Knowles family generosity
Beyoncé Knowles’ family charity, the Survivor Foundation, has donated $1 million to organizations that are building homes in Houston for displaced Hurricane Katrina victims, MTV.com reported.
“I’ve known the Knowles family for many years, and this is a true reflection of their generosity and humanitarian spirit,” said Rudy Rasmus, pastor of St. John’s Downtown, which along with the Bread of Life shared the donation.
Mariah Carey, meanwhile, is making a different donation – her blond locks. “I want to cut my hair. If I do, it will be for charity,” Carey was quoted by teenhollywood.com.
We’re sure philanthropists will be knocking down her door.
Fergie goes undercover
Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas has landed a role on “The Sopranos,” the Daily Mirror in London reports. Fergie, whose real name is Stacy Ferguson, will play an undercover cop working in Tony Soprano’s Bada Bing strip club.
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Rumors are rampant that Halle Berry is pregnant, according to several British media reports.
If so, the twice-divorced star can thank Oprah Winfrey. The talk show host hired Berry for her ABC made-for-TV movie “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Berry’s boyfriend, actor Michael Ealy, co-starred in the film that aired last spring. He reportedly recently moved into Berry’s home.
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Kenny Chesney was dismayed by reports that he is gay after the breakup of his brief marriage to actress Renée Zellweger.
“They’ve done nothing short of calling me gay and her a whore,” Chesney told People magazine of his four-month marriage to Zellweger, who is seeking an annulment to their May nuptials. “None of those things are true. I’m pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio and his longtime girlfriend, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, have split. Bundchen’s manager confirmed the breakup to a magazine in Brazil, the model’s home country. The couple dated for five years.
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ABC cannot get enough of Regis Philbin. The network has hired Philbin to host a revival of “This Is Your Life.”
The show began in the late 1940s on radio, detailing the life story of its celebrity guests, complete with surprise walk-on appearances by long-lost relatives or other influential people in their lives. Ralph Edwards, born in 1913 in Merino, Colo., hosted both the radio and TV versions of the show.
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The “Terminator” franchise is alive. Fox is developing a television pilot for “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” a drama based on the character Linda Hamilton played in the Arnold Schwarzenegger films, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Hamilton will not appear in the series pilot. Schwarzenegger, on the other hand, might need the work since his popularity as California governor is plummeting faster than film studio stock prices.
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The producers at “Desperate Housewives” did not take long to fill the role of Caleb. Nashawn Kearse will replace Page Kennedy as the fugitive living in a basement on Wisteria Lane. Kennedy was fired a week ago and Kearse’s hiring was announced Thursday. Kearse has appeared in the Jimmy Fallon film “Taxi,” two episodes of HBO’s “Entourage” and as a voice actor on the “Grand Theft Auto” video games. Kennedy was fired after allegedly exposing himself on the set, the New York Post reported.
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Larry David and his wife Laurie are in trouble for building a barbecue pit at their Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., summer home, Radar Online reported. A local commission asked the Davids to tear up the 26-foot-long barbecue and bonfire pit in August and restore the environmentally sensitive grounds. Neighbors claim the project was built without proper permits for an event that included environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr. Laurie David is an avid environmentalist and executive producer of the Nov. 20 TBS comedy special “Earth to America,” to raise awareness of environmental issues.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
