Gossip/Celebrity News

LOS ANGELES - Ed McMahon has a job. The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show.

SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) - Film director Guy Ritchie broke his silence on Friday over rumors that his marriage to Madonna is on the rocks, telling People magazine it was "fine."

LOS ANGELES - Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Singer Connie Francis is being treated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York where she was hospitalized after falling ill earlier this week.

LONDON (Reuters) - Starting on Saturday, Mick Jagger will be entitled to a basic state pension of just under $180 a week.

PARIS (Reuters) - Two paparazzi in camouflage gear scuffled with bodyguards of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt after they were found hiding on the grounds of the Hollywood stars' French estate, the couple's security chief said on Friday.

PARIS - It sounds like a scene from "Fight Club."

LONDON (AFP) - Mick Jagger, the snake-hipped, rubber-lipped frontman of the Rolling Stones, celebrates his 65th birthday Saturday but shows no signs of slowing down, despite officially becoming an old age pensioner.

PARIS (AFP) - US jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played alongside such luminaries as Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey and Thelonius Monk, died Friday in France, his agent Helene Manfredi said. He was 80.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Britney Spears is getting more time with her kids. Kevin Federline is getting more money.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Will Britney Spears make a return to MTV's Video Music Awards in September?

Los Angeles (E! Online) - ROCK THE VOTE: Reese Witherspoon, bopping to the music of Kevin Costner and his band during their performance at the Hollywood premiere of Swing Vote.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - UPDATE: As of Friday afternoon, Justin Long's rep still had no comment. However, a source close to the actor says, "There was never a formal casting announcement or closed deal."

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Next year, country music superstar Jessica Simpson will grace us with a dress line, which means now we can finally have an entire outfit—from shoes to handbag to jewelry—made up entirely of the Jessica Simpson Collection!

BANGKOK (AFP) - Actress Mia Farrow Friday joined other prominent women activists to slam Myanmar's ruling junta on its human rights record in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Forget the Bastille, the latest thing to storm in France is Brangelina's château.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Despite rumors to the contrary, Lauren Conrad would like you to know that she does indeed design her clothing line, thankyouverymuch.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Ironically, what Heather Mills could really use right about now is some positive PR.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's French neighbors are not saying merci to the couple bringing increased exposure to the environs. Mercy, maybe.

BARCELONA, Spain - Batman star Christian Bale asked for privacy Thursday in his first comments since allegations he assaulted his mother and sister at a London hotel, saying the incident was personal.

LOS ANGELES - Jurors in Phil Spector's upcoming murder retrial should be allowed to hear testimony about blood evidence and the autopsy of the actress he is accused of shooting, prosecutors argued in court documents.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Mia Farrow said Friday the world should use next month's Olympic Games as a platform to demand that China end its support for Myanmar's junta.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Mark Wahlberg got a rowdy, boy-band reception at San Diego Comic-Con, where he showed up to promote video-game adaptation Max Payne. A surprisingly female crowd—this is a comic book convention, after all—went nuts as he took the stage to talk about his brutal revenge thriller.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - The Dixie Chicks may be playing second fiddle to Martie Maguire for the next few months.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Despite the fact that his famous family has a new reality show in the works, Jack Osbourne knows it's a slow night when the paps are surrounding him.

MASERU (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry, briefly dumped by his girlfriend last year over compromising text messages, was breathing a sigh of relief on Friday after being reunited with a cell phone stolen in Lesotho.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Motherhood must really have changed the artist formerly known as J.Lo.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - • About all those bad marriage rumors? Mariah Carey tells MTV, "It's good. Life is beautiful, and things are going well." That's why she wore her happy skirt.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Perhaps being dubbed "the next Miley Cyrus" isn't such a good thing after all.