Fresh from learning Nicole Kidman's two adopted children with former hubby Tom Cruise no longer call her "mom" and instead prefer to direct that term toward their step-mother Katie "Kate" Holmes, we've now learned that Our Nic is set to become a ma the old fashioned way, having been sperminated by her country music star spouse Keith Urban.

Or at least that's what British tabloid The Daily Mail would have us believe.

Nicole Kidman and her husband of 18 months are expecting their first baby, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The Oscar-winning actress and Keith Urban, the country and western singer she calls the "love of my life", broke the news to their families over the Christmas holiday.

The 40-year-old Australian star had already spoken of "winding down" her film-making activities as much as possible next year.

The baby, whose expected arrival date has not yet been revealed, will be the actress's first natural child.

As there have been no recent sightings of Keith Urban's Hand Hovering Protectively Around Her Belly TM, we'll just have to wait for an official announcement from the Kidman-Urban camp before knitting baby booties as a congratulatory gift for the expectant parents.

· We realise this makeover isn't that new, but did the Sun-Maid girl fix a deviated septum? And get Botox? And a chemical peel? And a brow lift? And gone tanning? She's still being styled by Rachel Zoe, though. Zing!
· The AMPTP clock has hit $US151,000,000. Why is that figure significant? Well, says their website, it's the moment the strike has crossed over into the red abyss, costing the writers more than they were negotiating for in the first place. Do you taste the bitter irony here? It's so unpleasant on the tongue!
· The visor supposedly worn by Date on Star Trek: The Next Generation and sold by Christie's to a Trekkie for $US6000 is now suspected of being a fake.
· It's official: Rocky's son and the indestructible cheerleader are doing it!
· Did somebody say...list? Reality Blurred reminds us of all the reality stars who died this year--a surprisingly hefty lot--as well as a bunch of other reality TV stuff from a year where the format reigned supreme.

A press release brings at least a glimmer of end-of-year good news to the otherwise moribund state of writers strike affairs: Worldwide Pants, which sought to reach an independent deal with the WGA that would allow both their late night talk shows to return to the airwaves with a full roster of Guild-approved Top Ten lists, Know Your Current Events questions, and whatever it is they do on The Late Late Show, has successfully negotiated an agreement with their writers' union:

"The Writers Guild has reached a binding independent agreement today with Worldwide Pants that will allow Late Night with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to return to the air with their full writing staffs.

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We don't think this one needs too much dressing up: A report about former Playboy magazine model Rebecca Reyes, who claims she was manhandled by Texas cops, replete with tearful, first person recollection of the events. Observations? Um, former Playboy models crying makes us sad. Also, brown is an underrated tanktop color. Happy New Year, everyone!

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In a surprise Defamer World Exclusive! (must credit Defamer's World's First Surprise Super Exclusive!) videographer Molly McAleer, who spent last evening in the Hollywood Hills working on choreography with her Satanist friends as she always does, captured this altercation between Sean and Robin Wright Penn--possibly the final blow-up that led to today's divorce announcement. Sean clearly seems to be the more conciliatory of the two, sweetly offering up small fondnesses, such as the way Robin reads her script dialogue out loud before bed every night--but we'll leave it to you to decide where, if anywhere at all, the fault lies.

• Hurlyburly - The Restaurant Dispute [YouTube]

Penelope Cruz is upping the ante on t.A.T.u.'s successful fame-grab by taking the whole fake lesbian thing and adding fake incest. The Spanish actress's brother, a rockstar aspirant, is attempting to launch himself onto the world stage with a controversy-courting video starring his two siblings, Penelope y Monica.

The girls play translators overdubbing a lesbian porn. It gets them so hot they wind up making out, lesbo style. They are real-life sisters. (So gay! Unlike this.)

• Cruz sisters in lesbian clinch [The Sun]

· Annoyed that no progress has been made in the strike, the DGA has offered January 7 as the start date for their own AMPTP negotiations. Obviously, we hope everything goes smoothly, and yet a tiny part of us would love to lay our eyes on an Incredible Picketing Director Baby, wearing a beret and holding a tiny, old-fashioned megaphone. [Variety]
· Lists! Lists! We love lists! Here's one of 10 things that didn't happen in Hollywood this year. [Variety]
· The music industry renames itself Josh Groban's Noel LLC, fires any artist, manager, or A&R person not by that name. [Variety]
· It's producer vs. agent over who came up with the idea of a reality show set in a gym first. [THR]
· Hollywood breaks record overseas, pulling in $US10 billion in box office receipts, up 15% from last year. We know this is supposed to be good news, so why does it fill us with a vague sense of dread? [THR]

Hey, Neil Patrick Harris on unicorns! Talking to us! [haroldandkumar]

Yesterday, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer compiled for us the Top 10 Videos of 2007, a pastiche of sobbing talk show hosts, cold-hearted hunks, sassy Galileo revisionists, and delicious floorburgers.

Today, she brings things a little bit closer to home--could we dim the lights please?--lovingly scrapbooking Defamer's Top 10 Man-On-the-Street Videos of 2007. We begin with the streetweary insights of Chinese Theater Spider-Man, schooled by Chewbacca in a little-know martial art called Qui-Gon Jinn, that he might more efficiently fend off countless molesty tourists hoping for a cheap grab at his webslingers. Enjoy.

Comic Ant, best known from his failed grab at the Last Comic Standing crown and hosting that show where porked-out C-listers stand on a giant scale in an effort to shed their poundage while retaining their dignity, is the victim of check fraud: An identity thief, likely affecting a piercing voice, has nicked ninety Gs from the jester's coffers:

TMZ caught the comedian leaving his apartment last night, where he confirmed he was the victim of identity theft by someone who found out his account number. TMZ has learned that the perpetrator then went on a six-day shopping spree, spending more than $12,000 in a day at Neiman Marcus alone! Just like an Olsen!

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Former Barbra Streisand lover/Perm-Tensility Quality Control Technician Jon Peters, who only recently spent millions to give his adoptive godson Kal-El Brandon Routh the most dancing-waterest wedding in Kryptonian history, is on the receiving end of yet two more sexual harassment lawsuits filed by exasperated staff members claiming to have been faded-superproducer-handled during their tenures at the Peters estate. From Page Six:

The four-time-divorced mogul behind "Superman Returns," "Ali" and "Batman" was sued Monday in LA Superior Court by Blanca Hernandez, who helped maintain Peters' home and office. She claims Peters sexually harassed her by touching her breasts and buttocks, once tried to push her onto his bed when he was naked, tried to kiss her breasts - which he called "pillows" - and offered her money for sex. [...]

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With its ear pressed firmly to the streets of middle American suburbs, Parade Magazine has released its 2007 Year-End Pop Culture Poll Results. Among the more notable results: 44% percent of poll-takers responded with "Rosie! Rosie O'Donnell! My answer is ROSIE O'DONNELL," when asked, "Who would you consider to be the most annoying -- well calm down, let me finish asking the question --"

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In a disastrous Hollywood disunion tantamount to a massive, tectonic fissure erupting at Nichols Canyon, splitting our fair city in half and sending the two distinctive, autonomous land masses, rechristened Los and Angeles, their separate ways, divided by a blocks-long body of water that will eventually come to be known as the MidWilshire Ocean, Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have announced that their love, it is no more:

Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn are divorcing, their rep, Mara Buxbaum, confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

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