Is Angelina Jolie pregnant again? Nope, says Ange. But then she denied she was preggers with the twins even when she already looked as if she'd swallowed a suckling pig.

Still, the official line from Brad Pitt and Angelina is no new wee ones just yet — but they are planning to add yet more children to their ever-growing army of pre-schoolers. Isn't having six kids too much? "It's chaos in our house, but it's so much fun," claims Jolie. "We'll definitely have more."

Now, Ange is reportedly on at Brad to sell his art collection and give the cash to charity. Okay, so she really does care about poverty and suffering, but what about the environment? If she really cares about the planet, how does she justify those three biological kiddies of hers? Because, the thing is — as one of my determined-not-to-have-kids friends reminds me — the single biggest thing you can do for the well-being of the natural world is not to produce any offspring.

You could practically leave your SUV running around the clock and make sure they put every item you ever bought at the supermarket in its own plastic bag... and still be using up less of our precious resources than even an organic, hand-knitted baby would consume. Sad, but true.

So, basically, the Jolie-Pitts are on their way to becoming the single biggest cause of global warming.

No new babies on the horizon for Britney Spears, though the Princess of Pop is back on the dating scene again. But, Spears isn't being let out alone — she's got to have her assistant Brett tag along.

Given the guys she's had to sit through dates with, though, it sounds as if the flacker's presence was more than welcome.

"Right when we got there, we just knew it was just bad," says Brit to Rolling Stone mag of her latest date. "He looked like an older version of Harry Potter, but skinnier. And the other date I had, the guy was really, really tall and a lot older..."

"We're trying to ask him questions, like: 'OK, you're into martial arts, so what kind of martial arts are you into?' And he was like: 'Oh, all kinds.' But you know how silly we are, so we were just cracking up."

Uh, Britney, you do know that these men are likely literate, will probably read these comments and are going to know right away that it's them you're dissing? It's one thing to moan to your girlfriends about your uber-crappy date; it's quite another to publicly humiliate the poor bloke.

Sure, Spears has endured way more than her own fair share of being publicly trashed, but she does get the fame and, you know, the vast, vast fortune to somewhat make up for it.

Tom Cruise has also gone through a rough time these last few years, since he jumped on that couch and went around talking all wild- and crazy-eyed about his colossal love for Katie Holmes... but, he's super rich. And he's generally found that it's the seemingly mad decisions that have really paid off for him — certainly as far as his career's concerned.

Some people counselled him against his latest role, playing Claus von Stauffenberg, a man who tried to kill Hilter, in 'Valkyrie'. Then again, there were those who told him not to take some of his biggest hit roles. But Mr. Scientology has always marched to the beat of his own drummer (as long as L Ron Hubbard would approve).

"There's always someone telling you not to make a movie. When I did 'Born on the Fourth of July' they said: 'This is going to ruin your career. What are you doing?' Suicide? I've committed it. There were people who didn't want me to make 'Top Gun'."

Sure, 'Top Gun' is tripe — but it was awesomely popular, entertaining, career-making tripe.

You know what's always puzzled me? I think I may well have pondered this with you before, dear readers, but I still don't get it. Yes, Robert Downey Jr.'s got talent and loads of charisma — so, it's not difficult to see how he initially made his career. My question is: how has he kept it going through the number of drug scandals, flaming personal disasters and incarcerations that it's taken to make him practically uninsurable?

He's a great actor, but horribly prone to... well, drug-fuelled catastrophe — hardly a sure Hollywood bet. What's more, he's typically played smaller, quirkier roles — and, yet, he gets cast as a huge action star!

Hey, I'm definitely not complaining — yay for casting Downey Jr., I say! I'm just thoroughly confused.

Still, RDJ seems to be all cleaned up and finally staying that way, and he's had a great big hit with 'Iron Man'. And, now, he's trying to make sure that movie execs don't turn Marvel comics' 'The Avengers' into a crappy film.