Nicole Richie's weight loss

Nicole Richie's weight loss
NEW YORK -- Lionel Richie says the stress of his daughter's expanding career is most likely the reason for her shrinking dress size.
"I know what's happening with her right now, she's a nervous wreck," Richie says of Nicole, who was heavier when she co-starred with Paris Hilton on "The Simple Life."
"She's like her father, you can either blow up or you can shrink away," the R & amp;B crooner told "Access Hollywood" in an interview set to air Monday night. "And right now, she's just feeling a little bit of the pressures of her new business. So in this case ... she will be all right."
"Dad is on the case," he said.
The 24-year-old Richie has said she was always really thin, but went through a heavier stage during the first season of "The Simple Life."
In October, Fox announced that feuding ex-friends Richie and Hilton would not return for a fourth season. The network said its midseason schedule didn't have a time slot for the reality series.
Richie is engaged to Adam Goldstein, a professional club disc jockey who goes by DJ AM.
Her new novel, "The Truth About Diamonds," is described by ReganBooks as a "no-holds-barred look at Hollywood's new elite, behind the velvet ropes, inside star-studded premieres and parties."
Winfrey set to appearon Letterman's program
NEW YORK -- Oprah, Dave. Dave, Oprah.
The cold war between television titans Oprah Winfrey and David Letterman has thawed to the point where Winfrey has accepted Letterman's invitation to appear on the "Late Show" on Dec. 1.
Letterman made the announcement during a taping of his show on Monday. Winfrey's appearance will coincide with opening night of the Broadway musical "The Color Purple," which she is producing.
"What a big night that is going to be -- not only for us, not only for Oprah, but for Broadway," Letterman said. "You have the big 'Color Purple' Broadway opening, and then right across the street here in this theater, you have Oprah appearing here. I mean, that's what Broadway is all about -- it's a street of dreams."
It's Winfrey's first visit to "Late Show," although she was twice Letterman's guest on his NBC show before the late-night comic moved to CBS in 1993.
The origin of their "feud" was murky, although Letterman has frequently joked about her through the years. Letterman's failed 1995 stint as Academy Awards host is best remembered for his awkward "Oprah, Uma. Uma, Oprah" introduction.
Winfrey told Time magazine in 2003 that she wouldn't go on Letterman's show because she's been "completely uncomfortable" as the target of his jokes.
"This just gives you an idea of what a big, big star this really is," Letterman said on Monday. "She's huge. Put bygones behind us, the water under the bridge, over the dam, wherever water goes -- standing in your basement -- she's going to be here on this show and it's going to be fantastic."
Jolie receives passport
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Angelina Jolie has received a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the Southeast Asian country.
Jolie can use the passport when she visits the native land of her 4-year-old son Maddox, Stephan Bognar, executive director of the Maddox Jolie project, said Tuesday.
San Francisco-based WildAid manages the project, which promotes wildlife conservation and community development in a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia.
Bognar said Jolie was "ecstatic and thrilled" last month when he handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal decree giving her Cambodian citizenship.
"Maddox was there and she showed him" the passport, he said.
Today's birthdays
Actor Michael Gough is 88. Broadway composer Jerry Bock is 77. Former Labor Secretary William E. Brock is 75. Actor Franco Nero is 64. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is 61. Actress Susan Anspach is 60. Actor Steve Landesberg is 60. Singer Bruce Hornsby is 51. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is 50. Actor Maxwell Caulfield is 46. Actor John Henton is 45. TV personality Robin Roberts ("Good Morning America") is 45. Rock singer-musician Ken Block (Sister Hazel) is 39. Rock musician Charlie Grover is 39. Actress Salli Richardson is 38. Actor Oded Fehr is 35. Rapper Kurupt (Tha Dogg Pound) is 33. Actor Page Kennedy is 29. Actress Kelly Brook is 26. Actor Austin Majors ("NYPD Blue") is 10.
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