Who killed Blake’s wife? Only the chauffeur knows
So if Robert Blake didn’t kill his wife, then who did? In his first television appearance since being acquitted last week in the murder of Bonny Lee Bakely, Blake speculated it could have been “somebody whose father was taken for a ride.”
“She led that kind of life, where she made a lot of enemies and somebody … somebody whose father was taken for a ride or something like that,” the actor told Barbara Walters on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” adding: “I don’t know. I don’t know.”
Walters also asked Blake why he told a reporter who asked about Bakely’s killer to “shut up” at a news conference following the verdict last Wednesday.
“What I meant by ‘shut up’ is I mean I would like to have everybody stop killing Bonny now,” Blake said.
“Everybody is making a buck on Bonny. It’s like, you know, America now is filling their rice bowl any way they can. They’re still picking Princess Diana‘s bones.”
On his Top 10 list, they’re No. 1
David Letterman took time on Monday’s “Late Show” to thank the Montana authorities who helped unravel an alleged plot last week to kidnap his young son and nanny and hold them for $5 million ransom.
Authorities say a painter who worked at Letterman’s ranch near Choteau was planning the kidnap for when the talk show host and his family next visited.
Letterman thanked two FBI agents, Teton County Sheriff George Anderson, county attorney Joe Coble “and the great people of Choteau, Montana.
“They have always made me and my family feel entirely welcome as though it were our home and that’s how we think of it,” he said.
She just ignores the Pitt bull
Jennifer Aniston says she’s been able to “tune out” the “tough and the nasty” headlines and rumors surrounding her separation from Brad Pitt.
On Monday’s “Access Hollywood,” the 36-year-old actress said that she still feels the public is rooting for her.
“There has been so much love and support,” Aniston said. “It feels real good.”
He just couldn’t stand Pat any longer
Former “Access Hollywood” host Pat O’Brien has entered an alcohol rehabilitation program.
“Overcoming this problem is a top priority in my life, and I am excited to return to work as soon as I am able,” the 57-year-old O’Brien said in a statement.
The former CBS Sports reporter occasionally hosted “Entertainment Tonight” before becoming the full-time host of “Access Hollywood” in 1997. That contract expired last year, and he began hosting “The Insider.”
Maybe she can save someone else some pain
Former “Growing Pains” actress Tracey Gold has been placed on three years’ probation after pleading guilty to a second felony drunken driving charge in a rollover crash that injured her husband and two of their three children.
Gold, 35, pleaded guilty in January to felony drunken driving. On Monday, a judge decided to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor, but prosecutors refused to dismiss child-endangerment charges. To avoid those, Gold pleaded guilty again to felony drunken driving.
She has been speaking to high school and college audiences about the hazards of driving while drunk.
The birthday bunch
Comedian Marty Allen is 83. Singer Ric Ocasek (The Cars) is 56. Singer Chaka Khan is 52. Actress Amanda Plummer is 48. Actress Hope Davis is 41. Actor Richard Grieco is 40. Actress Keri Russell is 29. Actress Nicholle Tom (“The Nanny”) is 27.