Sideshow: Jenna and Henry's last hurrahs
People mag has discovered that first daughter Jenna Bush, 26, who is due to wed Henry Hager on May 10 at President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, held a weekend-long, girls-only bachelorette party in Boca Raton, Fla., in mid-February.
People mag has discovered that first daughter
Jenna Bush
, 26, who is due to wed
Henry Hager
on May 10 at
President Bush
's ranch in Crawford, Texas, held a weekend-long, girls-only bachelorette party in Boca Raton, Fla., in mid-February.
"It was like a spa weekend. It was very low-key," says an anon source, who added that the following weekend, Hager, 29, who is an MBA student at the University of Virginia's Darden School, descended on Miami with 20 of his closest bosom buddies for a high-spirited weekend of fishing and partying.
Jessica, wanted in two countries
Jessica Simpson
has announced on her Web site (Sweetkisses.net) that she plans to take a break from the recording studio, where she is working on a
country
record (?!), to entertain troops in Kuwait. She sends X's and O's to fans: "I love you all and am so blessed by the . . . love you show me everyday!! xoxo jess."
But Kuwait isn't the only nation that thirsts for Jess' presence. In Touch Weekly says the people of Ukraine have a major jones for her. For one thing, Jess' flick
Blonde Ambition
, which was a total flop here, is huge in Ukraine.
"She is really the ideal of American beauty and style, like Barbie," says
Alex Shpiluk
from the Ukrainian Film Commission. (The Barbie comparison is meant as a
compliment.
)
Feds investigate Ledger's docs
The Drug Enforcement Agency is investigating two doctors who prescribed drugs to
Heath Ledger
. The Aussie actor died Jan. 22 of an accidental overdose of six prescription drugs. The New York Daily News and TMZ report that the doctors, one based in California and one in Texas, are suspected of having illegally prescribed the narcotic painkillers Oxycontin and Vicodin for Ledger.
An anon law enforcement source tells the News that the investigation is ongoing. "It's not clear if there was any wrongdoing," the source said.
A prince on the front lines
"When I was a child, I spake as a child . . . but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Looks as if
Prince Harry
has taken
St. Paul
's words to heart. And how.
The 23-year-old former party boy, who two years ago caused scandal by wearing a Nazi costume to a party, has been serving on the front lines in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the British army's Blues and Royals regiment, the Ministry of Defense announced yesterday.
"His conduct on operations in Afghanistan has been exemplary," said army commander
Gen. Richard Dannatt
.
Harry has been working as a battlefield air controller, calling in air strikes on Taliban positions. He has been deployed in the Helmand province for 10 weeks.
"It's nice just to be here with all the guys and just mucking in as one of the lads," said Harry, who is third in line to the throne.
Steinbrenner bios in the works
New York Daily News columnist
Bill Madden
has signed a "major league deal with HarperCollins to do the definitive portrait" of Yankees boss
George Steinbrenner
, says the News. Not to be outdone, Random House has signed novelist
Norris Church
, who was married to
Norman Mailer
for 32 years, to write another bio of G.S.
Vain power freak, yet lovable . . .
Rock demigod
Keith Richards
doles out big portions of love to his mate
Mick Jagger
in a new interview with Uncut mag, calling the
Rolling Stones
frontman a "power freak" who is also a "bit vain." (Of course, he meant that in the best possible sense of the term.)
"Mick's a maniac. He can't get up in the morning without knowing immediately who he's going to call," says Keith, who is publicizing
Martin Scorsese
's Stones docu,
Shine a Light
. "I just go 'Thank God I'm awake' and wait for three or four hours before I do anything," says the 64-year-old guitarist. "[Jagger] is a power freak and there's nothing we can do about it."
Asked what message he'd send to his younger self, Keith said, "I'd have said, 'Lay off the dope.' . . . It ain't worth it, pal."
A Norwegian break for Amy
Soul chanteuse
Amy Winehouse
, who was arrested for marijuana possession last October in the Norwegian city of Bergen, yesterday got a lucky break: Her court date, which had been scheduled for today, has been postponed until further notice, because her husband and codefendant,
Blake Fielder-Civil
, can't make the trip, since he is currently stuck in jail in Britain.
Brit tabloid The Sun says Amy, who last month spent two weeks in rehab, "is back in drug hell." No comment from Amy or her reps.