Montreal Gazette

Good luck, children: K-fed, Britney want ‘normal’ kids

And Rihanna has the cure for Katy Perry’s blues

- DOUG CAMILLI camillimai­l@gmail.com

Kevin Federline says Sean Preston and Jayden James, his sons with Britney

Spears, should work at McDonalds.

Not right away; they’re only 6 and 5. But K-fed, in Australia shooting Excess Baggage, a weight-loss “reality” show, explained his thinking this way to the Herald-sun newspaper:

‘’I worked at a car wash, I worked at a pizza place. Things like that made me.”

He and Britney agree, he said, that the boys should “learn ... what it’s like to be part of society as a normal kid.”

Uma Thurman and rich guy Arpad Busson are expecting a baby – their first together, but her third. Her kids with Ethan Hawke are Maya, 13, and Levon, 10.

Helena Christense­n, a top model 20 years ago, is launching an underwear collection. She told the Telegraph about the runway game back in the day, sneering a little at today’s top models in the process:

“I never felt pressure to do anything like (Adriana Lima’s extreme pre-gig diet). We were honoured and respected for the way we looked, and we all looked different. None of us were told we had to lose 20 pounds. I also think we had the personalit­ies (to say): ‘Er, excuse me, that’s not going to happen!’ ”

She’s 43. Annals of globalizat­ion: There’s so much money in China that France alone sold the Chinese $3.34 billion worth of wine last year.

But how do buyers there, speaking no English, know one wine from another? enter Christie’s, the auction house, which just published name translatio­ns for the 61 main French wine châteaux, as listed in the 1855 classifica­tion. (Of course there are French wine auctions in China. Keep up!) The translatio­ns should become “the agreed names for the whole Chinese-speaking world,” said Simon Tam of Christie’s. “We are trying to make wine as accessible as possible. … Language is the first barrier and we want to break down those barriers.”

What exactly is the deal with Wilmer Valderrama?

On That ’70s Show (which ran from 1998 to 2006), he played a geeky exchange stu- dent who kept trying, without success, to stop being a virgin.

In real life, however, the actor, though not notably good looking, seems to keep awfully busy. Now he and Minka

Kelly are “getting to know each other,” in the words of the N.Y. Daily News’s source.

I’ve been looking through my files, which suggest that this guy has bedpost notches for Demi Lovato, Lindsay Lohan, Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mandy Moore

(she denies it), Eva Longoria, possibly Mila Kunis – and those are just the ones we know about.

Katy Perry has been down in the dumps since splitting with Russell Brand, but now “Rihanna wants to help Katy in any way she can,” reports Hollywoodl­ife.com. Rihanna “is telling her that she’ll start setting her up, too!” That sounds good; I hear

Chris Brown is looking for a date. What could possibly go wrong?

 ?? ROB LOUD GETTY IMAGES FILE PHOTO ?? If Kevin Federline (left, in 2008) wants his kids to be humble, maybe he should keep them away from Wilmer Valderrama.
ROB LOUD GETTY IMAGES FILE PHOTO If Kevin Federline (left, in 2008) wants his kids to be humble, maybe he should keep them away from Wilmer Valderrama.
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