Britney Spears Heads to Europe for Circus

Although a long holiday weekend is right around the corner, Britney Spears is getting to work promoting her upcoming album, Circus, in Europe.

The singer boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany on Monday for several appearances in support of the album, which is scheduled to be released Dec. 2.

Spears is traveling with several close associates and family members, including her father, Jamie, and manager Larry Rudolph. According to an eyewitness, the singer – dressed in a brown fedora, black sweatpants and a pink top – jumped out of her white Cadillac Escalade smiling and holding her dad's hand at the airport.

After a short time in Germany, Spears is expected to appear on the French program, Star Academy, and on Simon Cowell's X Factor in England before returning to the U.S. next week. She is scheduled to go on a worldwide tour in the spring of next year.

Heidi Montag Didn't Tell Dad About Marrying Spencer Pratt

Heidi Montag doesn't usually play her cards close to the vest, but The Hills star didn't even inform her dad about marrying boyfriend Spencer Pratt.

"I would be upset if she got married and didn't invite me!" Bill Montag told PEOPLE Monday after reports surfaced that his daughter had eloped with Pratt in Mexico last week.

As for what to do now that the story appears true, "Then we just have to have another wedding here!” he said.

On Monday, Montag told Perez Hilton that she and Pratt wed at the One & Only Palmilla Resort, just outside Cabo San Lucas. "The minute we said our vows, I couldn't stop crying," she said.

Montag, 22, and Pratt, 25, have chronicled their off-again, on-again (for good this time!) romance on The Hills – including a season cliffhanger about whether or not they were really engaged.

By starting a relationship with the slick Pratt, Heidi Montag ultimately set off the well-known feud with former BFF Lauren Conrad.

The couple is set to guest star on an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in January. (The Hills is not currently in production.)

Lohan opens up about her relationship with Ronson

Lindsay Lohan is finally speaking at length about her relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson.

Though she first confirmed she and Samantha are a couple during a call to the syndicated radio show “Loveline” in late September, in a new cover story for the December issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Lindsay tackled the question again, revealing more about her feelings for Ronson.

“I think it’s pretty obvious who I’m seeing,” Lohan told the magazine, which hits newsstands Nov. 18. “I think it’s no shock to anyone that it’s been going on for quite some time ... She’s a wonderful person and I love her very much.”

Lohan, who recently wrapped up an abbreviated four-episode arc on “Ugly Betty,” told the magazine that her family, with the exception of her father Michael Lohan (who publicly criticized Samantha), has been supportive of her relationship.

“It’s never really come up as an issue,” the actress said. “We’re close; we’ve been through a lot. They’re supportive of me whether I’m with a guy or a girl. They’re just supportive of me as a person.”

Sister Ali Lohan, who originally denied to the press that Lindsay was in a homosexual relationship when rumors about the couple first surfaced, has also offered Lindsay her blessing.

“Ali’s known Samantha for a really long time. And she’s like, ‘Whatever it is, I support you. I probably won’t ever do what it is you’re doing, but I’m happy for you,’” Lohan said. “Ali’s very mature. I’ve told her that it’s OK to like a boy or a girl if you’re comfortable with it and it’s something you believe you want to do. And I told her not to be afraid of who she wants to be.”

While Ronson is the first woman Lohan has admitted to dating publicly, when asked if she had previously “been with a girl” by Harper’s, the actress replied, “I don’t know, maybe.”

Lohan said she does not consider herself a lesbian, but as for whether she thinks of herself as bisexual, she told the magazine, “maybe.”

“I don’t want to classify myself,” she continued. “First of all, you never know what’s going to happen — tomorrow, in a month, a year from now, five years from now. I appreciate people, and it doesn’t matter who they are, and I feel blessed to be able to feel comfortable enough with myself that I can say that.”

The star of the upcoming film “Labor Pains” also said she plans to get married some day, though she doesn’t know whether it would be to a man or a woman. Lohan also said she isn’t ready to talk children.

“I don’t know if I could really set a time because then it’s like pressure to do it and failure if I don’t,” she said. “It shouldn’t be about that. It should be about knowing that you’re ready.”

And, Lohan added, “I still need to be in charge of taking care of myself and getting my (stuff) in line and buying a house.”

In fact, the 22-year-old admitted that prior to her 2007 rehab stints, she used up a lot of money while living at the Chateau Marmont hotel — money that could have gone to permanent digs.

“I was living here (at the Chateau) for almost two years. Who blows that much money on a hotel?” she said. “I could have bought a house!”

Now however, with rehab behind her and her relationship with Ronson making her happy, Lohan suggested she is on the right track.

“Now I feel clear. That’s my past, and I’m a different person now. I have goals and I’m working to achieve them. I’m not hanging out with people who are out every night getting (messed) up,” she said. “And ... I think that I’m happy.”

courtesy : NBC

Olsen twins promote their book on Oprah

The featherweight, filthy rich twin tycoons are known to teeter on city streets accessorized with oversized sunglasses, fur coats and Starbucks coffee cups.

They are among the most influential women in fashion.

At 22, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen co-own a global branding empire, and have separately dated movie stars, a Greek shipping heir and Lance Armstrong. Mary-Kate made headlines for her past rehab stint for an eating disorder and her involvement in the tragic death of close friend Heath Ledger. Inexplicably, the masseuse who found the actor's lifeless body phoned Mary-Kate three times before dialing 911.

Despite their uncommon lives, Mary-Kate insists, "We're like everyone else."

She delivered that colossal understatement while sitting next to fraternal twin Ashley on Oprah Winfrey's TV studio sofa, where the sisters — whose casually glamorous style has become iconic enough to mimic on Halloween — promoted their new coffee table book, "Influence," a tribute to the artists, designers and other creative people who have inspired them.

"I think we work hard every single day," said Mary-Kate, who complained that the paparazzi only seem to take street shots of her holding cups of coffee, inviting the notion of a trust fund and a leisure lifestyle.

Admired by designers
But it's that thrown-together yet carefully curated look that has established the twins as among the most daring women in fashion. Admired by designers from Michael Kors to Diane Von Furstenberg, the attention to their personal style has doubtless helped in expanding their brand into two rising fashion labels, The Row and Elizabeth and James.

And now there's "Influence." The book features their interviews with Von Furstenberg, Karl Lagerfeld, Francisco Costa, Richard Prince and Lauren Hutton. The sisters also devote pages to each other in a scrapbook-style photo spread and a Proust questionnaire, in which Mary-Kate reveals the thing she most dislikes: "THE MEDIA." Ashley, the more conservative of the two, considers social awkwardness to be her principal defect.

Chanel designer Lagerfeld, who is unintentionally hilarious, tells the 5-foot, 1-inch sisters in his Q&A that he thought they were shorter. "Not that it matters. What you need is a face. If you have a face you don't need height or a voice," he says.

Von Furstenberg, who started a fashion craze with her signature wrap dress, says she morphed into a brand before she knew it, aiming to be "a woman who didn't need for the man to decide." Joking about her early life in Manhattan, quirky former model and actress Hutton says, "One of my goddaughters says I invented online dating. It was like that, except it wasn't on a computer. You talk to someone for a few minutes and then blow 'em off."

The Olsens declined to be interviewed by The Associated Press about their book.

"I hope (the book) influences everyone, any age, to do something that you're passionate about," Ashley said on Winfrey's show.

Babies to businesswomen
Mary-Kate and Ashley have been working since they were babies, debuting at 9 months old in the dual role of Michelle Tanner on the ABC sitcom "Full House." They parlayed their celebrity into a reportedly billion-dollar international brand, marketing clothing, furniture and other merchandise to the tween set.

At 18, the twins — then freshmen at New York University — bought out the shareholders and seized control of their company, Dualstar Entertainment Group, crowning Diane Reichenberger as CEO. Meanwhile, they were setting off the bohemian-chic trend, swaddled in layers of ragtag clothing and accessories, winding up on "worst dressed" lists.

"Over time, their style has become a lot more refined," says Hope Greenberg, fashion director at Lucky magazine. Their look is "very chic, urban, street, expensive, but still cool. They're always cool. They're unfailingly cool."

Ashley, a serious businesswoman, launched The Row in 2006. It's an upscale line of neutral, tailored pieces sold at department stores including Barneys New York, which presents it beside collections by acclaimed designers Thakoon and Proenza Schouler. Sample price for a black T-shirt: $210.

The sisters co-design Elizabeth and James, named after their older brother and younger sister. Introduced in 2007, it echoes Mary-Kate's hipster aesthetic: tomboy blazers, plaid button-downs, an oversized sweat shirt.

"They are influencing fashion in a big way at the moment; they introduced kind of this masculine-feminine kind of way of dressing," says Stephanie Solomon, fashion director at Bloomingdale's, which carries Elizabeth and James.

Solomon says she was surprised by the quality and innovation of the designs, as well as the heavy involvement of the sisters, who insisted on helping to decorate their window display at the flagship store in Manhattan.

"It would sell even if they were unknown," she says of the line. "Selling pretty well is an understatement — it is one of our best-selling lines right now in our contemporary area."

They don't use their image on the brands' logos and various promotional materials.

courtesy : The Associated Press