Whitney Houston’s body has returned to Newark, N.J., where a funeral is expected to be held for the late pop star some time this week, according to TMZ. Her remains were reportedly flown from Los Angeles to Newark late Monday night aboard Tyler Perry’s private jet. “Tyler Perry rushed to the L.A. hospital Saturday as soon as he heard about Whitney’s death and immediately offered up his private plane to the family,” a source tells the Web site. Several sources tell the Associated Press that Newark’s Whigham Funeral Home has been making funeral arrangements for the singer. “Houston’s family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and funeral Friday at Newark’s Prudential Center, an arena that hosts college and professional sport events and seats about 18,000 people.”
Lindsay Lohan’s run of bad luck apparently extends to her selection of a moving company, as the folks hired to haul her possessions away from her recently vacated Venice Beach home are reportedly now selling photos of Lohan’s belongings, according to Hollyscoop. Worse than that, the company is also said to be looking to sell information about where the acterss plans to move and what storage facility she is currently using for her stuff.
Despite all the outside focus on her romantic fortunes, Jennifer Aniston says she isn’t interested in attaining the “picture-perfect” life. “I think that’s sort of cliché, isn’t it? Like, if you want to be happy, you should have the house, the husband, the kids,” Aniston tells GQ magazine. “Kids are messy!” As for what might happen family-wise with boyfriend Justin Theroux? “I still kind of go with. If it happens, it happens,” she says. “I’m calm and peaceful with whatever the plan is. It’s not something where I’m going, ‘I gotta have a kid!’”
After years of dodging questions about his personal life, “White Collar” star Matthew Bomer has come out of the closet, thanking his partner, Simon Halls, and the children they have together during an acceptance speech at the Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards, accoring to People magazine. “I’d really especially like to thank my beautiful family: Simon, Kit, Walker, Henry,” Bomer said. “Thank you for teaching me what unconditional love is. You will always be my proudest accomplishment.”
Shakira had a rather close encounter with nature while on vacation. I was attacked by a sea lion!” the Colombian pop star writes on her Facebook page. “This afternoon I happened to see some sea lions and seals. I thought to myself how cute they were so I decided to get a bit closer than all of the other tourists and went down to a rock trying to pet them and doing baby talk. Suddenly, one of them jumped out of the water so fast and impetuously that it got about one foot away from me, looked me in the eye, roared in fury and tried to bite me.” After the incident, the singer surmised that the sea lion had mistook her BlackBerry for a fish.
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