New York, NY -- Kelly Osbourne is stepping in for Candie's shoes. The pink-haired pop princess will be featured in print ads for the sexy wedgies starting this October. A spokeswoman for Candie's says the ads will be less edgy than past campaigns -- like the one which showed Jenny McCarthy sitting on a toilet wearing nothing but a pair of high heels.

NEW YORK -- Are American accents really so bad? Evidently Catherine Zeta Jones thinks so. Although the Welsh-born beauty is raising her son with Michael Douglas in America, she's insisted on hiring a Welsh nanny so the kid will grow up speaking like his mummy, reports gossip columnist Liz Smith.

NEW YORK -- The star of the crossdressing basketball comedy "Juwanna Mann" admits he hit a snag while trying to buy pantyhose for his costume. Miguel A. Nunez Jr. tells "TV Guide" he was too embarrassed to ask for stockings at the store, so he hid near a dressing room to see what size a woman of his stature would buy. When the clerks saw him snooping, they thought he was a pervert and had security boot him out.

LONDON -- Never a band to shy away from controversy, the techno group Prodigy has just released a single which is an unabashed ode to the date-rape drug Rohypnol. Some lyrics from the song "Baby's Got a Temper" include "We Love Rohypnol/ She got Rohypnol/ We take Rohypnol/ Just forget it all."

NEW YORK -- Secretary of State Colin Powell's wife Alma has a new career as a children's author. Alma Powell's first two children's books "America's Promise" and "Pull Your Weight", both from HarperCollins, are scheduled to be released next spring.

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