Dr. Oz helps people in crash on highway
Emergency responders say Dr. Mehmet Oz helped them out by treating two people injured in a weekend car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.
The celebrity doctor saw the single-car crash happen Saturday night near Exit 6 along the turnpike. Officials say he stopped his vehicle and ran to help.
When a Westampton Township emergency services crew arrived, they were surprised to find Oz already providing aid. They say he helped stabilize one person’s spine and provided them with details about both victims’ injuries and conditions upon their arrival.
“He was very helpful and very thorough, a lot of help to our crew,” Westampton Chief Jason Carty said Tuesday. “It obviously was a surprise for them to get on scene and see a TV celebrity helping out the injured people.”
Carty said the two people hurt in the crash were taken to a hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.
Home sale is quest for simpler life
Paula Deen has put her Savannah, Georgia, mansion on the market with an asking price of $12.5 million.
The celebrity cook’s 5.5-acre estate overlooking the Wilmington River includes a main house of 14,500 square feet and two guest cottages. The house has indoor and outdoor kitchens and a poolside movie theater. There is also a barn on the property that functions as an eight-car garage and a chicken coop.
Spokesman Jaret Keller said Tuesday that new ventures have kept Deen so busy that she wants “an easier and simpler life” at home on the Georgia coast. After parting ways with the Food Network in 2013, Deen launched her own online subscription network last year. She just opened a restaurant that seats nearly 300 diners in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
TV food star has breast cancer
Food Network television star Sandra Lee announced Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will soon undergo a double mastectomy.
The popular lifestyle personality and live-in girlfriend of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo divulged the news on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Cuomo said Tuesday he planned to take time off to support Lee after her surgery.
The 48-year-old Lee said her doctor called her late last month just after she finished a photo shoot for People magazine, telling her she had cancer. She had a cancerous lump removed and will have more extensive surgery later this week.
Lee’s cancer was found after a routine mammogram. She said she decided to talk about her illness to encourage other women to get screened.
The birthday bunch
Actor Harvey Keitel is 76. Singer Stevie Wonder is 65. Actor-comedian Stephen Colbert is 51. Singer Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 49. Actress-writer-director Lena Dunham is 29. Actor Robert Pattinson is 29.