Sideshow: Rapper T.I. gets prison term
Arkansas is preparing to roll out its zebra-striped V.I.P. carpet for T.I. (Clifford J. Harris Jr.). He is scheduled to fly in on May 26 to serve a year and a day at the Forrest City low-security federal prison.
Arkansas is preparing to roll out its zebra-striped V.I.P. carpet for
T.I.
(
Clifford J. Harris Jr.
). He is scheduled to fly in on May 26 to serve a year and a day at the Forrest City low-security federal prison.
T.I., who pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges, tried to buy a bucket-load of machine guns after his best friend was killed. He will also pay a $100,000 fine.
Bristol graduates
Alaska's first daughter,
Bristol Palin
, has joined the elite 33 percent of teen mums who manage to finish high school. (With a 3.497 G.P.A. to boot!)
That shows Sarah Palin, who says that when she heard B. was with baby, thought, "Oh, there goes her education."
The 18-year-old Bristol, whose son Tripp by ex-bf Levi Johnston was born on Dec. 27, tells People she will pursue a two-year biz degree and a possible career in real estate.
Prejean Day is out
The Vista Unified School District in California has axed a proposed day to honor alumna
Carrie Prejean
. School board veep
Steve Lily
says the district has never thus honored an alum and would not start with someone who "had breast implants, posed semi-nude, and then said her goal was to be a premier Victoria's Secret model."
A 'Thriller' obsession
Guinness World Records yesterday said a group of 242 College of William & Mary students have won the world record for the most people to dance to
Michael Jackson
's "Thriller" simultaneously in one place. The previous record of 147 was set last year at a British secondary school.
Pink 'n' Carey, in the pink
Doylestown heroine
Pink
told
Ellen DeGeneres
yesterday that she and her estranged hubby,
Carey Hart
, are back together. The couple wed in Costa Rica in January '06 only to break it off two years later. Luckily, Pink said, "we didn't do the paperwork deal."