• Victoria Beckham and David Beckham, enjoying a sushi dinner with two pals at Nobu West Hollywood. One of their dinner guests was fashion designer (and Posh’s good pal) Marc Jacobs. “They looked like a very sweet couple,” an onlooker tells us. “%26#91;David%26#93; seemed doting, and they looked very at ease.” And it was an A-list night at the eatery: Madonna supped with a music producer pal across the restaurant.

• Halle Berry, taking a break from filming Frankie and Alice for a meal with Gabriel Aubry and daughter Nahla at the Cactus Club, a restaurant in Vancouver’s Yaletown neighborhood. The family ordered some appetizers, then lunched on a double order of chicken fajitas. “The couple was very low-key and doted on their sweet baby,” an onlooker says. “The baby was the center of attention.”

• Rosario Dawson, celebrating with her deejay boyfriend Mathieu Schreyer after nabbing the Futures Award at the Environmental Media Awards in L.A.’s Ebell Theatre. The actress perched on a couch on the patio, sipping red wine in the VIP area surrounded by her beau and her mother. Dawson doted on her man and seemed to be looking back at him lovingly, even when chatting with other partygoers. She also happily showed off her award to well-wishers.

• Mary-Kate Olsen, cuddling up with a flannel-clad Nate Lowman during a mellow dinner with friend - and sister Ashley - at West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont. Mary-Kate was sitting close to her guy - and he would put his arm around her during their meal.

• Avril Lavigne, getting “cozy” with hubby Deryck Whibley at Il Sole in West Hollywood. Says an onlooker: “They were holding hands at the table then shared a tiramisu.”

• Brody Jenner, hugging girlfriend Jayde Nicole at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show and afterparty at Miami’s club LIV inside the Fontainebleau Hotel.

• A pregnant Jenna Jameson, checking into the Hard Rock Hotel %26 Casino in Las Vegas with boyfriend Tito Ortiz, who bought more than $1,000 in jewelry at the Hard Rock retail store.

• By REAGAN ALEXANDER, JENNIFER GARCIA, SARA HAMMEL, CHRISTINE KILPATRICK, MARY MARGARET and LINDA MARX

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• Taking a break from coaching high school football, Ashton Kutcher shared a dinner with a recovering Diddy at the Geisha House in Hollywood. The music mogul had just undergone rotator cuff surgery, sources tell us, and was on a “very strict diet.” In fact, Diddy ordered chicken yakitori and rock shrimp tempura, two house specialties, but ate very little of both dishes.

• Speaking of geishas, Avril Lavigne was dressed like one for an early Halloween celebration at Key Club in West Hollywood, where she belted out Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation” during a special performance. The punky singer sang with a band that included her hubby Deryck Whibley, who wore a nurse’s costume and Joker-like face paint. Lavigne was introduced as “Mrs. Whibley” and “sounded amazing” during her turn on the mic, a source says. When they weren’t performing, the singer and her rocker husband shared a table at the nightspot with Mischa Barton, who was without a costume, though she did wear a headband for her night out.

• At Hyde Lounge in Los Angeles, Lindsay Lohan and girlfriend Samantha Ronson double-dated with Nicole Richie and Joel Madden. The foursome sat in a booth and enjoyed dessert. “They were having a great time hanging out with each other,” an onlooker says. When they weren’t eating, the couples danced off the calories.

• Natalie Portman, eating some pumpkin soup during a visit to French eatery comme %26#199;a in Los Angeles. The actress dined with eight people and was definitely talking business, an onlooker says. Also at the restaurant: Courtney Love, who ordered the soup, a salad and a lemon tart. The rocker was also having a business meeting, and an onlooker reports that she had clothing samples at her table.

• Dave Annable and Matthew Rhys made the most of hosting the DKNY dinner at BondST in Los Angeles, charming the table of (mostly) ladies with a constant stream of jokes and self-deprecation. Annable got a nice surprise when he arrived to find himself sitting next to actress Emmy Rossum. “They were really cute and seemed to hit if off right away,” says a fellow guest.

• Sharon Stone, browsing the denim section at Live On Sunset in Los Angeles. The actress picked up a pair of AG jeans and “was friendly, polite, quiet and looked beautiful,” an onlooker says.

• Katie Lee Joel, grabbing a candy-themed cocktail and mingling with guests at a party for Dylan’s Candy Bar on New York’s Upper East Side. Also at the bash: Ivanka Trump and director Woody Allen, who led his children Bechet and Manzie around the store looking at the colorful candy displays with wife Soon-Yi Previn.

• By JENNIFER GARCIA, JESSICA HERNDON and MARY MARGARET

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• Salma Hayek, singing “Happy Birthday” in Spanish

to friend Daya Fernandez - who founded the popular L.A. game

Hollywood Domino - during her birthday bash at The Stork in Los

Angeles. When she wasn’t with the guest of honor, Hayek mingled with

girlfriends in the lounge’s bell tower. Meanwhile, Orlando Bloom stuck close to girlfriend Miranda Kerr - but still

added his voice to the “Happy Birthday” chorus. Among the other celebrity

revelers: Leonardo DiCaprio.

• Cameron Diaz, chatting it up with pal Robin Antin on the patio of West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont. The

actress, who sat at the table just vacated by Radiohead singer

Thom Yorke, ordered the shrimp and corn chowder, which she enjoyed

with some bits of bread that she carefully buttered. She also enjoyed

chatting with her friend, and the ladies seemed to relish their time

together, an onlooker says of the smiling, laughing pair.

• Back from Toronto (where he got cozy with ex Rachel McAdams), a solo Ryan Gosling ordered tacos for lunch

at Hugo’s Tacos in Studio City, Calif.

• Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley,

sharing a romantic sushi dinner at Koi in Los Angeles. After their meal, the

couple left hand-in-hand, a source says.

• Debra Messing, turning the big 4-0 with an intimate party

at high-end Los Angeles lingerie store Kiki De Montparnasse. Messing sported

a metallic gold minidress to her bash - and arrived before her guests

to put the finishing touches on various elements of the party. Partygoers

(including Cheri Oteri) came with gifts for the actress, and dined

on food catered by Ashton Kutcher’s restaurant, Dolce.

“Everyone was shopping around,” a guest tells us of the scene.

• Heroes costars Zachary Quinto and Dania Ramirez, strolling through the Sunset Junction fair in L.A.’s Silver Lake

neighborhood with a bunch of pals. Quinto sported a gray tank, which showed

off his muscular arms, while Ramirez wore a black sundress. The pals

checked out the food - and the people! They kept running into friends

and fans, acting friendly and cheery with everybody that crossed their path.

• Entourage star Kevin Connolly, hitting up Dune

Nightclub in Southampton, N.Y., twice in one weekend!

• By JENNIFER GARCIA, SARA HAMMEL and MARY MARGARET

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Looks like Avril Lavigne’s Malaysian concert will have a My Happy Ending after all.

After rumors that the conservative Malaysian government banned the scheduled Aug. 29 concert for being “too sexy,” Lavigne told MTV News that the show will definitely go on.

“I’ve actually been approved by the government to play a show,” Lavigne said on Thursday. “I’ve already sold 10,000 tickets there, so I will be going to put a concert on for the fans.”

The Malaysian government faced particular pressure from an Islamic opposition party, which cited Lavigne’s racy image and expressed concern that Lavigne’s concert date on her “Best Damn Tour” was scheduled just two days before Malaysia’s upcoming independence day celebrations.

Lavigne is not the first to have a brush with the conservative Malaysian government: Gwen Stefani was forced to cover up her famous midriff in Malaysia last year, and the Pussycat Dolls were fined in 2006 for violating Malaysia’s strict indecency codes.

Look out, Hannah Montana! Miranda Cosgrove, the 15-year-old star of Nickelodeon’s hit TV series iCarly, will release her debut album, iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show June 10, which features four brand new tracks by the star. The tween sensation gives PEOPLE an exclusive listen to one of the tracks, “Stay My Baby,” an infectious ode to young love.

Listen to the song here:

The album also includes a slew of hits from artists like Sean Kingston, Avril Lavigne and Natasha Bedinfield, in addition to an all-new song from The Naked Brothers Band. Nickelodeon will premiere a new special iCarly Saves TV on June 13.
- Tiffany McGee

Hilary Duff may have been in show business for a decade, but she’s never gotten used to tangling with her fellow celebutantes.

“It’s hard to find people who don’t feel like they’re in competition with you,” she tells Allure in its May issue.

But while Duff, 20, may try to stay out of the fray, she can’t help but chat - a little, anyway - about some of her peers.

• On Lindsay Lohan: “Supposedly, I stole Lindsay Lohan’s boyfriend %26#91;Aaron Carter.%26#93; We were, like, 13! And I’ve never stolen anyone’s boyfriend! I don’t know how you do that! . . . She was talking about it and I wasn’t. It made us both look bad and put up a big weirdness. Really she was just a girl my age. We are fine now, by the way.”

• On Miley Cyrus: “We don’t have each other’s phone numbers. But when she meets me, she’s excited. It’s cute - I see a lot of myself in her.”

• On Avril Lavigne: “I said something about how she didn’t like her fans dressing like her, and how she should appreciate that because it’s a compliment. She called me a goody-goody %26#91;Lavigne called Duff a ‘mommy’s girl’ in Newsweek%26#93; Everyone is trying to prove who they are, and their position. So, I’m ‘the good girl.’ She’s ‘the bad girl’ or ‘the party girl.’ Sarah Jessica Parker doesn’t take her clothes off, but she’s not a ‘good girl.’ %26#91;Adult actors%26#93; don’t get tagged like we do.”

Avril Lavigne has cancelled two concerts on doctor’s

orders. And now the singer is taking to her blog to explain and apologize to

her fans.

“I have been sick this whole tour, and now I have lost my voice,” she writes

in a blog entry posted

Thursday. “I have never canceled a show in my whole career and just had to

for the first time ever. This sux!”

coming down with acute laryngitis. “My voice is so shot,” she writes. We

drove home yesterday and I went to my throat doctor. He stuck a camera down

my throat….ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.”

The singer reveals that she almost pulled out of an April 29 show at Las

Vegas’s the Pearl at the Palms- but soldiered on. Writes Lavigne: “I made it through…..barely! I

still went on stage in Vegas and gave it my all.”

After her Las Vegas concert, Lavigne and an entourage of 20 threw an afterparty at MOON

Nightclub.

Lavigne’s tour is expected to resume May 3 in Anaheim, Calif.

Avril Lavigne apparently is as affected as much as anybody by the downturn in the housing market.

After two deals fell through, reports Forbes.com, the rocker, 23, has marked down the price for her Beverly Hills mansion, to $5.8 million.

The original price tag a year ago was $6.9 million.

The home is inside a gated community at the top of Mulholland in the Hollywood Hills, with a pool and tennis court on the grounds.
- Stephen M. Silverman

Two songwriters who had accused Avril Lavigne of plagiarizing their song now say she did nothing wrong.

Tony Dunbar and James Gangwer had filed a lawsuit claiming the hit “Girlfriend,” by Lavigne and writing partner Luke Gottwald on her album The Best Damn Thing, was ripped off from the 1979 song “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” by Dunbar and Gangwer’s new wave group the Rubinoos.

But in a statement Tuesday, Dunbar and Gangwer said: “We are satisfied that any similarities between the two songs resulted from Avril and Luke’s use of certain common and widely used lyrics. We therefore completely exonerate Avril and Luke from any wrongdoing of any kind in connection with the claims made by us in our lawsuit.”

• Victoria and David Beckham, being escorted to their table right under the deejay booth

at West Hollywood’s Hyde. From the minute they sat down, Posh put her

hand on the inside of her husband’s thigh and pretty much held on all night.

She kissed him on the cheek, put her arm around him even while she was talking to the blond gal sitting next to her. Meanwhile, David Beckham perked up to the music, dancing in his seat as his wife happily looked on. Also there: Chris Evans and a new, brunette female friend.

• Avril Lavigne throwing an afterparty at MOON Nightclub after playing at the Pearl at the Palms. Lavigne and her entourage of more than 20 people took the largest table and did shots, singing along to the music and partying well into the morning. Lavigne stuck to Chardonnay throughout the night, but looked mesmerized by the Le Tourment Trance Absinthe display with flames, sugar, and an absinthe faucet.

• Michelle Pfeiffer, celebrating her 50th birthday at

Ristorante La Stresa in Paris with friends and castmates from Stephen

Frear’s Cheri, which she’s currently shooting. Minutes before she

arrived, Pfeiffer’s husband David E. Kelley snuck a large white

shopping bag into the restaurant.

• Ethan Hawke, having a quiet dinner with his expectant girlfriend (and former

nanny) Ryan Shawhughes at Matto in East Hampton, N.Y. He ordered the

grilled swordfish with shaved fennel, arugula and orange, and she had the

pizza del giorno which was with rapini and caramelized onions.

• By JENNIFER GARCIA, KRISTEN MASCIA, PETER MIKELBANK and JEFFREY

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