We’ve all seen the photos of Nicole’s telltale “baby bumps,” and finally the rumors are CONFIRMED! Numerous insiders, close friend Mischa Barton and mom, Brenda were told in early May, after Nicole received positive results from a home pregnancy tests. It has been determined Nicole is 12 weeks pregnant with Joel Madden (Good Charlette’s front man) It has been said that Madden, along with twin bro Benji, have been spotted engagement ring shopping! Unfortunately, its not all wedding bells and baby booties for Richie. Nicole faces up to 90 days of jail time because of a previous DUI conviction. Nicole will see the judge on July 11th, facing DUI charges from the December 2006 arrest. Questions have arose regarding Richie’s ever changing weight, will it affect the baby? How will she handle jail if she’s is sentenced? Keep posted as we watch this baby grow, wait for Joel and Nicole to set the date, and find the conclusion to Nicole’s jailbird fate!

Bee Shaffer’s famous mother kindled her love of fashion, and journalism, discovers Melissa Whitworth

Like any teenage girl, I love clothes,” says Bee Shaffer. “But, I am very lucky - I get to do many things that a normal girl wouldn’t.”

Bee Shaffer: ‘I don’t always want to be seen as my mother’s daughter, I don’t want to get a job because of who she is’

Most teenage girls don’t get to wear Chanel couture, for example - nor do they have their portraits taken by Mario Testino, Diana, Princess of Wales’s favourite photographer. But, as the daughter of American Vogue editor Anna Wintour - the most powerful woman in fashion - Shaffer is in a unique position; the world’s top designers come to her.

In her short career as her mother’s heir apparent - she turned 18 this summer - Shaffer has worn elaborate gowns by the admired Rochas designer, Olivier Theyskens, and attended the famed Crillon debutante ball in Paris. She is often seen sitting next to her mother in the front row of fashion shows.

Next week, she will follow her mother into journalism by writing a regular column for The Daily Telegraph’s style pages, reporting from the world’s most fashionable city and sharing her insights, observations and gossip.

On the day of our interview in Manhattan, Shaffer is wearing a pretty green printed dress by Marc Jacobs and flat, gold Manolo Blahnik sandals. “I am a dress addict,” she says of her own style. “They suit my body shape.”

Her favourite designers - and tips for the future - include Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen whom she knew before he became famous, up-and-comer Derek Lam, LA-based duo Libertine and Doo Ri, a New York designer who makes pretty, simple dresses. Bee’s ability to spot talented young designers has not gone unnoticed by fashion insiders. She inherently understands the industry, they say.

“Bee is really able to wear the clothes,” says Theyskens. “She has a very good sense of the design and feel of the clothes. She has a neo-classical beauty and is very charismatic. Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.”

“She is a great girl,” says designer Oscar de la Renta, a long-time friend of Wintour, who has known Shaffer since she was a baby. “It is very rare that you find a child who will inherit a mother’s fashion taste and abilities - but she has it all.”

“She has had the most fabulous training from her mother, from whom I learned a few things myself,” says Testino.

High praise, indeed. But what a burden of expectations to lay on such young shoulders. Does she ever grow tired of being compared to her mother?

“I don’t feel it at all when I am with my friends,” says Shaffer (whose real name is Katherine; “Bee” is a childhood nickname). “But when I go to a fashion show, or an event, I understand that the only reason I am going is because I’m Anna Wintour’s daughter and it can be frustrating. I don’t always want to be seen as my mother’s daughter, I don’t want to get a job because of who she is. I don’t want to be 30 years old asking, ‘Mum, can you get me an interview?’ I want to break away from that as much as I can.”

Shaffer has just begun a liberal arts degree at New York’s ivy league Columbia University - American universities don’t ask students to specialise until they are in their second year - and plans to forge her own path into journalism, perhaps veering away from the fashion industry one day. Whichever direction she chooses, she is perfectly poised to take the New York media and fashion industries by storm.

Recently, Shaffer worked at Teen Vogue, American Vogue’s little sister, and helped to compile the magazine’s annual Hollywood issue. The magazine’s entertainment editor, Nicole Vecchiarelli, says: “Bee knows a great deal about movies, music and especially theatre. It is obvious she has journalism in her blood. She has really strong instincts that are 100 per cent in the right direction.”

Shaffer’s father, David, is a child psychiatrist in New York, but most members of her family made their names on Fleet Street. Her grandfather was the legendary Charles Wintour, who edited the Evening Standard for 20 years. Her uncle, Patrick Wintour, is a political correspondent for the Guardian and her aunt, Rachel Sylvester, writes for this newspaper. Shaffer’s brother, Charlie, is studying at Oxford where he writes for one of the university’s magazines, Isis.

“I wouldn’t say that journalism is in my blood, exactly,” she says, “but when you are exposed to something so much, you take an interest in it.”

Shaffer was born in London and moved to New York when she was six weeks old after her mother transferred from British Vogue to American House & Garden. A year later, Wintour took over at American Vogue, which she has edited for 17 years. Shaffer grew up in SoHo and attended the prestigious all-girls private school Spence, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, whose alumni includes Gwyneth Paltrow.

Wearing her mother’s Prada dress, after she and her friends were ushers at Helmut Newton’s memorial service in Paris in 2004

“It was definitely very competitive academically,” Shaffer says of her 10 years at Spence. “There were no boys around; so we would fight over grades. As much as I loved all the girls there, they live in this Upper East Side bubble, and I was ready to get out of that.”

She chose to stay in New York to attend university because she couldn’t imagine living away from the big smoke, she says. “I am not a small-town sort of girl. I am definitely not an outdoorsy, let’s-go-hiking type of person. A lot of people say, ‘I really need to get out of the city,’ and I always think, ‘Why do you need to do that?’ There’s so much that you can’t do here when you are younger - as you get older it is going to be such a different experience.”

Growing up with the world’s best dressing-up box has been a great perk, she says, and she counts her mother as one of her style icons. “She always looks amazing - it is annoying how good she looks.

“My mother is very generous. She lets me borrow whatever I want. She has some fantastic coats. I can’t quite fit into my mother’s clothes, she is tiny, but I do borrow her shoes - we are the same shoe size, which is fantastic. She has cupboards full of amazing shoes.”

Shaffer is acutely aware of how lucky she is, but is at pains to downplay the influence her famous mother wields. “It is weird when you go out with her and you hear photographers calling, ‘Anna, Anna, Anna’,” she admits. “But I don’t think of her as being famous.

“So much stuff is said about her - that she is this cold, mean person. But it is such a myth to me. She just comes into the office and she has a goal: she wants to produce a great magazine, which I think she does. You have to work very hard to do that and she is very direct about what she wants. I don’t think that makes her ‘Nuclear Wintour’ or whatever they call her.”

• Bee Shaffer’s new Style column begins next Wednesday

Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney’s sister, is pregnant, the 16-year-old told OK! magazine. The father is her longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge, she said. “It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected,” Jamie Lynn Spears, who is 12 weeks along in her pregnancy, told the magazine for its new issue, which hits stands this week.


“I was in complete and total shock, and so was he,” she said. “As soon as I found out for sure from the doctor, I took two weeks to myself where I didn’t tell anybody. Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone’s opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me.”

According to the interview, Jamie Lynn confirmed the pregnancy through a home test. She later paid a visit to the doctor, who corroborated the news. She said she revealed the news to her parents shortly before Thanksgiving.

Jamie Lynn said that her mother, Lynne Spears, “was very upset because it wasn’t what she expected at all. A week after, she had time to cope with it and became very supportive.” Lynne Spears also commented on the news, saying, “I didn’t believe it because Jamie Lynn’s always been so conscientious. She’s never late for her curfew. I was in shock. I mean, this is my 16-year-old baby.”

Jamie Lynn, a high school junior, reportedly plans to raise the baby in Louisiana, her home state, “so it can have a normal family life.” In regards to the third season of her Nickelodeon show, “Zoey 101,” which wraps January 4, Jamie Lynn said: “I haven’t spoken to [Nickelodeon] personally, but they have always been so great to me over the past years and have given me so many opportunities.” The show is slated to start back up again in February, and fourth-season filming is already done.

Nickelodeon issued a statement Tuesday afternoon (December 18), saying, “We respect Jamie Lynn’s decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn’s well being.”

When the magazine reportedly asked her about the message her pregnancy might send to young people, she replied, “I definitely don’t think it’s something you should do; it’s better to wait. But I can’t be judgmental because it’s a position I put myself in.”

Lynne Spears told OK! that her daughter had been dating Casey Aldridge for years. But in an Associated Press interview conducted shortly before Thanksgiving, Jamie Lynn said she did not have a steady boyfriend. “I kind of just keep my options open,” she told AP. “I have a bunch of friends that I always hang out with, a bunch of guy friends.” In the OK! interview, Jamie Lynn said she had met Aldridge at church.

Aldridge’s mother, Joyce, spoke with TMZ about the pregnancy, saying, “We are aware of the recent interview regarding her and being pregnant, and we are in agreement with everything that was said by Jamie Lynn about the situation … everything is fine. … Casey will address all of this when it is time.”

TMZ also reports that a source said Britney had not been aware of the pregnancy before the news broke wide Tuesday.

What do you think about Jamie Lynn’s news? Share your thoughts below.

Pop star has missed four previous deposition dates; judge moves next custody hearing to February. 


Kevin Federline’s attorney is hoping that the fifth time is the charm.

After failing to get Britney Spears to show up for a deposition four previous times in the singer’s ongoing custody battle with ex-husband Federline, attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan convinced Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon to order Spears to be deposed in the case in January.

TMZ reports that Gordon ordered Spears to submit to a deposition with Kaplan during the first week of January, though the exact date has not yet been announced. Gordon also postponed a planned custody hearing that had been set to take place January 23, at which Spears’ lawyers were expected to petition the court to reinstate her custody rights. If Spears does show up for the January deposition, the next hearing in the custody case will not take place until February 19, which will give Kaplan time to review Spears’ testimony about her fitness as a parent. Neither Spears nor Federline were in court for Tuesday’s (December 18) ruling.

At the emergency custody hearing on Tuesday, Kaplan also asked Gordon to impose sanctions on Spears in an attempt to “remedy” her deposition-ducking tendencies, which include her failure to appear for a deposition on Wednesday. Spears reportedly called in sick, citing anxiety, though various media reports had her out on the town in Los Angeles that same night visiting gas stations and a hotel.

Due to the delay in the proceedings, Federline will retain primary custody of 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James, while Spears can have court-monitored weekly visits with the boys but will not be allowed to drive with them in light of a series of recent auto-related mishaps.

One of the requests Kaplan reportedly made during the half-hour meeting is that Spears not be allowed to make any requests to change the current custody status until she has been deposed. The couple will reportedly stick to their previously arranged holiday schedule, during which the boys will split Christmas Day between their two parents, and, barring any subsequent drama, the attorneys for each side are expected back in court February 1.

Nicole Richie will have to decide Wednesday whether to accept a plea deal offered by prosecutors in her DUI case, according to sources. Richie was not required to attend the court hearing because she faces a misdemeanor charge. Her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, was expected to appear on behalf of Nicole and either accept or reject the plea deal, said Allan Parachini, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Terms of the deal were not made available and the district attorney’s office declined to comment. A phone call and an e-mail message left for Chapman Holley were not immediately returned. On Tuesday, the attorney asked Superior Court Commissioner Steven K. Lubell to delay the trial because one of her witnesses would not be available until Aug. 5. The commissioner told her to submit motions on Wednesday, when Richie’s trial was originally scheduled to start.

Richie, 25, was arrested early on Dec. 11 after witnesses reported seeing her SUV headed the wrong way on a freeway in Burbank. She allegedly failed a field sobriety test and authorities said she told them she had smoked marijuana and taken a prescription painkiller. No drugs were found on her or in the vehicle. She pleaded not guilty in February to misdemeanor DUI Charge. In addition to the single count, the case contains an allegation that Richie had a prior misdemeanor DUI conviction in June 2003. The California Vehicle Code says that if convicted of DUI twice within 10 years, a person can be sentenced to between 90 days and a year in jail and have driving privileges suspended. Her legal problems come amid reports that she is pregnant. Her publicist has not answered repeated telephone and e-mail messages from The Associated Press. Her case also comes on the heels of Paris Hilton’s June 26 release from jail. Hilton, Richie’s partying pal and co-star in TV’s “The Simple Life,” spent about 23 days in custody for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. Paris Hilton’s case drew a firestorm of criticism, with some saying she received preferential treatment when she was initially given an early release to home confinement and others arguing the judge was too harsh and made Paris Hilton an example by sending her to jail. Some observers believe Richie could help herself by attending the trial. She also might want to avoid being late to court hearings like Paris Hilton was.
“Anything that appears humble before the court is wise,” said Hollywood publicist Michael Levine. “I think there’s a backlash afoot because of the Paris Hilton trial and anything to nullify it would be a good idea.” Yeah no kidding right? Stay tuned for more Juicy Celebrity News!

We’ve all seen the photos of Nicole’s telltale “baby bumps,” and finally the rumors are CONFIRMED! Numerous insiders, close friend Mischa Barton and mom, Brenda were told in early

May, after Nicole received positive results from a home pregnancy tests. It has been determined Nicole is 12 weeks pregnant with Joel Madden (Good Charlette’s front man) It has been said that Madden, along with twin bro Benji, have been spotted engagement ring shopping! Unfortunately, its not all wedding bells and baby booties for Richie. Nicole faces up to 90 days of jail time because of a previous DUI conviction. Nicole will see the judge on July 11th, facing DUI charges from the December 2006 arrest. Questions have arose regarding Richie’s ever changing weight, will it affect the baby? How will she handle jail if she’s is sentenced? Keep posted as we watch this baby grow, wait for Joel and Nicole to set the date, and find the conclusion to Nicole’s jailbird fate!