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Dr Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson and faces a maximum four-year prison sentence if convicted.

The charge was filed by the District Attorney on Monday morning as members of the Jackson family arrived at an LA court to see Dr Murray arraigned.

The District Attorney alleges in the criminal complaint Dr Murray “did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson… in the commission of an unlawful act, not a felony; and in the commission of a lawful act which might have produced death, in an unlawful manner, and without due caution and circumspection.”

Jackson’s parents Joe and Katherine arrived at the Airport Courthouse in LA with the Thriller singer’s siblings Tito, Jermaine, LaToya and Randy more than an hour before the hearing was expected to start.

Dr Murray is expected to plead not guilty, and bail will reportedly be set at $25,000.

He gave Jackson the drug Propofol just before the star died.

The LA County Coroner’s Office ruled Jackson died as a result of acute Propofol intoxication.

Jessica Alba says she is not flattered that a Chinese woman wants plastic surgery to look like her.

The 21-year-old woman reportedly wants to look like the Hollywood star to win back her ex-boyfriend.

“I think you should never have to change yourself like that,” said Alba. “If somebody loves you, they’ll love you no matter what.”

Doctors at Shanghai Time Plastic Surgery Hospital have reportedly offered to do the surgery on the woman’s eyes and nose to showcase their skills.

Country trio Lady Antebellum shot to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart this week by selling 481,000 copies with the band’s latest album ‘Need You Now’. That’s the biggest debut sales week for any album since Susan Boyle’s ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ with 701,000 copies and Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless’ with 592,000 copies. Add to the fact that Lady Antebellum is a country act and you definitely have a lot of reason to be impressed by their accomplishment. Congratulations to the band and I hope that their success grows even bigger. Can you tell that I’m a fan of their music?

Casey Johnson died of natural causes, the Los Angeles coroner has ruled.

The Johnson & Johnson heiress, who was engaged to reality TV star Tila Tequila, died from diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition caused by a shortage of insulin.

The 30-year-old, who was pals with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, was found dead in her home near West Hollywood on January 4.

Johnson had suffered from severe diabetes since childhood.

No illicit drugs were found in her home, according to the report.

The heiress left behind her adopted daughter, Ava, 3, who will live with Johnson’s mother Sale and her husband Ahmad Rashad.

Actress Daryl Hannah has hinted that she may be returning for a third Kill Bill movie.

Hannah, 49, took on the role of assassin Elle Driver in director Quentin Tarantino’s two Kill Bill movies.

Tarantino has not confirmed that there will be another but Hannah said: “He [Tarantino] always meant it as a trilogy.”

Driver had her only eye plucked out by Uma Thurman’s bride character in the second movie and that was the last that was seen of her.

However, Hannah has hinted that she could be making a return in Tarantino’s third movie.

She added: “Think about it. There’s always been a tradition of blind samurai, and you never actually saw [my character] expire in the other film.”

The man sure knows how to play the crowds, doesn’t he? It seems John Mayer recently held a free concert for the students at the University of South Carolina last night. John Mayer let everybody know about it with a twitter post a few hours before the show and at the end of it he had this to say to his fans: “Thank you for helping us out! This is the way you should rehearse a show.” Smart man, that John Mayer is! Just look at that: free guinea pigs! Of course, there were only five hundred of them, but what could you expect on such short notice?

Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed she wanted to be a ballerina more than an actress.

The Sex And The City star confessed that she wishes she had never given up dancing because she enjoyed it more than acting.

She trained as a ballerina, even attending the New York School Of American Ballet. But she gave it all up when she got into movies.

Parker told Hello! magazine: “I still wish that I could have become a ballet dancer.

“I don’t have any regrets, because I made the right choices for me, but I do wish I’d kept it up because it’s still my favourite thing.”

But the mum-of-three insists she will never force her twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, to chase her dream.

She added: “I don’t think you can force anything like that on a person. Either they have the discipline and desire, the will and the talent, or they don’t.

“In fact, I learned with my son James not to force him to do things like play piano – either he wants to practise the piano or he doesn’t.

“Before, when I tried to make him do it, he wasn’t into it at all but now that he’s doing it on his own he really feels good about it.”

The Hangover star Bradley Cooper has denied reports that he has been shopping for an engagement ring for girlfriend Renee Zellweger.

Cooper, 35, has been dating the Bridget Jones beauty since last year and rumours have recently started that he is planning to propose.

Reports claimed the A-Team star was seen looking at rings and that a proposal is imminent.

However, when asked about the reports, he said to Extra: “That’s so crazy. It’s nuts the stuff that’s made up.”

Michael Jackson’s eldest two kids, Prince and Paris, accepted a lifetime achievement Grammy on behalf of their late father. Prince said “First of all, we’d like to thank God for watching over us over these past seven months, and our grandma and grandpa for their love and support. We would also like to thank the fans. Our father loved you so much because you were always there for him. Our father was always concerned about the planet and humanity. Through all his hard work and dedication, he has helped many charities and donated to all of them. Through all his songs, his message was simple: Love. We will continue to spread his message and help the world. Thank you. We love you, daddy.” Paris continued saying “Daddy was supposed to be here. Daddy was going to perform this year, but he couldn’t perform last year. Thank you. We love you, daddy.” The King of Pop will live forever!

Drew Barrymore’s rep has denied reports that she is engaged to her boyfriend Justin Long.

The 34-year-old actress has been dating Long, 31, on and off for the past few years. The couple split in 2008 but later reunited at the beginning of last year.

Barrymore sparked rumours that she had got engaged after her Facebook status was changed to say ‘Engaged’.

However, her rep has said the status change means nothing and talking of the rumours, the rep added: “Not true.”

Or at least this is what her brother, John Boyle, fears especially since the little incident recently when Susan Boyle stumbled upon an intruder in her home. This is what John Boyle said about the fears regarding the lack of security for his sister: “I am very upset about the lack of security. The family have told them several times that vast improvements need to be made to avoid something like this happening. This is the second time something has happened to Susan at her home and it is extremely worrying. Susan is a massive world star and needs better protection. You look at what happened to John Lennon in New York – it’s really worrying.” Well, Susan Boyle isn’t yet challenging the foundations of the current brainwashing system so there’s probably no threat for her like there was for John Lennon… her brother needn’t worry. What they really should be looking out for are the other contestants on X Factor who had to eat Susan Boyle’s exhaust during the show… they might have a bone or two to pick with her.

Actress Jenny McCarthy has said that she would have ‘dated Jesus’ if he were still alive.

McCarthy, 37, has been in a relationship with funny-man actor Jim Carrey for the past four years and she has a son Evan, seven, from a previous relationship.

She recently wrote on Twitter: “I’m looking at a picture of Jesus on the wall. I would have totally dated Jesus. Love that beard. Too bad he’s dead.”

She later added: “Ok ok my friends. I know Jesus is not dead. I’m saying that the fact his body has ‘risen from the dead’ makes him un-datable.”

Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford is reportedly dating actress Malin Akerman’s sister Jennifer.

Crawford, 24, who plays the role of Nate Archibald on the US TV series, was seen getting close to Jennifer while at a party in LA a few weeks ago.

A source said: “They’ve known each other for a while, but now it looks like they’re dating. Jennifer is adorable and exactly his type.”

Crawford, who has previously been linked with stars such as singer Carrie Underwood, recently said that he wasn’t looking for a girlfriend.

Ellen DeGeneres has got off on a bad foot on her first day as a judge on American Idol.

The American daytime television queen was fuming when Simon Cowell was more than an hour late for studio taping.

DeGeneres had arranged to wind up her own chat show early to start her judge’s stint on time, according to the Daily Mail. But Cowell was 90 minutes late.

A source told Deadline.com: “Here it was the first day of taping of the Hollywood shows, and Ellen was there waiting for Simon to show up. Ellen’s new to the gig and she’s very organised and she made a commitment to take this on, and now she’s asking herself, ‘What did I get myself into?’ She called Simon Cowell a prima donna. So right from the start, the chemistry isn’t great.”

Ironically, DeGeneres had earlier commented on their chemistry, promising their dynamic would “blow people away”. Cowell has literally been blown away since the shock announcement that he was quitting Idol to take an export version of The X Factor stateside.

Actress Kristen Stewart has dared to bare in her new film by stripping off for an underwater scene.

The Twilight star has revealed that although she appears naked in her new film The Runaways, things are not what they seem.

In one of the final scenes of the film, which is based on the 1970s all-girl rock group The Runaways, Stewart, who plays real-life rocker Joan Jett, is seen floating underwater without any clothes on.

When asked if it was really her, the 19-year-old actress said: “Yeah. But you can’t see anything.”

She added: “There are things you are capable of doing under the guise [of acting].

“You’re so safe. Plus I was not naked. I was wearing stuff. I was wearing really, really, really unattractive nude moleskin or something. Really, really, really gross.

Liev Schreiber, 42, recalled the early days of his courtship with Naomi Watts.

Schreiber and Watts, 41, had just started dating when they were working on The Painted Veil (2006).

Watts had got Schreiber the part. But things got awkward when the on-screen lovemaking moved at a faster pace than the off-screen intimacy.

He said: “I was chopped liver on that set.”

Schreiber has just opened his new play on Broadway, a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge with Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Hecht.

Schreiber, meanwhile, said the time spent away from his family over Christmas was dismal. “The kids went away and Naomi went away and I had one of those shotgun-in-the-bathtub holidays.”

British actor Orlando Bloom has said that he feels sorry for fellow thespian Robert Pattinson because of the attention he receives.

The 33-year-old Pirates Of The Caribbean star was speaking at the recent Sundance Film Festival in Utah, and revealed that the media’s attention on him increased ten-fold after his role in Lord Of The Rings, in 2002, catapulted him to fame.

Asked how he coped, he said: “I kept myself busy with work, but now it’s crazy!

“Look at that guy Robert Pattinson. The poor guy can’t go anywhere now!”

Troubled comedian Andy Dick has been released on $60,000 bail after his arrest on sex charges.

The Road Trip star was detained in Huntington, West Virginia, in the early hours of Saturday morning and arraigned later that day on two counts of felony sexual abuse.

Dick, 44, allegedly grabbed a security guard’s crotch and kissed a male bar patron at Huntington’s Rum Runners night spot.

Dick, who is currently on three years’ probation after pleading guilty to drug possession and battery in October 2008, is due back in court on February 2.

The star’s lawyer tells TMZ.com his client “is stunned by these allegations” and he is “strongly denying any criminal conduct”.

Actor Gary Coleman has been arrested over an alleged domestic assault.

The child star of 1980s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes was arrested in Utah on Sunday afternoon on a warrant relating to a prior incident.

Police in Santaquin would not release the identity of the victim. Coleman, who lives in Utah, was being held on $1725 bail. He faces one count of domestic assault, a misdemeanour offence.

E! Online reports Coleman and his wife Shannon Price had been in the news for alleged domestic incidents. The couple have been in and out of the divorce court, reconciling recently.

Coleman recently told the website he and Price were working it out. He said: “My wife and I are getting along great. When you live with someone and it’s a life term, lifelong kind of thing, you learn what makes that person tick. So I think I’m doing okay for a newly-married husband. It’s a work in progress. I’m not someone that gives up.”

Earlier this month Coleman was rushed to hospital after an apparent seizure. The 41-year-old, who has had two failed kidney transplants, had been in LA for meetings about his latest movie Midgets vs. Mascots.

Celebrity Big Brother contestants such as Vinnie Jones and Stephanie Beacham were asked about famous scandals involving them in a new challenge.

The stars played a twisted game of charades in the UK CBB house where they acted out some of the most famous showbiz scandals in history, some which involved themselves.

Some of those moments included Katie Price’s boyfriend Alex Reid, who is a contestant in the house, admitting to cross-dressing.

Another of Price’s ex-boyfriends, Dane Bowers, is also in the house and housemates had to act out a scandal involving him and Price and the release of their sex tape.

Another scandal included Jones grabbing the private parts of footballer Paul Gascoigne during a football match 22 years ago.

Other scandals that were explored include Tom Cruise jumping off Oprah Winfrey’s coach in 2005 and Winona Ryder shoplifting.