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Going from depositions to diapers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Fulton County prosecutor Nancy Grace supplied some details to her viewers Tuesday night on her new dual role of wife and expectant mom.
“Being a mother did not seem part of God’s plan for me,” she told CNN viewers. “My life has been, for 20 years, representing crime victims in and out of court. I’m happy to report the plan for my life has made a U-turn. This past April I married David [Linch] and tonight we announce I’m expecting twins.” Of her secrecy, Grace added on “Access Hollywood”: “I didn’t want to jinx it. I come from rural Georgia, and we believe in hexes and all that. I did not want to [announce] it until I was further along. But, I can’t hide it anymore. I’ve made enough excuses on why I’m sick, and [people] are going to find out.”
In this week’s US Weekly out today, Grace, 47, discloses that her cravings are, indeed, Southern-fried: “Watermelon, peaches and my mother’s southern fried chicken!
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT WITH LARRY KING
Associated Press
CNN’s Larry King bungled his interview with the surviving Beatles on Tuesday night. As he was asking a timely question about where Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were when John Lennon was murdered in 1980, King referred to Starr as “George.”
As in George Harrison, the Beatle who succumbed to cancer in 2001.
McCartney and Harrison played off the gaffe with banter that could have been lifted from one of the band’s 1964 U.S. press conferences.
“I was getting to George,” King stammered, trying to explain away the slip.
“No, you weren’t, Larry,” McCartney playfully scolded. “You said his name wrong.”
Interjected Starr to McCartney: “Shut up, it’s my turn.”
Replied McCartney: “I know, but he got your name wrong, Ringo, on national television. We can’t cut it. It’s live.”
Sighed Starr: “I know. Give him a break.”
The pair’s sibling-like sparring saved the segment. Alas, King’s creaky credibility wasn’t as fortunate.
VEGGIES, PLEASE
Carrie Underwood and Kevin Eubanks have been named the “world’s sexiest vegetarians” in PETA’s annual contest.
Results were released this week by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Underwood, 24, a Grammy-winning country singer, won the title in 2005. Eubanks, 49, leader of NBC’s “Tonight Show” band, is a newcomer to the winner’s circle.
Eubanks leapt ahead of his competitors with help from Jay Leno, who encouraged viewers to vote for Eubanks and “bring honor” to the late-night NBC talk show.
“I’m gonna keep this campaign going,” Leno said during a recent show after sharing a photo of a shirtless Eubanks with his audience. Leno said the shot, in which Eubanks is holding a backpack and posing against a woodsy backdrop, wasn’t doctored.
Runners-up in the contest, which the animal rights group said drew more than 110,000 votes on its Web site, included Joaquin Phoenix, Milo Ventimiglia, Kristen Bell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jared Leto and Lisa Edelstein.
Last year, Prince and Bell, who starred on the “Veronica Mars” TV series, were picked as the two sexiest vegetarians. Previous winners also include Natalie Portman, Andre 3000, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Shania Twain, Tobey Maguire, Lauren Bush, Josh Hartnett and Alicia Silverstone.
CELEBRITY DOCKET UPDATE
“Saving Private Ryan” actor Tom Sizemore’s 16-month prison sentence for violating probation in a drug case has been dramatically reduced.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Cynthia Rayvis gave the actor 213 days of credit for time he has already spent in jail and two live-in drug programs, leaving him with about nine months in state prison.
Sizemore will likely serve about 41/2 months of that, said Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney.
The 45-year-old actor, who has been in jail without bail since June 5, wasn’t in court this week. An after-hours call to his lawyer, Fay Arfa, wasn’t immediately returned.
The judge originally ordered the steeper sentence Monday after authorities said they discovered methamphetamine in the actor’s car and arrested him in Bakersfield, Calif., last month. Sizemore was charged with seven drug-related counts, including transportation and possession of methamphetamines.
HIGH FIVE
Comcast on Demand programs in the metro area (for the week of June 20-27):
1. Lil Boosie, “Wipe Me Down” video, Music Choice
2. “Entourage,” “Welcome to the Jungle” Episode 43, HBO
3. “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” HBO
4. “Dora the Explorer,” “To the Treehouse,” Nickelodeon
5. T-Pain, “Buy You a Drink” video, Music Choice
— Source: Comcast
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Comedian-director Mel Brooks is 81. Actress Kathy Bates is 59. Actress Alice Krige is 53. Actor John Cusack is 41. Actress Tichina Arnold (“Everybody Hates Chris”) is 36. Country singer and former “American Idol” contestant Kellie Pickler is 21.
Contributing: Rodney Ho and news services.
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