Online Or Not, It’ll Be A Speedo Delivery

Fri., March 21, 1997

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

Maybe they should call it the Internatal.

At “Baywatch” babe Gena Lee Nolin’s World Wide Web site (www.genalee.com), the “Babywatch” section lets you view a sonogram of Nolin’s incubating baby, listen to the fetal heartbeat and suggest names.

Nolin even says she’ll give birth online, with a real-time audio feed. “When I heard that Timothy Leary was planning to die online, I was intrigued,” she explains. “(And) when I saw Pamela Lee and her baby getting hounded by the press day in and day out, I got the idea that giving birth online would let me control what people read and see.”

Just one catch: While Nolin is pregnant, the rest of it is a hoax, perpetuated (with her permission) by the pranksters at Web Magazine.

Loose talk

Liv Tyler, on new squeeze Joaquin Phoenix (in Variety): “It’s the first time I’m actually in love. I was always the type who had obsessions with men, and they lasted anywhere from 15 minutes to 15 hours.”

You could say she’s adopted well to motherhood

Rosie O’Donnell turns 35 today.

The pictures are a pale imitation, just like Dad

Just days after the announcement that The National Enquirer was buying the first baby pictures of Michael Jackson Jr., for a cool $2 million, shots of the tyke reportedly taken by a Neverland visitor with a hidden camera were published in London’s News of the World. The Jackson camp insists the photos are fake.

In contempt? Sounds more like the guy’s in heat

Former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden will reportedly become a papa next month by a cashier named Miki Gaut. Gaut says they started as friends, but soon realized “we were very compatible sexually, both of us insatiable.” A Darden spokesman calls it “a non-issue.”

Someone stop her, before she thrills again

Kristen Johnston (“3rd Rock From the Sun”) admits to bedding boyfriend David Newsom (formerly of “Homefront”) on their first date, but says that doesn’t necessarily make her a tramp. “Absolutely not,” Johnston insists in Details magazine. “I’m a serial first-date sleeper, and there’s a huge difference.”

Guess he finally figured out the unzip code

America’s favorite television virgin, Tori Spelling of “Beverly Hills, 90210,” will finally give herself to longtime screen boyfriend Brian Austin Green in the show’s season finale, TV Guide reports. The script was approved by Tori’s dad, “90210” executive producer Aaron Spelling.

In other words, Wilt was always on the rebound

Remember Wilt Chamberlain’s autobiographical claim that he slept with 20,000 women? “I wasn’t bragging that I was a great lover,” the former basketball great tells Philadelphia magazine. “Actually, if you look at it, you can say that I had so many women because I was such a bad lover, they never came back a second time.”

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