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Unwed pregnant teen Jamie Lynn Spears, 17, graduated to motherhood yesterday with the arrival of her first baby with her 19-year-old fiance, Casey Aldridge.

Maureen Orth afterthe funeral Mass.
Maureen Orth afterthe funeral Mass.Read more

Unwed pregnant teen

Jamie Lynn Spears

, 17, graduated to motherhood yesterday with the arrival of her first baby with her 19-year-old fiance,

Casey Aldridge

.

Maddie Briann

, who weighed in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces, was born at Mississippi Southwest Regional Medical Center in McComb, Miss., just in time to be greeted by her aunt,

Britney

. Jamie Lynn's older, more famous - albeit troubled - sister flew in Wednesday with dad

Jamie Spears

and bro

Bryan

for the great occasion. Jamie Lynn spent her pregnancy studying for and passing her GED exam. She and Casey recently bought a house in Liberty, Miss., where Casey went to high school.

Russert's wife opens up

In an interview with People mag, journalist

Maureen Orth

, 65, opens up about the sudden death of her husband,

Tim Russert

, at age 58 last Friday.

Orth said Russert cut short his stay in Italy, where the couple were on a mini-vacation with son

Luke

, so he could get back to Washington to tape that Sunday's

Meet the Press

.

Orth said that for some reason she grabbed her husband as he left the hotel and hugged him.

"I said to him, 'I want to give you a hug; maybe I'll never see you again,' " Orth said. "I don't know why I said that to him. I just had a feeling."

Orth said her husband was under a great deal of stress. On top of his duties covering the presidential election, he had just visited his father, 84, in an assisted living facility in Buffalo, N.Y., which Orth said was "a huge psychological strain for him."

Queen Latifah sues film company

Singer-turned-actress

Queen Latifah

has filed a $275,000 breach-of-contract lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against a small film-production company, claiming she was not paid for her cameo appearance in the indie flick

The Perfect Holiday

.

E!Online says the film, which also starred

Terrence Howard

and

Gabrielle Union

, grossed $5.8 mil in '07.

No comment from either side.

Briefs, not boxers, for Becks

A larger-than-life, buffer-than-buff (poster of)

David Beckham

, wearing a disturbingly tight pair of briefs, rises up ('n' up) for 50 triumphant feet in front of the Macy's building in San Francisco's Union Square.

(A touch of oil makes his rippling muscles and tight-as-a-drum abs gleam in the sun.)

The soccer deity's mission? To sell Emporio Armani's new line of men's undies. Gawker.com says the gigantenormous ad will soon also be on view in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, London, Milan, Paris and Tokyo.

Church is pregnant

Welsh classical singer turned teenyboppin' pop star

Charlotte Church

, 22, is pregnant with her second baby - nine months after she and her rugby-player boyfriend,

Gavin Henson

, 26, welcomed their first child,

Ruby Megan Henson

, into our cruel, heartless world. "Here we go again!!!" Charlotte! writes! on! her! Web! site!

Playwriting for Coen brother

Filmmaker

Ethan Coen

plans to write a new play in the wake of his success last year with

Almost an Evening

. Titled

Offices

, the Off-Broadway play will explore stress in the workplace.

Ashlee shows off her bump

Speaking of babies bearing babies, People reports that

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz

, 23, wore a fitted black dress so she could show off her baby bump at the opening party for hubby

Pete Wentz

's new bar, Angels & Kings in Chicago.

"I think I would rather raise a family here than L.A.; you go to your own coffee shop, you go to the dog park, it's smaller and I appreciate it," Fall Out Boy bassist Pete sensibly said.

Heidi, Spencer go survivalist

When it comes to picking a personal aesthetic,

Heidi Montag

and fellow reality-TV fodder

Spencer Pratt

have opted for the Delta Force look. In Touch Weekly claims "the couple that America loves to hate" have decided to protect themselves from the throngs of fans who (love to) hate them by buying a cache of military-grade weapons big enough to take over a small South American nation.

An anon source says the weapons include "two Benelli semiautomatic M4 tactical shotguns, two Wilson close quarter combat .45-caliber pistols, and one Scout semiautomatic rifle."

Don't cry over 'Cry-Baby'

Guess not every

John Waters

film will translate to Broadway box-office gold.

Cry-Baby

, the latest musical from the delightfully twisted filmmaker who gave us

Hairspray

, will end its run on Sunday after only 68 shows. A spoof of 1950s teen rebellion flicks,

Cry-Baby

starred

Johnny Depp

in its original version

.

Sheen extends apologies

Charlie Sheen

has apologized for uttering a large and varied series of misogynistic and racist expletives on various voice mails he left for his ex-wife

Denise Richards

three years ago

. "I deeply apologize by my choice of words to all I have obviously offended

," Sheen said in a statement obtained by

Access Hollywood

.