Rick Springfield has pleaded not guilty to his DUI charge, the Associated Press reports. A lawyer for the rocker, who did not attend the arraignment, entered the plea Tuesday in Malibu, Calif. The “Jessie’s Girl” musician was arrested back in May with a blood alcohol content of 0.10 percent, according to police authorities. (Anything over 0.08 percent is considered over the legal limit in California.)
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Hillary Scott, vocalist for the country music trio Lady Antebellum, is engaged to musician Chris Tyrell, People is reporting. The duo, who met on the Tim McGraw tour last year, became betrothed over the July 4 weekend. ”Chris proposed exactly the way I’ve always dreamed,” Scott, 25, said. “Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee.” Lady Antebellum is currently on a summer tour, while Tyrell, 24, is playing drums for country music band Eden’s Edge on Brad Paisley’s H20 II tour. No wedding date has been set.
HBO will adapt Carl Hiaasen’s 2004 novel Skinny Dip — a mystery about an heiress who swims to safety while holding onto a bale of marijuana — for television, reports Variety. Michael Oates Palmer and Michael Keaton, who has a wide-ranging first-look deal at HBO, will executive-produce.
Read more: EW’s review of Skinny Dip
In the moments following the not guilty verdict read by the jury in the Casey Anthony case, many in Hollywood responded, overwhelmingly with outrage, on Twitter. Anthony was acquitted of first-degree murder and other charges regarding the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, but was convicted on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law enforcement officers against her, reports People. The result brings a controversial end to the high-profile case. Read the reactions from celebrities on Twitter below:
Holly Marie Combs (@HDonoho): “Outraged. Out. Raged.” … ”Hold up. They found her guilty of lying. Lying to covering up something she didn’t do? Fascinating.” … “If not reporting your child missing for 31 days is not aggravated child abuse I dont know what is. I really don’t. #JudicialSystem”
Roseanne Barr (@TheRealRoseanne): “miscarriage of justice…our system is broken and it sucks–death penalty should be removed–that’s why she got off”…”victory for all child murderers!”…”casey-you were so smart to hide the body in the swamp! You got away with killing your baby!”
Kaley Cuoco (@kaleycuoco): “Nice justice system. I can’t breathe. I can’t think. I’m sick. God help us.”
Carson Daly (@carsonjdaly): “That jury better get into hiding.”
Rainn Wilson (@rainnwilson): “Dear Florida, THANK YOU for freeing Casey! She’s now available for partying and babysitting!”
Sharon Osbourne (@MrsSOsbourne): “Casey Anthony not guilty??…..it’s a disgrace. She’ll probably get her own reality show now.” READ FULL STORY »
FoxNews.com’s politically focused Twitter page, FoxNewspolitics, caused quite a stir early this morning after sending out messages to its more than 36,000 followers that President Barack Obama had been shot twice and killed at an Iowa restaurant. The assassination reports are false and were apparently sent out after Fox’s account was hacked. President Obama and his family are currently enjoying their July 4 at the White House.
Fox News alerted the Secret Service of the breach, and vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital Jeff Misenti said in a statement, “We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts.”
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British actress Anna Massey, a staple of British television who also appeared in more than 40 films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, died yesterday. She was 73. Her agent confirmed the news in a statement, “Actress, Anna Massey CBE passed away peacefully on Sunday 3 July, with her husband and son by her side. She will be remembered as a loving wife and mother, a cherished grandmother, a generous colleague and, always, a consummate professional. She will be greatly missed.” READ FULL STORY »
Six months after Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson announced their separation, their two-year marriage has officially ended. Reynolds, who’s currently starring in Green Lantern, filed for divorce last December. A judge in Los Angeles finalized the divorce on Friday.
Looks like she won’t be back. Nearly two months after Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger announced their separation, Shriver officially filed for divorce on Friday, reports People. Shriver is reportedly citing irreconcilable differences, and is calling for shared custody of the couple’s sons, Patrick, 17, and Christopher, 13. (They also have two daughters, Katherine, 21, and Christina, 19.)
In May, the former governor of California admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock with the family’s longtime housekeeper, Mildred Baena. That son is now 13. Shriver, 55, and Schwarzenegger, 63, have been married for 25 years.
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Though many thought she’d never settle down, Kate Moss has finally taken the plunge. After a four-month engagement, she has married her fiancé Jamie Hince, reports People.
The 37-year-old supermodel and her rocker beau were wed in a small ceremony near her home in England’s Cotswolds. The ceremony itself was held at St. Peter’s Church in Southrop. Moss, who wore a cream, vintage-style dress with rhinestone detail, invited 12 women to be her bridesmaids, though the most special of them was undoubtedly her her eight-year-old daughter Lila Grace.
Security for the after-party was extra-tight as police monitored the barricaded roads surrounding the Moss’s countryside home. This marriage is a turnabout for Moss, who was involved in a tumultuous relationship with rocker Pete Doherty before friend Sadie Frost introduced Moss to The Kills guitarist in 2007.
Still, it wouldn’t be a wedding for Kate Moss if there wasn’t a little bit of festivity. The party will continue through the weekend, for a days-long to-do that has been unofficially nicknamed “Mosstock.”
Prince Albert of Monaco and South African Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock were married today in a civil ceremony, People reports. The couple, who met in 2000 and began dating in 2005, will also exchange vows tomorrow in a traditional Catholic ceremony. The pre-wedding festivities began yesterday with an Eagles concert, and the royal family will host a reception tonight at the Monaco Port. The wedding celebrations are estimated to have cost more than $65 million.
