J-LO SAYS TWINS SAVED HER MARRIAGE AS SHE DID NOT WANT A 3RD DIVORCE!

Jennifer Lopez has revealed her twins may have saved her marriage to Marc Anthony - because it made her realize that a third divorce was not an option. In a candid new interview with In Touch magazine, the singer/actress confesses she and Anthony weren't always as happy as they seemed before they became parents to Max and Emme. She tells the publication, "The kids made Marc and I stronger... There have been tough times. "Having kids made us both see that there's a bigger picture. We still fight but we know that at the end of the day, we have these amazing children that need us. We promised each other never to go to bed angry."

Lopez also credits her kids with helping to bring her out of a depression, sparked by overwork.
The star admits she suffered a "kind of" breakdown on the set of flop 2002 film Enough and didn't fully recover until the twins were born in 2008. She recalls, "I was like, 'I don't want to talk, I don't want to do anything'. My kids saved me." But Lopez suffered a new low 10 days after the babies were born, and turned to her husband to help her through it. She adds, "I couldn't get up fast enough to feed the babies and Marc was helping out a lot, and I was crying and crying, and going, 'Oh, Papi, they're going to know everybody more than me.'"

KAT DELUNA STILL ACCUSES J-LO OF COPYING CLAIMS.

JENNIFER LOPEZ has been accused of stealing ideas for her new ON THE FLOOR music video from a promo by R&B singer KAT DELUNA, just a week after fans pointed out similarities between the two songs. The Jenny From The Block hitmaker debuted her new single last week (18Jan11), and critics have claimed the lyrics and harmonies are similar to DeLuna's track Party O'Clock, which was released in Europe in November (10).

Both tracks were worked on by the same music producer, RedOne. are said to mirror DeLuna's in the new clip.Images from Lopez's accompanying video have now emerged online and DeLuna's fans claim there are striking similarities to the Party O'Clock promo. Lopez's costumes and dance moves DeLuna has spoken out about the video furore and accused Lopez of "taking away" her ideas. She tells the New York Daily News, "I've seen this before, where the more established artist tries to take the vision and artistic ideas away from an emerging artist, and assumes no one will notice because of their bigger shadow. Luckily, my loyal fans and the power of the internet have let the 'Kat' out of the bag." But DeLuna insists she won't be taking any action against the superstar, adding, "Business is business."

BRANDY REMOVES THAT OFFENSIVE TATOO.

Singer BRANDY was back in the tattoo parlour this week (begs24Jan11) to modify her "phallic"-looking skin art. The R&B singer had an image of Hindu deity Lord Ganesh inked on the inside of her wrist last month (Dec10) and she showed it off by posting a picture on Twitter.com, prompting fans to point out the elephant-headed god's trunk resembled male genitalia.

Brandy agreed to alter the piece and her tattoo artist has now added a floral design over the trunk.The artist, Peter Koskela, tells TMZ.com, "I wanted to fix the offending tip... remove the whole phallic aspect. I told her I'd just swing it upwards." In Hinduism, Lord Ganesh is worshipped as god of wisdom and remover of obstacles.

NEIL YOUNG TO GET JUNO AWARD FOR PHILANTROPY.

Neil Young is being honoured for his heart of gold.The Juno Awards have announced the 65-year-old as the 2011 recipient of the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.Young will receive the award during this year’s Juno Awards, which will be held in Toronto on March 27. In 1985, Young co-founded Farm Aid, a benefit concert to help keep family farmers on their land. The concert celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, having raised more than $37 million since its inception.

Young and his wife, Pegi Young, also founded the Bridge School, an organization and school dedicated to educating children with speech and physical impairments.Two of Young’s three children have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy.Young’s latest album, Le Noise, has been certified gold in Canada since its September release and earned three nominations at the upcoming Grammy Awards. Toronto rapper Drake will host this year’s Juno Awards broadcast. Nominations will be announced on Tuesday. Previous winners of the Allan Waters award include Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams and Bruce Cockburn.

Source: The Canadian Press

BRETT MICHAELS TO BE BACK ON HIS FEET WITHIN WEEKS.

POISON frontman BRET MICHAELS will be ready to rock "within weeks", according to the surgeon who carried out heart surgery on the star. The singer underwent an operation to repair a hole in his heart on Monday (24Jan11), months after doctors discovered the defect as they treated him for a near-fatal brain haemorrhage last year (10). The surgery at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona has been hailed a success and Michaels was discharged on Wednesday (26Jan11) to continue his recovery at home.

Dr. Mansour Assar, who carried out the operation, has now reassured fans the procedure went well and the star will be back on his feet very soon. He says in a statement, "Bret's procedure had excellent results. Because of the successful outcome and Bret's determination, I believe he will be able to return to normal activity within weeks."

UPDATE: MICHAELS WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL TODAY.

MOTLEY CRUE FRONTMAN VINCE NEIL IS IN MORE TROUBLE FOR UNPAID TAXES.

Prison-bound rocker VINCE NEIL has found himself embroiled in more trouble - he allegedly owes over $1 million in unpaid taxes. The Motley Crue frontman, who is due to serve 15 days behind bars next month (Feb11), is being chased by U.S. federal authorities for debts amounting to $1,111,221 according to the Detroit News. Neil and his wife Lia were hit with a $740,171 lien for delinquent federal taxes last April (10), while another $371,050 demand was filed against the couple for income taxes in December (10).

On Wednesday (26Jan11), Neil pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol, stemming from an arrest in Las Vegas in June (10). He is due to surrender to authorities at the Clark County Detention Center in Nevada on 15 February (11), a week after his 50th birthday.

JIMMY BUFFET BEING TREATED BY SURGEON IN THE AUDIENCE AFTER ACCIDENT.

JIMMY BUFFETT was lucky enough to have a top surgeon in the audience at the show where he was injured in a dramatic stage fall - the doctor rushed to his aid and treated him until paramedics arrived. The veteran singer-songwriter stunned the crowd at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday (26Jan11) when he took a nasty tumble during the show finale and plummeted off the stage. Sydney surgeon Gordian Fulde was in the audience and after witnessing the fall, he went straight to help the star. Fulde admits he feared the worst, and was relieved to find the musician had escaped more serious injury.

He says, "It was like everybody was standing, and then I obviously responded... He walked off the stage... He just didn't see the stage ended because there was a gap where the crowd was on the fence, and he just went down and crumbled down in that space and his head hit a metal ledge, and you could hear the thump, and he was deeply unconscious. "He is so lucky, I thought when it happened he would even be a paraplegic or worse. We did all the head scans and neck scans and fortunately there's no damage... Cause that's the worry, you don't know when somebody's unconscious. We've observed him through the night, he hasn't had much sleep so he's very tired, but, we're glad to say that he'll be OK." The 64-year-old Margaritaville singer was treated for a head wound and discharged from hospital on Thursday (27Jan11).

UPDATE: BUFFET HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL TODAY.

MTV STANDS BY TEEN DRAMA "SKINS."

MTV bosses have dismissed speculation they are set to pull controversial teen drama SKINS off-air following protests from a campaign group and the loss of a number of advertisers.
The U.S. adaptation of the hit British series premiered in America last week (17Jan11), but the scandalous storylines involving sex and drugs have angered heads of the Parents Television Council, who condemned the show and called for an official investigation.

The controversy has also led to a number of high profile advertisers pulling their promos from the programme's ad breaks, leading to speculation MTV bosses plan to scrap the show after just two episodes on-air. But network bosses are adamant they will continue to broadcast the series, despite the fall out. An MTV spokeswoman tells Reuters, "The show is not cancelled. The next episode is going ahead on Monday." A statement from the network adds, "MTV stands by the US adaptation of Skins and the vision of its creator, Bryan Elsley."

PAUL MCCARTNEY'S EX-WIFE HEATHER MILLS IN SKIING ACCIDENT!

HEATHER MILLS is nursing an injured knee after a skiing accident.Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident in 1993, has been practising her skills on the slope after she was selected for the British Disabled Ski Team last year (10). The star is now taking time out from training after another skier crashed into her earlier this month (Jan11).

In a series of posts on her Twitter.com page, Mills writes, "In Austria for the Schladming night race, can't ski though as injured good knee in charity 24-hour ski race when public were let on the race track while skiing 100kph-plus. Should be good to ski again soon."

SHANIA TWAIN TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE CARAS HALL OF FAME.

Country-pop superstar and newlywed Shania Twain will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame during the 2011 Juno Awards in Toronto on March 27.It will mark the first time that the 45-year-old Twain, a 12-time Juno Award winner, has been at the awards show since she was host of the ceremony in Ottawa in 2003.The Timmins, Ont.-raised Twain has sold more than 41 million albums in the U.S. and 4.2 million albums in Canada, making her the top-selling female artist in history. She also has the sixth biggest selling album of all time with 1997’s Come On Over — at 19 million copies sold — and has had 16 Top-10 hits.

Twain’s autobiography hits bookstores this spring, and she is set to debut a docu-series on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, titled Why Not? With Shania Twain.Twain got hitched on New Year’s Day in Puerto Rico to her second husband and Swiss business executive Frederic Thiebaud, after divorcing music producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who had had an affair with Thiebaud’s ex-wife.