Celebrity Updates 3-25-08
NY Post TV critic Linda Stasi says Britney Spears’ acting on CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother” yesterday was “nothing short of adorably believable.” Stasi says Spears stole “every scene out from under the whole cast.” /NYP 69
Jamie Spears, Britney Spears’ dad, will remain in control of her affairs after a judge on Monday threw out a plea by attorney Jon Eardley on her behalf to remove the elder Spears as her conservator. /AP
British singer Corrine Bailey Rae is too distraught to speak out about the sudden death of her husband Jason. Reps for the singer say she needs time to come to terms with the tragedy. /DN 21
Fall Out Boy is traveling to Antarctica this week to make history as the only band to perform on all seven continents. The group fast-tracked their plans when they heard Radiohead was trying to pull off the same stunt. To make it into the Guinness Book of World Records, they must perform at a 300-person plus venue. /DN 21
“Gossip Girl” star Ed Westwick brushed off Internet rumors that he and co-star Chace Crawford are gay. “It’s just because we live together, but we’re just mates,” the British actor shrugged at the Audi Forum party. /DN 20
“I love Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They’re both great countries” – Paris Hilton to media in South Africa. /NYP 12
USA Today picked up People’s report that country music star and former “Dancing With the Stars” contestant Sara Evans is engaged to Birmingham, Alabama radio host Jay Barker. /USAT 1D
Barack Obama will visit “The View” this Friday – but will tape his appearance at the show’s studios on Thursday. He is expected to sit for three segments. This will be his second appearance on the show. /NYP 69
Barack Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, spent Easter lounging at a Ritz Carlton in Puerto Rico. /NYP 13
Fred Savage will play the lead role in a new CBS comedy pilot “Single White Millionaire.” Meanwhile, Amy Smart will star in CBS’s romantic drama pilot “The Meant to Be’s.” /DN 62
The Kardashian family and Ryan Seacrest will appear on “Larry King Live” Friday to promote the Kardashian’s show, produced by Seacrest. /DN 62
Fox has picked up “Prison Break,” starring Wentworth Miller, for a fourth season. /USAT 1D
James Gandolfini will play the mayor of New York City in a remake of “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,” starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. /DN 21
George Michael is gearing up for his first tour of the United States and Canada in 17 years, opening a multi-city “25 Live” tour in San Diego on June 17, Michael announced Monday. He’ll release his greatest-hits album “Twenty Five” in the U.S. on April 1. /AP
A nude photo of Carla Bruni, taken in 1993, will be sold at Christie’s auction house next month. /DN 21
Nicole Spence, a former talent booker for Wendy Williams, is suing the radio host claiming her husband sexually harassed her. Spence also claims her husband, Kevin Hunter, created a hostile work environment by repeatedly beating up Williams in an around the studio. /NYP 11
Hulk Hogan is being sued by John Graziano, the man who was critically injured in an Aug. 26 car crash involving Hogan’s son Nick. The lawsuit says the wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, and his estranged wife, Linda, are liable as the parents of 17-year-old Nick Bollea. Lawyers say Graziano - who wasn’t wearing a seat belt - was left in a semiconscious state and will require care for the rest of his life. An attorney says millions of dollars will be sought. Nick Bollea is facing a criminal charge of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury. /AP
Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon’s marriage was officially annulled Monday, according to documents filed in Superior Court. The documents listed fraud as the reason for the annulment but did not include further details. Salomon and Anderson, 40, were married Oct. 6 in Las Vegas then separated Dec. 13. /AP
A New York judge has ordered Georgia man Brady Green to stay away from Tyra Banks or face going to jail. According to a criminal complaint, Green has followed Banks from coast to coast since January, sent her letters and flowers and tried to telephone her, causing Banks to fear that she was in danger. /AP
Sean “Diddy” Combs has settled a lawsuit brought by Gerard Rechnitzer, who claims Combs punched him after a post-Oscar party outside a Hollywood hotel. The terms of the deal were not disclosed in court papers posted Monday on TMZ.com. /AP
The Smashing Pumpkins are suing Virgin Records, saying the record label has illegally used their name and music in promotional deals that hurt the band’s credibility with fans. In a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, the rockers said they have “worked hard for over two decades to accumulate a considerable amount of goodwill in the eyes of the public,” and that Virgin’s use of the band in a “Pepsi Stuff” promotion with Amazon.com and Pepsi Co. threatens their reputation for “artistic integrity.” /AP
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, 57, is recovering after successful total knee replacement surgery on March 18. Perry had put off the surgery for two years. He’ll head home from an undisclosed hospital soon to continue his recovery through the rest of the year. /USAT 1D
The neurosurgeon who operated on Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira warned that the performer “might not make it” after suffering a horrific head injury when the 26,000-pound bus he was driving slammed into an interchange barrier on a Houston-area freeway. Navaira was propelled through the windshield. Police believe Navaira was not licensed to drive the bus. /AP
Neil Aspinall, a longtime friend of the Beatles who managed the band’s Apple Corps music empire and was dubbed “the fifth Beatle,” died Sunday night after a two-month battle with lung cancer. He was 66. Aspinall’s death was announced Monday in a statement from surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison, and the band’s Apple Corps Ltd. company. /USAT 1D, AP
Former madam Andreia Schwartz says the story in The Post yesterday that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer paid to watch couples have sex may be false. Schwartz claims she told the paper she was giving them third-hand information, but that detail didn’t make it into the story. /DN 21
The mayor of Detroit is the latest politician to be caught in a sex scandal. Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that showed he was lying when he told a grand jury he wasn’t sleeping with a top aide. /DN 19
Families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre would receive $100,000 each under a settlement the state is proposing to prevent lawsuits, according to a victim’s relative who asked to remain anonymous. /DN 16
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