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Reports: Celine Dion had emergency surgery to prevent twins’ early birth

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Celine Dion (Click on the photo for more)

Jupiter Island songbird Celine Dion, 42, is said to have undergone emergency surgery in an area hospital Thursday night after she appeared she’d be giving birth to her twins three months early.

The reports in today’s French press mention that the Canadian singer of My Heart Will Go On was at her new home on the island when she felt ill. When Dion arrived at an unnamed hospital, reports in Europe claim that Dion’s cervix was dilated.

The births would have occurred if it hadn’t been for a minor surgical procedure to close it up.

The chanteuse is due in November. She and her 68-year-old husband, Rene Angelil, received fertility treatments for months, and she miscarried several times on her way to conceiving twin boys.

Her publicist in the United States, meanwhile, denied that Dion’s pregnancy has been troublesome.

“She is 100 percent healthy and at home,” Kim Jakwerth wrote in an email to Page2Live. “I have been speaking to both Rene and Celine weekly and everything is going great. It is very disturbing to have to respond to such malicious reports.”

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Aerosmith in SoFla: Come together!

Tyler, Monday night at the BankAtlantic Center (Click on the photo for much more)

Tyler, Monday night at the BankAtlantic Center (Click on the photo for much more)

Aerosmith took over the BankAtlantic Center Monday night in Sunrise for more than two hours of classics, blues, rock and golden oldies. And yes, there was a love fest between frontman Steven Tyler, who recently rejoined the group, and lead guitarist Joe Perry.

At one point, Tyler sang The BeatlesCome Together to Perry, then called Perry “My hero!” The axman last week blasted Tyler for agreeing to consider a job as judge on the next  American Idol without talking to the band about it.

But if last night’s SoFla concert proved something, with a runway that extended far from the stage into the audience providing a great platform for Tyler: If Tyler were to end up lending his star-power to a dying reality TV show like AI for one or more seasons, the band can mothball its instruments.

Even at 62 — and showing it — Tyler is such an electric showman that without him, there ain’t no Aerosmith. Which may explain why the band played a spirited soulful rendition of the classic blues tune Baby, Please Don’t Go!

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Palm Beach rocker Rod Stewart to be a dad again, at 65!

At a time when he should be collecting social security checks, Palm Beach rocker Rod Stewart is collecting babies!

Stewart is soon to become a dad for the eighth time, at the ripe age of 65.

Stewart, with Penny and baby Alistair

Stewart, with Penny and baby Alastair

The golden-tonsiled singer announced today he and his wife, model-shutterbug Penny Lancaster, are expecting their second child together. Lancaster’s 39, and she’s been hitched to the singer of Maggie May and Baby Jane for three years.

The couple’s first-born is 4-year-old Alastair.

In a statement, Stewart and Lancaster described themselves as “thrilled” and “delighted” to tell the little one he’s about to be a big brother.

The baby is expected in February, right on time for Stewart’s yearly three-month pilgrimage to his $22.7 million-Palm Beach beachfronter.

Stewart has six other children with two previous wives and two baby mamas.

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Aerosmith’s Tyler and Perry, sniping all the way to the BankAtlantic Center

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Crazy? Steven Tyler

Don’t assume for a minute that all’s well in the re-formed Aerosmith, which blows into the BankAtlantic Center tonight. (Good tickets are still available)

Band members are getting increasingly restless over frontman Steven Tyler’s bid to become a judge on — Gasp! — the world’s fanciest karaoke contest, American Idol.

“I found out on the Internet like the rest of the world,” axman Joe Perry told the Boston Herald. “We’d like to plan our lives, you know!”

That’s not it. Perry confronted Tyler about AI in the dressing-room after a show last weekend, and Perry said Tyler replied: I’m not allowed discuss it!

“After working with me for 40 years, he couldn’t tell me about this?” Perry said. “Why so secretive?”

Last year. Tyler told the band at the last minute that he’d be leaving to focus on “Brand Tyler.”

I’m told, however, that the on-stage harmony is just fine after the group re-united with Tyler earlier this year. The tour is entering its third week.

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Justin Bieber makes SoFla his World, 2.0!

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Teen sensation Justin Bieber had the pubescent girls in hysterics last night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise with his easy pop tunes, including Somebody to Love and Never Say Never. And if you missed the 16-year-old Canuck in Broward, don’t despair: He’ll be in Miami Dec. 18! (Click here for more SoFla shows)

American Idols invade SoFla

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American Idol winner Lee DeWyze doesn’t seem too excited with the bra that just landed at his feet on the stage of the BankAtlantic Center last night in Sunrise as he performs with Season 9’s top 10 candidate Katie Stevens. The two, with runner-up Crystal Bowersox and others are on the American Idols Live Tour. (Click here for more photos)

Melting ice: Wellington rapper Vanilla Ice falls into a ring of fire

Vanilla Ice, and a contractor on the hourse he is rebuilding for a TV show in Wellington (Click on the photo for more)

Vanilla Ice, and a contractor on the house he is rebuilding in Welly for a TV show (Click on the photo for more)

Vanilla Ice promised back in May that he’d do what he called a “kick ass” stunt to make the reality TV show he’s finishing a little more exciting.

He delivered.

Ice, who lives in the Versailles community in Wellington, drove a ‘67 Cadillac up a short ramp, through a ring of fire and into a pond. It all happened last week on land Ice, aka Rob Van Winkle, owns in the north part of Palm Beach County.

Check it out:

The 42-year-old singer of Ice Ice Baby has been working on a TV show all summer in which he attempts to flip a distressed property down the street from his in Versailles.

When the entertainer bought the place in foreclosure earlier this year, vandals stole wall fixtures, garden and pool equipment, tiles, pavers and the appliances. So Ice and his crew have been pimping the crib up, hoping to sell it for at least three times the $420,000 he paid for it.

Ice told Page2Live when I toured the house in May that he’d add pranks and stunts to turn up the entertainment value of the program.

As for the Caddy stunt, in case you’re wondering, no one got hurt. The rapper-turned-builder emerged from the sinking car while pumping his fists in the air. He then disappeared underwater as his entourage wondered if he was drowning.

He did eventually come up for air.

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Diddy tries to puff up Marlins attendance

Diddy, Saturday night at the Marlins game (Click on the photo for more celebs in SoFla)

Diddy, Saturday night at the Marlins game (Click on the photo for more celebs in SoFla)

With average attendance in the Major League Baseball’s basement, the Florida Marlins have been bringing an extra ooomph in the entertainment value of a Saturday night at the ball park with concerts and fireworks. So, the fish had rapper and music mogul Sean Diddy Combs do his thang on stage after losing to the Atlanta Braves Saturday. Well, the seats with butts in them were still pretty scarce, but Combs did rock the joint! (Click here for pictures of the show and other celebs in SoFla)

Diddy gets primped up before the show (Click on the photo for more)

Diddy gets primped up before the show (Click on the photo for more)

Smashing Pumpkins play small SoFla venue

Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins, including two brand new members, played a packed Revolution in Fort Lauderdale Monday night. But even with folks standing 12-deep, the venue fits just 1,1000 people. Why is the band that gave us Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness playing stuffy caves? Corgan says he wants to see how the new band jells!

Corgan, Monday night at Revolution (Click on the photo for more)

Corgan, Monday night at Revolution (Click on the photo for more)

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UPDATE: Billy Corgan collapses on stage in Tampa:



SACREBLEU! Jupiter Island official says Celine Dion’s waterworld shouldn’t have been built!

Dion's waterpark getting the finishing touch in April (Click on the photo for more)

Dion's waterpark getting the finishing touch in April (Click on the photo for more)

Songbird Celine Dion isn’t making friends on Jupiter Island.

The waterpark that the Canadian singer of My Heart Will Go On built on her Jupiter Island property has caused the ire of the quietly rich, old-money residents on the exclusive barrier island — and the secretive ouster of the government official who approved the project.

Director of Planning, Zoning and Building Jeff Newell, 61, one of the town’s best-liked department heads, resigned suddenly in June as occupancy certificates for Dion’s house were being drawn.

Newell’s exit papers include conditions that he not criticize the town’s administration or reach out to town employees, as well as two letters of reprimand for work he did on Dion’s construction. They indicate Newell’s departure from the $102,743-a-year job may not have been totally his choice. Newell will be paid until September as part of his severance deal.

In documents obtained by Page2Live, Town Manager Gene Rauth opined in one of his reprimands that the permits for Dion’s $1 million private waterpark should not have been approved!

Thing is: There’s nothing the town government wants to do about it now!

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