Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian Visit “The View”
Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian Visit “The View”
Taking a break from their Los Angeles studio, the hosts of The View have been broadcasting live from Las Vegas - filming today’s (June 25) episode at Caesars Palace on the Sin City strip.
Visiting Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and friends on the set was pop-turned-country star Jessica Simpson, along with reality star Kim Kardashian and her sisters Kourtney and Khloe.
During the show, “Simpson talked about her new album and her friendship with country legend Dolly Parton, who sings along with Simpson on one of the songs on her new country album. Simpson said she couldn’t describe Parton as singing back-up on the song, and instead said that they sang along together.”
Jessica also gabbed about her rollercoaster relationship with Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo, saying they’ve been together “seven, almost eight months” and that she’s completely smitten!
Affleck Uncovers Congo Crisis
Ben Affleck’s latest small-screen appearance is unlikely to turn viral, but he hopes it will generate just as much publicity as his Jimmy Kimmel-kissing last one.
The actor-turned-activist, who in May returned from his third trip to the Congo in the past eight months, will appear in a special documentary on tonight’s edition of Nightline to shed more of a global light on the often overlooked, yet terribly devastated, region.
“It makes sense to be skeptical about celebrity activism,” Affleck wrote in an online essay about his trip. “There is always suspicion that involvement with a cause may be doing more good for the spokesman than he or she is doing for the cause.”
Affleck, however, urges viewers to look past whatever they may think of his affiliation with the project and simply allow themselves to become aware of the nation’s plight.
“More than 4 million people have died in conflict and conflict-related causes,” the 35-year-old said on Good Morning America. “My suspicion is not as many people are aware of that as probably ought to be and if they were then they’d probably think of it differently.
“Part of these trips for me have been about a learning experience. I didn’t think I could honestly do anything until I understood.”
During his trips, Affleck met with people on all sides of the conflict, visiting camps for people displaced from their homes, hospitals, gold mines, United Nations “sensitizing” centers, which aim to reeducate particularly vicious members of the militia, and talking to aid workers, child warriors and warlords.
“I don’t think it’s an intractable problem,” he told GMA. “It’s largely ignored in some sectors…certainly in the West it’s a lower priority than other issues.”
The goal for Affleck, however, is not to simply bump Congo’s troubles to the top of America’s fix-it list but to “create a broader sense of solidarity with people in this country.”
“I do not believe that we live in boxes, separated from one another by imagined boundaries,” he wrote. “Congo is a place that deserves, at the very least, our eyes and ears.”
Nick Hogan gets prison time
On August 26th, Hulk Hogan’s son Nick was terribly injured in a car crash in Florida. Also in the crash was Nick’s friend, John Graziano, who was critically injured after the car smashed into the median, flipped over and finally crashed into a palm tree. Later that fall, the wrestling champ’s son was charged with reckless driving, having a blood alcohol level of .02 or higher and having tinted windows on his Toyota Supra.
On May 9th, after pleading “no contest,” Nick Hogan (nee Bollea) was sentenced to eight months in prison. He was also charged with five years probation and one hundred hours community service per year. In addition, Nick must attend a DUI school and is forbidden to drink alcohol for the duration of his probation. Hulk and daughter Brooke begged the judge for leniency but John’s family and girlfriend asked for punishment. His mother said, “I’m not seeking revenge. Only justice.” John was in a coma after the accident and will probably need lifelong care.
What do you think? Does the punishment fit the crime?
Nick Hogan Gives Up Solitaire
Nick Hogan’s got himself some company.
Two days after a judge denied his request to be transferred out of solitary confinement, Hulk Hogan’s son, who’s serving time for a DUI crash that seriously injured his friend, was moved into a communal cell after a routine assessment of the ever-in-flux jail population, according to a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Hogan, whose real last name is Bollea, was cooling his heels in an isolated maximum-security cell because, at 17 years of age, he was considered too young to live among the jail’s general population.
Attorney Kevin Hayslett argued in a motion filed Friday that his client was undergoing “cruel and unusual punishment” that didn’t fit the crime by being housed in those conditions. He requested Hogan either be granted house arrest until his 18th birthday or at least moved out of the concrete block he’d been calling home to be with other nonviolent inmates.
A judge refused a transfer but, according to the jail rep, a spot for Hogan opened up following a review of current housing assignments. The teen is now sharing space with three other juvenile offenders.
Hogan, who will turn 18 on July 27, was sentenced in an adult court to eight months behind bars after pleading no contest to reckless driving involving serious bodily injury.