Seems like everybody’s got Twilight fever these days. But while other folks go gaga over Robert and Kristen, we here at Time Out Kids start to pant every time we see Cullen patriarch Peter Facinelli. (We would say he’s a total DILF, only that seems slightly tacky.) The actor and his wife, 90210 star Jennie Garth, have three daughters (totally hot!) and a happy Hollywood marriage (sexy and rare!). We chatted with the native New Yorker about how he keeps the romance going, fatherhood, growing up in Ozone Park and, of course, what it’s like to be part of the Twilight phenomenon.

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Now that we’ve got your attention, let us be the first to admit that our title is slightly misleading. If you’re looking for a slide show of contortionist sexual positions, we’re sorry to disappoint you. However, if you’d like a candid peek at the sex lives of parents who live in studios and one-bedrooms, you’ll definitely want to click here to see our sister pub Time Out Kids‘ article. Hot pull quote: “We’d spend a lot of time in the living room and the kitchen, which had this nice marble counter. But it was so friggin’ cold! It wasn’t sexy like in the movies.” If you’re even considering spawning in the city, this is something you’ll want to know.

Think Det. Elliot Stabler’s on-again, off-again relationship with his wife, Kathy, on SVU is rocky? It’s a cakewalk compared with that actress’s real-life first marriage. After playing the dutiful wife both onscreen and off for a number of years, native New Yorker Isabel Gillies packed up her two young sons and left a promising acting career to follow her husband, professor DeSales Harrison, to Oberlin. A few months later, he dumped her, and she was forced to pick up the pieces of her life. This year, she got even: She published the memoir Happens Every Day about the experience, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list. Want to know what makes her revenge even sweeter? She met another divorcee, they fell in love and now live together with their blended family. Time Out Kids recently interviewed the actor-cum-author about single parenting in the city, her career plans and why her ex shouldn’t stop worrying…yet.

VH1, look out! When it comes to salacious reality shows, Bravo may just have you beat. You thought the Real Housewives franchise hitting New Jersey was trashy? Just wait until you get a load of the channel’s new Gossip Girl–style reality series, NYC Prep, about overpriviledged Big Apple high schoolers. The show hasn’t even premiered yet and it’s already being blogged about, big time. Understandably, local private schools (which now dub themselves “independent school,” as if that sounds any less exclusive) are freaking out, particularly the ones that are unfortunate enough to have students on the series. One such institution, the Nightingale-Bamford School, even sent an e-mail out to its alums, criticizing the show and dismissing it as fiction. One of Time Out Kids‘ staffers happens to have briefly attended the school (she says she loved it there), and she published the full letter on the TOK blog. Doth the school protest too much? Perhaps. Understandably, its afraid that its $33,725 “all-inclusive tuition” (except for uniforms) may be threatened. But you know what? I don’t care! I just know I want to watch the show! You can whet your appetite by watching the first ep online.

It’s an age-old story: Hollywood Romeo has fun, hits middle age and settles down with the nearest fertile blond. (Can you hear us, Warren Beatty?) But in Scott Baio’s case, his transformation from Casanova to committed family man actually seems genuine and totally sweet. Sure, he managed to milk his cold feet for not one but two VH1 Celebreality shows. But these days, the former teen idol is totally smitten with his wife, Renee Sloan Baio, and their 19-month-old daughter, Bailey. And why not? They’re as cute as he was back in the ’70s! The couple chatted with Time Out Kids about their disgustingly happy domesticity, the nonprofit organization they started in their child’s name and why Bailey probably won’t be following in her father’s famous footsteps.

Despite having starred in a lot of trash cinema (Hairspray, Cry-Baby) and hosting a pretty trashy talk show, Ricki Lake has always managed to come off as rather classy. Perhaps that’s why her transformation from B-lister to natural-birthing activist doesn’t seem so jarring. Although the tabloids continue to obsess over her battle of the bulge, the now-svelte star says she’s over it and on to new things, like the follow-up film to her much-buzzed-about 2008 documentary, The Business of Being Born—in which she delivered her second child on camera—and cowriting the new companion book, Your Best Birth. She’s also hosting the new season of VH1’s supertrashy reality series Charm School, which debuts May 11. Hey, old habits. Time Out Kids talked with Lake about her seemingly paradoxical projects, her favorite New York haunts and whether she’ll make a cameo in Hairspray 2.

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If you’ve ever indulged in the voyeuristic pleasures of watching Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City, you know that while five of the six ladies live like noblewomen, one literally is one: Countess LuAnn de Lesseps. Although she and her husband, the count, recently split, she has no intention of giving up her status—or her jewels. The-model-turned-reality-star chatted with Time Out Kids about staying strong for her children, the truth behind the show’s onscreen cattiness and navigating the ever-changing social circles of Gotham.

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Beautiful as she is, Brooke Shields is a brain, too. (Hey, her senior thesis at Princeton was “The Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle, Pretty Baby and Lacombe Lucien.” Yeah.) She’s also got a fabulous sense of humor. Just check out this video on Funny or Die (a site cocreated by her hubby), in which she plays the quintessential annoying stressed-out city mom. Time Out Kids recently chatted with the supermodel turned supermom about her new children’s book, It’s the Best Day Ever, Dad! But we also got in a couple of juicy questions, too, like whether she’d let her underage kids appear in a flick like Pretty Baby and what’s the hobby that everyone makes fun of her for. Yes, even gorgeous gals have a goofy side.

We know it’s been a while since That ’70s Show’s resident foreigner, Wilmer Valderrama, was a sleazy, starlet-bedding tabloid target. The sitcom vet insists he’s matured, and perhaps to prove it, he’s moved on from ruining young ladies’ reputations to winning preschoolers’ hearts as the voice of bilingual fix-it man Handy Manny on the eponymous animated Disney series. Time Out Kids, never afraid to ask tough questions of kids’ icons, got the scoop on Valderrama’s favorite NYC hot spots, his bad-boy rep and whether Ashton sends him sexy pics of Demi.

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The annual Easter Parade (really more of a promenade) took over Fifth Avenue between Rockefeller Center and 57th Street yesterday. As usual, there were many colorful bonnets on display, festooned with flowers, eggs, bunnies and even Peeps. Some folks ignored the usual pastel palette and showed off a bolder style (see the drag queens and goths). If you’ve never been, check out the slide show, then put it on your calendar for next year. It’s like a mini Halloween Parade, but during the day and with none of the stress or stupid drunks.

If you hit your formative years in the ’80s or ’90s, you probably had a crush on Sean Astin. As the head of a motley crew of kids in the ’80s cult classic The Goonies, he made preteen girls swoon (even if they hated to admit it). He did the same thing for the next generation of gals as an aspiring college football star in Rudy and, of course, as Sam, the cuddly hobbit in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Astin is Hollywood’s go-to sensitive male, the kind of guy who wins ladies’ hearts with his soft soul, not sexiness. Perhaps his pleasing personality stems from his unusual upbringing: His mom’s Oscar winner Patty Duke and his dad…well, he has four: biological father Mike Tell, adopted dad John Astin, stepfather Mike Pearce and Duke’s ex-boyfriend (and longtime presumed bio dad), Desi Arnaz Jr. Now a father himself to three daughters, Astin is, understandably, interested in doing family-friendly fare. His latest project is voicing the title character in the Disney Channel’s new animated series Special Agent Oso. Time Out Kids chatted with the actor about his new venture, his four fathers and, of course, the possibility of a Goonies reunion. Go, Mikey Walsh!

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As sexy socialite Lily van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl, Kelly Rutherford is no stranger to melodrama. But last December, her personal life took a soap-opera-like turn when she filed for divorce from the father of her stylishly named two-year-old, Hermès…while still carrying his unborn child. Acrimony, accusations and tabloid tales ensued, but the actor quickly realized that wasn’t for her. These days she’s at peace—both with her soon-to-be ex and the environment, as she embraces green living. The Manhattan mom chatted with Time Out Kids about her new healthy lifestyle, divorce while pregnant and whether she’ll revisit Melrose Place.

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Ever since she up and spawned, Beverly Hills 90210’s Tori Spelling has become, dare we say, kind of cuddly. Sure, she’s looking ridiculously skinny these days, and yes, she and her husband, Dean McDermott, got together under very hinky circumstances, and that blowout with her mom after her Daddy died was pretty nasty. And yet somehow, Tori as mom is goofily endearing as she dotes on her two kids (Liam, 22 months, and Stella, seven months) while sporting five-inch heels and more makeup than your local streetwalker. Time Out New York Kids caught up with the celebmom at a Huggies’ Pull-Up party, where Spelling spilled the beans on her family, her new book and her insecurities.

I admit: I made a grave miscalculation on the last day of the con. For the first time in my life, I decided to dress up in a costume. My choice: Miss Piggy, not only because, as I told WPLJ radio, “She is a hero to full-figured feminists everywhere,” but because I had the costume lying around since Halloween.

Unfortunately, coming in costume meant that folks were taking photos of me, instead of the other way around. So I admit, my last slide show is rather paltry. I also didn’t get to one panel on Sunday. Who knew Miss Piggy was so popular! I was stopped every few feet, by both kids and adults, who wanted to pose with me. Even a banana manhandled me. Read more »

So I admit, Comic Con is kicking my ass! In my defense, I’m carting around my preschooler (who you can see in the slide show below as Princess Ariel—she hugged every single Ugly Doll we saw).

I’ve been spending most of my time on the exhibition floor instead of in panels. I plan to try to hot a few panels today, specifically the Life on Mars one, a show that totally shouldn’t work, but totally does (although I admit, I’m ignorant of the BBC original, which I hear was even better).

You can see a schedule of Sunday’s programming here.

In the meantime, here are Saturday’s pics. Read more »

So I’m not going to give you a comprehensive roundup of everything that went on at Comic Con today. I was too busy shopping, posing for photos and taking photos of others, which, frankly, is a lot more interesting than reporting on DC’s new titles. For a rundown of every single detail of the con, check out Comic Book Resources. But for great pics of fans in costumes—especially scantily clad ladies (hey, I’m a straight chick and even I appreciate a hot slave Leia when I see one)—click on. Read more »

Never heard of Demi Lovato? That’s because you’re not a tween. But to those 12 and under, Demi is the next Miley (now you have heard of her, right?) As the star of last year’s High School Musical clone, Camp Rock, Lovato became the envy of girls everywhere when she made out with Joe Jonas (you know, the hot Jonas brother).

For a sanitized star, Lovato is surprisingly candid. While promoting her new sitcom, Sonny with a Chance, which premieres on the Disney Channel this Sunday at 8pm, she gave her take on the teen queen scandals (hey Miley, she’s got your back!), her estrangement from her dad and life under a microscope. Hey, we should have all been so articulate at 16! [TimeOut Kids]