Kiwi in Jude Law baby scandal

A British newspaper claims a New Zealand-born model will give birth to Jude Law's baby daughter, Sophia, in October.

The Daily Mirror newspaper in Britain has reported Samantha Burke, 24, an aspiring actress, seven months pregnant with the British movie star's fourth child, was born here.

It will be Jude's fourth child. He has three, Rafferty, 12, Iris, 8, and Rudy, 6, with ex-wife Sadie Frost.
After news broke yesterday, Samantha went into hiding at her mother Lea Burke's home in Pensacola, Florida, in the United States.

The gorgeous brunette and Jude, 36, had a passionate fling in New York over Christmas while he filmed Sherlock Holmes.

Lea's mother said her daughter had been "stressing and upset" over the ladies' man, who "hasn't called once" since he received a letter breaking the news of the pregnancy.

"Samantha has no idea what is going on," Lea told the Mirror.

"She is very stressed out and upset. This was never planned and Jude didn't want the baby.

"It was a total accident. But Samantha is staying positive and hoping Jude will get in touch.

"She really wanted to get hold of him, but he hasn't called once.

"At the moment, they have some sort of agreement in place - I guess his lawyer is probably telling him not to contact her."

It was "hard to understand" why he didn't just "pick up the phone", she added.

Late yesterday, Samantha issued a statement, read by her lawyer, saying the quotes from her mother had been "taken out of context" and that Jude had been "responsive and supportive" and would remain so "as a father once baby Sophia is born".

In a video of the press conference, on the Sun newspaper's website, the only words Samantha utters, after introducing herself, is requesting privacy during this "hard time".

Jude made his own statement saying he would "fully support" his new baby.

According to the Daily Mail, Jude's ex-wife and children are "distraught" by the news.

This latest scandal will do little for the Alfie act

Brad Pitt works on his $70 million French chateau

Brad Pitt wants to bring up his ever-growing family in France. Pitt and Angelina Jolie are leasing a huge 1000 acre property, Chateau Miraval, in the south of the country and are said to have fallen in love with the area.

Perhaps it is no surprise then that the couple are spending some serious cash on making this 35 room house, valued at $70 million, their home. A reported $5 million is being spent on renovations and on adding the very necessary security features to the entire estate.

It is Brad who has taken the lead on this project while Angelina has been concentrating on brushing up her flying skills in Burbank, California.

Brad flew into Marseille, France this week for a one-day stop over to check on the status of his family pad and is said to be taking a very personal interest in the design aspect, even designing the furniture himself.

Angelina is a lucky girl to have bagged such a multi-talented guy.

Bipasha's film with Billy Zane doesn't take off

Why wasn’t Bipasha Basu available for the shoot? Did she act unprofessionally? Why was the scheduled shoot called off? Is she not keen to work with Billy Zane in the movie ‘Chimera’? The answers to these questions are not clear.

However, the fact that she wasn’t there on the first day of the movie’s shoot is true. Bipasha was supposed to report for filming on the 23rd July in Kodaikanal but there was no sign of her, neither was there any trace of Titanic actor Billy Zane. As a result, the shoot got cancelled for an indefinite period.

According to reports, it was because of Bipasha that Billy was asked to delay his trip and hence he didn’t come to India for the shoot. It’s been rumoured that the sexy actress had certain unresolved issues with the film; now we have no idea whether she will act in the film or not.

‘Chimera’ will be directed by Daniel Silverman from Hollywood and arthouse director Tapan Saha. The film has been in the making for a long time but looking at recent happenings, it appears that the movie is at a standstill.

This is not the first time that Bipasha has had problems with an international film; a few years ago her Ben Kingsley starrer was also put on the backburner for reasons unknown.

Such incidences are common when Bollywood wants to join hands with Hollywood; something or the other seems to go wrong. Monica Bellucci was slated to star opposite Sanjay Suri in a biopic on Sonia Gandhi whilst Aishwarya Rai has been on the wish-list of the handsome Will Smith forever. However, the gorgeous actress doesn’t seem to have time to work with the talented Hollywood star. Even Deepa Mehta wanted to sign John Abraham and Rachel Weisz together for her ambitious project ‘Luna’ but is concentrating on other projects for now.

Nevertheless, there is an international collaboration for us to look forward to - Mallika Sherawat’s film Hisss is complete without any hitches and is into post-production.