Mark Wahlberg rejected the chance to reunite with the other members of 1990s group The Funky Bunch, claiming he is too old to rap.

Before carving out a career as a successful Hollywood star, Wahlberg was an underpants model for Calvin Klein and the frontman of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

The other, less well known members of the group last month announced plans to reunite and tour, 15 years after they split. But they will have to tour without Wahlberg.

He says, “I wish them well, but rap is a young man’s game.”

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Mark Wahlberg wants his soccer star neighbor David Beckham to take his family and “go back to the U.K.” – because the constant stream of paparazzi is ruining his life.

Wahlberg lives on the same road as the Beckham family, after the L.A. Galaxy star, his wife Victoria and their three children moved to Los Angeles last year.

And the Planet of the Apes actor loathes his new neighbors, because he now has a swarm of photographers constantly perched outside his front door.

He says, “That f***er lives down the street from me, man! He has to go back to the U.K., because he has the paparazzi all over my house!”

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OK! has learned exclusively that Mark Wahlberg, 36, and his fiancée of four years, Rhea Durham,29, are expecting their third child later this fall!

As has become standard for many expecting celebs these days, the Boogie Nights star has yet to go public with the good news — though he has told friends he is having a son, due in September.

“Mark is thrilled to be having another baby,” says one pal. “He is an amazing dad, and his two children are his world. He always used to joke about wanting at least a dozen kids, but it looks like he wasn’t joking after all.”

Mark and Rhea already have daughter Ella Rae,4, and a son, Michael,2. A source says that while the couple are getting along beautifully, Mark has always been–and still remains, marriage-shy and is in no hurry to walk down the aisle, despite a news of a third child on the way.

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Mark Wahlberg will play the drug kingpin Jon Roberts in the remake of the 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys, which chronicles the story of the largest cocaine trafficker in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, and he’s persuaded Leonardo DiCaprio to play the supporting role.

The untitled flick “will blow Blow out of the water,” says a movie insider who added that Leo “is excited about the opportunity to play the airplane pilot who travels with Mark’s character to obtain kilos of cocaine from Pablo Escobar.”

This will be the third film that the pair has been in together. Mark, 36, and Leo, 33, starred in 1995’s The Basketball Diaries and most recently in 2006’s The Departed.

Meanwhile, there may be wedding bells for the actor formerly known as Marky Mark. Despite the recent death of Mark’s father and his busy filming schedule, a friend says “Mark intends on marrying the mother of his children, model Rhea Durham.”

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Only one day before shooting was scheduled to begin, Mark Wahlberg has replaced Ryan Gosling in the Peter Jackson-directed “The Lovely Bones” for DreamWorks reports Variety.

An adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel, the story follows a couple whose world is shattered after their daughter is murdered. The girl watches over her family and her killer from heaven.

Gosling’s departure was attributed to “creative differences” and comes after the acclaimed thesp grew a beard and stacked on 20 pounds in preparation for the role of the grieving father.

Wahlberg’s quick sign-up seems to have been affected by the delay of the Darren Aronofsky-directed “The Fighter” at Paramount which he’d been in training for. That film now won’t begin production until next Fall once Aronofsky completes work on the Nic Cage-led drama “The Wrestler.”

‘Bones’ begins shooting today in Pennsylvania, where Wahlberg most recently wrapped the lead in the M. Night Shyamalan-directed “The Happening” for Fox.

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Looks like Mark Wahlberg is going to get a different blond haired, blue eyed co-star that he expected for his upcoming film, “The Fighter”. 

The Paramount Pictures drama about Boston boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward and his unlikely path to become world lightweight champion will replace Matt Damon with Pitt, who had been looking forward to a reteam with Wahlberg, his co-star in “The Departed” and a fellow Bostonian. Damon just had too many projects on his dance card to make the film on the schedule Par wanted.

It’s believed Damon gave his blessing to Pitt, his co-star in the “Ocean’s Eleven” film series.

Nice to see so much of Papa Pitt back in the theatres!

JK

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