Tattle | Walk on 'Wild' side in Barba's future?
ANTONELLA BARBA isn't going to win "American Idol" this year, but she's already a cottage industry. Granted, the cottage has a red light on it.
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NTONELLA BARBA
isn't going to win "American Idol" this year, but she's already a cottage industry.
Granted, the cottage has a red light on it.
While the Joisey girl's voice may not be wowing the judges in the show's sixth season, the number of partially clothed Barba photos that have made their way on to the Internet is definitely impressive.
Forget the porno shots from last week, when a woman purported to be Barba (but not) was photographed with a young man massaging her vocal chords, now there's a whole line of cheesecake shots designed to make certain "Idol" fans forget Kellie Pickler's new breasts.
And the Barba photo exhibition seems to be quite an effective resume. TMZ.com reported yesterday that online adult video purveyor SugarDVD, has offered Antonella $500,000 to become their new spokesperson.
Spokesperson? Like "More, more, faster, faster . . ."
What we wondered, does an adult video spokesperson do that entails speaking? If Barba, however, is looking for another job opp, TMZ.com reported that Joe "Show us your t--s" Francis, has offered Barba 250 large to become a "Girls Gone Wild" host?
What, we wondered, does one do as a "Girls Gone Wild" host - except Joe Francis. Francis told TMZ.com, "We have reached out to Antonella Barba through her family and are trying to reach her directly in order to offer her a hosting job for one of our upcoming video projects. Just like the "American Idol" judges, we at "Girls Gone Wild" are looking for a girl-next-door, with sexiness, attitude, a carefree spirit and a presence that will command the attention of the nation." Anna Nicole, dear, you were born 20 years too soon.
Tattle infirmary
Two versions of the same story that hit Tattle's desk at the same time yesterday:
1. In Touch Weekly reported that Johnny Depp's daughter, Lily-Rose, 7, is battling for her life in a London hospital (which it named). In Touch says that stepping on a rusty nail led to blood poisioning; one of her kidneys had failed and she was not responding to treatment.
"Her condition has deteriorated to the point where it's a matter of life and death," said an anonymous "insider" with supposed knowledge of the case.
2. The Associated Press reported Lily-Rose was "much better," said Depp's publicist, Robin Baum. "The family greatly appreciates the continued support and respect of their privacy."
Tattbits
* Wednesday night at the Ray Ban party at NYC's Guastavino's, Spike Lee told Tattle's Baird Jones, "I recently bought Gypsy Rose Lee's house and when we moved in my son saw her ghost. He told my wife Tyson who said, 'No you don't see her, you don't see her.'
"But I absolutely believe it was Gypsy Rose Lee. I believe in ghosts. Hell yes! My son said she was a nice ghost, I guess because we both have the same last name. But she made only that one appearance. She has not come back."
But for some reason Spike keeps singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses."
* Just when things were starting to look up for Foxy Brown - she was spared jail time by a Manhattan judge last week even though she violated her probation - TMZ.com reports Foxy has been charged with misdemeanor battery in the Feb. 15 incident at a Florida beauty supply shop that caused the parole violation.
Note to readers: Don't throw hair glue.
* According to Britain's Closer magazine and bangshowbiz.com, the intense rehearsals for "Dancing with the Stars" have left Heather Mills with blisters on her partly-amputated leg, where her own skin meets the prosthesis.
* Aside from the travel time and expense, here's one more reason Tattle hopes the Penn Quakers men's basketball team isn't sent to Spokane for the first round of the NCAAs.
Blues Traveler frontman John Popper was arrested there yesterday for driving 111 mph and for marijuana possession (so it may have only seemed to Popper like he was doing 90).
During the search of Popper's car, however, TMZ.com reports that police found multiple hidden compartments containing a total of 14 weapons, including four rifles, nine handguns and a switchblade knife! Washington State troopers said Popper told them he had the weapons in case of a disaster.
We're no survivalists, but a few gallons of water and canned goods might be more useful.
* If you're totally stoked about that Van Halen tour, calm down.
Eddie Van Halen has checked himself into alcohol rehab.
Yes, that's one more in rehab.
And Wall Street thinks the big economic growth is in managed-care facilities for baby boomers.
* "Prison Break's" Lane Garrison was charged yesterday with felony vehicular manslaughter.
When Garrison hit a tree in December in Beverly Hills, Vahagn Setian, 17, a passenger in his car, was killed. TMZ.com reports Garrison's blood-alcohol level was .20, more than twice the legal limit. If convicted, he could get six years - with little chance for a prison break.
* The Hollywood Reporter says Jason Lee ("My Name Is Earl") will play Dave Seville in a new 20th Century Fox movie version of "Alvin and the Chipmunks."
Alvin, Simon and Theodore will be computer generated.
The studio has set a Dec. 14 release date when "Christmas, Christmas time is near/Time for toys and time for cheer . . . We can hardly stand the wait/Please Christmas, don't be late." *
Daily News wire services contributed to this report.
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