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Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred trouble when she said gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, got the dreaded words from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: “You’re fired.”
Trump and pageant leaders said Prejean was sacked because she hadn’t held up her end of the pageant agreement she signed.
“This was a decision based solely on contract violations, including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization,” the California pageant’s executive director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement.
Pageant officials said Prejean would be replaced by the state’s runner-up, Tami Farrell, 24.
David Letterman, 62, and CBS are close to a deal that would keep the comic on the “Late Show” through the spring of 2012. That represents a two-year extension of Letterman’s current deal, expiring next year.
CBS will also pay Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, a smaller licensing fee. It’s not clear what that would mean for his paycheck, which has been reported to be $30 million to $35 million.
Britney Spears’ “Circus” tour is getting an encore. Holly Shakoor, Spears’ publicist, confirms that the show will stop in several more U.S. cities, including Auburn Hills, Mich., on Sept. 8 and Chicago on Sept. 9.
Tickets (prices not listed yet) go on sale June 19.
Queen Latifah has revealed a traumatic chapter of her personal life: The singer-actress was sexually abused as a child.
In Essence magazine, Latifah says the abuse occurred over a period of time at the hands of a teen charged with watching her.
Latifah, 39, says she never told anyone about the abuse. Instead, she “buried” the secret and “kept people at an arm’s distance.” She has since told her parents and attended therapy.
Comedy Central is bringing the animated comedy “Futurama” back from cancellation for 26 new half-hour episodes.
The satiric sci-fi series, set in “New New York City” in the third millennium, is expected to air on Comedy Central beginning in mid-2010.
C’mon, admit it: Dads say the corniest things. We want readers to share some of the corny sayings, or maybe not-so-corny sayings, their fathers would repeat. Today is the last day to send sayings to Terri Richardson, The Journal Gazette, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802, or e-mail trich@jg.net. Please include your name, city of residence and phone number.
Among celebrity birthdays today: Actor Gene Wilder is 76. Actor Hugh Laurie (“House”) is 50. Actor Joshua Jackson (“Fringe”) is 31. Actor Shia LaBeouf (“Transformers”) is 23.
