The "Chicago" star, who won best supporting actress and performed "I Move On" with Queen Latifah while eight months pregnant at the Oscars last month, has triumphed, along with husband Michael Douglas, in their suit against Hello! magazine.

Douglas and Zeta-Jones sued the British celebrity rag for printing photos smuggled out of their wedding. They had an exclusive $1.5 million publishing deal with rival glossy mag OK!

The Welsh actress, who stars in those ubiquitous, annoying T-Mobile phone ads, testified in February that she felt "devastated, shocked and appalled" when she realized paparazzi had crashed her nuptials.

In his ruling Friday in London, high court judge John Lindsay accepted that "distress was caused to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas," but he said Hello! had breached the couple's commercial confidence rather than their right to privacy.

The couple said "the court has recognized the principle that every individual has the right to be protected from excessive and unwanted media intrusion into their private lives." Another victory for celebrity rights!

Damages will be decided later. Zeta-Jones, 33, and Douglas, 58, are seeking $775,000, while OK!'s parent company asked for $2.6 million.

BASS MEASURES UP THE YOUTH

Lance Bass once thought he was smart enough to be an astronaut. Now he concedes he's stupider than a 3-year-old. Bass, 'N Sync's bass singer, is one of the judges on "America's Most Talented Kids," NBC's "American Idol"-for-tykes, which boob-tube wags regard as the nadir of reality television. (Yes, it's even worse than "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!")

Bass says watching 3-year-old master pianists made him think that "at 3 I don't even know if I was talking. I'm having a blast with that show. ... I'm anxious to see who wins the whole thing." We share the angst.

MUSICIANS MOONLIGHT FOR PLAYBOY

With only the purest of artistic intentions, a host of rappers and rockers are moonlighting as shutterbugs. Ja Rule, Xzibit, DMX, Bret Michaels of Poison and Tommy Lee, who previously displayed his filmmaking skill in a widely distributed X-rated home video with then-wife Pamela Anderson, have all gone to work shooting nude models for Playboy in recent months. The results are available in a new DVD, "Playboy's Hip Hop & Rock," released this week. Some of the photos were featured in the magazine's April music issue. Septuagenarian satyr Hugh Hefner reported that guest photogs "took the work very seriously."

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