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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Paula Abdul leaving ‘American Idol’
According to the official Twitter account for Paula Abdul, the former pop singer is leaving her post as a judge on ‘American Idol.’
She tweeted the following at around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 4:
With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to #IDOL
She goes on to say:
I’ll miss nurturing all the new talent,but most of all being a part of a show that I helped from day1become an international phenomenon.
Read more about Abdul’s departure at NYTimes.com, and here
Will ‘Idol’ replace her? Or will they return to their 3 judge format? Will this lead Ryan Seacrest to leave the show since he will no longer have Paula to soften the wrath of Simon Cowell? It’s really too soon to tell how this might affect the future of ‘American Idol.’
- Photos: Paula Abdul through the years
- Photos: Season 8 of ‘American Idol’
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Ryan O’Neal hit on his own daughter at Farrah’s funeral. Gross!
Grief can make you do some pretty strange things.
It apparently made actor Ryan O’Neal think his own daughter was a hot Swedish woman.
Ryan O’Neal tells Vanity Fair magazine that he mistakenly hit on daughter Tatum at Farrah Fawcett’s funeral.
Here’s the passage from the magazine’s September cover story “Beautiful People, Ugly Choices.” It hits stand August 11.
“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” Ryan told me. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me—Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”
Oops!
Most fathers think their little girls are cute. Few think they are fine.
O’Neal comes across as a jerk in other ways. Apparently he didn’t like Farrah’s hot flashes.
Here’s another passage from the story by Leslie Bennetts:
O’Neal cites several reasons for his breakup with Fawcett, starting with menopause. “I believe Farrah was going through some kind of life change,” he says. “I didn’t have a change of life. I was always a jerk. But they’re hard work, these divas; I was sick of it, and I was unappreciated. I just don’t think she liked me very much. So I excused myself, and I was lucky enough to meet this young girl. She was more a daughter to me than a lover, and my own daughter had flown the coop, so here was this replacement.”
Fawcett, O’Neal’s longtime love, died of cancer in June.
The iconic “Charlie’s Angels” was 62.
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Screech banned from ‘Save by the Bell’ reunion shoot
If you’ve followed Dustin Diamond’s career even a little, you’d know why the other Bayside High kids didn’t want him around for their reunion.
Diamond, who played nerdy, mcnerdy “Screech” on “Saved by the Bell,” was absent during the cast photo session with People Magazine.
The rest of the gang didn’t want him around because the rude porn star is writing a tell-all book, the New York Daily News reports.
Cast members shunned Diamond for very good reason. His sex tape and “Celebrity Fit Club” appearance brought shame to his alma mater.
Compared to Diamond, Lark Voorhies, Mario Lopez, Tiffani Thiessen, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Elizabeth Berkley are superstars.
Lopez recently made a stop in Dayton for an event at Hammerjax.
See photos of the event here.
What do you think?
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Garrison Keillor looking for the ‘goateed loser’ who robbed his bookstore
From Laura Houser, Staff Writer
This never would have happened in Lake Wobegon.
A man and a woman broke into Garrison Keillor’s bookstore in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, July 30.
The pair took $3,000 from the registers and safe, and smashed a window in the front door of the store owned by the creator of the long-running radio show “Prairie Home Companion” and the idyllic fictional town of Lake Wobegon.
The safe was later found, according to the Pioneer Press. It was empty of valuables.
The store, Common Goods Books, alerted the public via Twitter, tweeting “If anyone saw a goateed loser in long shorts and Longhorns cap carrying a safe at 1:20 last night, plz call the St. Paul PD.” The store also posted the surveillance video on the store’s blog.
Keillor stopped by the store last Thursday, watched the surveillance video and gave his employees a “keep-up-the-fight” fist pump upon leaving. No signs yet of the goateed loser.
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