People: She needs a little more seasoning
Posh Spice finally arrived Monday night in a much-hyped NBC reality special, but the nation didn’t exactly roll out a red-carpet welcome.
”Victoria Beckham: Coming to America” ranked second in its time period with 5.1 million viewers, behind a “Wife Swap” rerun.
“Entertainment Weekly” senior editor Nicholas Fonseca isn’t surprised.
“There are plenty of people who truly don’t know who she is,” he says.
The Spice Girls singer is married to British soccer star David Beckham, who just relocated to the U.S. to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Adds “Us Weekly” editor in chief Janice Min: “I got the sense with Posh that (interest in her) was manufactured by the media.”
But Min says the special did show that Beckham is “clearly aware of her image … but not above sending it up, which was the sweet spot that she hit.”
It reruns tonight at 10, which Fonseca says should be Beckham’s reality finale.
“She’s better off making appearances here and there as opposed to doing a reality show,” he says. “Most people who participate in them don’t come off very well.”
Band on the run
San Antonio Spurs basketball star Tony Parker, newly married to “Desperate Housewives” actress Eva Longoria, says his wedding ring will take some getting used to.
“I don’t wear rings,” he says. “The only ring that I was wearing is our (NBA) championship rings, but you only wear that maybe two times, three times maybe. So I have to get used to it.”
Parker said he’ll do his best to keep track of it before and after games.
“A lot of my teammates told me they lost (theirs) like five or six times,” he says. “So I’m going to try to lose it only one or two times.”
Chappelle’s showing his age?
Comedian Dave Chappelle was briefly hospitalized over the weekend for exhaustion.
Chappelle took a brief respite in South Africa after walking away from his Comedy Central TV show – and $50 million – in 2005, but denies checking into a mental health center.
He has returned to the stand-up circuit and in April broke the endurance record at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles by delivering a more than six-hour routine.
She’s still a pill
Phyllis Diller still cracked jokes as she turned 90 on Tuesday, even after cracking her back.
“I still take the Pill ‘cause I don’t want any more grandchildren,” quipped Diller, who fractured a bone in her back last week by twisting while lifting a heavy item.
But she’s not doing any routines; she’s using a wheelchair while recovering and admits, “You can’t do stand-up sitting down.”
And Andy’s a real …
Former “Saturday Night Live” player Jon Lovitz reportedly smashed fellow comic Andy Dick‘s head into the bar at the Laugh Factory, drawing blood, during a fracas last week.
Lovitz lost it after Dick told him he’d put the “Phil Hartman hex” on him – referring to the “SNL” castmate who was shot to death by his wife, who then killed herself.
The birthday bunch
Singer Vikki Carr is 66. Actor Campbell Scott is 46. Actor Anthony Edwards (“ER”) is 45. Actor Jared Padalecki (“Supernatural”) is 25.