People: But is she a TrimSpa baby?
When Larry Birkhead looks at his 9-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, he sees her mother, Anna Nicole Smith.
“She has long legs and chubby little toes exactly like Anna’s; it’s like a mirror image,” Birkhead tells OK! magazine. “It’s really incredible.
“And I think her lips are her mom’s lips; especially when she pouts. … She also gets what she wants exactly like her mom always did as soon as she’d pout.”
Smith died in Florida in February at age 39. The former Playboy Playmate gave birth to Dannielynn in September, a few days before the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel.
Birkhead has hired a nanny to help him take care of Dannielynn.
“She’s just there to assist me, not to take over any parenting,” he says. “I’m really hands-on, like too hands-on – with my hand on the baby, a hand on the cell phone, a hand on the diaper.”
He’s also getting help from Howard K. Stern, Smith’s lawyer and companion, who initially claimed to be the father. Tests confirmed it was Birkhead instead.
“He’s been really supportive, and we’re civil for the sake of Dannielynn,” Birkhead says.
Both men were in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday as a commissioner admitted Smith’s will to probate and ordered that Birkhead would be guardian of the estate while Stern serves as executor of the will, which left the entirety of her estimated $710,000 in assets to her now-deceased son.
Dannielynn also could inherit millions from the estate of Smith’s late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.
Wife imitates art
Kelly Rowan, who played a wealthy wife on the Fox prime-time soap “The O.C.,” is engaged to Canadian billionaire David Thomson.
Rowan, 41, and Thomson, a media mogul based in Toronto, plan to marry this year.
Nicole’s new wait problem
Nicole Richie has won a delay in her driving under the influence case until July 11.
Richie told talk host David Letterman earlier this month that she’s worried about landing in jail, like gal pal Paris Hilton did, but that she’ll “take responsibility for what I’ve done.”
She had a prior DUI conviction in 2003, and under California law could face up to a year behind bars if convicted again.
Completely cooked up?
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay allegedly faked scenes for a new reality TV show where he makes over failing restaurants in a week.
A lawsuit by Martin R. Hyde, former general manager at Dillons in Manhattan, says Ramsay falsely claimed meat was spoiled, used a defective chair to imply that the furniture was shoddy and hired actors to pose as customers to make the restaurant look busy at week’s end.
Hyde is seeking millions of dollars in damages and a court order to stop “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” from airing.
Tommy Lee goes to court
Motley Crue is suing one of its managers for more than $20 million, claiming he pushed drummer Tommy Lee into doing two reality shows that took him away from the band and forced the cancellation of dozens of concerts.
The suit says Carl Stubner and the Sanctuary Group got Lee involved in “bad career moves” including reality show flops “Tommy Lee Goes to College” and “Rock Star: Supernova.”
The birthday bunch
Actress Jane Russell is 86. Actor Bernie Kopell (“The Love Boat”) is 74. Actor Ron Ely (“Tarzan”) is 69. Actress Mariette Hartley is 67. Musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 63. Actress Meredith Baxter (“Family Ties”) is 60. Actor Michael Gross (“Family Ties”) is 60. Country singer Kathy Mattea is 48. Actress Juliette Lewis is 34.