Sideshow | DNA points father finger at Eddie Murphy?
Revelations of the baby kind yesterday, with a report that Melanie Brown's claim that her 2-month-old daughter, Angel Iris Murphy Brown, was fathered by Eddie Murphy has been proved.
Revelations of the baby kind yesterday, with a report that
Melanie Brown
's claim that her 2-month-old daughter,
Angel Iris Murphy Brown
, was fathered by
Eddie Murphy
has been proved.
A super-anon, super-close friend of Melanie, best known as beloved singer Scary Spice, tells People.com that the results of a DNA test Murphy took on June 11 just came in and confirm the former Saturday Night Live cat was the cat.
Murphy, who briefly dated Brown last year, has long denied he's the father. His rep has declined to comment.
Hacking into Potter
As if it were possible, there's even more Harry Potter hype this week, with a report that a hacker has posted the super-secret ending of the final book in
J.K. Rowling
's series on InSecure.org.
The mischief-maker, who goes by the name George, claims he infiltrated the system of Potter's Brit publisher, Bloomsbury PLC, and downloaded an e-copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is due out July 21.
Bloomsbury declined to comment. A rep from U.S. distributor Scholastic Corp. would not say whether George's post is really from the novel, but he warned readers to be skeptical about anyone's claims to have gained access to the book. He said the posting could be a hoax, merely "one more theory" about which major character Rowling kills off at the end.
Maybe it's real. Don't spoil it for yourself. Stay away from the site.
Paris Hilton's reward . . .
. . . for breaking the law, getting caught, and serving a bit of time in jail?
One Million Dollars.
While the convict celebutante tells Ryan Seacrest she's had a spiritual awakening and is now "grateful for everything" in life, the New York Post and Variety say she's got $1 mil worth of reasons to be grateful. That's the amount they say NBC will pay Paris to give the network her first post-jail interview.
Seems NBC outbid ABC, which an anon source says offered Paris the lame lollypop sum of $100,000.
NBC rep Allison Gollust insists there is no Paris deal, much less a million-dollar one. "NBC News has not and will not pay for interviews," she told Variety.
But perhaps it's a matter of labeling: Various loopholes allow network news shows to dole out plenty of money indirectly, reports the L.A. Times.
Spice: Spice will talk Spice
The five masterminds behind the influential, avant-garde media project,
The Spice Girls
, announced yesterday that - on Thursday, they will make "an announcement to the world."
The announcement of the announcement-to-come has emerged amid fevered talk that the Girls will soon reunite. So why now?
Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm, who was opposed to another go-around, has changed her tune.
"For the first time ever, there is some truth in the rumors," she told the BBC.