British reality star Jade Goody died in her sleep early Sunday after a seven-month battle with cervical cancer. She was 27.

Surrounded by her family at her home in Essex, southeast England, she passed away at 3:14 a.m., her publicist, Max Clifford tells Usmagazine.com.

“She had been asleep the past 24 hours and it happened very peacefully,” he told Us. “Everyone is, of course, devastated, but we knew this was coming. I’m just glad people are remembering her as a brave girl who took on this battle with courage and gusto. She’s inspired a lot of people.”

Her mother Jackiey Budden, who was at her side as she died, told BBC News, “My beautiful daughter is at peace.”

Added British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, “She will be remembered fondly by all who knew her and her family can be extremely proud of the work she has done to raise awareness of cervical cancer, which will benefit thousands of women across the UK.”

Goody was a dental assistant who rose to fame as a loud and brash contestant on the reality show Big Brother in 2002. She was often ridiculed by fans for her lack of education (she thought Saddam Hussein was a boxer).

She stirred controversy on a follow-up show in 2007 when she referred to another contestant, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, as “Shilpa Poppadom.” She also complained about Shetty’s cooking of Indian food and mocked her accent. (more…)

The two ladies picked up some pastries and coffee to go! Joining the Beckham boys at ‘The Childern’s Art Center’ in Brentwood, CA., Katie and Suri bring the treats for all to enjoy!

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Avril just released her first fragrance called Black Star.  She celebrated the launch with a party at Punk in Oxford Circus, London.  The perfume has notes of hibiscus, black plum, and dark chocolate.

“I wanted to make sure the fragrance was really me — me in a bottle,”

Black Star won’t launch in the US until the fall season.

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I can see Jim Carrey, but Sean Penn? Seems weird to me!

Sean Penn has signed on to star in the upcoming film, The Three Stooges, playing Larry. Jim Carrey is in negotiations to play Curly and Benicio del Toro is possibly being considered to play the trio’s slap-stick leader, Moe, Hollywood Reporter reports.

The film — which will not be a biopic but a fictional treatment that will be updated for modern audiences — has been an ongoing project of the Farrelly brothers and MGM for years.

Peter and Bobby Farrelly — who have been behind such films as Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary and The Heartbreak Kid — wrote the original script, which was at one point structured similarly to the Stooges’ classic short films by featuring a story that would’ve spanned over three installments of roughly 30 minutes each. They have since streamlined it into a single narrative.

“When the economy started turning, we felt like the world could use a Stooges slapfest,” Peter said last year. “Bobby and I haven’t done a real physical comedy in a while, and it’s the most exciting thing we could think of now, to have people go to the movie, see some great slapstick fun family humor.”

MGM plans to start production in the fall for a 2010 release slot.

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As the loved ones of Natasha Richardson continue to mourn, a family decision made in the wake of the Tony-winning actress’s sudden death March 18 has brought a measure of comfort: After Richardson was taken off life support at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, her family requested that her organs be donated to other patients whose lives they might save.

Organ donation “is very Natasha,” a family friend says in the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. “She spent so much time fighting the stigma of AIDS; someone like that would naturally donate her organs. At least by donating her organs something good could come out of [the tragedy].”

Richardson, 45, died after falling during a ski lesson at a Canadian resort on March 16. An autopsy performed in New York City showed that a blow to her head had caused a fatal epidural hematoma, bleeding between her brain and her skull.

In the days since Richardson’s death, her husband of 14 years, actor Liam Neeson, 56, and the couple’s sons Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12, have shown remarkable public poise in dealing with the tragedy. “Liam is doing okay,” says family friend Blaine Trump. “It takes a while to absorb this. But he says the family needs to move forward. They will take it one step at a time.”

The Irish actor was expected to return to work on the Toronto set of his upcoming drama Chloe, and the boys were headed back to school. “With good friends by their side,” says Trump, “they will get through the tough days ahead.”

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