Renee Zellweger hates showbiz parties.

The Oscar-winning actress doesn't get excited by big nights out and prefers a quiet night in watching the news.

Katie Holmes is devastated after being turned down for a role in a new musical film, it has been claimed.

The former "Dawson's Creek" star - who last year married Tom Cruise and gave birth to his daughter Suri - was desperate to appear in the movie adaptation of hit Broadway show "Nine", but director Rob Marshall reportedly decided she wasn't right for the role.

Renee Zellweger is happy to stay single forever. The 'Bridget Jones' Diary' star - whose marriage to singer Kenny Chesney was annulled after just four months - is prepared to accept she might never be lucky in love.

Renee, 38, said: "I don't want to sound cavalier by saying that I'm OK with my situation, because I'm not a frivolous person and don't take on something of such significance lightly. But there's good in every situation. It sounds simplistic, but I still have the good things that have always been in my life."

Nicole Kidman is gorging on chocolate and pasta to fatten up for her latest movie. The 40-year-old star has already piled on 10lbs to play a middle-aged woman in 'The Reader' - based on the best-selling German novel about the emotional repercussions of the Holocaust in World War II - by sticking to a four meal-a-day calorific diet of puddings, protein shakes and carbohydrate-rich foods.

A friend of the actress said: "It's a very demanding role because there are a lot of explicit lovemaking scenes. The film is set over several decades so her character changes a lot. Nicole was originally planning to use prosthetics but was told by the director, Stephen Daldry, it would be more realistic if she gained the weight."

Renee Zellweger treated a stranger to a pair of designer shoes.

The "Bridget Jones" star met Bobbi Brown make-up artist Wendy Faracino in the shoe department of the Southampton branch of Saks Fifth Avenue while they were both admiring a pair of Manolo Blahniks last week.