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October 2009
Redesign show’s crew giving soup kitchen major overhaul as part of Rachael Ray visit
Now this is the sort of thing that can happen when celebrities get together for the greater good..
Sugartree Ministry Center received a special visitor this week, director Allen Willoughby said Friday, Oct. 30.
After receiving a surprise phone call from TV talk show host Rachael Ray Monday, Oct. 26, Willoughby discovered Carter Oosterhouse of HGTV’s “Carter Can” home remodel show in the soup kitchen.
He was floored seeing Oosterhouse and even more shocked to learn Oosterhouse was there to give the kitchen that feeds 200 to 250 needy people a day an extreme makeover.
“It’s just amazing. It’s a real answer to a pray. We live by faith. What we have is what we use. This will make it more effective,” Willoughby said. “It’s just been wonderful.”
Willoughby said he can’t wait to see the outcome.
“They are totally, totally remodeling it,” he said.
The remodeled kitchen will be unveiled next weekend when Ray visits Wilmington Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 8., to tape her show and host a free Thanksgiving meal for needy residents.
The show will air Nov. 25.
Ray is inviting Wilmington residents who have faced economic hardship to the free Thanksgiving dinner Sunday at the Roberts Convention Centre.
Wilmington residents were rocked when DHL, that community’s major employer, announced last year that it was leaving.
The soup kitchen, an effort by 31 regional churches, has double the number of people it serves since last year, Willoughby said.
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Cincinnati native and former 98 Degrees member Nick Lachey will make the trip as will Oosterhouse and Kahi Lee of HGTV’s “Design on a Dime.”
This isn’t the first time the plight of Wilmington workers has gained the attention of a national celebrity.
Comedian Jay Leno in May preformed two free shows there as part of Jay’s Comedy Stimulus Plan.
Click here to see a gallery of photos from Leno’s shows.
Ray’s show has ties to the Miami Valley. Wayne High School grad Kim White is a makeup artist on the show.
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Rachael Ray to host Thanksgiving dinner in area
UPDATE: a redesign show’s crew is giving soup kitchen major overhaul as part of Ray’s visit.
Talk show host Rachael Ray will bring her show and a heap of Thanksgiving fixing to Wilmington Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 8.
Ray is inviting Wilmington residents who have faced economic hardship to a free Thanksgiving dinner Sunday at the Roberts Convention Centre.
Cincinnati native and former 98 Degrees member Nick Lachey will attend the dinner, according to Ray’s representatives.
“The Rachael Ray Show,” which will tape an episode, also plans to visit Sugartree Soup Kitchen.
Wilmington residents were rocked when DHL, that community’s major employer, announced last year that it was leaving.
The company has ceased most operations there.
“We can’t fix the economy, but we can do our part - and what we know about is food. So if you’re worried about a Thanksgiving meal, you can relax - we’ve got a plan,” a message posted the The Rachael Ray Show website says.
Visit www.RachaelRayShow.com/Ohio or call 1-800-972-2579 to register to attend the dinner.
Those who registers must be at least 18 years of age, and must show a government-issued photo ID proving they live in the 45177 zip code.
The show also seeks volunteers willing to help stage the dinner. Call (800) -972-2579 to help.
This isn’t the first time the plight of Wilmington workers has gained the attention of a national celebrity.
Comedian Jay Leno in May preformed two free shows there as part of Jay’s Comedy Stimulus Plan.
Click here to see a gallery of photos from Leno’s shows.
Ray’s show has ties to the Miami Valley. Wayne High School grad Kim White is a makeup artist on the show.
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Taylor Swift photographed hugging guy in a swastika T-shirt
Whoa… It seems Taylor Swift needs to be a bit more careful about who she hugs.
While attending Katy Perry’s b-day bash last weekend, the pretty, pretty country music princess was photographed hugging a dude with a big red, swastika on his T-shirt, TMZ reports.
Swift’s rep tells TMZ that she took photos with a lot of people that night and didn’t notice the T-shirt.
See take a look at the photo here.
Swift has a sweet, cute and wholesome image, but there is nothing sweet, cute or wholesome about swastikas
They are used by anti-Semites and Nazis.
Do you think this was just a honest mistake?
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Is Levi a liar? Do you believe Johnston’s latest slams against Sarah Palin?
Levi Johnston is like a moose with an assault riffle.
And Sarah Palin is fighting back with a chainsaw in the form of words.
In a statement to CBS’ “Early Show, ” the former Alaskan governor called Johnston claims “attention-getting lies.”
Making nice with his baby mama’s family is apparently not part of Johnston’s plan to build a career in entertainment.
He’s blasted Sarah Palin and her family in interviews that aired today and Wednesday, Oct. 28 and 29.
Johnston has a child with Palin’s daughter, Bristol.
The most shocking allegations are that Palin wanted to take Bristol’s baby as her own and that Palin thought it was hilarious to referred to her own child as her “retarded baby.”
Trig, Palin’s youngest, was born with Down Syndrome.
In the statement read today, Palin called Johnson’s allegations appalling, sickening and sad.
Johnston, who is preparing to model for “Playgirl” (he’s pumping iron), told CBS’ Maggie Rodriguez that he is airing dirty laundry partly because the Palins used him to make Sarah Palin look good while she was running for vice president.
Johnston said he has dirt on Palin’s term as governor that could really burn her.
“If I really wanted to hurt her I could do it really easily,” he told Rodrguez.
Wow, there’s are no ego here at all. Geez.
Do you believe Johnston’s latest allegations or do you think it is all garbage?
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Tennis champ admits crystal meth use
Yeah, crystal meth is clearly on the list of drugs banned by athletic federations.
In his new book, “Open,” tennis great and former lady killer Andre Agassi admits he used the dangerous narcotic regularly in the late ’90s, according to PEOPLE magazine.
More specifically, the Associated Press says the Olympic gold medalist and eight time grand slam winner used meth in 1997, the year he dropped to No. 141 in the rankings.
“I can’t speak to addiction, but a lot of people would say that if you’re using anything as an escape, you have a problem,” Agassi told PEOPLE.
More importantly perhaps, Agassi opens in his book about his hair loss and romances.
Passages from the memoir will be printed this week by PEOPLE and “Sports Illustrated.”
What do you think? Does this change the way you feel about Agassi?
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Gooki or Gucci? ‘Pineapple Express’ actor spoofs fragrance commerical
James Franco has the face, but the hottie doesn’t exactly have the words in a hilarious fragrance commercial parody posted recently to Funnyordie.com.
It is it “Gucci” or “Gooki?” Maybe it is Gunki.
Franco has had roles in “Milk,” “Pineapple Express,” and “Spider-Man.”
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Rosie O’Donnell getting new show
Rosie O’Donnell is rejoining the ranks of the professional talkers.
The outspoken comic and activist launches a new show on Sirius XM satellite radio Nov. 2, USA TODAY says.
It will air live weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon on the network with 18.4 million paid subscribers.
“I’m sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again,” the former host of the ABC’s “The View” told the newspaper.
Are you looking forward to Rosie’s return?
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Kanye West off the hook… battery, vandalism charges dismissed
Apparently breaking a camera is not a crime.
He may remain one of the most hated rappers in the history of the world, but hip-hop mogul Kanye West is out of hot water in at least one regard.
Charges related to the scuffle Mr. West and his road manager had at Los Angeles International Airport last year with paparazzi have been dismissed, according to the Los Angeles Times.
West and Don Crowley allegedly smashed a photographer camera during a confrontation in September 2008.
Eight charges, including battery, grand theft and vandalism, were dismissed.
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Did Miley Cyrus Have Swine Flu?
If you believe her reps, H1N1 did not have Miley Cyrus feeling like a sick little piggy.
And swine flu is not the reason America’s 17-year-old sweetheart ran off stage Sept. 29 during a concert in Salt Lake City.
This of course contradicts the word on the street.
Said word was ramped up this week by one of Cyrus’ former Hannah Montana costars.
Cody Linley, a beachy blond to say the least, told Reelz Channel’s Hollywood Dailies that Cyrus was bit by the pig.
How did he know?
She told him.
“I spoke with her the day that she canceled the tour, he told Reelz Channel. “She said she felt really bad. She didn’t understand what was happening, but she just got really sick and had to run off stage because things were just like on her heart, too heavy. Then the next day she told me she had the Swine Flu.”
And the plot thickens… or does it.
It is not like she’s be the only person to get swine flu.
Cyrus is set to preform in LA this weekend as part of a breast cancer awareness benefit, according to EXTRA.
What do you think?
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Bronson Pinchot: ‘Tom Cruise was homophobic, Denzel Washington was cruel, Bette Miller was a ‘B’
Who knew Balki Bartokomous could be so straight edged.
Actor Bronson Pinchot, who played the zany immigrant in TV’s “Perfect Strangers,” opens up about some of the biggest names in Hollywood during an interview posted on The Onion’s A.V. Club.
Pinchot made his film debut in “Risky Business” and actually has a very impressive acting resume. He liked many of the folks he has worked with, but not everyone.
Hooray!
Here are some low-lights from the lengthy piece.
On Tom Cruise in “Risky Business”
We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth….. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, “You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?” I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, “It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange. Years and years later when people started to torment him with that, I used to think “God, that’s really fitting, because he tormented a lot of people as a 20-year-old.” He made such a big deal about it. Same thing with Eddie Murphy—I remember somebody calling and saying, “You’ll never guess who was just caught with a transvestite!”
On Eddie Murphy in “Beverly Hills Cop 3”
Eddie was going through his period at the time of doing movies that were not hits, and he was very low-spirited, low-energy. I said to him, “All anyone ever wants to know when they meet me is what you’re like.” And he said, “I bet they don’t ask that anymore … When did Dr. Dolittle come out? I think his funk really did last until then. I don’t know what started the funk, but it lasted a chunk of time, and that was in the belly of the funk, and he was just really sad and low-energy and I basically did the scene without him there.On Bette Miller being a “b” to director Hugh Wilson of “The First Wives Club”
Yes, because Bette Midler was such a b—— to him. While he was directing, she would be rolling her eyes, pantomiming with her favorite actors, and she made it very difficult. And he was at his wit’s end. He was actually a very nice man, but she was very unkind to him on that movie. Am I not supposed to say these things?On Denzel Washington’s ambition
I think Denzel Washington has it—he’s one of the most unpleasant human beings I’ve ever met in my life, but he’s this mega-superstar.
On Denzel in “Courage Under Fire”
That was a low point, because Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bull**** of “This is my character, not me.” He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I spent my salary on time with my shrink just for helping me get through it, and what that led to was the very next big movie that I did.
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Paparazzo hits caravan taking Michael Jackson’s kids to karate class
It seems that Paris Jackson has at least one thing in common with Paris Hilton - paparazzi can’t resist following her around.
A photographer trailing Jackson and her siblings Wednesday, Oct. 21, smashed into the back of a security vehicle following a car carrying the children, according to the gossip website TMZ.
A nanny was driving the children to karate class. They were not harmed.
Michael Jackson’s children have unfortunately been hot commodities for some tabloids since their father’s unexpected death in late June.
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Reports: ESPN analyst, family stalked “Fatal Attraction-style”
OK, this is why you should not have an affair with a crazy production assistant.
ESPN analyst Steve Phillips and his family were stalked “Fatal Attraction”-style by a jilted 22-year-old, according to an article posted by the New York Post.
After Phillips kicked her to the curb and ended the affair this summer, ESPN assistant Brooke Hundley allegedly went a little nutty and called Phillips’ wife, Marni, several times.
The young women also wrote letters and text messages detailing the forbidden relation.
“The tone of the text message was, ‘I care about Steve, I make him happy, and we both can’t have him,’ ” Marni Phillips said in an August police statement posted on the Post’s website.
Steve Phillips was concerned Hundley was obsessive and delusional. He had concerns for the safety of his family.
Hundley allegedly visited her former lover’s home and posed twice as a teen girls in emails to Phillips’ 16-year-old son.
“Over the past two to three weeks she has invaded the privacy of our family particularly my son; asking probing personal questions about our four boys and our marriage,” Phillips says in the statement. “She was flirty with our son; she knows what kind of car my son drives; she has indicated she will visit my son’s football practice etc.
Creepy.
Despite it all, Phillips, who has had affairs in the past, didn’t pursue criminal charges against Hundley.
This is just the latest TV interoffice relationship scandal.
You remember the one about David Letterman?
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Jon Gosselin sued by TLC
Will Jon and Kate not go away because we won’t stop talking about them or will we not stop talking about them because they won’t go away?
I am nauseated either way.
The latest news goes like this and comes from the AP: Jon Gosselin is being sued by TLC.
The network says Jon breached his contract by taking money to appear on several other shows.
What do you think?
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Singer punched in face by fan who screamed “I love you”
A pop singer’s fan has a very twisted way of expressing his “love.”
Singer Leona Lewis was punched in the side of the face during a London book signing Wednesday, Oct. 14, according to the BBC.
According to Metro, the singer’s 29-year-old accused attacker screamed “I love you” as Lewis ran away.
Her response, “I don’t love you.”
The attack shocked Lewis’ fans.
“He walked up there with a book, she signed it, Leona Lewis signed it, and as she looked up he just punched her,” a eyewitness told the BBC. “You actually heard the impact.”
The man was arrested after the attack.
“The security all jumped on him and they were trying to pull him out and he was just laughing,” another witness told the network.
The singer, who was signing copies of her new book, “Dreams,” was shocked by the attack, but not seriously harmed.
Lewis, a three-time Grammy, will release her second album in next month.
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‘Jon and Kate Plus 8’ ending in November
Smile if you are among the many who just want “Jon and Kate Plus 8” to just go away.
The family reality show will stop filming new episodes in November, according to The New York Post.
But don’t smile too big.
The previously announced “Kate Plus 8” may still be in the works.
According to the New York Post source, TLC is waiting for Jon and Kate to clear up their divorce problems before deciding what to do next.
There is of course a big problem there.
Around the same time he learned his name would be dropped from the show’s title, Jon told TLC they could no longer film his eight precious children.
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And let the parades commence.
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VH1 reality show ‘girls’ in town this weekend
VH1’s ‘Of Love” contestants will be all over the Miami Valley this weekend.
“Flavor of Love” girl is coming to town, but don’t expect any clock necklaces or spitting.
Season 2 winner Deelishis (AKA Chandra Davis AKA London Charles) will appear at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16-17, in Kamal Smith’s stage play “The Representative” at the Dayton Convention Center Theatre, 22 E. Fifth St., Dayton.
She won’t be the only VH1 reality vet in town this week.
Ashley from “Rock of Love” will be a special guest at Cheeks strip club Friday, Oct. 16.
We don’t endorse it, we just report it.
The play featuring Deelishis will be decidedly less nude.
Tickets for the play are $20 in advance or $25 at the door.
The production tells the story of a bride-to-be who catches her fiance cheating four months before her wedding date. She decides to return the favor if you know what we mean.
More info: Call (800) 339-5949 or visit KamalSmith.com.
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Model retouched to look emaciated: I was fired for being too fat
It seems size 4 is the new fat.
Fashion model Filippa Hamilton tells the New York Daily News she was canned because she is too fat.
“They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore,” Hamilton said.
The interview with the newspaper comes a week after Ralph Lauren was forced to apologize for retouching an ad featuring the slender Hamilton.
The ad makes her look deadly skinny.
Click here to see the horrifying retouch.
Hamilton, a Ralph Lauren model since 2002, is a fatty indeed … in bizarro world.
The alleged lardo is all of 120 pounds and 5 feet 10 inches.
Me thinks she could stand to eat a Whopper or three.
In a statement to the New York Daily News, Polo Ralph Lauren called Filippa a “beautiful and healthy” woman.
The relationship ended “as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.”
In other words, they fired her because they thought she was fat.
What do you think?
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Jon and Kate Gosselin head to court
UPDATE: A judge on Tuesday, Oct. 13, told Jon and Kate to play nice, put missing money back in a joint account and get this, think about the best interest of their eight kids. WHAT!!! Why would parents do that (sarcasm)? Read TMZ’s blog entry here.
EARLIER: Everyone’s favorite TV mommy and daddy are off to court, according to TMZ.com.
The website is streaming video from the courthouse in Pennsylvania.
Jon and Kate Gosselin are in court over greed, I mean money.
Unfortunate the arbitrator hearing their complaints is neither Judge Judy nor Nancy Grace.
Kate filed court papers saying Jon took more than 230,000 bucks from a joint account. Jon fired back, saying Kate took more than S60,000. He wants to know what happen to $1 million that is missing, according to the New York Daily News.
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HEAR IT NOW: Michael Jackson’s “This Is It”
The King of Pop’s newest recording began hitting airwaves and streaming on the WWW Monday at midnight.
It is very old school, 90s MJ.
Hear Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” below.
The release comes four months after Jackson’s sudden death and weeks before the documentary “This Is It” hits theaters.
What do you think? Does the song move you?
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Sort of just like Letterman: Jimmy Kimmel dips pen in company ink
It seems that Jimmy Kimmel is as live as Letterman.
Reps for the host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” have confirmed to E and US Magazine that Kimmel has found love around the water cooler.
The 41-year-old funnyman is dating Molly McNearney, his show’s co-head writer.
The revelation of the interoffice memoing comes on the heels of David Letterman, SEXY Blackmail Gate.
The Kimmel thing is not nearly as juicy, but like Letterman, he found love with someone one under him on the corporate ladder.
It would seem that thing are really, really over between Kimmel and former girlfriend Sarah Silverman.
Boooooooooooooo.
No word on how Ben Affleck is taking the news.
What do you think? Is it OK to date someone you work for or someone who works for you?
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TLC’s supersize family welcome first ‘grandduggar’
TLC’s really big clan added a new generation.
Mackynzie Renee Duggar is Jim and Michelle Duggar’s first granddaughter, according to TLC.
The Duggars are stars of TLC’s supersized reality show “18 Kids and Counting.”
The baby born Thursday, Oct. 8, is Josh and Anna Duggar’s first child.
Josh is the oldest of his parent’s 18 kids.
See photos of the new baby here.
Little Mackynzie Renee won’t be the baby of the family for very long.
Granny Michelle announced last month that she is carrying what will be her 19th kid.
And Mackynzie won’t have much privacy. Her birth will be shown to the world Tuesday, Oct. 13, during a “18 Kids and Counting” special called “First Grandduggar.”
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Mike Tyson doesn’t want to know how his daughter died
In an interview set to air Monday, Oct. 12, former Heavyweight champ Mike Tyson tells Oprah that he doesn’t want to know how his 4-year-old daughter died, PopEater reports.
Details may make a bad situation worse.
“Because if I know, then there might be a blame for it. And if there’s somebody to blame for it, there will be a problem,” Tyson says according to the website.
The former Heavyweight champ’s 4-year-old daughter Exodus died in May.
The child suffocated after she either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill’s console in her Phoenix home.
Tyson, who in clips posted on the Oparah Windfrey Show website appears to tear up, also reveals details about his relationship with Robin Givens, his prison stint and the attack on Evander Holyfield.
“This is not the ‘iron Mike’ you think you know,” Oprah says in the clip.
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“Hey, hey” Harry Connick Jr. shocked by blackface routine on variety show
Blackface certainly did not jive with crooner Harry Connick Jr. earlier this week.
The New Orleans native was stunned by a group of white doctors who donned Afro wigs and black makeup for a revolting performance of The Jackson’s Five’s “Can You Feel It” on the Australian variety show “Hey Hey It’s Saturday.”
The performance has caused a global outcry and caused deep discussion in Australia over whether it was racist.
“If they turned up looking like that in the United States…. It would be Hey, hey, there’s no more show,” Connick said after giving the act, “Jackson Jive” a zero.
The show’s host Daryl Somers apologized to Connick later in the show which was a pretty decent thing to do it seems.
” I think we may have offended you with that and I deeply apologize on behalf of all of us,” Somers said. “Because I know, your countrymen, it’s an insult to have a blackface routine like that.”
Connick, a regular on the show, spoke on behalf of his country.
“I know it was done humorously, but we’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that, we take it really to heart,” Connick said adding that he knew the performance was in ‘good fun,’ but as an American, he felt he had to speak out.
“If I knew that was going to be part of the show, I probably… I definitely … would not have done it.”, the singer/actor said.
Connick posted a statement on his website Thursday, Oct. 8, professing his love for the Australian and how stunning the situation has been.
“I have watched the media storm that has erupted over my reaction to the Hey Hey blackface skit.
Where I come from, blackface is a very specific and very derogatory thing.
Perhaps this is different in other parts of the world, but in the American culture, the blackface image is steeped in a negative history and considered offensive.
I urge everyone in the media to take a look at the history of blackface to fully understand why it is considered offensive. I also urge you to review the Hey Hey tape and you will see that I did not ascribe any motives to anyone, nor did I call anyone a racist.
The blackface skit was a surprise to me and I was simply shocked to see this on TV. I do not believe that the performers intended any harm.”
Some have called Connick a hypocrite, citing a 1996 “Mad TV” sketch in which he played a southern preacher. But that criticism doesn’t seem to have legs. Connick is not in blackface. He plays white southern preacher Rev. Dr. Michael Kassick to Orlando Jones played a black southern preacher Rev. LaMonte Nixon Fatback.
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Michael Jackson’s doc a deadbeat dad?
The doctor suspected in Michael Jackson’s death is a deadbeat dad, according to a Nevada court records.
A bench warrant was recommended Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Clark County Family Court for the arrest of Dr. Conrad Murray, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Michael Jackson’s personal doctor has owed more than $13,000 in child support payments to a Californian woman.
Murray has a history of unpaid child support, the newspaper reports. Prosecutors have trying to get money from him since February 2002.
As a result, the prosecutors office plans to ask Nevada’s medical board to suspend Murray’s license to practice medicine, the newspaper reports.
The cardiologist is the doctor who unsuccessfully tried to revive Michael Jackson with CPR. The King of Pop died June 25. Murray has been named the target of a manslaughter probe headed by Los Angeles police.
The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide.
What do you think? Was West standing up for art? Was Beyonce’s video the more artistic or was Taylor’s?
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Elizabeth Taylor going to hospital to have heart surgery
Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor took to Twitter to announce her intend to go to the hospital for a heart surgery.
“Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart,” the superstar said on her verified Twitter account.
“It’s very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better.”
She later Tweeted: “Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I’ll let you know when it’s all over. Love you, Elizabeth.”
Taylor is 77. She has acted beside some of Hollywood’s most well-known stars in more than 70 films, including “A Place in the Sun,” “Giant,” “Cleopatra,” and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “
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DUI conviction cleared from Mel Gibson’s record
It’s like Mel Gibson never drove drunk or went nuts on the sheriff’s deputy who arrested him in 2006.
Nope, didn’t happen. Nothing 2 C.
I mean YOU may recall how a drunken Gibson lobbed anti-Semitic comments, but as far as the law is concerned, it didn’t happen.
A judge today, Tuesday, Oct. 6, agreed to expunge Gibson’s 2006 DUI conviction from his record, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Because this was his first DUI conviction, Gibson was eligible to have the charge removed once he completed the terms of his probation.
Gibson lived up to his end of the deal, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, appearing in public service announcements and paying a fine, The Times said.
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Watch Nancy Grace lets Jon Gosselin have it!!!
Yeah, she’s meaner that a raccoon trapped in a trash bin, but you know who is also pretty awesome - Nancy Grace.
The fireball CNN talk show host gave Jon Gosselin the ‘what for’ on the Insider Monday, Oct. 5.
He was called on his ‘you know what’ big time by the shark.
Grace all but called Gosselin a hypocrite, pointing out that for years Gosselin had his kids on the TLC reality show.
“Suddenly when it is no longer ‘Jon and Kate Plus 8’ and it is ‘Kate Plus 8’ you suddenly have a problem with it and want it to come to an end,” she said. “What’s important is the children and not these two self-absorbed husband and wife who argue constantly in front of their children.”
Gosselin said he wants to mediate the situation with estranged wife Kate.
But good old crazy Nancy wasn’t fooled.
“You talk the talk but you can’t walk the walk,” Grace said, adding that while Jonny stays out partying with 22-year-old women Kate stays home with the kids.
Jon last week put the brakes on Kate’s hopes for a show without him.
He told TLC to shut down production of “Kate Plus Eight.”
Read “Could it be no Jon, no Kate, no plus eight? Jon gets show shut down”
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Letterman apologizes to wife, staff, Sarah Palin: ‘I’ve got my work cut out for me’
David Letterman spent a good part of his show Monday, Oct. 5, discussing what he said he wouldn’t - the blackmailing plot that has seen a Dayton native charged with attempted first-degree grand larceny.
“I wasn’t going to talk about it anymore but it seems like people want to talk about it,” Letterman joked.
The talk show host said his staff has been hounded by media since he revealed last week that CBS News producer Robert J. “Joe” Halderman had attempted to blackmailed him.
Officials say the Dayton native threatened to reveal details of Letterman’s sexcapades with women who worked for Letterman.
Letterman apologized to his staffers and cleared up the record.
“No, I am not having sex with these women (current staffers).” he said. “Those episodes are in the past.”
The funnyman also expressed deep regret for the affect the revelations have had on his marriage.
“My wife Regina, she has been horribly hurt by my behavior,” Letterman said, noting that he is trying repair damage his tryst have caused. ” I tell you folks, I’ve got my work cut out for me.”
Regardless of the fallout, Letterman said he did not regret his decision to report Halderman’s threats to authorities.
“You can’t be victimized by criminal,” Letterman said. “I still fell like I did the right thing. And now, also cause what can it hurt, I’d like to apologize to the former governor of Alaska.”
What do you think? Letterman seemed sincere. Do you feel sorry for him?
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Dayton native charged in Letterman blackmailing mocked on ‘SNL’
The Dayton native charged last week in the attempt to blackmail talk show host David Letterman will not be recognized anytime soon as a criminal mastermind.
(Read: Man accused of blackmailing Letterman was born in Dayton)
CBS producer “Joe” Halderman was mocked along with Letterman during a “Weekend Update” segment of “Saturday Night Live” Oct. 4.
Anchor Seth Meyers dubbed the extortion attempt by a Halderman as “a stupid human trick.”
Meyers, the latest comedian to let Letterman have it, added that Halderman was threatening to reveal embarrassing details of Letterman’s sex life.
“After sex, he would always say, ‘Stay tuned for Craig Ferguson,’” Meyers said.
The episode also featured a hair pulling cat fight/make out session between pop singers Madonna and Lady Gaga.
What do you think?
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Video: Watch David Letterman discuss his affairs and the blackmail attempt that followed
UPDATE (Friday, Oct. 2 at 1:45 p.m.) : CBS News producer Robert J. “Joe” Halderman has been indicted in an extortion plot against talk show host David Letterman, according to the Associated Press.
Halderman was arrested Thursday and indicted on one count of attempted first-degree grand larceny, punishable by five to 15 years upon conviction, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said Friday.
EARLIER
Warning: dirty deeds often lead to much dirtier deeds.
David Letterman on his show Thursday, Oct. 1, discussed affairs with his employees and a “terrifying” blackmail scheme.
Letterman, who married his longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko in March, told his stunned audience that a man threatened to produce a screenplay and book based on “terrible, terrible things” that the talk show had done.
The man demanded $2 million. Instead of coughing up the cash, Letterman went to authorities.
CBS says the man was Joe Halderman, who has worked for the network more than 20 years.
In the video above, Letterman talks about the case and sexual relationships with his female employees.
“I have had sex with women who work on this show,” Letterman said. “Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.”
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Could it be no Jon, no Kate, no plus eight? Jon gets show shut down
If he doesn’t have a show, apparently Jon Gosselin doesn’t want his estranged wife to have one either.
A day after learning he was being dropped like a bad habit from the title of his family’s reality show, Jon, AKA the number one dad of the universe, told TLC to shut down production of “Kate Plus Eight,” according to the Insider.
Gosselin, through his attorney, told the network to “cease and desist” production and leave his property.
“Jon realized his family was like a trainwreck, so he decided to put the brakes on the divorce and on the show … because if he didn’t the family would be in a mortal accident … the victims of a trainwreck,” the attorney, Mark Jay Heller told the Insider.
Really?
According to People.com, Gosselin’s manager, Mike Heller, says the decision is being made in the best interest of the Gosselin children.
“It’s been getting in the way of his family, his children are complaining,” Heller told People.
For now, Jon’s plan is apparently working. TLC announced Thursday, that it will suspend filming the children for the show until Jon and Kate work it out.
What do you think?
Is it time for the show to just go away?
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Michael Jackson autopsy report detailed and gross
Findings from Michael Jackson’s autopsy prove just one thing, death is ultra-embarrassing.
Not only do we know now that the King of Pop was bald and had tattoos in his eyebrows, we also now know that he had patches of white skin and that osteoarthritis was visible in the lower spine and some fingers.
According to the Associated Press, MJ was 5-foot-9 and weighed just 136 pounds.
He had scars all over his body, including behind his ears, along one shoulder, at the base of his neck and near his navel.
The anesthetic propofol and four other sedatives were found in his system.
Michael Jackson died June 25. The coroner has ruled his death a homicide.
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