Kidman says she was engaged to a mystery man

Nicole Kidman says she was engaged to a mystery man in between breaking up with Tom Cruise and marrying Keith Urban.

“I didn't really want a relationship,” the 40-year-old actress says. “I just wanted my kids to have me, and I didn't feel comfortable having some person in that small hubbub.”

“And then I got engaged to somebody ... but it just wasn't right,” she continues in Vanity Fair magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 11. “I wasn't ready. We weren't ready.”

Details, please.

“I get engaged and I get married - that's my thing,” she says, declining to reveal her former fiance's identity. “I don't want to date. I'm interested in a very, very deep connection.”

Kidman and Cruise divorced in 2001 after 10 years of marriage. They have two adopted children, Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12; Cruise has a 1-year-old daughter, Suri, with actress-wife Katie Holmes.

Kidman, who married country singer Urban in June 2006, says she has no regrets when it comes to her marriage to Cruise.

Kidman hopes to have a baby with Urban.

“I'm yearning to have one,” she says. “I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby. Keith knows I want one, and he has been getting there slowly.”

First day on ‘The View,' Whoopi defends Vick

So much for the sedate alternative to Rosie O'Donnell on “The View.”

Whoopi Goldberg used her first day on the daytime chat show Tuesday to defend football star Michael Vick in his dogfighting case.

Goldberg said that “from where he comes from” in the South, dogfighting isn't that unusual.

“It's like cockfighting in Puerto Rico,” she said. “There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country.”

The Atlanta Falcons quarterback pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges last week, admitting that he provided money for a dogfighting ring that operated on his Virginia property and helped kill six or eight pit bulls.

Brad Pitt muses about being a celebrity

Brad Pitt, who plays Jesse James in his latest film, says being a celebrity in America today is not that much different from in the days of the legendary outlaw - then and now there was all that hype.

Pitt, who was at the Venice Film Festival to promote “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” has served as endless grist for the tabloid mill since he hooked up with Angelina Jolie.

“People have asked me today about the celebrity angle,” the 43-year-old Pitt told Associated Press Television in an interview Monday in the lagoon city, “and certainly that's one aspect of the film -- that's not the main focus of the film.”

- From wire reports