Ashlee Simpson is still remaining mum on impending motherhood.

The newly betrothed singer dodged pregnancy talk yet again on the Today show Friday morning when Matt Lauer prodded about “expanding the family.”

“Well, you know, that’s been going around for about a year now, so only time will tell with that,” Ashlee answered.

Without missing a beat, and changing the topic entirely, the 23-year-old quipped, “But I am giving birth to my record [Bittersweet World]. That’s my new baby.”

While she continued to be coy about her pregnancy, which OK! confirmed on Monday, Ashlee couldn’t stop gushing about her fiancé, Pete Wentz, and the “great job” he did at picking out her new rock.

“I’m very lucky,” she said.

Asked if they have settled on a wedding date, Ash said they don’t have one in mind just yet.

“Right now, we’re just enjoying the engagement.”

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Mariah Carey, who frequently describes herself as “eternally 12,” told Oprah Winfrey she can now wear her high school wardrobe.

“My jean size went down to my 10th grade size,” the 38-year-old revealed Monday.

“I got tired to people telling me, ‘You need to lose weight,’” she said. “It inspired me.”

“For me, it’s not about a number on a scale,” she added. “It’s not about necessarily even a size. It’s about feeling good and being comfortable in your own skin. Right now, I feel really great. I feel better than I’ve ever felt.”

With the help of a diet and nutrition guru, the singer has maintained a very strict diet that limits foods cooked in butter.

Her most coveted indulgence? Mac and cheese.

“It broke my heart… That’s the thing that I have difficulty letting go of because that’s comfort food,” Carey said. “So basically I’m uncomfortable.”

Carey – who just celebrated her 18th No. 1 single – has also credited her personal trainer for her new physique.

“I don’t know why everyone thinks I lost 30 pounds,” she told Allure. “This trainer has actually helped me reshape my arms. That’s where I gained most of my weight: upper body. That’s just one thing you have to lose weight for.”

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Britney Spears relaxed after her minor car accident with an intimate dinner with mom Lynne on Saturday night.

The two hit Dominick’s Restaurant and sat in the second booth near the entrance.

“She was in a great mood, talking and laughing a lot!” an on-looker tells Usmagazine.com.

Spears — who “comes in all the time,” says the source — wore a flower dress and “was listening to her mother” talk.

“She was very passive,” notes the on-looker. “You could tell that her mom really had control over the situation.

“It was a mom and daughter affair.”

(See photos of Britney and her parents through the years here.)

As Usmagazine.com first reported, the singer was involved in a minor accident at around 8:20 p.m. Saturday when her 2008 Mercedes struck a 2006 Nissan in front of her that had stopped on the eastbound Ventura Freeway. No one was injured.

A California Highway Patrol Officer took a report, but no one was cited.

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Miley Cyrus is one rich teen!

The Us Power Girl, 15, earned $18.2 million last year, according to Parade magazine’s annual “What People Earn” issue.

Knocked Up star Katherine Heigl raked in $11 million, while newly single Carrie Underwood banked $7 million.

Entrepreneur Mary-Kate Olsen earned $17 million — nearly double what pregnant star Jessica Alba earned.

Leona Helmsley’s dog, Trouble, took in $12 million! (When Helmsley died in 2007, she set up a trust for her beloved Maltese, giving the pet more than she set aside for her own family.)

The complete list:
• Miley Cyrus: $18.2 million
• Katherine Heigl: $11 million
• Jessica Alba: $9 million
• Dr. Phil McGraw: $90 million
• Steven Spielberg: $110 million
• Ryan Seacrest: $12 million
• Mariska Hargitay: $7 million
• Trouble (Leona Helmsley’s dog): $12 million
• Tiger Woods: $115 million
• Jeff Foxworthy: $10 million
• Oprah Winfrey: $260 million
• Mary-Kate Olsen: $17 million
• Gisele Bundchen: $33 million
• Scarlett Johansson: $5 million
• Eli Manning: $11.5 million
• 50 Cent: $33 million
• Carrie Underwood: $7 million

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At a March 25 charity event at hot new L.A. eatery Beso (owned by Eva Longoria Parker), Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom were two of several A-list stars who came out to support a good cause. But witnesses at the restaurant tell OK! the pair was adding more than their fair share of spice to the party!

“They were like heat-seeking missiles,” one eyewitness reveals to OK!. “They came together, threw their arms around each other and shared a big hug.” Adds another attendee at the event, “I saw them in a booth next to each other and Jen was looking at Orlando like he was her favorite person in the world. She looked like she wanted to grab him and make out with him!”

Also in attendance: Jen’s BFF Courteney Cox and her hubby, David Arquette, Jessica Simpson, Kate Beckinsale and Eva Longoria Parker. The gathering was all to help raise funds for the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation.

But this event isn’t the first time Jen, 39, has displayed what sources call a “serious crush” on the adorable Orlando. The pair have known each other since 2003, when the British hunk signed on to play Prince Paris opposite Brad Pitt’s Achilles in the epic big-screen dud Troy.

For the full story on Jen’s possible blooming romance with Orlando, pick up the latest copy of OK! — on stands everywhere Thursday!

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After years of hoping for a child to call her own, when Jennifer Lopez finally found out she was pregnant with twins, putting on pounds was the last thing on her mind. In fact, the 38-year-old superstar even said that she gained the right amount of weight — by her own estimate, between 45 and 50 pounds — for a woman having twins. But now that the twins, Max and Emme, who were born Feb. 22, are healthy and happy, Jenny From the Block is determined to get back the body that made her famous.

Once Jennifer gets the green light from her doctor, she’s going to get her famous butt right back to the gym. Gunnar Peterson, J.Lo’s trainer for the last 10 years, confirms to OK!, “We’re already setting it up. She’s an organizer and a planner.”

So what kind of workout does Peterson have in mind for the superstar? Initially, he says, he’ll “pay attention to her heart rate and start with light cardio and some body-weight exercises and build from there. Just like her kids will do in no time flat — it’s walk before you run.”

So will she be able to shed every last one of those pregnancy pounds? “This is not someone who dabbles in anything,” Peterson says firmly. “She’s the last person I ever worry about getting back into shape.”

For the full story, pick up the new issue of OK! — on sale everywhere Thursday!

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As Britney Spears continues to strive to get her personal and professional lives back in order, OK! has learned she’s turned to a familiar face for help — former manager Larry Rudolph. Though the pair had parted company a year ago, sources confirm exclusively to OK! that the “Toxic” songstress has once again been taken under Larry’s wing.

Larry and Brit share a long and bumpy history. He was the visionary who discovered the young star Britney and shepherded her career from teen pop tart to international superstar. And when her life began to spiral dangerously out of control in the weeks and months following her Oct. 2006 divorce from Kevin Federline, it was Larry who Britney’s parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears, turned to for help getting her into rehab.

After her brief stint at the Promises clinic in Malibu, Brit went public with her ill-feelings toward Larry, chastising him on camera in a bizarre, disjointed rant, for what she viewed as siding with her folks against her.

However, Brit’s dad has always been open about his positive feelings toward Larry, even publicly thanking Larry for his efforts. And now Jamie, who has continued to think the world of Larry both as a manager and as a friend who has Britney’s best interests at heart, has finally convinced Britney to let him take over the reins of her recently resurgent career.

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After much hoopla and ballyhoo on the internet Saturday night, it looks like rumors that Brad Pitt, who famously once said that he would get married again when everyone in the United States could also do so, had said “I do” to gal pal, and mother of his children, Angelina Jolie in a ceremony in New Orleans, are just that — rumors.

“Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were not married in our chapel, period,” Reverend Anthony “Ambassador of Romance” Talavera, proprietor of the French Quarter Wedding Chapel in New Orleans, where the couple were rumored to have tied the knot, tells OK! exclusively. “I’ve never even met them.”

The good reverend goes on to say that one particular media outlet really wants this story to be true. “Star magazine offered me $3000 for an interview, and I turned them down,” he explains. “I would never divulge any information about any of our clients for money.

Reverend Talavera did say, however, that he is, “delighted that Brad and Angelina have chosen to live in our beautiful city, and I wish them all the happiness in the world, whatever their marital status.”

While there’s been no official denial from the Brangelina camps, when reached for comment on the rumors, Brad’s rep would only say to OK! that she had “no idea” if they were true or not.

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Want to know the hardest part about maintaining a relationship with Kim Kardashian? She thinks it’s putting up with the paparazzi.

Kardashian, 27, admits to SI.com that her boyfriend, New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush, 23, hates the pesky paps but is managing to cope – just as she’s learning about football.

“We try to be super low key,” Kardashian tells the Extra Mustard column. “We know if we go to an event, we’re gonna be photographed, but he’ll still say ‘ugh, I don’t want to go.’ ”

Besides, she says, “He really only gets annoyed when we’re out and about and we get followed.”

Part of the Job
Since part of Kardashian’s job – starring on the second season of her reality show, Keeping up with the Kardashians – is being trailed by cameras, she says they’ve kept his involvement in the show to a minimum.

“He’s such a big part of my life that you can’t not be on the show if you’re in my life,” she says. “I’m glad we filmed the show during his season, because he was only on every now and then.”

As for her supporting his career, she reveals the sport is new to her. “I’m a Saints fan and I’m a Reggie fan. I’m just becoming a football fan,” she says. And she doesn’t mind that the gridiron is his No. 1 priority.

“I definitely think we get along because my work is so important to me right now and football is so important to him,” she says. “We both know what’s important.”

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Is Katie Holmes preparing to swap playdates for the Great White Way? Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that she’s in talks for a role on Broadway.

Respected showbiz writer Baz Bamigboye reports that Holmes is “in final negotiations” to make her professional stage debut in a revival of All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s heartbreaking, post-World War II family drama.

While the Mail reports the actress has committed to participating in a workshop of the play in May, a rep for Holmes tells PEOPLE that she is in discussions but also says, “nothing is set.”

If she does take the role, Holmes would play a woman who visits the family of her former lover, a missing pilot. It would be her first play since high school and Holmes would be on stage six nights a week.

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