Anna Nicole Smith’s son died from an accidental drug overdose, a Bahamas jury has ruled.

The jury deliberated for less than two hours before recommending no criminal charges in the death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith.

Daniel died in September, 2006 after travelling to the Bahamas to meet his new baby sister.

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Britney Spears’ dad wants his superstar daughter to ditch her pop career to become an actress, according to reports.

Jamie Spears, who is currently conservator of Britney’s estate, is looking into acting opportunities for the pop tart following her successful stint on the show ‘How I Met Your Mother’.

“Britney did a great job on How I Met Your Mother. She got the show its highest ratings yet, but more importantly for Jamie, he wants his daughter at a normal 9-to-5 job to keep her working and out of trouble,” a source told the New York Post.

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Mariah Carey has revealed she doesn’t celebrate her birthday, as she hates the thought of getting older.

The ‘Touch My Body’ songstress, 37, says she has “anniversaries” instead.

“I’m eternally 12. And that 12-year-old inside me is an eternal optimist. Honestly, I don’t even have birthdays,” Mariah says.

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Madonna has compared Britney Spears’ hounding by the paparazzi to “people inflicting cruelty and pain on each other” in Africa.

The pop queen made the outburst to ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine, saying she finds Spears’ situation “very painful”.

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Jordin Sparks has confessed she used to have a crush on American Idol’s razor-tongued judge Simon Cowell.

The talent show songstress, who won the sixth season of Idol, said: “I think there was a time when I had a crush on Simon, but it was when I used to watch the show, not when I was on it. He’s very cute, but he’s already taken.”

She also told the ‘Metro’ that she has no plans to sex-up her image to help her sell records, even if her label asked her to.

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Fugees star Wyclef Jean [pictured left] has recorded a radio message urging people in his native Haiti to give up crime.

“If you love Wyclef that means you love Haiti,” the rapper, 35, says in an advert for local radio stations.

“So you should not be raping women, kidnapping people and children. There can be no excuse for doing so.”

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Was Heath Ledger was a father at 17? News out of Australia is that Ledger may have left behind 11-year-old daughter in addition to the baby he had with Michelle Williams. Ledger’s uncle, Haydn Ledger, says Heath had a brief affair when he was a 17-year-old schoolboy. The woman, then aged 25, reportedly discovered she was pregnant after their relationship had ended and she was living with another man at the time.

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Rumor has it that Madonna is serious about doing a remake of “Casablanca” – only updated to modern day Baghdad – and casting herself in the role of Ilsa played by the great screen legend Ingrid Bergman who was in her 20s when she filmed the classic. Imagine combining all three cinematic ‘Kiss of Death’ elements — Madonna + Iraq war movie + remake of a classic — into one Sure Fire Flop!

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Amy Winehouse fans can expect a dark album from the soul songstress, friends have revealed.

Sources close to Winehouse say the follow-up to ‘Back to Black’ will be filled with songs about death and which reflect her depression.

“Her next album is darker than ever. She’s written quite a lot of [it] already,” a source says.

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Bad news for men everywhere. Kate Beckinsale has vowed to strip on screen for future film roles, as she doesn’t want to embarrass her daughter.

“My mum was an actress, and she did a nude scene on television when I was about 9 or 10, and the crisis I had when everyone came to school the next day and told me they’d seen my mother naked just makes me kind of, you know,” Kate told AOL Movies.

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