Ashton Kutcher knows the secret to happiness, and it’s Demi Moore.

“The real trick is putting yourself around people you admire,” he says in the latest issue of Parade magazine (on newsstands Sunday). “That’s why I married my wife. I locked in the brightest light in the room.”

His nearly four-year marriage to the 46-year-old actress is as strong as ever, thanks to a pact they made when they first wed.

“My wife and I have an agreement in our marriage, and part of that contract is that we are going to shine our lights on each other,” he says. “My relationship with Demi is so solid, thank God, and we’re so communicative about the way that we’re feeling, that we don’t allow space to come between us. I definitely believe that if you stop working at relationships, they go away.”

The 31-year-old star wasn’t always so lucky. Before he rose to fame, he recalls early years when he was broke.

“I bought my whole family these fake watches and fake Versace pants and fake anything I could find, like fake Calvin Klein T-shirts, so I could take them home and show them how well I was doing even though I didn’t have a place to live.”

Prior to meeting Moore, he even traded up for a good night’s sleep.

“It was always a good thing when you hooked up with a girl and got to sleep someplace nice for the night,” he says. “I wasn’t there to stay, but if you did hit it off with a girl, her place was always nicer than yours.”

Still, Kutcher admits there’s a downside to living the Hollywood life.

“Of course there is a price,” he says. “I’ve only been back home to Iowa once in the last year and a half to see my family. I go and shoot a film and spend months away from my wife and my girls [Rumer, 20, Scout, 17, and Tallulah, 15]. And that’s a price to pay. I also don’t get to see my friends very often. You can’t complain when you’re so blessed. I get so many things that the notion of me complaining is obscene. It’s absurd. It’s ridiculous.”

The former That ’70s Show actor an dPunk’d host stresses that he’s the same goofball he’s always been.

“I’m still looking for trouble. I’m still disruptive,” he tells Parade. “I’m still doing some things that other people don’t like.”

He adds, beaming: “I hear, ‘You’re a moron,’ about once a day from someone in a genuine way — not as a joke.”

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After a heart-wrenching elimination, Reid Rosenthal returned to Hawaii on the season finale of The Bachelorette at the last minute to try and win back the affection of Jillian Harris. And he thought it would work, he told host Chris Harrison on Tuesday’s “After the Final Rose” special.

But as more than ten million viewers witnessed, Harris let the 30-year-old Philadelphia realtor down gently, confessing that she was in love with somebody else — Chicago computer software consultant Ed Swiderski.

Even though two months have past since the finale was shot in Hawaii, Rosenthal confesses to People that his feelings for Harris haven’t gone away. “When I saw her [at the "After the Final Rose" special], feelings came back,” he tells People. “But everything happens for a reason. That’s the way I think in life and just knowing that makes everything easier.”

So why did he return? “I thought I was the best guy for her,” he says. “I knew I wanted to spend tomorrow with her. I wasn’t 100 percent sure we’d get married in six months or a year if she’d said yes. [But] I thought our relationship was 15 times better than the other two guys.”

Ready to date again “pretty soon — immediately,” Rosenthal admits his modicum of celebrity has been a hit with women.

“It’s insane! I thought it was just in Philly but now I’m out in L.A. and I was hanging out by the pool minding my own business and every single person came up to me and they were taking pictures,” he says. “When people come up, they are like, ‘We feel so bad.’ Two months have gone by, so I’m a little more detached from [the experience] than when I first got back.”

Reid, who says he was able to return the ring he bought for Harris, isn’t sure yet if he’d like to star on The Bachelor. “The upside is that you have 25 girls coming after you, which is never a bad thing. I trust the process at this point even though it is a little unnatural and puts you in a situation here you have to get to know somebody faster than you typically would,” he said. “The downside is it is a ton of work. Work doesn’t scare me but with real estate being so busy now, it’s gonna be hard for me to figure out how to keep my business and at the same time do that.”

As for Harris, Rosenthal says he has nothing but the best of wishes for her and Swiderski.

“If she’s happy, I’m happy for her,” Rosenthal says.

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Just because she has long dark hair, sexy red lips and a smoldering attitude doesn’t mean Megan Fox wants to be Angelina Jolie. And frankly, she’s sick of the comparison.

“I think it’s cause she has tattoos really, I think a lack of creativity on the media’s part,” Megan explains to Pop Tarts.

“I am a brunette with tattoos, I curse and I have made mention of sex before. I joked about it which people find outrageous so they want to constantly compare that to her,” she says. “You know Shia [LaBeouf] is the new Tom Hanks, Rihanna is the new Beyonce. Everybody is the new somebody although none of us are any of those people so you just walk around with it you live with it.”

And if you don’t believe Megan that the two are different, just ask Angie’s own dad, Jon Voight.

“Megan is herself and Angelina is herself. No one is comparable; everyone in the world is unique,” Jon said at the recent Transformers premiere in L.A. “That’s the great thing about it, but of course they’re two very beautiful women.”

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Move over, O magazine and Martha Stewart Living. GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow’s weekly newsletter packed with clean and green advice on loving, living and cooking is a “big success,” according to Paltrow.

“It’s crazy. . . . crazy!” Paltrow chatted exclusively with People about the site at the Children of the City‘s Champions of Hope Benefit Gala at the Tribeca Rooftop last night in N.Y.C. “I just love it. Corporate America is knocking at my door. . . . ‘Will you hawk my product’?” The answer is clearly no for the star’s very personal project, which even derives its name from her initials G.P. “It started in such an organic way. People ask me, ‘What is it? What are you doing?’ And I don’t know. I did it, am doing it . . . and I love doing it. It is really just a place to disseminate good information,” said the Preen-clad Paltrow.

“People are so grateful that it’s free. It’s just nice to share what you have. And I have all this great information. It’s just a gift. People want me to do all this other stuff. But right now, I just really love doing the site. I love thinking about the letters, what I’m going to write about, what kind of information we can put in there.”

So will Paltrow follow in Paul Newman’s footsteps with his Newman’s Own empire, which raised $250 million dollars in his lifetime for charity? “We’ll do something and give it all back,” she tells People exclusively. But for now, the site, which she creates along with two hands-on staffers, has only two cardinal rules. “No bribes. Also, I won’t say anything negative. If I eat somewhere or stay somewhere and it’s horrible, I won’t talk about it,” she said.

While she has addressed everything from cleansing to frenemies on the site, she’s not about to take on rumors about her personal life on GOOP. “I never address that side of me there,” she insisted. “It is really a place to disseminate good information.” And it’s not the only way that Paltrow is doing good — she is also a board member of Robin Hood, an organization in part founded by the late John F. Kennedy Jr., which raises money from successful New Yorkers and donates to causes such as Children of the City, the beneficiary of last night’s gala . “They’re really changing lives for kids in New York City at the poverty level or below. They do amazing work. I’m from New York, so any time I get approached to help in a great organization, I can never say no.”

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It’s a reunion 20 years in the making … and a story that took over a year in planning.

When the cast of Saved by the Bell assembled for this week’s People photo shoot and cover story, everyone breathed a sigh of relief-including Mario Lopez, who nearly missed the whole thing.

“Everybody knew the 20-year anniversary was coming up,” says Lopez. “This People story has been in the works for over a year, long before [late night host] Jimmy Fallon started talking about it. We were all excited about it.”

But Lopez’s work ethic almost prevented the reunion from coming to fruition. “I’m so busy. I was concerned about my schedule,” says Lopez, who in the past year alone has danced on Broadway in A Chorus Line, become the new host of TV’s Extra and written a fitness book, Mario Lopez’s Knockout Fitness. The night before the People shoot in Los Angeles he was making a public appearance in Canada, across the country, and arrived on set straight from the airport after a seven-hour flight.

And now? Fans are clamoring for the next step: a reunion show. “Everybody is fired up,” he says. “People keep coming up to me saying ‘When are you guys going to do a show?’”

An actual reunion episode will have to wait, as Lopez is hardly taking time off. First up, he’s returning as host for the fourth season of America’s Best Dance Crew, which debuts this Sunday on MTV. “Expect another hot season,” Lopez promises – just don’t expect the Dancing with the Stars runner-up to hit the dance floor as well. “I wouldn’t make it past the first round!” he swears. “These kids are extremely talented and athletic.”

Lopez’s next project will be promoting his new children’s book, Mud Tacos. “It’s stories about my sister Marisa and me growing up. My grandmother was always cooking, and she never let us in the house. So in the backyard, we made taco shells out of leaves and meat out of mud,” he says. “The book encourages kids to use their imagination … plus you learn a little Spanish. I think kids are going to dig it.”

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Ashton Kutcher won international fame and fans with his role on the hugely popular That ’70s Show. The Spread star reveals to Parade’s Jeanne Wolf how he handles the stress of fame. Plus, what first drew him to wife Demi Moore and how the duo make it work.

Gravitating towards fame.
“Once I got a taste of it, I went: ‘I can do anything. I can do absolutely anything.’ And you start to believe it. I know it to be true because I’ve seen it happen. I’ve experienced it. I’m ambitious. I try to make it look like it’s not work–that’s the biggest key. I’ve got it pretty good. There’s no sense in making life seem like it’s a struggle, because that doesn’t make anybody feel better.”

How he and Demi make it work.
“The real trick is putting yourself around people you admire. That’s why I married my wife. I locked in the brightest light in the room. My wife and I have an agreement in our marriage, and part of that contract is that we are going to shine our lights on each other. My relationship with Demi is so solid, thank God, and we’re so communicative about the way that we’re feeling that we don’t allow space to come between us. I definitely believe that if you stop working at relationships, they go away.”

On being more physically and emotionally exposed onscreen than ever before.
“Why did I make a movie [Spread] with that kind of indulgence in cars and the fancy house, with my character manipulating people and seducing them? Because people can feel the pain of it. As much as you hate this guy for how selfish he is, you know that hurts. It’s the tale of what happens when you’re just a taker.”

Back when times were tough.
“When I told my dad I was going to move to New York and be a model, he didn’t say I was an idiot, but he insinuated it. After a while, I was broke, really running out of money. Christmas was coming. I knew I had to go home for the holidays, but I couldn’t expose the fact that it wasn’t going well. So I bought my whole family these fake watches and fake Versace pants and fake anything I could find, like fake Calvin Klein T-shirts, so I could take them home and show them how well I was doing even though I didn’t even have a place to live. I knew I wasn’t going back to Cedar Rapids.

Trading up for a good night’s sleep.
“I never had to put myself in a compromising situation to keep going, but sometimes I think that would have been easier. It was always a good thing when you hooked up with a girl and got to sleep someplace nice for the night. I wasn’t there to stay, but if you did hit it off with a girl, her place was always nicer than yours.”

The downside of Hollywood life.
“Of course there is a price. I’ve only been back home to Iowa once in the last year and a half to see my family. I go and shoot a film and spend months away from my wife and my girls. And that’s a price to pay. I also don’t get to see my friends very often. You can’t complain when you’re so blessed. I get so many things that the notion of me complaining is obscene. It’s absurd. It’s ridiculous.”

Holding on to his wild sense of humor.
“I’m still looking for trouble. I’m still disruptive. I’m still doing some things that other people don’t like. I hear, ‘You’re a moron,’ about once a day from someone in a genuine way–not as a joke. I see it, and I read it. I don’t have anything that’s too sacred to make fun of. The truth is that I’m an idiot. I am. I don’t do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn’t say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.”

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Kenny Chesney is blasting a tabloid report that he and Jessica Simpson flirted in front of Tony Romo at a July 4 party just days before the couple’s breakup.

“Tony’s a friend, and I wouldn’t flirt with a buddy’s girlfriend,” Chesney tells People. “More importantly, Jessica was just being sweet and there was nothing else to it. It’s not funny. There were no problems. Everybody got along great. After the party, everybody went their own way and nobody thought anything more about it. Period. End of story.”

The party was thrown by Chesney’s friend, Sean Payton, coach of pro football’s New Orleans Saints, Chesney says.

“If a girl and her boyfriend can’t go to someone’s house for a Fourth of July party and talk to the other guests without it turning into a big nightmare … , then I feel really sorry for Jessica and Tony, who’re both really nice people,” Chesney says. “I wonder if I wasn’t famous if anyone would even care. But the fact of the matter is I talked to a bunch of guests, hung out, had a good time.”

Simpson and Romo, the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, split five days later on July 9 – the night before Simpson’s 29th birthday.

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