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There is no 'too soon' in the world of celeb love. After hooking up with every co-star she could, uh, lay her hands on, Sienna Miller is now rumoured to be… engaged!

Just a few months apparently dating Rhys Ifans (the pair hasn't even confirmed that they're a pair) and he's already down on bended knee. "She fell about laughing, but soon realised he was serious," says an insider about Sienna's reaction to the reported offer of marriage.

"While she didn't give him an answer straight away, she's since been thinking about it more and more." And Rhys and Sienna are even said to be thinking of buying a place together: "They want to get out of the rat race for quiet weekends and think Wales is perfect." Oh, hey, what could possibly go wrong here?

Hoping not to let things go too wrong with her little seven-year-old girl, Kate Winslet is trying as hard as she can to make sure Mia grows up sans major body-image issues.

"I just have to keep praising my body and embracing my curves when Mia is around," says Winslet. Impressive sentiments for someone in a profession that's more salad leaves than, you know, remotely healthy. "I want her to grow up totally content with everything God gave her and never feel fat or pressured to be anything she is not."

On to Cate with 'C' — her big news is that she's pregnant with baby number three, which is apparently due next April.

And, guess what! Christina Aguilera is pregnant! Surprise! Yeah, Hollywood is just reeling from the shock. "That'll be about the time I enter into mommyhood," says Aguilera to US's Glamour mag about her plans for New Year's 2008. "So... I'm hoping to have started a beautiful family with my husband!" And husband Bratman's feelings on the matter? "Oh, he's thrilled! He's just great."

Yeah, wow — that's, like, such incredible news… Apart from the fact that absolutely everyone has known about it for months and months. Now we just have to wait with baited breath for J.Lo to reveal whether she's with child — or just has some very weird stomach-focused fat distribution.

Sticking with the baby news for a little longer: model-turned-actress (the endless 'Resident Evil' franchise is just one of the cinematic horrors she's inflicted on us) Milla Jovovich has just given birth to a bouncing baby girl, her and director fiancé Paul W.S. Anderson's first kid.

TRIXY HONORÉ

(pronounced On-or-ay) delights in the candyfloss vacuousness of celebrity gossip. Living in New York City, Trixy keeps an eye out for the rich and famous of the Big Apple as she hunts for great vintage clothing and tries to balance the joys of both style and substance. She is a firm believer in nice manners, wrist-length gloves and the greatness of television.

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Angelina Jolie is certainly not in need of any more children — though of course she is rumoured to be pregnant with yet another — but at least the more of the them there are, the more help she and Brad have with making holiday dinners.

"I'm not much of a cook, so we'll see what happens," admits Ange of her plans for the big upcoming US holiday of Thanksgiving. "I try. We all chip in. But I don't think anyone in my family wants me to handle Thanksgiving dinner."

Still, that doesn't stop the world's best-looking parents from celebrating everything they can. "We celebrate Moon Festival for my boys, who are from Asia, and Kwanzaa and things like that," Jolie reveals. "We certainly try to celebrate as many of those as we can, and celebrate all culture."

Celebrating the culture of excess, indulgence and vapidity is… who else? Paris Hilton.

The woman named after a city and a hotel chain will be hosting the big New Year's Eve bash at Las Vegas' hottest club, LAX. And her fee for swanning around the event? Uh, that's reportedly $1-million (R6.5 million)! Nice work if you can get it…

Word is that Paris is replacing Lindsay Lohan at the event — Linds being fresh out of rehab and not yet in the best condition for going clubbing.