Entertainers Jay-Z, left, and Beyonce watch the New Jersey Nets...

Entertainers Jay-Z, left, and Beyonce watch the New Jersey Nets and the Detroit Pistons play during the second quarter of a game in Newark. (Oct. 27, 2010) Credit: AP

As duly reported in this space last month, superstar singer Beyoncé is not pregnant. Her mother, fashion designer Tina Knowles, said at that time on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that Us magazine's pregnancy story was incorrect.

Now Beyoncé's husband, hip-hop singer and music-industry mogul Jay-Z, has told Howard Stern the same thing. "No," he answered simply, nearly 50 minutes into a 57-minute interview on Stern's satellite radio show Monday, when co-host Robin Quivers asked, "Are you two expecting a child?"

"They put . . . [that rumor] in the paper on every slow news day," he went on. "And everyone goes for it. I really sit back and wonder when people are going to stop." If Beyoncé is ever pregnant, he said, "The day that happens, I don't think Newsday is going to know before my grandmother."

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