People: Let’s sit and chew the fat
Among today’s weighty topics:
“Nicole Richie has checked into a treatment facility to address her inability to gain weight, forcing a delay in production of the latest installment of her reality show with Paris Hilton, “The Simple Life.”
Richie, the 25-year-old daughter of singer Lionel Richie, has said stress over breaking up with her fiance affected her diet, but denied suffering from an eating disorder.
“Former “Fat Actress” star Kirstie Alley, 55, is scheduled to appear in a bikini on Oprah Winfrey‘s show Monday, a year since the Jenny Craig peddler promised to shed some pounds.
“Roseanne Barr, who returns to TV tonight with an HBO special, has come to terms with her girth.
Barr, 53, tells Newsweek that’s she has had her stomach stapled so that it’s “the size of a walnut and I still maintain my weight at 180.”
“I used to just gorge,” she says. “Now I gorge all day on smaller amounts. I’m still fat and I always will be and I don’t care.”
Someone’s losing credibility
Rapper Kanye West was a sore winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
West was named Best Hip Hop artist Thursday, but was so upset at not winning Best Video that he crashed the stage and let loose with an expletive-filled tirade.
He said his elaborate Evel Knievel parody “Touch The Sky” should have won because it “cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it, I was jumping across canyons. … If I don’t win, the awards show loses credibility.”
At the 2004 American Music Awards, West bitterly complained backstage that he was robbed when he didn’t win a trophy.
If the shoe fits …
Miss Great Britain Danielle Lloyd has been stripped of her title after admitting that she was dating one of the judges when she won.
Lloyd told Eve magazine about a pair of shoes soccer player Teddy Sheringham gave her for Christmas, and said they were in bed together at the time. They previously said their relationship began after the February pageant.
Flavor of the month
Rapper Flavor Flav, star of the VH1 reality show “Flavor of Love,” is expecting his seventh child – but not with his current girlfriend, second-season winner Deelishis.
When things didn’t work out with first-season winner Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander, Flav resumed an “on and off” relationship with the baby-to-be’s mother, his manager says.
As for Deelishis, “She understands that this is definitely something prior to her involvement on the show and her involvement with Flav, and she says she supports him regardless.”
Grabbing the masses
Michael Jackson has joined forces with Black Eyed Peas rapper-producer Will.I.Am to record some tracks for his first album since 2001.
“I am always writing a potpourri of music,” Jackson says of his hiatus. “I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.”
The birthday bunch
Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite is 90. Actress Doris Roberts is 76. Actress Loretta Swit (“M*A*S*H”) is 69. Actress Markie Post is 56. “Survivor” host Jeff Probst is 45. Actor Matthew McConaughey is 37. Rapper-producer Sean “Diddy” Combs is 37.