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Morning Memo: Anna Wintour Shvitzes in Florida While Vogue Intern Sean Avery Says the Gig is No Sweat

Irina Aleksander — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:55:41 -0400

Vogue intern and New York Ranger, Sean Avery, says the magazine is "a real, tight-knit family," and he hasn't had to fetch a cup of Starbucks yet! [Intelligencer]

Drea De Matteo was overheard saying that one of NBC's better known spin-off disasters, Joey, ruined her career. [P6]

Fair-skinned Anna Wintour, who traveled to Miami last week for Karl Lagerfeld's Channel Cruise show, doesn't deal well with humidity and heat. [P6]

Beyonce and Jay-Z may be buying a house in Scarsdale, N.Y., perhaps in search of good schools? [NY Daily News]

Jodie Foster reportedly broke up with her long-time girlfriend, Cydney Bernard, to get together with screenwriter Cindy Mort, whom she met on the set of The Brave One. [NY Daily News]

Conan O'Brien is depressed about leaving 30 Rock for Burbank. [Intelligencer]

Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong are officially on. [US Weekly]

Drea de Matteo Gives Birth to Baby Girl

David Foxley — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:33:15 -0400

No, Alabama Gypsy Rose is not the name of a Grateful Dead jam. It’s what actress Drea de Matteo, 35, and musician Shooter Jennings, 28, have decided to call their baby girl, who was born last night. With her boyfriend of six years, the son of country crooner Waylon Jennings, by her side, the former Sopranos snitch gave birth to the eight-pound bundle of joy in just a few hours.

On Tuesday, Alabama’s expectant father posted a broken-water message on his blog, reports E!. “So I'm gonna take about a week off here, got a daughter comin' you know!" Mr. Jennings wrote. "Y'all pray for drea and hope for a good delivery of the little hellraiser. This girl sure ain't gonna take no S--T from NOBODY!" Okey-dokey!

We just hope they don’t bring their baby to any more of Kid Rock’s parties at Nikki Midtown, where The Daily Transom ran into the pregnant couple last month.

At Kid Rock Party, Country Crooner Sings to Drea De Matteo’s Fetus

David Foxley — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:10:54 -0400

At the release party for Kid Rock’s new album, Rock N Roll Jesus, last night, Tuesday, October 10, most guests mingled in Nikki Midtown’s front bar and in the center of its massive main room. The remaining, more special partygoers, who came and went from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., mixed themselves drinks from bottle services on three elevated, velvet-roped-off V.I.P. platforms that were lining the walls of the seemingly Miami Vice-inspired space.

Sitting on a banquette in one of Nikki’s fortified sections was Sopranos star and New York nightlife maven Drea de Matteo, 35, whose very visible pregnancy kept her sipping a steady stream water instead of Stoli. (Cindy Crawford’s hubby, the nightclub operator and former model Rande Gerber, also came out for Mr. Rock, a.k.a. Robert James Ritchie.) Ms. De Matteo and her husband, the country crooner Shooter Jennings, are expecting a baby girl, but they haven’t yet considered picking a name. “In Italian, it’s bad luck to name your kid first,” she explained, rubbing her baby-bump while Mr. Jennings, sitting to her right, flashed rocker-horns with his hands at the Transom.

Anonymity aside, the apparently happy couple is apparently very much in communication with their forthcoming daughter. Mr. Jennings, 28, who was wearing sunglasses in the dark room, often sings to the fetus through the ever-expanding walls of his wife’s stomach. Asked what Ms. De Matteo likes about her friend Kid Rock (who, over an hour into his own party had not yet arrived), she had only one thing to say:

“He’s a cocky mother fucker, and that’s cool!”

After arriving at the party some 30 minutes later, Mr. Rock, who reportedly swilled copious amounts of vodka all night, made sure to have his security team at his back at all times. According to one source involved with the event, the Twisted Brown Trucker even brought his bulky bodyguards with him into the bathroom.