Ben Widdicombe of the New York Daily News says that Salma Hayek is pregnant and engaged to boyfriend Francois-Henri Pinault (this handsome devil).  Pinault is not well know in America - most never even knew the two were dating - but he is a billionaire and well known in his native France.  He is the CEO of PPR, the world's third largest luxury conglomerate. PPR was founded by Francois-Henris father, Francois Pinault.  PPR owns Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, the French department store Printemps, catalog giant La Redoute and the music-and-book chain FNAC.  Their main holding company is Artemis, which owns Christie's auction house, the Château Latour vineyard, the French news magazine Le Point, several newspapers, a soccer club and a Paris theater.  At one time they also owned Converse, Samsonite luggage and the Vail Ski resort in Colorado.  Salma's publicist told Ben:

“Businessman, Francois-Henri Pinault, and his fiancee, Salma Hayek, are happy to announce they are expecting the arrival of their first child."

Wow, what a lucky break that a Hollywood actresses soul mate would be a billionaire.  How shocking.  Love is funny I guess.  Even with all our advanced technology, we still cant predict the heart.  We can put horses on Mars but still cant explain a simple thing like love.  I guess the big question is what am I gonna wear.  I’m thinking my ivory tipped cane, top hat and spats, just in case I have to do a big number.

I keep hearing about how there's all this pressure to be thin in Hollywood.  And yet … damn.  Salama Hayek has always been thick but now she's really pushing the limits.  It goes against my every instinct to make fun of a chick with big boobs but when the hell did she get this fat.  I bet when she sits down she looks like a panda (like this).  And it might not be the best idea to wear one color like that.  People might think she's a bean bag.  

FUN FACT: spell-check recommends "salami" for "Salma".  I think spell-check just called her fat.

SEXY UPDATE - Hot sounding reader Ashli says, "Just a little FYI - Salma Hayek is wearing a fat suit for a guest spot on Ugly Betty, she hasn't sullied her perfect body with cheesecake and cookies.  As a girl, I would still hit it though."  And since chicks who say “I would hit it” about other chicks and spell their names in cute little ways are well known to be really smart and have nothing but the highest integrity, I've decided that she is 100 percent right.  About everything.  All the time.  Not just this.



God this must have been a really slow year for nude scenes in movies, because Salma Hayek and her huge boobs have been named as the star of the Best Nude Scene of 2006 for her ocean skinny dipping scene with Colin Farrell in "Ask the Dust".  Whatever the hell that is.  More people were killed by gorillas last year than saw that movie.  IMDb describes it as "a depression era drama that oh my god this sounds boring already".  The scene is boring too.  Either I have cataracts or this thing is so dimly lit, it's hard to even tell who is who.  I guess they're skinny dipping, but it's hard to tell.  You could have spun the camera around and filmed someone making s'mores and it would have been sexier than this.

You can download the bedroom scene here, the skinny dipping scene here.