Sad news for KEVIN FEDERLINE -- his uncle has passed away. According to Usmagazine.com, STEVE, the brother of Kevin's mother, died on Friday after a prolonged battle with cancer.

"The whole family is very sad but at least he is out of his pain now," a source tells Us.

Kevin reportedly had recently visited his uncle in Fresno, CA.

FROM ISTANBUL, TURKEY: World traveler PARIS HILTON gives photogs a serious look! The heiress was in town taking part in the Miss Turkey 2008 beauty pageant, where she found herself belly dancing on stage and avoiding the massive paparazzi when she arrived.

PARTY PIC: Music queen FERGIE and  QUENTIN TARANTINO got together in Las Vegas to celebrate their joint birthdays on March 27! The two danced the night away with fellow party-goers  KID ROCK, DARYL HANNAH and VIVICA A. FOX.

He hopes to return to the darkest depths of Mordor.

Sir IAN McKELLEN, who mesmerized as Gandalf the Wizard in the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy, may very well get to reprise the role in 'The Hobbit' films, the Associated Press reports. Asked by a fan if he planned on returning to Middle Earth for the two, upcoming 'L.O.T.R.' prequels, McKellen replied on his Web site:

"Yes, I will, if PETER JACKSON and I have anything to do with it, he being the producer and me being, on the whole, a very lucky actor," he said, adding: "Encouragingly, Peter and (partner) FRAN WALSH have told me they couldn't imagine 'The Hobbit' without their original Gandalf."

But in an afterthought bound to get some fans' nerves bubbling anxiously like a tar pit in Mordor, the veteran actor conceded: "Their confidence hasn't yet been confirmed by the director, GUILLERMO DEL TORO, but I am keeping my diary free for 2009!"

The "Private Practice" star joins the cast of a new supernatural thriller.

"Private Practice" doc KATE WALSH will move from saving lives in the clinic to saving the world when she joins DENNIS QUAID and PAUL BETTANY in the supernatural thriller 'Legion,' according to Daily Variety.

The film, shooting in New Mexico, follows a group of strangers who must unite to protect a baby who could be the key to preventing an apocalypse -- and may just be the second coming of Christ.

Bettany plays the archangel Michael, who stands between God, mankind and the end of the world when the Big Guy loses faith in humanity. LUCAS BLACK, TYRESE GIBSON, JON TENNEY and CHARLES S. DUTTON also star.

New mom CHRISTINA AGUILERA and hubby JORDAN BRATMAN are caught on camera by Hollywood.tv as they make a late-night shopping trip to Babies R Us.

Hollywood.tv is on the scene with "The Hills" AUDRINA PATRIDGE as she grabs a bite and heads off to a tattoo parlor -- emerging with a large white bandage on her arm.

KANYE WEST took care of the paparazzi Thursday night as the rap star graciously posed for pictures and signed autographs while making his way out of Hollywood hotspot Opera.

Twins are doing well, dad says.

DENNIS QUAID says his traumatic hospital scare has a happy ending -- four-month old twins THOMAS BOONE and ZOE GRACE are now healthy and thriving.

"Their progress and their development appears to be completely normal -- aside from being a Quaid," he jokingly told People.

"It's the greatest thing to hold those kids and see their faces because we had a happy ending," he added. "It's great to be a normal dad with the normal problems of not having enough hands for both of them."

'The Insider' has the latest...

The truth may still be out there, but small clues about the upcoming 'X-Files' movie sequel are starting to surface.

On Wednesday, 'X-Files' creator CHRIS CARTER and co-writer FRANK SPOTNITZ unveiled the as-yet-untitled film's trailer during the 25th annual William S. Paley Television Festival, per The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie, which reunites DAVID DUCHOVNY and GILLIAN ANDERSON as FBI agents Mulder and Scully who investigate the paranormal, will pick up six years after the end of the original TV series, which ran on FOX from 1993 to 2002. While it will distance itself from the alien mythology of the show, it will still touch upon certain aspects of the series, like whether Scully's child will be normal.