The Dishing Diva

Actress and reality star Denise Richards says she has mixed feelings about sending her daughter Sam to kindergarten.

Richards, who has two daughters with ex-husband Charlie Sheen – Lola Rose, four, and Sam, five – is feeling confused about her eldest starting kindergarten.

At the recent Much Love Animal Rescue’s third annual summer fundraiser Bow Wow WOW Howlywood! in Los Angeles, she said: “It’s bittersweet.

“Sami starts kindergarten, which I cannot believe, in a couple of weeks. I’m so sad about it.”

The 38-year-old thinks time has flown by since her little girl was born, saying: “I can’t believe how fast five years have gone.”

She added: “I’m very proud of her and very happy, but from here on out she’s in school.”

Denise openly supports the Much Love charity’s mission as she has always loved animals.

She said: “Ever since I was little I always brought home every little stray dog who didn’t have a home. My daughters love animals as well, so I can’t help it.”

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Angelina Jolie’s late mother left grandchildren Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh $100,000 each in her will, new court papers have revealed.

Marcheline Bertrand died in 2007 and movie beauty Angelina and her brother James Haven were co-executors of her estate.

They filed the final paperwork in LA in Monday, revealing Marcheline’s parting gift to her grandchildren.

She also left $25,000 each to her sister, brother and nephews.

In her will, Marcheline wrote: “I give the residue of my estate in equal shares to my beloved son James Haven, and my beloved daughter Angelina Jolie.”

The papers reveal her estate was worth approximately $661,000.

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Jennifer Garner has revealed that she cleans the toilets at her daughter Violet’s preschool when she is not posing on the red carpet.

The 37-year-old mother-of-two says that she gets her hands dirty when she and husband Ben Affleck stay in his hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“I fell hard for this place,” the actress said. “At this point, I know all the mums at the playground. Honestly, I fit right in.

“I’ve never been one to paint myself up Hollywood-style – I’m just not good at that. I don’t have a healthy dose of that kind of vanity – although I wish I did, because then you know how to be cute when you need to be cute.

“On the other hand, I’m not as good at the whole hippie mum thing as the mums I’ve met here [in Cambridge], although I do scrub the potty at Violet’s cooperative prep-school.”

Garner shoots down the myth that she is an action-type superhero like the secret agent she played in Alias.

“It always makes me laugh when people think of me as ‘action’ because it’s just so not me,” she says. “When I hear that, I’m like ‘Wow – we really do only know what we know about someone.’

“To them, I say: ‘Great, go ahead, knock yourself out.’ They don’t know that all I wanted to do in college was Shakespeare.”

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The singer’s Dreamgirls co-star, Anika Noni Rose, thinks that Jennifer Hudson will be an amazing mother. Anika Noni Rose said the following about how Jennifer Hudson is going to cope with motherhood: “She will be a great, amazing and loving mom. Having seen her with babies myself, that baby of hers is going to have a good time and be much loved. She loves babies and now that she going to be a mother herself this experience is going to be fun and rewarding for her. She will have no problems taking on the responsibilities.” Why does everybody assume that to be a great parent you just have to like babies? They don’t stay babies forever and it’s not like the hardest part is when they are babies. Kids growing up is only the beginning of the nightmare and only afterwards we’ll see just how good a mother Jennifer Hudson is going to be.

Kimora Lee Simmons has named her newborn son Kenzo – after Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, according to US reports.

The model-turned-reality TV star gave birth to the eight pound, 20cm-long boy on Saturday, her first child with actor boyfriend Djimon Hounsou.

"He’s a little prince," a friend told a US newspaper.

It is 34-year-old Kimora’s third child – she has two daughters, Ming Lee and Aoki Lee, with her ex-husband, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.

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Cate Blanchett and the entertainer wife of Russell Crowe, Danielle Spencer, both made it to the big 4-0 this week.

Blanchett, who turned 40 on Thursday, is starring opposite Crowe as Maid Marian in Robin Hood.

The Hollywood megastar and mother of three sons dropped hints that she is still open to having more kids.

"I’d love to have more children," she was reported as saying in an interview with In-Style magazine, according to The Age newspaper.

"When, I don’t know. But the thing is, we hadn’t planned any of the others. They just popped out. So you shouldn’t over-plan these things. If it happens, it would be great."

Blanchett is mother to Dashiell, 7, Roman, 5, and Ignatius, 1.

She and husband Andrew Upton are co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company.

Of her decision to return to Australia for the role, she said: "It was after our second son was born [in Britain] that we started to get homesick and our homing instincts got a lot stronger."

“You do start to miss family,” she added.

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