Kate Middleton

By Elizabeth Wellington So far, we know the royal newlyweds will not have servants in their house, at least for the first three years of their marriage. We've been told that Kate Middleton's life-size wax image won't join the rest of the royal brood at Madame Tussauds until the end of this year. And it was reported that the No Problem Orchestra, a group of Austrian disabled musicians, are to perform at the April 29 affair. But one question remains: What - and maybe more important, who - will Kate wear when she walks down the aisle of Westminster Abbey to marry Prince William?

For young women, there's a twinge of sadness that comes along with the news that Prince William is no longer on the market after proposing to Kate Middleton, his girlfriend of eight years. The resounding response to the news from the mid-20s set has been an acid-tinged, "Good for them. But now he can't marry me. " I can't speak to the British counterparts of my generation, who must be all too aware of the class distinctions between themselves and the prince, no matter how many baseball caps he dons in photos, or how down to earth he seems in his brief press appearances.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 p.m., NBC10) - Tyler Perry; Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas; Wayne Pacelle. The Oprah Winfrey Show (4 p.m., 6ABC) - The stories behind some of the most memorable episodes. How I Met Your Mother (8 p.m., CBS3) - Barney tries to bond with his father and wants his friends to lie about their lives so they will appear more interesting. Hawaii Five-0 (10 p.m., CBS3) - Sean Combs, a.k.a. Diddy, is a New York police detective whose family is targeted by a crime lord whose organization he infiltrated.

Philly's own Kendra Wilkinson Baskett is, um, versatile. The former Playfriend, now wife of former Eagles (currently, like all NFL players, unemployed) footballer Hank Baskett , is on Dancing With the Stars , and making the most of it, not by dance but by mouth, telling every woman everywhere to get in touch with her inner stripper. She's also on a newly discovered sex tape. That would be (at least) her second. As the world knows, last year a sex tape surfaced of K-Wilk and former bf Justin Frye . It was later released by our pals at Vivid Entertainment.

LONDON - Britain's government said Saturday that it had begun the process of reviewing the ancient, discriminatory rules of royal succession, so that if Prince William and Kate Middleton's first child is a girl, she would eventually become queen. The current rule that puts boys ahead of their sisters "would strike most people as a little old-fashioned," Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said. It is just two weeks until the prince and Middleton get married at London's Westminster Abbey, and Clegg said many people might agree that the rules should be changed.

A princess doth not a fashion icon make. Whew, that thought has bothered me like a pebble in my Manolo for a while now. It's not that I don't like Kate Middleton's style. In fact, the 29-year-old fiancee to Prince William has been killing it , fashionably speaking, since she was officially betrothed. She was sophisticated in her royal-blue dress by Brazilian designer Issa London. She's classy when wearing the belted white Burberry trench coat with the dainty ruffled hem. And she's a risk-taker - note her penchant for hats, from netted pillboxes to black fedoras.

Does acting like a tramp mean you are a tramp? No, says philosophical ethics prof Miley Cyrus in response to critics who suggest that her "Can't Be Tamed" music vid is far too sexually suggestive for a 17-year-old child. "I'm not trying to be 'slutty,' " Miley says. "I'm not trying to be like, go to the club and get a bunch of guys. . . . What I'm trying to do is to make a point with my record and look consistent, in the way my record sounds and the way I dress. " So, is she just acting inarticulate?

Ed Rendell is taking the Sarah Palin route out of politics: media stardom. NBC News says it has hired the former Pennsylvania governor as a political analyst. "Governor Rendell has never been afraid to share his thoughtful analysis on national and local issues," says NBC prez and local lad Steve Capus , an alum of William Tennent High School in Warminster. "[Rendell's] extensive experience serving the people of Pennsylvania gives him a unique perspective," adds Capus.

WHEN a "beautiful socialite-turned-amateur porn star-turned-reality- TV entrepreneur" weds, as Kim Kardashian will do today, attention must be paid. The Kimmy and New Jersey Net Kris Humphries nuptials will take place, as these things often do, under great secrecy with details kept under wraps, the better to justify that big payday from People magazine ($500,000, some say) for a pictorial in next week's issue and the E! network's plans for a two-part wedding special on Oct. 9-10.

Lindsay Lohan had a good day Wednesday. The sometime actor and Playboy starlet was showered with praise by L.A. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner at a hearing to determine what progress the miscreant and ex-con had made in her long road to rehabilitation while she is on probation in her jewelry theft case. As LiLo's lawyer, Shawn Holley , explained earlier, LiLo has been a good girl, and proud of it. "Miss Lohan, you have actually done your work, and not only done it, but done it early," Sautner told LiLo.

French fashion house Lacoste, whose alligator logo-stamped short-sleeve piqué polo shirt has for decades defined preppyhood, yuppiehood - if not the 'hood - is enraged at Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik for wearing its signature shirt whenever he is in public. London's The Telegraph says Breivik, 32, who killed 77 people July 22 in Utøya and Oslo, demands that he wear no other shirt. He writes in his manifesto that "refined people like [Breivik] should wear brands like Lacoste.

WHEN a "beautiful socialite-turned-amateur porn star-turned-reality- TV entrepreneur" weds, as Kim Kardashian will do today, attention must be paid. The Kimmy and New Jersey Net Kris Humphries nuptials will take place, as these things often do, under great secrecy with details kept under wraps, the better to justify that big payday from People magazine ($500,000, some say) for a pictorial in next week's issue and the E! network's plans for a two-part wedding special on Oct. 9-10.

Twilight is finally coming for Twilight : Shooting is over on Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 . Kristen Stewart is both sad and elated. After shooting her final scene, Bella tells W mag, "I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I've ever felt in my life. " The pic is due Nov. 16, 2012.   Gisele babygate Blog Barstoolsports.com ("by the common man, for the common man") has enraged media critics by using a nude photo of Gisele Bundchen 's 20-month-old baby, Benjamin Brady , to make lewd jokes.

MONACO - Charlene Wittstock has not one, but two tough acts to follow. As the future princess of Monaco and wife to longtime bachelor Prince Albert II, the Zimbabwe-born, South Africa-raised former Olympic swimmer is to succeed Grace Kelly, whose 1956 wedding to Prince Rainier III is still widely seen as the gold standard for royal nuptials. And as if the blue-eyed Hollywood beauty-turned-beloved princess didn't cast a long enough shadow, Albert's long-awaited marriage to Wittstock comes on the heels of the royal wedding of the decade, Kate Middleton's union with Britain's Prince William.

Matt Lauer called it "a very bittersweet Wednesday morning" as he and the rest of the staff and crew on NBC's Today said goodbye to Meredith Vieira . It was lavish and emotional. There was a touching clip retrospective of Vieira's five years on the show. She was serenaded by Carole King and Jack Black . And there were heartfelt testimonials from coworkers Lauer, Al Roker , Ann Curry (who is replacing Vieira), and Natalie Morales . The highlight: An extended song-and-sprint which had Vieira running all over the set to Journey 's "Don't Stop Believin'.

Prince William and princess-y wife Kate Middleton already have broken one of their most popular (pre-marriage) campaign promises: They're hiring servants. The royal couple had promised the people - with much earnestness - they would do their own shopping and cleaning. Couldn't cope, I guess: The newlyweds have posted an ad for a housekeeper and a dresser to serve them at their new London pad, Kensington Palace. Lest you've not had your recommended daily allowance of BBC costume dramas, a dresser is a person who gently places rich people into their pants, socks, boots, cravats, and so forth.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Barely a month after their fairy-tale wedding, a new film depicting the budding romance of Prince William and Kate Middleton is being rushed out for television viewers. A mixture of fact and fiction, "William & Kate: A Royal Love Story" is expected to be released in August on the Hallmark Channel. Director Linda Yellen, took some time out from filming at MediaPro Studios in Romania to speak with the Associated Press. The American was also producer of CBS' "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana" in 1982, a film that had a huge audience at the time.

The four years Brooke Shields spent hitting the books at Princeton University gave her the skills to survive the tribulations of show business, the actress told students at her alma mater Monday. Urging them to live life to the fullest and take nothing for granted, Shields teared up as she delivered the keynote speech at Princeton's annual Class Day ceremony to honor graduating seniors. "My education enabled me to survive this industry - one that predicates itself on eating its young," she said the day before commencement.

Among the many things money and power can't buy, apparently, is originality. Over the winter, Eli N. Avila, Gov. Corbett's secretary of health, got into a tiff at a diner called Roxy's over whether his eggs were fresh. To sharpen his point, he resorted to the trite and true "Do you know who I am?" Avila left Roxy's and filed a complaint against the place with Harrisburg's health department, which found only minor violations. None of them had to do with eggs. Avila has not commented on the incident, but his representatives have said he thought there was a legitimate health concern.