It seems that there are some people in the world who are actually surprised by the recent news that Clay Aiken is gay. What I want to know is what rock have they been hiding under? I figured out Clay was gay the moment I heard him sing on American Idol. Just look at the guy come on. He has fairy written all over him.

It is nice to see that 98% of the Claymates are not bothered by this news, they shouldn’t be. But there is that 2% percent and they are furious and apparently feel very betrayed by the singer, and are still waiting for a “confirmation” because there could be a possibility that People magazine is lying.

Here are just a few quotes from some perturbed and disappointed Claymates:

“This is a gut wrenching day for The ClayNation. Somebody wake me up, I hope its a dream.”

“please tell me I’m not the only one who is shocked beyond belief! I feel numb I’m so upset. This can’t be real!! How can you guys say this won’t change anything? This changes EVERYTHING. I don’t even know what to think right now”

“I wish him well and hope he gets some peace of mind now BUT I feel he lied to everyone-especially us fans. He should have just said so years ago. I feel like we were “used”. I still love to hear him sing but I also feel he has now become like a Michael Jackson and it’s a bit too weird! He isn’t just the plain ordinary person with the values he first stood for.-but it’s just my opinion.”

“One really sad thing for me that sums this up. This morning at the breakfast table my 9 and 10 year olds were there and the radio was on and they came on with the headline “Former American Idol…” and I knew what was coming and I ran to turn it off. I didn’t want my young children to hear that and ask questions about it. To me this is the saddest thing and the reason I won’t be able to hold him as my idol. I remember the day when I ran to turn it on and called all the family to watch with pride. It just seems so in your face now and I don’t want exposing my kids to this. “

“I just feel rather silly now having spent the last 5 years drooling over and being fan girly for a singer I thought was straight and now finding out he is gay. It does change my perception of who he is and how I see him. We always called him our boyfriend and that won’t be happening anymore.“

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s wedding pictures are in the new issue of People magazine (in case you need some actual proof, cuz just like me, you still can’t believe they got married).

See the pics here

The two secretly wed on April 30 at her home in the Bahamas.

Mimi told the mag that she feels Nick is her “soulmate.” Nick said, “I never felt a love like this was in the cards for me. She is beautiful on the outside and 10 times as beautiful on the inside.” Nick appears in Mariah’s new music video for her latest single ‘Bye Bye‘ –he plays an ex boyfriend that Mariah is reminiscing about. The couple looks weird to me. What do you think?

Topping the list of People’s 100 Most Beautiful People is a 29-year-old mother remarkably short on her beauty sleep – for which she lovingly credits her active 4-year-old son, Ryder.

A sleep deprived mother is the most beautiful person? What a fresh breath of normalcy. I love it!

We know Kate comes from a gorgeous Hollywood family, but was she always such a head-turner? Admits the actress:

“I was a tomboy. I had three brothers. I was the girl with the dress on that always came back in the house filthy with scrapes and bruises. But I was always very girly. I had to be able to twirl so that my underwear showed.”

Her best time for looking good, she says, comes “at the end of the night, when everything’s soaked in and I’m still up. I like the leftover makeup in the morning. You’ve got to wash your face but there’s always the leftover eye makeup, I love that.”

I’m reallying starting to like Kate Hudson a lot more. The woman likes leftover makeup in the morning! That’s right up my alley, Kate. Looks like we have more in common than I thought. Now I just need to date Owen Wilson and that would make two things we share!

For other aspects to Hudson – including her favorite body part, losing her pregnancy weight and what she has to say about Owen Wilson (what is their relationship really like)– as well as the other 99 beautiful people who made this year’s cut, pick up the new issue of People, on newsstands this Friday.

We have all seen the cover of People magazine with Nicole Richie holding her beautiful new baby, Harlow Madden. In the issue Nicole and Joel Madden, discusses what it was like seeing Harlow for the first time, how Nicole and Joel chose their baby’s name, how life has changed since having a baby, what parenthood is like, and how Nicole has developed maternal instincts.

How Nicole felt when she first laid eyes on her baby:

“I cried right away,” Richie says of seeing Harlow for the first time. “I was holding her, and it was something that was so much bigger than me. Now she looks a little more like Joel, but when she was born, it looked like Joel had nothing to do with it.”

How Nicole and Joel chose the name Harlow:

“I wanted a hippie name and he wanted a more Biblical name,” Richie says – the uniqueness of Harlow stuck. “Harlow’s a cool name because it feels like a classic name,” Madden says, citing the actress Jean Harlow and model Shalom Harlow as two major inspirations.

How life has changed since having a baby:
“I don’t even remember what life was like before her,” new mom Nicole Richie, 26, says of daughter Harlow Winter Kate, born January 11. “She gives life a whole new meaning and a whole new purpose.”

“She’s never out of my mind,” says Richie. “I stop doing things for me anymore. Everything is for her.”"I was watching her in her crib,” says Richie. “And she happened to wake up and I was like, ‘Good morning!” And she smiled and it was the cutest thing ever.”

What parenthood is like:

It’s “the best thing that’s ever happened to us,” Joel Madden tells PEOPLE that Harlow has changed his and Nicole Richie’s life: “We have a very mellow life compared to two years ago, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.”

How Nicole has developed maternal instincts:

Attuned to her daughter’s needs, Richie says she knows how to pacify her when she’s in need. “I’m with her all the time … I know when somethings wrong,” she explains. And to soothe Harlow, Richie and Joel Madden, 28, play her lullaby versions of Radiohead and Nirvana songs.

Here are some more adorable pictures of the new family from the photoshoot:

Nicole Richie is on the new issue of People magazine with her new baby girl, Harlow Winter. I think that Harlow is so beautiful. Good work Nicole and Joel!

Here are some hightlights of the interview that People had with new mother, Nicole Richie, which hits newsstands on Friday:

On how the last six weeks have changed her, “It’s almost like I don’t even remember what life was like before her. She gives life a whole new meaning and a whole new purpose.”

As for breastfeeding, “There’s just so much I can’t eat because she’s sensitive,” says the new mom, 26. “I eat really bland [food] ? chicken noodle soup, vegetables, fish. I had to cut out milk, no tomatoes, no lettuce. You think you have to cut everything out when you’re pregnant, but you really have to cut everything out when you’re breastfeeding.”

And while Richie says, “I don’t know” how long she was in labor, “because I don’t know what time I actually went into labor, but I pushed for 10 minutes,” Joel Madden, 28, said of his daughter: “She came out and she was crying. The doctor goes, ‘Well, it looks like you got a little girl!’ ”

In the new issue of People magazine, actor Ron Lester, best known for playing Billy Bob in ‘Varsity Blues’, shares with us his story on how he lost a remarkable 315 pounds.

Ron says that he knew he could not live his life overweight anymore when he was asked by the director of the shortly lived tv series Popular, to sit in the driver’s seat of a limosine and he could not fit into the car, even after they took the seat out.

He said, “I just broke down and started crying.”

A couple weeks later he saw a show where Wilson Philips singer Carnie Wilson, confessed that she had gastric bypass surgery. He decided right than and there that that was what he needed.

Since the decision to go along with the surgery, he has had 17 other surgeries to take away his excess skin and apparently is 2 inches shorter from the lose of the fat on his head and his feet.

Although, the weight lose has done wonders for his health, it has taken a toll on his acting career. Before he was cast as the “funny fat guy.” “Jobs would come down to me and two other guys.” Now he says, ” I’m going for the guy-next-door-roles and I’m one of 500,000 lookalikes.”

Rumor has it that Peoplemagazine is paying Jennifer Lopez $4 million and $6 million dollars for exclusive first baby pictures of the twins. If this is true, I wonder how Christina Aguilera is taking the news since she was only paid $1 million for her first photos with her son, Max.

People and Star magazine’s representatives denied that any deals were complete.

People’smanaging editor, Larry Hackett said, “Readers have to know that when there’s a huge picture, a baby, a wedding, some life moment, People magazine is the place that you’re going to find that. You have to reinforce that all the time. There’s a business to be made in the short term and there’s a business to be made in the long term.”

Celebrity baby bumps and first baby pictures seem to be a huge commodity for popular magazines. Here are the some celebs with their new babies and some stats showing us how much money their new little bundle made for the magazine.

Other J.Lo baby news:

Apparently, Jennifer Lopez has a private hospital room already booked at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, for when the time comes for her to have her twins. The room is fully furnished for Jenn and has been closed to any other patient for the last 2 weeks.
 

Here are the first pictures of Christina Aguilera and her new son Max in People magazine. They are so adorable. Christina looks like she will be a really good mom.

Check out baby Max’s nursary on the cover. He’s livin’ it up in that room.