Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hold a press conference in Namibia on June 7, 2006.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, in their first public appearance since daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born May 27 in Namibia, thanked the southern African nation on Wednesday for the privacy and peace they enjoyed for the birth of their baby.
We have been able to have a very special, peaceful time for our family here, exploring your country and more importantly helping with the delivery of our daughter, Shiloh," Pitt told a news conference for local journalists at a hotel in the coastal town of Swakopmund, according to the Associated Press.
"So for that we are eternally grateful." Jolie, smiling and wearing a long black dress, said that she and Pitt had wanted to find a place where they could spend some special time with her kids, Maddox, 4, and Zahara, 1.
"We both had traveled to Africa and loved this part of the world," the actress said. During Shiloh's birth, the local staff of the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital assisted her parents' obstetrician from Los Angeles, Jason Rothbart, M.D. "Angelina underwent a scheduled Cesarean due to breech presentation," Dr. Rothbart told PEOPLE exclusively just days after the birth.
"The baby was a healthy 7 lbs. Brad was with Angelina in the operating room the entire time and cut the umbilical cord of his daughter. The surgery and birth went flawlessly.The staff, nurses and doctors I worked with at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital were amazing, it was a team effort."
The family is expected to remain in Namibia for a few weeks before heading back to L.A. so Pitt can begin shooting Ocean's Thirteen.
When Pitt and Jolie first retreated to Namibia in April, bodyguards and undercover local police shielded the couple from intruding paparazzi, erecting green cloth screens around the beach resort where they are staying. The nation's government also issued an edict demanding that foreign journalists wanting to cover the birth must have written permission from Pitt and Jolie to enter the country and obtain a work permit.
To celebrate the birth of their daughter, Pitt and Jolie donated $300,000 in Namibia to help treat other new babies at state hospitals in two towns in the country. "We want to contribute to Namibia and the people who have been so gracious to us at this time," the new parents said in a statement.
The couple also gave $15,000 to a school and community center they had visited in the Mondesa area of Swakopmund. "While we celebrate the joy of the birth of our daughter, we recognize that two million babies born every year in the developing world die on the first day of their lives," they said. "These children can be saved, but only if governments around the world make it a priority."
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Alanis Morissette, Ryan Reynolds Split
Alanis Morissette and Ryan Reynolds
Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette and her fiancé for the past two years, actor Ryan Reynolds, have split, a source close to the couple confirms to PEOPLE.
Morissette, 32, and Reynolds, 29, first met at Drew Barrymore's birthday party in 2002 and dated for two years before becoming engaged in 2004.
In June 2005, Morissette told PEOPLE.com of her fiancé, "He's just such a supportive creature. I feel so loved by him, in a trampoline kind of way. He's always very happy for me." She credited the success of their relationship in part to the fact that they're both Canadian. "We already started off with the shorthand, so I think it's a really great base. I attempted dating many American men. I tried!" No wedding date was ever announced. "We're just really enjoying this (engagement) phase," Morissette told PEOPLE.com last year. Said Reynolds, "We feel like we're already married."
Reps for Morissette and Reynolds could not be reached for comment.
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Katharine McPhee Signs Record Deal
Katherine McPhee
weeks after the American Idol season finale, runner-up Katharine McPhee has signed a record deal with Clive Davis, the famed music mogul who also jump-started careers for Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston and others.
The deal, announced Tuesday, is in conjunction with 19 Recordings Unlimited, the label managed by "Idol" creator Simon Fuller.
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McPhee's versions of "Over the Rainbow" and "My Destiny" will be released in stores and through digital outlets on June 27.
Speaking to PEOPLE as the Idol season ended, Davis said of McPhee, 22: "My first task is going to be to sit down with her and see what her vision is for herself. … She is a pop singer. There is no question. Our task will be to find hits for her that fit her like a glove and can be hits on today's radio.
That is the challenge and the task that lies in front of us." McPhee, who has been singing since she was 2, lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and has said she hopes eventually to do movies as well as musical theater.
A week ago, the show's first-place winner, 29-year-old Alabama crooner Taylor Hicks, announced a similar deal with 19 Recordings Unlimited and Davis, who will oversee Hicks's first album.
Hicks's versions of the original song "Do I Make You Proud?" and the Doobie Brothers' "Takin' It to the Streets" will be released on June 13, with a full-length album due later this year.
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McCartneys Deny Custody Report
Paul McCartney
Despite a U.S. television report, Heather Mills McCartney has not gained full custody of Beatrice, her 2-year-old daughter with estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney, reps for both Heather and Sir Paul tell PEOPLE.
The TV show Extra reported Tuesday that Michele Elyzabeth, described as Heather's publicist, said Heather had gone to court in London on Friday and received an order granting her full custody, with visitation rights for Sir Paul. Sir Paul's U.K. publicist, Stuart Bell, tells PEOPLE the claim is "total rubbish."
And Heather's U.K. rep, Anya Noakes, tells PEOPLE, "Michele is Heather's U.S.-based publicist and a friend of hers, but I have absolutely no idea why she would have said this as no decisions have been made about custody of Beatrice." (Noakes also said that reports that Heather will appear on Larry King Live were "not true – no plans at all.")
Last week, Sir Paul disputed another report regarding custody of Beatrice.In a June 1 posting on his Web site, he wrote: "I continue to be dismayed by inaccuracies in the media.
I have seen the story in Hello magazine regarding custody arrangements for Heather's and my daughter, Beatrice, which is simply not true.
We both have agreed to work at all times in Beatrice's best interest, but no decisions have been made yet."
In May, Heather, 38, and Sir Paul, who turns 64 on June 18, announced their split after nearly four years of marriage.
No matter what, McCartney's longtime friend and former John Lennon girlfriend May Pang tells PEOPLE, "This separation will not stop Paul from being a good father, as he has always been."
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