Stars who date their staff. She's having a good year, what with being a new judge on X Factor and all, and now it seems Kelly Rowland has got herself a secret boyfriend. The 30-year-old singer/TV star recently admitted that she had a "special friend" and, according to The Mirror, that "friend" is her manager Tim Weatherspoon.

The pair - who met through her ex-Destiny's Child bandmate Michelle Williams - has reportedly been spotted enjoying a romantic dinner for two and on a beach date in California.
But Kelly isn't the only celeb who's fallen for somebody who works for them...

Absolutely Fabulous 20th anniversary specials confirmed. BBC One celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Absolutely Fabulous with three TV specials. BBC One today confirmed the highly anticipated return of comedy phenomenon Absolutely Fabulous. The award-winning series will return to TV screens later this year with the first of three specials to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The three 30 minute episodes will see Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley reprise their celebrated roles as Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, together with original cast members Julia Sawalha as Saffy, June Whitfield as Mother and Jane Horrocks as Bubble.The original pilot for Absolutely Fabulous was made in 1991 and the series aired from 1992 – 2003, with a special that was aired in 2004. The series followed the lives of two best friends, Edina, an International PR guru by trade, but sixties teenager at heart and Patsy, a sex-crazed magazine editor. The new collection of specials picks up in the present day.

 While filling in for Bill O'Reilly on Fox News Wednesday night, conservative commenter Laura Ingraham denied having insulted Meghan McCain's weight.

"Let the record show: I never called Meghan McCain fat! She isn't!" Ingraham said. "And as I have repeatedly said on my radio show and on Fox, she is an attractive young woman. If that throwaway comic line highlighted anything, it was Hollywood's obsession with stick-figure women!" Later, she added, "This diversion about -- 'Oh, it's about her weight' -- my point was that she has no real world political experience to make the case for moderation."

On her radio show last Thursday, Ingraham mocked McCain, saying she didn't get a "role in the Real World" because "they don't like plus-sized models."

A large metal cross soars above the ruin of the Catholic church, a beacon in a Joplin, Missouri, neighborhood made unrecognizable by Sunday's powerful tornado.

"If we didn't have faith right now, I don't know how we would get through this," said Sharyn Dawson, while her husband, Jerry, continued the search for his mother, Patricia Dawson, 74, who lived across the street from the church.

As the Dawsons dug through the debris Wednesday afternoon, 25 volunteers from Texas stopped by, helping to move steel trusses from St. Mary's Church that landed in the front yard of the housing unit.
Patricia Dawson has been missing since Sunday, when the twister hit the two-story quadplex in which she was living, her daughter-in-law told CNN. A neighbor was killed, Sharyn Dawson said.

The storm killed at least 125 people, and an estimated 750 people were treated at area hospitals.

The city said Wednesday it had no official tally for the missing.

An undetermined number of people remained unaccounted for Wednesday, after the tornado ravaged phone service, destroyed homes and cars, and gutted the regional hospital.

After Rob Summers was paralyzed below the chest in a car accident in 2006, his doctors told him he would never stand again. They were wrong.

Despite intensive physical therapy for three years, Summers' condition hadn't improved. So in 2009, doctors implanted an electrical stimulator onto the lining of his spinal cord to try waking up his damaged nervous system. Within days, Summers, 25, stood without help. Months later, he wiggled his toes, moved his knees, ankles and hips, and was able to take a few steps on a treadmill.

"It was the most incredible feeling," said Summers, of Portland, Oregon. "After not being able to move for four years, I thought things could finally change."

Still, despite his renewed optimism, Summers can't stand when he's not in a therapy session with the stimulator turned on, and he normally gets around in a wheelchair. Doctors are currently limiting his use of the device, made by Minneapolis-based Medtronic, Inc., to several hours at a time.

His case is described in a paper published Friday in the journal, Lancet. The research was paid for by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.

For years, certain people with incomplete spinal cord injuries, who have some control of their limbs, have experienced some improvement after experiments to electrically stimulate their muscles. But such progress had not been seen before in someone with a complete spinal cord injury.

A man suspected of being one of the two assailants in the brutal beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium was taken into custody early Sunday morning, Los Angeles police sources say.

At about 7 a.m. PT, the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team descended on an East Hollywood apartment building with a warrant in hand. According to apartment building manager Maritza Camacho, police, using loudspeakers and with guns drawn, called out to the occupants of Apartment 25. Inside was one of the men police suspect in the March 31 beating that left Stow with brain damage.

As residents of the three-story building stood watching from balconies, police removed, one by one, the people who were inside the apartment, according to Camacho. Among them was a man with a bald head and tattoos on his neck and arms, she said, a description that appeared to match the vague sketches released by police of one of the two suspects. She added that he did not appear to resist being taken into custody.

Several police sources confirmed that the man taken into custody was one of the two suspects in the beating.

Police officials declined to give details, including the name of the suspect, saying only that the investigation was ongoing.

Grimsvotn eruption not expected to have same effect as 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruptions
More than a year after an Icelandic volcano wreaked havoc for millions of air travelers across the globe, a new eruption has spewed an ash plume 12 miles in the air. Iceland's airports have been shut down, and ash could affect Europe later this week.

Ash could reach northern Scotland by Tuesday and parts of Britain, France and Spain by Thursday or Friday if the eruption continues at the same intensity, airlines were warned on Sunday.

The warning is based on the latest 5-day weather forecasts, but is being treated cautiously because of uncertainties over the way the volcano will behave and interact with the weather.

The Grimsvotn (GREEMSH-votn) volcano, which lies beneath the ice of the uninhabited Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004, sending ash, smoke and steam 12 miles into the air.

It was the volcano's largest eruption in 100 years.
Image: Grimsvotn volcano
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Smoke streams from the Grimsvotn volcano on Saturday.

In all of the tumult, it's easy to forget that the root cause of all this mess -- now entering its fourth year -- continues to fester like an untreated wound. I'm talking about the U.S. housing market, which, by some measures, has fallen to new lows. After showing signs of hope late last year in the wake of the homebuyer tax credit, it's now suffering fresh setbacks and reaccelerating price declines.

Consumers, weighed down by rising inflationary pressure and lackluster job growth, are losing confidence. At the same time, tight lending standards and efforts to reform Wall Street and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are restricting access to mortgage credit. Right now, housing finance survives on government largesse: Government-backed entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now account for 95% of new mortgages.

The Haddad children of Middletown, Md., have a lot on their minds: school projects, SATs, weekend parties. And parents who believe the earth will begin to self-destruct on Saturday.

family divided over world ending.The three teenagers have been struggling to make sense of their shifting world, which started changing nearly two years ago when their mother, Abby Haddad Carson, left her job as a nurse to “sound the trumpet” on mission trips with her husband, Robert, handing out tracts. They stopped working on their house and saving for college.

Last weekend, the family traveled to New York, the parents dragging their reluctant children through a Manhattan street fair in a final effort to spread the word.

“My mom has told me directly that I’m not going to get into heaven,” Grace Haddad, 16, said. “At first it was really upsetting, but it’s what she honestly believes.”

Thousands of people around the country have spent the last few days taking to the streets and saying final goodbyes before Saturday, Judgment Day, when they expect to be absorbed into heaven in a process known as the rapture. Nonbelievers, they hold, will be left behind to perish along with the world over the next five months.

Former pro wrestling star "Macho Man" Randy Savage died at age 58 Friday of injuries suffered in a car accident in Tampa, Fla., TMZ reported.

The Florida Highway Patrol told TMZ that Savage was driving his 2009 Jeep Wrangler when he veered across the center median and struck a tree. He did not hit any oncoming vehicles.

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Savage's brother, Lanny Poffo, told TMZ the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack while behind the wheel.

Savage died of his injuries at Largo Medical Center, TMZ reported.

In today’s competitive business environment, it is a distinction to be named one of the 100 Best Companies to Work for in Texas. This program was designed to recognize the best employers in the state, the ones that make it a priority to create better workplaces for their employees. Best Companies Group and its partners, the Texas Association of Business and the Texas State Council of the Society for Human Resource Management, are breaking ground in Texas with this program.

The list of the 100 Best Companies to Work for in Texas 2011 program—published here for the first time in order of their ranking—names companies with the best practices among Texas employers. An awards luncheon, coordinated by the Texas Association of Business, was held in Austin on January 27, 2011 recognizing each of the 100 companies. Governor Rick Perry spoke at the special ceremony.

Shauna Sand, Lorenzo Lamas’ ex wife, was arrested last night after getting into an argument with her husband, Laurent Homburger, and attacking him. She’s been booked for domestic abuse, it has emerged.
The 36-year-old former Playboy bunny and glamour model got into a fight with her 25-year-old husband, and it escalated so fast that neighbors were forced to call the cops.

The dispute began shortly after midnight, and police made arrests in the early hours of the morning. Laurent has also been arrested, TMZ reports.

“Beverly Hills cops were called to Shauna’s home just before midnight, after someone called and reported a fight at her home,” says the e-zine.

“Shauna was arrested on a charge of felony domestic violence after cops noticed visible marks on her husband, Laurent Homburger. Homburger was arrested on two charges – spousal battery and making criminal threats,” TMZ adds.

Both were taken to the police station, where they were booked and had bail set. Shauna got out on bail some hours later, but he husband didn’t.

Elisabeth moss divorce.“Mad Men” actress Elisabeth Moss and “Saturday Night Live” funnyman Fred Armisen are officially divorced.

According to court papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 13 – and obtained by Access Hollywood – the couple’s split is now finalized.

Moss originally filed for divorce from Armisen in September 2010 after 11 months of marriage. The couple wed in October 2009 and actually separated in June 2010 leading up to Moss’ filing.
At the time, she cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason behind the breakup.
According to the new papers, neither party is seeking spousal support.

It was the second marriage for Armisen, 44, whose recent notable “SNL” characters include President Barack Obama and New York Governor David Paterson.

Moss, 28, plays Peggy Olson on the hit AMC series “Mad Men.”
Source:http:www.accesshollywood.com

To millions of tween girls around the world, 17-year-old Justin Bieber is the epitome of cool. But to his former-Disney-star girlfriend, Selena Gomez, the Biebs is just a big dork.

In a new interview with Teen Vogue, the singer-actress, 18, opens up about her highly publicized romance with the teen idol -- and reacts to the comments he made to the magazine last fall.

Undeterred by real or fake bombs, Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking.

Resplendent in a cloak of emerald green and a dress of St. Patrick's blue, the 85-year-old queen stepped out from a bombproof, bulletproof Range Rover outside the official residence of Irish President Mary McAleese. Irish Army artillery units fired a 21-gun salute as a military brass band played "God Save the Queen."

The painstakingly choreographed visit has been designed to highlight today's exceptionally strong Anglo-Irish relations and the slow blooming of peace in neighboring Northern Ireland following a three-decade conflict that left 3,700 dead.

The queen arrived 100 years after her grandfather George V visited Dublin and an Ireland that was still part of the British Empire.

Beaming smiles by the queen and McAleese — a Belfast-born Catholic who has spent 14 years lobbying for Elizabeth II to visit — demonstrated genuine warmth between the two women, who have met several times before.

McAleese said Britain and Ireland were "determined to make the future a much, much better place." The queen didn't comment ahead of her planned speech Wednesday night at Dublin Castle, the former seat of British rule of Ireland.

Highest Speed Limits – Find out what some of the highest speed limits are across the country. Highways that are built by the federal government are still reduced to 55 mph. However, state roads are very different.

We will review the highest speed limits around the country. Some of the rural states have anywhere from 65 mph to 80 mph. Here’s a list on how fast you can go in some of the states.

Texas – While it’s not throughout the entire state, there are a few stretches of highway in Texas where the speed limit is an impressive 80 mph.

Utah – Similar to Texas, Utah also has a few stretches of highway where drivers can accelerate to 80 mph.

The rest of the states with the highest speed limits come in at allowing drivers to go up to 75 mph on selected freeways. These states are: Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.

The National Maximum Speed Law (NMSL) in the United States was a provision of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that prohibited speed limits higher than 55 mph (90 km/h).

It was drafted in response to oil price spikes and supply disruptions during the 1973 oil crisis. While gasoline consumption was expected to fall by 2.2%, the United States Department of Transportation calculated actual savings at 1%. Independent studies suggest savings as low as a half percent.

The law was widely disregarded by motorists and most states subversively opposed the law. Actions ranged from proposing deals for exemption to minimizing speed limit enforcement.

The NMSL was modified in 1987 and 1988 to allow up to 65 mph (105 km/h) limits on certain roads. Congress repealed the NMSL in 1995, fully restoring authority to determine the the maximum speed limits for each state to the U.S. States.

Boston Rob acknowledged that his alliance on the show was almost cult-like. "I kept a lot of it to myself," he said.

Rob explained he formed a bond with the strange Phillip and the young Natalie. The show identified Phillip as a "former federal agent?" with a question mark.

The twist of Redemption Island jazzed up this edition of "Survivor." Ejected players went there to fight for a chance to re-enter the game. The final duel on Redemption Island matched four people, including Matt, the sentimental favorite for his ability to endure. The competitors had to balance a vase, but Matt was out after surviving 10 duels on Redemption Island.

Director's Cut will see the singer revisit tracks from 1989 album The Sensual World and 1993 successor The Red Shoes

Kate Bush has not toured since 1979, and her last studio album was released in 2005, so fans of the Wuthering Heights singer can be forgiven their excitement at the announcement on Friday that she is releasing a new album on 16 May. But as its title suggests, Director's Cut is not a wholly new record, but rather a revisiting of a selection of tracks from her 1989 album, The Sensual World, and its 1993 successor, The Red Shoes. The 52-year old Bush, who lives in Oxfordshire, has re-recorded some elements while keeping the best musical performances of each song.

Jennifer is single once again -- she recently split from BF of over one year, Alex Beh. And although she often makes headlines for her daring get-ups, it's what she does in her ensembles that counts. Her latest stop? A TV movie, The Lost Valentine, opposite Betty White. With these two involved, there's no doubt it was a romantic comedy masterpiece. But after a rough 2010 filled with break-ups and unflattering snapshots, 2011 doesn't seem to be too much different.