Sideshow: Suicidal (?) porn star disses Sheen
It's a Twitterific day! Twitter, it seems, has come to rule celebs' lives. We begin with a tweet-ish cry for help. TMZ says hardcore porn star Kacey Jordan was hospitalized early Tuesday after issuing suicidal tweets. Kacey is the American girl next door who spent an (allegedly) cocaine-, sex- and rage-filled night with Charlie Sheen back in January.
It's a Twitterific day! Twitter, it seems, has come to rule celebs' lives.
We begin with a tweet-ish cry for help. TMZ says hardcore porn star Kacey Jordan was hospitalized early Tuesday after issuing suicidal tweets. Kacey is the American girl next door who spent an (allegedly) cocaine-, sex- and rage-filled night with Charlie Sheen back in January.
Sheen figured in her tweets: "those 16 hours i was with charlie sheen . . . messed me up," she posted from her hotel room in Chicago. "i think i keep trying to feel his pain."
Kacey, who says she weighs 86 pounds (ick!), said she had taken "a bunch of pills." A police source tells TMZ that officers who were called to the scene found a conscious Kacey sitting in a room littered with "prescription pill bottles, broken glass, and alcohol."
The source insists the whole thing was a crass publicity stunt.
Twitter post-suicide twit watch
Kacey Jordan's tragic night of the soul seems to have ended. This is what she tweeted Tuesday afternoon from her hospital bed: "I'm Soooo bored in this hospital bed! I wanna have someone save me . . . ."
Penn student new Bachelorette
Bachelor alum and fourth-year Penn dental student Ashley Hebert was announced early Tuesday as the next Bachelorette. ABC used Jimmy Kimmel's show to introduce her, following The Bachelor's finale, which had Brad Womack pick Emily Maynard.
"I feel like this season taught me so much about myself," Hebert, 26, tells People mag. "It primed me for a new relationship. I'm ready to meet 25 new guys."
Hebert returned to Philly a couple of weeks ago, where she supposedly shot promotional videos surrounding the next season of The Bachelorette. By sheer coincidence, it is said, she encountered former Bachelor contestant Reid Rosenthal in Center City.
The new show premieres May 23.
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Twits tweaked for tweets
Odd duck Gilbert Gottfried, 56, on Tuesday apologized for his jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a day after his insensitivity got him fired from his 10-year job as the voice of the Aflac duck.
"I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families," Gottfried, 56, said.
His tasteless Twitter-ings, since removed, included this: "I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'They'll be another one floating by any minute now.' "
Joan Rivers says she's outraged that Aflac fired GG over a joke. "That's what comedians do!!!" she tweets. "We react to tragedy by making jokes to help people . . . feel better."
Gottfried is not alone in incurring wrath for joking about the tragedy, which has caused an estimated 10,000 deaths. 50 Cent and Family Guy writer Alec Sulkin have issued mea culpas for similarly crass tweets, while Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's press sec Dan Turner resigned Monday for his jokes on the matter.
Tidbits 'n' pieces
Lady Gaga has raised $250,000 for relief efforts in Japan selling wristbands for $5 on her website (http://ladygaga.shop.bravadousa.com/). . . . American Idol brass confirm that new Idol judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez will warble on the show this season. . . . Elizabeth Taylor's rep says the legend remains hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai in L.A. fully a month after she was admitted with symptoms of congestive heart failure. . . . Fox News Channel's John Roberts, 54, and wife, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips, 32, welcomed twins Tuesday morning, says UsMagazine.com. . . . Deadline.com says Katie Couric plans to develop her very own gabshow once her contract with CBS is up on June 4. . . . Former Jersey Shore star Angelina Pivarnick tells PopEater.com that he-man Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, he of the legendary, magical abs, is gay. She can tell, she says, "because of the way he talks and the way he abuses girls." . . . Alyssa Milano says she's pregnant with a boy.
Alice Cooper, Dr. John honored
Throat cancer survivor Michael Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones were on hand to cheer their friends at Monday night's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
Douglas told USA Today he was there to root for "my dear friend" - and golf buddy - Alice Cooper.
Other members of this year's class include New Orleans piano legend Dr. John, warbler Darlene Love (who was inducted by Bette Midler), and hipster-crooner Tom Waits.
Rock god Neil Young described Waits as "undescribable . . . [a] magician, spirit guide and changeling."
Snooki: Author and wrestler!
Novelist and reality diva Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi gave wrestling fans a real thrill Monday night with an athletic preformance on Raw. So enamored was she of the sport, she challenged her foe, Vickie "Excuse Me!" Guerrero, to a death-match smackdown at the awesome Wrestlemania XXVII event in Atlanta on April 3.
But she's no Snooki!
Deborah Eisenberg, 65, has won this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, which beat out four other finalists. Eisenberg's stories were praised for "their exceptional language and nuanced evocation of thought and emotion."