I fancied a little Celebaby buffet of bits and pieces today

Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman has had her son.

The news was announced by people.com but that's IT, that's all we know.

There's been no comment from the Portman camp so we don't know when her son was born or where - I wonder how people.com even know...?  This is why I'm not a news story hound and other people are!

More news as and when we get it; if we get it...

The Brange' Clan

Angelina, Brad and Co are currently in Malta.

Brad's working on a new film - World War Z - and whilst he was busy in the 'office', Angelina took the kids to an indoor play park - it has to be like going on full-scale military manoeuvres every time they go out.

The twins, Vivenne and Knox, decided to go in fancy dress - Knox chose to be a tutu-wearing ladybird (there's a boy who clearly won't be dictated to by gender stereotypes) whilst Vivienne opted for a pink princess look.

I have NO idea what on earth Angelina was wearing, it looks like an old grey blanket my nan used to have!  It's made just a bit happier this morning knowing that Ang' doesn't look good in everything

Flippin' 'eck Suri

Oh yes!

JOY and rapture!

Suri Cruise has been papped wearing FLIP FLOPS two days in a row; I know, amazing!

Suri's been voted as the fourth 'cutest celebrity child' in a recent poll in Heat Magazine (I feel 'dirty' even knowing that fact) she was beaten to the number one spot by Cruz Beckham (I wonder her son winning that accolade cracked a smile on Victoria's face...?).

I must confess, I think Suri's a beautiful little girl and never more so when she's just casual like on this occasion with her hot pink dress and super-comfy flips flops.

I can't see her ever leaving the house dressed in ladybird or pink princess fancy dress costume though, can you?!

It would seem that to be a REAL celebrity you have to wear high heels come what may.

Whether you're playing football in the park with your son (Victoria Beckham), playing on the beach with your daughter (Katie Holmes) or backpacking up a mountain in Peru (I made that last one up) appropriate shoes are clearly NOT the done thing to be seen in.

Victoria Beckham

Tell me, have we seen Victoria Beckham wearing anything other than black since her pregnancy was made public? I don't think so.

I have a very clear image in my head of a magazine shoot featuring VB wearing baggy dungarees (not done up over the shoulders, I hasten to add), a white vest top and sand coloured CAT boots; I even think she was smiling and she looked great, a far cry from the miserable looking 'black widow' character we have today.

I wonder if that picture is lurking around on the Internet somewhere, perhaps I should send it to her as a reminder that she doesn't ALWAYS have to teeter around in high heels.

Victoria was recently snapped strolling across a grass park in 5-inch heels whilst her youngest son Cruz played football.  Surely something FLAT wouldn't have been such a trauma; I'm telling you, she's going to have terrible bunions by the time she's 50!

(I do quite like that long sheer cardigan though...even if it is BLACK!)

Holmes and Cruise

Here's another pair wearing heels in the most inappropriate place!

I don't get it.  It's no fun having to walk on anything soft in heels - you feel stupid and you LOOK stupid too.

The Cruise family attended a Memorial Day beach party yesterday in Malibu; Katie and Suri wandered off down to the beach to play on the sand for a while in their heels.

Now I don't know about you but I'd have taken my shoes OFF.  I love feeling hot sand beneath my feet and I wouldn't want to trash my party shoes either.

Clearly this is why I'm not a celebrity - I just don't have what it takes on the one hand and too much common sense on the other.

In today's Celebaby we rejoice at Suri Cruise looking like a normal four-year-old and wonder if Angelina really is about to quit Hollywood.

Suri not!

OHHH my heart jumped for joy when I saw these delicious pictures of Suri Cruise barefoot, wearing a simple little summer dress and without a scrap of makeup on!

Just LOOK at how cute she is when she's not dressed up to the nines.  I have to say, the same goes for Katie too who looks about 10 when she's dressed like the rest of us.

Katie is currently filming for the mini-series 'The Kennedys' in which she plays the part of Jackie Onassis, during a break in the proceedings she whisked Suri off for a bit strawberry picking.

I wonder if they played the game we always used to play as kids at the Pick Your Own place?  'One strawberry for me and one for the tub, one strawberry for me and one for the tub'...

It's A Fun Job, but...

And so the Brangelina band wagon continues to roll and the speculation  and rumour that Angelina's preggars again have been squashed in a recent interview she did with Vanity Fair.

Mother of six (I can't comprehend having that many kids running around the house) Ang' spoke very candidly about the personalities of all her children and, whilst emphatically denying that she was pregnant, didn't rule out having more children...

"I'm not pregnant. We're not opposed to it. But we want to make sure we can give everybody special time," she also went on to  say, "They're kids now, and can play together, but they're going to need a lot more talking in the middle of the night, like I did with my mom for hours. We want to make sure we don't build a family so big that we don't have absolutely enough time to raise them each really well."

Angelina has just finished filming 'The Tourist' in which she plays an Interpol agent also hinted that she might be about to quit Hollywood to spend more time with the fmaily, and had this to say about her acting career...

"It is not the most important thing in my life, it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury, but I don’t think I’ll do it much longer."

And with all those millions of dollars in the bank, I 'd say she doesn't need to.

Well today's Celebaby has me sat here musing on a number of things.  The first being, I'm glad I'm not a celebrity and secondly, is it just me that doesn't understand the whole £1M wardrobe that four year old Suri Cruise has....maybe there's nothing TO understand but it still raises questions in my mind.

Gav' Goes Galavanting

I know what relationship break-ups are like and I know what they're like when children are involved too - it's a horrendous time for all involved even if the split is as amicable and friendly as you can make it.

I can't imagine how Charlotte Church must be feeling just now:  Gav's (Gavin Henderson) done a runner to Benidorm with his mates, presumably to go and drown his sorrows in every single bar in town - according to a fellow traveller on the BMIBaby flight he looked a bit subdued....no, really?  Fancy that.  According to reports in the Daily Mail both Charlotte and Gavin are said to be distraught that their five year relationship has come to an end.

So not only has she been left holding their two babies - Ruby (2) and Dexter (1), but all this just six weeks after they announced their engagement on her 24th birthday AND having to contend with it being splashed all over the newspapers too.

At least when things take a turn for the worse for us mere mortals we can still go out and not have the entire world and his wife staring and whispering in corners, and the kiddies are tiny so hopefully won't be aware of, or understand, all the public fuss and finger-pointing.

Shame, my heart goes out to all involved here.

Suri Cruise and her £1m Wardrobe

No not the actual wardrobe you put things in, but the current value of its contents!

HELLO!??  This child is FOUR YEARS OLD!!!  Tom Cruise was on the Oprah Winfrey show last month and he said, "Whatever she wants to wear, she wears it. .. She's got great taste too."  Apparently she's just strong-willed and knows what she wants.  Hey, I'm strong-willed and I'd like to drive a Lamborghini, doesn't mean my dad is going to go buy me one!!

Get this, Katie Holmes has commissioned Marc Jacobs (one of the supposed shoe Gods) to make Suri custom high-heeled shoes....SHE'S FOUR YEARS OLD!  What's wrong with a decent fitting pair of Clarkes?  Ok, I'm laughing at that myself but you get my point.  And there's now a plethora of mothers spending absolute fortunes on clothes for their kids - personalised and custom-made personalised Dior t-shirts and an annual clothing budget that could make a big dent in third-world debt.

The rhetorical questions raised in my mind are many; has the world gone completely mad? Just think of all the GOOD that could be done with Suri's £1m wardrobe instead; what's wrong with a pair of Cherokee jeans and a t-shirt from Tesco, or if you really want to go a bit upmarket....Marks and Sparks or Next?

I suppose there's nothing 'wrong' with it, it's their money and people have the right to do what they like with it.  But you know, if I had pots of cash I still don't think I'd spend thousands (or millions) of pounds on clothes for my kids when they're going to grow out of them in half an hour.

Horses for courses and all that I suppose and I guess I'm more of a fashion donkey-Blackpool-beach  type than a flighty thoroughbred-race-horse-fashion-victim- racehorse.

Let me say at the outset that I don't have daughters so I've no idea what it's like to raise girls but I suspect that they're not that different to boys. And the thing about boys is that they have this seemingly innate love of all things vehicular. If it's got wheels, they will notice it, and all the better if it also has flashing lights and makes a loud noise. I remember my eldest screeching wildly at the sight of a digger when he was too young to know what one was, while a friend's little girl of the same age barely seemed to notice it. Boys love diggers and rescue missions and helicopters and emergency vehicles. Meanwhile girls, it seems, love dresses and princesses and... well... make up.

It's a contentious issue but several little ladies in the public eye have been snapped recently looking like they've just raided Mummy's make-up collection. Now I admit it's not a look I'm a fan of. But what irks me is when people act as though letting your little girl be papped wearing make-up is akin to child abuse. I'd wager that most mums of girls have popped to the shops with their little lady in tow with at least her finger nails painted in some glittery shade, or with a smidgen of lipstick on. It's what little girls like to do and no-one seems to bat an eyelid when my lads go out dressed as Spiderman or with their faces painted as pirates so really, what's the difference?

Granted, I probably wouldn't go so far as to crack open the stash of false eyelashes if I had a daughter but then I'm not Katie Price and our lives couldn't be more different. I reckon if long lens cameras were thrust in the faces of my kids and I every time we left the house, I'd sometimes look like a less-than-perfect parent too. But I reckon it's time to give celeb mums a break. Parenting isn't easy, especially under the glare of constant media attention and in the intrusive gaze of the public eye, so if a little lip gloss helps keep everyone happy, where's the harm?

Ah, there's nothing like the Christmas holidays for bringing out the festive family spirit.

Check out Brad Pitt hanging with his boys. According to newspaper reports, Brad took Maddox and Pax Jolie-Pitt out for dinner with his younger brother in New York City this week. So I guess the Jolie-Pitt ladies (and Knox) were having a girls' night in.

And closer to home, ex-Footballers Wives star Gary Lucy took to the ice with his girlfriend Natasha Gray and their daughter India. Gary is all set to appear in the forthcoming series of ITV's Dancing on Ice so it looks as though he was getting in some practice.

Now, predictions please, for the first celeb baby announcements of 2010? My money's on a brother or sister for Suri Cruise this year. I'm not so sure about the rumours circulating that Brad and Anglina are planning to add to their brood but I also reckon Jamie Oliver and wife Jools might put another bun in the oven before the year is out. You heard it all here first...