Sting has seen his share of things.

The Police frontman claims to have seen the apparition of a woman, witnessed flying objects and heard strange voices at a home he once lived in with wife Trudie Styler. One night, the terrified 58-year-old singer - who sang “Spirits in the Material World” in the 80s - awoke to see a ghostly mother holding a baby in the corner of the room.

James Van Der Beek has filed for divorce.

The former Dawson’s Creek star split from actress Heather McComb earlier this year and has now started legal proceedings to officially end their six-year marriage. The papers were filed at a Los Angeles court and James cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their break-up.

The pair tied the knot in Malibu in 2003, six months after the sixth and final season of Dawson’s Creek aired. James’ co-stars Michelle Williams and Busy Phillips attended the intimate ceremony.

Friends suspected a divorce was brewing when the couple sold their $2.5 million home in Studio City, California, in March. They put the mansion - which features 180-degree canyon, mountain and city views, and a luxurious mist cooling system - on the market.

Since they tied the knot, James - who played Dawson Leery in the teen drama - has guest starred in How I Met Your Mother, One Tree Hill, Ugly Betty and Medium.
Heather has appeared in Prison Break, Crossing Jordan and CSI: NY.

Photographer Tyler Shields recently shot Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere in a sexed-up photo shoot containing machine guns and champagne (is she old enough for that yet?).

Okay, we really get it, Hayden—you’re hot! Do we really need the exhibitionist outfits and topless photos? I promise you that we realize you’re no longer that cute girl from Remember the Titans or Neutrogena commercials.

If you, however, are one of those drooling over the picture above, check out more pictures and a video (this is where the champagne comes in) after the jump!

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Hit TV show, Desperate Housewives is affecting Eva Longoria Parker’s sex life!

The actress admits she and husband Tony Parker can only get steamy between the sheets at weekends because of her filming schedule in Hollywood and his commitments to his basketball team the San Antonio Spurs, who are based in Texas.

“I work three to four days per week. And then I fly to Texas to spend a long weekend with Tony. So we only have sex during the weekend.”

Eva and Tony’s lovemaking time is further reduced by her interests away from the show. The 34-year-old actress has set up her own production company and owns a Hollywood restaurant Beso, which serves Mexican food, and admits she hates not being busy.

“I can never sit still and must always be doing something. I founded my own production company. We have already developed three TV shows and are currently working on two film projects. At the same time Tony and I are building a house in San Antonio and this takes a very long time. Luckily, I inherited my mother’s multi-tasking gene. But you have to set priorities!”

One of the many things I love about Victoria Beckham? Her brutal honesty.

‘I’m not going to lie - I’m not one of those people that says, “Oh, I eat hamburgers.’ I eat salad. And I start off every day with a double espresso. Then I get on the running machine and I run like a bat out of hell,” divulged the singer-turned-fashion designer.

Quick to quell any hopes that we can still somehow eat hamburgers and get to a size 2, Posh Spice also squashed any rumors regarding fissures in her marriage to international soccer star David Beckham. When asked whether she prefers sleep to sex, Victoria was quick with the humor: “I’m getting into bed with David Beckham every night, so, you know, there’d be something wrong if I said, ‘sleep.’”

Speaking of good sports, she also doesn’t mind if you call her by her former stage name! “I’m so respectful of the Spice Girls, and I love all the girls dearly, but it’s nice now that people know my name. But either is a compliment. I mean, I’ve been called a lot worse.”

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It was merely a matter of time. In light of the 2006 comedy Borat, Pamela Anderson was forced to fill in her sons about her infamous sex tape, considering it was referenced in the film.

“I knew kids were going to watch the film and there was a reference to the tape in the movie and they’re that age and, you know, people are going start saying things. I just said, ‘Look, Mommy and Daddy were massively in love, we videotaped everything, everything was videotaped, and you’re probably going hear about something at school.”

Smart move on Pam’s part for nipping these things in the butt; you know, especially before they start using that Google thing.

I’m quite surprised that her sons—Brandon, 12, and Dylan, 11—haven’t already been tormented over the fact that their mother is a milf, let alone the fact that the image of her in a red bathing suit is one of the most iconic in pop culture!

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Nicole Richie is back in the hospital, and it has nothing to do with maternity.

The reality TV star was recently admitted after a string of days feeling under the weather. “Nicole has checked into Cedars-Sinai where she is being treated for pneumonia. She is doing well,” Nicole’s rep said.

Over the weekend, the mother of two had spoken about not feeling well. She wrote on her Twitter page: “ok cold, it’s been 6 days. Lets part ways graciously & keep it moving.”

Earlier this week, Nicole was granted a restraining order against two paparazzi who she claims caused her recent car accident. The 28-year-old socialite appeared in court to testify how the two male photographers, Eduardo Arrivabene and Ivon Miguel, had been hounding her constantly. The judge ruled the two men are to stay 50 yards away from Nicole and her two children for the next three years.

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Latin pop sensation Shakira claims that she could belly dance from birth.

The “She Wolf” singer is famed for her hip-swivelling abilities and believes it isn’t something she ever had to learn, even though she did have lessons as a child.

The Columbian beauty said, “For me, it was, and is, more of a natural thing. It’s something that was practically given to me at birth, and for which I never had to train myself. These movements, they are inside me and I can call them back whenever I need them.”

Shakira realizes she is a sex symbol to men all over the world but insists she is “flattered” that guys find her attractive because she has never believed she is a beautiful woman: “I must confess that I feel very flattered - because I never have felt particularly sexy. Anybody who shows me like this is promoting my feminine vanity.”

But Shakira - who appears virtually naked in the video for “She Wolf” - admits it’s not easy looking as good as she does, and she has to stick to a rigorous training regime to stay slim and sexy:

“I trained really hard for the “She Wolf” video - almost a month. I wanted to look good and didn’t want to shame myself. There was no muscle in my body that did not hurt. I was in pain for days, simply because I’d gone too far.”

“I’ve never seen it and nor will I ever.” That’s what Miley Cyrus recently declared about the Twilight series of films.

Although it would seem perfectly natural for this 16-year-old to be obsessed with the Stephenie Meyer’s books, the Last Song actress is apparently much cooler than most girls her age. During a recent interview with an Ohio radio station, Cyrus said there is nothing about the vampire storyline appeals to her.

“It’s a cult. I don’t believe in it,” Miley said. “I don’t believe in it. I don’t like vampires. I don’t like any of the stuff. I don’t like the wolf that pops out of the screen when I’m watching my TV at night. I don’t like it. I don’t want anything to do with it. I don’t like the shirts. I don’t like any of it.”

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The LAPD responded to a call of “drunk people arguing” early Wednesday morning, a domestic dispute between Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt.

One eyewitness reported to TMZ that Hilton was screaming “Don’t go, don’t go!” as Reinhardt was getting into his car. The unnamed source further reports that the two then began “shoving each other.”

Police officers who arrived said they spoke to Paris and then left the scene.

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For today’s installment, we have Playgirl‘s latest star (a.k.a. Levi Johnston) on the left and actor Timothy Olyphant on the right.

One was featured in Deadwood while the other chose not to feature in any wood.

(Make sure to check out more of our Celebrity Double-Takes here, here and here.)

Newsweek’s most recent Sarah Palin cover shows a sexy former governor with long, bare legs - and Palin says it’s an “unfortunate” photo choice. She explains that the photo was originally taken for Runner’s World, an article that was “all about health and fitness” - a subject she says is “critically important to this nation.”

Newsweek re-used the photo with the headline “How Do You Solve a Problem like Sarah?” The one-time VP candidate spoke out against this choice via Facebook.

“When it comes to Sarah Palin, this ‘news’ magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant,” she wrote. “The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, gender or color of skin.” I assume this applies to Palin’s own book, Going Rogue, as well.

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Amy Winehouse has made a “miraculous” recovery from her addictions.

The singer’s father Mitch Winehouse is delighted with his daughter’s progress as she battles her drug and alcohol problems and believes she should be given more credit for her hard work. “She’s doing fantastic and I don’t think enough credit is given to her about what she’s achieved over the last year. It’s been nothing short of miraculous,” he told Heat magazine.

The “Back to Black” singer - who spent several months earlier this year living on the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia -  has just spent $59,000 on a breast enlargement operation, which Mitch claims was a way of her getting some control of her life. “I think she looks great, every bit of her - including the boobs,” Mitch said.

Mitch also likened his daughter - who recently divorced Blake Fielder-Civil but is rumored to have rekindled her romance with him - to Kerry Katona and Katie Price. “They all have a knack of choosing the wrong men,” he stated.

Sarah Palin has gone on record while promoting her new tell-all (Going Rogue) to speak out against the McCain camp…but her former running mate could soon answer with a few stories of his own.

Rumor has it that no less than thee different book agents and/or publishers have approached John McCain, offering many millions to get him to share his side of the story. One unnamed publisher is quoted as saying that such a tome “would be the hottest book of the year. Even bigger than Sarah’s book.”

But will McCain actually do it? Only time - and press releases - will tell.

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Movie star Nicolas Cage recently admitted to having some serious financial troubles, suing his business manager because of his missing funds. But the manager - Samuel Levin, CPA - has filed a countersuit against the actor.

Levin said that Cage “had already squandered tens of millions of dollars,” when he was hired, and that the National Treasure star owed “millions” in “income taxes, with no funds available to pay the tax debt.”

The countersuit claims that Levin told Cage he needed to make at least $30 million per year to continue living in his usual manner. Levin says that in 2007 alone, the actor purchased three homes for the sum of $33 million and twenty-two cars (nine of which were made by Rolls Royce), among other extravagant purchases.

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Listen closely, ladies: Robert Pattinson is willing to get naked on screen for the right role.

The British actor, who plays vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies, would consider taking his clothes off if he thought the part required it.

“I think it would depend on what it is. And I don’t think a lot of people would really want to see that. I think it would ruin the illusion!”

Although he would be prepared to strip for a movie, the 23-year-old star admits he finds nudity embarrassing and struggled when he had to shoot explicit scenes for the 2008 movie Little Ashes, in which he played a young Salvador Dali.

“It’s funny because Spanish people have no problem with nudity at all, and I mean at all. And English people obviously do have the most enormous problem with it. Little things, like when I saw my father getting changed for swimming, I was traumatized by it… I kind of freaked out a bit.”

Teenage hunk Taylor Lautner loves having short hair again after being forced to wear a long wig for his new movie.

The 17-year-old actor had to don lengthy tresses for upcoming film New Moon, but was relieved to be told he could ditch it for good in the second half of the sequel: “I would not want that hair. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I couldn’t even recognize myself.”

The star also discovered he was a book worm after reading the novels the movie series is based on. Taylor admits he never really read much before picking up Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga series - and then he was hooked:

“As a matter of fact, I was not a book reader at all. The only books I ever read were the ones I was forced to in school. But when I started reading this book series, I fell in love with the characters and started turning the pages one after another. It was crazy. I never thought I could do that. But I love this story. This franchise has everything in it - romance, action, suspense. It has a dark side to it.”

As reported earlier, Ashlee Simpson will soon be appearing on Broadway.

Chicago producer Barry Weissler told reporters that Simpson will start her Broadway run on November 30, for a ten-week commitment.

Ashlee formerly played the role in the London production of the play, back in 2006.

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The outlandish stories continue, sans recorded conversations: recently, Lindsay Lohan allegedly refused to pay two bottles of champagne from a Los Angeles bar.

The troubled actress was reportedly furious when she was given a bill for her drinks at The Crown Bar and stunned onlookers with a tantrum when staff insisted she settled her tab for her evening.

A source revealed, “Lindsay stormed into the kitchen and grabbed two bottles of really expensive champagne. She finished both bottles with a friend. When the bartender gave her a bill, she had a meltdown. She was yelling at him and screaming profanities at everyone. The bar insisted she pay, so she had to call a friend with her credit card information.”

The star eventually left the nightspot at 2.30am, but was still in tears over the incident: “She was crying and wanted to go home. She kept saying ‘I don’t pay for drinks! This is ridiculous! I’m freaking out!’”

Lindsay, who has previously undergone stints in a rehabilitation clinic for alcohol abuse, has caused increasing concern with her recent behavior. Her father Michael Lohan has spoken out, saying he fears she will die if she doesn’t get help for her problems: “I want my daughter off prescription medication. She never needed it in her life… I’m not going to watch my daughter die. Hate me now, but you love me more later because I’m gonna turn her life around.”