The estate of actor Heath Ledger has been tied up for some time now, with legalities and family squabbles and such, but it seems a decision has finally been reached.  Heath’s family have decided to donate the whole estate to his daughter Matilda:

Two years before his little girl was born, the Dark Knight star – who died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in January – signed a will leaving his fortune to his parents and sisters.

But Ledger’s father, Kim, says they have decided that all the money should all go to 2-year-old Matilda (the actor’s daughter with ex-girlfriend Michelle Williams).

In fact, he tells PEOPLE, that was the plan “from the moment my boy passed away.”

It’s been a while now since the family promised that Matilda would be taken care of, and it was thought that perhaps she wouldn’t receive her fair share, especially with the familial infighting that was going on between Heath’s father and his brother.  However, it seems good has won, and while his millions will never bring this little girl’s daddy back, perhaps it will at least secure her future so her mom wouldn’t have to worry about it.  He and Matilda’s mother, actress Michelle Williams, remained close even after they separated, by all accounts he doted on his daughter, and I think it was what Heath would have wanted.

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Wow.  You know it’s got to be bad when one of your own fan clubs turns on you.

Over at sienna-miller.org, a fan site devoted to the actress, it seems that the person running it has had enough of Sienna’s shenanigans and is jumping ship:

It must be obvious that my heart has not been in this site for the past couple of years. This is due to several reasons, the main ones being the loss of Katy and Maddie from the site staff, a lack of time, and how Sienna has changed. Regarding the change in Sienna, I know others at the forum feel the same, and while some may argue she has simply grown up and reacted to events in a normal way, I cannot get past the fact that to me she has completely changed from the Sienna I became a fan of back in 2004. I don’t say that lightly because (believe it or not) I do still have a lot of respect for Sienna and still consider myself a supportive fan.

I’ve tried to forget about that and update whenever I can (although yes, that has not been much!) … however, recent events - that of Sienna’s affair with a married father of 4 and extremely public PDA’s - have heightened my lack of interest in the site and Sienna. We do not know the whole story behind this affair, and some may argue it is not our place to judge BUT when Sienna can cavort so publicly and so shamelessly with this man who IS married and does have 4 children (including a baby only a few months old) with his wife, my respect for her goes out of the window. One minute she says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress and she’s sick of all the false stories about her in the press … and the next she’s topless on a beach with a married man’s hands all over her - come on Sienna, you know the paparazzi are going to be around. If she was serious about being taken seriously she would, well, not display herself so publicly like this.

I do have a huge amount of respect for Sienna’s career - I think she chooses fantastic roles and I am genuinely excited to see how her career is going to progress. However, unfortunately her career is always going to take a back seat to the tabloid rubbish, and no matter how hard we try to avoid the gossip we just can’t.

Therefore I am looking for someone to become a co-webmistress/master here at Sienna Online. You will be responsible for keeping not only the gallery, but also the news and all other content up-to-date. You need to have excellent sources, be willing to buy magazines to scan etc., have a similar ‘work ethic’ to me (ie must like original content etc!) and have time to update regularly/at least a few times each week. You must be able to keep up with everything in Sienna-world. To apply just send me an email. I’m aware I have asked for this a few times before and never actually got back to anyone - that is because no-one has fully fitted the bill.

If I do not find someone suitable soon, then I’m sad to say that Sienna Online will be closing. I am reluctant to close because of the work that has gone into this site over the years, the fact that we have been here since Sienna’s career first took off, and because we are the only website with complete, in depth content. However, I’m at a point now where I would close the site if I can’t find someone to run it properly, like it deserves.

Wow.  Sienna has fans?  I thought they would have all bailed by this point.

To get you up to speed, Sienna was caught cavorting on the beaches of Italy with Balthazar Getty, very married actor and father of four shortly after dumping boyfriend Rhys Ifans.  To some, this was a case of life imitating life, as one of the reasons she and Jude Law separated was because of his affair with his kids’ nanny.  Her “friendly” ways may have contributed as well.  She’s also been romantically linked to various other men/co-stars.  She’s just real friendly!

So anyway, the position as Sienna’s fan is open.  I’d go apply for it myself, but…I don’t like Sienna Miller.  I think that kind of disqualifies me.  So, I am passing along this golden opportunity to you.  Here’s a dream job just chock-full of opportunity for advancement…that is, if you’re married.  And kind of cute.  And male.  Well, perhaps not necessarily.

(btw, the post on the Sienna Miller fan site was made August 6, and it is now September 30.  Seems the position is still open.  Ain’t sayin’, just sayin’.)

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Wow.  You know it’s got to be bad when one of your own fan clubs turns on you.

Over at sienna-miller.org, a fan site devoted to the actress, it seems that the person running it has had enough of Sienna’s shenanigans and is jumping ship:

It must be obvious that my heart has not been in this site for the past couple of years. This is due to several reasons, the main ones being the loss of Katy and Maddie from the site staff, a lack of time, and how Sienna has changed. Regarding the change in Sienna, I know others at the forum feel the same, and while some may argue she has simply grown up and reacted to events in a normal way, I cannot get past the fact that to me she has completely changed from the Sienna I became a fan of back in 2004. I don’t say that lightly because (believe it or not) I do still have a lot of respect for Sienna and still consider myself a supportive fan.

I’ve tried to forget about that and update whenever I can (although yes, that has not been much!) … however, recent events - that of Sienna’s affair with a married father of 4 and extremely public PDA’s - have heightened my lack of interest in the site and Sienna. We do not know the whole story behind this affair, and some may argue it is not our place to judge BUT when Sienna can cavort so publicly and so shamelessly with this man who IS married and does have 4 children (including a baby only a few months old) with his wife, my respect for her goes out of the window. One minute she says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress and she’s sick of all the false stories about her in the press … and the next she’s topless on a beach with a married man’s hands all over her - come on Sienna, you know the paparazzi are going to be around. If she was serious about being taken seriously she would, well, not display herself so publicly like this.

I do have a huge amount of respect for Sienna’s career - I think she chooses fantastic roles and I am genuinely excited to see how her career is going to progress. However, unfortunately her career is always going to take a back seat to the tabloid rubbish, and no matter how hard we try to avoid the gossip we just can’t.

Therefore I am looking for someone to become a co-webmistress/master here at Sienna Online. You will be responsible for keeping not only the gallery, but also the news and all other content up-to-date. You need to have excellent sources, be willing to buy magazines to scan etc., have a similar ‘work ethic’ to me (ie must like original content etc!) and have time to update regularly/at least a few times each week. You must be able to keep up with everything in Sienna-world. To apply just send me an email. I’m aware I have asked for this a few times before and never actually got back to anyone - that is because no-one has fully fitted the bill.

If I do not find someone suitable soon, then I’m sad to say that Sienna Online will be closing. I am reluctant to close because of the work that has gone into this site over the years, the fact that we have been here since Sienna’s career first took off, and because we are the only website with complete, in depth content. However, I’m at a point now where I would close the site if I can’t find someone to run it properly, like it deserves.

Wow.  Sienna has fans?  I thought they would have all bailed by this point.

To get you up to speed, Sienna was caught cavorting on the beaches of Italy with Balthazar Getty, very married actor and father of four shortly after dumping boyfriend Rhys Ifans.  To some, this was a case of life imitating life, as the reason she and Jude Law separated was because of his affair with his kids’ nanny.  She’s also been romantically linked to various other men/co-stars.  She’s just real friendly!

So anyway, the position as Sienna’s fan is open.  I’d go apply for it myself, but…I don’t like Sienna Miller.  I think that kind of disqualifies me.  So, I am passing along this golden opportunity to you.  Here’s a dream job just chock-full of opportunity for advancement…that is, if you’re married.  And kind of cute.  And male.  Well, perhaps not necessarily.

(btw, the post on the Sienna Miller fan site was made August 6, and it is now September 30.  Seems the position is still open.  Ain’t sayin’, just sayin’.)

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Seriously, are there any people left in Showbizland who have even a modicum of sense?  Or did they sign that away when they agreed to fame and fortune?

Case in point:  Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid.  Former spouses who went so far as to have a child together before going their separate ways, they had pretty much kept hushy-mouthed over personal details in their lives.  Until now, that is…when one has a movie to promote and interviews to give, all bets are apparently off.  Meg has been running her mouth about the painful breakup of her marriage, saying that while she may have had an affair she was simply following Dennis’ lead:

Ryan’s freedom from conventional values revealed itself when she began an affair in 2000 with Russell Crowe, her co-star in Proof of Life, as her nine-year marriage to Dennis Quaid was falling apart. Suddenly, much of the enormous public affection for her turned to anger, and everything was affected: her image, her career, her sense of self. “It was a great story,” she says. “But what wasn’t in the story was the reality of my marriage…” And what was the reality? After a pause, Ryan says quietly, “Dennis was not faithful to me for a long time, and that was very painful…”

This is surprising—the story splashed across magazine covers at the time cast her as the cheater. “I think when things get played out that simply in black-and-white, it makes people feel good… The tabloid culture can’t tell a complicated story.” But Ryan is committed to the complicated story. She wasn’t the stereotypical long-suffering wife, nor was Quaid a monster. Meg is adamant: “I am not a victim. I was there. I was in that marriage for a really long time.”

Ryan did get a little lost in the tabloid story of her marriage and divorce. “Some days you think, This is so crazy, and you are all intellectual about it,” Ryan explains. “And other days, it’s just really, really painful.” She knew she could have filled in the details of Quaid’s cheating, which would have made it clear that she was not the one who wandered over the many years of their relationship. And she now wonders about her choice to say nothing at all: “I think I made a mistake in not talking more specifically.”

Dennis, for his part, is so angry that Meg has been talking about their personal, uhm, affairs to the press, that he has unleashed his ire, and you guessed it, it appears in the media:

“It was eight years ago, and I find it unbelievable that Meg continues publicly to rehash and rewrite the story of our relationship,” the actor tells us exclusively. “Also, I find it regrettable that our son, Jack, has to be reminded in a public way of the turmoil and pain that every child feels in a divorce.” [...]

Quaid, who went on to marry real estate agent Kimberly Buffington and have twins last November, adds: “I, myself, moved on years ago and am fortunate to have a happy, beautiful family.”

Nothing says “I hate my ex slamming me in the media,” like using the media to slam your ex back.  Way to think about your kid and their feelings, you two chuckleheads.

I think my work here is done.

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The Many Faces Of Casey Anthony

As the global community sits on pins and needles waiting to see how the economic crisis brought on by avarice greed on Wallstreet plays out, some is still quite rotten in the State of Florida.

Glosslip’s been covering the sad story of missing 3-year old Caylee Anthony since the story broke in July. While there are thousands of children who go missing each year, and each and every single one is horrific, this one in particular as captured the fascination of our collective consciousness like so few have.

Caylee, who would have turned 3 on August 9th, is presumed dead by the Orange County Law Enforcement community and the Orlando police. DNA testing taken from her mother, Casey Anthony’s impounded car revealed decomposition and that testing points to the death of little Caylee. Casey, who waited 31 days to report her child missing, only did so after being tracked down and cornered by her family who’d grown worried about the missing tot.

Casey has claimed from the beginning that her daughter was kidnapped by a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez who police have cleared of any wrong doing, and who maintains she doesn’t even KNOW Casey or her daughter Caylee. In fact, having her name implicated with this sensational case, despite being exonerated early on in the case, is now suing Casey Anthony for ruining the innocent woman’s reputation and making it impossible for her to get a job.

Casey’s parents, Cindy and George Anthony, grandparents to Caylee have been embroiled in their own nightmare and have been battling the public at large both in the media and in front of their home, which has now become a local tourist destination. Really? I mean REALLY!?

So far, Casey has been arrested and charged with obstruction of justice, child neglect and check, theft, forgery and larceny charges stemming from stealing money and checks from family and friends, as well as, gas cans and her parents car. While she is a “person of interest” in her daughter’s disappearance, she has NOT been charged with any crimes relating to Caylee being missing. While we can only speculate as to why, we do know that the prosecutors and law enforcement officials have allowed extremely incriminating evidence to be leaked to the public, but still no charges filed.

What seems obvious to some, may not be obvious to all.

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With yet another film debuting at number one, Shia LaBeouf has bragging rights to the title of King of the Box office as he steps into the same league as Will Smith and Tom Hanks. His movie Eagle Eye, which also stars Michelle Monaghan, took in over $29 million at the U.S. box office in its first weekend on release, according to early studio estimates.

It’s the second number one debut for LaBeouf and director D.J. Caruso, who also teamed up for Disturbia last year.

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Actress Heather Locklear was arrested by the California Highway Patrol for suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance. She was picked up in Montecito after someone called 911 to report an erratic driver - who was deliberately destroying a pair of sunglasses!

The LA Times reports: Locklear showed bizarre behavior, driving back and forth over a pair of sunglasses on the pavement and revving her engine. After leaving the parking lot, she stopped her car on the street and stumbled into the traffic lane, according to the caller, who followed Locklear out of concern, Marshall said.

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Lately, the life of Amy Winehouse has been nothing more than a very slow trainwreck, and quite frankly if something drastic is not done and fast I do not believe she will last the year…if she does, I will be very surprised.  However, one seemingly constant good and stabilizing influence in her life has been her father Mitch, who was by her side when she actually checked herself into rehab to clean up for the Grammys (and previous rehabbing attempts).

At the beginning, he tried and tried to get her clean, making statements such as this:

Her father Mitch Winehouse has admitted that he is terrified that she will fall into her old habits and is concerned she’ll be ‘dead in three months’. [For the record, this was at the end of June, and it is now the end of September, three months ago.]

Amy collapsed at her North London home last week and was taken for tests at a London hospital by her 57-year-old father, who later said: ‘With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up.’

‘The only thing that can go into her lungs are fresh air. She faces a stark choice - either she sticks to it or she won’t sing again.’

‘To think this could be my beautiful 24-year-old daughter’s life is preposterous. But if drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it.

‘But the doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,’ he said.

And this:

“She understands she has to change. All she wants to do now is to sing,” he added. [...]

“I’m saying to those drug dealers, and they know who they are, if they are supplying crack to Amy, then they’ve got to take responsibility. I don’t want her hanging out with her mates like Pete Doherty either,” he said.

And this:

In an exclusive interview with the News of the World, he said: “I want her sectioned. The situation is getting out of control. I want her off the street.”

Dismissing another stint in rehab, Mitch said: “I don’t think being somewhere for six weeks is going to cure her problems.

“I think it needs far more radical measures. We will take the bull by the horns and deal with it.” [...]

Mitch, 57, revealed: “I’ve been on the phone to Amy’s manager in Los Angeles and he’s starting things rolling. They are going to be speaking to doctors, psychologists and everything else.

“I want Amy to be somewhere where she will be safe and where no harm can come to her.

“Obviously as her dad I will try and do what’s best for her.

“Unfortunately, what I think is best for Amy and what she thinks is best for her are two different things.

“And it might be that other parties might need to be involved.

“You need all four–the psychologists, the doctor, the local health authority and the next of kin–all to decide that somebody is sectionable.

“Now is the time to exert whatever pressure we have to try to do it.

“I’ve told them she is a danger to herself. There is evidence of self-harming and she’s a danger to other people because she’s attacked someone.”

And this:

Winehouse also says his daughter’s alcohol and drug abuse caused a seizure in August. Further attacks could be life-threatening. “She could die horribly. That is not going to happen–that cannot happen,” he says.

Oh, and one more…while he didn’t say all of this, it’s about him as well as Amy:

Her second overdose was in July – when she inhaled an “inhuman” amount of hash that left her vomiting uncontrollably and hallucinating.

At the time devoted dad Mitch, 54, said it was a “bad reaction to her medication”.

Medics are worried Amy’s brain was damaged by the cannabis overdose – she displayed symptoms normally associated with schizophrenia.

The pal yesterday said: “The future is bleak, bleak, bleak.

“Mitch does everything he can to protect his daughter - but his ‘explanation’ for Amy’s hospital dash in July was just simply untrue.

“She had smoked an inhuman amount of hash which resulted in acute cannabis poisoning. You have to take a s***load of pot to suffer that severe a reaction.

“It’s thought she had been smoking it for 36 hours.

“Amy’s fits were as bad as the convulsions she had during her overdose in August last year. No one has mentioned her meth use before – but that stuff is truly nasty.

“She is in need of years of psychiatry and medical treatment if she has a hope.”

Well, anyway.  I’m pretty sure you get the idea.  Mitch Winehouse has presented himself as a devoted yet sometimes misguided parent, who tries to do right by his drug-addled daughter but who can’t bring himself to quite follow through with the tough love that Amy so desperately needs.  Like a lot of parents with problem children, he seems to make an attempt at getting Amy help, but backs down off his tough stance when she shows either a teensy bit of good improvement or a lot of bad temper.  It may be that he believes the cure is worse than the disease, so when the going gets tough, Mitch gets going…out of town, leaving Amy to her own devices.  Nobody knows the specifics, but what I do know is what I see, and I see a bright, lovely, talented young woman throwing her life down the crapper for drugs, and I see nobody in her family doing the hard, tough work that it will take to get her well again.  If there is workings behind closed doors to get her help, they need to get moving, and fast.

Dawn just did a story on Amy and a horrific night she had, ruining her goddaughter’s singing debut by hugging her and moaning gibberish into the microphone (who in their right mind would let Amy be a godparent, let alone invite her to sing with the poor child?), trying to headbutt yet another poor soul who wanted a picture, crying that she can’t go on like this, and arriving home holding her hair on and missing a shoe.  Friends of Amy are so alarmed by this latest terrible chapter that they’re not leaving Amy alone, afraid that she might (purposefully or accidentally) do something bad:

The troubled singer’s mates have cancelled commitments and set up camp at her home in Camden, North London, to stay with her round the clock.

One said: “No one wants to leave Amy on her own — she’s in a very fragile state at the moment.

“Her most loyal friends are terrified she is going to do something which she can’t overcome.

“She’s been to hell and back already but some fear she’s going to get worse before she gets better.”

Amy, who is waiting for husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL to get out of prison, was due to face police questioning after allegedly serving a knuckle sandwich to dancer Sherene Flash last week.

Remember Blake Whatever-Whatever?  He turned down two, count ‘em two, get-out-of-jail-free cards in the space of about a week, all in favor of staying in jail longer so that he and Amy can be together when he finally is sprung.  It seems that this was a terrible blow to Amy, as her bad behavior has gotten worse in the past couple of weeks.  She acts like a woman who no longer cares about herself or what happens to her…with her connections and money, that is a bad thing.  Even Amy herself has said that her behavior is partly because she’s depressed and lonely because her husband is in jail (although her problems predate the jail term):

‘To be honest, my husband’s away, I’m bored, I’m young,’ Winehouse tells me.

‘I felt like there was nothing to live for. It’s just been a low ebb.’

So what does daddy Mitch Winehouse do while his daughter, who has emphysema, who is prone to brain seizures, who is addicted to drugs (including that horrible killer meth), who is facing yet more police investigations because of the punching incident the other night, who’s face is falling apart, who grows more and more skeletal every day, who admits to being depressed and angry, and whom he said would not live three more months three months ago?  Why, he did what any caring, loving, attentive, worried father would do in this situation…he took to the stage:

Meanwhile, her dad MITCH made his stage debut at the weekend, performing FRANK SINATRA classics in front of a 300-strong audience in Chiswick on Saturday night.

I was told the ex-cabbie got such a great reception that he went on to sing more classic hits for almost an hour.

You have GOT to be kidding me!  This is the last straw.  Mitch needs to get down off the stage (that he’s only on because of his daughter’s notoriety) and do something for Amy.  Nobody would give a tinker’s fart who he was if he wasn’t who he is.  All he seems to be good for any more is giving long-winded interviews where he tells the world much more than he ever should, gives a statement full of half-truths or out-and-out lies to the media whenever something bad happens, and generally letting Amy destroy herself.  Every time I turn around, I see this sack of hot air giving yet another interview on what is wrong with Amy and how it’s everyone else’s fault.  Why don’t you shut up, you big windbag…I was once one of your staunchest supporters, but not any more, not if you can sing while your daughter burns.

Is it any wonder?  I no longer am surprised that Amy is in the shape that she is in, or why she continues to stay that way.  If she dies young and tragically, she’ll be immortalized with the likes of Janis Joplin and Mama Cass, worth more dead than alive.  Do you see your daughter, Mitch?  She will be DEAD soon too, and when she dies you undoubtedly will point the finger of blame at everything and everyone, but you’ll refuse to take any blame for your own actions.  You’ll sit and moan and cry in interview after interview, while at the same time pocketing the money you get for them…not to mention anything Amy leaves behind.  Yeah, you’ll be set for life, pally.

Jamie Spears stepped in and took over his daughter’s life, got her in a hospital (against her will, she was totally incapable of making any sort of decision), made her STAY there (none of this wussy checking in and out every few hours), took over her finances, made sure she kept her appointments with the court, got her the medical help that she so desperately needed, and now look at her.  Brit’s career is back on track and while Brit isn’t out of the woods yet, she’s a lot closer than Amy is.  If Jamie Spears can do it, why can’t the family of Amy Winehouse?  Of course, at the moment I don’t think I’d want Mitch anywhere near Amy’s money, but there’s got to be somebody that could control it.

Amy is not in her right mind and possibly has brain damage from the drugs.  There’s no way she can make any sort of informed decision concerning her own well-being, at least not right now.  Somebody needs to step up and save this girl from herself.  Would people stop loving her to death and do something?

On the bright side, with the practice Mitch is getting, he’ll be in fine voice to sing at Amy’s funeral.

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Heather Locklear seems to have had her fair share of problems lately.  Back in March, police were called to her house after someone claiming to be her doctor said she was a suicide risk, her ex Richie Sambora was popped for DUI with their daughter in tow, in June Heather herself visited a rehab center for what was being called anxiety and depression, and then there was that whole BFF-Denise-Richards-banging-my-man deal.  Well, it seems things have gone from bad to worse, as over the weekend she was arrested after driving erratically:

Law enforcement officers tell us alcohol was not involved, however, they are conducting tests to determine if Locklear was under the influence of drugs.

We’re told she was released on her own recognizance, without having to post bail.

This could set up a bizarre custody battle given that Locklear and ex-hubby Richie Sambora have both been busted for similar charges.

It seems that she was also out on the roadway wandering around:

“Around 4:30 p.m., a female witness saw Heather Locklear driving erratically while leaving a parking lot in Montecito,” California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Marshall tells PEOPLE. “The witness said Locklear was revving her engine loudly, and backed over a pair of sunglasses several times.”

Soon after, the witness – who apparently didn’t recognize the actress – spotted Locklear, 47, stopped on a nearby highway, exiting her vehicle.

“The witness called 911 because she was concerned for Locklear’s safety,” Marshall said. “When a CHP officer arrived, Locklear was found seated inside her vehicle, which was partially blocking the roadway.”

Because Locklear appeared “disoriented and impaired,” she was taken to a local CHP station and drug and alcohol tests were administered, Marshall said. The actress was cooperative.

“Alcohol was ruled out as a factor, but based on the officer’s observations, we believe Locklear was under the influence of prescription medication,” Marshall added.

Locklear was arrested on suspicion of DUI and being under the influence of a controlled substance. She booked at a local jail around 7 p.m., and released hours later.

I hope this is all a misunderstanding and that perhaps she accidentally took too much of a prescription or something.  I certainly hope that this is not yet another actress throwing her life away on drugs and/or alcohol.

My question is, don’t these people have drivers?  Can’t they pay someone to haul them from place to place?

Whatever the situation, I hope Heather gets the help she needs.  She has a daughter who needs her, now more than ever.

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Ryan Reynolds became Mr. Scarlett Johansson in Canada this weekend. People magazine has the exclusive details that the couple, who announced their engagement in May, were officially married yesterday somewhere near Vancouver.

Johansson, 23, began dating Reynolds, 31, last year shortly after his split from singer Alanis Morissette, who recently expressed well wishes on her ex’s engagement.

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