‘AND IF JESSICA HAD DONE THIS, SHE’D STILL BE MARRIED’
Ashlee Simpson will go by Ashlee Wentz in private, and will be known professionally as Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, according to a report on People.com following her marriage to Pete Wentz. “I think that that’s something that a woman should do when they’re marrying a man,” she said. “It’s a tradition that I think is a great tradition.”
MADONNA GETS CHILD
A judge in Lilongwe, Malawi, on Wednesday approved Madonna’s adoption of a Malawian boy she met in an orphanage in 2006. The singer wasn’t in court for the ruling, which took Justice Andrew Nyirenda an hour to read. Nyirenda said he was satisfied that Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, “are perfect parents” for David, who will be 3 in November. “It’s now official; David is Madonna’s baby,” said the singer’s Malawian lawyer.
COUNTRY MUSIC FANS’ TOKEN ITEM FOR THE WEEK
Chris Cagle was arrested for domestic assault Wednesday following a fight with his girlfriend. A police affidavit said the country music singer and his girlfriend, Jennifer Tant, were intoxicated, and an argument turned physical early Wednesday. Corrections officials said both were jailed on misdemeanor domestic assault charges.
ACTRESS RETURNS TO ROOTS, RUNS SCREAMING FROM THEM
Eva Longoria Parker took time to dish out Frostys and french fries at a Wendy’s restaurant. The “Desperate Housewives” star worked the drive-thru at the restaurant Tuesday to help kick off the Father’s Day Frosty Weekend, an event that donates 50 cents for every Frosty sold to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and its signature program, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids. Longoria Parker worked at Wendy’s from 1991 to 1994, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported in its online edition.
» Pictured left: “Wow! America really does have an obesity problem! Here are your fries!”
WOMAN PUNISHED FOR GIVING SANDRA HER ONLY RECENT HIT

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Sen. Barack Obama nabbed a Virginia superdelegate from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday.
Jennifer McClellan, a state legislator from Richmond, became the first Virginia superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention to switch her support from Clinton to Obama.
She joined a growing list of observers from across the nation who say, in the wake of Tuesday’s primary elections in North Carolina and Indiana, it is all but impossible for Obama to lose his lead in pledged delegates and total votes won this year.
“It’s time to come together as a party and support Sen. Obama and prepare for a victory against John McCain in November,” she said during a telephone news conference.
She was joined on the phone by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat who has been leading Obama’s campaign in Virginia and stumping for him nationally. “It was a tough call for Jen to make, but it was ultimately the right call that all of us should be making for our party,” Kaine said.
McClellan and Kaine stopped short of calling on Clinton to withdraw.
The nation’s 795 superdelegates will make up almost 20 percent of the 4,049 delegates to vote at the Democratic National Convention in September.Virginia has 16 superdelegates, and no one else appeared to be switching. Four are committed to Obama, and four back Clinton. The rest are uncommitted or their preference could not be determined as of Wednesday.
The remaining Clinton backers, including Del. Lionell Spruill Sr., D-Chesapeake, said they are standing pat.
McClellan notified Clinton’s campaign of her decision and expects to talk to the New York senator by phone.
“It will be a difficult conversation,” she said.

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Good news travels fast, and when Marc Anthony’s sister found out about the double blessing he and wife Jennifer Lopez had early Friday morning, she was overjoyed.
“I learned this morning. I’m ecstatic, I really am. I’m happy for her,” Yolanda Santa Maria, Anthony’s older sister, told PEOPLE Friday after hearing the birth news on Good Morning America. “She’s a mom for the first time. I can just imagine the euphoria she’s going through.”
And as for her brother? “It’s another two blessings for him. He beat me – I have four [kids] and now he has five. I’m so happy for him. I don’t even know what to say. It’s like if I had the babies.”
Santa Maria, who expects to meet her new niece and nephew soon, added, “I can’t wait to see them, I can’t wait to meet them. Words don’t even begin to express how happy I am for them.”

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