NASTY DIVORCE
Rosie in tug of war over her child
It’s getting ugly between Rosie
O’Donnell and her estranged wife.
Michelle Rounds is suing for sole possession of their adoptive baby Dakota, now 2. But “sources connected with Rosie” tell TMZ. com that Rounds doesn’t really want the kid, just money. It’s hard to say which position is nastier.
Rounds’s lawyer, William London, told the N.Y. Post that giving her sole custody “is unequivocally in their child’s best interest and general welfare.” But TMZ quotes a nameless member of Team Rosie as saying “Michelle can’t even raise a dog ... she’s given multiple dogs away.” You can see there’s potential for a real donnybrook here.
These two, married in 2012, split last November after having lived apart for some time. O’Donnell filed for divorce in February.
She’s 53.
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Naomi Watts has accepted an unspecified amount of money to appear in new ads for British Airways.
This is not quite as silly as it seems. Yes, Watts is Australian, but she was born in the U.K. and lived there until she was 14.
Watts has been friends since those days with Nicole Kidman, who recently signed to be the face of Etihad Airways, which is based in Abu Dhabi.
Strippers at funerals? Why not?
Well, because in China, authorities don’t need a reason to ban things.
In that country, it’s a mark of post-mortem prestige, and family honour, to attract a lot of mourners. But in rural areas, where people can’t easily attend a funeral, some incentive is needed.
There was a time when traditional opera did the job, but now AP says there are more and more cases in which the musicians stop their dirges, throw down their instruments and their garments, and begin to bump and grind.
No no no, AP quotes the Ministry of Culture as saying.
“Such illegal operations have disrupted local entertainment markets and corrupted social mores” and must stop.
Hilary Duff, now fully divorced
from former NHLer Mike Comrie, told an L.A. radio interviewer Tuesday that she’s now looking for love in all the wrong places, namely Tinder, the hook-up app. She said she’s “talking to probably about nine guys right now.”
She also said she’s not very serious about it. “I was sitting with my friends one night … we were joking around.” She’s never had a blind date, she added.
But then she told E! that she’s “wildly addicted” to Tinder and said she was about to go out on her first Tinder date, and that she and the guy would each bring a friend.
And if that doesn’t go well, “I’m talking to another guy and I think we’re going to go go-kart racing.”
She’s 27.
St. Bob Geldof has married
his longtime lady friend, Jeanne Marine, says The Sun, in England. The Irish rocker has been going out with Marine for almost 20 years but proposed to her only last April. He’s 63. She’s 49.