SPEARS WANTS TO PERFORM AFTER 2ND PREGNANCY

Spears wants to performafter 2nd pregnancy
NEW YORK -- Britney Spears, who is pregnant with her second child, says she's not ready to retire from performing.
"I can't wait to do that again," Spears, 24, tells Harper's Bazaar in its August issue, on newsstands July 25. "But I really have to take my time and do it right and be safe. Actually ... not that safe. When you perform, you have to be dangerous."
The pregnant pop princess also says she would "definitely" consider a musical collaboration with her husband, Kevin Federline, 28. His debut hip-hop album, "Playing With Fire," is expected to be released next month.
"I'm so proud of Kevin," Spears says. "He's been working so hard on his own album since I got pregnant with Preston," the couple's first child, who was born last September.
"Preston's just like a rocker kid," she says of her 10-month-old son. "He is a beautiful baby. We're very close, and attached."
Spears, who darkened her hair and bared nearly all for the camera of lensman Alexi Lubomirski for the Bazaar photos, says her first pregnancy made her feel "paranoid" because she was new at everything.
"This one, I was like, I just gotta wing it. It was weird for me at first because of who I am; wherever you go, they expect you to look a certain way. I'm not supposed to be this huge pregnant superstar."
Spears plans to get back into fighting shape after Baby No. 2 -- due this fall -- is born.
"After this baby, I'm going to get really intense with that."
Doherty's dad helpedher get rid of boyfriend
PASADENA, Calif. -- Breaking up is hard to do, even for Shannen Doherty.
The 35-year-old actress, who has two ex-husbands and a reputation for being difficult, needed her dad's help to dump a former boyfriend.
"Everybody thinks that I'm this really, really strong woman who would have absolutely no problem breaking up with somebody," Doherty said last week at the Television Critics Association's summer meeting.
Doherty said she "felt a lot of guilt" because it was a lengthy relationship in which the man -- she didn't name him -- was like a mentor to her.
"Every time I tried to break up with him, it sort of got a little bit emotional and we would stay together," she said. "My dad went and got my stuff out of the house, and said, 'That's enough. You guys don't belong together anymore,' and it really helped."
Doherty returns the favor in her new Oxygen show, "Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty," in which she helps lovers, best friends and roommates find the courage to end things.
Minogue gives inspiringmessage about cancer
LONDON-- Kylie Minogue talks about her breast cancer treatment -- and offers a message of hope to other cancer patients -- in an upcoming TV interview.
The 38-year-old Australian pop star was close to tears during much of the interview, set to air today on Sky One.
"I love to say: 'You can get through it,'" she said. "You can."
Minogue had completed dates on her "Showgirl" tour in Europe and was heading to Australia for homecoming concerts when she was diagnosed with cancer in May 2005. She underwent surgery to remove a lump from her breast and had chemotherapy.
British media have reported she is now in remission.
The moment she learned she had cancer "is still sinking in," the singer said. "It's very steep learning curve."
Minogue said she was troubled with how the news would affect her parents, who were upset when she decided to undergo chemotherapy in Paris to be near her boyfriend, actor Olivier Martinez.
"The family's totally ... it's like a bomb has dropped," she said.
Minogue said she had one day's grace "where I knew and went for a walk down the beach with my brother and my boyfriend."
"The next day we made the announcement, and then I was virtually a prisoner in the house which, not that I intended to go anywhere, but from then on I was just completely thrown into another world."
She is scheduled to perform a series of concerts in Australia later this year.
Today's Birthdays
Actor Barnard Hughes is 91. Former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh is 74. Soul singer William Bell is 67. Actor Corin Redgrave is 67. Former tennis player Margaret Court is 64. Violinist Pinchas Zukerman is 58. Actor-singer Ruben Blades is 58. Rock composer-musician Stewart Copeland is 54. Dancer Michael Flatley is 48. Actress Phoebe Cates is 43. Country singer Craig Morgan is 41. Actor-comedian Will Ferrell is 39. Actress Rain Pryor is 37. Actor Corey Feldman is 35. Rock musician Ed Kowalczyk (Live) is 35.