Christina Aguilera and hubby Jordan Bratman on Friday welcomed their first child — a boy, People is reporting. As first spilled by E! Online, the couple texted friends and family to announce their news: "Baby has arrived. Mom and Dad are doing well!"By successfully propagating, the couple on Friday joined the ranks of Nicole Richie (see related story) and Courtney Thorne-Smith, both of whom also birthed them some babies on the same day.According to Jim's Thorne-Smith and husband Roger Fishman on Friday welcomed their first child together, a son named Jacob Emerson. Given the number of new actor/singer/celeb babies hitting maternity wards today, it's only a matter of time before a new era of budding celebutantes will be taking over.Will 2018 be off the hook with celeb spawn? Give us your take. — Anna Dimond
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When ABC’s According to Jim returns midseason, there will be a new, reality-based plotline. Cheryl (Courtney Thorne-Smith) and Jim (Jim Belushi) are expecting a baby, to coincide with Thorne-Smith’s real-life pregnancy. "We are going to go for a pregnancy because Courtney is pregnant," Belushi told TV Guide at the Camp Ronald McDonald 15th Annual Family Halloween Carnival on Sunday. But that doesn’t mean that Smith won’t be sporting pillows over the belly or a dishcloth dangling in front as they build to the big reveal. Says Belushi, "There’ll be a few episodes with purses and pillows and sitting behind a table." —Reporting by Andrea Goodwin
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How refreshing. A low-profile celebrity marriage ceremony. Held in mere America, no less! Ugly Betty beauty Rebecca Romijn and Crossing Jordan cutie Jerry O'Connell tied the knot on Saturday in an intimate ceremony in quant li'l Los Angeles. "It was a perfect celebration, and Jerry and I couldn't be happier," Romijn, who previously was wed to John Stamos, tells People.... Courtney Thorne-Smith is expecting this winter her first child with husband Roger Fishman. An ABC spokesperson has yet to respond to TVGuide.com's request for comment on how this will coincide with the production schedule for According to Jim, which was only recently uncancelled.
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Speaking of Knots Landing alums, Kathleen Noone is a busy lady. When she's not playing sassy senior Edna Wallace on Passions, she's recurring on According to Jim as Courtney Thorne-Smith's mother. Noone next appears in Jim's Christmas episode Dec. 13.
And here's some scoop you'll hear only from TVGuide.com's resident soap whisperer: Noone will be in the Jan. 24 episode of WB's
Supernatural. "
Jared Padalecki and
Jensen Ackles (ex-Eric,
Days of our Lives) are delightful, sweet and really cute!" she enthuses. "In the episode, my character's husband is killed by a [ghost] truck that keeps running people off of the road." (Check out this week's
AA for more info on
Supernatural's January guest stars.)
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