Happy Wednesday Kiddies and away I go. Who’s ready for a big ole update?
Well this is interesting and a little sad. John Travolta frantically tried to save his son by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the actor told a Bahamian court on Wednesday in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from him. Former senator Pleasant Bridgewater, 49, and former paramedic Tarino Lightbourne, 47, are accused of conspiring and attempting to extort money from Travolta by means of threats. Bridgewater is also accused of abetment to extortion. Travolta, with actress wife Kelly Preston looking on, told the court how the couple raced downstairs at their Grand Bahama vacation home in a desperate bid to save 16 year-old Jett after being alerted to their son’s plight when a nanny pounded on their bedroom door. Jett Travolta died in January during the family’s New Year’s vacation in the Bahamas. His death certificate listed the cause as seizure disorder. Lightbourne was a paramedic at the scene. Bridgewater’s role has not been clarified publicly. The Bahamas director of public prosecutions, Bernard Turner, told the court on Tuesday that following Jett’s death, Travolta was threatened with the release of potentially damaging statements if money was not paid. Travolta told the Bahamian Supreme Court that his son was autistic and suffered from a seizure disorder. He would suffer a seizure every five to 10 days, and Travolta said the seizures would last for 45 seconds to minutes. The actor said that around 10:15 a.m. on January 2, while staying at the Old Bahama Bay Resort, he was awakened by Eli Wheaton, one of Jett’s nannies, who was pounding on his bedroom door. The actor said he and his wife ran downstairs to help their son. ”I saw him on the bathroom floor. Jeff Kathrein, his other nanny, and a woman from Old Bahama Bay were doing CPR,” Travolta said. The actor said he took the place of the woman doing CPR. ”Jeff Kathrein was doing compression and I was doing breathing,” Travolta said. Wow, I probably would have been better off not knowing this information.
Heather Locklear is returning to ‘Melrose Place’ – the actress will reprise her role as Amanda Woodward in the remake of the 1990s show. The star had previously turned down an offer to join the cast of the revamped TV hit, because she was not convinced writers could find a way of bringing her scheming character back. However, she met with show bosses again last month and agreed to film new scenes for the program – although it’s unknown how long Locklear’s stint will last. Executive producers Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer are delighted to have Locklear on board. They say in a statement, “We’re ecstatic to have the chance to bring Amanda Woodward back to Melrose Place. ”Heather’s involvement in the show is something we’ve been working on for some time as we couldn’t imagine creating and producing this show without the iconic character’s inclusion.” Locklear’s first episode will air November 17. Good, maybe that will breathe some life in to this fantastic but ratings challenged show.
Actress Mackenzie Phillips says she had a sexual relationship with her father, singer John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, beginning when she was 19. The 49-year-old former star of TV’s “One Day at a Time” has long battled an addiction to drugs. Her memoir, High on Arrival, goes on sale Wednesday. John Phillips died in 2001 at age 65. “On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it. … I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually I passed out on Dad’s bed,” People.com quoted her as writing in the book. “My father was not a man with boundaries. He was full of love, and he was sick with drugs. I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. Had this happened before? I didn’t know. All I can say is it was the first time I was aware of it. For a moment, I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout.” She said the sexual relationship became consensual. “I was a fragment of a person, and my secret isolated me,” she wrote. “One night, Dad said: ‘We could just run away to a country where no one would look down on us. There are countries where this is an accepted practice. Maybe Fiji.’ He was completely delusional. ‘No,’ I thought, ‘we’re going to hell for this.’” Um, Ewwww.
Sarah Michelle Gellar has given birth to a daughter she named Charlotte Grace, her publicist said. Gellar’s first child with her husband, actor Freddie Prinze Jr., was born Saturday, E! News said. The couple has been married for seven years. “The family is over the moon,” Gellar’s representative told People.com. Gellar is best known for her work on TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” She and Prinze have appeared together in the films “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Scooby-Doo.” I will take her off my top 5 celebrities I would bang list, she is now tainted goods.
Why hire an actress to play the coolest deejay in town when you can get the real thing? The producers of 90210 have confirmed exclusively to PEOPLE that Samantha Ronson, the celebrity deejay and on-and-off again girlfriend of Lindsay Lohan has filmed an episode of the CW show. Ronson’s scenes take place in a club where hip-hop star Pharrell and his group N.E.R.D. also perform. Her role also has her advising the character, Navid, played by Michael Steger, on matters of the heart. There is no word yet on whether or not Ronson will be return to the famous zip code for another stint. Her episode will air the CW on Nov. 3. I wonder if she will bring the crazy with Lindsay to the studio.
Less than two months after he acknowledged that a model he had dated was pregnant with his child, Jude Law is a father – again. A friend of the family tells PEOPLE that Samantha Burke, the 24-year-old aspiring actress whom Law met while filming Sherlock Holmes in New York City last year, gave birth to a daughter Tuesday night. “I doubt Jude was there,” says the source. “Besides the financial support, he’s not involved.” The source adds: “Samantha is doing well” after the birth. Law, 36, who has three other children with ex-wife Sadie Frost, is currently appearing in a Broadway production of Hamlet, now in previews. Yeah, apparently he has super semen.
At a recent photo shoot, Kendra Wilkerson reveals she doesn’t need makeup and stylish clothes to feel glamorous. She says she’s got the ultimate beauty trick – a growing baby bump. “I feel more beautiful than ever right now,” the pregnant reality TV star, who is 24, on her blog, where she posted behind-the-scenes footage of a shoot she did for an upcoming magazine feature. “I want to get in as many photo shots as I can before the baby comes lololol. I can’t believe how soon it is!” Yeah, I still think it is Hef’s baby.
And finally, Kevin Federline is about to slim down. The father of four, who was married to little Miss Britney Spears, is joining the cast of Celebrity Fit Club, a rep for VH1 confirms to PEOPLE Also appearing on the seventh season of the show will be Federline’s ex-girlfriend (and the mother of two of his kids) Shar Jackson, according to a source. Federline, a former backup dancer, has been lambasted in the press for putting on weight since his Big D from Britney three years ago. The newest season of Celebrity Fit Club premieres on VH1 Feb. 14, 2010. Hells yeah, color me there.
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