Britney Spears may be
a Kabbalah bride

Plus: Kidman wouldn’t date Jackson

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Will Britney Spears' next wedding incorporate tenets of her newfound faith?

By Jeannette Walls

MSNBC

updated 2:46 a.m. ET July 26, 2004

Will Britney Spears get married under a chuppah?

The pop star is planning a lavish white wedding for this fall, and a source says Kabbalah bigwigs are urging Spears to make it the first celeb Kabbalah marriage.

“There’s some resistance from her family, who are devout Baptists,” says the insider. “But maybe there’s a way to incorporate elements from both faiths, and make everyone happy.” The source points out that Spears has been tattooed in deference to her newfound faith, which is a controversial, mystical branch of Judaism.

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The insider says “it’s pretty definite” that some of Spears’ celeb friends who follow Kabbalah, such as Madonna, have also been urging her to have a “Kabbalah-type wedding.”

Like Madonna, like daughter
IMAGE: Madonna
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Speaking of Madonna, her seven-year old daughter is already making charity appearances.

While the singer was performing in Canada, little Lourdes visited a local children’s hospital without her famous mom, where she read aloud from one of her mother’s books, “The English Roses,” and handed out free copies of the book as well as other children’s books by Madonna.

“She was great,” Lisa Lipkin, a spokeswoman for the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children told The Scoop. “She’s a fabulous reader. There were a lot of people there, but no media. It was a private visit. . . . We gave her a present, a bravery bead necklace that we give to children undergoing treatment. She loved it. She put it right on.”

When asked about a source’s claim that little Lourdes had her own entourage, Lipkin said, “it was just a little entourage.”

Notes from all over
IMAGE: Alley
Star magazine, which has made a sport of ridiculing celebs’ weight, has actually helped one star’s career. When Kirstie Alley went to execs at Showtime to pitch her show “Fat Actress,” she said she was “so tired of seeing unflatteringly fat pictures of herself on the cover of Star that it was time for her to send up her own image,” according to Robert Greenblatt, president of Showtime. . . .Copies of the kiddie textbook that President Bush was reading in a Florida classroom on Sept. 11, 2001, made infamous in “Fahrenheit 911” have been selling on eBay for $30 to $50. . . .Brit publications are claiming that Nicole Kidman turned Michael Jackson down for a date. She said no, reports the London Mirror, because she doesn’t like Jackson’s fashion sense. “I keep thinking of those ridiculous photographs of Michael in a shocking wig at Disneyland,” the tab quotes her as saying. “So call me crazy, but it just didn’t tempt me to want to accept.”