloom and Josh Hartnett, brushed off talk of a Bardem romance a few months back. “It’s not true,” she insisted at a July press conference. “He’s a friend and the best actor in the world.”

Incredibly rich and handsome French-Swiss financiers don’t grow on every tree, but is Uma Thurman ready to settle down with moneybags beau Arpad Busson after just three months of coupledom? This week, the comely lovebirds were hit with engagement whispers claiming a “smitten” Busson, who has two children with ex-girlfriend Elle Macpherson, is determined to lock down the actress, who has two children with ex-husband Ethan Hawke, “as quickly as possible.” But Uma’s rep tells “Entertainment Tonight” that there’s no truth to the engagement chatter and the couple have no plans to swap vows anytime soon.

Sarah Larson and George Clooney attend the “Michael Clayton” cocktail party during the 2007 Venice Film Festival. (Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com)

Talk about kissing it and making it better. Over a cozy dinner Monday night in New York, George Clooney was captured on camera repeatedly laying his lips on girlfriend Sarah Larson, who’s off her crutches following their recent motorcycle crash. The swoon-inducing star and his cocktail waitress squeeze were breaking bread with Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, but they appeared to have an appetite only for one another. “They were kissing very passionately all evening,” a spy tells the London Sun. “They didn’t care who saw them.”

In other noshing news, Cameron Diaz and Bradley Cooper’s rumored romance still seems to be going strong. The New York Daily News caught the blond-on-blond pair dining a deux at an eatery in the West Village on Sunday.

Hugh Grant cracked a mile-wide smile when a camera was pointed at him a few days back, an uncharacteristically obliging reaction that might have had something to do with the bevy of nubile college students who were hanging all over him at the time. According to the London Daily Mail, the very candid photo op took place during a dorm room party at Scotland’s St. Andrews University, where the oft-crabby star, 47, was participating in a golf tournament. But Grant, who has been back on the market since his bust-up with longtime love Jemima Khan earlier this year, apparently didn’t use his considerable romantic comedy skills to woo a co-ed young enough to be his daughter. “Hugh is adamant that nothing untoward happened,” one of his buddies tells the paper. “He thinks he’s quite within his rights to have a bit of fun with a group of girls whatever their age — it’s not illegal after all.” (And if anyone should know from illegal, it’s Hugh.)

Will Paul McCartney’s reputation-sullying split from Heather Mills soon be laid to rest? That’s the word from the London Daily Mail, which says the embattled exes have finally hammered out a financial agreement that will ensure details of their marital meltdown will remain private. Mills will reportedly receive a lump sum payment of around $30 million, along with another $6 million to $7 million annually over the next 14 years (until their daughter Beatrice turns 18), providing she keeps her cakehole closed about the breakup. According to the paper, McCartney will also pony up for all of Beatrice’s expenses, including her education and security. If the deal goes through, it’s set to be the largest divorce settlement in British history.

J.Lo Craving Pickles, Doritos and a Baby Girl?

Sure, Jennifer Lopez looks like she just cleaned out the muumuu section at Mrs. Roper’s garage sale, but she continues to dance around the subject of whether she’s gestating the spawn of hollow-cheeked hubby Marc Anthony, despite nudges this week from both Diane Sawyer and David Letterman. Still, the swollen-bellied star’s coyness hasn’t stopped Us Weekly from proclaiming her knocked up.

“Yes, she’s pregnant!” avows the mag’s latest cover, which helpfully points out that she’s “craving Doritos & pickles and hoping for a girl.”

“It’s a dream come true,” kvells a Lopez insider. “She and Marc are over the moon.”

What’s more, says another mole, J.Lo’s mom, Guadalupe, “is proudly telling people she’s having twins,” double delivery news that was recently reported by both TMZ.com and OK! magazine.

J.Lo stops by MTV’s “TRL” in New York on Oct. 8. (Jemal Countess/WireImage.com)

“I’ve been around a lot of pregnant women. She walked around like a pregnant woman, sat like a pregnant woman and stood like a pregnant woman,” offers MTV “TRL” host-cum-amateur obstetrician Damien Fahey, who interviewed J.Lo on Monday. “If I were a betting man, I’d definitely bet she was pregnant.”

Lopez, 38, is believed to be about four months gone, according to “multiple sources,” although it seems her delicate condition didn’t come easily.

“[Conceiving] was a struggle for her,” a spy discloses to Us, with another hyperbole-disposed snitch adding, “This pregnancy is a miracle.”

Not to mention miraculously well timed. Jennifer is currently on tour with Anthony and in the midst of a promotional blitz for her new album, “Brave,” which has unfortunately failed to impress critics.

The Associated Press sneers that the disc “contains plenty of fourth-rate songs that sound like they were made for Brooke Hogan instead of an A-lister like Lopez.”

Ouch.

Meanwhile, Dayanara Torres, Anthony’s ex (and the mother of two of his three children), found herself doing some serious backpedaling this week after she appeared to acknowledge Lopez’s bun in the oven during a TV interview, saying she “found out a day ago.”

But faster than you can say “the wrath of J.Lo,” the onetime Miss Universe released a statement pleading ignorance.

“I have neither confirmed, nor have first-hand knowledge of any pregnancy,” insisted Torres (via Us). “I had been advised of pregnancy ‘rumors’ by my manager who wanted to make sure I was aware in case my children heard anything at school that I may need to address.”

Lindsay’s Rehab Hookup: ‘I Am Really Happy’

New love for Lohan; plus J.Lo’s ‘miracle’ glow; the latest couples news with Cruz, Clooney, Cameron; Pam & ‘Scum’ and more …

Looks like Lindsay Lohan was focused on more than just her sobriety during her two-month stint at the resortlike Cirque Lodge in Utah. In Touch reports the double-DUI-busted starlet, 21, is currently dating snowboarder Riley Giles, 25, whom she met during her arduous and nicotine-filled climb up the 12 steps.

(And really, does anything scream “true love forever” quite like a rehab romance, the most stable and dysfunction-free of all romances?)

“Yes, I am seeing someone,” Lindsay reveals in one of the two “exclusive” interviews she granted upon her release into the wild last Friday (the other sit-down was with OK!). “His name is Riley. I am really happy and taking it day by day.”

While she wouldn’t go into particulars about her new beau (he’s reportedly from California and, judging by paparazzi pics, has an unfortunate penchant for novelty T-shirts and backward caps), she did pose hand-in-hand with him in the mag.

Lindsay Lohan reunites with her dad while in rehab in Utah on Sept. 9. (X17Online.com)

Lohan has also introduced Giles to her dad, Michael, whom she recently reconnected with after three-and-a-half years of estrangement.

Her jailbird pop apparently returned the favor by flying his new girlfriend out to Utah to meet his famous offspring (squickiness alert: The galpal is a Lindsay doppelganger, right down to her flat-ironed, long, blond tresses).

“She and Lindsay bonded immediately,” Daddy Lohan tells the New York Daily News. “They just clicked, and now are best friends.”

The media-indiscreet Michael adds that he’s so excited to have his daughter back in his life that he presented her with a three-band diamond ring as a symbol of “her rehab and their reconciliation.”

Lindsay, meanwhile, is doing her best to put to rest rumors of another rehab romance, this one with little-known musician Tony Allen, whose wife has hinted she played a part in their recent marital implosion.

“Rumors are rumors. I don’t really have anything to say about that,” she grumps to In Touch. “Tony and I were just friends and if anyone has anything negative to say, I would just like to ask, ‘Why?’ We were just friends and that was it.”

For now, Lohan continues to make the low-key scene in Utah, where she and Giles were snapped heading to dinner Tuesday night in Salt Lake City.

The day before, E! Online spied her dropping about $900 at a Park City boutique. Among her purchases: boots, a puffy coat and lip-plumping gloss.

But it appears LiLo may have learned more than just how to avoid temptation during her time in treatment.

Store staffers tell E! that she fretted over the possibility of her credit card getting rejected because she’s now on a “daily budget.”

That’s quite a change for the formerly spendthrift actress, whose couture cravings and seven-figure bill at Los Angeles’ Chateau Marmont hotel are the stuff of legend.

“I want to act like a woman rather than a teenager,” she declares to In Touch. “I am doing the best I can … karma’s a big deal.”

This kinder, thriftier philosophy might explain her sudden interest in those less fortunate (and no, we don’t mean Britney).

Linds says she’s hoping to make a PR-boosting humanitarian trip to Africa this December: “I’m working with the American Red Cross, but it is not finalized yet.”