Keith and Nicole Welcome Baby Girl!

Nicole Kidman has given birth!

The actress welcomed a girl, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, Monday morning.

The baby weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces.

"Husband Keith was by Nicole's side and mother and baby are very well," the rep said.

They are "delighted," the rep added.

After Sunday's birth, Kidman's husband Keith Urban wrote on his Web site: "Earlier this morning, Nic gave birth to our beautiful baby girl, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. We want to thank everybody that has kept us in their thoughts and prayers. We feel blessed and grateful that we can share this joy with all of you today."

It is the first child for Kidman, 41, and Urban, 40. She has two adopted children – Connor, 13, and Isabella, 15 – with ex Tom Cruise.


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Kidman has said she was "yearning" to have a baby with Urban. Early on in her relationship with Cruise, she had suffered a miscarriage.

She told July's Vogue that she cried when she saw her ultrasound.

"I didn't think I'd get to experience that in my lifetime," she said. "I like the unpredictable nature of it. To feel life growing with you is something very, very special, and I'm going to embrace that completely."

The actress said being pregnant "taps into that thing in human nature that is universal and collective and beautiful."

Urban shared her enthusiasm.

"Well, God, yeah!" he told Us of their excitement for their newborn.

The Australian couple – who wed in June 2006 – announced they were expecting in January.

In an interview on Oprah's Oscar Special, pal Russell Crowe asked the actress if she planned on getting pregnant. "I hope so," she replied.

When Crowe remarked that he'd like to see Kidman "walking around barefoot and pregnant," the actress agreed – "I'd like to see that, too."

She also told Vogue in December: "I always thought I'd eventually live on a Fijian island. I love the idea of being in a sarong, with hair down to my bum and kids following me around and hanging out

Keith's "Nicole" Tat

Keith Urban showed off a tattoo of his wife Nicole Kidman's name on his upper arm during a concert at the weekend.

He was performing in Tennessee on Saturday when his tight t-shirt rode up to display the word 'Nicole' inked on his bicep.

Keith also dedicated a song to his "very, very, very, very, very pregnant wife!" before playing 'Better Half' to the crowd of nearly 50,000 people, who enthusiastically cheered and clapped as he started performing the track.

The couple American Independence Day at a party thrown by close friend Ronnie Dunn.

During his concert on Saturday, Keith told the crowd: "Well, we're home, Nashville. We were blowing things up last night!"

California Dreamin' For Garth and Trisha

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood may have their primary residence in Oklahoma, but their new home away from home makes them neighbors to Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker.

Garth and Trisha purchased a beachfront property in Malibu, according to The Los Angeles Times. The price of the home was not disclosed on public documents, but the owner had been asking for $4.95 million after first listing it at $5.45 million.

The gated three-bedroom home occupies 3,700 square feet on a wooded half-acre lot. It features 3-1/2 bathrooms and an outdoor patio with a fireplace. It also offers beach access.

Malibu is 120 miles south of Bakersfield, where Garth proposed to Trisha in May 2005

... Lifestyles of the rich and famous, BABY!!!!

Jewel's Strange Path To Fame

The story of singer-songwriter Jewel is fairly well known: She was living in a van on the streets of San Diego before she found success as an artist.

A little less known is how she ended up in that situation in the first place.

"I became homeless after I got fired from my job because I wouldn't (be "romantic" with my boss," she explains. "I almost died from blood poisoning because I had bad kidneys. I fell into this bad poverty cycle, and I couldn't get out."

That makes her success as an artist all the more impressive. Most performers move to a music town such as Nashville or Los Angeles with a dream of getting a record deal. She just wanted to survive.

"It wasn't like I was an artist trying to make my dream work," she said. "I started writing songs and performing because that would give me money so I could live. Then a radio station put a bootleg recording of mine on the radio and my first label heard it."

These days, her home is a little more impressive than the van. She lives on a ranch she shares with rodeo pro Ty Murray, though she spends a lot of time on the road. She’s currently touring with Brad Paisley on the Paisley Party Tour, which also features Chuck Wicks and Julianne Hough. Not to mention working on her own country music and being a judge/mentor on Nashville Star!!!!

Kenny says, "IM BACK!"

Yaaaay... uh, wait -- did he go anywhere???!?!?!?!

Kenny Chesney admits to dark days after his 2005 quickie marriage to and annulment from actress Renée Zellweger, but in an interview with The Tennessean, he says he's back in top form.

"I feel like I've got my edge back," Chesney tells the paper. "I've been playing guitar a lot lately. There was a period at the end of 2005 and really all of 2006 where I never took the guitar case out of the closet when I was at home. I was in such a personal funk after the Renée thing that I could have played [a stadium concert] every day of the week and wouldn't have felt much joy from it."

"I don't like being in certain magazines. And who would? But that's part of what comes with this. And 'this' is going out and playing these shows and I love that. It's so addictive I can't even begin to tell you," he said, adding: "I'm a carefree spirit, and everybody out here lives by the 'work hard and play harder' rule. But it's not always like this ... I'm more in the moment this year than I have been the last couple of years, and I notice more of the good thing, and I like it that way."

Jessica and Tony... kinda

If Jessica Simpson was hoping to be the most important thing in Tony Romo’s life, she’s bound to be disappointed. Life & Style reports the Dallas Cowboys quarterback is happy to be back with his best gal, but she takes a backseat to the game.

“Tony has decided to keep Jessica as his girl for now but when the season starts, the pressure is going to get tougher,” a pal revealed. “He’s really enjoyed his off-season — he’s had a lot of fun with Jessica — but now he’s going to have to be very focused. His teammates and coaches don’t want any distractions.”

Tony is said to have actually said to his pals, "'Ball is my #1, Jess is my #2"... ouch.

Country Stars on Patriotism

The Fourth of July is a time for proud, flag-waving celebrations of all-American patriotism. But some of country music’s biggest artists are concerned that the white got taken out of the red, white and blue when politicians divided the U.S. into red and blue states. It’s a situation that frustrates people from both sides of the political spectrum, including Democrat Toby Keith and Republican Trace Adkins.

Toby’s stance on the war in Afghanistan got him mislabelled as a Republican, and many assumed — incorrectly, as it turned out — that he also thought the war in Iraq was a good idea. Clearly, Toby is able to take a stand with either party at various times, showing his belief system to be beyond politics.

"My right to carry a gun is not political," he says. "I’m an American, and that is my right as an American, just like it’s my right to vote... Do I care if gay people get married? I could care less. It doesn’t bother me one bit. When you look at Al Gore trying to save the planet, that’s not a political issue."

Instead, he suggests, it’s a social issue that everyone should be examining.

"If the polar ice cap is melting and we’re doing it, I need to educate myself," he says, adding, "I don’t see things right-left. I see them right-wrong."

By the same token, Grand Ole Opry member Trace is frustrated with the Grand Old Party, noting that many elected Republicans are too willing to cast votes based on what’s best for their political careers instead of what’s best for the entire country.

"I only wish more people in government, Republicans as well as Democrats, were freer thinkers instead of just voting along party lines," he writes in his book A Personal Stand: Observations And Opinions From A Freethinking Roughneck. "What an exercise in futility the whole legislative process has become in this country!"

Not that Trace would prefer a different home.

"I’ve been to other countries, and I’ve done some travellin’, and I dig this place," he says. "I like it here. I haven’t seen any place or heard of any place that’s better, so I’m proud to be an American."

Ultimately, Trace and Toby are both hinting rather loudly at freedom of choice. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but — they seem to say — it’s better to form your own than to let blind allegiance to any leader or any party form it for you.

"The biggest part of being patriotic," Jack Ingram says, "is telling the truth and being honest, and not being afraid to question what is going on, and not being afraid to defend what’s going on. No matter what your belief system is and no matter where you think we are on the spectrum of right or wrong, as far as our policies go, being patriotic is having that discussion, period."

New Brad Video!

Brad Paisley’s newest music video for “Waitin’ On a Woman” hit CMT yesterday! The single is already in the top 30 in only its second week on the airwaves.

Andy Griffith stars in the touching video with Brad as a character that “imparts wisdom” to Paisley’s character.

Brad says, “Andy heard the song and wanted to commit to working the long hours necessary to get the video right, and he really adopted this music video as if it was his own.”

Miranda's Pom Pom Woes

One piece of advice that successful artists like to give up-and-comers is to prepare themselves for rejection. Miranda Lambert found out what that’s like first-hand when she tried out for cheerleading as a high-school sophomore in Texas.

"I tried out and didn't make it, and I was just devastated," she told Dial-Global. "I remember my mom said, she goes, 'You sing. Why do you need to be screaming every Friday night in the cold?' At that time, I didn't like to hear that. I wanted to be a cheerleader, but then I just realized, that's the smartest thing she could have said. It's that simple. Like, I could just do what I do instead, and so from then on, I just did what I did."

Now Miranda gets a lot less rejection. She has a romance with Blake Shelton, who enlisted her to sing backing vocals on his current hit, "Home." And she’s getting plenty of thumbs up on her own from fans: Her latest single, "Gunpowder & Lead," is in the Top 10. That’s news worth cheering...no pom-poms needed.

Keith Anderson's Mother Loses Her Battle With Cancer

She Passed Away Yesterday Morning.

BOB 95 sends condolences to Keith Anderson, whose mother, Janice, passed away early yesterday morning (6/30) after a bout with cancer.

An email address has been established so that fans and colleagues can send personal messages to Keith and his family.

You may send your best wishes to condolences@keithanderson.com