Jessica Alba looked radiant and stylish at the Declare Yourself inauguration kick-off event in Washington, DC on Sunday, January 18.

During the campaign, Alba appeared in Declare Yourself ads in a Hannibal Lecter mask. On Sunday, she stuck with a shimmery lip gloss to emcee the event. Eight-month-old daughter Honor was at home, but husband Cash Warren called her “chubby and delicious.”

“I believe that every organization that was trying to get people to vote and get people to register that never had before, whether it was the youth, whether it was just new voters, people who didn’t believe in the system, this campaign and all the other campaigns — they believe now,” Alba said. “They made a difference.”

Jessica wore a golden sleeveless asymmetrical dress which had a gathered front and was cinched at the waist with a black leather belt. She paired it with black tights and accessorized with black pumps, black bow clutch and spectacular multi colored stone earrings.

Jessica Alba At Tropicana Gives Celebrities A ‘Squeeze’

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Megan Fox was spotted at the Los Angeles International Airport yesterday in her aviator glasses, comfortable pants, and pink iPhone.

Megan Fox departs from LAX

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Jenny Craig hosted a press conference today, Friday, January 22, in Los Angeles to announce Phylicia Rashad as the newest Jenny Craig celebrity client and spokesperson. Phylicia will be joining current Jenny Craig celebrity clientele such as Queen Latifah, Valerie Bertinelli and Baron Davis to help inspire people through her journey. The award-winning actress, best known for her role as beloved mother Claire Huxtable from The Cosby Show, has already lost 16 lbs. in seven weeks on the Jenny Craig program and is excited to reach her health and weight-loss goals in 2009.

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This week in Page Six Magazine, a story entitled “Is Jeremy Piven the biggest jerk in showbiz?” asks the rhetorical question in a four page article.

From the article:

“Since ditching Broadway after announcing he had mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi, some in Hollywood, the theater community and the media are finding it hard to swallow his fishy story. But is it because the excuse is so unusual—or because his bratty reputation precedes him?

Page Six Magazine writer Annie Karni reports that Jeremy Piven doesn’t always take kindly to direction. At a September Page Six Magazine photo shoot to promote his starring role in the Broadway revival of Speed-the-Plow, the actor was in a foul mood. “This isn’t my first time on the merry-go-round,” he shot at a staffer who asked that he pose for a traditional headshot and make eye contact with the camera. “You want mediocre? I can give you mediocre.” He mocked the crew by grinning like he was posing for a DMV shot. An hour later, Jeremy didn’t want to give mediocre anymore. He popped his collar. He ducked under the photographer so that the camera would catch him at a height-enhancing angle. Letting out a gutteral moan, he ripped the sleeves off a $350 Giorgio Armani shirt.”

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Former Knicks City Dancer and “So You Think You Can Dance?” finalist Courtney Galiano returned to The Garden on January 4th.

Check out her pictures from The Garden event

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Michael Irvin will host a cable television reality show this spring during which 12 “football neophytes” will compete for a spot on the Dallas Cowboys’ opening 80-player training camp roster.

The show’s lineup will include six receivers and six defensive backs. It will air on Spike TV during the spring.

“I’ve been waiting to do this since the first time I watched American Idol,” Irvin said Thursday. “ American Idol is about singing and dreams. This is about football and dreams.”

Irvin said the concept for the show is his. He will serve as an executive producer for the show, which does not yet have a name. Irvin is working with 3 Ball Productions, the reality television company responsible for NBC’s The Biggest LoserBiggest Losers.

Irvin says former Cowboys teammates like Deion Sanders and former coaches will appear on the show as will Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who gave his blessing to the project.

“Nobody believes more in dreams than Jerry Jones,” Irvin said.

Spike is available in 97.7 million television homes. That’s about the same number of homes as ESPN.

Cowboys spokesman Rick Dalrymple emphasized the show will be completed long before the team reports to training camp in San Antonio.

“It’s kind of an extension of when the Cowboys used to have open public tryouts at Texas Stadium and sign two or three individuals to take to training camp,” Dalrymple said.

Dalrymple said reports that Jones will serve as a guest judge and help select the finalist are inaccurate.

“This is nothing like Hard Knocks was last summer,” Irvin said. “That was invasive. We are not. We won’t change one thing the Cowboys do to prepare for the season except we’ll find them a player.”

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Weeks after losing his son, John Travolta and his family are now the victims of an extortion bid.

Exact details of the plot have yet to be made public, but the attempt to get money from the Travoltas is connected with the death of their 16-year-old son Jett, according to TMZ.com. The extortionists are reportedly demanding $20 million.

Police in the Bahamas have now launched an investigation, Bahamian Parliament member Obie Wilchcombe has confirmed to Us Weekly.

Today it emerged that two men in the Bahamas, including a local politician from Grand Bahama and another man believed to be connected to the ambulance service, are now being quizzed by local authorities over the allegations.

The Bahamas’ largest Web site, Bahamasb2b.com, reports that one of the paramedics who responded to the emergency call took a picture, using his cell phone, as Jett Travolta lay dying.

The shot is said to show the actor’s son in the back of the ambulance which took him to hospital.

The Bahamian politician reportedly contacted Travolta on behalf of the medical worker, threatening to sell the picture to U.S. celebrity tabloids, such as the National Enquirer, if their multi-million dollar demand is ignored.

News of the investigation comes as Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham’s government announced a major crackdown on corruption.

It aims to get rid of more than a dozen top-levels cops from the country’s police force. The development is seen as one of the most important nation-building moves in years.

“A number of senior officers were seen today,” Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest told the local press Wednesday.

“They were told that the force was being reorganized and that they weren’t going to be a part of that and that they had an option of voluntarily retiring if they wished. But we intend by the end of this week to reorganize the senior command of the Royal Bahamas Police.”

Wilchcombe, meanwhile, says he was approached about the extortion plot early last week and passed along the information to Travolta’s lawyers.

“The irony was that the Travolta family just sent a letter of gratitude - it happened that afternoon,” said Wilchcombe, referring to a Jan. 12 statement issued by a rep for the family thanking the people of the Bahamas for their support.

“I thought it was a despicable act,” Wilchcombe said. “One person should not destroy the character of the country.”

Jett died of a seizure disorder on Jan. 2, while staying at the family’s vacation home in the Bahamas.

Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston traveled in the ambulance to the hospital and the teenager was pronounced dead at the hospital.

His cause of death after an autopsy was reportedly listed as “seizure,” but the death certificate has never been made public.

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Mike Tyson didn’t pull any punches about his tumultuous life at the Sundance premiere of the documentary “Tyson.”

“I never used to understand why people perceived me as such a monster, and then I saw the movie and it all made sense,” the heavyweight said at Bon Appetit’s Supper Club bash post-screening.

But Tyson hasn’t completely changed his ways. For one thing, he’s still a control freak. “Mike told staffers he wasn’t going to come into the dining room until everyone was seated and ready for him,” said one insider.

Due to more pressing events (like the inauguration, perhaps?), we had to leave the slopes in Park City, Utah, but Gatecrasher pal Neil Janowitz stuck around for the event. The ESPN the Magazine editor told us Tyson’s speech had a one-two punch.

“Mike talked about how surreal the whole experience was and how the movie captured the ups and downs of his life,” Janowitz recalled. “When he hit rock bottom and things were awful, he never wanted to go through that again. But now, with the film coming out and being in Sundance, Mike says he’s the toast of the town again.”

Tyson went on to say that “people are offering me a lot of p—y and a lot of money again.”

When everyone in the room laughed uncomfortably, Tyson corrected the chucklers.

“It’s not funny,” Tyson chided. “This stuff is detrimental. I had a hard time controlling it in the past.”

The film, which sold at Sundance to Sony Pictures Classics, chronicles the boxer’s rise and fall. It begins with a young Tyson getting beaten up in the rough area of Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he grew up. There, Tyson got his first KO during a scuffle over … pigeons.

“Mike collected and raised them on his roof in Brooklyn,” Janowitz explained. “He had his first fight after an older kid killed one of his birds and threw it to the ground. After Mike punched his lights out, he saw that more people respected him, and he felt better.”

While no one brought up Tyson’s winged friends, reporters did ask how he’s been passing the time lately.

Said the former champ: “I’m trying to stay clean, trying to stay sober — and trying to stay out of trouble.”

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