EXCLUSIVE: JAY Z AND BEYONCE JUST GOT SECRETLY MARRIED AND WE HAVE PROOF!!!

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December 18, 2007. It happened!! MediaTakeOut.com has made a living bringing you some of the biggest entertainment scoops of the year. We were the first news source in the world to tell you that Jennifer Lopez was pregnant, that Usher and Tameka Foster were getting married, and that and Diddy and Kim Porter were expecting twins. But now, get ready for our BIGGEST exclusive scoop ever.

MediaTakeOut.com can officially confirm to you that last week Jay Z and Beyonce were married in a small private ceremony in Paris, France.

And we have proof. According to our source, who is an EXTREMELY close family member of Beyonce's, the couple chose, instead of exchanging rings, to tattoo a personal inscription on each of their ring fingers.

We can tell you that right now ABSOLUTELY NO ONE else in the world of media is reporting this. Not any blogger, not any newspaper, no radio disc jockey, no TV personality - just us. We figured that we'd let you in on our little exclusive. You know the one that everyone and their mama are going to be talking about by this afternoon.,.

The Wife of Ronald "Mr. Biggs" Isley Gives a Prison Update on her Legendary Husband

Ron and Kandy Isley (pictured at the 2004 BET Awards)
Credit: Lester Cohen
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Soul legend Ronald "Mr. Biggs" Isley married singer Kandy Johnson in the fall of 2005. The wedding was one out of the pages of a storybook, complete with a garden ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Shortly thereafter came news that the happy couple was expecting a special delivery: a Baby Biggs, if you will. All seemed well for the Isley household.

But it wasn't.

A year later, Ronald's troubles with the Internal Revenue Service caught up to him. Not even his worldwide fame and star status could prevent a judge from ordering him to the slammer. Ronald was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for tax evasion and willful failure to file a tax return. Mr. Biggs was also ordered to pay $3.1 million in back taxes.

What's life like in prison for Ron? What's it like for Kandy, who is raising their son? We spoke to Kandy directly to find out the answers to these questions. She revealed that she and Ronald are relying on God to take them to "that next phase."

CALVIN: You told me you had come down with a nasty cold, but other than that how are you doing these days?
KANDY: I'm doing good.

JAMIE: How's the baby?
KANDY: He's almost a year old. He's doing great!

JAMIE: You know we're concerned about Ron. How is he?
KANDY: I speak to him every day and he's okay. I know that they had reported that he was in the hospital but that's not true.

CALVIN: Where is serving his time?
KANDY: He's in Terre Haute, Indiana.

JAMIE: What kind of facility is it?
KANDY: He's in a camp.

JAMIE: What does he do on a daily basis? I know he's a superstar in there.
KANDY: It's a blessing where he's at because so many people look up to him and admire him. So you're right. He is in there signing autographs and he's doing fine.

Sisters Kim (l) and Kandy (r) Johnson (pictured at the 2004 BET Awards) made up the R&B group JS. Credit: Ronnie Wright

JAMIE: Is he tired or bored? Although I think he probably needs the rest!
KANDY: I would say that he does. I don't know about bored though. It's just like a vacation to me.

JAMIE: Does he have to maintain a certain diet?
KANDY: Well, he knows what he's supposed to eat and what he's not supposed to eat.

JAMIE: Is he hardheaded?
KANDY: Like most men, yes!
CALVIN: Hey, wait a minute!
KANDY: [Laughs] You men, you guys can't be hardheaded.

JAMIE: It was also reported that Ronald has kidney cancer. Is that true?
KANDY: He had surgery on his kidney last year but he does not have any cancer.

JAMIE: What is he supposed to be eating?
KANDY: Just healthy stuff: your vegetables, fruit and whole grains, and drink plenty of water.

JAMIE: What is he asking you to sneak in there?
KANDY: I can't sneak nothing in there, but he says the food is good.

JAMIE: Do they give him a special diet?
KANDY: No. It's not like they bring a special meal or something out to him. It's a variety of foods and he picks the appropriate foods. He's exercising. He walks around. They have a track there. So he does that every day.

JAMIE: Has he lost any weight?
KANDY: Yes, he has. He looks good. He does not look like he's under stress whatsoever. He's at peace. He knows that God has got His hands on him, and because of his faith in the Lord—that's what keeps Ronald going. He can see me and his son every weekend.

CALVIN: What's the status of his court case?
KANDY: His case is on appeal and it should be coming up the end of the year and we're pressing and believing in God that He will come through for him. He always has come through for Ronald. I've watched Him come through for him and that's what we're believing.

JAMIE: How are you holding up? I know that you miss him.
KANDY: I do miss him but I can go every weekend. He calls me every day and we talk two or three times a day. And because I can go see him every weekend, that helps us get through all of this.

JAMIE: What a typical family visit like for you all?
KANDY: It's a very nice facility for families and visiting. And I go about seven hours a day.

CALVIN: How long is his sentence?
KANDY: Right now I cannot give a definite time because, like I said, the appeal is coming up at the end of this year. Or maybe the beginning of the year we'll have an answer. But we're not expecting him to be there that much longer.

JAMIE: How long was his original sentence?
KANDY: The sentence was for 37 months.

JAMIE: So what's a typical day like for you?
KANDY: I've been doing business as usual. I am raising my son, of course. And Ronald came out with a Christmas album, so I've been involved with that. That's on Def Jam. And I'm involved in a cognac line that Ronald has coming up.

JAMIE: Ronald had a fur line too, right?
KANDY: The fur line has been out since 2003, I believe. But the latest project is this cognac, which is just in the beginning phases, and it's going to branch out this year.

JAMIE: What's the cognac brand called?
KANDY: It's by Baron's Select. But it's a signature piece. It's a 35-year-old cognac. It's a high-end cognac and it comes in a nice bottle with Ronald's signature on the bottles.

JAMIE: Well, if this project was in the works during his trial and stuff, they didn't think it would affect sales or anything?
KANDY: They weren't concerned with that whatsoever. These guys love Ronald and they believe in him and his legacy. This particular cognac is a timeless cognac and they felt that Ronald was a timeless entertainer. So they wanted to bring the two of them together and they're still moving forward as planned.

CALVIN: How did you and Ronald first meet?
KANDY: I met him through singing with the three of us—my two sisters Kimberly and Crystal. We sang background.

JAMIE: Has R.Kelly or any other artists visited Ronald?
KANDY: I don't know if Rob has been there but I know that he has called and shown his concern. You know, he's dealing with whatever he's got to do with his case.

JAMIE: Well, I know this ordeal had to be difficult for you. I'm glad to talk to you. Who does the baby look like?
KANDY: He looks like Ronald.

JAMIE: Is he trying to sing a little bit?
KANDY: He tries to. He watches the Disney programs and he loves watching Barney. But he knows singing and he knows his daddy's voice when he hears it.

JAMIE: Give him our best, will you?
KANDY: I will.

CALVIN: And kiss that baby, too!
KANDY: Okay! [laughs]

Karrine Steffans wondering why Darius is denying her***

Karrine Steffans isn't quite sure why Darius McCrary said they weren't together, because she knows that they are.

kay gang, you all saw the Darius McCrary interview in the DeceBinex and MaxCyte Collaborate on Cancer Immunotherapy Researchmber issue. If you didn't, you missed something special. It was the first time a man described Karrine Steffans, best known as "Superhead," a.k.a. "Video Vixen," writer of sex-and-tell books about all the celebrities she's had. In his interview, Darius announced that he's leaving her--can't stay anymore--but when I interviewed her (well before Darius's cover story hit newsstands) Karrine was shocked to hear that he was leaving and she exclaimed, "He's here!" According to recent news, I think she's more right than he is.

Well, when you think about it, Darius did have a lot of positive things to say about her, including his confession that he still loves her and his nostalgic explanations of why men go nuts for Karrine despite knowing that all the vivid details of what they do with her will likely wind up in one of her tell-all books.

But there is much more here than the Karrine and Darius love story. This 21st century phenomenon also gave me the inside scoop on what happened between her and Ray J, her and Lil' Wayne, her and Bobby Brown, and how she gets guys to go so nuts about her and what she really does when she's invited to speak to college students and how she came to be who she is.

Regardless how you feel about her claim to fame as Miss Superhead, have an open mind and you are sure to be fascinated by this look into the mind of a woman who walks her own walk in search of love and "a guy who will stay."

***

Jamie: How has the response been toward this book?

Karrine: You know, it's been weird because, with the first book--I tell you, d@#n if you do, d@#n if you don't. First book, people were, like, oh my god, I can't believe she put all that stuff in here, and how dare she, and this is atrocious. And then this book is a lot different than the first book, and I'm hearing a lot of people say, where's all the stuff? Where's all the gossip? And so it's like I can't win with some people.

Jamie: How many copies did the first book sell?

Karrine: According to Bookstand, we're in the 300,000 range in the U.S. It doesn't count Germany and Poland, where we're also printed. So it's hard to say.

Jamie: You have gotten into men's psyches, and what I hear a lot is, "she's cool; she's real"--the cooking and the cleaning house thing--also that you watch the games with them and you get into what they do.

Karrine: Well, you see, girls never liked me growing up. So I always talked to the boys. I ended up climbing trees with the guys after school, sitting in the trees and talking, and as I've gotten older that same thing happened. The guys come to my house football Sunday. I cook, I serve them, then I crack open a beer and we all talk about either football or their girlfriends.

Jamie: You're just like one of the boys?

Karrine: I'm just one of the boys.

Jamie: The other thing that was said was that you don't talk as much as girls do.

Karrine: I listen. And I wasn't always like this. I've just learned through trial and error to just shut up. Sometimes it's better to understand than to be understood, and you don't always have to say something. I don't argue. I just accept whatever you're saying to me. Take that as your truth and let you deal with it. I don't have to combat everything you say.

Jamie: But it can hurt you. I see so many different sides of you here because you are vulnerable. Somehow you're able to wrap words around your thoughts and feelings and capsulize what's happened to you. And then you hold it in your hand or something, analyze it and you're able to continue. You used to cut yourself all the time. You carved--

Karrine: --names and--

Jamie: Love, hate, and--

Karrine: I do that too.

Jamie: And that was because of what you were going through with Mom and Dad or whatever, right?

Karrine: Yeah, just psychological issues. I was always in my books. I was always very quiet. I didn't have the freedom to discuss 'cause in my household, you didn't speak unless you were spoken to. I'm the mother, you're the child, shut the hell up. So when I was in pain, I needed to release it. And I would write. That was my big way as a kid. But there were a lot of times when I couldn't write unless I could see it. And so I would carve names--maybe the name of the person who hurt me or the words that I'm looking for, whether it's "love" or whether I feel lonely--whatever it is [I'd carve] that feeling into my thigh, into my arms, into my stomach sometimes. And I could then see it. It would transfer the pain from my heart to my thigh. Then I could see it and I wouldn't feel it in my heart anymore. I was feeling it on my thigh.

Jamie: Are those scars still there?

Karrine: You never cut yourself enough to scar. You just want to have that first layer. It's more like welting or shallow cutting.

Jamie: So mom never noticed that? Do you have a relationship with Mommy now?

Karrine: I talk to her. I have tried not to talk to her, but she goes in the house and talks to my son. So I'm able to take up the phone at times and discuss and talk. She actually talks at me and I just kind of listen.

Jamie: Was she angry about the first book?

Karrine: I think she was in denial. She talked about me like a dog. People were, like, wow, this is your mom?

Jamie: What happened to her? Do you know anything about how she was raised, or why she was the way she was toward you?

Karrine: From what I've been told, I know my mother was the last of seven children. She was the lightest one 'cause her father, he's Puerto Rican and English. And so there was that torment within the family for being light-skinned, and that issue a lot of Black folks have. We're all from St. Thomas. And that's not rare to be light-skinned or White on the island. But in the family, she was the only one. And her father actually married my grandmother, so she, I think, had maybe a sense of entitlement, you know, like, I'm the only real legitimate child here. Maybe she'd combat it with that. I know that my grandfather left my grandmother, and I think it probably crushed my mom, and I think maybe she started looking for her daddy in men. My father did well for himself, as he does now, but I think when my mother saw my father, that was her way out, and he didn't take her when he left. And so I think that was because he was already engaged to a French woman.

Jamie: He was engaged to a French woman when he had you?

Karrine: Yeah, he was already engaged to someone.

Jamie: And she didn't know that?

Karrine: She knew, but I think she thought that she could change everything. You know, she had me. He left with this French woman and never came back. And so I think that she took a lot of that out on me and I think I was the keep-a-man baby and it never worked out.

Jamie: Why do you think that men don't care whether you've been with a lot of other men? Or do they?

Karrine: Some men care, but not enough to stay away from me. I'm this legend now and people just want to say they've met me. People want to say that they've slept with me, and then they find out that it's not that easy. It's never been that easy. But see, now I'm untouchable. Now, you can't ask me.

Jamie: Karrine, do you enjoy sex?

Karrine: I've never enjoyed sex. What I enjoy is feeling loved. But it's different now for me. It's been different for a very long time. Bill [Maher] and me were together for about a year. Then before Bill, I was in a relationship for six months and then before that another relationship for six months. So I had only known two people for about a year before Bill. Then there was Bill for a year. And then I didn't date, really, until [Antonio] Tarver. Then that turned into a hot-a## mess. Then I kind of stayed to myself, and now I'm in a relationship. So there hasn't been that many people.

Jamie: Okay. So you can be monogamous. That's what you're telling me here?

Karrine: I have been. I don't think people realize, like, in the first book, most of those people were all in a year-and-a-half span.

Jamie: Do you know how many you've been with? Have you counted that up?

Karrine: No. I stopped counting in high school. I've been having sex since I was 13 years old, and there's no reason to count that.

Jamie: Yeah. When that happened when you were 13, I know Oprah wanted to know about how you felt back then. How did you feel?

Karrine: I'm so glad I'm in love right now because it's easy for me to look back and see the difference. So now, I'm even clearer than I've been before. After being raped at 13, it took me nine months--because first of all, I never told anybody. And when I came home--it's in the first book--when I came home from being raped, my mother beat me down. So I was never able to say, "Wait a minute! I was kidnapped and raped for three days." I was gone for three days, you know, tied up in a hotel room.

Jamie: And she said you smelled like--

Karrine: Yeah. Of course I do because I was raped for three days. But if you would just have asked me; if you had been worried for just one minute, then I would have maybe been able to tell you. But you beat me down to the ground. I'll never forget that.

Jamie: And what did she say when it came out?

Karrine: She didn't say anything. We don't talk. My mother is in some other planet where nothing ever happens. So we still haven't discussed it. It took nine months to have sex. I was 14 by then, and I remember thinking that if I could make him really like me, then it will erase that first time. Because my first memory of sex is being brutally raped. So I needed a new memory. Since I was 13 or 14 I've been trying to make a new memory 'cause each of the last memories weren't good. So okay, he didn't work out. Okay, now I need a new memory. And the next thing you knew, you're 21 and you have a lot of bad memories and you still haven't gotten a good one.

Jamie: What would have been a good one?

Karrine: It's hard to say because in my head, I'm looking for someone to stay. Just stay, that's all. You know, I've seen men come in and out of my mother's life. Hardly anyone has a husband in my family. Like, they were just women who have a lot of sex with a lot of people. And then I get raped. And no one ever really stayed until I got older. So I'm already married, divorced and have a baby. Now my marriage is a bad memory. Now I have to erase that. I'm constantly having to erase, and you never erase it; you just compound. That's why I took one time a nine-month celibacy time for myself, and then I took 11 months. There was no sex at all .... That's how you clarify.

For more, pick up the January issue of Sister 2 Sister, on newsstands now.

Vivica Fox in Sister 2 Sister Mag

Vivica A. Fox is making a pretty penny producing straight-to-DVD movies, and she's concentrating on being happy and hardworking.

Vivica A. Fox is on top of the Hollywood game and she's not too shy to toot her horn when needed. When you don't see her onscreen, that's when she's busiest. It's always refreshing to hear from the actress-turned-producer because she's so full of energy and spunk. Despite some of the negative energy that is thrown her way, Vivica always manages to put on a smile and say something funny. She got with S2S Publisher Jamie Foster Brown to discuss her transition into the next phase of her career and life. She was on the 2007 season of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and had a decent run on season three of "Dancing With the Stars," although she was surprised that she was kicked off so early in the season. "We was doing real good, but things happen," Vivica said. "The next week, I got 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' with Larry David, so ..." In our interview, Vivica talked about her marriage that didn't work out and what she's looking for in her next husband. The 42-year-old Indiana native described how she keeps her body so sexy and said she's open to adoption, at this point, because she's "too old to be walking around pregnant and all of that." She also discussed the expensive lesson that she learned from her DUI arrest in 2007 and told Jamie that the hardest phone call she had to make before the news hit the media was to her parents. Read on for Vivica's description of her latest triumphs, downfalls, and how this strong woman handles it all. *** Jamie: You are amazing! Vivica: Girl, I am such an early riser! I got cats who wake me up, and then usually the trainer comes to the house. Jamie: You are a transformer. Vivica: You are hilarious! Jamie: But are you not? I don't see anybody else everywhere like you are. Vivica: But you know what? I'm gonna give hats off to Lita, my manager who--we're always trying to find the next thing. Like, "Vivica, we should be producing this. Vivica, we should ..." She's such a wonderful partner to have. Jamie: You've had her how long? Vivica: Twelve years. Jamie: Why did you choose her? Vivica: Lita started off as my lawyer. When I, years ago, started as a young actress, I was needing to get incorporated. I remembered that I'd met her at Paramount Studios and she told me she was a lawyer. She gave me a card, and I was like, "Wow. I never met no lawyer as fine as what you are, girlfriend, but go on with your bad self!" [laughs] She helped me with that, and from there she went to Magic Johnson Management. I was with somebody at the time, but I wasn't happy with them so she said, "I'll manage you for six months for free." You know, that's always the good bait and switch--if it starts working out, great. And gosh, the rest is history! We have now co-produced about eight films, and-- Jamie: You're kidding me! Vivica: Yeah! Yeah! Jamie: Tell me some. Vivica: We just did the sequel to Two Can Play That Game called Three Can Play... Motives I and II. We also co-produced a play, Whatever She Wants, which I don't know if you know, but I was on the road with Boris Kodjoe, Richard Roundtree, Little G from Silk. That was really, really successful. Oh, what's that one movie with Duane? Jamie: With Duane [Martin]--with Tisha's husband? Vivica: [Seat Filler] Uh-huh, yeah. Jamie: That nut! That's a nut. Vivica: I know. I love him to death. We also co-produced Getting Played with Bill Bellamy, Carmen Electra and Stacey Dash. And we co-produced "Missing" with Lifetime. Jamie: So does that mean those are intellectual properties that, should they play again, you get residuals from them? Vivica: That's right! Jamie: Okay. So people don't understand that. I'm always teaching in my magazine. Vivica: That's good! Jamie: I want them to understand. Vivica: So basically when I say "produce," that means I'm getting two checks. Jamie: Right! [Vivica laughs] So the backend--explain the backend stuff to me. Vivica: Well, what happens with the backend deal is that--oh I forgot, we also co-produced The Salon thing. Jamie: And when is that coming out? Vivica: That came out--it was only in limited release, unfortunately, because we did that film like three to four years ago. And what happened is that the director sat on it for just a little bit too long. Jamie: Can we pick it up on DVD? Vivica: Yes, it's now gonna be out on DVD. Jamie: Tell us a little bit about it. Vivica: Salon is kind of like a Barbershop meets Soul Food. It was about a single mom who owns her beauty shop. It had been in her family for over a couple of decades and the city wanted to buy the beauty shop and tear it down and make it into a parking structure. She got this big check and got offered money for a buy-out, but instead she learned the lesson of how good the salon was for the community. Jamie: Really? Vivica: Well, you know, when you go to the hair salon, get your hair done, sometimes that's where you be venting all your issues! Jamie: Mm-hmm. Vivica: And you never know that day that you'll lift a person's spirits up. They come in there with their hair tore up, go out looking real pretty. [laughs] You know what I mean? So you know, it's a good ego boost as well. Jamie: Why did he sit on it so long? Vivica: I don't know! I don't know. Mark [Brown] was supposed to have done Two Can Play That Game with us. Jamie: Right. Vivica: And because we wouldn't make it White, he decided he couldn't make it--the film. So we went on to produce it and did it ourselves! Jamie: He wanted it White? Vivica: Well, he wanted it to be more White than Black and we were like, no. Our base audience for this movie is African American, and it just happened to cross over. Jamie: Two Can Play That Game--that thing is still popular. How well did it do? Vivica: Well, what happened is that it only made about $23 [million]--25 million in box office, but in DVD and on cable, it was huge! And the reason why it stopped there was because 9/11 happened. I will never forget that I was scheduled to go on the "Jay Leno" show because it was doing so well. It was in half the theaters and we were just hanging in there. Our per screen average was just off the chain! And then Osama just decided to come in. I said couldn't you have picked another week? D#%mit. [Jamie laughs] Messing up my movie! [both laugh] But it's all good. You know, it was an unfortunate incident. So that was the reason the movie theaters closed down for three or four days. You know, the world basically stopped. And by the time the movie theater and everybody got [going again], it had lost a little bit of its steam. But it still did well and I have [people of] every nationality walk up to me saying, "Vivica, what a great job." Jamie: You did do a great job on that. Vivica: That's one of my favorites. Jamie: How well do you do when it goes into DVD mode? Like, it used to be that if the movie didn't do well, then you just had to wait till they got it on television. Vivica: You see, this is another thing that people need to understand too, 'cause I've read some comments online. People really don't understand the business of movies that go to DVD. Just because you make a movie and it goes straight to DVD, it's not a bad thing! The business has changed so much. People aren't going to movies anymore. Sometimes people are wanting to go into the store, pick out their favorite star, get their movie, take it home and they're content! For me, it doesn't bother me if I do a movie that goes straight to DVD, which more than likely I'm producing. It's another credit for me and Lita as a production team. And also, every time that we get a movie done, we get bigger budgets for the next one! Jamie: Master P--that's how he made a lot of money; he went straight to DVD. Vivica: Exactly right. Jamie: Do you get more money going to DVD than you do in the movie? 'Cause when you sign the movie deal as an actress, you get paid a fee, right? Vivica: Right. For more, pick up the January issue of Sister 2 Sister, on newsstands now.

DONDA WEST'S 911 TAPES RELEASED:

TMZ.com posts audio of two women attempting to revive Kanye's mom before paramedics arrive.

*Emergency 911 tapes released Monday and posted by TMZ.com reveal that two women attempted to revive Kanye West's mother after she suffered what one of the women said was a heart attack.

According to the recording released by the Los Angeles Fire Department, the unidentified caller says Donda West just had a heart attack and has stopped breathing. She also described West as being "cold and clammy" and having a black substance in her mouth.

A 911 dispatcher tries repeatedly to give the woman instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The caller relays the dispatcher's instructions to the other woman, who at one point appears to have hyperventilated.

The audio ends as the caller informs the dispatcher that paramedics have arrived.

Donda West died on Nov. 10, the day after she underwent breast reduction, tummy tuck and liposuction procedures.

Audio of 911 call, via TMZ.com:
Part 1: http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/1217_west_911.mp3
Part 2: http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/1217_west_911_pt2.mp3

Jamie Lynn Spears says she's pregnant

NEW YORK - Another Spears baby is reportedly on the way and it's not Britney's. Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old "Zoey 101" star and sister of Britney, told OK! magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.

"It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected," she said. "I was in complete and total shock and so was he."

Spears is 12 weeks along and initially kept the news to herself when she learned of the pregnancy from an at-home test and subsequent doctor visit, she told the celebrity magazine, which hits stands in New York on Wednesday and the rest of the country by Friday.

What message does she want to send to other teens about premarital sex? "I definitely don't think it's something you should do; it's better to wait," she told the magazine. "But I can't be judgmental because it's a position I put myself in."

After she found out from a doctor that she was pregnant, she said, "I took two weeks to myself where I didn't tell anybody."

"Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone's opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me," she said.

Spears broke the news to her mother, Lynne, just before Thanksgiving, the magazine reported.

"She was very upset because it wasn't what she expected at all," Spears said. "A week after, she had time to cope with it and became very supportive."

Lynne Spears, already grandmother to Britney's young sons, told the magazine: "I didn't believe it because Jamie Lynn's always been so conscientious. She's never late for her curfew. I was in shock. I mean, this is my 16-year-old baby."

She said her actress daughter, the telegenic heroine of her popular Nickelodeon series, has known Aldridge for years and began dating him in high school.

But in a recent interview with The Associated Press, Spears said she had no steady boyfriend. "I kind of just keep my options open," she said. "I have a bunch of friends that I always hang out with, a bunch of guy friends." She declined to talk about her older sister.

Spears spoke to the AP shortly before Thanksgiving, the day she told OK! she informed her mother about the pregnancy.

Jamie Lynn plans to raise the baby in her home state of Louisiana "so it can have a normal family life."

Nickelodeon released a statement: "We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well being."

A publicist for the network did not immediately respond to phone and e-mail requests for additional comment.

"Zoey 101" is scheduled to conclude its third season Jan. 4 with a cliffhanger episode in which Spears' character must decide whether to leave her fictional Pacific Coast Academy boarding school in California to join her parents in London.

The show is scheduled to resume in February, and its producer, Dan Schneider, has said filming on the fourth season has already been completed.

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OK! magazine: http://www.ok-magazine.com/