Celebrity Updates - Pop Culture News

Kevin Federline is on the cover of the December issue of Details, which features the magazine’s Power 50 list. Federline ranks seventh on the list that includes Zac Efron, Shia LaBoeuf and Larry Birkhead. /USAT 1D

Melanie Brown had the highest score from Monday’s “Dancing With the Stars” ballroom battle, increasing her chance of winning the competition on Tuesday’s season finale. Brown and her partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, earned 55 out of a possible 60 points for their cha cha and freestyle dances. /AP

Lindsay Lohan attended group therapy sessions with her parents while in New York last week and spent Black Friday shopping at Intermix and Armani Exchange. Boyfriend Riley Giles accompanied Lohan to NY but spent more time partying than mingling with the family. A friend of Lohan’s is not sure how much longer their relationship will last. Meanwhile, friend Samantha Ronson recently gave reporters the finger when they asked how Lohan was doing since leaving rehab. /NYP 10 DN 25, 26

Salma Hayek has released a photo of her baby girl, Valentina Pinaut, born Sept. 21. /NYP 11, DN 25

Drew Barrymore and boy toy Justin Long were spotted holding hands and kissing while they dined at Babbo Sunday night. /DN 25

Heath Ledger was seen hitting on girls, sipping beers and dancing around Beatrice Inn around 1 a.m. Friday. /DN 25

Ashley Olsen, most recently romantically linked to Lance Armstrong, was spotted leaving the bar of the Bowery Hotel Friday with a young man with brown hair. /DN 25

Kiefer Sutherland, who’s headed to jail in December, went to off-Broadway show “Jump” Saturday night with family and friends. /DN 25

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie on Sunday will host a VIP preview of Ritchie’s latest flick, “Revolver,” which was slammed by critics when it was released in the U.K. /DN 25

“[George Clooney] just gave me that People’s Sexiest Man alive smile – it stuns you for a second – and that’s all he needed.” – John Krasinski explaining to Men’s Health how Clooney was able to beat him during a friendly game of basketball. /DN 27

Pete Wentz insists that a sex tape of him circulating on the Internet is footage for an upcoming indie film titled “Goodnight Moon.” /DN 27

The eighth World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates will present George Clooney and Don Cheadle with the 2007 Peace Summit Award at its annual meeting in Rome, which starts Dec. 13. The two are being lauded for promoting peace in Darfur. /USAT 1D

Rosie O’Donnell raised over $1 million at the 10th anniversary of Rosie’s for All Kids Foundation last week. As auctioneer, she sold a walk-on role in Shia LaBoeuf’s new film “Eagle Eye,” produced by Steven Spielberg, for $22,000. /DN 25

Whoopie Goldberg slammed John Edwards and Barack Obama’s wife yesterday for canceling appearances on “The View.” Edwards and Mrs. Obama pulled out because they didn’t want to cross the Writer’s Guild picket line. /DN 27

Oprah Winfrey plans to travel with presidential hopeful Barack Obama to Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire on Dec. 8 and 9. /DN 3

The Food Network has canceled Emeril Lagasse’s long-running show, “Emeril Live.” Lagasse will tape his last “Live” episode Dec. 11. /NYP 77

One of Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea’s Malibu homes was among those destroyed in wildfires over the weekend, a spokeswoman said. Flea, whose real name is Michael Balzary, had been trying to sell the rental property. A real estate listing advertised the destroyed four-bedroom home for $4.8 million and described it as a “private 2.4 acre compound” set “in a botanical paradise.” /AP

Farrah Fawcett has penned a letter to a Manhattan federal judge asking him to go easy on disgraced Texas billionaire Oscar Wyatt when he is sentenced for his role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal. Fawcett, 60, said she’s known Wyatt, 83, since she was a youngster in Corpus Christi, Texas. /DN 19

Hulk Hogan’s wife said in a divorce petition that she wants a share of the family’s two multimillion-dollar Florida properties plus alimony and child support for their 17-year-old son. Linda Bollea filed for divorce from Hogan last week after 24 years of marriage. The petition says the marriage is “irretrievably broken.” Hogan is said to be “devastated.” /AP, NYP 11

Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott announced yesterday that he’ll retire this year, ending a 35-year career in Congress. Lott, 66, was ousted as Senate majority leader after making remarks in 2002 at a 100th birthday party for Strom Thurmond that were interpreted as nostalgia for racial segregation. /AP

Vice President Dick Cheney is expected back at work today, a day after he was taken to the hospital for treatment of an irregular heartbeat. Doctors administered an electrical shock to Cheney’s heart and restored it to a normal rhythm during a 2 1/2 hour hospital visit.  /AP

Quiet Riot singer Kevin Dubrow was found dead in a Las Vegas home Sunday. He was 52. There was no sign of forced entry or suspicious activity, police said Monday. /USAT 1D

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died early Tuesday, a day after he was shot at home by what police say was an intruder. He was 24. Taylor died at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where he had been airlifted after the shooting early Monday. /AP