The daily dish… a spicy serving of celebrity news
Wagging tongue ...
Seems Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, 58, parked his overactive tongue long enough to write a book. But “Ladies of the Night” isn’t some lousy rock ‘n’ tell book. As the sex-addled Simmons proudly proclaimed last week on CBS’ “The Early Show,” the coffee-table book is a historical study of prostitution.
“My problem with “prostitutes’ is they expect me to pay them. They’re supposed to pay me,” he told Harry Smith.
“Put it on your coffee table, and let the guests in your house find the delicious subject by which to spend an evening talking about,” said Simmons, whose command of English continues to evolve.
A princely pursuit …
Prince Harry would like to spend more time helping children in Africa.
Britain’s royal soldier-humanitarian is in the impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho this week to work with Sentebale –the charity he and Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso founded in the memory of Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana.
The 23-year-old lieutenant spoke with reporters recently about balancing his army life with his charity work.
“I wish I could be out here more often,” he said while visiting a newly opened center for abused children. “I do the most I can to come out here and see the kids.”
Harry first came to Lesotho in 2004, spending two months volunteering on local welfare projects. Landlocked Lesotho, surrounded by South Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the region.
The cows come home …
Folk singer Pete Seeger is coming to the aid of New England farmers.
Seeger, 89, will headline a Sept. 13 New England Farm Relief Concert in Brattleboro, Vt., to raise money for a new micro-loan program being developed by the Carrot Project and the organization that operates the town’s annual Strolling of the Heifers.
The Carrot Project, a nonprofit based in Somerville, Mass., makes loans and guarantees available for small farms and people who use environmentally friendly practices. The Strolling of the Heifers is an annual event in Brattleboro in which flower-bedecked young cows are paraded down Main Street to celebrate Vermont’s agricultural tradition.
Life with superman ...
Kelly Ripa, one of TV’s most accomplished girl-next-door types, says her husband totally turns her on even after a dozen years of marriage. Mark Consuelos’ sex appeal, she tells the New York Post’s Page Six Magazine, “never gets old.”
Kelly adds that Mark’s perfection is so, um, perfect, it has a tendency to get on her nerves.
“I will say it is irritating that he wakes looking exactly like how he went to bed, because I wake up looking like a Chihuahua,” Kelly says. “He closes his eyes and he’s gorgeous, and he wakes up and he’s gorgeous. And he doesn’t have morning breath.” (Let’s see, he’s also more powerful than a locomotive, can leap tall buildings in a single bound and can make the perfect omelet, right?)
