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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Jon&Kate production on hold until August
TLC is stopping production of Jon & Kate Plus 8, following Monday night’s televised announcement of the couple’s impending divorce. The network said next week’s episode will be a “clip package” with some “new footage” — the next all-new episode will air Aug. 3. The Los Angeles Times reported that the decision was the network’s — not the family’s.
This year, six episodes of the 40-episode season have aired. Both Kate and Jon said Monday night that they would continue the show: Kate even gamely declared, “The show must go on!”
Jon & Kate Plus 8 is TLC’s highest-rated show. Its May premiere drew in 9.8-million viewers, a record for the network.
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Sarah Jessica, Broderick welcome twins
“The View” and Barbara Walters made it official — and it’s cheaper than sending out birth announcements — Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick’s twins have been born.
According to WTRF in Ohio, which first reported the story, the baby girls were born the Tuesday morning, July 23; Broderick and Parker are at the East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry with the surrogate mother, the station reports.
Broderick is 47, and Parker is 44. They announced they were expecting twins via surrogate back in April.
According to Usmagazine.com, Broderick joked to David Letterman he was “nervous even thinking about” parenting twins.
“I’m ready. You know, I’ve asked people, ‘What’s it like to have twins?’ One father said, ‘I don’t recommend it,’” quipped Broderick — currently starring in The Philanthropist on Broadway. “But the rest have been very positive.”
The twin girls are the second and third children for the couple, who wed in 1997, and who are parents to James Wilkie Broderick, 6.
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Jessica Simpson gets 2nd reality show
Jessica Simpson is searching for beauty.
As Us Weekly reports, Simpson will headline the “The Price of Beauty,” which will follow her travels around the world in search of what people find beautiful and why. The show will air on VH1.
Asked to do a show about true beauty, Simpson — who endured much body bullying in January for performing in a pair of unflattering high-waisted jeans — said she was “immediately intrigued.” “I have always believed that beauty comes from within and confidence will always make a woman beautiful, but I know how much pressure some women put on themselves to look perfect,” she said in a statement Monday.
Shooting begins in mid-July, with the show airing sometime next year.
Simpson, 28, used to star in MTV’s “Newlyweds” with her ex, Nick Lachey.
