Kris Jenner says she’s surprised her daughter Kourtney Kardashian is so “calm and patient” with baby son Mason.

The baby is the first for Kourtney, 30, and her partner Scott Disick, 26, and the reality star’s mum Kris says she’s amazed at the way she has dealt with becoming a mum since Mason was born 11 weeks ago.

She told PEOPLE: “She’s just a great mom. It’s incredible to see how calm and patient she is.”

Jenner added: “I’m not a calm person. It’s like, where did she get that? It’s not from me.”

Jenner admitted that she is loving her new role as grandma and said: “It’s fabulous and I’m just having the best time. [Mason] is the most delicious baby.”

Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross has said she’s a ‘little jealous’ that she’s not involved with the show’s new lesbian romance.

Cross, 47, plays the role of neurotic housewife Bree in the hit US drama and said she would have liked to have been involved in the new storyline.

The latest drama in the show sees Dana Delany’s character Katherine lock lips with Robin, who is played by Julie Benz.

Talking about the scene, Cross said: “I’m a little jealous that I’m not involved. What is going on?!”

Asked whom she would kiss out of all the other ladies, she said: “All of them! They’re all fabulous.”

Hollywood actress Glenn Close has revealed that she knocked back a jug full of margaritas before filming the raunchy lift scene in Fatal Attraction.

The Damages star, 62, told how she ordered a jug full of booze before getting hot and steamy with co-star Michael Douglas.

She said: “There’s some scenes – like the elevator scene – where I asked for a pitcher of margaritas and I drank about half of it,” she said during a discussion about the movie with Douglas.

“You did pretty good,” he laughed.

“And you were happy,” she smiled back.

The pair were discussing their roles in the 1987 hit thriller for an Oprah Winfrey Oscar special, which is due to air on US TV this week.

Sitting closely together, the stars appeared relaxed as they laughed and joked about their on- and off-screen antics.

Reminiscing about the notorious lift scene, Douglas, 55, said: “I was a happy guy. I was a very happy guy.

“The elevator scene. That’ll be a good memory. That’s going to be one whole chapter in the book.”

Close added: “I felt I was in such a safe environment and you were a fantastic partner with that. I think we really believed it was extraordinary storytelling.”

Newcomer Mia Wasikowska has been panned for her portrayal of Alice in the Tim Burton 3-D fantasy Alice In Wonderland that debuted last week.

Media in Wasikowska’s homeland, Australia, reported the panning by a British movie critic who declared the 20-year-old looked like she was “on heroin”.

The movie stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, Burton’s wife. Robbie Collin, the critic from News of the World, did not spare his pen for the stars, either.

Depp’s Mad Hatter he called a “flailing, pointless idiot”. Depp gave “the worst role he’s played in his life”.

Collin found Bonham Carter, star of the Merchant Ivory flicks, lifeless. “Put some bloody EFFORT into it, woman,” he said of her portrayal of the Red Queen. Collin likened the performance to a “seventh-rate impression of Queenie from Blackadder II”.

For him, the movie was a “bona fide, bums-in-the-air fiasco that needs to be burned and the ashes hurtled off in the direction of the nearest black hole as soon as you can, NASA”.

He also said: “In fact, it’s Lesbian Vampire Killers bad – the kind of film that you don’t just dislike or even hate, but one that your body physically rejects like a dodgy organ transplant.”

Collin said of Wasikowska: “There’s not been a lead character this paper-flat since the South Park movie. The girl’s got all the warmth of a refrigerated trout, and a face you’d expect to see Blu-Tacked to the inside of a London phone box. She’s not a heroine – she looks like she’s ON heroin.”

Gwyneth Paltrow is going for old Hollywood glamour for her next movie role.

The Oscar-winning actress has reportedly signed up to play screen legend Marlene Dietrich.

The Iron Man star has been linked to the lead role in a BBC drama based on the life of the German actress, who died in 1992.

Dietrich’s personal life was just as colourful as her high-profile film roles – she was bisexual and allegedly battled a dependency on drink and drugs throughout her career.

She was also rumoured to have enjoyed a string of love affairs with stars including Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner and John Wayne.

Scriptwriter Andrew Davies, who also penned the screenplays for Bridget Jones’ Diary and the recent version of Brideshead Revisited, has based the film on a 1992 biography of Dietrich by the actress’ daughter Maria Riva.

Cheryl Cole’s divorce from Ashley Cole could be swift and painless, observers say.

The UK Mirror claimed the Geordie pop star could be permanently free of football star Ashley in time for the World Cup in June.

A top family lawyer, Julian Hawkhead, said: “The impression is they are both keen to get on with it. They are both commercially minded people with strong commercial people in the background advising them.”

Cole has so far confirmed a separation of her three-and-a-half year marriage only, however, in the wake of a sex-texting scandal involving Ashley.

The newspaper reported Hawkhead said a potential divorce would be “relatively painless”.

“A case where it’s young people and no children and both with lots of money, it should be an easy divorce,” he said.

The partner at Stowe Family Law, in North Yorkshire, said the pair may have begun negotiating a settlement in private and could divorce within three to four months.

He said the Coles’ assets, including their £6million ($9.3million) Surrey mansion, could be divided. “I think Ashley probably earns a bit more than Cheryl so she might want a share of his earnings but she has good earnings in her own right. I think she’ll just want to get on with her life.”

And she very well should be, even though not more than a few days ago she was bragging about how Simon Cowell always listens to her, but apparently that was just a façade for the Earl of Exigency’s true nature. This is what Leona Lewis said on the matter: “He didn’t come to the studio but I’d play him songs down the phone. It’s scary and you think, ‘Please like it!’ We’ve formed more of a bond and we can be honest with each other.” Simon Cowell truly is the maker and breaker of great stars and Leona Lewis does well to remember that. After all, with just the point of a finger he might bump her back to trying out for The X Factor.

Former Cheers actress Kirstie Alley was left red-faced when “super crush” Jamie Foxx surprised her on a US TV show.

The 59-year-old actress held her head in her hands as Foxx, 42, appeared via satellite during her appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s chat show.

Just moments earlier, she had been telling the talkshow host how she would like a “bootie call” from the Dreamgirls star.

“I don’t envision myself marrying Jamie Foxx, but I could imagine spending three weeks in Italy with him,” she grinned.

When asked by Oprah what she would do with Foxx, the TV personality merely gave a wicked smile. “My daughter’s in the audience,” she blushed.

Winfrey revealed the satellite link-up with Foxx after encouraging Alley to talk about the actor.

But after screaming with embarrassment, Alley ran over to the TV screen and began kissing and stroking her crush.

Foxx, not fazed in the slightest, swirled his tongue around while the actress smothered him.

“Kirstie, can I drive down your alley tonight?” he playfully sang.

Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has landed a role in new movie Dawn of War.

The 25-year-old beauty is also working on Woody Allen’s flick You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

It is now claimed she will play the role of Phaedra opposite The Tudors star Henry Cavill in Dawn of War by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar. Bosses are reportedly considering releasing the film in 3D.

The actress, who shot to fame when she played Latika in Danny Boyle’s hit movie, is a busy lady – she is also currently working on the movie Miral.

Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed has praised Pinto’s success in international films.

He has urged the Government of India and other Indian film organisations to start world training academies for different parts of Indian cinema.

Sharon Osbourne has been praised by PETA for urging people not to buy real fur.

The 57-year-old recently told of her disgust by posting a message on Twitter.

She wrote: “Louis Vuitton foxtail handbag accessories make me sick. Please do not purchase those! It’s heinous.”

The star has been praised by Peta for her comments.

They said: “We’re not the only ones loving Sharon Osbourne’s compassionate tweet against Louis Vuitton – her wise words have been re-tweeted again and again by people across the internet.”