CHARLIZE THERON is helping turn her native South Africa into a soccer Mecca in honour of the upcoming World Cup.
The soccer tournament will be hosted by South Africa next year (10) and the Oscar winner can't wait to be a part of the celebration.
Theron's Africa Outreach charity is raising cash to build soccer fields all over Africa, so rural kids will be able to kick a ball about.
She says, "I love soccer and it's great for Africa that we're finally hosting it (World Cup). We're so proud.
Oprah Winfrey will tape a holiday-season interview with President Obama next week for an ABC Christmas special.
It'll be Winfrey's first sitdown with Obama since he took office, after interviewing First Lady Michelle Obama last week for her daytime talk show.
Just as Winfrey campaigned for Obama in 2007, drawing huge crowds in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, the political question will be whether such a high-profile special will provide a boost to the president in the face of declining poll numbers.
Two months after the publication of her memoirs and following the startling claim that she had an incestuous relationship with her father, John Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips told Access Hollywood’s Nancy O’Dell that she won’t be home for the holidays.
“I’ve been uninvited to the family Thanksgiving,” she said, explaining that her claims have caused a rift between her and her family.
“I can’t make them come back. They have to come back on their own,” she said.
Stepmother Michelle Phillips has been particularly vocal in supporting her former husband, previously stating, “If these accusations were going to be made, they should have been made while John was alive.”
Lindsay Lohan is coming home for the holidays – and her family is putting her to work!
Although Lindsay usually gets VIP treatment, while in Long Island, N.Y., with her family – including mom Dina, sister Ali, and two brothers – the Mean Girls actress will be busy in the kitchen.
"Lindsay is making the garlic mashed potatoes. They are amazing!" Dina Lohan told PEOPLE while taking a break from serving a Thanksgiving lunch to autistic and special needs community members at the Harbor Links Country Club in Long Island, N.Y. on Tuesday.
With her private life and public persona firmly back on track and a successful world tour still going strong after long eight months, pop princess Britney Spears is said to be happy, healthy and ready to take her next big step — a walk down the aisle with ever-present manager-boyfriend Jason Trawick.
“Britney said she does not have a doubt in her mind that she wants to spend the rest of her life with Jason,” one insider revealed to OK! magazine. “She has already discussed marriage with him, and they are both excited about a romantic wedding.”
Well, that mutual excitement part is where opinions differ. While a News.com.au report supports the case for the singer’s enthusiasm, it portrays Trawick as a man with no interest in hearing wedding bells any time soon.
They have rather nice suites at the Ritz-Carlton in New York. The bed linen is French, with a 400 thread count, the baths are oversized and marble, the sofas are covered in glazed yellow chintz and the cream walls have gilded mouldings.
To stay in one of the nicer ones costs around £2,840 a night. But, much as Susan Boyle was swept away by the particular romance of New York in the winter - those clear blue skies, the pale towers rising over Central Park - she is glad to be home again.
Professionally, the trip could not have been more of a success - she has America in the palm of her hand, and her debut album, I Dreamed A Dream, is on course to sell 500,000 copies in its first week of release.














