Nick Lachey and TRL host Vanessa Minnillo passionately smooched in the new year, People.com reports.
Just before midnight, the two hotties - who have been dating for eight months - took their spot in the window for MTV's live New Year's Eve party coverage.
But off camera, things really heated up. Lachey whispered into Minnillo's ear and kissed her neck. At midnight, they locked lips, and, between sips of champagne, whispered and kissed some more.
Afterward, they partied at the Marquee club into the wee hours, People reports.
Meanwhile, Lachey's ex, Jessica Simpson, was ringing in the new year with singer-songwriter John Mayer. According to People, the duo arrived in the Hudson Hotel's VIP room just after 2 a.
m. and cozied up in a sofa nook across the room from Christina Aguilera's entourage.
Simpson and Mayer were spotted having dinner at the Mercer Kitchen on Friday, walking around Barneys on Saturday, and hanging out at the Comedy Cellar that night.
Is 60 the new 30? It is for the action movie hero.
First, Sylvester Stallone, 60, enters the ring for the sixth time in Rocky Balboa; now filmmaker George Lucas says he finally has a script for part four of the Indiana Jones franchise - with Harrison Ford, 62, once again cracking the whip in the name of archaeological adventure.
During a break from duties as grand marshal of yesterday's Rose Parade, Lucas, also 62, said filming of the long-awaited fourth Indiana Jones would begin this year. "It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be the best one yet.
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Ford starred in the three earlier flicks (most recently in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). "Mostly it's the charm of Harrison that makes it work," Lucas said.
He added that he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script.
Exact filming locations have not been decided, but part of the movie will be shot in Los Angeles. The fourth chapter of the saga has been in development for more than a decade, with several screenwriters taking a crack at the script. It's scheduled to hit theaters in May 2008.
Lucas kept mum about the plot, but said it would be a "character piece" (shades of Balboa?) that would include "very interesting mysteries."
Ford said he was "fit to continue" to play the title role despite his age.
No worries. Sly can train you.
One branch of the One Tree Hill family has officially been severed, with the divorce of costars Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush finalized, according to court documents obtained by People magazine.
Murray is now free to wed his fianc e e, Kenzie Dalton, an 18-year-old recent high school grad from North Carolina, whom he met when she worked as an extra on the CW show last year. No wedding date yet.
Oprah Winfrey says she built a school for poor girls in South Africa because she wanted to feel closer to the people she was trying to help.
"I really became frustrated with the fact that all I did was write check after check," she told Newsweek. "At a certain point, you want to feel that connection."
Winfrey spent five years and $40 million in building the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls outside Johannesburg.
The school, for 12- and 13-year-old girls, has 28 buildings on 22 lush acres and includes huge fireplaces in every building, a yoga studio, indoor and outdoor theaters, and a beauty salon. Winfrey has been criticized for the sweet spread; detractors say it's too lavish for such an impoverished country.
"These girls deserve to be surrounded by beauty, and beauty does inspire," she told Newsweek.
"I wanted this to be a place of honor for them because these girls have never been treated with kindness. They've never been told they are pretty or have wonderful dimples. I wanted to hear those things as a child.
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Babel actor Gael Garcia Bernal embraces his Mexican identity, saying it has a liberating effect on his expanding career.
"I feel completely free to be whatever," Garcia Bernal, 28, told the Los Angeles Times. "Actually, if I was an actor from the United States, it would be incredibly hard, because I would be pigeonholed immediately.
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The actor will appear next year in Hector Babenco's El Pasado (The Past), which chronicles a married couple's difficult breakup.
Veteran rocker Tom Petty says he's not retiring, despite a Rolling Stone article in July that suggested otherwise.
Petty said 2006 was one of the most rewarding years of his career.
"You never know how things are going to turn out, and I didn't see this year coming," Petty was quoted in the Los Angeles Times Sunday. "But maybe next year will be even better."
Petty recently earned two Grammy nominations for his third solo album, Highway Companion.
The 30th-anniversary tour by him and his band, the Heartbreakers, was a sellout and included a triumphant homecoming in Gainesville, Fla., where the band formed in the 1970s. Petty was offered the key to the city.
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