Former American Idol finalist Ace Young is engaged, he tells Usmagazine.com.

The 28-year-old singer – who finished seventh on the fifth season of the hit Fox show – recently popped the question to Allison Fisher, 20, his costar on Broadway’s Grease.

“I found my true love in Grease,” Young tells Usmagazine.com.

No date has been set.

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One day after saying “I Do” in front of 500 guests at the Playboy mansion, Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett jetted off to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia Sunday.

“We’re going to be there for nine days,” Wilkinson told Usmagazine.com. “It’s a 2,000-square-foot room…overlooking the ocean.”

Earlier Sunday, Wilkinson, 24, wrote on her Web site: “Wussup everyone???? It’s the new Mrs. Hank Baskett!!!!!!!!! ahhhh hahahahahha!! I can’t believe I’m a married woman! yayyyyy.”

The Playboy cover girl wed Baskett, 27, in $100,000 worth of diamond and platinum jewels designed by Michael Barin. Her brother Colin walked her down the aisle. (Ex Hugh Hefner was originally supposed to do the honor, but she changed her mind.)

“I’m ready to marry the man of my dreams,” Wilkinson told Us shortly before tying the knot. “He’s one in a million. I’m so lucky.”

Wilkinson and Baskett announced their engagement last November after he proposed at the top of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Earlier this month, Wilkinson and Baskett revealed they were expecting their first child together. She said the baby is due Christmas Day.

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These days Michael Jackson fans are surely clamoring for anything and everything to do with the King of Pop, and now there’s one more tune they can listen to. EOnline reports that MJ recorded the Isley Brothers’ classic “Shout” in 2001, but it was never released.

The new twist on the old song was recorded at Sony Recording Studios and was co-written by the team of Cyph and Crystal.

“After the recording was done, we could see him dancing to the song,” Cyph, who was introduced to the star by producer Teddy Riley, tells E! News. “He really was feeling that record, but, unfortunately, the record got rail roaded by politics within the album and the dispute between M.J. and Tommy [Mottola], so it got released as a maxi single to R. Kelly’s ‘Cry.’ No one’s heard ‘Shout’ in the U.S.”

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In the days leading up to his death, Heath Ledger battled chronic insomnia, pneumonia and exhaustion, according to several members of Ledger’s inner circle – who paint a portrait of a tortured man who struggled with personal strife and professional indecision, reports the August Vanity Fair, on sale nationally July 7.

Apparently, one of the biggest struggles in Ledger’s life was his deteriorating relationship with partner Michelle Williams.

“Heath was always blaming himself [about the relationship], asking ‘what did I do wrong?’” says Ledger’s friend and mentor, director Terry Gilliam. “Once it started going south, it went very quickly. He was overwhelmed by lawyers, and there were more and more of them, as if they were breeding.”

Especially contentious were the custody issues surrounding the couple’s daughter, Matilda. As the couple battled over the child, “there were definitely heated conversations,” says one source, “and emotions were high.”

The stress of his personal life left Ledger unable to sleep.

Chronic Insomnia
Gerry Grennell, a vocal coach who lived with Ledger during the filming of The Dark Knight, said that the actor used sleeping medication to combat chronic insomnia. “I’d say, ‘If you can possibly bear it to stop taking the medications, do, because they don’t seem to be doing you any good,’ ” recalls Grennell, who said that Ledger would spend his nights finding ways to occupy himself, such as rearranging the furniture.

Grennell also says that everyone has a different view on how Ledger died. “From my perspective, and knowing him as well as I did, and being around him as much as I was, it was a combination of exhaustion, sleeping medication … and perhaps the aftereffects of the flu,” he says. “I guess his body just stopped breathing.”

Grennell and other sources claim that Ledger was no longer using illegal drugs or alcohol when he died.

Professional Indecision
Despite the actor’s eventual success – and posthumous Oscar – as the Joker in the The Dark Knight, Ledger’s friend and agent, Steven Alexander, tells the magazine that Ledger “was always hesitant to be in a summer blockbuster, with the dolls and action figures and everything else that comes with one of those movies. He was afraid it would define him and limit his choices.”

Friends say that Ledger agreed to join the Batman franchise because it would be such a long shot that it would give him an excuse to turn down other offers. Ledger reportedly had a pay-or-play deal for Dark Knight, meaning that he’d receive a paycheck no matter what, so he took creative liberties with the Joker.

According to cinematographer Nicola Pecorini, Ledger hoped his performance would be so over-the-top that he’d be fired.

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TV legend Ed McMahon was remembered by friends and family yesterday, at a memorial service held at the Church of the Hills at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries in the Hollywood Hills, Entertainment Tonight reports.

Around 200 guests were on hand to memorialize the late entertainer. Natalie Cole sang her touching ballad “Smile,” while Ed’s wife Pam and his children and grandchildren spoke as well.

Jimmy Kimmel, Tony Danza and his wife, George Schlatter, Johnny Carson’s former wife Joanna Carson and other celebrities were also there to celebrate the TV icon, who passed away last Tuesday after battling systemic cancer.

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After a report today claimed to have lurid details from Michael Jackson’s autopsy, including descriptions of his body being “riddled with track marks” and his head being almost completely bald, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office has released a statement decrying those details as untrue.

“The report that is being published did not come from this office. I don’t know where the information came from, or who that information came from. It is not accurate. Some of it is totally false,” says the statement.

A British newspaper was the first to publish the bogus information, saying MJ’s body was covered in needle marks, his hair was reduced to peach fuzz and he weighed only 112 pounds.

The real results of the autopsy aren’t due for 4-6 more weeks.

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Guess she does her own stunts!

Diane Keaton may have been wearing some extra padding, but that didn’t stop the actress from getting a little roughed up on the set of her new movie, Morning Glory. Keaton, 63, injured her head while filming Monday in New York.

“Diane Keaton is in good health and spirits following a fall on set of Morning Glory where she bumped her head,” a statement released by Paramount Studios reads. “The actress was taken to a hospital for precautionary tests and has been cleared by doctors to return to work tomorrow.”

Keaton sported a sumo wrestling costume for the scene in the comedy, which costars Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford.

I’m just happy that she went to the hospital to be on the safe side. You never know, right?

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