Nicole Kidman has experimented with “strange sexual fetish stuff.”

The “Nine” actress – who divorced Tom Cruise in 2001 following a 10-year union and is now married to country singer Keith Urban – says she has enjoyed exploring with the different aspects of love, sex and relationships over the years.

She explained: “My life has been about exploring types of love. I’ve explored obsession, I’ve explored strange sexual fetish stuff, I’ve explored the mundane aspect of marriage and monogamy. But I’m still on that journey.”

Despite the fascination people have with her love life, the 42-year-old beauty has vowed to take the details of her past relationship with Cruise to her grave.

She told Britain’s GQ magazine: “I have never discussed the intricacies of it and I never will. I burned most of my journals after I remarried. You’re only going to find out bad things. You can’t read somebody’s diary. You shouldn’t read it.

“I know I live inside some rose-colored cloud but I’ll never waver on it. I am not writing a book. I will go to the grave with all my secrets, all my stories.”

Interesting…Kidman makes it sound like there’s a lot of juicy stuff from her past. Maybe her life was actually pretty boring with Cruise. Maybe it wasn’t. She claims we’ll never know!

While together, Cruise and Kidman adopted children Isabella, now 17, and Connor, now 14.

Kidman also has 15-month-old daughter Sunday Rose with Urban and Cruise is father to Suri, 3, his daughter with wife Katie Holmes.

On what was one of the biggest moments of his career, Alex Rodriguez and girlfriend Kate Hudson were spotted out for a celebratory night on the town in New York City.

Fresh off of winning the World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies, the Yankees slugger and his actress love were also joined by his mom, Lourdes Navarro, and his sister, Suzy, as they dropped in at Club 1 Oak.

Of winning his first big league pennant, A-Rod became quite emotional during a post-game interview during the post-game festivities.

Of the effort, he said, “To see 25 guys there standing beside me, and the manager and general manager there, it meant the world to me. I thought it could be the most special season of our lives, and it has happened.”

Only after she had a revelation about her duty to her fans did Rihanna realize that she had to speak out about how she was a victim of ex-boyfriend Chris Brown’s domestic abuse.

And now she’s almost ashamed of herself for having gotten into a relationship with him in the first place.

“I fell in love with this person,” she tells Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired on Good Morning America Thursday. “That’s embarrassing.”

Rihanna, 21, also hinted that it may have taken “eight or nine attempts” before she could finally leave the relationship.

“It’s pretty easy to go back,” she says, affirming Sawyer’s statement that the average woman makes seven attempts to leave an abusive partner. “You start lying to yourself. The physical wounds go away. You want this thing to go away. This is a memory you don’t want to ever have again.”

Now a reconciliation is all but impossible – a judge has ordered Brown, 20, not to contact Rihanna (real name: Robin Fenty) for five years as part of his sentence.

Rihanna says she was further humiliated by the public nature of the incident, which included a leaked photo of her battered face.

“I was like, here goes my little bit of privacy,” she says.

But she had an epiphany about how her actions after the assault would affect thousands of impressionable girls.

“When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part,” she says. “I couldn’t be responsible for that. Even if Chris never hit me again, who’s to say their boyfriend won’t? Who’s to say they won’t kill these girls? I didn’t realize how much of an impact I had on these girls’ lives until that happened.”

The Office’s Jenna Fischer is usually a pretty easy-going person, but that calm demeanor went out the door when it came to her upcoming wedding to screenwriter Lee Kirk.

“I thought I was going to be one of those easy-going brides,” Fischer, 35, tells Bonnie Hunt in an interview. “I never really thought about it. Whatever … a piece of paper, words – send it out.”

But that attitude disappeared at the store where she bought the invitations.

“Three hours I sat there with the all the books,” she says. “I turned into a crazy person. My fiancé was like, ‘What about the slap it on the piece of paper with crayon and send it out?’ But now I’m pouring over the paper quality!”

Guests need to appreciate the invitations when they get them, she says. “Don’t just throw it on the counter! Touch it, feel it, love it!” she commanded.

But not many people will be seeing the results of her sudden wedding-prep obsession: The wedding will be “very small … sort of immediate family and friends,” she says. “Are you a brother, sister, mother or a father? That’s it.”

It seems that food keeps conspiring against Jeremy Piven.

First, Piven blamed sushi for mercury poisoning, mostly because he has eaten raw fish twice a day for 20 years. (Earlier this year, he bowed out of a Broadway play crying mercury poisoning.)

Now, the actor claims he grew man boobs from drinking excessive amounts of soy milk.

He may play the ultimate macho chauvinist Ari Gold on HBO’s ‘Entourage,’ but Piven got in touch with his feminine side in real life recently, all thanks to soy milk. After consuming the protein-rich beverage daily, the actor says he grew breasts.

“I was the guy that dabbled in soy milk, but now I’ve found out soy milk has enough estrogen for me to grow breasts,” Piven says. “I had to put the soy milk down. It was a very confusing time.”

Consumer and nutritional sciences expert Jill Hamilton-Reeves says that she learned the 44-year-old Entourage actor was drinking 12 cups (about three-quarters of a gallon) of soy milk a day. “That means he was taking in approximately 360 milligrams of isoflavones a day,” Hamilton-Reeves said. “And isoflavones are what people generally believe to be responsible for any effects in male reproductive hormones.”

Perhaps Mr. Piven needs a lesson in moderation!

The 82nd Academy Awards are going to be good!

The Academy has announced that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will cohost this season’s Oscar telecast on March 7, 2010.

The announcement that Martin and Baldwin are hosting the 82nd Academy Awards telecast will bring joy to the hearts of those of us who still long for the days of Billy Crystal or Johnny Carson. Plus, they’re both adept comedians who’ll certainly play off each other well.

Where Hugh Jackman brought a no-holds-barred theatricality to this year’s broadcast, Martin and Baldwin will, one imagines, go more for deft patter and a been-around-the-block industry sophistication. Certainly, they are men of elastic talents who have proved themselves on the requisite stage, screen and television. Martin created the template for the modern stand-up-turned-serious-movie-star, while Baldwin’s career morphed from handsome young romantic lead to handsome older master of comedy. Both look quite splendid in a tux and both, I am certain, could participate in a dance number if it is required.

Most important, however, is their comfort level with television and the air of professional ease both have cultivated over the years.

Once professionally frenetic, Martin has recently taken roles that played upon an almost psychotic sense of calm.

And Baldwin has never been afraid to do anything, be it David Mamet, “The Cat in the Hat” or ” Nip/Tuck.” Even if what surrounds him tanks, he remains a pillar of entertainment, capable of surviving even the horror of having his ill-chosen phone messages replayed ad nauseam.

Together, they have played to virtually every sort of house in every sort of role — if nothing else, they will no doubt be the most unflappable hosts in Oscar history.

For Martin, of course, it’s old hat. His spontaneous riff after an onstage crash caused by a crew member’s falling cellphone interrupted the telecast is the stuff of Oscar legend. It’s live television, people, so it’s nice to have television people in front of the camera.

Having two hosts instead of one opens up all sorts of possibilities, and not just in the costume-change department. It’s a long night and a big stage; even the most energetic host can seem small and lost (David Letterman) or dutifully chugging to the finish line (Jon Stewart, though I say it with love because he always made me laugh).

Of course, much depends on the chemistry of the two involved, but it’s hard to imagine this pair fumbling.

With any luck, they will not only shepherd the by-nature unwieldy show through its multiple hours with minimum bumps and dead air, but they’ll also do it with the old-fashioned insiders’ charm that made the academy want to put the event on television in the first place.

Here is Rihanna leaving her hotel and heading to the 40/40 Club in New York City.

The 21-year-old Barbadian beauty will speak to Diane Sawyer for the first time about what happened with Chris Brown on Good Morning America and on 20/20.

On the show, Rihanna shares how difficult things were.

“He was definitely my first big love,” Rihanna said in the interview. “This happened to me. … It can happen to anyone.”

Victoria Beckham, AKA Posh, debuted a new haircut at the Lakers game last night.

What do you think?

It’s pretty cute!

But why does her husband, David Beckham, look like wolverine?

Gisele Bündchen may only have one month to go before her due date to give birth, but that’s not stopping the supermodel from trying to finish the requirements for her pilot’s license.

“Gisele hasn’t finished her license yet, but she did pass her written exam,” says Keith Douglass, president of Shoreline Aviation, a company that provides private jets and aviation lessons. “Now, there’s one more step along the way, the practical exam [in the air], which is coming up in another week.”

Bündchen, 29, who is expecting her first child with husband Tom Brady, 32, “has been doing an excellent job,” Douglass adds. “She’s very dedicated. She flies at least three days a week. Flying a helicopter isn’t easy – it’s a handful, because you can’t stop flying and just cruise, but she’s doing great.”

Still, she has had one challenge so far: her growing baby bump. Keith admits that Bundchen’s growing baby bump (she’s 8 months pregnant) is a bit of hindrance, explaining, “She’s almost to a point where she’s too big to be flying. She needs to be able to move the rutter around and she’s getting there.”

But Douglass says that flying while pregnant isn’t unusual. “We have pilots that fly right up to the end. She doesn’t go very high, maybe 500 feet or 1,000 feet, which is nothing. She’s always close and can get down quickly if she needs to,” he says. “She’s feeling great and looking great!”

Funny man Russell Brand, 34, is ready for children. Wonder if his girlfriend, singer Katy Perry, 25, feels the same way!

Russell is known for having relations with LOTS of women, but insists that he is ready to settle down.

He says: “Katy’s lovely. I am living in a different way at the moment.

“Regardless of what happens in my current situation, I am unlikely to be satisfied with calamitous promiscuity of the preceding five or six years.

“I am ready for children actually. It’s been seven years since I took drugs. I’ve made a film. I don’t have to fight so much. I’ve grown weary of the carousel.”

The pair has been dating since September when they met at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Russell says he has “high expectations” of his girlfriends because of his upbringing.

“I’m an only child of a single mother — it probably meant that I’m demanding and have high expectations of women.

“I look for salvation and redemption, to be utterly embraced. It’s a ridiculous, romantic and tragic idea that there’s someone who’s going to save you, that we need our own personal Jesus. Salvation comes from within.”

Ashlee Simpson showed a cheerful disposition as she was spotted leaving a house in Studio City.

Simpson just learned the news that she’s been let go from the CW’s “Melrose Place” series.

A source says: “Ashlee didn’t see it coming, and now she’s crushed. She invested her heart and soul into the job. She feels like the rug has been pulled out from under her.”

Meanwhile, producers of the show have released statements saying that Miss Simpson knew her character would have a short-term role on the series.

In even juicier gossip, reports are saying that Heather Locklear, who famously starred as icy PR vixen Amanda Woodward on the original Melrose Place in the 1990s, got into the mother of all catfights with Ashlee on the set as a rivalry ensued over who would be the show’s official Queen Bee.

While producers insist Ashlee’s departure is storyline-dictated, production insiders say the 25-year-old wife and mother was railroaded by an envious Heather, who was gunning for Ashlee from the moment she arrived on set for an “Amanda Returns” guest arc airing next month.

“Heather was jealous of Ashlee immediately,” says an insider. “She knew Ashlee was one of the bigger names on set, and she wanted her gone so she could make it her show. Heather is very politcial and calculating…”

On Oct. 22, The CW abruptly announced that Ashlee along with co-star Colin Egglesfield had been booted from the show. Producers are hoping Heather’s familiar face will be a show-saving draw for the critically-panned and ratings-challenged Melrose 2.0.

Informants say that’s precisely why bosses had no problem ditching Ashlee — who will exit her role as Violet Foster — after 48-year-old Heather complained Ashlee been poking fun of her age to other members of the cast and crew.

Now that her sister Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has been canned on Melrose Place, Jessica Simpson says she isn’t a fan of the CW soap.

The singer, 29, used to promote her sister’s former show regularly on her Twitter (”Everyone watch my sis on melrose place tonight,” she wrote Oct. 20).

But on Sunday, she changed her tune drastically. Jessica wrote: “CW catching up on MP.who writes this crap? i have had bad scripts to work with,but this? thank God my sister is amazing and got you some press.”

Actually, insiders are saying that the producers don’t think Ashlee is a very good actress!

Ashlee, a veteran of TV’s 7th Heaven, was canned because producers thought she couldn’t act.

“They hired her because they needed a good name to help create buzz,” a set insider says. “But she was embarrassingly bad. Producers cut her down as much as possible.”

Seconds another source: “She’s the worst actress, but nobody will tell her.”

So what’s next for Ashlee?

Possibly more acting.

The mom of 11-month-old Bronx (dad is rocker Pete Wentz, 30) doesn’t want to return to her songstress roots. “She’s reading scripts. Acting is her focus now,” a source says. “If she had an album, she’d have to tour and be away from Bronx. She wants consistency.”

Tom Cruise, 47, and Katie Holmes, 30, were spotted taking a walk in Boston, Massachusetts yesterday looking happy together as they shared a romantic walk. The couple is in Boston while Tom films a movie with Cameron Diaz. Holmes will be working again soon though.

Katie has just signed on to replace Liv Tyler as the female lead in the upcoming adaptation of Galt Niederhoffer novel “The Romantics.”

Ms. Holmes joins an already-stellar cast including Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Elijah Wood, and Adam Brody. Holmes will also be an executive producer of the project. The movie is about eight friends who reunite for a wedding of two buddies as tension unfolds between the bride and maid of honor over the groom.

The movie starts filming this week in New York. Katie, 30, will play Laura, the maid of honor to Anna Paquin’s Lila, who’s the bride.

Laura and Lila are best friends who both have a past with the groom played by Transformers hunk Josh.