Wedding bells I
Rocker Elton John has said he wants to wed his longtime companion, David Furnish, MSNBC.com reports.
"We haven't set a date, and it surely won't be a big public ceremony, but I would like to place my life in his hands with a wedding vow," the Rocket Man told the German weekly celebrity magazine Gala. John is in Berlin to accept Germany's "Bambi" media award for his work to fight AIDS.
John's rep, however, denies the story, saying, "Elton's not planning to marry David."
Wedding bells II
London -- Prince Charles and his companion, Camilla Parker Bowles, will not attend the wedding of his godson this weekend, sparking reports in newspapers that they refused to be seated apart.
The Daily Mail reported Charles pulled out because Parker Bowles had been assigned a seat in Chester Cathedral rows behind him.
The Daily Telegraph, in its front-page story, headlined: "Camilla boycotts wedding over snub."
The explanation from Charles' office, however, was that he was passing up the wedding of godson Edward van Cutsem and Lady Tamara Grosvenor to meet with families of the Black Watch Regiment, which was recently redeployed nearer Baghdad, Iraq.
Wedding bells: Two years later
New York -- Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, stars of "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica," want everyone to know they're happily married.
The couple, who celebrated their second wedding anniversary Oct. 26, are taping a new season of their MTV reality series and will star in their second ABC variety show in December.
Yes, Simpson tells People magazine, they get into arguments.
"What married couple doesn't?" the 24-year-old singer says. "You don't want to marry somebody who's just like you. So there are always going to be conflicts. That's what compromise is all about. It means that we're communicating."
And Lachey, 30, says he isn't jealous of his wife's popularity.
"There's no bigger supporter in Jessica's life than me," he tells the magazine.
American Idol 101
Perhaps in homage to Clay Aiken and Fantasia Barrino, who both hail from North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will soon offer a course requiring students to watch "American Idol," The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
In January, when the show returns for a fourth season, assistant musicology professor Jay Grymes will teach the elective "Examining American Idol Through Musical Critique."
The show that springboarded runner-up Aiken and winner Barrino to fame is expected to provoke meaningful academic discussion about performance criticism.
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