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The 'My Heart Will Go On' singer - who has a nine-year-old son Rene-Charles with husband Rene Angelil - is trying not to pin too much hope on her fifth in vitro fertilisation (IVF) attempt and to focus on being content with the life she has.

She said: "There's something inside of me that says not to give myself that pressure, that it's the last time. We would love to expand our family. But honestly, I'm more than blessed with my son, he is everything to me. I'm more than fine with it."

Celine is so close to Rene-Charles - who was also conceived after fertility treatment - that she allows the youngster to sleep in the same bed as her and her husband.

She joked to Britain's Hello! magazine: "I have my two boys with me, the dog that snores, a fish tank that bubbles, the pet rat Lionel that scratches - everybody's with mommy. There's a lot of action! It's not about beauty sleep anymore. When they're not there, you miss it so much."

Celebrity baby news - Celine Dion desperately wants another baby. The singer has one child, a son she has called her miracle baby and his name is René-Charles and the boy is nine years old.  She spoke about her attempt to get pregnant again on CNN.

She told talk show host Larry King: "We would love to have another child. We are trying. We have tried four times. “It didn’t work. The first time we had a miscarriage. The three other times it did not work, it’s common. “We were lucky with René but now we are trying for a fifth time.

More celebrity toddler news...The Lovely Bones star Rachel Weisz (pictured) has said that carrying her toddler son around is the key to her slim figure. Weisz, 39, is mum to three-year-old Henry Chance with director partner Darren Aronogsky, 41.
Talking about keeping a slim figure, she said to UK newspaper Daily Mirror: "Carrying a toddler around is incredible. "I've got in shape just from the baby, not from the gym, I'm pretty healthy but I don't have any fad diet or anything. "I eat meat and drink alcohol, but everything in moderation. I think happiness is the secret to health."
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Celine Dion (pictured with her husband) has revealed she is determined to have a second child – despite four failed attempts to conceive through IVF. The 41-year-old singer appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she told the host that she’ll keep on trying for another child with manager and husband Rene Angelil.

She said: “We tried four times to have a child. We're still trying. We're on the fifth try and I tell you if five is my lucky number." The singer added, "This fifth try has got to come in."

The music diva also spoke about taking her 9-year-old son Rene-Charles to school, where she volunteers. “I don't hang too, too much and I'll tell you why ... I want to be RC's mom, I don't want to be RC's mom who's Celine Dion that we saw last week on tour,” she said.
"But at the same time I don't want to withdraw myself from being my son's mother. I'm his mother. When I'm home and I go and get my son, this is the place that I feel most rewarded.”

Celine Dion is coming "home" to Las Vegas, where she previously enjoyed a successful long run.  The Canadian singer announced she would return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for a three-year run, kicking off on March 15.

"I'm coming back home to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace and I'm very excited about it," Dion, 41, said in a statement.
"With the orchestra and the band we're going to be able to perform our songs like never before."
"The repertoire is going to be extraordinary - a mix of timeless Hollywood classics, along with all the favorites that my fans like to hear me sing. It's going to be a very beautiful show, and I think we'll be raising the bar higher than we've ever done before."

There'll be some truly wonderful moments. I can't wait."  Dion's show will feature 31 musicians, a band and an orchestra. John Meglen, president and co-chief executive of AEG Live/Concerts West, said:"Celine's impact on the entertainment standard in Las Vegas is the bar all others compare to. We look forward to her return to The Colosseum."
Dion, who sang The Titanic theme song, previously spent five years at The Colosseum performing to sold-out crowds. She went on a world tour in 2008-09.

Canadian pop star Celine Dion has announced plans to return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for a three-year residency.

The new show is designed exclusively for The Colosseum and will premiere March 15, 2011. It is expected to feature 31 musicians, consisting of a full orchestra and band.

Tickets for the first 54 performances are to go on sale Friday.

"I'm coming back home to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace and I'm very excited about it," Dion said in a statement. "With the orchestra and the band we're going to be able to perform our songs like never before. The repertoire is going to be extraordinary ... a mix of timeless Hollywood classics, along with all the favorites that my fans like to hear me sing. It's going to be a very beautiful show, and I think we'll be raising the bar higher than we've ever done before. There'll be some truly wonderful moments. ... I can't wait!"

"Celine's impact on the entertainment standard in Las Vegas is the bar all others compare to," added John Meglen, president and co-chief executive officer of AEG Live/Concerts West. "We look forward to her return to The Colosseum. We are excited about continuing our success with Caesars Palace and are optimistic on the future of Las Vegas."

Dion spent five consecutive years performing sold-out shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, then went on a yearlong worldwide tour in 2008-2009.

Singer Celine Dion has spoken out about her struggle for a second baby. The 41-year-old is already a wonderful mother to son Rene-Charles, nine, with husband Rene Angelil, 68, and she has made no secret of her desire for a second child.

The singer had to face the heartbreak of losing a baby in August last year and also three failed IVF attempts.

She said to PEOPLE: "I'm going to try until it works. Five's my lucky number, so this is the time it's got to [work]." Her husband admitted that they both "go crazy" waiting for the results after each cycle of IVF.
According to CNN, Dion has been giving herself daily hormone shots -- and then "enduring the roller-coaster ride of emotions they bring."
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Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson and Usher are to take part in a tribute to pop icon Michael Jackson at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles.

Jackson died June 25 at the age of 50. The circumstances of his death are still under investigation.

The Grammy tribute to him is to feature the premiere of the 3-D mini-movie for "Earth Song" created by Jackson as the centerpiece of his much anticipated "This Is It" tour, which had been scheduled to begin last July.

"(The 3-D film) was one of the most important portions of the concert tour to Michael and when Michael saw the film for the first time at his last rehearsal, there were tears in his eyes," said Ken Ehrlich, Grammy executive producer and longtime Jackson associate, who was also at the rehearsal that night.

"This very special Grammy moment will feature some of our most beloved Grammy winners, all of whom have a great love for Michael," added Neil Portnow, president and chief executive officer of The Recording Academy. "This segment promises to be an emotional highlight of this year's show, and is sure to join the unique list of amazing performances for which the Grammy Awards have become renowned."

CBS and Target have partnered to provide millions of free 3-D Grammy glasses so that viewers can watch the segment at home. The glasses will be available from Sunday through Jan. 31 at Target stores nationwide.

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards show is to be broadcast live from the Staples Center Jan. 31 on the CBS Television Network.

Canadian-born pop star Celine Dion says she and her husband Rene Angelil plan to continue trying to conceive a second child via in-vitro fertilization.

"We are trying to have a second child and we hope to be blessed again as parents. That would be amazing," Dion told TV's "Access Hollywood."

Asked about last month's reports claiming she had been pregnant, the 41-year-old singer explained: "We were (pregnant,) it was positive. And yes it was, so for about four or five days later, then with the blood test, they found out that it was going down a little bit and it was not staying. So it happens you know, in life in general, people who are not on TV, and newspapers, they go through this all the time. ... I feel strong and honestly, we are very blessed. We have a wonderful child, we're extremely happy. It's not like, 'Oh my God, she's not pregnant and she's depressed.' You know how it works. We are great. We hope for the best, we hope to get pregnant. If it happens, it happens."

Dion and her 67-year-old husband have an 8-year-old son named Rene-Charles.

Leona Lewis is refusing to release a single to promote the blockbuster 'Avatar'.

The 'Happy' singer is too busy with promotional duties for her own album 'Echo' to want to spend time plugging 'I See You', which is used in the £300 million film.

Angry director James Cameron has now given the British star a sneak preview of the movie - the most expensive ever made - in an attempt to persuade her to release the song but she is still said to be unable to make up her mind.

A source said: "Leona was delighted to be part of 'Avatar' but the song was never supposed to be released. But her cover of 'Run' wasn't meant to be released either - and look how well that did."

James is said to be particularly disappointed as he believes the track could be as successful as Celine Dion's 1997 hit 'My Heart Will Go On', the lead song on the soundtrack to his blockbuster 'Titanic'.

Violence and theft. Not words one would normally associate with Leona Lewis, the squeaky-clean winner of "The X Factor," who went on to stunning worldwide success with her debut album, "Spirit."

Nor, one imagines, exactly how Clive Davis, Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment envisaged the comeback push for the British singer.

While the promotional campaign for Lewis' debut was hitch-free, the setup for its follow-up, "Echo" -- released November 16 in the United Kingdom on Cowell's Syco Music and a day later in the United States on J -- has been anything but smooth.

First, in mid-August, three songs from the album sessions leaked onto the Internet, reportedly after Syco's IT system was hacked.

Then, more dramatically, Lewis was assaulted October 14 during a London book signing for her autobiography, "Dreams." The man accused of punching her in the head was committed under the United Kingdom's Mental Health Act.

"It was a shock," Lewis said of the attack, which left her bruised. "I was very sore. The main thing is that I'm still alive."

By the time Billboard caught up with her, two weeks after the incident, she even was able to smile about it, particularly the tabloid reports that Lou Al-Chamaa -- the childhood sweetheart with whom Lewis still lives in her working-class home neighborhood of Hackney in northeast London -- rushed in to tackle her assailant.

"He wasn't even there," she said. "That makes me laugh. I'm sure if he was there, he would have. My dad and my brothers weren't there (either). They're usually at different things that I do. But I'm so glad that they weren't. Because, oh, my God ..."

In the immediate aftermath of the assault, Lewis canceled promotional trips to Germany and France, and pulled out of a high-profile U.K. TV appearance on BBC 1's "The One Show."

The Internet leak was dealt with in similarly succinct fashion, as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's anti-piracy unit teamed with law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. A criminal investigation is ongoing, according to Syco head of media Ann-Marie Thomson.

DEBUT SUCCESS

Lewis' "Spirit" sold 6.5 million copies worldwide (according to Sony), including 1.6 million in the United States (according to Nielsen SoundScan) and 2.8 million in the United Kingdom (according to the Official Charts Co.). It also earned Lewis three nominations at the Grammy Awards and four at the BRITs.

The international breakout single, "Bleeding Love" -- co-written by Jesse McCartney and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder -- hit No. 1 in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Billboard's European Hot 100 Singles chart.

Such success had been a long time coming for Lewis, who attended the United Kingdom's BRIT School for the Performing Arts and spent much of her teenage years writing and recording in search of that elusive break.

When it came, it catapulted her to unprecedented heights for a U.K. talent show winner, but Sony Music chief creative officer Clive Davis has no doubt she deserves every bit of her success.

"Leona has one of those very, very special voices that's expressive and has an incredible range," said Davis on why -- of all the new artists who regularly cross his desk -- he chose to back her so wholeheartedly. "But she also can feel the lyric very sensitively. You look for that in a singer. She's also passionate about music -- it really runs in her soul. That combination made me feel that she was a special new talent."

In a central London broadcast studio on a sunny October morning, Lewis was doing a good job of keeping her own excitement in check. Little wonder, as she had to pace herself: During the next seven hours she would be conducting 25 back-to-back interviews with U.K. regional radio stations.

She pointed out that the release dates for "Spirit" were staggered internationally, but "Echo" was being released simultaneously worldwide, hence the compressed press schedule.

In person, as on TV, the 24-year-old is glamorous but demure. As befitting her committed vegetarianism and stated intention never to undertake raunchy photo shoots, her knee-high boots are a man-made version of suede and accessorized with cozy tights.

"I wanted something that showed my growth, that showed where I was as a person and as an artist now," she said of "Echo," recorded mostly in Hollywood's Henson Recording Studios. "And I think I did that quite well."

In practice, this meant telling the titanic figures of Cowell and Davis -- both credited as producers on "Echo" -- that she wanted a greater hand in songwriting.

WRITE STUFF

She co-wrote 10 of the U.S. version's 14 tracks (including hidden track "Stone Hearts & Hand Grenades") as compared with two on "Spirit," although the U.K. version replaces the Tedder/Lewis composition "You Don't Care" with a show-stopping cover version of Oasis' "Stop Crying Your Heart Out."

For "Echo," Lewis wrote a wish list of "everyone I wanted to work with." A fan of his 2008 hit "Let It Rock," she sought out Kevin Rudolf to co-write the uptempo "Love Letter." John Shanks, who has written for Bon Jovi and Kelly Clarkson, was recruited for "Broken," co-written with Alonzo "Novel" Stevenson.

"I wanted a song that was just massive," Lewis said. "That one for me is the most vocally crazy."

As Lewis puts it, the music on "Echo" is less "conventional" R&B. "Outta My Head," co-written by Swedish pop powerhouse Max Martin, is a Euro-club banger that, with a couple of strategic remixes, could do healthy business on next's summer dance charts. "Don't Let Me Down," co-written with Justin Timberlake and featuring him on backing vocals, is strings-drenched, midtempo, taut funk.

And then there's Tedder. He and the rest of OneRepublic guest on "Lost Then Found," while he and Lewis also wrote "You Don't Care," working on it in Tedder's Denver studio and London's Abbey Road -- the latter location enabling Beatles enthusiast Tedder to channel the spirit of "Strawberry Fields Forever" in the opening bars.

"We've got a good chemistry together," Lewis said. "He really gets me as a person."

"Leona's still learning as a writer, but she has some definite God-given talent," Tedder said. "To some degree she's my muse. All that matters to us is putting really meaningful lyrics with really meaningful melodies. When she sings a song, you know you're going to be hearing it 10, 15 years from now at weddings."

With "Echo," Lewis was determined to be front and center of that creative process. Was Cowell, the man who effectively discovered her, supportive of that?

"Simon doesn't really care whether I've written it or it's by Max Martin or Ryan Tedder," she said. "He just wants the best song. So when I sent him 'Happy,' I was like, 'I hope he doesn't actually see that I've written it.' But then he was like, 'Oh, this is amazing.' Then he found out I co-wrote it, and he was just like, 'Well done, I really rate you for that.'"

STAGE VETERAN

Lewis' world tour -- projected to run for nine months -- will kick off with nine U.K. arena dates in May and June. She starts May 28 at Sheffield Arena and will include two shows at London's O2 Arena. A summer tour of the States will follow, with dates in Australia and Japan in the works for late 2010 and early 2011.

Production details are still in the early stages -- contrary to some Internet rumors, Michael Jackson's choreographer Travis Payne hasn't been hired -- but fans should expect a large-scale show.

Despite the lack of headline concerts, Lewis is hardly a stranger to the stage, having performed everywhere from the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics (with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page) to Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party in London's Hyde Park to the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards (with Lil Wayne and T-Pain).

A week after Billboard met with her, Lewis performed her first full live show. It was a homecoming gig, at the 1,500-capacity Hackney Empire, a grand Victorian theater that was also the venue for Lewis' first talent competition.

"I sang 'My Heart Will Go On' by Celine Dion, which is a big song for a 13-year-old," she said with a laugh. "And I won, which was cool."