Sandra Bullock has reportedly rebuffed pitches to go on Oprah’s, Barbara Walters’ and Larry King’s shows, and instead will give her first interview about her marital woes to her friend George Lopez.
Bullock will be the star guest on Lopez’s late-night TBS show the first week in November, when Conan O’Brien launches his new show as the new lead-in to Lopez’s, according to Deadline/Hollywood.
The actress apparently is waiting until then because she hopes her personal life will be more settled by the fall, divorced or not, reports the Chicago Sun-Times’ Bill Zwecker.
“George has been one of Sandy’s most supportive and genuinely caring friends as she has gone through the nightmare of the past couple months,” a longtime close friend of Bullock said. ‘He personifies how a real friend acts when someone you love is going through a hellish situation.”
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer reportedly doled out $100,000 on the services of the Emperors Club escort service starting in early 2006, while he was still state attorney general,according to an upcoming Fortune magazine excerpt from Peter Elkind’s “Rough Justice.”
“He had been a customer of the Emperors Club for at least two full years and spent more than $100,000 on more than 20 appointments with perhaps 10 escorts in New York City, Washington, Dallas, Palm Beach and San Juan,” Elkind, a Fortune editor-at-large, writes in the book. The publicized scandal of his trysts with call girl Ashley Dupre led to his resignation as governor.
The book, excerpted in Fortune editions on sale Monday, claims Spitzer became an Emperors regular by mid-2007, but started using its services far earlier. He would pay extra to allow for flexibility on his schedule and rush in and out without any guards.
” ‘He practically attacked me when he walked in the door,’ one escort told her phone booker afterward. ‘He was just ready,’ ” the book states.
Octomom is going on Oprah.
Nadya Suleman‘s lawyer said the octuplets’ mother will be a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show next week to discuss the challenges of raising 14 children!
Nadya’s attorney Jeff Czech said that Oprah sent a TV crew to film at Nadya’s La Habra, Calif. home last week.
Nadya also went to an L.A. studio to film a remote interview with Oprah, scheduled to air Tuesday.
Her attorney said the interview covers “straight talk” about surviving with her family of 14.
Oprah also asks Nadya some difficult questions which her lawyer described as “hardballs.”
Nadya is also scheduled to appear in a skit for the “American Idol” charity show, “Idol Gives Back,” airing April 21.
A tiny Welsh village has lifted a nearly half-century ban on entertainer Tom Jones.
Now a multi-millionaire, Jones was just a garden-variety club singer when he appeared in the village’s social club in 1963.
But his band, Tommy Scott and The Senators, was blacklisted from Fochriw, which has a population of 1,000, over a mystery disappearance of a chicken which was first prize in the club raffle, according to London’s Daily Mail.
Now people in the village near Caerphilly, South Wales, have vowed to put the past behind them – and say Jones, now 69, would be welcome back.
Len Davies, 80, was one of the 200 people packed into the Fochriw Social Club being run by his late brother Jack.
Len said: ‘Tom was known then as Tommy Scott. He was very, very popular in the Valleys.
‘There was a full house that night, I remember having to get there early to make sure I got a seat.
‘It was packed and Tom was magnificent. He was introducing people to rock’n’roll who hadn’t seen stuff like that before – people who were used to choirs.
‘There was going to be a raffle of the chicken to raise some money for the club at the end of the night.
‘But people were having a few drinks and after the performance a melee broke out. My brother had bought this chicken as one of the prizes but after the fight it had gone.’
‘Mr. Davies said: ‘I’m sure people would love to see him now and would be happy to buy him a pint in the club.’
lsmith@denverpost.com
