Ana Ortiz & Noah Lebenzon

Pregnancy must be catchng on te set of Ugly Betty, because only a week after Rebecca Romijn had her twins Ana Ortiz, aka Betty’s big sis Hilda, announced her pregnancy.

The 39 year old actress is expecting her first child with husband Half Life guitarist Noah Lebenzon in July. The couple married in Puerto Rico in 2007.

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The siblings are back from the holidays and California is looking nice and balmy! As I am snowed in anything that doesn’t require monboots and a big woolly hat is lookin’awfully good to me.

Kevin is recovering from his kidney surgery and keeps having disturbing dreams. Justin goes into Cooper’s primary school as ’show and tell’, Saul tries to hire an architect for Nora’s pet project, but Norah loathes the man.

The Julia/Kevin sex scene was hilarious.
The whole Kevin trying to break away from his overbearing nurses was very funny. Good ep, high on comedy, low on drama, made a healthy change.

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Peyton

Big news all around!
In the last ep before Christmas Peyton went to hospital, Sam ran away and hooked up with some creep, Millie planned to have sex and Nathan tried out for the big league. <br><br> Well, stuff turned out ok: Peyton has some life altering news for Lucas, Brooke goes out looking for Sam, Millie slept with Owen, and Sam’s bunking with the Evil Man who shot Quentin and beat up Brooke. And he’s angry.
Sooooooooooooooo. Peyton is not dying, but preggers! Sam was found and even called Brooke ‘mom’. Call me sentimental, but that did pull on my heartstrings. Nathan made the league and everybody’s really happy. I guess it’s time for grandpa Dan to come and mess it all up again….

Sooo, Brooke and Julian? Probably not, right? But I’ll bet you twenty bucks that Millie’s up the spout!

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I used to be a bit of an Eastenders fan, years ago. Actually, I stopped watching after Tiffany died. I liked her, and Grant, I thought they made a cute couple, and, oh well. I also loved Sharon and Grant. I even liked watching Sharon on strictly come dancing. Anyway, I moved away from Britain and I kicked the Albert Square habit. And it IS a habit, especially when they went up to four episodes a week!

Yesterday I was in a hotel in Spain and they had BBC Prime. For the first time in years, I stumbled across an episode of Eastenders. Nothing at all had changed! Peggy still looks exactly the same, the Queen Vic hasn’t changed at all, Dot’s still alive (amazing, that), Phil is still getting pudgy. Of course there were a lot of people I didn’t know, but luckily they were all sleeping wih their sister’s husband and/or stealing money from their boyfriends, so I felt right at home.

The real shocker came later that night when there was a double bill of something called Vital Signs, a series about Tamzin Outhwaite, raising a lot of kids with a surly husband and struggling to become a doctor. Wooooooh. WHat the HELL happened to Tamzin/Melanie? Is it just reaaaaaaalllly bad lighting and make-up and tacky clothes? Because she used to be a bit of a looker (and dating Grant Mitchell, I believe and oh boy, she’s is looking terrible. Shame that.

I wonder what will happen to Dot and her son….
**&&^% I’m hooked again.
 

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Sarah Michelle as Veronika

Now that Buffy’s little sister Michelle Trachtenberg is making a come back on Gossip Girl, I wondered what happened to Buffy herself, scream queen Sarah Michelle? Apart from marrying Freddie Prinze jr. she hasn’t been making waves much the last few years. 

Al that may be about to change as she’s starring in the Paulo Coelho adaptation Veronika decides to die. In the film, a young woman finds herself waking up after a failed suicide attempt. When she learns that she has only a few days to live, she gains a new lust for life.

It’s a bit of a leap for SMG, up to now the Buffy star has mostly kicked serious (vampire)ass, so a ’serious’ film is a change of pace. SMG will also be starring in the new HBO series The Wonderful Maladys.

Looks gooooooood!

Terminator: Salvation

May is creeping closer and closer and we all know what happens in May, apart from birds nesting etc., the Future Starts! With the start of a whole new Terminator trilogy! Starring Christian Bale, the flic is set in the none too distant, but eerily post apocalyptic future. The only thing standing between mandkind and total annihilation by big scary robots is, once again, poor John Connor.

I must say that, when I watch Terminator:SCC I often get the same feeling I got when watching Frodo and Sam plodding through endless mountains on The Two Towers: poor lambs, they still have the entire Return of the king to go before they get to *&^%$ Mordor!

Young John is already having such a hard time of it when he should be chasing girls and hating his mum like a proper teen. As if being a teenager isn’t bad enough, he has to fight killer robots and figure out the future from his basement wall. And take orders from his mum, which must sting just a little.

Anyway, in Salvation he’s all grown up and Christian Bale, which must be good news. I always hope Kate Winslet will play me in the movie, John must be well chuffed that the Dark Knight himself is taking on the role! On second thoughts, I’d like him to play me as well.

Fans have been so thrilled about Bale signing on and the glimpses of trailers that producers decided not to wait til next summer to see how well Salvation will do: they already signed Bale on to do all three! Director McG is rumored to stick around for all three as well.

Terminator 2 or rather 4, (this is going to be one of those confusing series like Star Wars, where part 2 is actually part 5. I hate it when that happens!) is scheduled for summer 2011. I’ll just go and set my popcorn timer.

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Michelle Trachtenberg

Evil Georgina might be returning to the Upper East side!
Last year we met with Serena’s former friend and arch enemy Georgina. When Serena was still a party girl the two used to sleep around and do drugs, but now that Serena has gone goodie two Louboutins Georgina finds sick pleasure in tormentng her.

Hey, anyone tormenting Serena is ok with me and I must say I liked Trachtenberg. As Buffy’s sis (where IS Sarah Michelle Geller anyway? Off having babies? Rehab?) she was a bit too sweet to be true, I like the more curvy, adult version. And her clothes are much, much better.

As with many evil doers, you wonder why they make such a song and dance of being evil, it would be so much easier to just get along.   Or find new friends to go drinking with. But wehey, we need a bit of action in Gossip Girl. Rumors are flying that Georgina is Lily and Rufus’ love child. What do you think?

Of course Georgie could be having a love child of her own, after her fling with Dan? 

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Wolverine!

“I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do isn’t very nice”.

If Wolverine ever got into a fight with Superman, we Xmen fans know who’d win: Wolfie! Easy! ‘Cause not only is Logan indestructable with his adamantium claws and extremely strong, he can also fight dirty. WHich is something Superman or Spidey would never do.

Wolfie made his debut in 1974, in The incredile Hulk comic.

This year on May first Wolfie gets his own movie! It’s a prequel to the Xmen trilogy. Its focus is on Wolfie’s dark and violent past, as a hired gun and weapon X.

Lucky for family man Jackman, it was shot in his own backyard, Australia. Hugh had to beef up for his role because he wanted to be true to his character. He even grunted like Wolfie while doing his strenuous cardiovascular workouts. O, to have been a fly on the wall in Wolfie’s gym!

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Wolfie’s back and the trailer looks awesome! Any excuse to see Hugh Jackman without his shirt is all right with me, but as Wolverine he sets a new standard of hotness. Hot AND a bit Evil: Nice!