Ellen DeGeneres reveals in the latest issue of Allure magazine that her stepfather molested her when she was a teenager. The talk-show host said her stepfather insisted on feeling her breast while DeGeneres’ mother was fighting breast cancer. She said the incident escalated into “other things” and her stepfather, now deceased, tried to break into her bedroom.
DeGeneres said she is revealing the incident because “it’s important for teenage girls out there to hear that there are different ways to say no. And if it ever happens to them, they should tell someone right away.”
Warren Beatty is suing Tribune Media Services for control of the Dick Tracy character so he can make a new movie about the famous comic-book detective, Variety reported. The Chicago-based company says it controls Tracy, but Beatty claims Tribune regained the character in 2002 in what Beatty claimed was an illegal move. Beatty, who starred as Tracy in a 1990 film, also has plans to produce a Tracy TV series, Variety wrote.
Freddie Prinze Jr., will star in “Freddie” on ABC’s new fall schedule. Prinze will play a chef and restaurant owner surrounded by four women, including a grandmother who will speak only Spanish, with English subtitles.
According to Star magazine, Denise Richards has had a change of heart and will allow her estranged husband, Charlie Sheen, in the delivery room when their second child is born next month. A family friend told Star, “they’re coming to an amicable agreement over their divorce.”
Whitney Houston has been released from her second rehab stint and plans to begin work on a new album next week, music mogul Clive Davis tells the celebrity gossip show “Access Hollywood.”
Former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Jason Priestley married longtime girlfriend Naomi Lowde Saturday in the Bahamas, the actor’s publicist confirmed. It is the second marriage for Priestley.
Hello! magazine has won an appeal to a ruling that it should pay rival OK! more than $1.84 million for publishing unauthorized photographs of the wedding of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. A British judge also denied the couple’s request to increase $26,800 in damages awarded in 2003.
The owner of two Kentucky theaters has refused to show the new Jane Fonda film “Monster-in-Law.”
Ike Boutwell, who trained pilots during the Vietnam War, displayed pictures of Fonda clapping with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft crew in 1972 outside an Elizabethtown theater, and the marquee in nearby Radcliff reads: “No Jane Fonda movie in this theater.” Both theaters are near the Fort Knox Army post. Boutwell also banned Michael Moore’s film, “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo immediate treatment, her management team said. Minogue, 36, postponed her concert tour of Australia.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
