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It looked like Alex Rodriguez rebounded with 25-year-old design consultant Elaine Spottswood awfully quickly after his split with Kate Hudson — and it turns out that may be because the Yankee slugger already had the younger blonde on deck.

“Elaine and Alex have been romantic for a few months, since before he and Kate ended their relationship,” says an insider close to the couple, who met through friends a few years ago, but began heating up in November.

And apparently, A-Rod didn’t do much to hide his affections: According to one insider, he constantly texted Elaine, even while he was with Kate. In fact, as millions of viewers watched Kate and her family cheer Alex on during the World Series, he was secretly planning sexy dates with Elaine.

“Kate is devastated and feels stupid,” says a friend of the actress. “She thought that she and Alex were moving toward marriage, and all the while he was not taking the relationship as seriously as she was. She never would have imagined he would cheat on her.”

Elaine openly admits she and Alex are spending time with each other, but insists she’s not behind the breakup, calling it a mutual decision between the two. “It’s only recently that we’ve reconnected, about a month or so ago,” Elaine tells In Touch.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt – who was famously mocked for looking fuller-figured in a bikini in 2007 — says she almost dumped her boyfriend Jamie Kennedy when he called her “pear ass.”

“We had a rough patch in the beginning because the first time we went on vacation, I was going to be in a bikini, and I was very nervous,” she said Tuesday on the late-night TBS talk show Lopez Tonight.

“I heard him coming down the hall, so I got in the cute bikini position.

“And he goes, ‘Hey, my little pear ass.’ “I said, ‘I’m sorry, what did you say?’”

Hewitt, 30, then explained to Lopez that the remark wasn’t a compliment. “Have you ever seen a pear?” she asked. “It starts thin, it gets fat and it never gets thin again. It’s not cute. It’s not a cute fruit.”

She said they’ve since “worked it out” and now “we’ve embraced the pear.”

Kennedy “didn’t mean” the remark in a mean way, she added. Said Hewitt, “He thought it was a compliment, I think.”

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Katy Perry shops at Cisco Home and American Rag for home furnishing today and looked to be in good spirits while she wore a belly baring “Be Afraid” sleeveless tank and spandex leggings along with retro glasses. The pop singer fueled pregnancy rumors this week after she was spotted shopping in a baby boutique, just days after accepting boyfriend Russell Brand’s marriage proposal.

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Jennifer Lopez has no plans to step out of the limelight when she hits retirement age – insisting she’ll still be singing and dancing in her seventies.

The Jenny From The Block hitmaker has taken two years out of her hectic work schedule to take care of her twins, Max and Emme, with husband Marc Anthony.

But the star is ready to get back to work – and the 40 year old insists she’ll be in showbusiness for the next 30 years.

She tells Elle, “I’ll be doing some form of this when I’m 71. This is what I do. What, because I have kids and a husband I’m not supposed to be me? I’m hyper J.Lo. Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. Not material things – but to explore and think more. Being an artist doesn’t start because you’re 21 and it doesn’t end because you’re 51. You are who you are until the day you die.”

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Ain’t no mountain high enough for Jessica Biel!

The actress, 27, successfully reached the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro Tuesday after a grueling week-long climb. Situated in northeastern Tanzania, Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest peak on the African continent at 19,341 feet.

The notable crew joining her included actor Emile Hirsch, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Isabel Lucas, politician Elizabeth Gore, musicians Lupe Fiasco, Santigold and Kenna. Kenna led the all-star expedition, dubbed “Summit on the Summit: Kilimanajaro,” announced in Sept. 2009 to raise money and awareness of the global clean water crisis.

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For those envious of Carrie Underwood’s svelte shape, the country singer — who got engaged to hockey player Mike Fisher Dec. 20 — says that it’s anything but effortless to maintain.

“Genetics are not exactly on my side,” Underwood, 26, said in a Jan. 2 radio interview for Ottawa, Ontario show Grecosize on the station Team 1200. “Once I got out of high school I packed on about 10 pounds, and once I was on American Idol I packed on another 10 pounds. I’m a little person, I’m 5-3, and I was about 130,” she estimates.

The star’s problem area: her tummy. “I carry all my stress weight, all my potato chip weight,” she told radio host Steve Warne, “Around my mid section. You’ve got to fight genetics sometimes.”

To fight that good fight while on tour, the Idol says, “I do not eat catering. I have a refrigerator on the bus and when we’re in a decent town that has a decent grocery store, I just go and stock up. My off days on the road are spent doing laundry and buying groceries.”

She even brings her own groceries when she goes home to Checotah, Okla. (“I have to…or I’ll starve,” she says. “Fitness is not a lifestyle [there].”

Her new personal trainer, Tony Greco, is “kicking my butt,” she says. “I need it. Especially with a tour coming up and a wedding to look good for.”

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And about that wedding…Underwood says that she and Fisher have “no date” so far. “Our schedules don’t provide us too much time to get married and have time to really enjoy being married,” she explains. “We’re trying to really work it out and move some stuff around.

The Sunday night of their engagement was “a busy evening,” of phone calls to beat the news reports, she admits. She told Fisher, “‘Keep calling baby, keep calling!’ Because I didn’t want anyone to get offended or anything that we didn’t tell them first.”

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Her hockey hubby-to-be, she says, has been a hands-on wedding planner, “He jumps in, and he always says he doesn’t. he’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t care. Just whatever you want!’…But then I go and ask him, ‘What do you think about this? and he’ll go ‘Oh, no,’ and he’ll weigh in. I think he’s going to be more involved than he initially thought he wanted to be, which is good. I need help.”

Will Mike and Carrie’s wedding be as incredible as these ’09 nuptials?

The logistics for couple (he’s stationed in Ottawa, she’s in Nashville and prepping for a new tour) “are going to be difficult,” Underwood admits. “But it seems like this past year when I have time off they have away games…We’re hoping the summer will be some nice time for us to spend consecutive days together.”

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