Britney Spears is reuniting with business manager Larry Rudolph, E! News reports.
Spears and Rudolph worked together for many years off-and-on, and he is credited with shaping her highly successful early career. They most recently parted ways last year after Spears blamed him, in part, for encouraging her to enter Promises rehab center in Malibu.
Of reports that they have decided to pair up again, a source tells E!: "It's true. They are working together."
At the time when Spears parted ways with Rudolph last year, her father, Jamie, sent an email to the New York Post supporting Rudolph despite his daughter's decision to sever their relationship.
"When Larry Rudolph talked Britney into going into rehab, he was doing what her mother, father and team of professionals with over 100 years of experience knew needed to be done," Jamie wrote. "She was out of control. Larry was the one chosen by the team to roll up his sleeves and deliver the message, to help save her life."
Jamie Spears is currently a co-conservator over his daughter's affairs.
Via people.com
Britney Spears Reuniting with Manager Larry Rudolph
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A child Math prodigy who won a place at Oxford University when she was just 13, is now working as a £130-an-hour prostitute in Manchester, it has been revealed.
Sufiah Yusof, now 23, whose father Farooq is a Pakistani and mother Halimathon is from Malaysia, was reported to have entertained an undercover reporter from Britain’s News of the World, in her flat in Manchester.
Claiming that she had posted her services for 130 pounds on the internet, the newspaper said she had called herself Shilpa Lee on a hookers’ website. She is said to have advertised herself as "a sexy, smart student" who preferred "older gentlemen".
She is also alleged to have described herself as a "very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5’5’’ tall — available for bookings every day from 11am to 8pm." The website has been shut down since then.
The news comes just days after Sufiah’s father was jailed for sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls as he home-tutored them in Maths.
Sufiah passed the Maths A-Level she needed for entry into Oxford at the age of 12. Three years into Oxford, she sparked a massive police hunt after running away somewhere.
At the time her father claimed Sufiah had been kidnapped and brainwashed by an organisation seeking the key to her intelligence.
But Sufiah sent an email to her family describing her life under her father as a "living hell". Farooq denied that he had pushed Sufiah too hard.
Police later found her living in Bournemouth, posing as a student among the 30,000 foreigners who go to seaside resort each year to study English.
The report, which carried grainy photographs of a semi-nude woman it claimed was Sufiah, said the girl met the reporter who posed as a client wearing a tiny skirt, leather boots and a tight T-shirt. The report also said that she was carrying three cell phones. She also told the reporter that she was studying for a Masters degree in Economics.
Via indiatimes.com
Kylie Minogue is making a last-ditch attempt to crack America — against the advice of rock hermit Robbie Williams.
The Pop Princess began her assault yesterday when she chatted on The Today Show in New York.
She is also booked on Dancing With The Stars and talk shows The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Late Late Show to promote today’s US release of her album X.
Kylie has only had two top ten hits in the US — The Locomotion in 1988 and Can’t Get You Out Of My Head in 2002.
But her fans have been contacting radio stations and TV shows in the States begging them to give her greater exposure.
A source close to Kylie revealed: “It eats away at Kylie that she’s never hit the big time there.
“She has tried before and it didn’t happen. But being the kind of determined person she is, she’s giving it one more go.”
Kylie’s lack of success in the US is in sharp contrast with other nations around the globe.
In the UK and her homeland of Australia she has had dozens of top ten hits.
Viewers in the US yesterday praised her Today Show appearance.
She spoke honestly of her recent breast cancer battle, revealing: “I’m feeling great. It’s something that’s always with me and on my mind. But you get up and carry on.
“My diagnosis was almost a blessing in disguise because it came as I was mid-flight on tour. That’s why I wanted to get back on track — it was an incredible goal to have to get back on stage.”
Kylie then discussed why she has struggled in the States.
She revealed: “It’s a notoriously difficult market. To know where I fit within that market is very difficult.”
During a newspaper interview in the States the star also admitted she may never get married and have kids.
She said: “Maybe it’s not the life for me.”
I think it’s great Kylie is still ambitious after all her problems and 20 years topping the chart.
But her singer pal Robbie — who she recorded the hit Kids with in 2000 — has been trying to talk her out of it.
A source revealed: “Kylie has spoken about it with Robbie. He told her he loves being largely unknown when he’s at home in the States, while cash rolls in from the rest of the world.
“Robbie thinks she should keep the US as a place she can go to escape the spotlight. But Kylie doesn’t agree and has decided on one final push.”
I think Robbie is the last person Kylie should take career advice from.
He now spends his time stuffing muffins down his throat, playing himself at Scrabble and peering out his window trying to spot UFOs.
It would be like the former Take That star taking guidance from 1980s TV fruitcake David Icke.
The secret to Victoria Beckham’s youthful skin has been discovered – A bargain botox cream worth just £55.
The cheap ointment contains “natural botox” which has been smoothing Posh’s skin without the need for dreaded injections, reports Grazia magazine.
A sample of the “miracle” non invasive skin treatment Natralox was sent to the ice queen and she has been using it since.
However, despite being worth pocket change for Victoria, the company still sends her their product free of charge.
A spokesman for the UK distributors said: “The cream was sent to Victoria some months back and we received a message from her people saying she loved it so we sent her more.”
Do you think Victoria is cheap? Should she be spending more money? Be sure to leave your comments below.
Via entertainmentwise.com
Denise Richards has revealed why she decided to include her young daughters Sam and Lola on her reality show.
“I’m in a no-win situation,” said the 37-year-old single mum to People.com. “If I don’t have my children in my show, then people will say: ’Well, she’s really not a hands-on mum’.
"If I do have my children, people are saying that I’m exploiting them. And I think there are plenty of reality shows with families, where you don’t watch them – at least I never did – and think they really exploited their kids.”
The former Bond girl’s husband, Charlie Sheen, has tried to prevent the kids appearing in footage, but lost the battle in court. He then called for a boycott of the as-yet-untitled show.
Via iol.ie
After deliberating for less than two hours, a Bahamas jury determined that the son of late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, Daniel Smith, died of an accidental overdose and recommended no criminal charges in his death which occured almost two years ago.
It took exactly 73 minutes for the seven-member jury to reach an unanimous verdict after being presented with their options, "non-dependent abuse of drugs," "accident or misadventure," or return an open verdict.
The 20-year-old son of the former model was found dead on September 10, 2006, in the same Nassau hospital in which Anna Nicole Smith gave birth to his baby sister three days before. Police said they found no evidence of homicide while two autopsies, one performed by a private pathologist hired by Anna Nicole, and one by a Bahamian pathologist, concluded that his death was caused by a lethal "cocktail" of methadone and antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro, while five other drugs were also found in his system, including those used by the medical personnel in an attempt to revive him.
In its ruling, the jury also said the cause of death was "nondependent use of drugs," meaning that Daniel was not addicted and was not aware the drugs in his system would kill him.
In November 2007, an inquest into his death was ordered amid widespread speculation over the circumstances surrounding his death. It was previously reported that Larry Birkhead, the father of Anna Nicole's 1-year-old daughter Dannielynn, testified that she provided certain drugs to Daniel. According to him, Anna Nicole preferred her son to mess with drugs in her house rather than experiment with friends. Later on however, Birkhead changed his mind about the testimony.
Several months after Daniel’s death, Anna Nicole herself was rushed to the hospital on February 8, after she collapsed in her hotel room, and died shortly after from an overdose of prescription drugs.
According to Associated Press, Anna Nicole's mother, Virgie Arthur was disappointed by the jury's ruling, because she suspected foul play was involved, although she was unable to provide any evidence.
"We don't think it makes any sense," Arthur's lawyer, Neil McCabe said. "The boy was not a drug user, the judge said so. Why would he all of a sudden take a massive dose of methadone?"
Via efluxmedia.com
A woman who was ordered to stay away from John Cusack has been arrested on suspicion of stalking the actor and violating a restraining order.
Emily Leatherman was taken into custody Sunday after Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were called to Cusack's neighborhood, where a cab driver reported that a passenger didn't have enough money to pay for the ride to get there, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Monday.
As the deputies were responding to the situation, they were flagged down by Cusack.
"He told them he recognized the woman in the cab and that she had been stalking him," Whitmore said.
He said deputies found evidence at the scene that led to the arrest, but he declined to elaborate, citing the investigation.
Leatherman was arrested for investigation of stalking, violating a restraining order and petty theft. She was being held on $150,000 bail.
Whitmore said the 33-year-old woman is "considered a transient in the Santa Monica area."
A call to Cusack's publicist wasn't immediately returned.
In July 2006, Cusack was granted a temporary restraining order stipulating that Leatherman stay at least 500 feet away from him, his home, his work, his car and offices or companies in which he does business.
In court papers, Cusack said Leatherman "is showing unusual interest by stalking, throwing long letters of interest over my fence in bags with rocks and screwdrivers inside, making unannounced visits to offices of people I work with in an attempt to meet with me and listing my address as her own during a recent arrest."
Leatherman has claimed she only sent Cusack two letters.
Via associatedpress
Jessica Simpson is reportedly feeling "much better" and was released from the hospital after she checked herself into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles over the weekend presenting symptoms of a kidney infection.
The 27-year-old singer/actress was hospitalized for a "minor kidney infection" on Friday after coming down with a fever, Simpson's representative Lauren Auslander told The Associated Press.
"She had a minor kidney infection," a source said. "She went in on Friday."
In the meantime, Simpson's boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, couldn't be with her at the hospital as he had prior commitments in Dallas.
Earlier this month, Simpson briefly visited Iraq where she performed for the U.S. troops as a part of the Operation MySpace.
Via efluxmedia.com
Kathie Lee Gifford, who shared the TV spotlight and coffee with Regis Philbin for 15 years, is returning to the morning airwaves next month as part of NBC's "Today" show, the network said on Monday.
Gifford, 54, widely expected for several weeks to join "Today," will co-host the newly launched fourth hour of the top-rated U.S. morning show with NBC News correspondent Hoda Kotb, starting on April 7, according to the network.
"It couldn't be worse timing in some ways," Gifford joked as her hiring was announced during Monday's "Today" broadcast. "I'm eight years older, 10 pounds heavier and a half-inch shorter, and just in time for HD television. That makes no sense."
Gifford was welcomed by the entire "Today" team, including Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, who will continue to co-host the 7-to-9 a.m. time slot that forms the mainstay of the program opposite ABC's "Good Morning America" and "The Early Show" on CBS.
"Today," which has dominated the breakfast-time ratings for the past 12 years, currently averages about 6 million viewers in its opening two hours, surpassing second-ranked "Good Morning America" by at least 1 million viewers since November.
The third hour of "Today" averages roughly 4 million viewers, but the fourth hour has lagged well behind with only about 2 million viewers on average since its September debut.
The network hopes Gifford, a veteran TV personality in her own right, will bring some much-needed celebrity wattage to the show's newest edition.
The singer-actress gained fame in the 1970s with appearances on "Name That Tune" and later as co-host with Philbin on "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee." She left that show after 15 years in 2000 and was later replaced by Kelly Ripa.
Prior to her "Live" stint, Gifford served as a correspondent on "Good Morning America" for three years.
The 10-to-11 a.m. hour of "Today" has been co-hosted since its inception last fall by a trio of anchors consisting of Kotb, Ann Curry and Natalie Morales.
With Gifford's arrival, Curry will return to her principal duties as "Today" news anchor during its first two hours and then co-host the third hour with Morales and Al Roker. Morales also will continue to serve as national correspondent on "Today."
Via reuters.com
Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39. Authorities said Monday that an autopsy was inconclusive but foul play was ruled out.
Levert was sentenced last week to one year and 10 months in jail for failing to pay $89,025 in child support. He died at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland late Sunday, less than an hour after he was taken there from the jail, said coroner Frank Miller.
Levert was sentenced by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo, who said a presentence report indicated he had been addicted to marijuana from the time he was 14 until recently. He didn't speak at his sentencing and gave no indication of any health problems, the judge said Monday.
His brother Gerald Levert, who had success as a solo artist after leaving their trio died in 2006 at age 40 of an accidental mix of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
The brothers had formed LeVert in the 1980s with childhood friend Marc Gordon. Their hits included "Baby I'm Ready," "(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind" and "Casanova."
"Casanova" was nominated for a Grammy in 1988 for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal. It was also nominated for best R&B song.
At Gerald Levert's funeral service in November 2006, Sean Levert and his father performed "Dance With My Father" and personalized the words for Gerald. The elder Levert's group, the O'Jays, was known for such smash hits as "Back Stabbers" and "Love Train."
Sean Levert found a new third partner last year and was trying to revive LeVert.
An autopsy was done Monday but no immediate cause of death was determined, according to Powell Caesar, a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County's coroner's office, but he said there was no evidence of foul play or trauma.
Levert suffered from high blood pressure and had been hallucinating in jail, Caesar said. Toxicology reports could take four to six weeks, he said.
Warden Kevin McDonough said earlier that Levert had been sick and guards were watching him at the jail's regular cellblock because he had been acting strangely.
Sean Levert had pleaded guilty last week to six counts of nonsupport involving children ages 11, 15 and 17.
Via associatedpress
