Entertainment on Parade

Diane Farr, who plays Megan Reeves on CBS’ Numb3rs (although to me, she will always be the Rescue Me female firefighter), gave birth to twin girls last Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.   Sawyer Lucia weighed in at 4 pounds, 12 ounces, while little sister Coco Trinity weighed in at 5 pounds, 14 ounces.  It is believed that the name Sawyer is a Farr family name, while Coco’s name comes from the island where Farr and her husband Seung Chung, who owns the Cashmere Agency, spent their honeymoon.

Farr released a statement which read “I’m so thankful that my midwife and doctor paid such wonderful attention to me and the little ladies.”  Her rep said both mother and daughters are doing well.  The couple has a son Beckett, who is 17 months old.

Don’t look for another disastrous Spears appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards this year.  In fact, don’t look for a performance of any type.  While the media has reported that Britney would be returning to the VMAs after last year’s lackluster (and that’s being nice) “Gimme More” performance, her manager Larry Rudolph has said “Britney was never slated to perform at this year’s VMAs.”  He went on to say in a statement “She’s in the middle of recording her next album, which is going amazingly well, and her focus remains on the studio.”

Britney has been making appearances to promote the VMAs and MTV Networks Music Group president Van Toffler said they weren’t ruling out having Britney back and at one point, were in talks with her, but apparently that is as far as it is going.  Britney’s “Piece of Me” is nominated for Video of the Year.  You can see the VMAs live from Paramount Pictures Studios on September 7th.

Dr. Dre, (André Romelle Young) a founding member of N.W.A. and known for his groundbreaking solo debut The Chronic, is mourning the death of his twenty year old son Andre Jr.  Andre was found dead by his mother in their Woodland Hills home on Saturday.  He had spent Friday night with friends, but returned home around 5:20 am Saturday morning.  When his mother attempted to wake Andre at 10:30 am, he was unresponsive.  Paramedics who came to the scene tried to revive him, but pronounced him dead at the home.

Although an autopsy is being performed today, it is doubtful that a cause of death will be known until after the toxicology tests come back, which takes about eight weeks.  Foul play is not suspected.

Dr. Dre has a son from a teenage relationship (Curtis, who goes by the rap name Hood Surgeon), a son with singer Michel’le (Marcel), and two daughter from his marriage to Nicole Threatt (Truth and Truly).

The ink is hardly dry on Chris Kattan’s marriage license, but the comedian has already filed for legal separation from wife of two month’s Sunshine Tutt.  The Saturday Night Live alum, 37, and the model, 31, met in 2005 at a birthday party then married on June 28, 2008 in Yosemite Valley, California.

However, Kattan filed official separation papers just days after his rep announced the two had split.  In fact, Kattan said in the papers that the couple split on August 10.  The rep also said there were no plans for divorce at this time.  Just in case, there is a prenup in place.

Two months?  You gotta be kidding me!  After two months of marriage, I wasn’t even used to telling people I had a husband, much less so tired of him we had to legally separate. 

Da Brat (Shawntae Harris) seems to really be living up to her nickname.  She was at mentor Jermaine Dupree’s Studio 72 nightclub outside of Atlanta last Halloween when a brawl between Da Brat and a waitress at the nightclub broke out.  The two apparently had bad blood between them before the incident and Da Brat was accused of slashing the face of the waitress with a rum bottle.  The victim was taken to the hospital, but suffered permanent scars from the slashing.

Today, a DeKalb judge was not feeling particularly benevolent today as he sentenced Da Brat to three years in prison then topped it off with seven year’s probation and 200 hours of community service.  The 34 year old rapper pleaded guilty to a felony aggravated assault charge in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence, but it was not to be.

It seems that Da Brat can’t learn a lesson – she had to pay a fine of $1,000, perform 80 hours of community service, and serve a year’s probation in 2001 for allegedly pistol-whipping a woman in an Atlanta nightclub in 2000.

Were you one of the many women that felt sorry for apparent frontrunner Jason Mesnick when he proposed to Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas, only to have her dump him for the underdog (and her now-fiance) Jesse Csincsak?  Well, don’t feel too badly for Jason – he will be the next Bachelor on ABC’s long running reality show.  If you remember, Pappas became the Bachelorette after being rejected by Bachelor Brad Womack.

The 32 year old estate planner says that since the rejection, he has gotten thousands of comment from fans and even set up an email account strictly for female fan mail.  This time around, he will be in charge, so hopefully the show will have a happier ending for the divorced father of one.

From a page straight out of the Clay Aiken “I don’t understand why it’s any of your business.” book, news now comes to us that Ricky Martin just became a dad by a surrogate mother.  In a statement issued, Martin’s rep said the children, born a couple of weeks ago, were “healthy and already under Ricky’s full-time care.”  It also went on the say that he will “spend the remained of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children.”

Both Aiken and Martin had avoided saying what their sexual orientation is whenever asked by interviews.  When questioned by Barbra Walters, Martin said, “…for some reason, I just don’t feel like it [saying what my sexual orientation is]. You know, it’s, it’s something so mine.”

I mean – come on guys!  What is so bad about coming out and saying “I’m gay?”  Do they think their female audience is so stupid that they don’t realize it?  In these cases, word like “surrogate mother” and “artificially inseminated” all but screams gay.  Quit ticking off the heterosexuals and the gays and just say it.  Once said, it should die down…just ask Ellen or Rosie.

Are you ready for another televised wedding?  That is what you will get if “The Hills” stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt get their way.  The on again, off again couple are hoping to televise their nuptials live on MTV, the network that made them stars.  Of course, there is the small matter that Montag says Spencer has yet to propose and “I don’t have a ring.”

Heidi told “Extra” that she was moving out of Hollywood to leave all the drama behind.  But, that doesn’t mean she is ready to leave the top rated show.  She also isn’t letting the rift her relationship with Spencer caused between her and former best friend and Hills star Lauren Conrad keep her from seeing Audrina Patridge.  She told “Extra” “We hang out.  We’re friends – I love Audrina.”  (Photo US Magazine)

Remember when Roseanne used to be funny?  Yeah, I don’t either.  If you read her blog (and I’d suggest against it – it’s worst than Rosie O’Donnell’s blog if that is humanly possible), you will see that she rants about anything that comes to her mind, such as the fact that she has a bone to pick with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.  Apparently, she thinks they don’t donate enough of their money to charity.  In her diatribe, she states, “jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity.”

First of all, I’d like to slap all celebs who think it is cute to blog without using proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.  If you can’t even write properly, why should I listen to you?  It obviously shows either a lack of education or out and out laziness, neither which I like to endorse.

And by the way, at the height of her career (long gone now), Roseanne made millions of dollars each season for her sitcom.  It culminated in her making $650,000 per episode the last season.  Now, I realize that may not be close to what Brad or Angelina make for one movie, but what about Roseanne’s charitable contributions?  Her favorite charity is…?  I don’t know either.  I thought her favorite charities from the ‘90s were food, tattoo parlors, bad fashion, and Tom Arnold (don’t start – I like Tom).

Roseanne goes on to rant about why we should have Hillary as the next president (oh yeah, I am taking political advice from Roseanne – not!), Elizabeth Edwards, George Bush, Vladimir Putin, and anything else that comes into her pea brain.  I particularly liked one blog which started with “crackpot is the name I now choose for myself.”  You said it sister! (Photo WireImage)

According to People and US Magazine, comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her lady love, actress Portia de Rossi, wed last night at their home in Beverly Hills.  Reports are that DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, exchanged handwritten vows in a very intimate setting only attended by 19 guests.

DeGeneres had made no bones about wanting to wed de Rossi after the California Supreme Court ruled the ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional last May.  The two have been dating for four years, often appearing on the red carpet together.  While DeGeneres is enjoying the success of her daytime talk show, de Rossi has a recurring role on “Nip/Tuck” as Olivia Lord, the lesbian lover of Sean McNamara’s ex-wife, Julia.

Now the only remaining question…will she become Portia de Rossi Generes?