Usher, fiancée silent on why their wedding was cancelled

NEW YORK (AP) Usher and his pregnant fiancée, Tameka Foster, cancelled their wedding last weekend, but they're apparently still together.

"As of right now we don't have a date but we will let you know when we do," he tells Usmagazine.com in a story posted yesterday. "Everybody's fine. Tameka and the baby are fine."

"We're good. We're all doing great now," Foster is quoted as saying. The 28-year-old singer and Foster, his longtime girlfriend, called off their wedding Saturday, saying no details about the circumstances of the cancellation would be released.

As to reports that Foster had checked into a hospital because of problems with her pregnancy, she told People.com on Monday: "We had a scare. But, I am fine and the baby is fine."

The couple announced their engagement earlier this year, and later, that Foster was expecting Usher's first child, due this fall. She has three other children from a previous marriage.

Idol contestant Corey Clark arrested

LITTLE ROCK (AP) Corey Clark has been arrested on drug charges and an outstanding warrant from Arizona, authorities said.

The former "American Idol" contestant was being held at the Pulaski County jail pending a court appearance Tuesday in North Little Rock, said John Rehrauer, a spokesman for the sheriff's department.

Clark was arrested near Interstate 40 at about 2.30 a.m. Monday on charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, Rehrauer said.

A warrant had been issued for Clark after he failed to appear in an Arizona court on a summons stemming from an arrest last year for violating a court order and trespassing. Clark was disqualified after reaching the finals of the popular Fox TV show in 2003 for failing to reveal a previous arrest.

He later accused "Idol" judge Paula Abdul of coaching him and initiating an affair. She denied his allegations, and Fox cleared Abdul of any wrongdoing.

Star Jones Reynolds had a gastric bypass

NEW YORK (AP) Star Jones Reynolds skirted questions about her dramatic weight loss for years, saying only that she had undergone a medical intervention. That intervention, it turns out, was gastric bypass surgery.

Reynolds, 45, says she was "intentionally evasive" when people asked how she'd dropped 160 pounds in three years. She had gastric bypass surgery in August 2003. She writes about her weight loss in a first-person essay in the September issue of Glamour magazine, on newsstands August 7.

"Everything about me was already so public (mostly my own doing talk about dumb!), so of course everyone wanted to know what I had done," she writes. "I was also terrified someone would have a tragic result after emulating me without making an informed decision with her doctor."

"But the complete truth is, I was scared of what people might think of me," she continues. "I was afraid to be vulnerable, and ashamed at not being able to get myself under control without this procedure."

Keeping her decision private made her a hypocrite, she says, because she had been so outspoken about her firing as co-host of ABC's "The View" last year.

Reynolds, who weighed 307 pounds at her heaviest, says her "out-of-control behaviour" began around her 40th birthday in 2002. Feeling lonely, she turned to food for comfort and gained 75 pounds over the course of 17 months. "I used to look in the mirror and take pride in my figure, but that was when I was legitimately a full-figured woman," she says. "I'd gradually gone from full-figured to morbidly obese."

Reynolds opted for surgery after a friend expressed concern about her weight. It was a success, she says, though she found she was "still consumed with the same anger, shame and insecurity as before."

Her husband, banker Al Reynolds, encouraged her to begin psychological therapy in the summer of 2005. She learned, among other things, that she "couldn't control what others thought," she says. She began to heal by talking openly about her weight loss to strangers.

Spears/Federline divorce is done deal

LOS ANGELES (AP) Britney Spears' marriage to Kevin Federline officially ended Monday.

"They are divorced," the pop star's attorney, Laura Wasser, said after a Superior Court hearing. "Everything is finalised."

Court Commissioner Scott Gordon signed orders for dissolution of marriage, an alimony agreement and child custody.

The alimony agreement will not be made public unless there is an enforcement issue, Wasser said. "Most of that tracks the prenup," the attorney said, without elaborating.

The child custody order was tentatively sealed, pending an August 14 hearing. "The best interests of the children could be harmed" if the arrangement were not sealed, Gordon said.

Spears married Federline in October 2004, eight months after her first marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander was annulled. She cited irreconcilable differences when she filed for divorce from Federline on November 7, 2006.