Robin Gibb's "spectacular" recovery has taken a turn for the worse, with the singer hospitalized following intestinal surgery over the weekend.
Gibb, whose twin brother Maurice died at 53 of twisted intestine caused by a congenital defect shared by Robin, announced in February that a growth on his colon had been removed and his health was looking up.
On Wednesday, however, his publicist said the 62-year-old singer and songwriter was recovering in the hospital after intestinal surgery Sunday and had been forced to cancel a number of commitments.
Still on the schedule, at least for now, is Gibb's classical music concert debut in April. He'll lead a performance of "The Titanic Requiem," a new work composed by him and his son, RJ, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
The illness, widely reported to be cancer, has dogged the onetime Bee Gees member and required chemotherapy as recently as January, his spokesman told the BBC at the time.
"It's all simple," Gibb told BBC Radio 2 back in February. "I was diagnosed with a growth in my colon. It was removed. And I've been treated for that by a brilliant doctor, and in their own words 'the results have been spectacular.' "
Gibb had been reveling in the notion of gaining some weight.
"I love food, I love eating," he told the BBC, adding: "I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny. It's hard for me to put on weight."
Zsa Zsa Gabor's daughter on Tuesday filed a petition requesting an independent conservatorship be set up to watch out for the health and money interests of her mother.
Currently, the onetime glamour girl's affairs are tended to by her husband, Frederic Von Anhalt, who for years has been at odds with his wife's daughter, Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton.
"What Ms. Hilton is seeking here is for the court to make sure that Zsa Zsa’s best interests are not being sacrificed for the selfish interests of anyone involved in Zsa Zsa’s life," her attorney Kenneth W. Kossoff said Tuesday in a statement.
"Having the court supervise Zsa Zsa's care and finances will serve to ensure that Zsa Zsa's interests are being protected by whoever is in charge of her person and estate –- whether Ms. Hilton, von Anhalt or an independent third party appointed by the court," Kossoff said.
According to a statement released by Hilton's rep, she has been waiting for more than a year for reports pertaining to her mother's physical and financial health, hoping Van Anhalt "had Zsa Zsa’s interests at heart."
However, "having just recently learned that he took out a $700,000 loan, and that there was a notice of default recorded against the property in late February 2012 because he apparently has not been paying Zsa Zsa’s mortgage payment, it became clear to Francesca that if she did not seek to protect her mother, no one else would."
Von Anhalt recently made headlines when he threw a 95th birthday party for his ailing wife, whose health has been in decline in recent years, especially since a July 2010 fall from bed in which she broke her right hip; after a hip replacement, that injury ultimately resulted in partial amputation of her right leg.
"He's basically taken my mother away from me," Hilton told CNN last year. Von Anhalt is Gabor's ninth husband.
George Michael is healthy enough to think about going back on tour, rescheduling the Symphonica concert dates he had to cancel when he was hospitalized with pneumonia at the end of last year and adding a couple of shows for good measure.
Michael revealed in December that he'd been near death for several weeks after falling ill in November, and on Tuesday he once again expressed his gratitude.
"I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you first to the doctors and nurses who saved my life and took such great care of me and to all my fans, family and friends for their love and support," the singer said on his official website. "I'm looking forward to seeing everyone."
Michael was so thankful, as a matter of fact, that he donated 1,000 tickets to the medical staff at AKH Hospital for the Sept. 4 kickoff show -- an addition to the tour -- in Vienna, Austria.
He'll also hit dates in the Netherlands and France before returning to Britain for shows in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Sheffield, Newcastle, Cardiff and Liverpool, ending with three nights in London in October. See the tour specifics here.
Comedian Gallagher, who is recovering from a heart attack, was expected to be out of a medically induced coma by Saturday, according to his promotional manager.
The 65-year-old prop comic Gallagher was put into the coma after suffering a heart attack Wednesday that required him to have two stents replaced.
All signs are good, Christine Sherrer told the Huffington Post on Thursday afternoon, explaining that her client would be slowly awakened over the course of 24 hours or so.
The heart attack came Wednesday while Gallagher was in the green room about 20 minutes before a 9 p.m. show, after doing a meet-and-greet with fans in Lewisville, Texas, outside of Dallas.
Gallagher collapsed last year on stage after suffering a minor heart attack while smashing stuff during a show in Minnesota. The comic, whose full name is Leo Anthony Gallagher, also ran for governor of California in the 2003 recall election, finishing 16th out of 135 candidates.
The comedian Gallagher is hospitalized and "slowly recovering" after suffering a heart attack -- not his first -- just before he was to go onstage at a Texas club Wednesday night.
His promotional manager Christine Scherrer said the 65-year-old prop comic, known for smashing watermelons and whatnot on stage with the "Sledge-o-Matic," was sedated and stable in the Dallas area, telling CNN on Thursday, "We will not know the outcome until sometime tomorrow."
Before paramedics arrived, CPR was performed on Gallagher by an employee of the club, Coach Joe's Hat Tricks in Lewisville, manager Marc Cummins told the Associated Press.
The comic collapsed last year while smashing stuff during a show in Minnesota; the incident was later determined to be caused by a heart attack, Us Weekly said.
The comic, whose full name is Leo Anthony Gallagher, also ran for governor of California in the 2003 recall election, finishing 16th out of 135 candidates.
Nick Cannon shared a bit more about his health struggles at a DJ gig Wednesday, explaining that his kidney problems and more recent blood clots in his lungs stem from a "lupus type" autoimmune condition.
"The blood clot thing was probably the scariest," Mr. Mariah Carey told People, referring to his mid-February hospitalization, which followed kidney problems over the holidays. "I thought I was getting better, and then that happened, so that kind of came out of nowhere."
No one else in his family, he said, has the condition, which he described to the mag as "like a lupus type of thing."
(Lupus itself is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood and kidneys, according to the Lupus Foundation of America. Symptoms can range from mild to life-threatening.)
Cannon, who quit his daily morning radio show last month, says he's now trying to get six hours of sleep a night and is taking it easy at home.
At the end of January, the father of twins and "America's Got Talent" host posted the video below on his personal website, explaining what he'd been through during the Christmas holidays and up to that point. In mid-February, he was hospitalized again but managed to keep the situation quiet until he was back home.
Dame Judi Dench is suffering from age-related macular degeneration, yes, and it has affected her vision significantly, she said recently, but she also clarified Monday that no, she's not going blind.
Dench, 77, revealed her condition Saturday to the Daily Mirror.
"I can’t read scripts anymore because of the trouble with my eyes. And so somebody comes in and reads them to me, like telling me a story," she told the Mirror. "It's usually my daughter or my agent or a friend and actually I like that, because I sit there and imagine the story in my mind."
It's a condition her mother had before her, she said, and she has lenses and glasses to help — those things plus good old bright light.
"I do not wish for this to be overblown ..." Dench said Monday in a statement sent to Reuters. "It's something that I have learnt to cope with and adapt to — and it will not lead to blindness."
To the Mirror, the James Bond-franchise actress and Oscar winner described a particularly irritating facet of the condition, however. "The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can’t see the person I’m having dinner with," she said, after explaining to the interviewer that while she could see his outline, his face remained a mystery.
The National Institutes of Health, in its explanation of age-related macular degeneration as a disease that over time destroys sharp, clear central vision, includes pictures of how normal vision compares to the vision of someone with AMD.
Nick Cannon, whose health was a major concern for him over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, has quit his weekday morning FM radio show on doctors' orders.
"Under doctors' orders, I have been asked to put my health first and cut back on some of my professional commitments in order to allow my body to get the rest that it needs to keep up with the demands of my multi-tasking schedule," Cannon said in a statement Friday, the day he hosted his final 92.3 NOW morning show.
On Twitter, he called it "a bitter sweet morning," noting that doctors had "found blood clots in my lungs and said if I don't slow down and stop working so hard then it's a wrap!"
Cannon has had more than work to keep him busy in recent months: He and wife Mariah Carey welcomed twins last April. He was hospitalized in high-altitude Aspen, Colo., over the holidays, then moved to Los Angeles for further treatment, reportedly for kidney issues.
He had given a few details about his current situation Wednesday on the show: "It's my first day back since Friday, and not many people have known this but, uh ... I’ve been in the hospital since Friday. I was having a lot of pain in my back. ... I learned that I had blood clots in my lung ... an enlarged ventricle in the right side of my heart."
The "America's Got Talent" host -- he's slated to return to that job this summer -- said Friday that he'll continue to host his syndicated "Cannon's Countdown" weekend program.
"I guess I can't drive at 200 mph for the whole road trip, Time to put the car in cruise control," he said on Twitter, adding, "Even Super Man had to sleep!"
Demi Moore reportedly has been getting help for addiction and an eating disorder at a luxe Utah rehab since shortly after her hospitalization last month.
After being hospitalized Jan. 23, she grabbed some things and headed to get help at the Cirque Lodge in Sundance, Utah, a rehab source told E! Online.
"She's on total lockdown and only talking to a small group of people," the source said. Other celebs treated at Cirque include Lindsay Lohan, Kirsten Dunst and, possibly concurrent with Demi, Brooke Mueller. [Updated, 6:45 p.m. Jan. 6:Or not.]
The timing of her check-in is in conflict with earlier reports that she'd been visited at home last week by ex-husband Bruce Willis and estranged husband Ashton Kutcher, the latter of whom had been in Brazil when the 49-year-old actress "smoked something" and went into "convulsions," as described on a 911 call made on her behalf.
Those reports, however, said only that separate cars carrying the men had gone to Moore's home last Wednesday. Perhaps they visited the house, and not Demi?
Robin Gibb is back in good health, he said Friday, eager to start gaining some weight and preparing for his classical concert debut coming in April.
Gibb, whose twin brother Maurice died at 53 of twisted intestine caused by a congenital defect shared by Robin, set the record straight after recently battling a condition widely reported to be cancer.
"It's all simple," he told BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright on Friday (via the Daily Mail). "I was diagnosed with a growth in my colon. It was removed. And I've been treated for that by a brilliant doctor, and in their own words 'the results have been spectacular.' "
After Gibb was rushed to the hospital suffering from abdominal pain in November, the Ministry of Gossip passed along a Sunday Mirror account alleging Gibb had liver cancer. According to the Sun, the singer later issued a statement saying he was being treated for inflammation of the colon.
Only last month, his spokesman told the BBC, "Robin is responding well to treatment and we are very upbeat about his recovery. As always chemotherapy has taken its toll, but Robin feels good."
About his shockingly thin appearance, Gibb said no worries -- his appetite is great again and he's looking forward to gaining some weight.
"I love food, I love eating," he told the BBC, adding, "I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny. It's hard for me to put on weight."
The singer and prolific songwriter, who enjoyed massive worldwide fame as part of the Bee Gees with Maurice and older brother Barry Gibb, will make his classical music concert debut in April. Robin Gibb will lead a performance of "The Titanic Requiem," a new work composed by him and his son, RJ, on the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
Hear a bit of "The Titanic Requiem" as it was recorded, and see the two collaborators discussing the project, in the video below."Jive Talkin'," this ain't.
Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers reunited recently for the first time in 30 years, sitting down for the Thursday episode of Somers' "Breaking Through" Web series, revisiting their "Three's Company" time together and remembering their last conversations with John Ritter -- plus a couple other sexy somethings about their former costar.
It was a chat DeWitt ultimately pegged as "unexpected, way cool, pretty wonderful," while Somers dubbed it "a teaching moment in reconciliation and resolution."
"I do want you to know how much I learned from watching you, and I do want you to know how awed by all your 'subtext,' which I'd never heard the word," the one with the business mind (Somers) told the one with the drama training (DeWitt). "And you're the first person who told me we were doing farce, and at first I thought we were talking about farts or something but ... I really didn't know anything."
DeWitt said she never thought the producers would let Somers go after five years, and the two agreed that those in charge "could not respect the feminine contribution" -- meaning, could not see why the men and women on the show should be paid equally.
Whatever the women's "ick" may have been that kept them apart over the years, they put it aside for the three-part webisode (part two is above, part one below). Warmly remembering Ritter, who died suddenly in September 2003, they praised his comedic gifts and then got down to business, discussing his possible, ahem, liaisons on set.
"I think Jonathan and a lot of our guest stars," um, ya-know ya-know, DeWitt hinted.
"No!," said a shocked Somers. "No!"
"That's what I got told later."
"Well, John was very horny," Somers conceded. "I mean, like, the horniest guy I've ever known, but it all seemed very innocent. I guess not!"
