Enjoying a midday lunch outing,  was spotted joking around with former Amazing Race contestant Mike White at the Brentwood Country Mart on Monday (March 23).

The “Brokeback Mountain” hunk and his pal dropped into Le Pain Restaurant, grabbing an outdoor patio as they chowed down while soaking up the sun.

Meanwhile, Jake spent the weekend celebrating girlfriend Reese Witherspoon’s 33rd birthday with a bash at his Los Angeles home.

According to Us magazine insiders, guests at the Saturday night shindig included Jake’s sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who brought Peter Sarsgaard (and their daughter, Ramona), as well as Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan.

Continuing her romp around the globe,Bridget Marquardt  was back out for more filming of her new reality show “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches” on Monday afternoon (March 23).

The former “Girls Next Door” star hopped into a figure-revealing black swimsuit as she playfully posed for the cameras while lounging next to the pool.

Not far removed from the show’s debut, “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches” is back this Thursday (March 26) with a brand new episode from Jamaica at 10pm on the Travel Channel.

Aside from her show, Miss Marquardt is enjoying a brand new relationship following her split with Hugh Hefner, as she’s now dating Nicholas Carpenter.

While there have been rumors of a possible wedding, Bridget denied the claims, telling, “No, not engaged – not even talking about that kind of stuff! I’m happy just to be dating and I think things are perfect as they are.”

Pairing up for a couple’s lunch date, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden were spotted grabbing a bite to eat at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday (March 23).

According to an onlooker, Joel looked to be attentive and helpful to his pregnant sweetheart during the course of their meal while Nicole seemed tired and couldn’t finish her order.

As previously reported by Gossip Girls, Miss Richie is soon to be launching a brand new maternity line for her fellow expectant mothers.

Excitedly talking about her latest endeavor, Nicole said, “There will be a maternity line, a clothing line, shoes, belts, everything.”

Lindsay Lohan hasn’t had a movie in theaters since July of 2007, when “I Know Who Killed Me” died faster than Kurt Cobain.  So with no income, Lindsay must be making some tough decisions, analyzing her portfolio and strategies so her short-term goals still work with her financial end game.  Oh … wait.  No.  She’s buying Maseratis and big gold watches.  The Daily News says…

    Lindsay’s overspending is out of control, and it’s putting additional strain on (her) already volatile relationship (with Sam Ronson).  “Lindsay is spending like crazy!  She’s living on credit right now. She has no cash. The problem is, the money being spent is mostly Sam’s because Lindsay doesn’t really have any.”   Recent extravagant purchases the starlet has made include a $30K Rolex watch and a new Maserati, a glam ride which usually costs upward of $100K.

But no worries, Lindsay has a plan…

    "I love doing photo shoots.  I mean, if I could just sign with IMG and do ad campaigns and model more, I’d do that, because that’s fun for me.  That’s not work."

You can’t help but be impressed by the way she’ll do stuff for money as long as it’s not work.  That can-do spirit, that quest for adventure and obsession with excellence, is what made this country so great.  She’ll claw her way out of this hole in no time like this.

The Sydney Morning Herald says that Kate Moss entered herself as a prize in a charity auction, and the highest bidder gets to kiss her while she’s dressed up as a cop.  For some reason.  “Prize” might not be the word I’m looking for. 

(She) sold the smooch for 5000 pounds ($10,400) in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital – a specialist children’s hospital in London – at a fundraiser last week.  When bidding began to slow down the 35-year-old beauty volunteered to wear a police uniform for the embrace to help increase offers.

This sounds like a really good auction.  10 grand, and you don’t get the naked model version of Kate Moss (this), you get to kiss the one who wrapped her lips around this guys penis several thousand times.  Maybe next year I can bid on having a big mean dog chase me, or just lock me in a room then drop in lots of poisonous bees.

Extra-marital affair sometimes kills, take Ohio lovers Stacy DiJulius and Erich Schultz’s dating as example! Stacy DiJulius, 39, of Aurora, was a co-owner of John Robert’s Hair Salon & Spa, a chain with four locations that employs 150 people. Stacy married to husband John DiJulius, a successful author, speaker and entrepreneur who was involved in numerous business ventures, according to BitteandBound. But being in such a wealth family, Ms. Stacy Dijulius, an acclaimed hair stylist, might not keep herself be loyal to her husband John. She (secretly) dated Erich Schultz, 38, of Glenwillow, who was also married. In what now was believed as their last date on Saturday (March 21), the pair went to drink at Panini’s Bar & Grill on Route 82 in Sagamore Hills, Ohio at 7:20 p.m. Don’t know why, not long after they entered the bar, Stacy DiJulius and Erich Schultz began quarelling for the reasons that probably would never known to many because that altercation resulted in the demise of both of them. Originally it was thought there was an apparent murder and suicide case, but it turned out not. From Cleveland Metro’s Spa co-owner Stacy DiJulius run over, killed outside Summit County bar:

Stacy DiJulius, 39, was run over and killed outside a Panini’s Bar & Grill about 8:10 p.m. Saturday.

Minutes later, the man who ran over her, Erich Schultz, 38, of Glenwillow, shot himself in the head. He was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. The hospital would not provide information on his condition at 3:05 p.m. today.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Cottle said witnesses saw DiJulius and Schultz argue after both had been drinking. They are married to other people, but were dating, Cottle said.

They walked out of the bar. Schultz tried to leave alone in his Jeep. DiJulius kept trying to get into the moving Jeep and fell. Schultz accidently ran her over, Cottle said.

As paramedics were arriving to tend to DiJulius, Schultz, seeing her severe injuries, walked back to his Jeep, pulled out a small handgun and shot himself in the head, Cottle said.

Sheriff’s investigators were first told that Schultz struck DiJulius then shot her. She was not shot, further investigation revealed.

“It appears that it was an accident and he felt so bad about it, he shot himself,” Cottle said.

Infidelity kills, be loyal to your spouse and you are to have a happy family! Or else, you and your lover probably would be next Stacy DiJulius and Erich Schultz! Anyways, we mourn the loss of these of two and offered condolences to their families, after all they shouldn’t have ended in such a tragedy.

The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Nicholas Hughes, has commited suicide. Sylvia Plath’s son hanged himself almost a half a century after his mother killed herself. Read more on Nicholas Hughes’ suicide below.

Battling depression for years, Nicholas Hughes was found hanged at his home in Fairbanks, Alaska, by his girlfriend last Monday. Nicholas’ death comes 46 years after Sylvia Plath put her head in an oven and turned on the gas as her children slept in the room next door.

Plath had lined the door between the rooms with wet towels to prevent the gas seeping in and harming Nicholas, then aged one, and his sister Frieda, who was just a year older.

Nicholas Hughes was a very private person and had a successful career as an eminent professor of fisheries and ocean sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His life in Alaska, much of it spent at sea documenting the ecology of salmon or else hunting or gardening, was probably as far as a man could get from a London literary world that has obsessed and combed over every detail of Plath and Hughes’s relationship since her suicide.

Ted Hughes knew how badly Sylvia Plath’s suicide had hurt the children. In 1998, shortly before his own death from cancer, he wrote a letter to Nicholas in which he concluded: “But I tell you all this, with a hope that it will let you understand a lot of things.Don’t laugh it off. In 1963 you were hit even harder than me. But you will have to deal with it, just as I have had to. And as Frieda has had to.”

Nicholas was unmarried and had no children. He did have a long-time girlfriend but the relationship had ended and he had started dating again.His new girlfriend is the one that found his body.

His sister Frieda Hughes, who is a writer and poet, was heading to Alaska with Ted Hughes’s 80-year-old sister Olwyn. Frieda said in a statement: “It is with profound sorrow that I must announce the death of my brother, Nicholas Hughes, who died by his own hand on Monday 16 March 2009 at his home in Alaska. He had been battling depression for some time.

“He was an evolutionary ecologist who specialised in the study of stream fish and travelled thousands of miles across Alaska on research trips.

“His lifelong fascination with fish and fishing was a strong and shared bond with our father (many of whose poems were about the natural world). He was a loving brother, a loyal friend to those who knew him and, despite the vagaries that life threw at him, he maintained an almost childlike innocence and enthusiasm for the next project or plan.”

Nicholas was shielded from his mother’s suicide by his father who told his children she had killed herself only when they were in their teens.

By that time Ted Hughes had been hounded by feminists who accused him of responsibility for Plath’s suicide through his own infidelity. Six years after Plath killed herself, his mistress Assia Wevill gassed herself and her daughter in an apparent copycat suicide.

Nicholas had shunned the limelight for many years so it is ironic that in death he is making headlines again. Even at birth, he was being written about by his mother. In her 1962 journals, she wrote on the morning following her son’s birth: “I felt very proud of Nicholas, and fond. It had taken a night to be sure I liked him -his head shaped up beautifully – the skull plates had overlapped to get him through the boney door, and filled out, a handsome male head with a black brain-shelf. Dark, black-blue eyes, a furze of hair like a crew cut.”

What a tragedy! Our condolences to his family and friends.

Did you miss seeing Matt Lauer on the Today show this morning?

Matt had to take the day off from work today after he had a minor bike accident over the weekend. The morning show host was out for a bicycle ride when a deer jumped into his path. He flipped over the bike’s handlebars and landed on his shoulder.

Meredith Vieira joked on the air this morning that Matt thinks the deer was hired by the competition.

"Matt’s banged up with a displaced shoulder, it popped out," she said. "So hopefully he’ll be on the mend soon."

Get well, Matt!

Actor Bruce Willis married his girlfriend model/actress Emma Heming on Saturday with ex-wife Demi Moore and husband Ashton Kutcher in attendance. Read more on Bruce Willis’ wedding below.

Bruce Willis tied the knot with his girlfriend Emma Heming on Saturday at the actor’s home in Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos.

Bruce Willis’ ex-wife Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher were guests at the wedding along with Moore and Willis’s daughters, Rumer Willis, 20, Scout, 17, and Tallullah Belle, 15.

Bruce’s wedding was held very close to his birthday as he just turned 54 on Thursday. Emma Heming is 32.

The couple met through friends and have been together for over a year. They will have a civil ceremony once they return to California.

Katie Holmes and her fashionable daughter Suri Cruise helped bail Victoria Beckham out of a sticky family situation when her mother-in-law Sandra cut her babysitting stint short in Los Angeles.
When David Beckham‘s mother decided to head back to London while Victoria is still househunting in Milan, it was Katie who stepped up to take care of Romeo and Cruz Beckham. Along with the help of the Beckhams nanny, of course. According to a source who told  "Sandra and Victoria had a row."
As for the kiddos, they headed to The Children’s Arts Studio in Santa Monica for a fun day out. Suri had suggested they all go to see Watchmen, but thought better of it when she realized the Beckham boys might not be able to sit still that long.