"Yes, they were engaged over the holidays and are very happy," her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. A source adds that the couple, who spent Christmas at home in Los Angeles, "had family and close friends in town who helped them celebrate." Rimes, 28, and Cibrian, 37, were spotted on a Malibu beach on Monday, where she was wearing a new engagement ring.

On Monday afternoon, Rimes thanked fans for their support, writing on Twitter, "Thank you for all your well wishes!! We are extremely excited and look forward to a beautiful future. It's been an incredible last few days, I was shocked!!! We are blessed, our families are so happy and our lives are filled with love."

Famous television series "Masterpiece Classic" showed a very sweet movie "My Boy Jack" based on the song of Nobel Prize winner world famous author Rudyard Kipling. Movie was filmed in August 2007, with Olivier Award-winning English actor, Haig as Rudyard Kipling and English actor Daniel Radcliffe as Jack Kipling.

They are pretty good. Very British, of course. This one involves "Rudyard Kipling's son, Jack, joins the Irish Guard at the outset of World War I, triggering family conflict and presaging tragedy." So it might not be as happy-go-lucky as the one we watched, but a must watch indeed.

The film did well, attracting about 5.7 million viewers on its original broadcast in the UK on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2007. Rudyard Kipling was born on 30th December, so nice way to show tribute to a great talented man.

Celebrity daughter Willow Smith has gone from hair-raising to hair-whipping. Will smith's daughter is rocking in her new bowl-cut. Not only does it frame her cute face, but it's not too over-the-top.

Also it leaves room for the 10-year-old to experiment. She's already added teal extensions to the back.

Now that she's joining Justin Bieber's European tour this spring, who do you think will be making the biggest hair statement?

Of course it's Willow.

Bronx Mowgli Wentz the cute son of famous celebrity couple Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz turned 2 on Nov. 20, but the gifts and entertainment continues. Ashlee says he'll still have a nice Christmas - though they'll have to branch out in terms of presents.

"He just had his birthday, and he got a lot of gifts," the pop singer, 26, told PEOPLE on Monday at an Alice & Olivia toy drive in West Hollywood. "He'll still have a great Christmas, and he's really into Thomas the Train, but we have enough Thomas, so we do not need that this year!"

Bronx will be among the lucky kids who will get the chance to enjoy every festival with his family. "For my husband and I, it's nice to start those traditions now," Ashlee says. "What we're doing with the tree, what we did over Thanksgiving ... we actually had an amazing Thanksgiving with Peter's family."

Looking to the future, those traditions will also include Sister Jessica Simpson's future husband, Eric Johnson. Their relationship, says Ashlee, is as festive as anything this season.

"She is genuinely very, very happy, and you go to their house and it's warm and cozy, and it's a good feeling," she says. "And he's just a good guy."

After the decision of separation from Tony Parker, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria was back on the set of her ABC show - where she's getting the support of her castmates.

"Everyone is being very sympathetic to Eva's situation," a source tells PEOPLE. "Work has to go on - but the whole set is very protective of Eva." Adds the source: "Everyone tried to make sure yesterday that filming went as smoothly as possible."

According to a friend of the actress, she's "devastated" after discovering Parker had been carrying on a text message relationship for months with Erin Barry, wife of his former teammate Brent Barry.

"She is simply heartbroken," the friend tells PEOPLE. "She really wishes Tony the best. She just wants this whole situation to be as peaceful as it can be under the circumstances. He's a good person at heart, and she wants the best for him."

"She has a group of girlfriends she's very close to that are helping her," Longoria's friend says. "She's also very close to her family. And the cast of Desperate Housewives have been wonderful, especially Marcia [Cross] and Felicity [Huffman], [who] are there for her through this."

Brad and Angelina always been a great parents and they proved again while celebrating Pax Jolie-Pitt's 7th birthday. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made a full day of it with their kids - minus the 2-year-old twins - starting with a hot-air balloon ride and finishing with a party cruise on a riverboat.

They turned up unannounced in the morning at the riverside Parc André Citroen in the Left Bank for a ride in a tethered hot-air balloon. "They were like any other family," the balloon's operator tells PEOPLE. "There was nothing out of the ordinary to tell you about them which made them any different from any other family."

He adds that they were "charming" and the kids were "excited but well-behaved. What I think they wanted was a little moment of peace."

"We made a short cruise upriver. They stayed on board for about 90 minutes," a crewmember tells PEOPLE. "Angelina is a very beautiful woman in person. She was friendly and spoke to me. Brad," the female crew member said with a sigh, "is very, very nice and very outgoing. He played a lot with the kids."

The birthday celebrations capped a busy weekend for Pitt and Jolie, who also took daughters Zahara and Shiloh shopping on Saturday.

It's been a year of challenges and difficulties for Heidi Montag's mom Darlene Egelhoff. Due to some conflicts she didn't maintained any relationship withMontag since February, and being a mother of three and her husband, Tim, also now face an immense financial hurdle.

Timberlines, a popular restaurant featured on The Hills and owned by Egelhoff and her husband in Montag's hometown of Crested Butte, Colo., recently went out of business after a 21-year run.

"We're a tourist town, so our business department was dependent on the economy," Egelhoff tells PEOPLE. "Business started declining. We tried to make the necessary adjustments, but we were just not quite in time. We were forced to close because of the economy." Egelhoff admits her family hit such a financial low that, at the end of last year, she even borrowed money from Montag.

Egelhoff has now gone from owning a restaurant and making appearances on The Hills to cleaning houses for a living. Really sad!! "The work is sporadic and competitive," Egelhoff says. "My work is not enough to pay the bills. We need other work immediately. [My son] Sky is eligible for free lunch at school and is proud to take advantage of it."