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Ed McMahon may lose his $6 million home after falling $644,000 behind in mortgage payments, the former Tonight Show sidekick said last week. McMahon, 85, purchased the 7,000-square-foot Beverly Hills mansion in 1990, but has had trouble making the paymentssince he broke his neck in a fall 18 months ago. “If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens,” he said. “A couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that, and, you know, things happen.”

Worried that his wife, the former Posh Spice, is bored by the U.S., soccer star David Beckham has bought Victoria Beckham a vineyard for her 34th birthday. “David feels like Victoria needs something to do other than shopping and going to parties,” a source told MSNBC.com. “He is hoping she will get into the wine business and settle down into some kind of regular routine.” Beckham paid several million dollars for the Napa Valley property.

Another disturbing video of troubled singer Amy Winehouse hit the Internet last week. The footage, shot by her husband Blake Fielder-Civil about a year ago, shows Winehouse and a female friend singing a racist song in a room filled with drug paraphernalia. Egged on by Fielder-Civil, who promises the women that he is not recording, Winehouse and her friend sing, “Blacks, Pakis, gooks, and Nips”—to the tune of “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.”

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Expectant parents Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt spent $140,000 preparing a nursery for their forthcoming twin girls, said the New York Daily News this week. In addition to matching $3,200 cribs, $4,500 armoires, and $800 bassinets, the couple installed two $899 pink crystal chandeliers in the baby suite of their Los Angeles home. The furnishings were purchased at upscale baby boutique Petit Tresor with the help of three consultants. The babies are due sometime this summer.