Hollywood legend Michael Douglas protected his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones from violent threats made by couple's alleged stalker Dawnette Knight, a Los Angeles court heard Wednesday. The Wall Street actor learnt his father Kirk Douglas and offices linked to the glamorous couple had received letters and phone calls referring to the Chicago beauty in March 2002 and only told his stunning spouse in March this year. Knight, 32, was arrested last month and faces one felony charge of stalking and 24 felony charges of making criminal threats. Child psychology student Knight and her fiance Ronald Calvin have apologised for the distress caused and Knight's lawyers insists his client is "normal" and only had a "girlish crush" on Douglas. At the hearing yesterday, Zeta-Jones said, "I am here to testify against the alleged defendant who has been stalking me and my family for the last tw0 years. I became aware of the threats around the second week of March this year. I was in Bermuda at the time. My husband brought me into the living room, asked me to sit down and said he needed to speak to me about something pretty serious. He sat me down and said, 'I need to tell you that you have been for some time receiving serious threats to your life.'" As Zeta-Jones recalled the moment she learnt of Knight's alleged threats, she tried desperately to fight back the tears at the stand. She continued, "I was stunned, shocked. I was trembling. He said they were of the nature and death threats and a lot had been going to my father-in-law Kirk Douglas. I took it very seriously." Douglas said the first threat was a phone call to the Ariel Sands hotel in Bermuda, near his family home on the island. He said, "I asked the receptionist what the person on the phone had said. I was told she was going to kill Catherine. I was shocked, scared and stunned." The hearing continues.

Britney Spears has reportedly brought her wedding to dancer Kevin Federline forward to next month after splashing out on a $4.5 Million beachside home in California. The singer and her fiance have rescheduled their nuptials after details of the planned November wedding at the Beverly Hills Hotel were leaked. They will now marry in an extravagant ceremony in the garden of their new Malibu mansion. A source says, "Britney and Kevin have decided that getting married quickly is the best thing to do. They have told friends to prepare for a wedding invite but they are not revealing the exact new location of the wedding yet. Britney wants a traditional wedding with a big dress and veil."

Hollywood hunk Ben Affleck is a single man again - he's split with his sales executive girlfriend Enza Sambataro after two months together. The Daredevil star met the stunning brunette at a Boston Red Sox baseball game in late May and embarked on his first relationship since splitting from ex-fiancee Jennifer Lopez in January. After the American media noticed Sambataro had not been spotted with the actor while he is in Boston for the Democratic National Convention, Affleck confirmed his brief coupling had ended. Affleck says, "It's difficult. I meet people, but I feel like I'm this walking nightmare. You get photographed with me once at a baseball game, and The Enquirer will find out every dirty little thing that ever happened in your family's history." Ironically Affleck blamed "excessive media attention" on the demise of his relationship with Sambataro - the same reason he and Lopez cancelled their planned September 2003 nuptials. Affleck continues, "It's too much. Who wants that? If I saw me, I would turn the other way. I'm trying to diminish it so that someone might actually be interested in dating me." In recent weeks Affleck has been romantically linked to his Daredevil co-star Jennifer Garner.

Kangaroo Jack star Anthony Anderson has been arrested and charged with aggravated rape while shooting a movie. The 33-year-old actor was accused by an unidentified woman of luring her into a trailer on the Memphis, Tennessee, set of his latest film, Hustle And Flow, and sexually assaulting her with the film's assistant director, Wayne Witherspoon. Both men were charged yesterday, after being taken into custody by the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. The alleged incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the Shelby County Correctional Center, a penal farm on the outskirts of Memphis, where filming was under way for the movie. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Shular says a passer-by heard screams coming from the trailer and opened the door. Shular says, "She ran out nude." Both suspects were released yesterday evening after posting a $20,000 bond each. Allan Mayer, spokesman for married father-of-two Anderson, says, "(Anthony) absolutely denies the heinous charges. Anthony is a happily married family man who has never been accused of - no less involved in - anything remotely like this, and we are confident that when all the facts come out, he will be completely exonerated." Mayer says it's unclear whether Anderson will return to work on the movie, but adds he will likely remain in the Memphis area for the time being.

Former Friends star Lisa Kudrow is in talks to team up with Sex And The City writer Michael Patrick King for her very own sitcom. Negotiations are currently underway to have Kudrow star in one of a number of projects King plans to develop for American cable TV network HBO, which also broadcast the award-winning raunchy series Sex and the City. Details of the proposed comedy show are currently under wraps. Kudrow is already working in TV development behind the scenes through her deal at Warner Bros TV. Kudrow won an Emmy for portraying wacky Phoebe Buffay on the hit sitcom, which just went off the air in May after ten seasons.

Actress Natalie Portman's political T-shirt statement on live American TV Thursday morning, left bosses so worried, her interviewer asked her cover it with a bunch of flowers. The Star Wars beauty made an appearance on TV show Good Morning America to promote her new movie Garden State, but her bold T-shirt bearing presidential hopeful John Kerry's name and picture prompted veteran journalist Diane Sawyer's fear her network ABC would fall foul of pre-election guidelines. Partway through the interview, a smiling Sawyer said, "Now if I'm gonna talk to you, you're gonna have to hold flowers here in front of the John Kerry (T-shirt). We can't just have John Kerry the whole time. Who do we bring in for equal time?" A stunned but laughing Portman shot back, "Come on, you've got (Bill O'Reilly's) The O'Reilly Factor. That's on television; that evens it out!" She also took the opportunity to voice her support for the Democratic contender, adding, "I love John Kerry! I just think he has the perfect combination of compassion and intelligence and composure under pressure and I'm just a huge fan."

The ex-girlfriend of Britney Spears' fiance Kevin Federline is set to cash in on her recent string of woes - by launching her own reality TV show. Former Moesha star Shar Jackson was heavily pregnant with her and Federline's second child in the late spring when she learned the dancer had struck up a romance with the singer. And while Spears and Federline excitedly plan their wedding, Jackson is teaming up with a trio of producers to pitch a docu-soap, following her as she works to get back into music and acting while raising her newborn son Kaleb and two-year-old daughter Kori. Rick Telles - one of the show's executive producers - says, "We want the show to (explore) what it's like to be a young woman with children in Hollywood. An aspect of the show will be her tabloid life, but there's also a life outside of that." Producers are hoping Federline will make appearances on the show.

R&B beauty Brandy reportedly accepted basketball star Quentin Richardson's marriage proposal on Tuesday. The singer, 25, was thrilled when Richardson, 24, presented her with a $1 million engagement ring at a reception at Los Angeles' Century Club, according to People magazine. The stunning ring's designer Jason Arasheben says, "It was a total surprise for her." Brandy was in hiding last week after her former lover, music producer Robert Smith told a New York radio station the couple were never married and concocted the wedding story to protect her image after she fell pregnant with their daughter, Sy'rai - the couple separated in July of last year. Since Smith's public declaration, Brandy has cancelled a string of interviews in New York to promote her new album Afrodisiac which was released last month.

Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong has fueled rumors he is engaged to singer girlfriend Sheryl Crow - after allowing hotel staff in Paris to call her his fiancee. According to reports, the 32-year-old proposed to the rocker after winning his record sixth Tour De France at the weekend. Although Crow's label Interscope admit they have heard the rumors, the couple have refused to confirm or deny they are engaged, reports American news site Pagesix.Com. However their secret may have been let slip while they celebrated Armstrong's victory at the Hotel de Crillon - staff referred to Crowe as his "fiancee" and the sportsman failed to correct them.

Troubled model Anna Nicole Smith has posed nude for a fashion magazine to prove she didn't undergo surgery to lose weight. The multi-millionairess widow disrobed for Fashion Week magazine's photo shoot to prove her slim new figure is thanks to diet supplement Trimspa rather than gastric-bypass surgery, as many journalists have suggested. The magazine's representative Roger Padilha tells Pagesix.Com, "We asked her to re-create the famous Marilyn Monroe pose for the centerfold of our Icon issue. She thought it would be a good way to quash the rumors. I was there and can 100 per cent vouch that she had no scars."