Denise Richards, who has two daughters Sam, 7, and Lola, 6, and recently adopted a baby girl Eloise Joni, says her dating life hasn’t been so great, but that if she had it her way, a hot single dad would swoop in and knock her off her feet!

“The qualities I look for now are different than prior to getting married and having kids,” Denise, 40, tells CNN‘s Piers Morgan. (Let’s hope so — don’t forget she was married to Charlie Sheen!)

“Now I find myself very attracted to men who have children and I think one of the sexiest qualities in a man is seeing a man great with kids,” she adds. “I have three now and it’s a very attractive quality.”

But although Denise would love to find a partner, the fact that she’s a celebrity AND a single mom isn’t helping her dreams come true.

“I think dating in general is hard when you’re in the public eye and when you have children – I don’t bring a lot of different men around my children,” Denise explains. “It (media attention) makes dating difficult – if you’re out in public with someone for dinner, the media are like, ‘Who is the mystery man, who are you dating?’ So it does get tricky, but it is what it is.”

We hope Denise finds the man she’s looking for — she deserves it!

–Leigh Blickley

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Though he has no intentions to marry yet, Adam Levine would love to settle down in a few years and start making babies. He’d be one hot dad, huh?

“I don’t think you necessarily have to be married to have children,” Adam, who is currently been dating model, Anne Vyalisyna explained. ”Marriage is a controversial thing, clearly. In a lot of ways it doesn’t work, and in a lot of ways it does.”

Maroon 5 just re-released their third album, and their new hit single, Moves Like Jagger featuring Christina Aguilera is climbing to the top of the charts. He told CNN‘s Piers Morgan Tonight exactly where he sees his life going.

“Where do I wanna be when I’m 42? I would (like) to be working less and… considering the idea of having a family and at that age I like the idea of having a two year old. I want to start having kids,” he says.

Does Adam have the right idea, Hollymoms?

–Amber Belus

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Since voluntarily resigning from his role as New York governor, scorned politician Eliot Spitzer has been trying to revamp his image — but now he’s going through yet another set back. CNN announced July 6 it is canceling his political talk show, In the Arena, after nine months of it being on the air — a program in which he took much pride.

“We engaged serious people in conversations about national and global issues in a way that was informative and challenging,” Eliot, 52, wrote in a statement. “I believe that we provided diverse and valuable perspectives during the show’s tenure.”

With In the Arena off the air, Anderson Cooper‘s nightly newscast will now fill the 8 p.m. time slot and then replay at 10 p.m. like usual.

An insider at the network explained to HollywoodLife.com exclusively why the decision was made to yank Eliot’s show, saying, “The 8 p.m. timeslot is the hardest to fill for CNN. Campbell Brown was canceled because the ratings weren’t doing well and they tried to do something different with Spitzer, but they just keep spinning their wheels. They can’t compete with the other networks’ 8 p.m. shows.”

Although CNN reportedly mentioned in an internal statement it’s in talks with Eliot “about an alternative role,” he seems to feel otherwise, writing, “I thoroughly enjoyed my time at CNN.”

Eliot’s career as governor came to a sudden halt in 2008 after it was discovered he was a regular client within a high-end prostitution ring. Since that time, he’s been attempting to regain respect again in the public eye — it will be interesting to see what path he chooses next.

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Years later the boy, aged 38, committed suicide and now his siblings blame the child therapy for the untimely death of their brother.

When he was only five-years-old, Kirk Murphy‘s parents sent him to a government-funded experiment at UCLA, where he underwent therapy sessions to help “rid him” of his effeminate behavior with an anti-gay professor, Dr. George Rekers. Now after agonizing over his suicide, his family believes this so-called “sissy boy” experiment directly contributed to his death.

Kirk’s younger sister Maris explains to CNN of the treatment, “It left Kirk just totally stricken with the belief that he was broken, that he was different from everybody else. He even ate his lunch in the boy’s bathroom for three years of his high school career, if you want to call it that.”

His mother, Kaytee admits she started to worry about five-year-old Kirk after she realized he possessed some female traits and would prefer to play with dolls over trucks.

“It just bothered me that maybe he was picking up maybe too many feminine traits,” she explains.”That’s when she decided to enroll him in the government-funded program with Dr. Reker. Well, him being the expert, I thought, maybe I should take Kirk in. In other words, nip it in the bud, before it got started any further.”

The sessions are documented in a series of research papers which refer to Kirk as a boy named ‘Kraig.’

But this therapy was anything but helpful to Kirk, who had no idea that he was “different.” At the sessions, Kirk would be placed in a room, behind a one way mirror, where he would have to decide between girl toys and clothes or boys items. If he went to the “masculine side” of the room, he would be complimented by his mom, if he went to the “feminine side,” he would be ignored.

And this sort of practice was also done at home. Kirk was given blue poker chips for his masculine behavior and red ones for his feminine behavior. If he had more blue chips than red, he was given a treat. If he had more red than blue, he was chastised with “physical punishment by spanking from his father.”

Once, Kaytee said her husband hit Kirk “so hard that he had welts up and down his back and on his buttocks.”

His brother Mark and sister Maris say this treatment left Kirk very troubled, even throughout high school, and they believe it led him to take his own life at the age of 38.

“The research has a postscript that needs to be added,” Maris says. “That is that Kirk Andrew Murphy was Kraig and he was gay, and he committed suicide.”

NOTE: Tune in tonight at 10 ET on CNN TV, as “AC360º” examines the shocking “experimental therapy” designed to make feminine boys more masculine. See what the Murphys have to say about the devastating result in a special report, “The Sissy Boy Experiment.”

–Leigh Blickley

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Anderson Cooper has gained such a high reputation as a well respected journalist for CNN.  He currently anchors Anderson Cooper 360° and can be seen hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Special live from Times Square.  Get all the details at Astrology.com! 

Happy birthday, Anderson Cooper! As a self-described news junkie, it makes perfect sense you were born under the sign of information-loving Gemini. With the cosmically popular match of Venus and Jupiter in your tenth house of career, your popularity surpasses the highest skyscraper in New York. With fiery Mars on your ascendant and a courageous Aries Moon, you have the boldness it takes to confront news stories from every possible angle. Next May, you may revisit a sting from the past as disruptive Uranus re-opens an old wound. You’re older and wiser, however, so you may finally be able to put this issue to rest.

We knew that Mariah and Nick’s babies’ names started with an ‘M,’ and now we FINALLY know what they are!

You won’t believe what Mariah Carey, 42, and Nick Cannon, 30, named their newborn twins! See what the couple decided on after the jump!

Ready for it? The girl’s name is Monroe Cannon, named after Marilyn Monroe, and the boy’s name is Moroccan Scott Cannon, nickname “Roc.” “Scott” stands for Nick’s middle name and his grandmother’s maiden name.

Moroccan also represents the top tier of Mariah’s New York City apartment, which is called the Moroccan Room, because of the Moroccan-inspired decor. Nick proposed to Mariah in the room too!

Baby Monroe does not have a middle name because Mariah doesn’t have one — girls unite! But, considering she was named after Mariah’s lifelong inspiration, Marilyn, we’re sure she’ll be A-OK!

“It has been a long, emotional journey for this family,” Mariah’s rep, Cindi Berger, tells CNN, “and I couldn’t be happier for all of them.”

Congrats to the new parents and the twins, who have pretty cool names!

–Leigh Blickley

Police can’t confirm if Wyclef’s injury was caused by a bullet — or a piece of glass!

Former Fugees rapper Wyclef Jean is out of the hospital, where he was being treated after a bullet reportedly grazed his hand in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 19. “Fortunately, Wyclef is fine, undeterred by the incident and looking forward to his return home to finish his forthcoming album,” spokesman Derek Johnson said in a statement.

The wound was superficial and “he is doing well,” Wyclef’s rep Cindy Tanenbaum tells CNN.

The 41-year-old rapper was in Haiti helping to garner votes for presidential candidate musician Michel Martelly when Wyclef said that he had heard “the sound of the boom” and then realized he had been “grazed by a bullet.”

But a Haitian national police spokesman says officers can’t confirm if it was a bullet or a piece of shattered glass that cut Wyclef’s hand.

Wyclef had just gotten out of his car and was chatting on his cellphone when the incident occurred.

As of now, the police investigation has been halted as Wyclef refuses to offer his aid. “I can’t even speculate [if I was targeted by a shooter],” he said.

Wyclef himself had been in the running for president but had to end his campaign because he hadn’t lived in his home country for the required five years.

Votes were cast March 20. “This was done, the majority of it, with technology,” Wyclef said of the election. “It’s going great because this moment in history is being defined with the technology, Facebook, Twitter, SMS, Livestream.”

Results will be released April 16, say Haitian officials.

- Lindsey DiMattina

Is the Bravo star strapped for cash? Nope, ‘Showbiz Tonight’ says she’s just the perfect pick to help host their red carpet Oscar show!

Camille Grammer might not be Kelsey Grammer‘s first choice, but she’s CNN’s! The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is set to be a commentator during the 83rd Annual Academy Awards on Showbiz Tonight‘s Road To Gold, glamorous evening on CNN and its sister network HLN!

HollywoodLife.com spoke with Dave Levine, senior executive producer of CNN Entertainment and Showbiz Tonight, who reveals that Camille didn’t seek the gig.

“She didn’t approach us or audition for this,” Dave tells us. “We were going through a process of discussion and it’s not like when we were planning we thought ‘Oh, let’s go for Camille!’ But her name came up and we thought it’d be perfect because she could give us a unique insight into what it’s like to be a celebrity under intense scrutiny.”

Camille’s very public divorce from Kelsey, her husband of 14 years, has made headlines for months. And while Dave knows Camille may not be everyone’s cup of tea, he firmly believes she will be the key to a successful night of live TV!

“We absolutely felt like she’d be controversial … a lot of haters came out,” Dave says. “But Showbiz isn’t shy! Camille is the one everyone loved to hate, and we are not putting on a show that is a love fest! There’s a perfect example when she was on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills when she went to the Tony Awards to support Kelsey, although behind the scenes her marriage was imploding. She will be able to tell us what celebrities are going through and how they are feeling.”

Camille will be on HLN and CNN starting at 7pm ET on Feb. 27 and then at 11pm ET on HLN!

— Chloe Melas