People: They’re both taking it in stride
Race-car driver Helio Castroneves may have won the Season Five “Dancing With the Stars” title, but runners-up Melanie Brown and Marie Osmond aren’t dragging their heels.
“I feel like I’ve accomplished a huge thing in my life – juggling motherhood, Spice Girls concert rehearsals and this,” said Brown, aka Scary Spice, who gave birth in April to a daughter by Eddie Murphy.
“My new goal now is kicking off a great Spice Girls concert tour,” she said of the reunion tour that starts Sunday.
“I want Maks (dance partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy) at every one. He’s coming to Vegas and New York and hopefully others.”
At Tuesday’s finale, seven of Osmond’s eight children rushed to hug her on stage after her farewell dance with partner Jonathan Roberts.
“Donny took it the worst,” Roberts said, referring to Osmond’s famous brother.
Osmond, who begins her Christmas tour today in Minneapolis, said Roberts will be on hand for a few of her shows.
“I might come up on stage and give her a little twirl,” he acknowledged.
Said Osmond: “It’s Jonny and Marie now.”
Was he stepping out on her?
Less than a full day after Castroneves was declared the “Dancing” winner, his fiancee, Miami-based business executive Aliette Vazquez, announced Wednesday that she had called off their engagement.
As for his reputed romance with dance partner Julianne Hough, Vazquez’s publicist said: “I’m not gonna talk about the rumors. I mean, they’re clearly out there.”
Ushering in a new life
Singer Usher and his wife, Tameka Foster, are the proud new parents of a baby boy.
It’s the first child for the couple, who had called off their originally scheduled July wedding amid reports Foster was having problems with her pregnancy.
Living on a 50 Cent budget
Rapper 50 Cent, who’s selling his 48,000-square-foot Connecticut mansion that used to belong to boxer Mike Tyson, will show off the property tonight on a special edition of MTV’s “Cribs” (10:30 p.m., cable channel 63 in Spokane, 43 in Coeur d’Alene).
“There’s a lot of good living going on, and it ain’t based (on) the actual money that’s being spent, it’s the choices that people make,” Fiddy says. “You don’t have to buy a $50 million home to build a lifestyle that’s equivalent.”
Another smash hit?
Over objections from her lawyers, a Los Angeles judge has ruled he will allow the videotaping of Lindsay Lohan‘s deposition in a lawsuit over a 2005 car crash.
Fearing a leak, her attorney argued: “If a single picture of Ms. Lohan can sell for thousands of dollars, a videotape of the deposition will undoubtedly sell for tens of thousands of dollars, or more.”
The birthday bunch
Blues musician John Mayall is 74. Actress Diane Ladd is 64. Comedian Garry Shandling is 58. Director Joel Coen is 53. Actor-comedian Howie Mandel is 52. Actress Kim Delaney is 46. Actor Tom Sizemore is 46. Actor Don Cheadle is 43. Actress Gena Lee Nolin is 36. Actress Anna Faris is 31. Rapper The Game is 28. Actor Lucas Black is 25.