Yamaguchi takes ‘Dancing’ crown

Los Angeles – Kristi Yamaguchi came into the “Dancing With the Stars” finale with a perfect score and left with the mirrorball trophy.

The figure skater’s victory Tuesday over pro football star Jason Taylor broke the string of four consecutive male winners. She was the first woman to claim the “Dancing” crown since the show’s opening season. Her dancing partner was Mark Ballas.

“This is just the icing on the cake,” Yamaguchi said after her victory Tuesday night. “I honestly thank all the fans out there … everyone who’s made this a dream experience.”

Said Taylor: “I never, ever thought I would get to this point … Kristi is so deserving.”

Cristian de la Fuente was the first to be eliminated during the season finale. The actor, who ruptured a tendon in his biceps while performing on the show April 28, delayed the surgery necessary to repair it so he could continue on the hit ABC dance-off.

Jessica Alba weds Cash Warren

New York – Sorry, guys. Jessica Alba’s “taken” status is legal.

The 27-year-old actress quietly wed producer Cash Warren on Monday, her publicist, Brad Cafarelli, said Tuesday in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Cafarelli didn’t give further details.

The pair became engaged in late December following Alba’s announcement that she’s expecting a baby with Warren, 31. They met on the set of the 2005 film “The Fantastic Four,” which co-starred Alba and employed Warren as a director’s assistant.

Alba’s recently appeared in “Awake,” “Good Luck Chuck” and “The Ten.” The sex symbol first gained fame as an action star on TV’s “Dark Angel,” then in films including “Fantastic Four” and “Sin City.”

Besides a baby, Alba is also expecting two films this summer: “Meet Bill,” in which she plays a lingerie saleswoman who helps turn life around for a loser, and “The Love Guru” with Mike Myers as a self-help weirdo trying to patch things up between a hockey star and his wife.

Actor George Takei plans trek down aisle

Los Angeles – Actor George Takei said he will wed his longtime partner and business manager, Brad Altman, now that the California Supreme Court has legalized same-sex marriage.

Takei, the original Mr. Sulu on “Star Trek,” said on his Web site that he and Altman have shared their lives for more than 21 years and are “overjoyed” to be able to legally marry.

“No more ‘separate but equal.’ No more second-class citizenship,” wrote Takei, 71. “Brad and I are going to be married as full citizens of our state.”

Takei, who also had a recurring role on NBC’s “Heroes” last year, said he and Altman are planning the details of their wedding.

Harrison Ford waxes serious about trees

New York – Harrison Ford pulled a Steve Carell for a public service announcement: He got his chest waxed.

The 65-year-old star winces in apparent pain as a strip of hair is yanked from between his pecs for a PSA for Conservation International to raise awareness about the effect of deforestation on global warming.

The actor, who doesn’t typically appear in such TV spots, sits on the board of directors of the Washington-based environmental organization.

Conservation International CEO Peter Seligmann said Ford was game to do the 30-second spot, and approved of the waxing concept.

The classic scene from 2005’s “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” – in which Carell screams out “Kelly Clarkson!” during his chest hair removal – was intentionally hilarious. Ford’s message, however, is serious: “Every bit of rain forest that gets ripped out over there, really hurts us over here.”

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” co-starring Ford, Shia LaBeouf and Karen Allen, opens nationwide Thursday.

Photographer wins appeal against Mills

Lewes, England – A photographer convicted of assaulting Heather Mills won an appeal Tuesday because Mills didn’t attend a court hearing.

Jay Kaycappa had been sentenced to 140 hours of community service for allegedly grabbing Mills by her shoulder and taking her photograph in 2006.

A prosecutor told the court in Lewes that Mills, the estranged wife of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, wasn’t available for the hearing, and that he believed she was somewhere in the U.S.

However, Judge Richard Brown said he had received a document from a doctor saying Mills was suffering from stress.

Kaycappa had been convicted of assaulting Mills and her friend Mark Payne after encountering them in a pedestrian tunnel. Mills, Payne and two other men were cycling to the south coast city of Brighton.

Mills and McCartney were granted a preliminary decree of divorce last week, and a final decree could be granted by the end of next month.