Naomi Campbell as an advocate for political correctness? At least if you're an international beauty icon.

Naomi is standing up for beautiful women everywhere and trying to put a stop to the term supermodel, according to an appearance on this Ugly Betty podcast (promoting the show's season finale this Thursday).

"It's a term we don't particularly like," says Campbell, pointing out that the preferred nomenclature among good-looking women who are paid to promote stuff is "working model."

Too bad no one asked her what she thinks of the term diva.

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She might have her fur back, but the student accusing Lindsay Lohan of heisting some outerwear is not quite ready to chill out.

The attorney for New York college student Masha Markov explained to E! News today why her client ultimately decided to sue Lohan over the purportedly purloined fur coat.

"Negotiations with her lawyers just ended up failing," said Merrill R. Cohen. "They stopped calling us back.

"We got the coat back, but it's not sufficient. She had the coat for several weeks. You don’t just return it and that's that," continues Cohen, adding that the fur had a tear in the lining and was stained.

"If the jury finds the incident is criminal in nature, then she could get significant damages." (View the lawsuit.)

While Team Lohan has remained mum on the lawsuit, her rep spoke to E! News when Markova's allegations surfaced earlier this month and denied the actress swiped anybody's duds.

"This is crazy!" the publicist said. "The bombing of Lindsay has to stop. She is in a good place right now.

"Why can’t everyone leave her alone?"

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Time for R. Kelly to finally face the music.

After six years of delays, the self-proclaimed Pied Piper of R&B was in a Chicago courtroom today for opening arguments in his kiddie-porn trial.

Prosecutors hope to prove that the 41-year-old "Snake" singer slithered his way into bed almost a decade ago with a then-13-year-old girl and recorded their sex acts for posterity. The tape was an underground sensation before being anonymously mailed in 2002 to the Chicago Sun-Times, which then alerted authorities.

Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

And the case is hardly a slam dunk for the Cook County District Attorney.

For one, the alleged victim—whose identity has not been disclosed because the purported crime occurred when she was underage—has repeatedly insisted she's not the girl in the 26-minute video, which concludes with a man resembling Kelly urinating on his costar.

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The wedding may have been Alice in Wonderland, but the honeymoon is shaping up to be more Ashlee in underground.

"We're in the basement of a house," newlywed Pete Wentz told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show this morning. "We've got some, like, blow-up palm trees down here. It's pretty nice, man. A little fake-'n'-bake tanning booth. It's gonna look like we went on a private jet somewhere. And we're gonna save that 30 grand.

"The paparazzi thinks we left on some private jet or whatever. You know, the truth is, we're just sitting down here, eating DiGiorno pizza, getting in that tanning bed every once in a while. It's great, you know."

Sounds it.

But Wentz made clear from the get-go that his subterranean honeymoon was the only thing he was willing to confirm, wifewise. (Listen to the complete interview.)

When matter-of-factly quizzed on his pending parentage, Wentz cautioned Seacrest:

"Ryan, this baby has not been confirmed. The only thing I'm confirming right now is, we're in the basement on our honeymoon with these blow-up palm trees."

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The very pregnant Angelina Jolie not only looks like she's about to pop, but at this year's Cannes Film Festival she just keeps poppin' up.

Everywhere you turn, it seems there's no escaping the brunette beauty and her ballooning belly—from the Kung Fu Panda premiere to a dinner date with Brad Pitt to boat rides with their kids to, most recently, Tuesday's Changeling photo call dressed in a Dolce & Gabbana pantsuit.

Add to this all the media attention surrounding her confirmation that she's having twins and you've got a possible recipe for overexposure.

So given the seemingly relentless coverage of all things Angelina, we want to know how you feel about it...

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Do ya think it's sexy?

Well, if your definition of the word is Jude Law sucking face with Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly, then you're in luck.

The odd hookup allegedly took place last Saturday at a London nightclub usually frequented by C-list soccer players, not A-list actors like Law, according to the Sun, which managed to obtain a picture of the couple in action.

One barfly reportedly told the paper the two "were really going at it and barely coming up for air."

We, on the other hand, will be coming up for air as soon as our stomachs allow.

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Food Network who?

Beginning July 7, TV chef extraordinaire Emeril Lagasse will jump ship from the foodies' cable network of choice to the even more niche Fine Living Network, with new episodes of Emeril Live! to be shown on his new small-screen home.

"As you know in television, things have to evolve, and this is a little evolution for me," Lagasse said of his channel jump.

While Emeril Live! reruns will continue to be shown five afternoons a week on the Food Network, the Fine Living Network will air the show seven nights a week at 7 p.m. For its first week on the new channel, new episodes will be shown every night, and, for the following two months, just Monday night's episode will be new.

After that, the Fine Living Network, which at 50 million subscribers reaches a little more than half of Food Network's audience, will have the option of ordering more shows.

Or, as Lagasse refers to it, seconds.

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It may be the end of the world as we know it, but John Cusack will probably come out fine. If historic trajectories of broad-shouldered leading men are anything to go on, that is.

The veteran actor has signed on to star in Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic thriller 2012, a big-budget epic that takes place in the year determined by the Mayan calendar to be the end of human civilization.

Per Variety, the film, which also stars increasingly prolific British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, will revolve around both the cataclysmic end of modern-day civilization and, subsequently, the plight of the scant few survivors.

Shooting starts in Los Angeles in July, barring a strike by the Screen Actors Guild.

Or a preemptive end of days.

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Shania Twain and Robert "Mutt" Lange's private matter just became public fodder.

Just days after the duo announced their separation with nary an explanation, calling it a "private matter," comes a report that a third party was involved in their break.

Citing several sources close to the couple, People reports the record producer was involved—and continues to be involved—with the duo's longtime secretary and manager of their Switzerland home, the also-married Marie Ann Thiébaud.

While the famously reclusive Lange initially called his split from Twain "unfortunate" and the result of "growing apart" after 14 years of marriage, he's wasting no time in lashing out at the magazine story, denying any semblance of impropriety.

"It's absolutely not the reason [for the separation]," he told People. "It's not true."

Twain, 42, and Lange, 59, have one child together, 6-year-old Eja D'Angelo.