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Rumors are flying (duck!) that Shakira and her allegedly philandering boyfriend Antonio de la Rua are going to get married in a few months. So for all the talk about standing your ground, her man does his dirt on the side and she's cool with it? Or maybe he's clean, and we're just jealous?

When will America's Next Top Model be exposed for the sham that it is? We are in the middle of New York's Fashion Week, so you would think that someone, anyone that appeared on the show would be all over the runways, right? Ni una! None of these chicks are anywhere to be found. Well, the latest winner Jaslene Gonzalez (someone feed her some rice and beans! It looks like her bony knee is about to cut through that dress) was sitting at the shows, but if she is America's Next Top Model, shouldn't she be walking in them?

The picture at left may be the closest we will ever get to seeing Christina Aguilera naked. Hugh Hefner is extremely interested in having her disrobe for Playboy, but she is not having it. According to sources close to the star, she is flattered but it is definitely not happening.

Actress Eva Mendes recently checked into the Cirque Lodge rehab center. She skipped out after a week to take care of some business in Los Angeles, but has now returned. We wish Eva (ironically pictured here with a drink in her hand for her Campari campaign) well.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have set the price for pics of their twins at $6 million dollars. That works out to $3 million per kid. Which smut weekly will be dumb enough to pay all that? (update: People magazine cut the $6 million check, while OK! bought the international rights). Can she give birth already? It seems like she's been pregnant for a year or something.

File this under an excuse to post yet another hot pic of Jessica Alba: She recently admitted to wild mood swings due to her pregnancy (as if being pregnant doesn't do that to almost every woman). She has kicked her baby daddy, Cash Warren, out of the house twice already because she couldn't take it.

Possibly bowing to pressure from creepy father/manager Joe Simpson, Tony Romo has proposed to Jessica Simpson. For a minute there, we thought they were done. Every picture of the two of them had the Mexican-American Romo haciendo una cara de tristeza que no podia con el. We give this marriage a good 8 months before it implodes.

Jackie Guerrido, the hottest thing to happen to weather since global warming, and Don Omar are expecting a child. Question is, will they make it to the altar before the baby bump is visible?

It is official: Jennifer Lopez has given birth. Uptown and the Bronx, y'all can breathe again. For the rest of us, it's anti-climactic. Like, what else can we say about this? The birth of "Latino royalty," in a weird way. Hope the kids have Jenny's genes and won't get picked on at the playground.

This company is planning to launch a Frida Kahlo skin care line. Where to start? Her whole aesthetic had to do with the beauty of the inside, of the dreams that are created in your mind. She wore campesina garb as a direct response to society's proclivity for the beauty of the exterior, wanting to show that something simpler, more humble was as beautiful as anything that Chanel was designing (you think she didn't notice her unibrow? I'm thinking she wore that catepillar with pride, like "Whut!"). So to launch a skin care line? I don't even blame the pendejo-headed company (who are opening a Frida cosmetics store .... wait for it... on Staten ... Island), I blame the estate who approved this malarkey. Staten Island? Staten Island? c'mon!

What would you do if your management team got you $1.5 million for your baby pics? buy them each a nice gift? Well, if you are Christina Aguilera, you fire them! Yeah, OK! Aguilera was reportedly upset that her People magazine cover did not sell well at all. Like gawker.com said, how is newsstand sales the responsibility of her team?

Some guys have all the luck. Jason Lewis previously dated Rosario Dawson. Now, he has moved on to the twins, dique, Sofia Vergara. Rosario's sloppy seconds and Vergara attended Elton John's Oscar party.

Carlos Mencia, your favorite (??) joke stealer will be performing for the troops in Kuwait as part of the MySpace comedy tour. We think his fellow stand up comedians (who constantly harp about how he steals all their material) enlisted him to send him far, far away. In other Latino comedy news, George Lopez is stumping for Obama somewhere in Texas. He had made a stink about why neither Clinton or Obama had asked for his support.