• Kate Walsh, modeling a chic Jay Godfrey dress while leaving

her Sydney hotel. The Private Practice star is Down Under to

promote her television show.

• Lauren Conrad, slipping into Teddy’s at the

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where she held court in a back booth

with best friend Lauren %26#34;Lo%26#34; Bosworth. Surrounded by guys,

Conrad stayed deep in conversation most of the night, though she did loosen

up and move her arms as the song “Footloose” played.

• LeAnn Rimes, pushing a cart containing edamame and organic

refried beans through the frozen food section at Whole Foods in Nashville.

For her shopping trip, the singer sported jeans with brown riding boots.

• Kanye West and fiancée Alexis

Phifer, enjoying a front row view of Viktor %26 Rolf’s runway show as part

of Paris Fashion Week. Afterwards, the pair ran to the opening of the new

Roberto Cavalli boutique before heading to a private dinner at Le Crazy

Horse with the designer and Vivica A. Fox.

• Pete Wentz, offering a champagne toast to Ashlee Simpson at Las Vegas hot spot Noir Bar - congratulating his

sweetheart on her musical performance. After the speech, Simpson

reciprocated with a huge kiss. A source tells us: “Ashlee was so touched by

the speech, she couldn’t wipe the smile off her face. It was adorable.”

Wednesday’s Caught in the Act >

Married life has been hectic for Private Practice star Kate Walsh and her new husband, television executive Alex Young - but she still has her sense of humor.

“I’m pregnant with triplets now and I feel really good,” she quips to Extra.

Truthfully, the former Grey’s Anatomy actress says, “No, I’m not. Right now my baby is Private Practice … she is beautiful and strong, growing every week.”

Pointing to Young, Walsh said, “That’s him, the pretty blonde guy over there.”

It was animal instinct that drew Kate Walsh to movie executive Alex Young - with some help from her pet dog, Lucy.

“He met Lucy, and she immediately loved him, that’s one of the tests when you meet a guy,” says Walsh, who married Young on Sept. 1 - only seven months after he met Walsh and Lucy, a golden-haired mix of Basenji and Jindo.

“He was like Dr. Dolittle, recalls Walsh, 40. “He was on the couch with her, and she was on him.”

“It’s an issue that’s near and dear to my heart, it’s just heartbreaking,” says Walsh. “I want to take all of them. I want to have a dog ranch. They’re the best thing in the world, our best pals.”

Another Addition

True to her word, Walsh sat with a sleepy brown and black puppy on her lap - an adorable addition she ended up adopting after checking with her husband first, according to a rep from Pedigree.

Of her husband, Walsh says: “He loves dogs as much as I do. When I’m out of town he’s usually spooning with Lucy.”

Walsh adopted Lucy the Dog (her full, formal name) as a puppy from an L.A. shelter. “It was love at first sight,” says the actress, who also revealed her nicknames for Lucy: Lu, Lulu, and Lou Diamond Phillips.

How’s that again? “It’s not a shout-out, it’s not disrespectful to Lou Diamond Phillips,” Walsh insists with a laugh. “I just like the sound of Lou Diamond Phillips.”

Cats Love Lucy

Walsh also shares her 1920 Spanish home in L.A. with two 3-year-old cats, Billy and Pablo - whom Lucy welcomed with open paws.

“She’s great with cats,” says Walsh, who grew up with adopted cats, dogs and a lizard. “They all sleep together like a pack. One of the cats is in love with Lucy. It’s a little weird. He’s like, ‘I love you, Lucy,’ and he purrs and kneads her.”

If only the rest of the world behaved like that.

Kate Walsh, who turned 40 on Saturday, says she had no angst about reaching that milestone birthday, largely because she got to share it with her new husband, movie executive Alex Young.

“Probably, honestly, I would have cared more if I were still single,” the star of ABC’s Private Practice tells Marie Claire for its November issue. “But I’ve also been working through all the big things that you grapple with as a female: relationship, work, fertility. I feel I’m in such a place of peace in my life that 40 feels like a great marker of a great year.”

Walsh says she had let the idea of marriage go - until she met Young, 36, a co-president of film production at Twentieth Century Fox, at an executive meet-and-greet in February.

“I met him, and I knew unequivocally,” she says. “Is that strange? I used to want to hit people who said, ‘You know when you know.’ It made me want to throw up. But I’m the annoying one now.”

The couple moved in together just a month later, got engaged in May, and were married over Labor Day weekend.

A True Gentleman

Walsh describes her husband as “super-intelligent, super-smart, very handsome” and “a true gentleman.” But just as important, she says, is his curiosity about the world.

“It’s so easy to be cynical, but it’s not how he lives,” she says. “I’ve always known I’ve needed someone who lived from his heart.”

Walsh says she doesn’t know yet if they will have children - and that’s another thing, like her age, that she refuses to worry too much about.

“I realized that I didn’t want to have a child badly enough to do it on my own,” she says. “Now I have a great guy, and maybe we’ll have kids and maybe we won’t. I don’t know. I’m not interested in cramming it all in. I don’t think that’s a healthy way to live.”

Nor is obsessing over your looks, she says, particularly as you get older.

“I went through a phase last year where I obsessed over every flaw,” she says. “I’m so happy that I got through it and didn’t take any action. Because it was just the regular anxiety of, ‘It’s weird to age.’ My body changed hugely between 35 and 37. Everything suddenly dropped. This is pretty much how it’s going to be for me, right here. I enjoy life, and part of that for me is eating.”