People: So, Cher is still seeking headlines
Cher says using her celebrity to promote effective helmets for U.S. soldiers is rewarding – and “the right thing to do.”
Last week, the singer/actress attended a hearing in Washington on whether to modify helmets for soldiers in Iraq.
She has donated more than $130,000 to a group called Operation Helmet, which pays about $100 to modify the inside of soldiers’ helmets to make them better able to absorb shock from a bomb blast.
“To be able to use your celebrity for something that you really think is worthwhile is so rewarding,” Cher said Wednesday night on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
“It just makes you feel like this is the right thing to do. This is the American thing to do.”
She added it makes her angry “when people say that if you’re not for the war, you don’t support the troops. And I’m not for the war. And I really support the troops.”
Another baby Seal
Supermodel Heidi Klum and Grammy-winning singer Seal are expecting their second child together.
The couple, who married last May, have a 9-month-old son, Henry Guenther Ademola Dashtu Samuel. Klum also has a 2-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
Shue adds to collection
It’s a girl for actress Elisabeth Shue and her husband, Davis Guggenheim.
Agnes Charles Guggenheim was born Sunday. The couple, who are both 42, also have a son, Miles, 8, and a daughter, Stella, 5.
Shue was nominated for an Oscar for 1995’s “Leaving Las Vegas.”
Well, picture that
Veteran Hollywood producer Robert Evans is headed to divorce court – again.
His seventh wife, Victoria White O’Gara, filed for divorce last week. They were married last August in Mexico.
Evans, 75, was previously married to former Versace model Leslie Ann Woodward, former Miss America Phyllis George and actresses Ali MacGraw, Catherine Oxenberg, Sharon Hugueny and Camilla Sparv.
He was the subject of the 2002 documentary “The Kid Stays in the Picture.”
G-e-t w-e-l-l s-o-o-n
Aaron Spelling, producer of TV’s “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charlie’s Angels,” is recuperating at home after suffering a stroke over the weekend.
“I don’t know the extent of it,” a Spelling spokesman said. “But if it had been some incredible degree, he would have been taken to the hospital.”
Spelling, 83, also produced series including “Dynasty,” Love Boat,” “Melrose Place,” “Fantasy Island,” “The Mod Squad,” “Starsky & Hutch,” “T.J. Hooker” and “Hart to Hart.”
The birthday bunch
Singer-actor Kris Kristofferson is 70. “60 Minutes” correspondent Ed Bradley is 65. Actress Meryl Streep is 57. Actress Lindsay Wagner is 57. Actor Graham Greene (“Dances With Wolves”) is 54. Singer Cyndi Lauper is 53. Actress Tracy Pollan is 46. Actress Amy Brenneman (“Judging Amy”) is 42. Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub (“24”) is 35. MTV host Carson Daly is 33. Actor Donald Faison (“Scrubs”) is 32. TV personality Jai Rodriguez (“Queer Eye For The Straight Guy”) is 27.