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Drew Barrymore Donates $1 Million To Feed School Kids In Kenya March 5, 2008

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Charlie’s Angels‘ actress Drew Barrymore donated $1 million of her own money on Monday to the World Food Programme (WFP) that the U.N. agency said would be used to feed thousands of schoolchildren in Kenya.

Charlie’s Angels‘ Barrymore, 33, a WFP ambassador against hunger, announced her pledge on The Oprah Winfrey Show to kick off the agency’s $3 billion “Fill the Cup” campaign that aims to feed 59 million hungry school children in developing countries for a year.

WFP hopes the United States will be able to donate enough money to feed 10 million of those children.

“I have seen with my own eyes what a difference a simple cup of nutritious porridge can make in a child’s life,” said the “Charlie’s Angels” star, who has traveled to Kenya twice in the past two years for WFP.

“It helps them learn, stay healthy and sets them on track for a bright future. I urge everyone — everywhere — to help WFP ‘Fill the Cup’ for hungry children, and make hunger history,” she said in a statement released by the agency.

Barrymore, who gained fame as a child star in the film “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” is the eighth-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, according to The Hollywood Reporter, earning more than $10 million a movie.

Josette Sheeran, WFP’s executive director, said $50 “fills a child’s cup for a year” and called on people to donate through the Web site www.wfp.org.

The organization said last year it provided more than 20 million school children with a daily cup of porridge, rice or beans and also gave many girls a monthly ration to take home to their families. It said up to 70 percent of its food used for school meals is bought from farmers in developing countries.

Jennifer Lopez Gives Birth To Twins February 25, 2008

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Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl - on Friday morning after one of pop music’s most closely-watched pregnancies.

The babies were born at 12.45am local time (5.45am UK time) on Long Island, New York State.

Lopez, 39, and husband Marc Anthony, 38, married in 2004. The twins are her first children, and his third and fourth.

Lopez’s publicist Simon Fields said: “Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon.”

Lopez confirmed her pregnancy at a Miami concert in November, ending months of speculation.

Her father, David Lopez, told a TV station earlier this month that she was expecting twins.

Jennifer Lopez Names Her Unborn Twins Max And Emme ? February 22, 2008

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The Do It Well singer and her husband Marc Anthony are said to have chosen Baby Names for their son and daughter after J.Lo’s mother Guadalupe was seen buying engraved gold bracelets in New York.

A source told America’s Star magazine: “The day before J.Lo’s baby shower, Guadalupe picked up two gold-rope baby ID bracelets engraved with the Baby Names Max and Emme from a jewellers in New York.” Meanwhile, the couple have denied J.Lo went into labour yesterday.

Marc’s representative said: “It’s not true. We have been getting the same phone calls since last week. Everybody figures it is happening around now and they are hoping they will be right.”

The 38-year-old Play singer is expected to check into New York’s North Shore University Medical Center, in Manhasset, to give birth next month.

The hospital has reportedly prepared a luxury suite for the star, complete with soft furnishings, wooden flooring and giant flat screen TVs.

A source said: “The J.Lo room is a little more lavish than what you find in the average maternity ward.”

Brad Worries About His Kids December 11, 2007

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Brad Pitt

Hot dad Brad Pitt has deep concerns about his children. He said recently on Larry King that nearly every day reporters swarm about his small children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 3; Zarah, 2; and Shiloh, 17 months.

“They call out my kids’ names and shove cameras in their faces, and I really believe there should be laws against that. I mean, my kids believe that any time you go outside the house there is just a wall of photographers and people that take their picture. That is their view of the world, and I worry about the effect it will have on them.”
He has even called for the passage of laws to protect the children of celebrities from overzealous paparazzi.

Shouldn’t he get his kids ready for what’s in store their whole lifetime?