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Who’s skating on thin ice?


Associated Press Kristy Swanson
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From Wire Reports The Spokesman-Review

The fallout continues from a weekend fight between actress Kristy Swanson and her boyfriend’s ex-wife.

Swanson, as you may recall, was teamed with figure skater Lloyd Eisler on the “Skating With Celebrities” reality show last year – a partnership that continued when Eisler left his pregnant wife for her.

On Saturday night, Swanson was arrested for allegedly assaulting the spurned woman, Marcia O’Brien. She was subsequently released on $500 bail.

But now she’s in turn pursuing assault charges against O’Brien. Her spokesman said police took photos of bruises on Swanson’s back and other parts of her body to document her injuries.

The spokesman said Swanson and Eisler had gone to Kingston, Ontario, to visit Eisler’s children and discuss custody with O’Brien when the scuffle started.

Swanson’s film credits include “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

She and former world pairs champion Eisler had their own baby boy, Magnus Hart Swanson Eisler, in February.

Pretty fertile woman

Julia Roberts welcomed her third child, an 8 ½-pound boy named Henry Daniel Moder, on Monday in Los Angeles.

Roberts, 39, and her husband, 38-year-old cinematographer Danny Moder, also have 2-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus.

She’ll next be seen onscreen in the drama “Charlie Wilson’s War,” directed by Mike Nichols, scheduled for release later this year.

Crooner, Cryer hitched

Elsewhere on the celebrity coupling beat, a pair of weddings over the weekend:

•British rocker Rod Stewart, who’s restyled himself as a standards singer in recent years, married model Penny Lancaster in a private ceremony Saturday at a 17th-century villa on the Italian Riviera. It’s No. 3 for him at age 62.

•That same day, Jon Cryer (“Two and a Half Men”) married entertainment reporter Lisa Joyner, host of TV Guide Channel’s “InFANity,” in Cabo San Lucas. Cryer, 42, has a 6-year-old son from a previous marriage.

Six-shooter?

Eddie Murphy has taken a DNA test to determine if he’s the father of Melanie Brown’s 2-month-old daughter, says a spokeswoman for the former “Scary Spice” Spice Girl.

A rep for Murphy, who has five children by his ex-wife, declined to comment.

Smells like nicotine spirit

Rocker Courtney Love may have lost 50 pounds by eating healthfully and doing yoga, but now she’s facing a new challenge: trying to quit smoking.

“I’m going through hell trying to cut back,” the former Mrs. Kurt Cobain, whose doctor discovered pre-op nodules in her throat, writes on her Web site.

Adds the 42-year-old Love: “Each fight of the urge is a little mini war.”

The birthday bunch

Actress Gena Rowlands is 77. Actress Phylicia Rashad is 59. Singer Ann Wilson (Heart) is 57. Actress Kathleen Turner is 53. Singer-dancer-choreographer Paula Abdul is 45. Actress Robin Tunney is 35. Actor Paul Dano (“Little Miss Sunshine”) is 23.