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Onthe radio…
Rosie O’Donnell is returning to the airwaves.
The former talk show queen will host a daily radio show for Sirius XM Radio Inc. Launching this fall, “Rosie Radio” will feature the 47-year-old comedian- actress discussing news and entertainment as well as chatting with occasional guests. O’Donnell said she was approached by the company after she appeared on HowardStern’s Sirius XM show earlier this year.
O’Donnell, who left “The View” in 2007 after a single tumultuous season, plans to broadcast her two-hour call-in radio talk show from a studio being built inside the guesthouse on her New York property where she raises four children with partner Kelli Carpenter. She said she’s looking forward to regularly working again.
“I think it’ll be good for me,” said O’Donnell. “All my kids are in school now, so all day long I have nothing to do. This was the first year that they were all in school all day, and I
found myself very bored. I was saying to Kelli, we either need to
get another kid or I’ll have to go back to work.”
Legal action…
Perez Hilton has filed a civil
lawsuit against the Black Eyed Peas manager accused of hitting him outside a Toronto nightclub.
The celebrity blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, sued Polo Molina, the Peas’ road manager, in Los Angeles for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He is seeking unspecified damages of more than $25,000.
Molina was arrested in Toronto early Monday after he allegedly punched Hilton following a heated argument between the blogger and Black Eyed Peas leader will. i. am.
The attack followed several arguments between Hilton and both Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie and will. i. am at parties following the MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday night. Immediately before the attack, Hilton, who is openly gay, called will. i. am a gay slur. He said later it was “the worst possible thing that thug would ever want to hear.”
Hilton, the celebrity judge who asked Miss California U. S. A. Carrie Prejean for her views on gay marriage during the Miss USA pageant, has since rejected a call by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to apologize for using the term.
Facebookflick?…
According to Variety, Columbia Pictures is talking with David Fincher (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) to direct “The Social Network,” a film about Facebook.
Aaron Sorkin is writing the script, about how Facebook was cooked up in 2004 by Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg. The film is based on Ben Mezrich’s soon-to-be-released book, “Accidental Billionaires.”
Murder charge…
The estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton has been indicted on several charges in the death of a 1-year-old girl she was baby-sitting in central Florida.
Amanda Brumfield, 29, was booked at the Orange County Jail on Wednesday. She faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child.
Court records show she told investigators the infant who died in her care in October acted normally after she fell from a playpen and hit her head.
Thornton’s publicist has said the actor hasn’t spoken to Brumfield for a number of years.
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