Matt Damon flashes his trademark megawatt smile as travels through LAX airport on Friday in Los Angeles.

The Bourne Ultimatum star recently played in the “Ante Up for Africa” charity event, a $5000 buy-in event. The poker fun night was held at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, where he got knocked out during the first five minutes of the game. At least all the money went to charity!

He’s been sporting that 87Eleven cap a lot lately… (It’s a full service stunt performance company).

Matt, 36, will also be featured on the August 2007 cover of UK’s Esquire magazine.

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Anne Hathaway and real estate developer boyfriend Raffaello Follieri walk the red carpet at the ‘Valentino In Rome, 45 Years Of Style’ post-exhibit gala dinner at the Temple of Venus in the Imperial Forum on Friday in Rome, Italy. Fashion icon Valentino decided to mark the celebration of the 45th anniversary of his luxury brand by breaking a 17-year tradition of unveiling his luxurious haute couture collections for women in Paris with a show in Rome.

Anne, 24, has her Jane Austen film ? Becoming Jane ? coming out later this summer on Aug. 3.

15+ pictures inside of Hathaway showing her Valentino support…

Chris Richardson and Blake Lewis, aka CAKE, kick off the 56-date and 35-state American Idols Live tour at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, on Friday night.

Idol champ Jordin Sparks and Sanjaya Malakar spoke out about the upcoming tour at a press conference earlier in the day.

“Just seeing everybody, being able to perform in front of the eight-to-fifteen thousand packed out arena and that we’re not being judged,” Jordin said. “And I can wake up in a new place every morning, I think that’ll be really cool.”

“Being able to see my fans’ faces and shake their hands. Live performance like that is really the only way that you can really see them all or see as many of them that can come,” Sanjaya said.

Here’s the set list for American Idols Live 2007:

* Let’s Get It Started - Entire Group
* Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love - Girls
* Heard It Through The Grapevine - Chris Richardson & Ladies
* Proud Mary - Sanjaya Malakar & Melinda Doolittle
* Blaze of Glory - Phil Stacey
* Thanks For The Memories - Chris Sligh & Gina Glocksen
* When God Fearing Women Get the Blues - Haley Scarnato
* Thriller, The Way You Make Me Feel - Sanjaya Malakar
* Typical - Chris Sligh
* Lady Marmalade - Haley Scarnato, Gina Glocksen, & LaKisha Jones
* What Hurts The Most - Chris Richardson & Jordin Sparks
* This Will Be - Jordin Sparks & Melinda Doolittle (fighting over Chris Richardson)
* Time Of The Season - Blake Lewis
* She Will Be Loved - Blake Lewis
* You Give Love A Bad Name - Blake Lewis

* INTERMISSION

* Crazy - Guys (with instruments)
* Who Knew - Gina Glockson
* Virtual Insanity, Ain’t No Sunshine, Geek In The Pink - CAKE
* I Will Always Love You - LaKisha Jones
* Killing Me Softly - Melinda Doolittle (Blake beat boxes and Chris sings towards the end)
* This Love - Chris Richardson
* Another One Bites the Dust - Phil Stacey & Gina Glocksen
* It’s Your Love - Chris Sligh
* Life Is A Highway - Chris Richardson, Sanjaya Malakar and Haley Scarnato
* Natural Woman - Melinda Doolittle
* Ain’t No Other Man - Haley Scarnato, Gina Glocksen, LaKisha Jones, & Melinda Doolittle
* I Who Have Nothing - Jordin Sparks
* Heartbreaker - Jordin Sparks
* You Were Meant For Me - Jordin Sparks
* Broken Wing - Jordin Sparks
* Living On A Prayer - Jordin Sparks
* This Is My Now - Jordin Sparks

Yummy mummy Heidi Klum starts her Friday morning by taking her three kids — Leni, 3, Henry, 22 months, and Johan, 7 months — to educational supplies store “Lakeshore Learning Materials” in Culver City, Calif.

The German supermodel bought as much as she could fit in the trunk of her SUV! Heidi was accompanied by her team of nannies and her mom Erna.

The 34-year-old yummy mummy also recently told OK! that she won’t be having any more babies or awhile. She said, “Not right now. Our house is pretty full! I was busy and I had the other children to run after, which I didn’t have before. Just running after them is hard!”

Supernatural star Jensen Ackles and Desperate Housewives hunk Josh Henderson team up in the latest photo spread for Movieline’s Hollywood Life magazine.

Josh was last seen hitting up The Hills star Lauren Conrad in West Hollywood earlier this week.

From one pretty boy to the next!

Former N’Sync-er Lance Bass has snagged him hot one — Brazilian male model Pedro Andrade. Lance and Pedro celebrated the 4th of July in at a private home in New York’s Hamptons, reports People.

Check out the video below of Pedro going to a few casting calls and talking with his modeling agency, Q Management. Lance will also be moving to NY to join Pedro… to join the cast of the Broadway musical Hairspray as dance show host Corny Collins.

Bass split from Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkul last winter — UPGRADE or DOWNGRADE?

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Kelly Clarkson gives a very candid and hilarious interview in the August 2007 issue of Blender.

On what she does in her free time: “You know, I never go out. If I’m in L.A., I’m usually at my house playing Guitar Hero.”

On her lying music label, BMG: “Everyone keeps saying how hard this record because be because of all the crap surrounding it, but that last one was really hard to make. I literally got told to my face that it wouldn’t sell more than 600,000 copies. And I got lied to. One reason I don’t like working with people at the label is that they like. They told me, ‘We really want you to got Sweden. These people really want to write with you.’ So I flew to Sweden with lyrics I’d written to this track I’d been send, ‘Since U Been Gone.’ I get there, and the writers are like, ‘Oh, we already have lyrics. We just want you to sing it.’ It was really awkward. It was mean. That’s why there’s no relationship with them. Because I don’t like to be lied to.

On ex-boyfriend David Hodges, former Evanescence keyboardist: “I didn’t even really like the guy. I’m more mad at myself for being so blding. Why would I pick someone like him to date? What’s wrong with me? … It’s fine in the end. Maybe I ahd to go through that and learn more about myself. Maybe that’s why I don’t date much, either.”

On how many boys she’s made out with: “Four? No, wait. Oh my God, five! I have major trust issues. [laughs] I just don’t make out with people. That’s a waste of my kisses and time. And it’s so personal. It’s like, my face. Plus, I’m afraid of mouth herpes.”

On her face-to-face meeting with music exec Clive Davis: “It was nice. IT was just the two of us, and his dog. I was like, I don’t know you very well, and I am not a bulls******. I get you don’t like the album. You’re 80; you’re not supposed to like my album. I said, ‘Clive, I’m going to make tons of albums. It doesn’t have to be mainstream every time. Then he kept bringing up people he’s worked with. ‘You’re a Whitney! You’re a Mariah!’ ‘First of all, Mariah writes a lot of her stuff. Secondly, I dont’ want a career like either of those singers. That’s why it’s hard for us to make an album. You don’t know me! You don’t know what I like, and you don’t know what my fans like.”

Sarah Jessica Parker makes a eyebrow-raising appearance, arriving at Rome’s Ara Pacis for Valentino?s Exhibition on Friday in one questionable out from the Valentino Spring 2006 Couture collection. We hope Sex on the silver screen won’t have outfits like this!

On Thursday, SJP dined at “I due Ladroni” restaurant in Rome. The Sex and the City actress was joined by hubby Matthew Broderick, TV exec pal Andy Cohen and Tony Award-winning English actress Natasha Richardson (Vanessa Redgrave’s daughter).

Andy is Bravo TV’s Senior Vice President of Production and Programming and SJP absolutely adores him. She has said, “You couldn’t possibly find a sweeter or funnier guy than Andy Cohen. Oops! Sorry, Matthew!” Andy even interviewed SJP on his blog last year.

20+ pictures inside of SJP and BFF Andy Cohen…

On her official website, Avril Lavigne addresses the legal action that is being taken against her for stealing a song. Check it out:

To my dear media, friends, and fans,

You may have heard some news that two guys who wrote for some band from the 1970s I have never in my life heard of called the “Rubinoos” are trying to sue me. They have a song called “I Want To Be Your Boyfriend” that has no musical similarities to the song “Girlfriend” that Luke Gottwald and I wrote together. They claim that a small part of the lyrics are the same and are saying that I took these from them. I had never heard this song in my life and their claim is based on 5 words! All songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language.

Off the top of my head, two other songs that I can immediately think of with this type of lyric are “Hey, hey, you, you get off of my cloud” by the Rolling Stones and “Hey little girl I want to be your boyfriend” by the Ramones. Simply put, I have been falsely accused of ripping their song off. Luke and I have done nothing wrong and there is no merit to their claim.

And slap in the face #2

I was going to be the bigger person and not reply when I read Chantal Kreviazuk’s article in Performing Songwriter magazine. Now that all the media have caught on to her little interview, I need to speak. Chantal’s comments are damaging to my reputation and a clear defamation of my character and I am considering taking legal action. Chantal has accused me of taking a song idea from her because I happen to have a song on my new record with the same title.

For the record, I wrote a song with Evan Taubenfeld which coincidentally has the same title as a song Chantal had sent me a few years ago. Our songs have no similarities and opposite meanings, i.e. different lyrics, different melody, different genres. In Chantal’s own words “the only similarity is in the title.” I originally wrote this with Evan for his record and I ended up with it. Funny enough when I decided to put “Contagious” on my album we had to change the words from “she” to “he” in order for it to work on my record. There are hundreds of songs out there with the title “Contagious,” 75+ on iTunes alone.

Chantal has also made false accusations about my writing skills. I am so over this topic. This letter is not about this. I am not going to sit here and defend my writing skills. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. I know who I am and what I have done and accomplished and no one can take that away from me.

My decision to discontinue working with Chantal after co-writing together on my second record was simply based on the fact that we had no hits together. That is why her name is not on this record, despite her numerous attempts to be included, which were always denied. From my perspective this is a clear case of bitterness. Chantal is upset that she didn’t get to be a part of my record. She did email me after the article came out apologizing and I forgive her but I have to put the truth out there so my fans are not confused by these false accusations.

Let it be crystal clear that I have not ripped anyone off or done anything wrong. I have never had to deal with anything publicly like this and surely never wanted to. I do not deserve this negative press and attention. I take pride in the songs that I write and appreciate the opportunities to work with some great writers and musicians.

My fans have been so dedicated to my music and it is because of them that I have this amazing career. Thank you again to my fans for continuing to be so supportive. This is a very positive time for me in my life. I have a very successful career and I feel very lucky to have accomplished all that I have. I am so thankful every day.

I would like to say more but my lawyers have advised me not to. Why is it when you get to a certain level people want to attack you?…. and now I have said my piece.

Avril

Uma Thurman arrives at the Ara Pacis for Valentino’s Exhibition on Friday in Rome, Italy.

While other designers are unveiling their latest collections during Paris Fashion Week, Valentino is marking his 45th year as a designer in the city where he opened his first atelier in the 1960s. He even took the time to defend skinny models at a news conference.

“Designers have to show for the first time on the runway the clothes that they want to be seen, so automatically if the girls are skinny, the dresses are more attractive,” Valentino said. “If you put it on a girl and she’s a little heavy, not every dress looks sensational.”

On Thursday, Uma, 37, went sightseeing in Rome with her and ex-hubby Ethan Hawke’s 9-year-old daughter Maya and 5-year-old son Levon. With bodyguards on hand, the couple strolled along the Via Veneto, stopped at the Spanish Steps and visited the Vatican museum.

35+ pictures inside of Uma, Maya and Levon…