TOO HOT TO HANDLE?
No teacher night for celeb chef
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay tells Vegas magazine he has been banned from parent-teacher evenings at his youngest daughter’s school. No kidding: what teacher or principal would want to hear his comments?
Ramsay didn’t name the school, but Matilda (Tilly) lives in London. “I asked the headmaster for a selfie,” he told the mag, “after which I got kicked out, and so I really (bad word)ed that one up!”
Plainly there’s more he’s not telling, because he does say this: “The following day I received an email saying, ‘Can you please refrain from the next parents evening — we do not need the presence of Mr. Ramsay.’ ”
He’s 49. Tilly, one of four kids, is 15 now.
I don’t often plug upcoming TV shows, but I’ll make an exception here: This weekend Alec Baldwin will play Donald Trump in a skit on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. That could work. SNL regular Kate McKinnon will be Hillary Clinton; Margot Robbie hosts.
Baldwin will appear as Trump several times between then and election day, the Hollywood Reporter says, citing sources close to the show. You may recall that last season they used Larry David as Bernie Sanders in numerous shows.
Who among us has not wasted time puzzling over the lyrics to the Backstreet Boys’ 1999 ditty I Want It That Way? Well, no, me neither, actually. But some people have, apparently. The words are hopelessly confusing, I’m told.
These days the Backstreet Middle-Aged Guys are reduced to making ads for Chex cereal. Huffington Post actually agreed to interview them about that, but asked about the old lyrics instead.
Here’s what emerged: At first the lads didn’t notice the contradictory words, which they blame on Swedish songwriter Max Martin’s poor grasp of English at the time. Jive Records later tried to get the Boys to amend the song, but they basically couldn’t be bothered.
Andrew Fox had set it all up. He and his sweetie Heather Terwilliger attended a New York Yankees game Tuesday, and Andy had paid his US$100 and made arrangements with the scoreboard people. So during an inning break the couple were shown on the big screen, Andy dropped to one knee, pulled out the ring box — and dropped the ring.
Where’d it go? He couldn’t find it. She couldn’t find it. Their neighbours couldn’t find it. The ushers couldn’t find it. Everyone but Joe Girardi was looking, and the whole stadium was watching, but nobody could find it. Finally it turned up, in the cuff of Heather’s jeans. Phew! Don’t you love happy endings?
“I adore Ozzy,” Sharon Osbourne
tells the Sun. Just four months ago she booted him out of the house, because of his affair with a hairdresser. But now she has moved into a lavish new Hollywood home, and she told the paper she’s happy with her husband again. He was on tour when the interview was done, but they will be living there together. Another happy ending …