Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon were spotted smooching courtside at an LA Lakers basketball game. So cute!

In her latest GOOP newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow admits, “I need to lose a few pounds of holiday excess. Anyone else? I like to do fasts and detoxes a couple of times during the year, the most hardcore one being the Master Cleanse I did last spring. It was not what you would characterize as pretty. Or easy.”

“As I do not wish to subsist on lemon water in the middle of winter, I asked my doctor, a detox diet specialist, for the guidelines he uses to achieve a good detox that is not as hallucinogenic (in a bad way) as the Master Cleanse. What it came down to was this: you can detox easily and effectively while you continue to eat as long as you are cutting out the foods and other substances that interfere with the detoxification process.”

That means no dairy, grains with gluten, meat, shellfish, anything processed (including all soy products), fatty nuts, nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant), condiments, sugar, alcohol, caffeine or soft drinks. Instead, Gwyneth is living on salads, fruit smoothies, chicken, soups and lots of water. Fun.

Actress Rebecca Romijn and husband Jerry O'Connell welcomed twin girls, Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip, on December 28. 

The first-time parents will have their hands full and Rebecca recently said she is looking forward to the challenge.

"I'm taking quite a bit of time off," she said in November. "I really want this to be my job for at least the next six months."

"Jerry and I want to be very hands-on... My mum's coming to help us as much as we need. But this is something we're really looking forward to."

"I'm really excited to see what happens next and to visit a completely different chapter in my life."

Two childhood sweethearts from Hanover were planning on eloping in Africa on New Year’s Eve.

The hitch: the bride and groom are aged six and seven.

The pair, identified only as Anna-Bell (left) and Mika (right), were “very much in love and decided to get married in Africa where it is warm, taking with them as a witness Anna-Bell's little sister (centre), aged five," police spokesman Holger Jureczko said.

While their parents slept, the trio left their house and walked a kilometre up the road to a tram stop which took them to the central station. They were spotted by a guard who then contacted police. Two officers managed to convince the young lovers that they would find it hard to get to Africa without any money or a plane ticket.

The children were reunited with their parents at the station. 

Economic uncertainty and rising unemployment has seen Australian Defence Force job applications jump by almost 20% over the three months to December 1 compared with the same period just 12 months earlier. While the ADF says it is too early to say whether the latest figures are linked with the economic downturn, it expects to see even greater interest from potential recruits in the next few months.

"Over time, the ADF could expect to recruit high-quality applicants and retain those already serving for longer periods," a Defence spokesman revealed.

It’s hoped that the sudden downturn in the resources sector will reduce competition for skilled technicians who have turned away from the ADF previously.

"Defence continues to face skill shortages in a number of employment groups across the three services, in particular trade, engineering and health categories,"

"The challenges Defence face include attracting these professional, technical and trade recruits and keeping them, as skilled and experienced members, for longer periods."

The ADF maintains it has boosted the size of its permanent force by 1500 over the past 12 months to more than 50,000.

Seriously.

Karl Lagerfeld has designed a bowl for Dom Pérignon Champagne inspired by Claudia's breast. The design is modeled after a bowl made for Queen Marie Antoinette in 1787 that, according to legend, was the exact size of one of the Queen's breasts.

The boob bowl sits on top of porcelain models of Dom bottles with both Karl and Claudia's signatures and the whole thing is yours (with a purchase of 1995 Dom Pérignon Oenothèque) for just US$3150.

Wonder if Karl made a papier-mâché mold of Claudia's boob?

President-elect Barack Obama has just touched down in Washington, where he will be reunited with Michelle and daughters, Sasha and Malia, who had arrived in their new hometown a day earlier to prepare the girls for the start of school today. 

After he boarded the Air Force presidential jet in Chicago, Obama told reporters he got a little teary.

"I gotta say I choked up a little bit leaving my house today."

"Malia's friend had dropped off an album of the two of them together. They had been friends since pre-school and I just looked through the pages and the house was empty and it was a little tough, it got me."

US economist Jeffrey Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations secretary general, believes the world is facing a serious recession but should avoid a repeat of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Sachs said allowing investment bank Lehman Brothers to collapse was a "huge mistake" and that any other huge errors, such as letting US car makers go under, would lead to a depression.

Sachs also stated that Asia should be able to maintain economic growth.

Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford filed for divorce last week from her husband of two years, German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch.

The couple have a two-year-old son, Hermes Gustaf, and Kelly, 40, is three months pregnant with their second child.

Kelly, who split from first husband Carlos Tarajano in 2001 after five months of marriage, cited "irreconcilable differences."

John Travolta, Kelly Preston and their 8-year-old daughter Ella released a statement yesterday afternoon thanking fans for the outpouring of support after their son Jett's death on Friday.

"We would like to extend our deepest and most heartfelt thanks to everyone who has sent their love and condolences," the statement said.

"Jett was the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for and lit up the lives of everyone he encountered. We are heartbroken that our time with him was so brief. We will cherish the time we had with him for the rest of our lives.

"We have received many messages of condolence from around the world and we want to thank everyone for their prayers and support. It has meant so much to us. It is a beautiful reminder of the inherent goodness in the human spirit that gives us hope for a brighter future."

"With love, John, Kelly and Ella."

Jett, 16, died Friday morning in the Bahamas where the Travolta family was vacationing. The boy reportedly suffered a seizure and hit his head on a bathtub. Kelly has long maintained that Jett suffered from Kawasaki Syndrome after being exposed to carpet-cleaning chemicals at a young age.

The body was discovered by one of the family's two nannies, Jeff Michael Kathrein, the same man John was photographed kissing on the lips in 2006.