ROLL CALL: Tony Spills Wedding News & J. Lo Thrills With New CD

Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans by Tommy Vergason

June 20, 2007

GET ME TO THE CASTLE ON TIME: Details of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s upcoming Parisian wedding have been a much sought-after commodity for months, but the couple has been quite mum on the specifics — until now. Parker gave France’s Canal+ network’s “Le Grand Journal” some scoop on the nuptials Monday night, reports PEOPLE. The July 7 wedding will reportedly be held at Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte, a 17th-century castle located South of Paris, famed for its beautiful gardens. Wedding guests will include Longoria’s “Desperate Housewives” co-stars, as well as Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jamie Foxx and Lionel Richie, Parker reportedly said. As for reports that the wedding cake would be flown in from Los Angeles at a cost of $11,000? “You can’t believe everything you read in the papers,” he reportedly said with a smile. Parker remarked that “It will be difficult to avoid the paparazzi,” according to the report, and denied rumors that the newlyweds would be staying at the Hotel George V for their honeymoon. “That’s not true,” he reportedly said. “But we will stay in Paris for the honeymoon.” The NBA MVP reportedly confessed that the combination of his successful career and pending nuptials are “like a dream” to him. “It’s hard for me to realize what’s happening,” he is quoted as saying. “I think later on I’ll be able to understand what’s going on now.”

AVRIL’S AMBITION: Avril Lavigne has enjoyed big successes in her career, and she’s ready to take things to the next level. Lavigne tells Canada’s JAM SHOWBIZ that not only does she want to broaden her experiences in film and fashion, she wants to broaden her musical spectrum as well — including making a Christmas album. “My first record came out and it was really big, and then I basically said, ‘I’m set, now I have a career for the rest of my life.’ But when I’m writing my songs and making my records, I still have that feeling of, ‘This has to be good, this has to be good,’” she reportedly told the music Web site. “And I want to do other things also, outside of music — have some fun with acting and do a couple of movies. I have one scene in (a coming movie called “The Flock,” starring Richard Gere), and I’ve done a couple of small things, but now I’m looking to do a big part.” As for that Christmas album? The rocker girl said she wanted it to be an acoustic project. “I would make it completely traditional,” Lavigne reportedly said.

BEHAR’S ‘VIEW’ ON ROSIE: The ladies of “The View” have been discussing the fallout regarding Rosie O’Donnell’s explosive departure from the show. Elisabeth Hasselbeck broke her silence over the aftermath of her and Rosie’s infamous on-air argument in an interview with ACCESS HOLLYWOOD this week, and now co-host Joy Behar has spoken up about Rosie. “I like Rosie,” Behar reportedly told TV GUIDE at the American Women in Radio and Television’s Gracie Awards in NYC on Monday. “I thought that we kicked a little butt over there, the two of us, and I thought she raised the game and I was happy to have her.” Behar also addressed a recent comment Rosie made in a comedy routine on the True Colors tour, in which she reportedly said she’d been hanging around with “heteros” for a year, and that they would “stab you in the back with a high heel.” A “surprised” Behar reportedly told TV GUIDE, “I know [Rosie] didn’t mean me. No, not at all.”

COVETING AN ‘IDOL’ EMMY: Another host of a popular TV show has addressed an issue that bothers him — a lack of Emmy Awards. “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest told the LA TIMES that he’s tired of seeing the wildly successful show lose year after year, having been denied an award 22 times in the past (including tech categories). “People say it’s an honor just to be nominated, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t win, but it does matter,” Seacrest reportedly said. “When you lose four times, you think, ‘Oh, I want at least one!’ And hopefully we will one day. It’s much more fun to win than to lose, let’s put it that way.” “American Idol” is just 3 losses short of tying the record held by “The Bob Newhart Show” for the most Emmy losses.

‘THE OFFICE’ GOES PC: “The Office,” a show which has been given a lot of love at the Emmy Awards, is adding a new item to its resume. VARIETY reports that the sitcom will be the subject of a video game, made by the casual gaming company MumboJumbo. Described as “a humorous game in which players have to handle jobs and play pranks at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch,” it will reportedly feature the likenesses of the NBC show’s cast, who will be portrayed as bobblehead-type dolls. Because of its simplicity and low cost, “The Office” videogame won’t be available for high-powered consoles like the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 when it bows in the fall. Instead, MumboJumbo is making it for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handheld consoles, as well as the PC.

JENNY RETURNS TO THE BLOCK: And finally, Jennifer Lopez revealed to MTV.COM that she’s working on her next album, which will be a return to the genres of pop, R&B and hip-hop. “I’m really excited about it,” Lopez reportedly said of the new project (as yet untitled). “The first single will be out this summer. And, you know, it’s very different from my Spanish album (this past year’s “Como Ama una Mujer”). My Spanish album was kind of an opportunity to get away from what I do on my English [albums], to kind of express a different side of myself. This [next] album is more of what people and my fans are used to — you know, just kind of a dance, funk, R&B, hip-hop, all that stuff, all mixed up together to make some great pop music. Basically it’s just danceable music,” she reportedly said.