Katie Holmes has narrowly escaped injury during a mishap on the set of her upcoming film, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, currently in production on Australia’s south coast.

The actress, who recently made her dancing debut on American reality show So You Think You Can Dance?, was shooting a scene inside a car at Victoria’s Docklands when the vehicle’s battery exploded over the weekend.

The battery allegedly sparked a couple times before emitting dangerous fumes and smoke, which eventually turned into a fire that engulfed the entire car.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is a Miramax remake of the 1973 ABC made-for-television film of the same name, in which Holmes’ character is stalked by evil gnomes. Sounds thrilling.

Unfortunately, the exploding battery isn’t part of the film.

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Peaches Geldof is one of those, poor, underprivileged celebrity kids that, despite having very famous parents, loads of cash and a high-partying lifestyle, isn’t actually that famous. She’s tried plenty of nifty tricks in the past to elevate her level of celebrity status: the numerous drug incidences, her shot-gun marriage to a fledgling rocker, etc, etc.

Now, however, Peaches has found the perfect way to ensure she spends the rest of her young life partying it up with New York’s “It” club – she’s going to convert to Scientology.

Yes, according to a pal of Peaches, the daughter of Sir Bob Geldof is planning to begin the necessary training to become a Scientologist like her idol, Katie Holmes, who she hopes to be bosom buddies with once she’s completed the indoctrination.

Ms. Geldof’s friend explained that Peaches became “totally smitten” with Holmes after interviewing the actress earlier in the year, and has since decided that Scientology is what she needs to make it in the world of the rich and famous.

“Peaches was very impressed by Katie, she loved interviewing her and really wanted to become friends with her,” said the pal. “She thought that taking up Scientology would be the perfect springboard to work her way into that New York clique.”

The friend added: “She knows her dad won’t be happy about it, but she feels it will help her move into bigger and better celeb circles, so she is willing to keep up with her studies to become a fully fledged Scientologist.”

Apparently Peaches Geldof is that shallow. Who knew??

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Katie Holmes feels trapped in her marriage to Tom Cruise and is too terrified of losing her daughter to leave him reports the Enquirer.

Katie feels smothered by his control, with friends suggesting she is ready to snap.

She believes that if she left him, he’d make it nearly impossible for her to see Suri and Katie knows how that works, seeing first hand how he cut first Stepford Wife, Nicole Kidman out of the lives of their children. (Mind you, I think that has a lot to do with the choice of Kindman than Cruise).

Katie has everything money can buy, but as is often the case, that is not enough. She has no real close friends of her own and is ever under the watchful eye of Tom’s Scientology overlords.

Such is the life of a Stepford Wife.

Star is reporting that Katie is feeling conned by Tom Cruise, because he hasn’t helped her to become a major  star.

Part of the ‘agreement’ when they started ‘dating’ was for Tom to make all her dreams come true. Apparently Katie is like many others, with her only dream being to become a major movie star.

The trouble is, none of that has happened for Mrs Cruise No. 3. While Tom helped launch frozen face Nicole’s career, he has failed to deliver the same rewards for Katie and she is not too happy about it.

Tom had apparently made the bold statement that with him managing her career, she would be a major star and the No. 1 female box-office earner in the World within 5 years.

Due to his controversial statements and behaviour, Tom’s star has itself waned considerably and presumably his Hollywood power along with it. With Valkyrie, he may reclaim some of his lost sparkle, time will tell.

I wonder if Katie’s contract has a get-out clause written into it???

10. Milla Jovovich. There is just something about Milla; I am not sure if it has anything to do with her nude scenes in the resident Evil movies, but she qualifies for the Milf Top 10.

9. Britney Spears has slimmed down, grown some hair and is looking hot again. Sure, she still has a few issues, but that doesn’t stop her rating a 9 on the Milfofmeter.

8. Kate Hudson, just doesn’t seem to age and still looks as good as she did prior to milfdom.

7. Salma Hayek is addicted to breast feeding, so we both have something in common.

6. Christina Aguilera always looks classy, even when she is hammered.

5. Gwen Stefani has the best abs and legs on the list.

4. Katie Holmes is looking better as she ages. Being married to Tom hasn’t damaged her looks at all.

3. Naomi Watts really has the blond milf look going on.

2. Halle Berry come a very close tie for the number one spot.

1. Kate Beckinsale has what every milf should have and what every milfman wants.

Some notable omissions form the list include, Angelina Jolie and Madonna. I omitted them simply because I think they are ugly…..

Tom Cruise has proved that his love for wife Katie Holmes is about as real as Heidi and Spencer’s “not-so-impromptu” wedding in Mexico last week.

The Scientologist actor admitted that he fell “so hard” for Holmes that he’d already bought an engagement ring for the Dawson’s Creek star on their first date!

“I knew I wanted to marry Kate when I met her,” Cruise told Style magazine.

And when Holmes confessed that she’s dreamt of marrying the Top Gun star when she was a little girl, Cruise said he told her, “I wouldn’t want to disappoint [you].”

Cruise purchased the whopper of a diamond “shortly” after their first date in 2005, but held on to it for some time, because, he said, he was “trying to put Katie off” the scent.

“At one point, I thought she was going to ask me to marry her first and I put her off by changing the subject.”

“I wanted to ask her,” Cruise added.

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I love seeing photos of Tom and Katie, where she makes him look like a midget in spite of his high lift shoes, just like this pic I posted of them nearly two years ago.

Alright, so there may be a slight difference, with him having one foot in the gutter. I said gutter, not closet!

Anyway, I digress. This post is about Tom Tom and his bulletproof cars. In Touch Weekly reports that Tom is so concerned for his family’s safety that he has had all of them fitted with bulletproof windows and bombproof panels. On top of that, each of Tom’s chauffeurs are professionally trained defensive drivers.

Chauffeurs?

How many does he have?

OK, I can go with the armor plating and the bulletproof glass, but I am not sure if I would be tricking out a performance car with an extra ton of weight.

Katie Holmes is developing a major attitude towards her hired help. Katie has reportedly been bullying her household help, with sources blaming her life with Tom for having changed her from a sweet little tramp thing into a snotty nosed bitch toff.

“She treats the help like slaves,” says the insider. “At times, she just leaves everything she doesn’t wear on the floor where it drops for the maids to hang up.

“That’s so unlike the old Katie, who would never want to be any trouble or be at all aloof.” And we thought she was just a Stepford robot these days! The insider also told of an incident where Katie took a sip of Tom’s “daily smoothie” after their housekeeper prepared it for him.

“One day, the housekeep was making Tom his daily smoothie and Katie came along and sipped a couple of inches from it. Then she told the housekeeper that she’d blame her for drinking it! She was just goofing around to see the woman squirm. The poor woman was terrified because she didn’t know what she was going to say to Tom.”

Give a chick a contract and look what happens.

The stress of her new life in the spotlight of Tom Cruise is certainly taking its toll on Katie Holmes. Since the posting of yesterday’s story, the former Dawson’s Creek star collapsed at one of L.A.’s trendy eateries.

“She fainted at a lunch,” a source says. “Everyone is concerned about her.”

In the middle of her lunch, Holmes fainted and was taken outside the restaurant by one of her minders. Onlookers say Katie appeared to be disoriented as she tried to steady herself against the door, before being carried to her car by her bodyguard. ÂÂ

The 29-year-old has been suffering from an increasing amount of dizzy spells and debilitating headaches of late, something which her friends attribute to the pressures of being Mrs. Cruise.

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As Katie Holmes continues to struggle with the increasing pressure of being wife to Scientology mega-star Tom Cruise, her husband of two years has thrown down an ultimatum: if she doesn’t manage to pull herself together, he’ll take daughter Suri away from her… for good.

In recent times, the pressure of her media-loving lifestyle as Mrs. Cruise has put a huge strain on her health, with Katie suffering from blinding headaches and regular fainting spells. Katie is said to be overly emotion and struggling to get a grip on her life, and hubby Tom has had enough.

A source explained: “Tom has been patient with Katie, supportive of her feelings and how she needed to get used to her new life. But he feels enough is enough.

“He is taking control back from Katie the only way he knows how — by telling her that if she doesn’t pull herself together, their marriage is doomed. He has even gone as far as to warn Katie: ‘I’m taking Suri with me if our marriage falls apart’.”

Katie is said to be so frail and confused that she’s already taken a back-seat in her daughter’s life, and hasn’t been seen in public with little Suri since mid-January. A source close to the struggling star has revealed that in her fragile state, Katie just can’t deal with a Suri right now.

“With Katie’s frail state, Suri is just too much to handle,” the source said.

Sounds like being the wife of Tom Cruise is turning out to be no where near as fun as it was in her childhood fantasy…

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