It was a family affair Saturday as Lynne Spears hung out with Britney and her sons Preston and Jayden for an overnight visit at the star’s Studio City home.

In town since Wednesday, Lynne and Britney have been enjoying some mother-daughter bonding, shopping at the True Religion warehouse and Pottery Barn on Friday before enjoying a “girls dinner” of salad, sushi rolls, and fish at Bond St. restaurant with two of Britney’s pals.

“Britney walked in with a big smile and introduced her mom to the staff,” says an observer. “She looked gorgeous, and I have never seen her in a better mood. She was laughing the whole time she was here. Britney seemed to have the best time hanging out with her mom and friends.”

Meanwhile, dad Jamie spent the weekend at his new house in Santa Monica.

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Jessica Simpson has encountered some skeptics since announcing her plan to leave pop music and go country, but don’t count Jewel among them.

Instead, the Nashville Star judge offers a warm country welcome to Simpson, whose debut single, “Come on Over,” has cracked the top 25 on the Mediabase country airplay chart.

“I really like Jessica. She’s always been such a sweet, sweet person,” Jewel says. “If I were going to give her any advice, I would say work hard and be authentic. Be true to who you are.”

If she does that, Jewel says, country fans will continue to embrace her. “The thing about country music is its fans have an excellent authenticity meter. They can spot bull—- a mile away,” Jewel says. “Anyone who comes to country music just to dabble in it, or who doesn’t know it or respect it as a genre and respect its history and tradition, is not going to make it.” That’s the same advice Jewel gives the contestants on the NBC reality competition Nashville Star, which she judges with John Rich and Jeffrey Steele.

And she should know. When it comes to her own music, including the recently released, chart-topping album, Perfectly Clear, Jewel is — well, perfectly clear that it ain’t her first rodeo in Nashville.

“I was raised on country music. It’s not as if I woke up one day and said, ‘I think I’ll be a country artist.’ I’m doing the same kind of music now that I have always done,” she says. ” If “You Were Meant For Me” (one of the hits from her first album Pieces of You) was released today, it would be a country song, I’d be signed to a Nashville label and my music would be promoted on country radio.”

In fact, Perfectly Clear is on a Nashville label (The Valory Music Co.), and the first single, “Stronger Woman,” is played on country radio. The new single, “I Do,” has just been released along with a video costarring her real-life boyfriend, rodeo cowboy Ty Murray.

Simpson’s wrote or co-wrote all but three of the songs on her first country album, due out this fall. No word on whether her real-life boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, will appear in any music videos.

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Former White House press secretary Tony Snow died Saturday after a second battle with cancer. He was 53.

“The Snow family has lost a beloved husband and father. And America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character,” President Bush said Saturday in a statement. “It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day.”

Snow, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for a recurrence of the disease, which he spoke in May 2007 about, served as press secretary from May 2006 to September 14, 2007. He then joined CNN as a conservative commentator.

“To find yourself the object of love of people you don’t know, that hits you. It’s incredibly moving,” Snow said of the outpouring of well-wishes he received.

“His dear family is in our thoughts and prayers,” White House press secretary Dana Perino, Snow’s successor, said. “The White House is so deeply saddened by this loss. He was a great friend and colleague and a fantastic press secretary.”

Snow was first treated for colon cancer in 2005, at which time his colon was removed. The recurrence of cancer found in March 2007 was attached to his liver, not inside it.

At the time, John Edwards said of Snow: “Tony has been an incredible example for people living with cancer and cancer survivors.”

Snow is survived by his wife, Jill, two daughters and a son.

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The Cruise family has sent along a present to welcome little Sunday Rose Kidman Urban.

Contrary to some reports that Tom Cruise gave ex-wife Nicole Kidman a “room full of flowers,” the actor and his family – including Cruise’s children with Kidman, Bella, 15, and Connor, 13 – actually sent a huge baby basket to Nashville.

The high-end gift included chenille Giraffe baby blankets, items from the Hermes baby line and other newborn necessities.

Kidman, 41, gave birth to Sunday Rose at a Nashville hospital on Monday morning, with husband Keith Urban, 40, by her side for the smooth delivery.

“We feel immensely blessed and grateful to be given this beautiful baby girl,” the happy couple said in an exclusive statement. “She’s an absolute delight.”

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Emily Blunt and Michael Bublé have parted ways after three years together.

“They are no longer a couple,” Bublé’s rep Liz Rosenberg confirms.

The Golden Globe-winning British actress, 25, and the 32-year-old crooner met in 2005, when she popped backstage to say hello to him after one of his concerts.

Each was the other’s biggest cheerleader. “I get tears in my eyes when I see him onstage. It’s overwhelming,” Blunt said.

The feeling was mutual for Bublé. “Every time I see her onscreen, I fall in love with her all over again,” he said.

After Bublé, Blunt’s second biggest fan was her boyfriend’s mom. “I love her,” Amber Bublé, 53, gushed this spring. “In fact if he doesn’t marry her, I’ll kill him. But we’d find someone in the family to marry her because we’re not letting her go, ever. She’s just the best thing ever and they’re perfect together.”

But the strains of a long distance relationship may have weighed on the couple, who shared a home in Vancouver. With their busy acting and touring schedules, “It’s not easy,” Bublé said in April.

The split was first reported on perezhilton.com.

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Uma Thurman and her Swiss multimillionaire fiancé Arpad “Arki” Busson announced their engagement on June 28 – and they are still celebrating the good news.

On Wednesday, the pair’s close family and friends came together for a formal party at Thurman’s Manhattan apartment.

In the days after their engagement, they also celebrated with friends in Saint-Tropez, and had another party in London where Busson is based.

“I have never seen her as thrilled. She looks amazing,” says a source. “She is surrounded by tons of happy friends.”

Up next for Thurman, 38, and Busson, 45: They’ve set off for the Mediterranean island of Corsica for more sunshine and a little scuba diving. “She deserves it,” says the source.

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HBO executives say they are “absolutely interested” in making follow-up to the hugely popular Sex and the City movie.

“Everybody came away feeling very excited by [the first film’s] quality and its success, so that always invites the possibility of a continuation,” HBO co-president Richard Plepler said Thursday after the network’s session at the Television Critics Association’s press tour.

Will it actually happen?

“It’s really up to [director] Michael Patrick [King] and Sarah Jessica [Parker] and the rest of the girls,” he said. “But do I think at some point in the next four to five years there’s a likely possibility? Yeah, I think there’s a likely possibility.”

Jennifer Hudson, for one, is ready to reprise her role.

A sequel is “not out of the question,” she said Thursday night at London’s Keep a Child Alive fund-raiser hosted by Alicia Keys. “I would love to be a part of that.”

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