I’m not a huge Oprah fan but I do enjoy her show from time to time. When I saw this, it was tough not to break down and cry right with her.

Oprah lost her beloved cocker spaniel, Sophie, after 13 years of what Oprah terms, “Unconditional love.” Sophie died last month from kidney failure.

Oprah dedicated a show featuring the investigations of Lisa Ling, special correspondent, into the horrors of puppy mills to her beloved Sophie.

Pet lovers of the world, prepare yourselves. This clip will get you right where you live: Oprah’s Tears

Together since 2002, rapper Jay-Z, 38, and singer Beyonce Knowles, 26, made their relationship official yesterday in New York by getting married in a small private ceremony.

Later, they celebrated with a party at Jay-Z’s Tribeca loft.

People reports that the lavish get-together brought out for the festivities:

Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles, her father/manager Mathew, her sister Solange, her Destiny’s Child mates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, and the couple’s friend Gwyneth Paltrow.

Beyonce and Jay-Z had obtained a marriage license in Scarsdale, New York, last Tuesday.

The question is…Will it last?

I’m going with those who would say, “Yes, it will.” In my opinion, these two have a lot going for them - if only because they’ve been together for so long without any serious ‘drama’ involved.

Some say he isn’t attractive enough looks-wise for her, but what are looks when it comes to what’s in the heart? Beauty, after all, only runs skin deep. Real love lasts forever.
I hope these two will stay together for the long haul. I wish them nothing but the best!

Renèe has been quoted by Usmagazine.com as saying, “Motherhood has never been an ambition.”

I think we already pretty much surmised her uterus would most likely eject a fertilized egg as if it were an Olympic ping pong ball only because there isn’t a single thing about this actress, now pushing 40, that remotely hints at maternal instinct.

When have you ever seen her do anything that seems motherly? Never. When has she been attached to any man in a meaningful relationship that lasted and had serious potential for the future? Ditto, never.

My guess is that her short-lived marriage in May of 2005 to singer Kenny Chesney really screwed her up. The marriage didn’t last the year and was quickly annulled. Since, she has refused to talk about him.

Currently, Renèe’s busy giving interviews to try to promote her new movie Leatherheads with co-star George Clooney. There’s been some ‘he said, she said’ to suggest a possible romance between the two. (They were reportedly linked romantically many years ago.)

Myself, I’m just not buying it. George can obviously do better for himself in the way of romantic playmates.

As for Renèe, she comes across as an actress far too self absorbed to ever consider fitting motherhood into her personal agenda.

So says the National Enquirer.

Harrison and Calista have spent six years together and are reportedly planning to get married.

Her seven-year-old son, Liam, whom she adopted in 2001, is said to be the catalyst for the upcoming nuptials.

According to the Enquirer, Harrison, 65, who has four grown children of his own from two previous marriages, wants very much to adopt Liam and give him his name.

Calista, 43, who has never been married is said to be insisting on getting married before the adoption can take place.

You can’t blame her for wanting marriage after all this time. The two of them seem to fit like a glove and making it official by getting married will genuinely bond them as a family.

Vows are expected to be exchanged in a private ceremony in California after Harrison completes promotional stints for his latest movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The movie is scheduled to be released at the end of May.

I can’t say that I’ve ever been a ‘Gisele’ fan. I know you people are out there. I’m just not one of you.

I’ve always thought that supermodels - highest paid in the industry as this one may be - basically possess about as much intelligence as a box of rocks.

Even being listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s richest model doesn’t impress me one bit. Nor the fact that she’s been seriously dating a very yummy Tom Brady, the New England Patriots’ quarterback.

Okay, that impresses me. A little.

But this pic snapped during a photo shoot in Malibu earlier this week with fashion photographer Mario Testino clinches it.

This Brazilian wench has an outstanding backside. An amazingly awesome backside. In plain old English, an ass that’s literally to die for.

Admit it, there isn’t a woman alive who wouldn’t give her eye teeth, her right arm, even her ugly stretch marks and cellulite - whatever it takes - to have a bottom as glorious as this.

And yes, we would all pay homage to having been blessed with such a rump by thrusting it out there in tattered peek-a-boo short shorts like this, every hour of every day.

What a shame that the best gifts physically seem to go to the least among us. In terms of IQ, that is.

It almost makes you want to start humming, “If I only had a brain…”

Don’t worry, Seinfeld lovers…our beloved Jerry wasn’t hurt after the brakes in his 1967 Fiat BTM malfunctioned last Saturday night in East Hampton.

Cops report that he tried the emergency brake and finding that he was unable to stop the car from rushing into a busy intersection, he inadvertently rolled it while swerving to avoid an even worse accident.

According to Jerry’s rep, Elizabeth Clark-Zoia, he was unharmed and the car sustained only minimal damage.

One for Jerry’s side, huh! He must have done something in his lifetime that really tickled God’s underbelly to be able to walk away from what could have been a very serious accident.

Jerry has, by the way, a huge collection of sports cars. It’s been said that collection includes about 47 vintage Porsches.

Not to mention that he reportedly dropped over a million bucks to build a garage for some of his precious four-wheeled babies near his home in Manhattan.

Yada, yada, yada.

Paul McCartney, 65, is now officially divorced from Heather Mills. Where is he? Off on vacation with (most likely) the next ‘ex-Mrs.-Paul-McCartney.’

Her name is Nancy Shevell, 47, a vice president with New England Motor Freight, Inc. Shevell is separated from her husband and the mother of one child.

On the coast of Antigua, they’re reportedly shacked up at Jumby Bay at a 300-acre private island resort.

Previously he was said to be dating Roseanna Arquette, the three times-divorced-sister of David Arquette married to Courtney Cox of “Friends” fame.

We’ll see how long this romance lasts.

What is with this guy? Does he like being shark bait when it comes to women who are out to sink their teeth into a juicy mealticket? Or is it that he just can’t resist getting himself ensnared in another romantic melodrama to keep his name in the press?

Hopefully he won’t say “I do” until he takes enough time to realize he’s far better off saying “I don’t” and just dippin’ in that sugar every now and then.

New reports are that Angelina Jolie is carrying twin boy and girl fetuses in her unbelievably exquisite uterus.

As wonderful as this sounds, I’m not buying comments made by “sources close” to Angie that she is enjoying the pregnancy, even though one source told In Touch Weekly, “It has been a bit difficult for Angelina. She is out of breath a lot but loves every second of it.”

If you saw any of the pre-delivery pics of her before giving birth to Shiloh in Namibia in May, 2006, you know she wasn’t loving every second of it and was clearly suffering.

Suffering, I think, is a good thing for the most gorgeous woman Brad Pitt ever laid eyes on (or just plain laid - your pick), considering that he was still very much married when Shiloh was conceived.

Just my opinion.

Brad and Angie are planning to raise their kids in France, reported to have purchased a chateau in the south of France.

Exclusive first pics of the twins might easily hit 10 million, kicking to the curb the six million dollars that Jennifer Lopez was paid for the exclusive People Magazine cover and photo spread a few weeks ago.

Nice work, if you can get it.

Hollywood Rag is sporting this god-awful pic of Kelly Clarkson taken from her live performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London yesterday.

She has gone on record in the past insisting she doesn’t give a dang about her weight or how she looks on stage but come on.

She could at least try to project herself as a classy entertainer.

I love her voice and happen to think she’s a really beautiful girl, but it isn’t healthy to be so bulky and thunder thigh-ish. Or to continue wearing such unflattering outfits when she’s performing for a paying audience? Crazy.

Check out that left arm in plain view. Serious cellulite and jiggle fat in the works. Not to mention those practically sprayed on wayyy-too-tight pants. Yikes.

I’m not saying that she should look like all the other malnourished skeletons walking around Hollywood, but she could at least put some effort into being fit and wearing clothes on stage that don’t scream, “I’m a lazy, badly-dressed American singer who can’t stop shoving food into my mouth!” when she’s making an appearance on the other side of the pond.

I mean, how hard is that when you’re getting paid major bucks just to stand there and sing?

Apologies for the lapse in posts this past week. I was called away to cope with family matters due to the unexpected death of my father.

If you’ve lost a parent, you know: There’s a period of time involved in the grieving process where you find yourself feeling very much alone no matter how much others may try to console you.

It caused me to wonder…

How many household-name celebrities out there have had to cope with the same kind of loss with a parent in their own lives?

It turns out, more than most of us even know about.

The short list includes:

• Charlize Theron - When she was 15, her father attacked her mother, and her mother shot her father in self-defense. Her father died, and her mother was not charged in the incident. Charlize

• Madonna - Madonna’s mother died of breast cancer at the age of thirty on December 1, 1963; Madonna was five years old. Madonna

• Anne Heche - When she was 13 years old, her father died from AIDS Anne

• Dylan McDermott - Even though he was just 5 when his mother died, actor Dylan McDermott has very clear memories of her. Dylan

• Sean Puffy Combs - When Sean was a baby, his father was murdered. Puffy

• John Goodman - When he was two, his father was a mailman who died of a heart attack at age 36. John

• Lee Majors - His father was killed in a work accident a month before he was born, and his mother died in a car accident when he was a toddler. Lee

• Julia Roberts - Her parents divorced when she was five, and her mother remarried. Her father died of cancer when Roberts was nine. Julia

• Cate Blanchett - Lost her father to a heart attack when she was ten years old. Cate

I purposely left off this list all of the very famous celebs who’ve lost a parent like Lisa Marie Presley, Julian and Sean Lennon, Princes William and Harry, Caroline Kennedy and Princess Stephanie of Monaco.

The one celeb’s family history when it came to dealing with death in my search that I found especially tragic was:

Bono - When Bono was 14, his world was turned upside down as his mother collapsed at her father’s funeral and died a few days later of a brain hemorrhage. Bono

Almost sounds like a bad movie, doesn’t it? And we think our lives are filled with drama. I can’t think of a single person who can hold a candle to that.