Love allowed to leave residential drug program

Los Angeles – Singer Courtney Love, who has been at a live-in drug treatment facility since September, can enroll in an outpatient program, a judge ruled.

Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin cut short her sentence for violating probation in three criminal cases, including two drug-related charges. He previously ordered Love, 41, to spend 180 days at the residential facility.

“You’re doing really well. I’m really pleased with the reports,” Rubin told her Friday. “I certainly hope you keep up the good progress. You’re definitely going in the right direction.”

The judge ordered Love, the former lead singer of the band Hole and widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, to submit to random checks twice a week for drugs and alcohol. She also must continue therapy and avoid any business that primarily sells alcohol.

Wedded bliss

New York – Christina Aguilera has found out what a girl wants, and now she has married him.

The 24-year-old pop singer tied the knot with music executive Jordan Bratman in a Saturday evening ceremony at Staglin Family Vineyard in northern California’s Napa Valley, Us Weekly reported on its Web site.

Aguilera, 24, found her Christian Lacroix dress during Paris Fashion Week, and the couple were set to exchange wedding bands designed by London jeweler Stephen Webster, the magazine said.

Bratman, a 28-year-old music executive, proposed to Aguilera in February while on vacation in Carmel, Calif. Their hotel room was filled with rose petals, balloons and gift boxes, and each had a present and poem.

“When I got to the last box, there was a ring in it,” Aguilera told the magazine. “He got down on one knee and said ‘Will you do me the honor of being my wife?’ I’ve been floating ever since.”

No love in the U.S.

Mexico City – British pop star Robbie Williams says he’s not planning to release his latest record, “Intensive Care,” in the United States because he’s more popular in Europe.

“I live in America. Nobody knows me there,” he said at a news conference. “I can pick my nose … get away with a lot of things that I wouldn’t be able to get away with in the rest of the world, and then everywhere else I go I’m a pop star,” he added.

“And it’s fun – it’s like being Batman.”

Williams said “Intensive Care” had changed his life perspective. He explained that for the first time he took part in the full musical composing process, not just writing the lyrics and the melody to songs.

“I do have songwriting ability,” he said. “Before I only imagined it. … That means the world to me.”

Hollywood lunar-cy

New York – Stars appearing at Tuesday’s American Music Awards will depart with a piece of the moon.

Lindsay Lohan, Will Smith, Missy Elliot and the dozens of other entertainers who are either presenting or performing at the award show will each be given a gift basket that contains nearly 100 free items – including ownership of an acre of land on the moon.

The gift bags will also include clothes, perfumes, watches, BlackBerries and other various electronics – adding up to a total value of approximately $33,000. They were assembled by Hollywood Connections, a gift bag specialist.

The moon “ownership” is done by a company called Lunar Federation that says it plans to have the first private mission to the moon, thereby allowing it to create a Moon government and secure land rights – or so it claims. Steve Stein of Hollywood Connections, though, acknowledges the gift is more for fun than anything.

The 33rd annual special will air live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Tuesday on ABC (7 p.m. CDT). Cedric the Entertainer will host.

Reality ‘fore’ golfers

New York – Professional golfer John Daly is joining Paris Hilton, Ozzy Osbourne and Donald Trump in the world of reality TV.

Daly will star in “The Daly Planet,” a 13-part series for The Golf Channel beginning Jan. 18. The weekly Wednesday night episodes will follow Daly’s daily life on and off the golf course.

The long-hitting, 39-year-old Daly has for years been one of the most popular golfers on the PGA tour. A two-time major championship winner, Daly has also battled problems with alcohol, weight and his temper.

Crowe pleads guilty

in assault of hotel employee

New York – Russell Crowe pleaded guilty Friday to third-degree assault, admitting to a judge that he threw a phone that hit a Manhattan hotel concierge in June.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Kathryn Freed sentenced the Oscar-winning actor to a conditional discharge, which means he must not get arrested for one year. The judge also instructed Crowe to pay a $160 court surcharge, which defense attorney Gerald Lefcourt said would be paid immediately.

If he had been convicted of more serious charges initially filed against him – assault and criminal possession of a weapon – Crowe could have lost his right to work in the United States and might have faced seven years of prison time.