Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 3:59 pmh.ETonline - Celebrities
ET's Kevin Frazier caught up with Lamar Odom and his Los Angeles Lakers teammates to get their reactions to Odom's weekend wedding to reality star Khloe Kardashian.
Team leader Kobe Bryant said Lamar talked about Khloe differently than other girls, referring to her as his soulmate. "The wedding itself was very peaceful, very well done. Everyone had a wonderful time," Kobe tells ET of the Sunday ceremony.
Lamar talks to Kevin about making the leap from sports star to celebrity, saying, "Crossing over has never been a problem for me. ... I'm still Lamar."
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Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 3:31 pmh.ETonline - Celebrities
'Iron Man 2' star Gwyneth Paltrow and her actress mom, Blythe Danner, team up in a new public service announcement about the value of volunteering. Click the video to watch!
"Community work brings families closer together," says Gwyneth in the PSA co-sponsored by Entertainment Industry Foundation and United Healthcare.
"When we help each other we all get healthier," adds Blythe.
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Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 1:55 pmh.ETonline - Celebrities
ET has learned that Disney will offer free park admission in 2010 -- and it's all for a good cause. Read on to learn more, and hear Teri Hatcher and James Denton help bring awareness to the effort. Disney Parks announced its "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day" program that aims to inspire one million people to volunteer at a participating organization and get a free day of admission to a Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort theme park. "As you can see there's lots of volunteers here and they’re excited about it, too," Teri says. "I’m a big believer in volunteering, and honestly the feeling that you get when you volunteer and give back is everything -- and you wouldn’t even need the Disney day, but that's the icing on the cake.”
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Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 12:44 pmh.ETonline - Celebrities
A private memorial service will take place for the late actor Patrick Swayze -- ET has the details.
The service will be held on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. at Sony Studios, ET confirms.
In lieu of flowers, people are being asked to make donations to either The Patrick Swayze Pancreas Cancer Research Fund (donations made payable to Stanford University for The Patrick Swayze Pancreas Cancer Research Fund) or Stand Up To Cancer.
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Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 11:24 amh.ETonline - Celebrities
The late Patrick Swayze's memoir, The Time of My Life, has been released and reveals the actor's fear of facing death while battling cancer.
"When my doctors ... said the words 'pancreatic cancer,' a single thought popped into my head: 'I'm a dead man,'" Swayze's memoir reads. "I was not ready to go, and I'd be damned if this disease was going to take me before I was good and ready."
In the book, the 'Dirty Dancing' actor wrote that he wanted to understand what he was up against so he could fight the cancer as best he could. "Fighting cancer has been the most challenging eye-opening experience I've ever had, and it has sent me on an emotional journey deeper than anything I've ever felt before," Swayze wrote.
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Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 10:27 amh.ETonline - Celebrities
The official cause of death for Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein has been released.
The New York City Medical Examiner tells ET that Goldstein died of "acute intoxication" due to the combined effects of cocaine, oxycodone, hydrocodone (Vicodin), Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Benadryl and Levamisole -- a drug that is used to cut cocaine.
The cause of death is listed as "accident (substance abuse)."
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Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 5:05 amh.ETonline - Celebrities
After sustaining a head injury Friday while performing a "Tonight Show" stunt, Conan O'Brien returned to work Monday night and joked about his accident. "As many of you may know, on this past Friday's show I was doing a stunt and I hit my head and suffered a slight concussion. And I promise, if you're a good audience, I'll do it again tonight," the funnyman said while taping his monologue on Monday. O'Brien, who injured his head when he slipped and fell during a stunt with guest Teri Hatcher, joked about the media attention he received, saying: "So tune in tomorrow when Eva Longoria [Parker] pushes me down an elevator shaft.”
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Posted in September 29, 2009 ¬ 1:37 amh.ETonline - Celebrities
Michelle Obama spoke to Prevention Magazine for the publication's November issue. Read on to see what she had to say about balancing her life in the White House.
The First Lady said that Barack Obama's "emotional honesty" is one of the things that she finds attractive about him.
Mrs. Obama credits her mother for teaching her to balance the many facets of her busy life. She said, "She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list."
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Posted in September 28, 2009 ¬ 6:10 pmh.ETonline - Celebrities
A security specialist for John Travolta testified Monday in the Bahamas and supported the claim that the star was asked to pay $25 million as part of an alleged extortion plot. Read on for details… The Associated Press reports that Travolta's employee, Ronald Zupancic, testified that a paramedic who treated Travolta's late son Jett threatened to go to the media with private information unless the star paid him millions. Zupancic also testified that he was the one who told Travolta of ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne's demand. Zupancic also testified that Lightbourne contacted Travolta's attorneys through his attorney, former Bahamas Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, the AP reports. Bridgewater is the other defendant in the case.
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Posted in September 28, 2009 ¬ 6:01 pmh.ETonline - Celebrities
Tonight on ET, we have another Jackson exclusive: Jermaine Jackson, on the record about family infighting -- and the real reason he pulled out of a scheduled photo shoot with his brothers.
ET's own Kevin Frazier was with Jermaine at a Hollywood photo shoot for his upcoming A&E reality series (and possible album cover), just days after brothers Marlon, Tito and Jackie posed without him in New York. Jermaine's image will be Photoshopped in with them for the final picture.
Back in New York, Marlon told Kevin, "[Jermaine's] in California. He's got pink eye. But when I see him he's gonna have a black eye!" A short time later, Jermaine was seen with Marie Osmond at the premiere of "Dancing with the Stars."
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