By Stone Martindale Oct 13, 2006, 18:41 GMT
October (Friday) 13, 2006: The best and worst of the celebrity and people round up, from all corners of the globe. This is the week that was:
Irish rock group U2's lead singer Bono performs during pre-game ceremonies at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, Monday 25 September 2006. The Dome re-opened for the first time since Hurricane Katrina with the New Orleans Saints hosting the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football. EPA/DAVID RAE MORRIS
John Forsythe, voice of 'Charlie' in 'Charlies Angels' TV show, battles colon cancerBest wishes for speedy recovery.
Charlies Cast mate Farrah Fawcett is also facing her own fight with cancer, best wishes for recovery.
Scottish Mastermind presenter Magnus Magnusson has been diagnosed with cancer, The BBC said the broadcaster was undergoing tests and was in "good fettle". Best wishes for recovery. Today is the journalist, historian and author's 77th birthday.
America's favorite film critic- Roger Ebert is recovering, has been out of commission for months, from surgeries to remove a cancerous growth. Get well soon!
The American singer Freddy Fender, best known for his 1975 smash hit Before the Next Teardrop Falls, died Saturday (10/14/06) in his home in Texas. R.I.P.
These MySpace crazy teens! Julia Wilson, 14, got a surprise visit from two U.S. Secret Service agents Wednesday at McClatchy High after the words "Kill Bush" appeared on MySpace.com. Her mom, Kirstie Wilson, says she should have been present when her daughter was questioned.
Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe has given up visitation rights to their two children in exchange for having her alimony reinstated, it has been reported.
Paris Hilton dumps Travis Barker, is now holding detente sessions at Dan Tana's restaurant with Nicole Richie, and also having meetings with Lindsay Lohan at her pad. Paparrazi muse Hilton constructing Trojan horse ruse for the 3 celebutantes to enter and exit club Hyde.
"I think it's hilarious when magazines call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy, they're small - I'm curvy!" - America Ferrera, star of the hit Salma Hayek produced hit ABC TV show Ugly Betty
Anna Nicole Smith's life is very complicated and sad still.
North Korea alert: Kim Jong Il fancies the "Beckham Bob," Posh hairdo mania sweeps the country.
Sharon Osbourne no longer on the air in the US, is working her chat charm in the UK: "I got a reputation for being a bit of a loose cannon who would ask crazy questions. "And I did this thing in bed, which I stole from Paula Yates, who I idolized. The networks were absolutely petrified (of me). I'll never be bloody Oprah Winfrey!"
Conversely, Scot Chef Gordon Ramsay has been axed from his UK show, finds solace in huge ratings in the USA.
The Dalai Lama held a supermodel intervention and healed Elle Macpherson's litigious ways against Heidi Klum.
Eva Longoria is confusing us all, maybe she is and maybe she isn't with Tony. Yawn.
K-Fed is insecure and bans any swinging d*cks from dancing with Britney.
Claudia Schiffer's dogs are still biting passers by. She lives in some English place named Bury St. Edmunds, it just sounds dangerous there.
Owen Wilson, aka the Butterscotch Stallion is advocating for felons' rights on the NY Times website. Celebrities make us all so much better as regular plain ol' people. "He must've been so baked when he wrote that." - Defamer.com
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Irishman rocker Bono promote a new line of clothing, accessories and gadgets, including a special-edition red iPod, that will raise money to fight AIDS in Africa.
Kristy Swanson denies she was a homewrecker, ex wife says otherwise.
Nicole Richie's ex-boyfriend, Brody Jenner, is romantically involved with The Hills have Eyes star Lauren Conrad, arch rival of Jenner's former main squeeze, Kristin Cavallari.
Grey's Anatomy co-stars "McDreamy" Patrick Dempsey and "McChokey" Isaiah Washington were involved in a heated argument which nearly ended in a fist-fight.
UK fad alert: Hundreds of people descended on Liverpool Street station for the biggest ever turnout for the latest internet craze, mobile clubbing.
Rush & Molloy report that Christina Aguilera may be one of pop music's biggest and most celebrated stars, but shares some crazy stuff when she tells Blender magazine in the November issue that while on tour, during a backstage costume change, she went pee-pee in a bucket standing stark naked in front of a roomful of handlers.
Fierce beauty Canadian Linda Evangelista has bouncing baby boy. Congratulations!
Borat build up continues: Borat boasted of picking up a date at a popular Amsterdam bar known as a gay meeting place. "This woman reminded me of Kazakhi woman, she was more tall than me, with hair on arms, and some hair on face, and deep voice," Borat told the Dutch press.
Kidman, 39, was pictured in Rome for the premiere of her new movie Fur, which is based loosely on the life of photographer Diane Arbus. She is rail thin and NOT pregnant.
Actor Daniel Radcliffe will have sixty people from the audience actually seated on stage when the Harry Potter star, in his role as the troubled groomsman Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer's celebrated play Equus, simulates a sex act while naked and astride a horse.
Sienna Miller is the most famous "much ado about nothing" if you ask Pittsburghians.
"Arnold Schwarzenegger Teaches President Bush A Lesson In Hollywood Loyalty"- Defamer.com
"Though her new movie, Marie Antoinette, was booed at the Cannes Film Festival this year, Drunkst (Dunst) is confident that the pic will do well with her large gay following...The actress claims, "At least [Marie Antoinette] it'll be big with gay fans. I'm definitely in with the gays."...Kiki has a large gay following???? - Perez Hilton
Jon Lovitz gets a deal at NBC.
Tara Reid's latest career comparisons scare Lohan's "people."We don't know whether Tara has acting talent or not, but we sure want to know who the doctor was that did all that bad surgery.
Ditto for the doctor who did "that" to Jessica Simpson lips and Janice Dickinson's face.
TMZ caught "Jackass" star/train wreck Steve-O after his stand-up set at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles last night, where he confessed he wanted to get into the heiress' pants, "I wanna f*** Paris Hilton, except I think she's gonna know I'll tell everyone when I do."
Donald Trump goes on CNN's Larry King, and tells us all how he feels about Angelina ("not attractive") and the Iraq war strategy.
Hilary Duff filed for a restraining order yesterday claiming she fears for her life because she's being stalked by a paparazzi and a homeless man. Hilary and her boyfriend Joel Madden claim in court documents that a 19-year-old Russian emigre came to the United States "for the sole purpose of meeting and becoming romantically involved with Ms. Duff." -Thesuperficial.com
The Good Morning America interview with Mel Gibson was the long-awaited first public step towards assuring the public that the money they might fork over for the film Apocalypto "won't be secretly funneled into a synagogue-burning fund through the frank discussion of his tequila-chugging demons with a respected member of the morning show community." - Defamer.com
25-year-old Natalie Portman is reportedly dating a very strange looking chap, the 35-year-old British billionaire Nat Rothschild.
Madonna adopts a little boy in Malawi despite the constant flack smokescreens saying otherwise.
Jennifer Aniston went on Oprah to deny she and Vince have broken, and don't miss "The Break Up" on DVD October 17th!
Nothing of real note from the Holy Trinity of male celebu-don'ts - Robbie Williams, Rupert Everett, or David Hasselhoff... Shocking!
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