Jessica Alba is going to have to pull out the maternity clothes in storage.
The Little Fockers actress and Cash Warren, the son of Hill Street Blues actor Michael Warren, are expecting baby No. 2.
“I thought I’d drop by to let you all in on some exciting news — Honor is going to be a Big Sister!’’ the 29-year-old wrote on Facebook. “Cash and I are thrilled and wanted to share the news directly with you so you didn’t hear about it somewhere else.’’
Alba, 29, met Warren, 31, on the set of 2005’s The Fantastic Four (he was a director’s assistant). They married in May 2008. The next month she gave birth to Honor.
LOVE ACROSS THE POND
Another royal wedding is in the works.
Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, plans to wed Canadian philanthropist Karen Gordon this summer. This is not Spencer’s first walk down the aisle. He has four children from his first marriage to model Victoria Lockwood, which ended bitterly, and two from his marriage to Caroline Freud, a former classmate at Oxford.
‘MIDDLE’ MAN
Frankie Muniz always seemed like such a nice kid. But something must have snapped: The former Malcolm in the Middle star, 25, allegedly held a gun to his head during an argument with girlfriend Elycia Turnbow.
According to a police report, the incident occurred at the couple’s Phoenix home Feb. 11. Turnbow alleged that Muniz, who is now a racecar driver, was taken to a hospital after the incident.
Muniz’s representative released a statement saying that an argument did occur, and although police were called, a gun was not involved.
Both parties were warned for disorderly conduct.
RHYTHM IS OFF
R&B star El DeBarge, who earned accolades following his comeback album last year, has entered rehab.
The 49-year-old singer said in a statement that he voluntarily checked into the center ‘‘to deal with issues stemming from many years of substance abuse.’’
The Michigan native’s career peaked in the ’80s with DeBarge, a group he formed with his siblings that charted No. 1 hits such as Time Will Reveal and Rhythm of the Night. Then came years of struggle with substance abuse, including a two-year jail stint following a 2008 drug possession arrest. But he triumphantly returned last year with the release of Second Chance, his first album of new music in 16 years, and earned two of Grammy nods.
LISTEN TO YOUR MAMA
Matt Damon sure doesn’t regret taking a role in Stuck on You about Siamese twins in Miami back in 2003. Because that’s where he chanced upon his wife Luciana Barroso, then a bartender at former Miami Beach hotspot Crobar.
The True Grit star, 40, told People that at the time he was considering taking the lead in a Werner Herzog film called Rescue Dawn ( Christian Bale got the part), but a chat with his mother changed his mind.
“She said, ‘You know, you don’t always have to go into a jungle and lose a bunch of weight. You’re allowed to have a little fun.’ And I did the Farrelly brothers, and that was where I met my wife,” he explained. “So four kids later, that was a pretty fateful decision!”
STILL SINGLE
Kourtney Kardashian claims she is not engaged to Scott Disick.
Life & Style reported that K’s on-again beau, 27, popped the question to his longtime girlfriend, 31, and the proposal was caught on camera for Kourtney and Kim Take New York.
“The season finale, which has already been filmed, ends with Scott proposing and Kourtney accepting,” an insider close to Kourtney told L&S. “She’s so excited for the finale to air this April so she can finally go out in public with her ring on.’’
But the oldest Kardashian Tweeted Wednesday that the rumor is false. Stay tuned.

Jessica Alba is going to have to pull out the maternity clothes in storage.
The Little Fockers actress and Cash Warren, the son of Hill Street Blues actor Michael Warren, are expecting baby No. 2.
“I thought I’d drop by to let you all in on some exciting news — Honor is going to be a Big Sister!’’ the 29-year-old wrote on Facebook. “Cash and I are thrilled and wanted to share the news directly with you so you didn’t hear about it somewhere else.’’
Alba, 29, met Warren, 31, on the set of 2005’s The Fantastic Four (he was a director’s assistant). They married in May 2008. The next month she gave birth to Honor.
LOVE ACROSS THE POND
Another royal wedding is in the works.
Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, plans to wed Canadian philanthropist Karen Gordon this summer. This is not Spencer’s first walk down the aisle. He has four children from his first marriage to model Victoria Lockwood, which ended bitterly, and two from his marriage to Caroline Freud, a former classmate at Oxford.
‘MIDDLE’ MAN
Frankie Muniz always seemed like such a nice kid. But something must have snapped: The former Malcolm in the Middle star, 25, allegedly held a gun to his head during an argument with girlfriend Elycia Turnbow.
According to a police report, the incident occurred at the couple’s Phoenix home Feb. 11. Turnbow alleged that Muniz, who is now a racecar driver, was taken to a hospital after the incident.
Muniz’s representative released a statement saying that an argument did occur, and although police were called, a gun was not involved.
Both parties were warned for disorderly conduct.
RHYTHM IS OFF
R&B star El DeBarge, who earned accolades following his comeback album last year, has entered rehab.
The 49-year-old singer said in a statement that he voluntarily checked into the center ‘‘to deal with issues stemming from many years of substance abuse.’’
The Michigan native’s career peaked in the ’80s with DeBarge, a group he formed with his siblings that charted No. 1 hits such as Time Will Reveal and Rhythm of the Night. Then came years of struggle with substance abuse, including a two-year jail stint following a 2008 drug possession arrest. But he triumphantly returned last year with the release of Second Chance, his first album of new music in 16 years, and earned two of Grammy nods.
LISTEN TO YOUR MAMA
Matt Damon sure doesn’t regret taking a role in Stuck on You about Siamese twins in Miami back in 2003. Because that’s where he chanced upon his wife Luciana Barroso, then a bartender at former Miami Beach hotspot Crobar.
The True Grit star, 40, told People that at the time he was considering taking the lead in a Werner Herzog film called Rescue Dawn ( Christian Bale got the part), but a chat with his mother changed his mind.
“She said, ‘You know, you don’t always have to go into a jungle and lose a bunch of weight. You’re allowed to have a little fun.’ And I did the Farrelly brothers, and that was where I met my wife,” he explained. “So four kids later, that was a pretty fateful decision!”
STILL SINGLE
Kourtney Kardashian claims she is not engaged to Scott Disick.
Life & Style reported that K’s on-again beau, 27, popped the question to his longtime girlfriend, 31, and the proposal was caught on camera for Kourtney and Kim Take New York.
“The season finale, which has already been filmed, ends with Scott proposing and Kourtney accepting,” an insider close to Kourtney told L&S. “She’s so excited for the finale to air this April so she can finally go out in public with her ring on.’’
But the oldest Kardashian Tweeted Wednesday that the rumor is false. Stay tuned.

Nanaimo musician earning praise for tribute to country legend
By Jesse Ferreras

Who: Almost Johnny Cash's Big River

Where: Dusty's

When: Saturday, Dec. 11

You can imitate, you can emulate, and then you can inhabit. Dave Pittet most certainly does the latter with Johnny Cash.

A Nanaimo musician, Pittet doesn't just play the songs of the Man in Black. For the past three years now he has worked his damndest to evoke the country/rock legend as lead singer of Almost Johnny Cash's Big River, an act that will hit Dusty's on Dec. 11.

The band is as much a musical performance as it is method acting, at least in the case of its frontman. With a gravelly, guttural voice that uncannily replicates Cash's, Pittet has put a mountain of effort into his performance. He has matched his hair, his posture and his clothing to his subject.

Most cover bands depend merely on nostalgia to draw an audience. Big River wants you to imagine the man is right there up on stage.

Almost Johnny Cash has a rather unremarkable beginning: it was five years ago and the biopic Walk the Line was in theatres. Pittet's girlfriend suggested they see it about six months after it hit the multiplexes - a long life in theatres for any film.

"I just started singing along and talking," he said in an interview. "She said you sound better than Joaquin Phoenix."

The film tapped into something. Like Cash, Pittet grew up in a farming community. His father owned the hardware store in Tofield, Alberta, just outside of Edmonton, and all of his friends were farmers. He helped them bale hay, tend to horses, all while he listened to the sounds of Ring of Fire and Folsom Prison Blues on CFTW radio.

Two years after seeing Walk the Line, Pittet found himself hanging out after hours at the bar in the Queens Hotel in Nanaimo, formerly a blues-y venue that has since turned to more of a rock audience. In the green room after a show he picked up a guitar and started playing Ring of Fire.

As he strummed the last chord his listeners just sat there in silence.

"What?" Dave asked, wondering whether he'd lost his touch.

"Are you Johnny's twin?" asked a man sitting at the bar. "Because dude, that's what you should be doing."

"Since then I haven't looked back," Pittet said.

From there he has worked to hone his performance - the music as well as the personality. He draws on what he says is a "sordid past," just like Johnny's, and a marital record to match.

"I had a similar marriage, if you'd like," Pittet said. "I've had quit a few children, three of them. Cash had four with his first wife."

He's backed up by a three-piece band: Robert "RJ" Morrison, a guitarist adept at pointing out "that familiar Johnny Cash groove," according to the band's website; Colin Stevenson, a drummer from Victoria who was headhunted into the band because of his ability to stay truthful to style; and Todd Sacerty, billed as the "most respected and talented bass player from Nanaimo, B.C.

Almost Johnny Cash's current tour sees Pittet traversing the west. In November he played gigs in Langley, Calgary and Vancouver. After Whistler he goes to Crofton, Slave Lake, Cold Lake and Mount Washington, playing sold out gigs along the way. That takes him up to about March and from there he said he's booked solid in bars, rodeos, casinos and other road venues.

A shy fellow by his own admission, he's truly in his place on stage.

"Johnny said in an interview once he was more comfortable in front of 10,000 people than 10," Pittet said. "If you put me up on stage, 10 people are more difficult to me than 10,000.

"It's something else when a 70 year old comes up to you and says, I saw Johnny Cash when I was 10 years old and you're as good as him any day of the week."

Saturday's performance will mark Pittet's second trip to Whistler in his life. His first was a ski trip about five years ago and he looks forward to playing in and around the mountains once more.

As we hang up the phone he offers a farewell that can only have been inspired by Cash himself: "May the wind always be at your back," he says.

Nanaimo musician earning praise for tribute to country legend
By Jesse Ferreras

Who: Almost Johnny Cash's Big River

Where: Dusty's

When: Saturday, Dec. 11

You can imitate, you can emulate, and then you can inhabit. Dave Pittet most certainly does the latter with Johnny Cash.

A Nanaimo musician, Pittet doesn't just play the songs of the Man in Black. For the past three years now he has worked his damndest to evoke the country/rock legend as lead singer of Almost Johnny Cash's Big River, an act that will hit Dusty's on Dec. 11.

The band is as much a musical performance as it is method acting, at least in the case of its frontman. With a gravelly, guttural voice that uncannily replicates Cash's, Pittet has put a mountain of effort into his performance. He has matched his hair, his posture and his clothing to his subject.

Most cover bands depend merely on nostalgia to draw an audience. Big River wants you to imagine the man is right there up on stage.

Almost Johnny Cash has a rather unremarkable beginning: it was five years ago and the biopic Walk the Line was in theatres. Pittet's girlfriend suggested they see it about six months after it hit the multiplexes - a long life in theatres for any film.

"I just started singing along and talking," he said in an interview. "She said you sound better than Joaquin Phoenix."

The film tapped into something. Like Cash, Pittet grew up in a farming community. His father owned the hardware store in Tofield, Alberta, just outside of Edmonton, and all of his friends were farmers. He helped them bale hay, tend to horses, all while he listened to the sounds of Ring of Fire and Folsom Prison Blues on CFTW radio.

Two years after seeing Walk the Line, Pittet found himself hanging out after hours at the bar in the Queens Hotel in Nanaimo, formerly a blues-y venue that has since turned to more of a rock audience. In the green room after a show he picked up a guitar and started playing Ring of Fire.

As he strummed the last chord his listeners just sat there in silence.

"What?" Dave asked, wondering whether he'd lost his touch.

"Are you Johnny's twin?" asked a man sitting at the bar. "Because dude, that's what you should be doing."

"Since then I haven't looked back," Pittet said.

From there he has worked to hone his performance - the music as well as the personality. He draws on what he says is a "sordid past," just like Johnny's, and a marital record to match.

"I had a similar marriage, if you'd like," Pittet said. "I've had quit a few children, three of them. Cash had four with his first wife."

He's backed up by a three-piece band: Robert "RJ" Morrison, a guitarist adept at pointing out "that familiar Johnny Cash groove," according to the band's website; Colin Stevenson, a drummer from Victoria who was headhunted into the band because of his ability to stay truthful to style; and Todd Sacerty, billed as the "most respected and talented bass player from Nanaimo, B.C.

Almost Johnny Cash's current tour sees Pittet traversing the west. In November he played gigs in Langley, Calgary and Vancouver. After Whistler he goes to Crofton, Slave Lake, Cold Lake and Mount Washington, playing sold out gigs along the way. That takes him up to about March and from there he said he's booked solid in bars, rodeos, casinos and other road venues.

A shy fellow by his own admission, he's truly in his place on stage.

"Johnny said in an interview once he was more comfortable in front of 10,000 people than 10," Pittet said. "If you put me up on stage, 10 people are more difficult to me than 10,000.

"It's something else when a 70 year old comes up to you and says, I saw Johnny Cash when I was 10 years old and you're as good as him any day of the week."

Saturday's performance will mark Pittet's second trip to Whistler in his life. His first was a ski trip about five years ago and he looks forward to playing in and around the mountains once more.

As we hang up the phone he offers a farewell that can only have been inspired by Cash himself: "May the wind always be at your back," he says.