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The truth of Chelsea wedding

The town of Rhinebeck, N.Y., is abuzz with preparations and news outlets are clamoring for details, but what’s really going on when it comes to the Saturday wedding of former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton and fiancé Marc Mezvinsky?

PEOPLE tracked down some of the juiciest rumors and burning questions:

1. Could it really be costing $5 million?
Not even close. Sources close to the bride’s parents, who are paying for the wedding, cast recent tabloid “guesstimates” of a wedding budget between $3 million to $5 million as so grossly fabricated they are unworthy of comment. One longtime family friend said the wedding is not exceeding six figures – so in the hundreds-of-thousands dollar range, not millions.

2. Any chance the Clintons are getting freebies for the wedding?
Absolutely not. As Secretary of State, the mother of the bride would be guided not only by what is appropriate, but by the strict ethics rules that prohibit all executive branch employees from accepting gifts of more than $20 in value. And no, there can be no parsing of the value. A single source can give no more than a total of $50 worth of gifts in each calendar year.

3. Which celebs are going?
The White House says that President Obama will not be attending, and Obama himself says that he didn’t even get an invite. Ditto Al Gore’s office, where a spokesperson said that President Clinton’s former VP would not be attending and neither would Tipper Gore. But, added the spokesperson, “They both wish the couple well and they share in the family’s excitement.”

As for all that buzz about Oprah Winfrey being among the celebrity guests, a spokesperson for Winfrey’s production company, Harpo, told a HumanEvents.com blogger earlier this month: “Ms. Winfrey has not been invited to the wedding.” As Hilla

ry Clinton put it last week, “It’s a family wedding and the people coming are [Chelsea's] friends and people who have been meaningful in her life, as it should be.” Our money is on longtime Clinton pals Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.

4. What kinds of presents should the happy couple expect?
A toaster oven or latte maker just doesn’t seem appropriate. As for a bridal registry – it’s a Secret Service-style mission. The couple used a fake name under the gift registry, reports the Washington Post, so even the shopping locations are a mystery.

5. Could this all be a ruse to keep us away from the REAL wedding somewhere else?
According to Jim Langan, editor of the Hudson Valley News, “If it is, it’s worthy of the Manhattan Project and an appearance by Oliver Stone, and it would be the most expensive head fake in history.”

Halle Berry gorgeus in a bikini

Halle Berry shows off her sexy curves in a bright bikini top while shooting scenes for her upcoming movie, Dark Tide, at Seal Island, False Bay in South Africa on Friday (July 30).

The 42-year-old actress also kept warm in a wetsuit while shooting aboard the boat named Volante.

Dark Tide is a thriller centered on a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with a Great White shark.

Alicia Keys, married and pregnant

Call her Mrs. Beatz. Alicia Keys has married producer Swizz Beatz (Swiss Beats), with whom she is expecting her first child.

A representative for Keys on Sunday confirmed the wedding.

The Grammy winner and Beatz – whose real name is Kaseem (KAH-seem) Dean – announced in May that they were engaged. They were wed Saturday at a private ceremony. Deepak Chopra conducted the ceremony.

It is the 29-year-old singer’s first marriage. Thirty-one-year-old Beatz has been married before and has two sons.

Their baby is due later this year.

Jessica Simpson and her boyfriend Eric Johnson

On Saturday Jessica Simpson tweeted a photo of her and her boyfriend of two months, Eric Johnson, kissing.

“Romance 101..getting kissed by my Yalie…me not lookin’ so smart…:) but YUM!” she tweeted along with the photo below.

Eric, 30, graduated from Yale, where he played football. He has pulled out of Wharton business school to be with Jessica, Us Weekly reports.

“He doesn’t want to move to Philadelphia and leave her so soon after they got together,” a source told Us.

What can do Kim Kardashian against stalkers

Celebrity socialite Kim Kardashian is playing NO games with a man she filed a restraining order against back in February. According to TMZ, Kim and her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley will be speaking with law enforcement officials again over Dennis Shaun Bowman, an alleged stalker who Kim claims has recently ranted about her on Twitter and has sent messages to both her boyfriend Miles Austin and her sister Khloe.

“I will be speaking with law enforcement detectives … to determine whether or not Mr. Bowman’s actions are a violation of the order in place restricting Mr. Bowman’s conduct toward Ms. Kardashian,” Holley said in a statement.

With the restraining order in place, Bowman isn’t supposed to have any contact with Kim directly until 2013. And technically….he hasn’t broken that (yet).

How Julia Roberts gets fat

Julia Roberts sat down with Entertainment Tonight’s Mark Steines to promote ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ out August 13.

When asked whether she does more eating, praying or loving, Julia said, “Love. But you need them all to live. You can’t have too much love, but God knows I love to eat.”

In the book, Elizabeth Gilbert gained 30 pounds while indulging in pasta and gelato in Italy, and Mark asked Julia about filming the many food scenes, no spit bucket at hand.

“By the time we would cut I’d be done with an entire pizza or a whole bowl of pasta,” she said. “The take would just go on and on and I’d love it.”

“Did you gain weight?” he asked.

“It became inevitable. I was olympic carbo loading!” Julia said.

Julia told Entertainment Weekly that she only gained 7 to 10 pounds during filming, even through days like this:

Gisele Bundchen talks abour being mother

No woman likes to see a supermodel reclaim her world-famous figure just six weeks after giving birth, modeling the latest looks with nary a tummy bulge. But lucky for all the mere mortals out there, Gisele Bündchen is sharing her secrets.

Bündchen and her husband Tom Brady welcomed their son Benjamin Rein just seven months ago, and the model, 30, says she owes her body to three things: kung fu, meditation and breastfeeding.

She says she practiced kung fu two weeks before giving birth, yoga three times a week throughout her pregnancy, and meditated every day.

“It prepared me mentally and physically,” Bündchen tells the UK version of Harper’s Bazzar in their September issue, on newsstands Aug. 5.

“It’s called ‘labour,’ not ‘holiday’ for a reason, and I knew that. You want to go into the most intense physical experience of your life unprepared? That doesn’t make any sense to me. I wasn’t expecting someone else to get the baby out of me.”

Nor did she expect a hospital room to give birth.

“Not for one second did it cross my mind that I was not going to have my baby at home,” she tells the magazine. “I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this — so why can’t I do it?”

She’s also not the first woman to advocate breastfeeding — though she may be the founding pioneer for nursing-by-law.

“I think there should be a worldwide law . . . that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months,” says Bündchen. “Some people here think they don’t have to breastfeed and I think, ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child when they are so little?’”

Additionally, there are the physical bonuses. “I think breastfeeding really helped me [keep my figure],” she says.

If that doesn’t help get her bill signed into law, nothing will!

How is it going to be Christmas Glee?

It feels like Christmas!

Glee creator Ryan Murphy gave gift after gift of season 2 secrets Monday — including who will guest star on the holiday episode, which A-list hunk will be appearing, and what’s up with the Britney episode!

But if you want to be surprised, stop reading now: SPOILERS follow!

Britain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle will make her acting debut on Glee‘s holiday show, and she’ll sing, too. “Susan is on the same label as us and is a fan of the show,” Murphy told PEOPLE. “She’s coming out with a Christmas album, so the story I want to do in our Christmas episode is to have Kurt give her some sort of fantastic makeover and have her sing a song that’s from her album on the show.”

Casting Javier Bardem on the show for the latter part of the season was a favor to the Oscar winner, who’s a major fan. “He requested it,” said Murphy. “I think he bought the first 13 episodes on DVD and became obsessed with it. He said it was like crack. And he’s such a ham that it totally makes sense to me that he would want to sing and dance. I think he’s going to play some demented Spanish rock star substitute teacher something, but I don’t know — we haven’t figured that out yet.”

Sir Paul McCartney is apparently another fan, and Murphy was surprised — to the point of thinking he was being “Punk’d” — to receive a note from the Beatle along with two CDs full of classic songs that Sir Paul would love to let the show use. “I was gob-smacked,” said Murphy, “so of course we are going to do something with him.” The collaboration likely won’t be a full-blown tribute episode, however.

Murphy’s further Glee reveals included:

• He just started directing the Britney Spears tribute episode. “She is arguably the most important female, other than Lady Gaga, of the last ten years,” Murphy said, noting the show will showcase “not only her music but about her public image. Many of the kids on the show went into singing and dancing because of her. Also at the heart of it, it’s a show designed to show off the skills of Heather Morris, who plays [Glee's cheerleader] Brittany.” The episode, he said, was Spears’s idea. “I just think that she loves what the show is about, that the show’s about paying tribute to pop culture in a very loving, respectful, kind way. She responded to that.”

• Terri Schuster (Jessalyn Gilsig) will resurface to wreck havoc. “She does not want to be divorced and she’s decided in the middle of the first 10 to seek vengeance by going after someone that would make Will incredibly jealous.” Jonathan Groff will also be back for two spring episodes.

• The planned Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute episode will air around Halloween, featuring the film’s signature song “The Time Warp.” Said Murphy: “My favorite thing to do is to torture the boys and claim that I don’t know who’s wearing those gold lamé briefs, because now they’re all on diets. They’re all in terror that I’m going to tell them that they’re the one who has to get naked.”

• A big-screen Glee isn’t likely (although he’s been asked), but a film version of the show’s live concert tour is. “I would do that just because there are so many kids particularly who love the show, and we can’t go to every city. I think we’re going to shoot that next year.” – Scott Huver

Tell us: Are you excited about Glee‘s second season?

13 nomination for Lady Gaga in MTVMA

Lady Gaga isn’t just smashing records on the pop charts, she’s also making awards-show history.

The Grammy-winning singer, 24, scored 13 MTV Video Music Award nominations Tuesday – the most ever received by any artist in a single year. The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards will air live Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. EST.

“I’m so honored for all the little monsters and self-professed freaks of the universe, to have more VMA nominations in a single year than any artist in MTV history,” says Gaga. “Ironically, I’m even more proud it’s an unlucky number: 13.”

She adds: “A long time ago the world told me and my little monsters we would never be heard, together we changed the rules. God put me on Earth for three reasons: To make loud music, gay videos and cause a damn raucous. Thank you, MTV!”

Among the lucky 13 nominations: best pop video, best dance music video, best female video and best choreography for her hit single, “Bad Romance.”

The megastar is also up for best collaboration for “Telephone” featuring Beyoncé.

Gaga’s toughest competition? Possibly herself. “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” are both in the running for best choreography and video of the year.

Lindsay Lohan in MAXIM

Lindsay Lohan posed for a Maxim cover shoot just before going to jail and sat for an interview about how she plans to get back to work.

Lindsay also went topless for GQ shortly before her sentence.

On her incarceration:
“I am feeling strong. I’ve experienced a lot in my life, and my mom has given me a lot of faith. This too shall pass.”

Her goal:
“To focus on myself and my work, and to move all press on me to focus on the work I do. Also, I’d like to do more work in India and travel to Malawi.”

Her personal motto:
“Stay true to yourself always. At the end of the day, you have to look at yourself in the mirror and be content with the choices you’ve made, and will make, in your life. Go with your gut!”