The Dark Angel actress Jessica Alba is lining up a stint on the Broadway stage next year (08) in order to beat an actor’ strike. Alba is talking to star in a production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, playing Karen which is a role debuted on the New York stage in 1998 by Madonna.

Alba wants the show to coincide with a planned actor’s strike because then she will not have to be out of work. The Sin City actress told the U.S morning TV show Live with Regis and Kelly that “I have been asked. It’s a perfect timing because of the strike.” “There might be an actor’s strike in June. So if they don’t resolve, I can do theatre.”

The legendary singe Patti Labelle has slammed the pop stars such as Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson claiming that they don’t have the talent to achieve a lasting career in the music industry.

At present 63, Labelle rose to glory with The Bluebelles when she was in her teens. Labelle believes that she has been able to successfully survive in this industry for so long because she has a genuine vocal ability which is missing in the pop divas of the contemporary world. She says “I think those girls are not going to be here very long. They have no talent. They are not like the Gladys Knights and Dionne Warwicks.”

After long struggle with his ex-wife, the troubled pop diva Britney Spears, there is good news for the American back up dancer, model, actor and rapper, Kevin Federline. Kevin has been named the seventh most influential man under 45 in Hollywood in a new magazine poll. Federline also lands the cover of the upcoming Power 50 issue of Details magazine.

Federline has also won the title of The Good Fathers on the list with Anna Nicole Smith’s ex Larry Birkhead. The magazine says that “By being more visible presences in their children’s lives than many Hollywood A-listers, they emerged as unlikely candidates for Dad of the Year.”

On the other side, Spears tops the new list along with ‘Disney Kids’ Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Shia LaBoeuf and Hilary Duff.

The Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr felt really bad at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show when Paris Hilton “stole” her favorite outfit. Kerr maintains that Hilton turned up 10 minutes before the beginning of the show at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on 15 November (07) and decided that she wanted to close the catwalk show.

The organizers of the show asked Hilton to choose an outfit and the heiress selected a pink dress that was already allocated to Kerr. An upset Kerr revealed that “I was standing by my rack and she goes, ‘I want that dress’ and she pointed to my dress, my pretty pink dress, the one I was really proud of and she stole it.”

Kerr has made a post on her blog in which she admitted that she felt like hitting the heiress with her handbag, but she took control of her anger and let karma take care of her feelings- in the shape of Naomi Campbell, who was another late show for the event. She explains that “Paris is about to walk out for the finale and Naomi walks in, so they rip the dress off Paris, she’s standing there naked and they put it on Naomi. I thought, that’s karma for you darling.”