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In my younger days I was quite enthusiastic -- at a distance, alas -- about Olivia Newton-John, the cutie-pie Australian singer who had a hit, with John Travolta, in the 1978 hit "Grease." Good grief, that's 30 years ago! Anyway, now Olivia's daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, is trying her luck in show biz, on the U.S. "reality" show "Rock the Cradle," where celebs' kids try to sing. Too bad Chloe doesn't have her mom's gifts. The Sydney Morning Herald quotes "one critic" as saying Chloe's singing was like "Bjork possessed by Satan." Now there's a review!
PINK FOR THE BABY SHOWER:Jamie Lynn Spears' baby will be a girl, her mom has revealed. And in other family news: It's a girl for "Sopranos" actress Edie Falco, a chosen child named Macy, adopted from Florida. Edie, who seems to manage pretty well without a man around the house (except the servants), also has an adopted son, Anderson, now 3.
A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL?:Wondering how Gwyneth Paltrow, mother of two, remains so slim? She must have sold her soul to the devil, because she's not doing it by way of self-restraint, to judge by what she told somebody on the BBC: "I was seriously macrobiotic for four years," she said in the interview. "When I got pregnant [the first time], it changed. I couldn't go near anything healthy." Now, said Gwynnie, who lives in England, "I love anything fried -- fish and chips, Branston pickle, red wine." Fried red wine? Celebrities are not like us Dull Normals! Branston pickle is some nasty-looking British thing that comes in a jar.