Sarah Jessica Parker heads a string of A-list stars about to reveal their family history on US TV.
Parker is joined by husband Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields and Susan Sarandon for NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, produced by former Friends star Lisa Kudrow.
Also having their family heritage traced are American football star Emmitt Smith and movie director Spike Lee.
The show is based on the British series of the same name and starts on NBC on Friday.
Barbara Walters, 80, will make her upcoming Oscar interview special her last – after 29 stellar years.
Walters took to her daytime talk show The View to let her fans know, saying she feels like she has “been there, done that”.
The veteran television journalist’s farewell Oscar special is tied to the ABC Oscar Awards telecast and will air on March 7, Access Hollywood reports.
The actress-themed show will feature Academy Award favourite for the Best Actress award Sandra Bullock and Best Supporting Actress nominee Mo’Nique. The show will also provide a retrospective of past specials.
Walters is keeping her other commitments and shows, including The 10 Most Fascinating People and The View.
It seems that the singer will be having her own reality show that will last the whole period of her pregnancy and for which Danii Minogue will be getting paid no less than 300 000 dollars. But she recently denied rumors of such a show with a small twitter post that reads “Not true!” So what’s the deal? Is Danii Minogue renegotiating the terms of her show? After all… her pregnancy must be worth more than just 300 000… what kind of trust fund is she going to set up for her child with that kind of money?
Troubled actor Charlie Sheen was woken up to shocking news that his SUV had been stolen and crashed down a 100-foot cliff.
Sheen first knew something had happened when he was woken at 4am on Friday by operators of his car alarm system telling him his car had crashed.
Sheen reportedly then alerted his own security team who discovered his BMW SUV had been stolen.
Officials later found the SUV at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff off Mulholland Drive.
Los Angeles Fire Department Erik Scott said 32 Los Angeles firefighters including two helicopters were involved in the search-and-rescue mission.
An infrared scanner was also used to search for any victims at the crash scene but so far none have been found. Police are still investigating and hunting for a suspect.
The theft is just the latest headache for the actor, who was arrested on Christmas Day in Aspen, Colorado, for allegedly attacking wife Brooke Mueller.
He was charged with two domestic violence-related felony charges and ordered to keep away from Brooke – who later dramatically fell ill and was rushed to hospital.
Friends stars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow have reunited for US comedy Cougar Town.
Kudrow makes a guest appearance in the show as a mean-spirited dermatologist who pokes fun at Cox’s character when she goes in for Botox – then starts dating her ex-husband.
It is the first time the actresses – who starred as Monica Geller and Phoebe Buffay for 10 seasons of Friends – have appeared on TV together since the series ended in 2004.
“It was great. I get to play a really mean person,” said Kudrow. “I like the show and it was really fun.”
She said that unfortunately she didn’t think the role had the potential to become a recurring one. “It’s just a one off.”
Nor was a reunion of the Friends cast likely. “I’ve run into almost everybody, or had lunch with or talked on the phone at some point but everyone’s busy.”
The Real Housewives of OC has worked the recession into the show, featuring the downsizing of gifts, retail hangouts and home help.
“All of them have been very much affected by the economic situation,” said the show’s executive producer, Douglas Ross, of the housewives.
Now quite a few of the reality cast will allow their financial challenges to be exposed. Lynne Curtin’s family, for one, will be evicted from their Laguna Beach home.
Ross said: “We try to treat it as gently but as honestly as we can. We happened to have been there with our cameras – as part of our normal schedule when they were served the eviction notice. It’s one of those great reality TV moments that happened to be caught because we were in the right place at the right time.”
The housewives don’t seem to mind having their financial issues aired, seeing it as a way to comfort others.
Housewife Jenna Keough said: “It helps people across the nation because they realise it’s not just them.”
Just how a real housewife can continue on the show without a house remains to be seen.
Reports that Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher is stricken with swine flu are untrue, according to an insider.
Internet blogs floated reports that the 44-year-old actress had informed her cast and crew that she had contracted H1N1, forcing producers to reschedule.
But the stories were false, the source said: “She has the flu, but it’s not swine. It’s not disrupting shooting on the show.”
Hatcher is one of the longtime Housewives of Wisteria Lane and recently lent her voice to the animation film Coraline, which stars Dakota Fanning, for a teenage audience.
Reports that Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher is stricken with swine flu are untrue, according to an insider.
Internet blogs floated reports that the 44-year-old actress had informed her cast and crew that she had contracted H1N1, forcing producers to reschedule.
But the stories were false, the source said: “She has the flu, but it’s not swine. It’s not disrupting shooting on the show.”
Hatcher is one of the longtime Housewives of Wisteria Lane and recently lent her voice to the animation film Coraline, which stars Dakota Fanning, for a teenage audience.
Former Hills star Lauren Conrad is working with the producers of Twilight.
The 23-year-old’s debut book LA Candy is to be made into a film, and her partner in the deal is Temple Hill Entertainment, which also produces the Twilight films.
Conrad told E! online: “I don’t think you can get much better than that.”
When asked if this means she will get to go on the Twilight film sets and meet star Robert Pattinson, she said: “That hasn’t been discussed…yet. I feel like I need to wait. I’ve never read the Twilight books. I saw the movie, though, and it was really cute. We’ve talked about doing a funny cameo. I would never be a main part or anything.”
Republican Tom DeLay who was paired with Cheryl Burke on Dancing With The Stars has suffered a foot injury.
“Old age is catching up to me, may have a stress fracture in my foot. No worries, it’ll take more than that to keep me off the dance floor!” he announced on his Twitter page.
Soon afterward he said the injury was not as severe as he thought. “No stress fracture! It is a pre-stress fracture. I live for another day,” he wrote.
Of their dance moves, Burke said: “We’re getting there. Slowly but surely. But at the end of the day, this is something completely out of his element and I think he’s such a brave man for going out in front of millions of people.
“You know, he’s not going to be the best dancer of the bunch. That’s for sure. But hopefully he’ll bring something new and different. Bring out his personality. Hopefully it’ll change what his image is all about.”
Eva Longoria Parker has revealed her husband refuses to watch her TV show, Desperate Housewives.
The actress said basketball star Tony Parker has no interest in the hit drama.
So he has NEVER watched the programme that shot her to fame.
But she said that she travels to see him play across the world.
She said: “He has never watched my show. And he watches [competitors] Lost, and he watches Gray’s Anatomy, and he watches Gossip Girl but he won’t watch my show.
“[He says] it’s not [his] thing. I’m like, ‘But Gossip Girl’s your thing?’ He’s so not interested.”
TV host Jimmy Kimmel told her: “That son of a bitch!”
Eva, 34, added: “I love sports. I love watching him play. It’s all about him.”
Kimmel joked that she should get him the Desperate Housewives DVD box set for Christmas.
She married San Antonio Spurs ace Tony, 27, in 2007.
The sixth season of Desperate Housewives is set to air on September 27 in the US.
