Madonna's husband gives up Kabbalah

London, June 27 (IANS) Pop diva Madonna's husband Guy Ritchie has given up on Kabbalah and it is expected to put further strain on their marriage.

Thesun.co.uk reports that Madonna has become more immersed in the faith, but Ritchie has given it up.

'Guy has turned his back on Kabbalah once and for all. He has gone hot and cold on the religion in the past, but now he's given up on it altogether. It has always been her (Madonna) thing and is more a part of her life than ever,' said a source close to the couple.

'Guy threw himself into it at first and even filled his movie 'Revolver' with obscure references to the faith. He was genuinely into it and it helped the bond between them. But then he backtracked a little with his gestures of public backing, like wearing the bracelet, because he didn't like being such a high-profile follower.

'He also became suspicious of all the Kabbalah crowd living off her money. But he always told Madonna he had kept his faith, until now. A few weeks ago he told her he doesn't want anything else to do with it. It didn't go down well.'

Celebrity Gossip - Xtina on her E-normous bra

If you're ever caught on a sinking ship with Christina Aguilera, don't panic: Turns out her lingerie can double as a life raft. The cleavage-flaunting chart-topper reveals to Us Weekly that her already titanic talents have reaped the benefits of breastfeeding 4-month-old son Max. "It's kind of hilarious! I've never fit into an E-cup before," she marvels. "I look at my husband and go, 'Guess what size this bra is?' And when I tell him, he's just amazed. We keep the tags that prove it, to look back for memory's sake!" The chanteuse is featured on the cover of the mag touting the 40 pounds she's dropped post-baby through the combination of a protein-heavy diet regimen and exercise, although she fesses up to having a weakness for sugary goodness. "Oh my god, candy!" exclaims Christina. "I had a huge craving for candy toward the end of the pregnancy, from Starbursts to Skittles. I actually took a picture of myself with my big belly in a little lingerie top, surrounded by bowls of the candy I like."

Kellie Pickler gets all dolled up for an awards show. Unfortunately, it's not the Golden Globes.

Speaking of things sweet and stacked, all eyes were on Kellie Pickler -- or at least certain heaving parts of her -- at the Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night. "It's been two years since my first record came out. I still have my sassy and girly side, but I've been growing a lot, in many more ways than one," the "American Idol" warbler told FoxNews.com as she cheekily gestured towards her enhanced assets. "Let's just say I feel much more mature now." Not surprisingly, "Idol" exec producer Nigel Lythgoe fully supports Pickler's trip down mammary lane. "She's acquired two accoutrements that [naturally] photographers and men love," he enthuses. "I'm not sure what it cost her, but obviously it was well worth it."

Quit sending this woman free drinks.

Kristin Davis is also baring all -- emotionally, at least -- as she stumps for the "Sex and the City: The Movie". "I'm a recovering alcoholic," the chestnut-locked looker tells Health. "I've never hid it, but I've been sober the whole time I've been famous, so it wasn't like I had to go to rehab publicly." But she says her sobriety has turned what should be a nice perk of her best-known role into "a lot of confusion," admitting, "I get sent many a Cosmo! I never drink them ... Why risk it?" And like her baby-craving alter ego Charlotte York Goldenblatt, Davis, 43, declares that she "would love to have children" and "would still like to find a man and have a baby with him." She then bubbles in a very Charlotte-like way, "I haven't given up."

Celebrity Gossip - Lindsay Lohan to bare all in next flick?

Celebrity Gossip : With her career floundering and her once fetching freckled face seemingly aging in dog years, Lindsay Lohan probably has bigger worries than whatever magazine pose Jessica Simpson is striking.

Or not.

The New York Daily News says the sobriety-challenged starlet was chuckling with pals last week over Jessica's new Esquire cover, in which the blonde pays unintentionally unsexy homage to a 1965 photo of Marilyn Monroe-esque actress Virna Lisi lathered up and shaving.

New York Magazine

"I so already did that," she supposedly laughed to her friends, alluding to her butt nekkid Monroe reenactment in the pages of New York magazine.

But is Lohan now planning to bare everything on the big screen?

So says the London Sun, which claims the actress, 21, who recently landed a role in the Jack Black comedy "Ye Olde Times," is willing to accept just $80,000 to star as a "nymphomaniac waitress" (paging the Academy) in an indie flick titled "Florence."

"Lindsay doesn't care she's getting paid peanuts. She wants to remind people she can act and that she is worth hiring," a source asserts to the tab, with a "pal" adding, "She is fully aware of the potential of her body. Lindsay wants to build up an image as a mature, responsible actress."

But Lohan's spotlight-craving mom-ager Dina, who labeled her nudie New York mag pics "tastefully done" art, denies the full-frontal whispers, insisting to "Access Hollywood" that "she is not" planning to doff her duds.

Which is good, because there are far better ways to prove you're "mature" and "responsible" than by showing off naughty bits that everyone with an Internet connection has already seen many times before.

Like, for example, staying away from the places that helped land you in rehab on three separate occasions.

The college course-needing Lindsay was photographed exiting Los Angeles hot spot Foxtail on Friday night with her BFF, DJ Samantha Ronson.

The following evening, Ronson "threw her arms" around Lohan at Teddy's as Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body" played and "the two moved to the music," says People.

It was the same story on Thursday when the pair turned up in the VIP section of Goa, where Lindsay got her groove on as Ronson DJ'd.

"Lohan was obviously having a good time, dancing very sexy," a bystander tells the mag. "She was quite the center of attention."

All eyes were also on her when she popped into nightclub Villa earlier in the week.

"Lindsay came in with her head down pretending she didn't want to be noticed," an eyewitness tells FoxNews.com. "But it's a small club and she stopped right in the middle where everybody could see her acting all coy."

Meanwhile, is Lohan's overly active social calendar preventing her from visiting her ailing paternal grandparents?

Her Chatty Cathy dad Michael tells the New York Daily News that Dina has made it "hard as hell for me to see my children."

"Even though my father is dying and my mother was in a car accident on Easter, my parents still haven't seen my children," rails the media-courting Papa Lohan. "[Dina] told me, 'It's up to the kids if they want to see their grandparents.' But she's made no effort to put them in touch or make this happen."

Michael is also planning to file suit against his ex-wife over her forthcoming E! reality show, "Living Lohan," alleging she lifted the idea -- and the title -- from him.

"Dina uses people, gets what she wants and then turns her back on them or claims the ideas were hers all along," Michael fumes to Us. "She thinks the law doesn't apply to her or her family since they always get away with things and use Lindsay's name to do it."

He then concludes to the Daily News, "She's bent on an evil path."

Paris Hilton on National Geographic cover!

It looks like a typical National Geographic cover with the signature yellow border. So what's Paris Hilton doing on there?

The folks at Harvard Lampoon persuaded employees of one of the most respected magazines to help them ensure their April Fool's parody - with stories on Mongolia's wildest waterparks and Native Girls Gone Wild - looked authentic.

The issue, coming out on Tuesday, is the latest in a string of Harvard Lampoon magazine parodies.

But the undergraduate group had never done National Geographic, which quickly responded when contacted by the students last summer.

"My guess was they were just extremely bored and they were tired of working with animals and scientists and wanted to hang out with college students," said Hayes Davenport, who edited the magazine with fellow Harvard senior Ross Arbes.

Davenport said other publications have helped with their parodies in the past, such as when USA Today printed the Lampoon's version on its press in 1989.

And he said National Geographic's staffers - who had no editorial control over the parody - were eager to make fun of their ultra-serious image.

The magazine helped print the parody and distribute it alongside its own April edition in some areas, Arbes said.

A designer also helped lay out the parody to make it look as much like the original as possible.

"They provided things that were really valuable to us," Arbes said.

Editors from National Geographic could not be reached on Monday, but the magazine released a facetious statement.

"Editors are unavailable for comment, having left the country ... as usual," it said.

- Yahoo News

Van Halen scraps more shows amid mystery ailment

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rock band Van Halen's reunion tour fell into disarray on Monday when it announced it would postpone all shows through April 19 while guitarist Eddie Van Halen undergoes tests for an unspecified medical condition.

The news came a week after the group postponed four shows for the same reason.

Seventeen shows are now affected, beginning Tuesday in Charlottesville, Va., and running through April 15 in Baltimore, which was one of the four postponed last week. The next scheduled show is set for April 19 in Las Vegas.

According to organizers, Van Halen, 53, who has battled cancer and substance abuse, "is currently under doctors' care" and will "continue medical tests to define a course of treatment." No further details were made available.

Fans are being asked to keep their tickets, which will be honored at makeup dates to be announced.

Van Halen returned to the road last fall with original lead singer David Lee Roth for the first time in 20-plus years. The tour, which features Eddie Van Halen's teenage son Wolfgang on bass in place of co-founder Michael Anthony, has routinely sold out North American arenas.

- Reuters/Billboard

Jessica –- I'm So NOT High-Maintenance

Jessica Simpson is flogging reports that her trip to Kuwait to visit the troops is a big production.

Her rep tells People that Jess flew commercial and that she is in fact staying in the barracks with the troops. What's more, she denies that her trip is more of a fly-by than an actual visit: "She's been with the troops all day. She's had her meals with them."

As for reports that she had a full-scale beauty battalion with her, the rep says that super-stylist Ken Paves isn't with Jess, and that she has "significantly scaled back her entourage."

Justin -- Brit's Just a "Madonna Wannabe"

Justin Timberlake didn't keep his stick in a box on Monday night, when he jabbed at ex-galpal Britney Spears at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.

"The world has always been full of Madonna wannabes," said JT as he introduced the Material Mom, an inductee, reports Us. "I might have even dated a couple." Day-um. He also zinged, "She has still found time to kiss someone I may or may not have publicly kissed myself while I was in the audience. Of course you know I was talking about Sean Penn."