‘Desperate’ Pitt wants to be single from Jolie!

Brad Pitt desperately wants to leave Angelina Jolie and family life, it has emerged.

The Hollywood star, who raises 6 children with the stunner, apparently wants to live life as a bachelor, reports The Daily Telegraph.

"He can’t let go of his bachelor lifestyle," a source told Britain’s Now magazine.

"He’s even looking at luxury flats in the Hollywood Hills to escape the kids and Ange,” the source added.

According to the source, it’s the couple’s PR machine which is keeping them together.

"Ange and her manager Geyer Kosinski carefully control her image,” explains the source.

"When Brad dumped Jen, to stop Ange looking like the scarlet woman she was flown to Pakistan and pictured helping refugees.

"When she sold the first photos of the twins to People magazine, it had to highlight her missionary work. She sometimes asks Brad what he thinks, but he’s mostly seen and not heard,” the insider added.

Most 'Wanted' Salman Khan is a true-blue cosmopolitan

Bollywood’s original heartbreaker kid Salman Khan may be notorious for his explosive mood swings and string of romantic liaisons with B-town hotties, but when it comes to religion, the hunk of an actor believes in one God.

According to latest Bollywood news, Salman is a firm believer in Lord Ganesh inspite of being a Muslim. With his father (Salim Khan) a Muslim, first mother (Salma) a Maharashtrian Brahmin and second (Helen) being a devout Catholic, the actor celebrates Ganpati, Christmas, Eid and Diwali with equal fervour.

This year, with Ganesh Utsav and Ramadan falling in the same month, the Sallu ‘Khandaan’ is all set to celebrate the auspicious festivals and hold Iftaars as well as Ganpati aarti.

While talking to a news daily, when enquired about his religious views, Salman said, “My house is a place for all kinds of worship. God is one, the route we take to connect with Him is different, par manzil toh ek hai .” The actor was truly philosophical when he said, “He has given me everything... how much more greedy should I become.”

While talking about his latest release, ‘Wanted’ especially its Ganesh Utsav song ‘Jalwa’, Salman was all praises. The song was choreographed by Prabhudeva and Rajiv Surti and was shot over ten days with two hundred dancers. He said, “It’s really amazing to see the dance steps I have done. I can’t believe that it’s me in the song, dancing like this, yakeen hi nahin hota ki aisa bhi kuch ho sakta hai ! Prabhu is also in this song. As per my dancing capacity, what I’ve done is great, but itna bhi great nahin as compared to Prabhu!”

Ajay Devgan develops unique art of wooing Bipasha

Trust Ajay Devgan to come up with something new every time. The actor has left no stone unturned for his new film ‘All The Best’. But what’s interesting is his unique style of wooing leading lady Bipasha Basu in the film.

According to latest news, Ajay proposes Bipasha in a suspended mid air car, eight feet above the ground! That breathtaking stunt took a lot of guts and planning to be perfectly executed.

According to a source, ``It was something completely different from what audiences would ever get to see. Not only did the car have to be suspended from mid air and Ajay had to balance his weight, we had to take all the precautionary measures as Bipasha was standing below the car and nothing could go wrong. To add to it, it had to look completely romantic. It took us two days to plan and an entire day to shoot.``

Awesome is the only word we can think of!

Raj Babbar gets Congress ticket for Uttar Pradesh by-poll

The Congress Saturday nominated Bollywood veteran Raj Babbar to contest the Lok Sabha by-election from Ferozabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

"The Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the candidature of Raj Babbar for the forthcoming by-election to the Lok Sabha from Ferozabad," a party release said.

Raj Babbar joined Congress after being expelled from the Samajwadi Party in 2006. He had contested April-May Lok Sabha polls from Fatehpur Sikri in Uttar Pradesh but lost to Seema Upadhyay of the Bahujan Samaj Party.

By-elections will be held in Ferozabad after sitting MP Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party vacated the seat. Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, resigned as he had also won from Kannauj.

Courtney Love fires back at libel case

Courtney Love has fired back at a fashion designer whom she once called a ‘nasty lying hosebag thief’ on Twitter.Dawn Simorangkir, the Austin, Texas, fashion designer, who runs the Boudoir Queen label, sued Kurt Cobain``s widow for libel last May after Love called the designer a prostitute and a drug addict on her Twitter and MySpace pages, as well as in the comments section of online marketplace Etsy.com.

Simorangkir claimed Love slimed her because she charged Love for clothes the rocker thought she was getting for free.

Now, Keith Fink, a lawyer for Love, has filed a motion in LA Superior Court to toss Simorangkir`s suit, reports the New York Post.

In court papers, Love has claimed that Simorangkir actually stole two bags of clothing from her while visiting Love at the Chateau Marmont, and sold off to third parties "hundreds of thousands of dollars" worth of raw materials Love had provided her.

Love has also claimed that Simorangkir "repeatedly" asked her to "partake in and procure cocaine" with her, and that she told Love she’d once worked as a call girl in California.

Fink defended Love’s online rants saying: "Alternative mediums such as Twitter and personal Web blogs enjoy the same First Amendment protection as do newspapers, television and radio. It is important that this cherished right not be marginalized when speech is communicated via the Internet. Ms. Cobain enjoys using Twitter and expressing her views . . . to her fans and those who are interested in following what she has to say."

Simorangkir’s lawyer said: "If you know Courtney, you know what’s going on here. It certainly doesn``t behoove her to engage in a credibility battle. Quite frankly, I cannot wait to get this case in front of a jury. This motion is a loser."

Lily Allen confirms new romance with contractor Sam Cooper

British pop star Lily Allen has gone public with her romance and confirmed that she’s going out with contractor Sam Cooper.

The couple were spotted getting cosy publicly at the final Ashes cricket test at the Kennington Oval in London.

Recently Allen also put up posts on her Twitter.com blog to clear that Cooper was a decorator and not a painter as reported by some sections of the media, reports The Sun.

Allen has been single after her split with art dealer Jay Jopling early this year. She has dated Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons and record executive Seb Chew earlier.

Hayden Panettiere dating Lindsay Lohan’s ex?

Heroes star Hayden Panettiere may be dating Lindsay Lohan’s ex flame Harry Morton.

The pair was spotted holding hands and laughing, while strolling along the shore.

The actress was apparently dressed casually in a pair of jeans and woollen jacket, reports a news daily.

Harry is the son of Hard Rock Cafe co-founder Peter Morton.

He had a fling with Lohan in 2006 before she dumped him for on-off lesbian lover Samantha Ronson.

Morton has also been linked to Rod Stewart`s daughter Kimberly in the past.

Shah Rukh’s detention had an underworld twist?

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s detention issue is apparently turning out to be nothing less than a Bollywood potboiler. The latest angle to the same suggests that the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) might have detained Khan at the Newark Liberty International Airport last week because the organisers of his show in the US were apparently under US scrutiny.

According to reports, the organisers of the show SRK had gone to attend were not above the watermarks of controversies, including underworld links. Farhath Hussain, the promoter of the show, who is a businessman from London, as well his brother Altaf Hussain, a Chicago-based businessman who runs ‘Lake County South Asian Entertainment Inc’ are under US suspicion on counts of tax evasion and underworld links, as suggested by a news daily.

The newspaper report goes on to say that there are other promoters too along with Lake County South Asian Entertainment Inc and some of them are on the radar of authorities in the US, UK and India. It was this piece of information on the radar that forced the CBP to ask Khan to step aside for detailed questioning. It can be said that this is probably why the CPB refused to let go Khan despite the representatives of the organisers of the show were standing in to acknowledge the superstar`s identity and the status he enjoys in India.

Now, if one is to believe this version, then all of other versions hinting at Khan being a `victim` of racial profiling will be null and void.

Renee Zellweger compares motherhood to "slavery"

Actress Renee Zellweger is likely to have second thoughts on starting a family and having kids after a nightmarish babysitting session with her brother’s kids.

The 40-year-old single beauty said an evening with her nephew and niece drained her out completely.

A news daily quoted her as saying: "My brother has two children now, so I`ve been playing aunt Renee. They`re two and four. It`s chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The cool thing about being an aunt is like, I can leave. No offence to my big brother Drew, but that is slavery. I dare you to take a shower. You can`t do anything unless they let you. It`s a dictatorship. They`re little dictators in their crib."

Now, Zellweger is unsure if she wants to be a full-time mum.

"Every now and then I`ll step up and say, `You know what, everybody sleep in, because you guys need some sleep and aunt Renee is going to take charge. I`ve got it, I`ve got it.` I so didn`t have it," she adds.

Lindsay’s attention dilemma

Actress Lindsay Lohan seems puzzled over whether to seek media attention or not.

The ‘Mean Girls’ star had written on her Twitter page that she`d be shopping at Ina on Prince Street a day before.

But after finding a pack of paparazzi outside the store the next day, the actress tried to avoid them, reports a news daily.

She was heard complaining to friends, "Why are there all these people here?"

Once entering the store, Lohan got managers to put up paper in the windows to thwart photographers before ordering pizza and buying clothes for herself, sister Ali and friends.

Lindsay Lohan, dad patch up

Actress Lindsay Lohan’s father Michael insists that he has finally made up with his estranged daughter.The ‘Mean Girls’ star and her father have been warring ever since Michael publicly criticised her relationship with Samantha Ronson and blamed her for encouraging Lindsay`s wild partying ways.

"I had a talk with Samantha and I was wrong, I jumped the gun. I realised that all the things I`d heard about the drugs and the partying were a lie,” he was quoted as saying

"I mean, she knows I`m Christian and there are certain things I don`t agree with. Maybe she was afraid that I would look at their relationship in the wrong way. But that`s not for me to judge.

“If my daughter`s healthy and happy and in a good relationship, I`m happy for her,” he added.

Kerry Katona to be quizzed by cops

Drug scandal hit Kerry Katona will be questioned by cops on Monday.Although Katona has remained silent after returning from a holiday in Tenerife with husband Mark Croft, she will have to explain the covert filming of her coke snorting video to the cops.

The Sun quoted a pal as saying: "She has been totally stressed out on this holiday.

"She has told her inner circle of friends that she doesn’t want police at her house because she doesn’t want her kids to see them.

"But she has resigned herself to the fact that she has a lot of explaining to do. It has been just about the worst week of her life."

Katona could also face a legal standoff with ex-hubby Brian McFadden over their kids’ custody, Molly, seven, and Lilly-Sue, six.

It is believed the former Westlife star may soon file a custody suit.

A source said: "Nothing has happened yet, it depends on what goes on when he gets to England."

Gorgeous Katrina Kaif floored by a die-hard young fan

Bollywood beauty Katrina Kaif got a little more attention than she bargained for while interacting with fans at the Indian Independence Day parade in Houston.A boy actually knocked her down while trying to reach out to her.

"Yes I was knocked off my feet. And I did fall. And considering it was a 12-year-old boy half my size, it did kinda take me by surprise. But I didn`t mind at all. I guess it showed the force of his love for me," said Katrina.

The actress is quite sporting and doesn`t mind fans getting close...as long as they don`t get personal.

"When you go for these fan interactions you can`t be finicky about people getting too close and not giving you space, etc etc. They do want to shake hands, get themselves clicked, sign papers. I love to mingle with them. And I did so to my heart`s content in Houston and Chicago. So what if some of them got over-excited? Shows how much they love me," she said.

Katrina, who has given hits like "Singh is Kinng" and "New York", loves the interactive spirit at NRI gatherings and thinks a direct one-on-one with fans is a truly exhilarating experience.

"There were kids and there were old people. They all reached out," the star said.

MJ found sex difficult, says long-term pal

Mark Lester, the long-term friend of Michael Jackson, has said that the King of Pop confided in him about his "difficult" sex life.

Lester made the revelation while opening up about his decision to donate his sperm to the superstar. He claims he could be the biological father of Jackson`s 11-year-old daughter Paris.

The former child star claims that the singer wanted his pal to donate sperm, because he was "nervous" about sex and found it "difficult", reports a news daily.

He tells US TV show Today, "We had conversations on the telephone and Michael was very shy when it came to women and he confided in me that he found it very difficult to actually do the sexual act. He knew I had three, at the time, lovely girls (daughters), so I jokingly said, `Michael if you don`t want to do it, why don`t I do it for you.`"

"(I don`t know) whether he just wanted to increase the chances of the artificial insemination, but he just said he was very, very nervous and said he wasn`t up to going through with the act."

MJ death probe: Police raid his regular Beverly Hills pharmacy

Cops have raided a pharmacy in Beverly Hills, where Michael Jackson was a regular, searching for any evidence of "improper dispensing of controlled substances".Jackson is believed to have received Demerol from Mickey Fine pharmacy, reports The Sun.

Dr Arnold Klein and other doctors who attended to Jackson also used the store frequently.

Meanwhile, a court has ruled that a case against the king of pop over a family reunion will still go on.

AllGood Entertainment had filed the lawsuit worth 24 million pounds but the company will have to sue Jackson`s estate now.

The firm claims he had agreed not to do any gigs before next July`s show - and broke the deal by planning 50 concerts at London`s 02. The trial is set for October 2010.

Meanwhile, Jackson`s burial has been postponed five days so that his family can "get things in order".

SC declines urgent hearing to supermodel`s husband

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to accord an urgent hearing to the plea of the estranged British husband of yesteryear`s supermodel Ujjwala Raut against cancellation of his coveted Person of Indian Origin card and his impending deportation.A bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam slated the hearing of Craig Maxwell`s plea for Tuesday.

Appearing for Maxwell, advocate Devdatt Kamat pleaded to the bench that his client, presently in hiding, runs the risk of being caught and deported to London following cancellation of his PIO card by the central government Aug 10.

Kamat told the court that Maxwell had approached the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court earlier, but even it refused to accord an urgent hearing to his plea and slated the matter for further hearing Aug 28.

The apex court bench, however, refused to accord an urgent hearing to Maxwell`s plea, saying he has not yet surrendered to the authorities. In his lawsuit, Maxwell, a British national residing in Goa, sought that the court ask the central government take no steps to deport him and restore his PIO card.

Maxwell said he married the supermodel in New York in 2002 and since his wife, being a supermodel, was reluctant to give up her career, he gave up his own business of film production so he could take care of their daughter Ksha, born to them June 2005.

He told the court that his marriage with Raut eventually turned sour with his wife moving a Mumbai family court for divorce in 2008. He alleged she "being an extremely influential and powerful person", has created havoc in his life by lodging false complaints against him.

He claimed Raut was out to exercise all her influence at her command to throw him out of India and it was she who got his PIO card cancelled by misusing her influence with bureaucrats.

Shania Twain plans surprise for fans on birthday

Country queen Shania Twain has planned a big surprise for her fans on her birthday next week.The `You are Still the One` hitmaker, who will be turning 44, has promised to give her fans a "special gift" in a video posted on her website, reported Contactmusic.

The video clip, shot in the garden of Twain`s home in Switzerland, has her thanking all her fans for remembering her

son Eja`s eighth birthday, before giving hints about the surprise.

"Hi everyone, Shania here. First to start off, I want to thank you for all the beautiful birthday wishes for Eja`s birthday. Secondly, if you haven`t already seen on my website for August 28 on my birthday, I will be giving you a small gift of thanks for all of your support over the last year...

You`ve been really wonderful, thank you so much," she says in the video.

The "gift" is thought to be a "very personal travelogue" documenting Shania`s 2008 split from her husband, producer Robert `Mutt` Lange, who reportedly had an affair with her best friend.

"It`s not new music, but it`s a piece that Shania put together of what she`s been doing for the last year. It`s definitely a totally new side of Shania that no one`s ever seen," a source said.

Twain is also going to appear on TV later this month as a

guest judge on `American Idol` following the exit of Paula

Abdul.

GaGa wants to have `fun` with sexy `Take That` members!

Singer Lady GaGa thinks that all the members of the US-based band `Take Tha`t are very sexy and would love to have a good time with each one of them.

The band consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange.

"They all are very sexy and I like them very much. I am a single girl now and I would like to have a good time with them," a news website quoted Lady GaGa as saying.

I don't want to work with Kareena: Saif Ali Khan

Known for his lover-boy image owing to his fixation with Kareena Kapoor, dishy Saif Ali Khan is often rumoured to have pushed filmmakers into casting his ladylove.

The actor, who had face flak from co-star Deepika for promoting his arm-candy Bebo during the promotion of his maiden production ‘Love Aaj Kal’, has now decided to set the record straight as he states he only wants to work with his lady ‘once in a while’.

Even though the actor turned producer has cast Kareena in his next production venture ‘Agent Vinod’, he maintains that the casting was solely on credentials and his heart had nothing to do with it. Besides coming together in Rensil D’Silva’s ‘Kurban’ the two are also said to be cast in ‘Race 2’-a speculation Saif has denied.

Out to smash all baseless speculations, Saif said, "I am not doing ‘Race 2’ with Kareena. The script is still being written and then the cast will be selected.”

As for working with other actors, Chote Nawab said, “We have to be very clear about this thing. It is a profession, and though Bebo and I personally involved but professionally we are not stupid. I want to work with her, once in a while. I mean there is so much Saif-Kareena going on even off-screen that no good director will be least interested in casting us. Which I why I am glad that ‘Kurbaan’ is not your regular love story. And we are not doing the regular kind of things in it."

Well, that should set the record straight!