Duff's Text-Message Detente With Madden?

MSN Entertainment reports that Hilary Duff has send a text message wishing with the good ones to the upcoming child of Nicole Richie and her Joel Madden.

Has Hilary Duff's rumored new romance with hockey player Mike Comrie thawed her chilly feelings toward ex-boyfriend Joel Madden?

That's the word from Us Weekly, which says the toothsome starlet, 19, sent a text message to her self-described "first love" after his impending fatherhood with Nicole Richie was confirmed during their recent sit-down with Diane Sawyer. "After they appeared on 'Good Morning America,'

Hilary breezily texted Joel congratulations on the pregnancy, and Joel warmly responded," an adverb-happy mole tells the mag. Duff's alleged well wishes are quite a change from her previous stance on their romance, which began shortly after she and Madden called it quits late last year after two and a half years of togetherness.

"With the amount of time that we had invested in each other, I felt disrespected that he moved on so quickly," she recently sniffed to Seventeen. "But some people don't want to deal with how they feel, so they cover it up. Rebound! I shouldn't say that. You know what, though? Now I don't care."

According to Us, Duff's kinder, gentler attitude is a result of her budding romance with Comrie, 26, whom she's reportedly been seeing for several weeks. "Hilary plays it coy, but she's really into him," says the snitch, who describes the lantern-jawed New York Islander as a "great guy." "He's the first she's been serious about since splitting with Joel ... They're just great together."

Courtesy: MSN Entertainment

Nicole Richie Confirms she is pregnant

Nicole Richie, the girlfriend to Hilary Duff's ex-boyfriend, confirms to ABC News that she is pregnant with the child of her current boyfriend Joel Madden.
Read the news...They are about 4 months along now in the pregnancy.

"Yes I am. We are. I’m almost four months," says Richie in an interview airing on Good Morning America Thursday and on 20/20 Friday (Aug. 2, 3)…

Richie, 25, also tells Sawyer why she pleaded guilty for an arrest stemming from a December 2006 incident in which she was spotted driving the wrong way on the freeway and admitted to police that she’d smoked pot and taken Vicodin before driving.

"I have a responsibility and it’s something that I did wrong," says Richie, "and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would. And unfortunately I can’t, but this is my way of paying my dues and taking responsibility and being an adult."

Richie was sentenced to four days in jail and will have to complete three years of probation and pay a $2,048 fine.

Richie, the 25-year-old adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, has been seeing the 28-year-old Madden for more than six months. She had previously dated Canadian music producer and entrepreneur Brad Salyn and was engaged to DJ AM, aka Adam Goldstein. Madden was dating tween queen turned Maxim covergirl Hilary Duff before breaking it off to start dating Richie.