You can hear some of Michael Jackson’s comeback on the MySpace page of DJ Tempamental, contact music.com reports. Jackson reportedly has been working with “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller and appears on the track “No Friend of Mine (Gangsta)” with Pras of the Fugees. Meanwhile, the New York Post reported Jackson waited too long to call for courtside tickets to tonight’s NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas. The front-row ducats already were given to Jack Nicholson, Christina Aguilera, Jay-Z, Diddy, Nelly and Adam Sandler.
Kenny Chesney, in an interview with Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” tonight, explains why his brief marriage to Renee Zellweger was annulled and denies he is gay. Chesney and Zellweger agreed to an annulment based on “fraud” four months after they wed in 2005. “We thought the least harmful (stated reason) was fraud because it (is) kind of broad … And boy … we were wrong,” Chesney says in the interview that airs at 6 p.m. on CBS (KCNC-Channel 4). The “fraud” claim led to rumors the country music star was gay. “It’s not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said no, I’m not (gay), but I didn’t want to draw any more attention to it.”
Actor-comic Mark Curry contemplated suicide last year and says pals Bill Cosby and Sinbad saved him. A can of spray starch exploded, setting fire to Curry’s California home. The former “Hanging With Mr. Cooper” star suffered second-degree burns on 18 percent of his body. While hospitalized, a depressed Curry collected painkillers in a bid to overdose – but visits by Cosby and Sinbad cheered him up. “It was so bad … that pain was so excruciating,” Curry said on a recent “Montel Williams” appearance. “I wanted to kill myself. … I saw my hand with the peeling skin and threw up, and I didn’t look at myself again. (Cosby and Sinbad) made me laugh, and that helped a lot.”
