Celebrity Gossip
 Now that she’s out of the closet, Rosie O’Donnell is out on a limb. The TV talk show hostess, who finally announced, officially, that she’s a lesbian, has decided to enter a new, controversial phase of her life. She wants to have a child with her longtime lover, Kelli Carpenter. The couple has taken the first steps for Kelli to get pregnant by consulting an attorney to prepare legal papers that will make them co-parents of the new baby. (Kelly is already co-parent of the couple’s adopted son, Blake, age 2, and is in the process of filing to become the legal guardian for Rosie’s two other adopted children). According to what we hear, the new baby will biologically be Kelli’s, but Rosie will have full parental rights under the gal-pal agreement they plan to sign. Reportedly, Rosie and Kelli decided to have a baby together after they discovered it was impossible to adopt their 4-year-old foster child, because the state of Florida bans gay couples from adopting. Meanwhile, Rosie has officially “come out” again and unleashed a verbal attack this time, publicly supporting gay adoptions. They say that despite the fact many people have praised Rosie for her “bravery” in coming out of the closet, the backlash against her is building. On the surface, that doesn’t sound so hot, but, it’s not phasing Rosie one bit. The first major issue confronting the two women was finding a sperm donor. There was some talk they might use a friend. Tom Cruise, David Crosby and Rosie’s gay brother, Danny, were rumored to have been among the prospects. Eventually, however, the legal and emotional issues of using someone they knew became too complicated and they decided to use donor sperm.
It was bound to happen – the wife of Rep. Gary Condit is threatening to sue NBC over an episode of “Law & Order” that featured a story line similar to the scandal that ended her husband’s political career. Lawyers, reportedly, demanded a retraction saying the episode was defamatory to their client because it implies she killed missing intern Chandra Levy. A spokesperson for the show, however, said they believed there was no basis for Mrs. Condit’s claims. Stay tuned for the sequel.
Censorship is rearing its angry head on the “Drew Carey Show.” ABC forced the actor-comedian, recently, to re-write an episode of his show, which poked fun at security guards. Carey was informed to make at least one guard competent, or the episode would be canned.
 Roseanne has filed for divorce from her third husband, former bodyguard Ben Thomas, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple wed on Valentine’s Day, 1995 and have a 6-year-old son. Roseanne had sought to divorce Thomas once before, in 1998, after they had a spat at their home.
Just so you’ll know…pop princess Pink’s bad-girl image is not a lot of PR hype drummed up to help promote the singer’s career r. The chain-smoking singer, famous for sporting powder-puff pink hair, was a high school dropout, who had so many skirmishes at home, her mom finally kicked her out at the age of 15. Pink makes no bones about it, admitting she was “a bad-ass troublemaker” during her teen years, and even boasts about her exploits to gal pals. She claimed, proudly, that she was arrested at least 10 times when she was a teenager, for everything from trespassing at school after hours to disorderly conduct.
 Guess you heard about that trumped up “Celebrity Boxing” bout between disgraced Olympic skater Tonya Harding and Paula Jones, ex-lover of Bill Clinton. Harding emerged victorious, after Jones quit, following the third round. Ringsiders say she was afraid of breaking her new nose. (The real reason why Amy Fisher was dropped from Fox’s schedule bouts was because her parole officer nixed the idea. He said her appearance would not be conducive to her continued parole supervision and would send an inappropriate message to victims of violent crime. Fisher served seven years in prison for shooting her paramour’s wife. The Harding-Jones fight was a replacement bout).
Poor Russell Crowe, now known in some Hollywood circles as “Scarey” Crowe. First he got in trouble during the British broadcast of the BAFTA awards for wanting to read a Patrick Kavanagh poem, and then the verse was cut again form the show’s broadcast in his native homeland, Australia. Since several folks contacted us about the nature of the poem, following all the huff and stuff over the deal, we obtained a copy for your own discretion: “To be a poet and not know the trade/ To be a lover and repel all women / Twin ironies by which great saints are made/ The agonizing jaws of heaven.”
My spies tell me that Chelsea Clinton is becoming a regular at Donatella Versace’s fashion shows. The former president’s daughter was spotted at the designer’s Milan show with her boyfriend, Ian Klaus, a fellow American student at Oxford University.
Talk about strange bedfellows…Elizabeth Taylor will play Elton John’s wife in his new video according to the BBC. And, singer-actress Mandy Moore will also appear in the video for “Original Sin,” playing her daughter.
I’m told Oscar winner Halle Berry dazzled those in attendance at the Academy Awards in a gown designed by Elie Saab. An opaque floor-length skirt balanced the sheer burgandy bodice, with leaves discretely covering all the right places. The actress often wears Valentino, but said she liked the dress because it was classic couture, yet sexy. Evidently, she wasn’t the only one at the Awards ceremony who thought so.
Psssst…Singer-actress Brandy has finally divulged that the baby she is expecting in July is a girl. Recently, she revealed that she secretly married record producer Robert Smith last summer.
What’s this I hear about troubled comic Paula Poundstone being required to see four therapists? Paula sez she goes to therapist No. 3 solely to discuss how angry she is to be paying $210 an hour to therapist No.4. (I don’t know if that’s hype or not. Sounds like a typical Poundstone play on words to me). Paula, served 180 days in a rehab facility after being arrested on child endangerment charges.
 Now that Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are showing lots of skin in their concert appearances and on the pages of entertainment magazines, Tiffany sez she is ready to shed her “teenybopper image.” In case you missed it, that means she got down and got naked in the issue of Playboy which hit the newsstands in April. (Appropriately, Tiffany appears in Playboy’s Sex and Music issue wearing little more than a smile, and, I might add, showing off the marvels of plastic surgery. Despite appearances to the contrary, Tiffany sez her breasts didn’t actually get bigger, she just wanted to put them back together the way she was before she had her son). Really.
Britney Spears has a new restaurant in Manhattan’s Dylan Hotel. It’ll be called Nyla, in honor of New York and her home state of Louisiana. (Before the star’s breakup with Justin Timberlake, the eatery had been dubbed Pinkey, which was Justin’s name for her).
The most bizarre thing I heard about the pre-Oscar celebration was the fact that Best Actress nominee Nicole Kidman was walking around, alone, frantically a few hours before the festivities, trying to find a date to escort her to the award ceremony. Poor baby.
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