Clear your schedule and do what you can to prepare yourself, because Beyonce has announced when The Greatest Fetus Of All Time™ is scheduled to make his or her arrival. In an interview on Australia’s Sunday Night, it was revealed that the baby is due in February 2012. She says pregnancy, “already has changed my life. My husband and I have been together for 10 years, all of my 20s, since I was 20, and I just feel like it’s time … I’m very grateful that God has blessed me with the biggest gift any human being can have. And I think because I’ve accomplished a lot of things for myself and I really know who I am … if there was any time, right now is the time. I’m so happy.” You can watch the interview at the link, but be warned: It contains the sentence, “The only thing bigger than Beyonce right now is her beautiful baby bump. No wonder Beyonce is blooming. This really is destiny’s child.” [CNN]
At the Harvard-Cornell game Bill Murray introduced himself when Cornell’s band started playing the Ghostbusters theme, and later he pretended to conduct. Even though there’s video, these kids should know that no one will ever believe them. [N.Y. Magbill ]
Well, no one could have seen this coming: Child bride Courtney Stodden is obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, and posed with her her hands and feet in Marilyn’s imprints on the Walk of Fame. [Radar]
Lady Gaga appeared on a British talk show and gave the host a sheep named Kevin as a birthday gift. [N.Y. Mag]
- Rosie O’Donnell says she’s dropped her asexual crush on Tom Cruise and now she has a new man: Russell Brand. She said, “He’s replaced Tom Cruise, he has, and Tom knows, I sent him a little text, I said, ‘Tommy, I’ll always love you, move over, Russell Brand is in.'” [E!]
- Johnny Depp is producing a live-action movie about Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. He hasn’t signed on to play the lead yet, but he’s no stranger to films about children’s books. [UPI]
- Since Chris Brown didn’t perform at the Michael Jackson tribute concert, many speculated that he’s been banned fromt he U.K. due to his criminal record. His rep says “his previously booked domestic F.A.M.E. tour concert dates didn’t allow him to accept the honor and therefore he never planned to go to the UK. He was not banned.” [TMZ]
- Miley Cyrus spend the weekend in Haiti at an event for the Starkey Hearing Foundation, which provides hearing aids to children. While there Miley met Hiatian President Michel Martelly and sang “Party In The U.S.A.” with the kids. Nothing raises troubled kids’ sprits like knowing that somewhere, far across the ocean, other children are moving their hips to a Britney song. [E!]
- Evangeline Lily on the birth of her son: “I actually skipped the hospital … We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural … Eight hours of pushing, that’s the part that men don’t understand. Women go, ‘Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?’ And the men are like, ‘Okay, eight hours of pushing.'” [People]