Jeff Strickler of the Star Tribune spoke with Samantha Mumba ahead of ‘The Time Machine’ release where the singer now actress says she has no plans on mixing her two talents onscreen. Mumba said, “If I do more acting, I’m going to keep it separate from my singing. I don’t want to end up in a movie where I play a singer or dancer.” Mumba did applaud the recent success at Britney Spears’ ‘Crossroads’ while she winced at Mariah Carey’s bomb of a film ‘Glitter’.

The Chicago Sun Times reports Samantha Mumba will be in a Chicago suburb later today to sign autographs and greet fans at the Best Buy in Downers Grove from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. CST. Mumba has her major film debut soon in ‘The Time Machine’ starring with Guy Pearce.

FHM spoke with Samantha Mumba who admitted to being rather loony as a child, having an imaginary boyfriend and keeping diaries as if she was famous at the age of 8. Mumba admits, “I still have that diary, and the things I wrote in it were just weird. I was so obsessed with having boobs that I’d write day after day how they were getting bigger, which at 8 years old they certainly weren’t.” Mumba does say she now has a real life boyfriend but was mum beyond that, “He’s certainly not imaginary anymore, but that’s all I care to say, I’m crazy enough, I’d hate to jinx it.”

The Sun reports Samantha Mumba has gotten a passport for her dog Foxy so her Shih Tzu will be able to travel with her. Mumba said of the passport, “Foxy will be able to come places with me. I go on like a proud mother – it’s pathetic!”