Chanel’s new Mademoiselle

New York – Chanel has selected “Pride & Prejudice” star Keira Knightley as the new face of its Coco Mademoiselle fragrance.

The 21-year-old actress will appear in Chanel ads beginning in 2007, the company announced Wednesday.

Knightley succeeds Kate Moss, whose contract expired last October. The 32-year-old British supermodel had starred in the Coco Mademoiselle ads since 2002.

Moss lost several high-profile modeling contracts last year after a tabloid published pictures of her allegedly using cocaine in a west London music studio.

Hatcher patched up

Los Angeles – Teri Hatcher suffered an eye injury when a light bulb exploded on the set of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” People magazine reported.

“Glass lodged in my right eye and proceeded to scratch my cornea,” Hatcher was quoted as telling the magazine following Tuesday’s accident. “I was taken to a wonderful eye doctor, and am now wearing a most glamorous eye patch over the right half of my face.”

Hatcher, 41, said she should be back to work in two days and was trying to see the humor “in the oddity of it all.”

The injury forced the actress to cancel her appearance at a Tuesday night party for the AmberWatch Foundation, which is dedicated to preventing child abduction and molestation. Hatcher is the group’s new spokeswoman.

Illusion of poverty

West Palm Beach, Fla. – David Copperfield has magically escaped getting robbed.

The 49-year-old illusionist was walking with two female assistants to their tour bus after his show Sunday at a performing arts center when four teens pulled up in a black car, a police report said.

Two armed robbers allegedly got out of the car and demanded the group’s belongings. One woman handed over $400 from her pockets and the other gave up her purse with 200 euros, $100, her passport, plane tickets and a cell phone.

Copperfield says he turned his pockets inside out to reveal nothing in them, even though he was carrying his passport, wallet and cell phone.

“Call it reverse pickpocketing,” Copperfield told The Palm Beach Post for Wednesday’s editions.

Copperfield read the license plate number of the car to an assistant while she called 911, the report said.

Four teenagers were arrested and charged with armed robbery. They were held without bond, police said. The women’s property was recovered.

Jagger tries comedy

New York – Mick Jagger has filmed scenes for a comedy pilot being considered by ABC for its fall schedule, Charissa Gilmore, spokeswoman for Touchstone Television, the producers, said Wednesday.

The comedy, which doesn’t have a title yet, is being made by Rob Burnett and Jon Beckerman, the creative team behind NBC’s “Ed.” It stars Donal Logue as a janitor who schemes with his friends to rob someone rich and famous.

While pitching the series, the producers jokingly titled the show “Let’s Rob Jeff Goldblum,” although Goldblum proved unavailable for the project, according to The New York Times.

Jagger was approached and liked the idea. Since the Rolling Stones were touring, his scenes were filmed recently in New Zealand, Gilmore said.

ABC will decide on its fall schedule by May 16, with the Jagger pilot one of several new comedies under consideration. ABC is currently short of hit comedies and has a number of holes in its schedule, which may work in the show’s favor.

Condition updates

Apparently, Britney’s done it again.

Us Weekly reports anonymous “sources have confirmed” that Britney Spears, who has yet to outgrow her training wheels as mother of 7-month-old Sean, is pregnant with her second Kevin Federline-spawned child. Spears was reportedly seen in Vegas this weekend “sporting a red bikini and a serious bump.”

¢ Angelina Jolie, 30, told NBC’s Ann Curry, in a spot taped for this morning’s “Today” show, that she’s barely eight months pregnant. Look for four more weeks of idle stories about idle paparazzi trespassing in Namibia.