San Francisco musician Craig Zolezzi is not the father of Minnie Driver's baby. So says the “Riches” star in response to persistent tabloid rumors.
The actress-singer, who is six months pregnant, tells London's The Independent that the father is English and is “sort of in the same business.” Driver, who is in England to promote her new CD, “Seastories,” warned that she and the mystery man have no plans to wed.
“I want to shield the baby's dad as much as I can because it wasn't his choice to get roped into all this stuff,” Driver said.
FROM TAT TO TOTS
Married just a little over a week and Mariah Carey is already making with the baby talk. She wants to start a family with new hubaroo Nick Cannon because it's the next step of married life, she says.
The couple wed in a sunset ceremony at Carey's home in the Bahamas April 30. The 39-year-old songbird told the New York Daily News: “It's part of the whole purpose of getting married. I'd just want our children to have the best childhood and upbringing they possibly could.”
Carey had unveiled her new tattoo, “Mrs. Cannon” on the small of her back to talk show queen Oprah Winfrey on April 14, and admits only those who knew of her new inking were aware of their plans to wed.
She adds, “I don't think anyone realized what we already knew, that we were going to get married.”
And rapper/actor Cannon, 27, reveals he was lost for words when the time came to say “I do.”
“I haven't been shy in years, but I was speechless,” he said of the surprise ceremony. “I was elated, but I was thinking, 'Don't pass out.' ”
SEX AND THE SMITHSONIAN
Sarah Jessica Parker had to beg curators of The Smithsonian museum to return her “Sex And The City” character's desk and laptop so she could use them in the forthcoming movie. The iconic set accessories – used by Parker's journalist character Carrie Bradshaw – were donated to the museum when the hit show's run came to an end in 2004.
Parker reveals bosses at the institute were so reluctant to return them, she had to get on the horn to get the ball rolling.
“After the series finale, The Smithsonian called us to ask for the desk and laptop from the TV show,” Parker tells StyleList.com. “They only released it back (for use for the film) after I made several personal calls.
“When it was suggested I use a replica because no one would know it a replica, I said 'I will know.' We had to have that desk – as a writer, it's an extension of you.”
FOXY LADY
Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.
Brown and neighbor Arlene Raymond got into a fight last July over Brown blasting her car stereo outside their Brooklyn apartment building.
As part of the plea deal, the 28-year-old rapper wrote a letter apologizing to Raymond. Brown presented the letter to Justice John Walsh in a Brooklyn courtroom.
– COMPILED BY CAROLINE DIPPING FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
