Here are a few cute pics of Hugh Jackman with his kids, Ava Eliot and Oscar Maximillian, enjoying a fun birthday dinner at Da Silvano Ristorante in Greenwich Village, NYC this weekend in celebration of Ava’s 4th. Hugh brought along his hawt arms and a pair of shorts that accentuated his buns very nicely … behold:

I suppose I should note that Hugh’s wife and the kids mother Deborra-Lee Furness was in attendance at this cute birthday lunch but, dagnabbit, if she didn’t get cut out of the photos again. It’s been some time since we’ve seen Hugh out and about with his kiddies … and now that the Summer weather is heating up, I’m hoping we’ll get to see more pics of Hugh wearing as little clothing as possible ;) Oh yeah … and Happy Birthday, Ava Eliot!

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The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland announced that Prince has been added to the line-up this year to perform 2 Shows, 1 Night on July 18 … and within minutes of that announcement, tickets for both shows sold out completely. Well … not entirely … the official Twitter account for the festival announced that 200 tickets for the shows will be made available at 4PM on July 18 so, if you are so inclined, you have another shot at tix. Here is the Montreux Jazz Festival promo photo for Prince’s performance and some info about 2 Shows, 1 Nite:

“The Montreux Jazz Festival is going to be a little bit more funky this year as a musical genius is planning on taking the stage not once, but twice. The one and only Prince WILL be performing 2 shows at Montreux this year and he is bringing a musically talented band with him. Playing with Prince at the legendary festival will be Rhonda Smith, Renato Neto, and John Blackwell. In his 31 years in music, Prince has won every award imaginable from a Grammy to an Oscar to one of the youngest inductees ever into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. He performed at the 2007 Super Bowl in the rain no less and still gave off the performance of a lifetime. In 2007, Prince gave a legendary performance at The Montreux Jazz Festival where tickets sold out in record time. So when ticket information and tickets become available this time, make sure to reserve your spot if you plan to attend.” Source: www.prince.org

Ticket prices:
Main floor :CHF 195.-
(indicative price : US$ 177.-, € 130.-)
Seated balcony : CHF 480.-
(indicative price US$ 430.-, € 320.-)

Having been able to see Prince perform 3 Shows in 1 Nite earlier this year, I can assure those of you who might be interested in attending Montreux this year that you will have an amazing time. Be there or be … very sorry you missed out.

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Last night David and I spent another trademark quite night at home together … he was willing to do whatever I wanted, I just wanted to veg on the couch and read. I did manage to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on TV tho … I hadn’t watched the film in full since it was released in theaters about a million years ago so it was a nice refresher for me:

I couldn’t get over how little the HP kids were … they’ve grown up so fast. Poor Emma Watson … she never brushed her hair or plucked her eyebrows during her first year at Hogwart’s. At least she’s grown into a fine young fashionista these days :)

Tonight is gonna be a fun night tho … altho tomorrow is my actual birthday, my friends and I are getting together for a lovely dinner and night of bowling at Lucky Strike! I wanted to do something fun for everyone, something that we never do … and bowling at Lucky Strike is pretty damn posh. It should be fun … I’ll be sure to have some photos to share tonight on Twitter and tomorrow on the blog.

And so … today is my last day of youth. I’m one year older tomorrow. In the immortal words of Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy … Blaurgh!

• Katherine Jackson & Debbie Rowe push back the custody hearing of Michael Jackson’s three children, possibly to work out a private deal.
• Grandpa Joe Jackson is planning on turning MJ’s kids into little performers.
• More than 6,000 people came out for a memorial tribute to Michael Jackson in Gary, IN this week.
• Lauren LC Conrad’s debut novel, L.A. Candy, has topped the New York Times Best Seller list for two weeks in a row.
• GLAAD issues a statement that Brüno reinforces gay stereotypes.
• Jack White is no fan of Guitar Hero.
• Ryan O’Neal will have his drug charges dropped.
• Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie is 33, Lil’ Kim is 34, Greg Grunberg (Heroes) is 43, Suzanne Vega is 50 and Peter Murphy of Bauhaus is 52 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• Jason Priestley and his wife Naomi welcome the birth of a baby boy.

Here is this week’s batch of photos sent in by Pink is the new Blog readers — Renee, an Army wife from Mannheim, Germany, sends in an adorable photo of her newborn babygirl Emma Katherine who was born on July 5 … Renee and her hubby are 20-year high school sweethearts and Emma is wearing a dress made by her great grandmother over 70 years ago — Kelly sends in a pic of her adorable little niece Dylan Mykel and her cute little pink cast — Kristen sends in a pic from Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-Fil-A yesterday — Sara sends in a pic from a game of Vampire Baseball she attended in Portland, OR recently (which raised money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation) where she got to meet The Twilight Saga: New Moon werewolves Alex Meraz and Kiowa Gordon (Paul and Embry) — Brooke sends in a pic of her cute little puppy, also a loyal Pink reader, who got into some duct tape:

Congrats and love goes out to Renee and her husband on the birth of their beautiful baby girl … and altho Kelly didn’t share how her niece got injured, I hope she gets better soon. Sara posed a few videos from her day of Vampire Baseball HERE in case any of y’all would like to check ‘em out. Again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for taking the time to send in your fun photos. I just love them. Keep ‘em coming :) xoxoxo

After playing a couple of shows in London, England and then one in Paris, France, Madonna packed up her newly expanded family and made her way out of Paris by private plane in order to make her way to Belgium for the next stop of her newly revived Sticky & Sweet Tour … here are pics of the Maddy Bunch gettin’ out of town yesterday afternoon:

Madonna will be on tour up until early September so she and the kiddies have plenty of private planing ahead of them. It looks like little Miss Mercy James is getting a crash course in luxurious living now that she’s officially part of Maddy’s family. Here’s hoping it’s a successful tour … in every respect.

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Heidi Klum, whose protruding baby bump kinda looks like it popped out her bellybutton these days, was spotted making her way to the NYC set of Project Runway this week which has begun filming its 7th season. As you should already know by now, season 6 of PR premieres on Lifetime TV on August 20 (we got our first look at the 16 new designers earlier this week) … but work has already begun on the next season … behold:

Even tho Heidi looks like she was on her way to the make-up room, I think her natural mommy glow shows thru nicely. It’s hard to know exactly when Heidi will blow but her stomach looks nice and ripe already. I know she still has some incubating to go but … she looks great :)

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