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Natalie Portman gives birth to baby boy

Last updated on: June 15, 2011 17:17 IST

Image: Natalie Portman
Photographs: Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters

Actress Natalie Portman has welcomed her first child with fiance Benjamin Millepied

According to People.com, the Oscar winner has given birth to a baby boy although further details were unavailable, reports Contactmusic.

Portman met choreographer Millepied on the set of ballet thriller Black Swan and last December, they announced they were engaged and expecting their first child.

Album signed by John Lennon sells for $23k

Image: John Lennon
Photographs: REUTERS/Chip East/files

An album signed by John Lennon hours before he was shot dead has fetched 23,750 pounds at auction, reports Contactmusic.com.

The record -- an edition of the former Beatles singer's Double Fantasy album, signed in December 1980 shortly before he was assassinated -- was one of number of items of pop memorabilia which fetched almost 500,000 pounds at auction in London yesterday.

Other items which went under the hammer included a guitar played by Pete Townshend from The Who on their American 'Quadrophenia' tour, which raised 31,250 pounds, a hat block used to make Michael Jackson's trademark fedoras, which sold for 8,125 pounds and a bass drum wrecked by Kurt Cobain at the end of a show by Nirvana at the end of a 1991 concert, which fetched 8,125 pounds.

Other lots included white platform shoes worn by Spice Girls singer Geri Halliwell in the 1997 movie Spiceworld which went for 500 pounds, while a pair of Jimi Hendrix's leather boots fetched considerably more -- 9,375 pounds.

Late T Rex singer Marc Bolan's mint-green jacket sold for 9,375 pounds, while a painted face-mask of Marilyn Manson fetched 700 pounds. A gift-card signed by another ex-Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney, fetched 1,250 pounds.

Later this week, another auction of memorabilia will take place in Los Angeles, which offers even more lots, including Michael Jackson's iconic red leather jacket worn in the iconic 1983 music video for his song Thriller, which is expected to fetch between $200,000 and $400,000 at auction.

Kendra Wilkinson comforts jilted Hugh Hefner

Image: Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris
Photographs: Fred Prouser / Reuters

The former Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson has consoled ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner just few hours after his wedding with fiance Crystal Harris, 25, was called off.

After news spread that Harris has called off their Saturday wedding, Wilkinson offered up some advice to the Playboy founder on getting over the sudden split.

"We r comin over w some jack n coke. Oh, n a pipe lol," People mag quoted the 26-year-old star as tweeting on Tuesday.

Orlando Bloom voted most stylish dad

Image: Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom

Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom, who has a five-month-old son Flynn with wife Miranda Kerr, has been crowned 'Most Stylish Celebrity Dad'. The 34-year-old actor beat celebrities including soccer star David Beckham and actor Jude Law in an online poll, reported MyCelebrityFashion online.

'With Father's Day coming in the UK we wanted to put celebrity dads under the fashion spotlight. As a new dad, it was interesting to see Orlando Bloom fly straight into the charts and clinch the top spot as the 'most stylish celebrity dad.

'The public evidently likes his eclectic style; and even though he beat David Beckham to the top spot, Beckham still managed to stay very near the top of the style charts with his 'casual' style,' said Andy Barr, Marketing Director
of the website.

Bloom picked up 71 per cent of the vote and was closely followed by Beckham with 66 per cent and singer Peter Andre, who received 59 per cent.

The Lord of the Rings actor recently said fatherhood has 'changed his life'. 'It's awesome, I love it. I hate that word but I love
being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways. Miranda is an amazing mother,' Bloom said.