For the first time since splitting with Britney in November of 2006, Kevin Federline has come clean and told what he says is “his” side of the story.

The wannabe rapper spoke candidly to People magazine about his tumultuous last couple of years, dishing the dirt on everything from ex-wife Britney Spears, to his children, and that now infamous night when Spears locked herself in a bathroom with their youngest son and threatened suicide.

P: Do you remember when you first met Britney?

K: I met her at a club in Hollywood, Joseph’s. Our eyes met and that was it. We just hit it off right away. I learned real fast how much of a whirlwind the press and everything was.

P: What are your happiest memories of the marriage?

K: Well, getting married. I never thought that I would get married but it wound up happening. That was a really, really, happy, exciting moment. I pretty much realized that I was giving my life to her, and I was doing it without question.

P: What went wrong?

K: It’s hard enough to be in a marriage, and then have a kid, then kids, it changes everything. For me, I’d become more concerned with my children. Not that I ignored Britney, but my kids are always most important… I mean, we were having complications. I didn’t give her an ultimatum, but I was trying to work stuff out with her, and she didn’t even talk to me or anything and went behind my back and filed [for divorce]. [I was] completely blindsided.

P: A lot of people assumed you fought for custody of the kids because of money.

K: My first question to [my lawyer] was, “Am I ever going to be able to see my children?” I told him that I would spend every last dime that I had to make sure that my children are okay. That’s all that mattered. I didn’t know how much power Britney had. That really scared me.

P: How did you react in January when Britney locked herself in the bathroom with Jayden and was later taken to the hospital on a gurney?

K: That whole night is a blur. You want to talk about one of my lowest points of depression, that was probably one of them. I was very, very worried for her ’cause I care about her. That’s the mother of my children. Just because I’m not in love with her doesn’t mean that I don’t love her. I’m definitely rooting for her. There’s nothing more that I want than for her to be in the best health and doing what she loves to do.

P: Are things getting better?

K: Oh, man, it’s totally turning around. It works out that [the kids] get to see her. There’s structure over there, there’s structure at my house. We’re trying to keep the same type of schedule. It doesn’t have to be completely perfect, but the foundation is there.

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Nicole Kidman has hit a snag in her suffocating press campaign for new movie Australia, showing her true “Ice Queen” colours during an interview with David Letterman.

The Australian actress was “greeted warmly” by Letterman, but things quickly turned icy, with Kidman letting off a string of cutting, sarcastic comments that left fans across the globe disgusted.

Obviously sick and tired of hearing about Australia (the movie, not the continent; although these days it’s pretty hard to tell the two apart), Letterman “insisted” on talking about anything but the movie, and at one point even brought up the subject of our closest neighbours, New Zealand.

“I made a film called Australia – not New Zealand,” Kidman reminded the host a little tensely.

“Right,” Letterman replied. “Are they making a film called New Zealand?”

This comment didn’t go down well with Kidman, and it was at this point that the interview started to go even further southward.

After pursuing several questions about Kidman’s country music-singing hubby, Keith Urban, the botox-ed starlet snapped, “Why are you so obsessed with him?”

“Please, let’s talk about the film!” Kidman begged at one point.

When Australia did finally get a mention, it didn’t improve Kidman’s mood any, with Letterman’s compliments about her appearance causing the actress to spit back: “You were talking about horses and you suddenly went to me face?”

I don’t know that I’d compare Kidman’s appearance to that of a horse, but there is something not entirely human about her appearance… those disgusting puffy, immobile lips – for a start – aren’t normal… and don’t even get me started on the rest of her taut, expressionless face!!

The interview – Part 1 and 2 – is available below.

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Jennifer Aniston has well and truly opened up about her feelings for Angelina Jolie.

The actress, who lost ex-husband Brad Pitt to Jolie, spilled the beans to Vogue magazine.

“There was stuff printed [in Jolie's recent interview] that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening,” Aniston said. “I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss.”

After asking the journalist to switch off the recorder, Aniston shook her head in disbelief and added: “That stuff about how [Jolie] couldn’t wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.”

I don’t think anyone would disagree with that — although I think I may have chosen a more colourful word than “uncool”, if it were me.

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It sure has been a busy week for Staralicious, which has made the mainstream media twice in the last few days, first in a newspaper on Saturday and tomorrow in an Australian national magazine.

This comes on top of our invite to the red carpet premiere of The Bank Job last week.

The magazine contacted us a few months ago asking us to do an interview, which was set up for the following week, so it is good to see the story finally hit the news agents.

All the Aussie Staralicious readers can read the article in Take 5 Magazine tomorrow and of course keep up with all your entertainment news on Staralicious.com.

U.K. action star Jason Statham made an appearance on Australian variety show Rove last night, promoting his new movie, The Bank Job.

Statham has been in the country since Wednesday, when he walked the red carpet in Sydney for the Australian premiere of his latest film, based on the real-life London robbery of 1971 which allegedly involved the Queen’s daughter, Princess Margaret.

Staralicious was invited to the premiere of the movie on Wednesday night, but we couldn’t organise things in time to attend. Damn…

The Bank Job opens in cinemas across Australia on July 31.

Below is the hilarious “Things We Love” segment from last night’s episode of Rove, featuring a very funny statement from Jason Statham.

For those of you who live overseas or simply missed the show last night, here is the two-part interview with Get Smart stars Anne Hathaway and Steve Carrell on Australian variety show, Rove Live.

As a side note, the whole dry-retching thing came about because two of the Aussie comedians who are regulars on the show were dared by host Rove McManus to ride a rollarcoaster for the entire broadcast time, whilst also consuming hotdogs and milkshakes in the hopes that they would up-chuck on live television.

Yeah… it was funny at the time.

To see Anne and Steve at the Australian premiere of Get Smart, click here.

During an interview with Idol’s Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show on Thursday morning, the youngest Simpson girl came out with another classic: “I didn’t know I’d be getting married!”

Duh… ok!

The Pieces Of Me singer elaborated: “I didn’t know I’d be getting married right now, but I’m so happy to be! I’m a lucky girl.”

Ashlee gushed about her husband-to-be Pete Wentz on the show, but decided to stay silent on exactly how her rocker beau proposed because it was something “sacred” to her.

She said: “[The proposal] part I am keeping sacred… but I will tell you that it was very thoughtful, and he did a great job.”

“Of course, it was thoughtful,” she added, “He’s like that.” Sounds like she’s trying to talk herself into it here!

Simpson, who was calling in from her mother’s Ritz-Carlton hotel room in NYC, refused to comment on when she and Wentz will tie the knot, but said she “loves” her big diamond ring and can’t stop staring at it.

“It’s definitely a big diamond!” she said. “I go, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe its on my hand!’”

As for a wedding date… “I can’t tell my secrets.”

While Seacrest didn’t actually come out and ask the question everyone wants to hear the answer of – is Ashlee Simpson pregnant with the Fall Out Boy’s love-child – he did ask her whether or not she’d be drinking during her album promotion in New York this week.

Ashlee coyly replied, “Who knows? Maybe.”

My guess is that she’s as good as preggers, and Pimp Daddy Joe has told her to keep mum so that they can milk as much publicity from it all as possible…

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In a recent interview with Allure magazine, pop star and actress Hilary Duff dished the dirt on some of her biggest rivals: Lindsay Lohan, Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus.

While others in the industry are mum on their feuds with their peers, 20-year-old Duff seemed to enjoy the chat, revealing just what went down during the Lohan/Carter saga, and what she thinks of Lavigne’s “mumma’s girl” comment.

Here’s what Hilary had to say…

On Lindsay: “Supposedly, I stole Lindsay Lohan’s boyfriend [Aaron Carter.] 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 Avril: “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 [Lavigne called Duff a 'mommy's girl' in Newsweek] 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.’ [Adult actors] don’t get tagged like we do.”

On Miley: “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.”

Once the Dignity singer had gotten all that off her chest, she added, “It’s hard to find people who don’t feel like they’re in competition with you.”

Hilary’s interview will be published in the May issue of Allure magazine.

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In his final interview before his tragic death, Australian actor Heath Ledger told WJW FOX that he’s “felt good about dying” since the birth of his daughter, Matilda Rose.

Ledger said: “You [also] look at death differently.

“It’s like a catch-22.

“I feel good about dying now because I feel I’m alive in her [Matilda].

“But at the same hand, you don’t want to die because you want to be around for the rest of her life.”

Heath was found dead in a SoHo apartment believed to belong to Mary-Kate Olsen earlier today. Police, and his distraught family, are claiming an accidental death due to an overdose of prescription and non-prescription medicines, which were found on the scene.

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While I’ll easily admit to being a big Knightley fan, I sometimes find myself cringing over the things she says in the media, in particular, this extract from her latest interview with Elle magazine.

In it, the Atonement star swears, rants on newspapers, has an argument with herself, and disses cell phones. Personally, I love my mobile, especially now I can even get my celeb gossip while texting (shamelessly plugs the new Staralicious mobile feature!)

On being moody:
“I’m a moody bastard. Actually, I’ve been banned from reading newspapers because the way they’re written angers me so much. If I want an opinion, I’ll read the opinion part of the newspaper. I do not want it when I’m trying to get the facts. I get incredibly angry. It really f—ks me off. See, I have to calm down about it.”

On becoming aware of her sexual powers:
“Oh, my god. I don’t think I’m aware of it now! No… I’m lying. I don’t know why I said that. No, I’m not lying, actually. I’ll just have an argument with myself!”

On her sex scene in upcoming movie Atonement:
“There was no knob-touching, for real. But it certainly looked like that.”

On the word “cute”:
“I hate cute, I’ve always hated cutesy. My mom used to ban the word cute. Absolutely banned.”

On cell phones:
“I hate them. It rings, and then I realize that I don’t want to talk to anyone. So I always press ignore.”

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