Blog Posts by Lizbeth Scordo

  • Damon Wayans Jr. on Following in His Dad’s Footsteps: ‘That Screen Was Just Calling Me’

    Damon Wayans Jr. talks to omg!. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)Considering he comes from a line of entertainers, it might seem like Damon Wayans Jr.’s decision to get into show business was an obvious one. But the actor tells omg! that he initially had other plans.

    “I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school, I went to art college and everything,” Wayans shares in the interview. “But that screen was just calling me.”

    The 30-year-old, who’s the son of Damon Wayans and nephew of Keenan Ivory, Marlon, and Shawn Wayans (all comedic actors), got a taste of the world of acting early on, starring in his dad’s film “Blankman” back in 1994, and appearing on his sitcom “My Wife and Kids.”

    Since then, he’s truly followed in his famous family’s footsteps, and now stars in the ensemble sitcom “Happy Endings,” in which he plays a metrosexual unemployed businessman named Brad, sidekick to his competitive perfectionist wife Jane (played by Eliza Coupe).

    If playing a comical role looks like it comes easy for Wayans, well, it all goes back

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  • Tori Spelling Debuts Baby Finn at Santa’s Secret Workshop Event

    Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott brought the whole brood, including new baby Finn. (Tiffany Rose/WireImage)With their little ones in tow, celebs got into the holiday spirit on Saturday when they attended the 2nd Annual Santa's Secret Workshop Benefiting L.A. Family Housing. And the fundraiser had a very special pint-size guest: Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott's newest addition, 3-month-old Finn, who made his first public appearance at the event along with his parents and his three older siblings: 5-year-old Liam, 4-year-old Stella, and 14-month-old Hattie.

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  • Inside Dolly Parton’s Happy Marriage to Recluse Hubby

    Dolly Parton. (Donna Svennevik/ABC)Country music icon Dolly Parton has been happily married for 46 years, but the world would never know it if she didn't say so. Despite having been with the same man, Carl Dean, since the couple first met back in 1964 at a laundromat, Parton's husband is almost never spotted in public. The singer/actress has previously said he simply stays out of the spotlight, and in a recent interview with Reuters, jokes about the fact that some fans have doubts there even is a Carl Dean.

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    "They don't think he really exists!" exclaims Parton, 66. "When I was doing my show, we were thinking about having a different guy knock on the door every night, as my husband, and then one night he would be a midget, and one night he would be a black man, and one night he would be like a boxer or a wrestler, all these different things that people imagine what my husband looks like."

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  • Katherine Heigl Selling 4-bedroom L.A. Family Home for $2.6M

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    Actress Katherine Heigl went from newlywed TV star to bona fide big-screen actress and mom of two, all while living in the 3,690-square-foot Los Angeles home she bought shortly after getting married in 2007. Now the 34-year-old and her husband, musician Josh Kelly, are looking to move on, along with their two daughters, and have put the family's 4-bedroom house, located in the L.A. neighborhood of Los Feliz, on the market for $2.659 million.

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  • Halle Berry’s Headline-Making Home on the Market for $15 Million

    The home Halle Berry has listed for $15 million. (Jason Mitchell/FilmMagic)Unfortunately for Halle Berry, some of her final memories of living in her multi-million-dollar Hollywood Hills home haven't been good ones. The 46-year-old actress found herself in the news over Thanksgiving weekend (and beyond) after Berry's ex Gabriel Aubry got into an all-out brawl with her fiancé, Olivier Martinez, when Aubry was dropping off his and Berry's 4-year-old daughter, Nahla, on Thanksgiving morning.

    Now, TMZ is reporting that the home where the altercation took place is actually up for sale and that Berry quietly listed her Tuscan-style mansion a few weeks back for $15 million.

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  • Sophia Loren Stuns on the Red Carpet at 78

    Sophia Loren turned heads on the red carpet on Tuesday at age 78. (Getty Images)She spent the majority of her showbiz career as an international sex symbol, and on Tuesday night, 78-year-old Sophia Loren proved that age is truly just a number when she showed off her trim figure in a low-cut curve-hugging dress. The Italian actress donned the white beaded gown with sheer long sleeves and a slit up the front when she hit the red carpet in Rio de Janeiro for the launch of the Italian tire maker Pirelli's annual calendar.

    Though she stood alongside models 50 years her junior, the "A Countess From Hong Kong" star still came off looking pretty darn hot. The coveted calendar always features a gaggle of drop-dead gorgeous models and actresses. (Past publications have included beauties like Heidi Klum and Penelope Cruz.

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  • Dolly Parton. (Pacific Coast News)No, Dolly Parton hasn't been living a lie for the last 46 years. On Monday night's "Nightline," the country icon, who has been married to the rarely seen Carl Dean since 1966, addressed rumors that she's gay, rumors that have stemmed from her close relationship with longtime best friend Judy Ogle.

    "Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade," she says in the interview with Juju Chang. "I mean, I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we're not romantically involved."

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  • Madonna Selling Luxury Manhattan Apartment for $23.5 Million

    Madonna is selling her NYC apartment for $23.5 million (Zillow.com)

    A lot has changed for Madonna since she bought her Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park more than two decades ago. She's now a mom to four children, has gotten divorced, married, and divorced again, released 10 albums, and turned the big 5-0. Now, she's finally saying goodbye to the apartment that's seen her thorough the last 25 years, listing her 6,000-square-foot Upper West Side pad for a whopping $23.5 million.

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  • Elmo Puppeteer Resigns in Wake of Sex Scandal

    Kevin Clash. (Paul Morigi/WireImage)In the wake of another accusation of sexual misconduct with an underage teen, the puppeteer who has voiced the beloved “Sesame Street” character Elmo for more than two decades has officially resigned from his role.

    The media firestorm began two weeks ago when a man accused 52-year-old Kevin Clash of having a sexual relationship with him when he was underage. At the time, Clash, who is gay, admitted to having a relationship with the accuser, Stephen Sheldon, but said it was a consensual relationship between two adults.

    Last week, Sheldon recanted his accusation, saying via a statement through his attorney that he wanted it to be known that “his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult, consensual relationship."

    Over the weekend, however, TMZ reported that Sheldon received a $125,000 settlement in exchange for dropping his charges. And now another man, Cecil Singleton, has filed a lawsuit accusing Clash of striking up a relationship with him when he was just 15.

    There are

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  • John O'Hurley talks to omg!. (WireImage)It's been 11 years since actor John O'Hurley began an unlikely new Thanksgiving tradition: Co-hosting a dog show on national television in front of tens of millions of viewers. And, the 58-year-old admits, he has the now-famous mockumentary "Best In Show" to thank for the gig. After an executive at NBC (the same network that aired "Seinfeld," in which O'Hurley starred as the over-the-top catalog mogul J. Peterman) watched the Christopher Guest film that satirizes the world of dog shows, he decided a real-life dog show would be the perfect fit to fill the post-parade slot in the Thanksgiving Day TV lineup. And O'Hurley would be the perfect person to co-host it.

    "I looked at this and as strange as it was, I said, 'You know, for some reason I have to do this,'" he tells omg! of hosting what's now "The National Dog Show Presented by Purina." "It was just an odd opportunity and yet it's returned just so much joy to me over the 11 years I've been doing it."

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