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Drawing an end to their romantic holiday weekend, Ryan Seacrestand Julianne Hough kissed and hugged as they arrived into Los Angeles, California on Monday (September 6).

The pair are just back from a luxurious getaway to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, during which Ryan and Julianne hit the beach for some much needed relaxation after flying into town on August 4th.

Once finished up saying their goodbyes, Julianne headed off to hop aboard a flight to Atlanta, Georgia to continue work on the new movie “Footloose”.

Meanwhile, Ryan made headlines over the weekend after a funny clip of the “American Idol” host hit the web showing him singing Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” alongside late night legend Larry King.

Wanting to focus on his family and baby-on-the-way rather than legal proceedings, John Travolta has dropped charges against two alleged extortionists in the Bahamas.

Being reminded of their son Jett’s death during each and every court visit, the “Wild Hogs” actor and wife Kelly Preston urged the judge to call off the case.

Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite tells, “The Travolta family has said that this matter has caused them unbelievable stress and pain and they wish to put this whole thing behind them.”

Of the decision to let Tarino Lightbourne and Pleasant Bridgewater walk free, John released a statement telling: “The long-pending status of this matter continued to take a heavy emotional toll on my family, causing us to conclude that it was finally time to put this matter behind us. Therefore, after much reflection I concluded that it was in my family’s best interest for me not to voluntarily return to The Bahamas to testify a second time at trial.”

Bringing an end to the holiday weekend tennis action, center court featured the men’s singles match between Roger Federer of Switzerland and Jurgen Melzer of Austria at the 2010 U.S. Open in New York City on Monday (September 6).

Held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, stars such as Cameron Diaz, Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale all turned up to catch the match.

Known to be good friends of Federer, Stefani and Rossdale took seats in the superstar’s personal box while the other stars found primo spots to take in the nighttime court happenings.

In the end, Roger came out victorious, as he beat Jurgen in straight sets 6-3 7-6 6-3.

Making for a rare post-wedding sighting, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz were spotted side-by-side in Santa Monica, CA over the holiday weekend.

Looking very much in love, the cute couple went shopping for furniture before hitting up a theater to check out “The Kids Are Alright”.

The romantic outing comes as Miss Cruz has been busily working alongside Johnny Depp on the fourth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean”.

Directed by Rob Marshall, “Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” is sure to be a blockbuster as it’s due to open in cinemas on May 20, 2011.

Seemingly unhappy to have sensitive material floating around in the wrong hands, Karissa Shannon is gearing up to take legal action as necessary against Spencer Pratt.

According to TMZ, the Playboy beauty has voiced plans to sue the former “Hills” star if her doesn’t return a sex tape including herself hooking up with Heidi Montag.

The report contends that Spencer took the video from Karissa – with her lawyer demanding that the property be returned immediately.

Known to be an attention seeker, it remains to be seen whether Miss Shannon wants the tape for profitable reasons or if she’s truly worried about the material becoming public – which seems a longshot seeing that she’s a Playboy girl.

Making for quite the attractive match, Caroline Wozniacki took the court with Maria Sharapova at the US Open tennis tournament in New York City on Monday (September 6).

Certainly two of the best looking ladies on tour, the top seeded Dane ended up ousting her Russian counterpart in straight sets 6-3 6-4.

With Sharapova headed home, Wozniaki will next square off against unseeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia.

After the match, Caroline said of overcoming Maria, “Everyone has their strengths, their weaknesses. Someone is short, someone is tall. I think it doesn’t matter when you’re on the court.”

Somber from her tournament departure, Maria told press, “My game needs to be more stable and not so up and down. Caroline was retrieving a lot of balls and I still had my chances. I was one for eight on break points.”