SARAH SPEAKS!
Sarah Kozer, the 29-year-old Joe Millionaire finalist who earlier this week was revealed to have starred in a number of bondage and foot-fetish videos, is not ashamed of her adult film past. "I stand behind the things I've done," the Teasing with Toes star tells Access Hollywood. "I was out of law school and paying for a lot of my loans, and this was a legitimate modeling job. There was nothing that I personally found offensive... My parents didn't think it was such a big deal either." Oh sure, drag them into this now! |
IDOL STATS
American Idol mania continues! Wednesday's 90-minute edition averaged 26 million viewers and hit a new high among adults 18-49. ABC's The Bachelorette finished second with 14 million viewers. In other Idol news, one of Wednesday's 32 finalists — Jaered Andrews — has been disqualified after a Fox background check revealed him to be a former member of the Ohio-based hip-hop band Ordinary Peoples. Contestant George Trice will take Andrew's place in the contest. |
SWEEPS THRILLER
February is turning out to be a big month for baby-danglin' pop icon Michael Jackson. First, NBC scheduled a special edition of Dateline on Feb. 17 about Jackson's scary mug. Now, ABC has announced that on Feb. 7, it will air Living with Michael Jackson, a documentary from a British journalist who spent eight months with the King of Flop. The network promises that Living — which will run as part of a two-hour 20/20 — features "unprecedented and exclusive access to Jackson's private life." Consider yourself warned. |
HE'LL BE BACK
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 55, underwent shoulder surgery Wednesday to repair a rotator cuff torn last fall while filming a stunt for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Schwarzenegger — who was released from the hospital on Thursday — put off surgery at the time to avoid holding up production. What a trouper. |
JUVENILE DELINQUENT?
Rapper Juvenile (aka Terius Gray) was arrested Wednesday in New Orleans on suspicion of possessing marijuana and cocaine. The 27-year-old also faces a robbery charge from an incident in September. |
HOT PROPERTY
Columbia Pictures is developing a live-action film centered around Mattel's Hot Wheels cars. Charlie's Angels helmer McG has signed on to direct. As TV buffs will recall, Hot Wheels was a short-lived animated series in 1969. |
SOMETHING SMELLS
Wonder twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are launching their very own fragrance line. The scents — titled Mary-Kate and Ashley One and Mary-Kate and Ashley Two — will be sold exclusively in Wal-Mart stores beginning, ironically enough, April 1. Meanwhile, Ohio colleges were flooded with calls after a fake website falsely reported that the 16-year-olds had applied for admission. A rep for the former Full House stars says the teens still have a year left of high school. |
RECOVERING
Actress Sadie Frost, the wife of Jude Law, was hospitalized in London last weekend for treatment of severe postpartum depression. In a statement, Law said that Frost was feeling "very blue" after the premature birth of their fourth child, Rudy, in September. |
SHADY DEAL
Eminem fans who purchase a copy of the 8 Mile DVD (on sale March 18) will get a special added bonus: the never-before-seen music video for Superman. |
SHORT CUTS
Billy Baldwin (the cute one) is thisclose to finalizing a deal to star in the NBC drama pilot EDNY, which revolves around a team of U.S. attorneys... Warner Home Video will re-release The Matrix in a new double-disc DVD edition on April 29, less than three weeks before The Matrix Reloaded hits theaters... Halle Berry's estranged father, Jerome Jessie Berry, died last Friday at a Cleveland nursing home, the New York Daily News reports. He was 68. |
