So who’s father from the truth?
Will the fake father of Anna Nicole Smith‘s new baby please shut up?
On Tuesday’s “Larry King Live” show, none other than Howard Stern – Smith’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern, that is – announced he was the father of her newborn girl.
But photographer Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith’s, says he’s the real dad – and he’s seeking a DNA test to prove it.
“I am not surprised he would say this, but I am laughing at it,” Birkhead says of Stern.
Stern, who says he and Smith planned to marry, was in her hospital room earlier this month when her 20-year-old son, Daniel, mysteriously died while visiting his mother and new sister – since named Dannie Lynn Hope.
“(A)t one point Daniel said to me, ‘How come I’m so tired?’ And in hindsight I wish that I had seen that as some sort of a signal and seen that something wasn’t right,” says Stern.
Daniel Smith was taking antidepressants, and Stern says he may have had “other prescriptive medication in his system.”
Haunted ‘Hunter’
“Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin always felt he’d die early, but that he’d be killed in a car wreck and not by an animal, his widow says.
“I thought he would fall out of a tree, he thought it would be a car accident,” Terri Irwin told an Australian television interviewer Wednesday.
Whatever the cause, she said, “He had a very strong conviction that he would (die prematurely). To the point where I’m grateful in a way, because we’re prepared.”
Irwin, 44, died after a stingray’s barb pierced his chest while filming earlier this month on the Great Barrier Reef.
A real crock
Australian actor Russell Crowe, meanwhile, says he’s disgusted by “appalling” reports he’s looking for a deal to play Irwin in a Crocodile Hunter movie.
“This is my friend,” Crowe says. “He just died. … I’m not doing business over the grave of my friend.”
Win some, lose some
Traffic charges against “Lost” star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje were dropped after defense attorneys proved he has a driver’s license.
Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who plays former African drug lord Mr. Eko on the hit ABC series, was charged with driving without a license and disobeying a police officer earlier this month in Hawaii, where the show is filmed.
He’s anti-Semitic, and you’re not
Art will imitate celebrity life on NBC’s “Law & Order.”
In an episode that begins filming this week, Chevy Chase guest stars as a TV personality who spews religious epithets after being pulled over by police for drunken driving.
Although there are similarities to Mel Gibson‘s recent Jew-bashing remarks following a drunk driving arrest, an NBC spokesman said the series “is completely fiction.”
The birthday bunch
Actor William Windom (“Murder, She Wrote”) is 83. Actress Brigitte Bardot is 72. Writer/director/actor John Sayles is 56. Actress Sylvia Kristel (“Emmanuelle”) is 54. Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo is 42. Actress Mira Sorvino is 39. TV personality Moon Zappa is 39. Actress Naomi Watts is 38. Actress Hilary Duff is 19.