Tattle: 'Seizure' cited in Jett Travoldta's death

AN OFFICIAL with a Bahamian funeral home told everyone within earshot that

Jett Travolta

's death certificate says a "seizure" killed him.

That's the unofficial word from Glen Campbell, not the "Rhinestone Cowboy," who is assistant director of the funeral home handling the remains of John Travolta's 16-year-old son.

Campbell told the Associated Press that the body was in "great condition" (well, except for that one key, alive, part) and shows no sign of head trauma, despite police officials who said Jett may have hit his head on the bathtub.

As of last night, Jett's body was at the Grand Bahama airport en route for burial in Ocala, Fla.

Earlier yesterday, doctors in the Bahamas conducted an autopsy on Jett, but authorities did not disclose the results. A family doctor for the Travoltas observed the autopsy.

Cruise to Spain

Tom Cruise told the Spanish magazine XL Semanal that Scientology teachings helped him overcome childhood dyslexia.

Of course until the teachings kicked in, Cruise believed he was a member of the Hurchc fo Isloogcyent.

(First bad joke of the year; won't be the last.)

Cruise said he was diagnosed with the learning disability when he was 7 years old, was often anxious, frustrated and bored and couldn't concentrate in class.

The magazine quoted Cruise as saying he was functionally illiterate when he graduated from school in 1980, but learned to read perfectly as an adult through Scientology technology.

Tattbits

* TMZ.com reports that Patricia

Arquette ("Medium") has filed for divorce from Thomas Jane ("61*").

One would think she would have seen it coming.

In papers filed in L.A., "irreconcilable differences" was, of course, the cause.

The couple has a 5-year-old daughter, no pre-nup and good lawyers.

* The Hollywood Reporter says Da-

vid E. Kelley's newest Calista Flockhart ("Ally McBeal") is Brit actress Charity Wakefield.

She'll star with John Seda ("Homicide") and Kristin Chenoweth ("Pushing Daisies") in his new NBC drama, "Legally Mad."

Tattle already misses Kelley's "Boston Legal."

* If any women's basketball coaches need players in 18 years, they may want to check out the twins born to Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell.

Those girls are going to be tall.

Rebecca's publicist says daughters Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip were born Dec. 28. They are the couple's first flowers.

Uh, children.

Everyone's doing well.

* Jon Bon Jovi will perform at a Jan.

15 NYC fundraiser for former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as she tries to pay off her campaign debt. Ticket prices range from $75 to $1,000.

You know, Jon, Tattle has a whole bunch of credit-card bills we'd like to pay off.

* The BBC says little-known actor

Matt Smith will take over the title role in the long-running sci-fi series "Doctor Who."

The 26-year-old is the 11th actor to star in one of Britain's most popular TV shows - and the youngest.

"Doctor Who" was first broadcast in 1963 and centers on a time-traveling alien known only as The Doctor who can regenerate into new human bodies.

Current star David Tennant plans to leave the show after four special episodes this year.

* Billboard.com says Prince will release three albums this year, without the assistance of a record label, according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

Is he going to sell them out of the trunk of his purple, paisley station wagon?

Perhaps. But a "major retailer" is in talks with the artist formerly known by a symbol to release the music physically, while a new Prince Web site will sell it in digital form.

If Prince gives Walmart an exclusive we're giving up on the music business.

* From Britain's BANGShowbiz.

com, a few comments about body image:

Sacha Baron Cohen's gal, Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers"), joked: "I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache. We have a spare one at home - and I wear it."

Scottish Isla also likes laughter lines. "I haven't done the white teeth - I haven't really Americanized my look. But we will see what happens when you interview me in five years. Maybe I'll be looking permanently surprised."

As for Robert Pattinson's androgynous look, the "Twilight" sex symbol told BANG, "Up until I was 12, my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as Claudia."

Hmmmm.

Potty-mouthed Ricky Gervais, who has a bit of a spare tire himself, has no patience for fatties in his new audio book "The Ricky Gervais Guide to Medicine."

On liposuction: "They have bits sliced off and tied up and sucked out. I want to say to them, 'You lazy f---ing fat pig. Just go for a run and stop eating burgers. You might f---ing die'.

"If your arse is too f---ing fat, stop eating and go for a run."

Gervais adds that retailers need to help people lose their belly bulge.

"In supermarkets, the really fattening stuff should be behind a really thin door," he says.

"Shops should be full of salads, but if you want to get to the pies and cakes, you've got to crawl through a little tube." *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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