Now we”ll see how long the marriage survives
THEY FELL IN LOVE on TV, and their nuptials will be shown on TV.
A two-hour prime-time special on the wedding of Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich, cast members on CBS’ “Survivor All-Stars,” will air May 24.
“Rob and Amber Get Married” will document the planning, the bachelor and bachelorette parties, and the wedding ceremony, which was held Saturday in the Bahamas.
Mariano proposed to Brkich on the live finale of “Survivor All-Stars” in May 2004. Since she wore a shirt proclaiming, “I (heart) Rob,” the answer wasn’t in much doubt.
She beat Mariano by just one vote to win the reality show’s $1 million prize, but said afterward: “We didn’t even care who was going to win. We knew we both had each other for the rest of lives.”
The couple currently are contestants on the seventh season of CBS’ “The Amazing Race.”
It’s all uphill from here
Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray, co-stars of the TV series “One Tree Hill,” were married Saturday in a seaside ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif.
Bush, 22, and Murray, 23, met in 2003 while filming the WB series. She plays feisty cheerleader Brooke Davis and he plays Lucas Scott, a brooding intellectual struggling to find peace.
They were engaged last year. Murray proposed while they were in Australia, where he was finishing work on the upcoming “House of Wax” movie remake.
Through Thicke and thin, again
“Growing Pains” father Alan Thicke is headed to the altar again.
Thicke, 58, will wed his longtime girlfriend, Tanya Callau, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on May 7. It will be the third marriage for Thicke, who played TV dad Jason Seaver on ABC’s “Growing Pains.”
“I’ll be on my third honeymoon, so I’m more of an authority than I care to be,” Thicke joked in a statement.
No more days of wine and roses
A month after announcing their separation, Oscar-winning “Sideways” writer-director Alexander Payne and his actress wife, Sandra Oh, are officially heading for divorce court.
The couple married in January 2003 after dating for three years. They had no children.
Oh, 34, is seeking unspecified spousal support and is also asking the court to block Payne, 44, from requesting anything from her.
Oh, who played a freewheeling single mom in “Sideways,” is starring in ABC’s new hit medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy.”
All the Kidman’s men
Nicole Kidman is sick and tired of reading about her supposed boyfriends in newspapers – because she’s never actually dated any of them, reports IMDB.com.
Since her high-profile divorce from Tom Cruise in 2001, the “Moulin Rouge” star has been linked to a series of celebrities including rocker Lenny Kravitz and more recently producer Steve Bing.
“If I’d truly been with all those men I’d be exhausted,” Kidman said. “My 90-year-old grandmother rings me from New Zealand and says, ‘I read in a magazine that you’re getting married,’ and I’m like, ‘Grandmother, would you stop it. It’s not true!’ “
The birthday bunch
Actor George Takei (“Star Trek”) is 68. Actor Ryan O’Neal is 64. Actress Jessica Lange is 56. Singer Luther Vandross is 54. Actor Clint Howard is 46. Actor Crispin Glover is 41. Country singer Wade Hayes is 36. Actress Carmen Electra is 33. Actor Joey Lawrence (“Blossom,” “Brotherly Love”) is 29.