| Posted Nov. 17, 2008
If you want to date Diddy, you'd better make sure to be plucked, waxed and polished to a painful sheen. The meticulous mogul tells Allure that he requires any woman he's wooing to undergo a Brazilian. Also on the maintenance menu: leg waxing, eyebrow shaping, and a manicure and pedicure. Diddy is quick to point out that he undergoes his own sprucing-up process, even though his manscaping noticeably doesn't involve having hair ripped out with hot wax. "I shave and groom my private areas. It's a better presentation for me," he overshares (again). "If men require women to go through the pain, we should return the favor."
Hugh Jackman: Bargain shopper. The New York Post reports the rippling, frequently shirt-eschewing star nabbed a palatial Manhattan apartment for nearly half its original asking price. Never mind that it was initially on the market for $40 million and Jackman reportedly paid an eye-popping $21 million -- a good deal is a good deal. The new digs offer plenty of room for the Down Under actor and wife Deborra-Lee Furness to spread out with their two kids, with five bedrooms and five baths in 11,000 square feet. In addition to sweeping river views, the ultra-modern residence comes with -- shocker -- a gym, along with a sauna, a rec room, a music room, a library and a dramatic circular staircase.
In less rarefied real estate news, Justin Timberlake has sliced off his own relatively modest piece of the Big Apple. According to the New York Post, the chart-topper, who showed off his shapely gams in a leotard and tights while busting a clumsy move behind Beyoncé on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend, has closed on a $5.25 million condo that he apparently plans to share with girlfriend Jessica Biel. The three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot pad comes complete with a gourmet kitchen, floor-to-ceiling windows, a sound and lighting system (we assume the disco ball is optional) and river views.
Heidi Klum once gushed to Oprah that Seal is "the most romantic husband," and he's earning his uxorious chops by planning yet another walk down the aisle. The crooner tells the London Daily Mail that he and the Victoria's Secret-sporting supermogul, who are parents to Leni, 4, Henry, 3, and Johan, 2, will renew their vows for the fourth time next May with an intimate ceremony on a beach in Costa Careyes, Mexico. "It's where we got married in May 2005, and it's become a bit of a custom to get married there again every year," says Seal, who popped the question atop a glacier in a specially constructed igloo complete with rose petals and a bearskin rug. "We love it. It's great saying your vows again. You remember who it was you fell in love with. It's also a good excuse to have a big party, and we have a different theme every year." Don't expect Prince to pen any more catchy odes to onanism a la "Darling Nikki." In a sit-down with the New Yorker, the pocketsize, purple-loving rock icon talks about becoming a Jehovah's Witness seven years ago, which he says wasn't so much "a conversion" but more of "a realization. It's like Morpheus and Neo in 'The Matrix.'" Only perhaps without the swallowing-the-red-pill mind expansion. "So here's how it is: You've got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this," Prince explains while gesturing to his Bible. "But there's the problem of interpretation, and you've got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn't. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you've got blue, you've got the Democrats, and they're, like, 'You can do whatever you want.' Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right." And what are his feelings on such hot-button issues as gay marriage and abortion? "God came to Earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out," he expounds while tapping his Bible. "He was, like, 'Enough.'" Which is apparently how Prince feels about the interview. A source insists to Perez Hilton that he was misquoted, and when he motioned to the Good Book, it was in reference to the bits about "loving everyone and refraining from judgment." |

















