Sideshow: Actor acts up and gets grounded

Josh Duhamel

ran into turbulence on a plane Thursday without ever leaving the ground.

Internet celeb sites, led by TMZ.com, informed a curious world on Friday that Duhamel had been guilty of gross gaucherie for ignoring a flight attendant's order to turn off his BlackBerry as his New York-Kentucky flight waited to take off from LaGuardia Airport.

When the flight was delayed, the 38-year-old actor - husband to Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie - began texting, according to TMZ. Reports said that Duhamel, when told to stop, even taunted the flight attendant, which turned out to be not such a good idea. The plane taxied back to the terminal and two officers escorted Duhamel off, TMZ reported.

A Duhamel rep told People mag that Duhamel was sorry.

World Cafe Live is opening a second location in Wilmington next year, and WCL 2.0 will mark the momentous event by hosting the music convention of non-commercial radio station mahoffs known as Non-COMM. The confab has previously taken place at the World Cafe Live in West Philadelphia, and has hosted acts such as

Dr. Dog

,

Dr. John

, and

the Roots

and John Legend

. World Cafe Live at the Queen is set to open in April in the $25 million renovated Queen Theatre in downtown Wilmington. The radio conference will take place May 19-21. Not much to report about the lineup yet, but four of the expected few dozen acts have been announced: spirited aging punks

New York Dolls

, gypsy globalizers

Devotchka

, harp blower

John Popper

, and mellowed-down-easy Philadelphia singer-songwriter

Amos Lee

, whose

Avett Brothers

-produced

Mission Bell

is due Jan. 25. (The Wilmington News-Journal's

Ryan Cormier

reported this first on his excellent Pulp Culture blog.) WXPN honchos say that the conference's move to Delaware is planned for one year only, to help put the new venue on the map.

- Dan DeLuca

Ben Sherwood

, former executive producer of

Good Morning America

, has been named president of ABC News, the Los Angeles Times reports. He succeeds

David Westin

, who is retiring at the end of the month.

Sherwood left GMA in 2006 to devote himself to writing and to start a website. He is the author of two novels, The Man Who Ate the 747 (2000) and The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (2004), and the 2009 nonfiction book The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life. ABC ranks second, behind NBC, in morning and evening news ratings and, like other broadcast news operations, has made cuts in recent years.