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Sideshow: The rap sheet just grows
By Tirdad Derakhshani
Inquirer Staff Writer
Jul 27, 2008
Former NewsRadio star Andy Dick is thriving in his new career as public nuisance. The Charleston, S.C., native was arrested yesterday in front of the Buffalo Wild Wings eatery in Murietta, Calif., after someone called cops to complain that a man was urinating outside. Witnesses said the 42-year-old Dick also accosted an unidentified 17-year-old girl outside the wings emporium and pulled down her tank top and bra. Cops, who said they found drugs on Dick, charged him with a smorgasbord of felonies and misdemeanors, including sexual battery, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and public intoxication. Dick, who was freed on $5,000 bail, had a stellar year in 2007: He was kicked off Jimmy Kimmel Live for groping Ivanka Trump ; was busted for using cocaine at a New York Club; and was accused by a comedy club owner in Columbus, Ohio, of groping patrons, urinating on a patron and exposing himself to the audience. Wood checks into rehab. Finally. Ronnie Wood has checked into rehab, a rep for the Rolling Stones said yesterday. Wood, whose relationship with his wife, Jo Wood , took a most difficult turn recently when the 62-year-old guitarist shacked up with an 18-year-old cocktail waitress, has battled alcohol and drug addiction for four decades.
Brangelina sidebar No. 8,987 As humankind collectively holds its breath, awaiting the first images of Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt , history's most important newborns since Napoleon , the media continue to churn out side stories by the dozen.
In a scandalous report, the Jewish Journal has revealed that Angelina Jolie 's obstetrician, Michel Sussmann , 56, refuses to admit that delivering the Brangelina Twins was the greatest event of his life. Sussmann, whose wife, Juliette , is also a doc, tells the Journal his most exciting moment came when violinist Itzhak Perlman invited his son, Arnaud , 23, a recent graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, to study with him.
Of the babies, the doc said, "It was not an easy operation . . . but it went perfectly and they are so cute."
Eva & Uma: Not pregnant Eva Longoria Parker and Uma Thurman are denying recent reports that they are pregnant (with their respective male partners).
Al: I still Star! In an interview with TV journo Jane Velez Mitchell , which was not made for an actual newspaper or TV network, but posted online at YouTube, Al Reynolds says he is not gay and that he still loves (the fabulous) former View host Star Jones . (Honestly, who wouldn't?)
Alas, Jones, who officially separated from Al in March, already has filed divorce papers.
"There are days where I'm like wow. . . . I still wear my ring," Al says. "It hasn't settled in yet. I still love her."
Al also denied rumors that he is gay. According to ABC News, he showed off his hetero creds by making "it sound like his relationship with Reynolds was the stuff of romance novels and Kleenex-required chick flicks."
ABC would love Leno The ABC network will offer a home to Jay Leno should the host of NBC's The Tonight Show find himself without employ after he retires from the late-night program next year, ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson yesterday told ABC's current late-show host, Jimmy Kimmel , who was pretending to be a reporter at a gathering of TV critics. McPherson assured Kimmel that he'd still have a show.
Heidi: 'Runway' is still running on "I always think about the next thing. I always do." So says the delectable model-producer-entrepreneur Heidi Klum to gossiper Liz Smith on the Online women's mag, wowOwow.com, about her plans to expand her HeidiEmpire.
But that doesn't mean Heidi is moving on from her popular design talent show, Project Runway , which had its fifth-season debut last night on Bravo. (The show will move to cabler Lifetime beginning with its sixth season.)
Heidi says Runway still feels fresh. "It definitely evolved into more than I imagined," she said. "I mean, how can you expect for something like this to happen the way it did?"
Asked by Liz to evaluate (the concept and/or act of) sex, Heidi says, "It's definitely here to stay. It would be very boring without. It's definitely one of the most fun things to do."
Troyer still livid over vid leak In an exclusive chat with E! News, Mini-Me actor Verne Troyer says he felt "betrayed and hurt" by the online leak of a home sex vid he made with his ex gf, Ranae Shrider .
"I feel like I have no privacy," Troyer said. "Just because people are seeing something that was meant to be between me and her. That's the biggest reason that I'm, you know, trying to stop the tape from being released."
Troyer, who vows he had nothing to do with the leak, has won a temporary injunction to prevent the sale of the vid. He said Shrider lashed out at him for breaking up with her by leaking the tape to TMZ.com.
Troyer, who last year worked on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus with the late Heath Ledger , says there's no way the Aussie thesp committed suicide: "It was an accident, it happened, and it's very unfortunate."
Mariah: Disney World is sexilicious What's the hottest, sexiest, most exotic, erotic, evocative, alluring place where a hot celebrity newlywed couple can spend a hot weekend? It's a no-brainer for chanteuse Mariah Carey and her newly acquired hubby, Nick Cannon : Disney World, of course.
The couple were seen on Tuesday having a gosh load of fun at the Florida resort, which over the last couple of years has been courting newlyweds. (A perfect marketing move, given our regressive citizenry.)
Disney World "was funtastic!" Mariah told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM morning show. Mariah explained that just two years ago, she was stuck in "bleak land." But since her romance, she said, life is "a lot more enjoyable, and it's preferable - quite pleasant."
Willie's coming to town Willie Nelson & Family will perform at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby on Sept. 26. Tix cost $49 and $59 and go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. Info: 215-336-2000, 856-338-9000 or www.ticketmaster.com .
Contact "SideShow" at sideshow@phillynews.com . This column contains information from Inquirer wire services.
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