Sinead O'Connor reconciles with Barry Herridge, calls off divorce

Sinéad O'Connor's love life has another chapter. Actually this is more like an extended cut of the previous chapter. She announced on Twitter that she's back with her husband of less than a month.

The Irish singer, who married Dublin substance-abuse counselor Barry Herridge in Las Vegas in early December, then announced their separation a couple of weeks later, has called off the divorce proceedings.

As she put it late Tuesday, "yay!!! me husband is a big hairy cave man an came to claim me with his club : ) and now im in cave-land.. yay!!"

When one fan, who obviously doesn't speak cave man, tweeted to ask for confirmation that the singer now wasn't getting divorced, O'Connor responded, "Yup that's wot it means. An I can add to my lingerie collection. Size uk 12 btw for anyone wanting to send any. 36b. : )"

Previously, O'Connor had written a long post on her website announcing the breakup of the relationship due to people in her husband's life urging him away from her and to a "wild ride" in Las Vegas on their Dec. 8 wedding night, when self-described non-drinker O'Connor went looking for weed to smoke and ended up with a handful of crack instead.

Never a dull moment in the O'Connor household.

The good news for her Southern California fans is that they will have ample opportunity to congratulate her in person: The newly reconciled Mrs. H will be headed to L.A. on Thursday for a performance on Friday, and she'll return in February for a pair of shows at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to celebrate the release of her new album, "How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?"

O'Connor says she's slowing things down with husband No. 4 and that they plan to act like boyfriend and girlfriend (or cave man and cave woman) for a while. Either way, this isn't likely to be the last of the O'Connor love drama in 2012.

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Sinead O'Connor explains 'wild ride' that scared 4th husband away

Sinead O'Connor has revealed a bit more about the wild Las Vegas drug hunt that contributed to the end of her 16-day marriage to substance-abuse counselor Barry Herridge.

The Irish singer on Monday announced the end of the relationship in a blog post that referred to "a wild ride" she took her husband on just hours after their marriage to find weed "for me wedding night as I don't drink." O'Connor explained, "My husband was enormously wounded and very badly effected by that experience."

So what exactly happened there?

O'Connor elaborated to the British tabloid the Sun: "We ended up in a cab in some place that was quite dangerous.... I wasn't scared — but he's a drugs counselor. What was I thinking?"

What was she thinking indeed. But the story got even better.

"Then I was handed a load of crack," O'Connor said. "Barry was very frightened — that kind of messed everything up a bit really."

Loads of crack on one's wedding night generally tends to complicate matters for anyone. Who can blame Herridge — who makes his living back in Dublin telling others to steer away from drugs — from wanting to run in the other direction?

O'Connor explained her feelings about the relationship in even more dramatic terms: "It felt like I was living in a coffin. It was going to be a coffin for both of us and I saw him crushed."

But don't worry: This whole episode has not gone without its lessons learned. O'Connor says she's not planning to get married ever again. She's not even planning to date anymore.

But will she ever announce a public search for sex on her blog again? Anything's possible.

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Soulja Boy, out on bail after arrest, tells fans he's innocent

Soulja Boy, real name DeAndre Cortez Way, was out on bail Wednesday after appearing in a Georgia court Tuesday afternoon on drug and weapons charges.

"Aye can I have a real ... moment? my fans was DEEP ... OUTSIDE THAT JAIL MAN IM SORRY!!! thats love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," the 21-year-old hip-hop performers said on Twitter late Tuesday.

He'd apologized earlier for being unavailable to promote his movie's DVD release while under arrest. "I missed 10 interviews today for my new movie!," he tweeted. "to those companies i'm sorry! you can see I had a lil situation. the show must go on." Whether the "sorry" in the tweet note to the fans was any kind of apology is the eye of the beholder.

Soulja Boy and four other men were arrested in early Tuesday in Temple, Ga., on the interstate near the Alabama border, after a search of the vehicle they were in turned up three guns, more than 5 ounces of marijuana and less than $50,000 in cash, police said.

During a routine traffic stop for a broken tag light, officers noticed "a pungent smell" when the windows of the Cadillac Escalade were rolled down, Police Chief Tim Shaw said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Some of the items found during the search were in a Louis Vuitton briefcase believed to belong to Way, law-enforcement sources told TMZ. Because there were discrepancies in the men's stories, Shaw told a local news team, all five were charged with felony possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, each of which carries a penalty of one to 10 years. Georgia police consider more than an ounce of weed to be intended for distribution.

"I'm innocent man. I love you all. I just want you'll to know I'm innocent," Soulja Boy said to fans outside Free at Last Bail Bonds on Tuesday afternoon, CBS Atlanta reported. Bodyguards then rushed him to a waiting car, the station said.

Soulja Boy is out on $10,000 bond. Requests to his reps for comment on Tuesday were not returned.

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Willie Nelson's weed-related plea deal rejected by a Texas judge

So, about Willie Nelson and that plea agreement he thought he had in Texas: A judge on Wednesday isn't playing ball, saying the country singer shouldn't get what she sees as special treatment regarding his marijuana-related arrest in El Paso last November.

Talk about bumming that high. Prosecutors had agreed June 8 to reduce charges against Nelson, 78, and allow him to stay out of jail if he paid a $500 fine and $280 in court costs, with the judge expected to clear his record if he stayed out of trouble for 30 days. The singer -- who was arrested after officers at a checkpoint smelled pot smoke on his tour bus and reported finding six ounces of weed onboard -- would plead no contest to possession of drug paraphernalia.

"All he has to do is sign the papers and get me a cashier's check for the money," prosecutor C.R. Bramblett said at the time.

Not so fast, Mr. Prosecutor. Hudspeth County Judge Becky Dean-Walker said Wednesday that she wouldn't sign off on Bramblett's deal. This is the same judge whom Bramblett suggested in March had ordered Nelson to sing to "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" in court -- and the very same judge who later described Bramblett's suggestion as a joke that got out of hand.

Regarding Nelson's deal, the prosecutor "doesn't do that for anybody else," Dean-Walker told the Associated Press, adding that Nelson should be charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession, which carries up to a year in jail.

In April, "Gossip Girl" actor Chace Crawford opted for a pretrial diversion program in the wake of a marijuana-related arrest in Plano, Texas, the previous summer. Crawford, who reportedly had a joint in his car, will see his record cleared in exchange for doing 24 hours of community service, reporting monthly to a probation officer and obeying all laws for a year.

Bramblett did not return a call from the Associated Press on Wednesday. Nelson may now have to go to trial.

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Russell Brand deported from Japan, wife Katy Perry tweets

Actor Russell Brand was deported from Japan on Sunday thanks to offenses from more than a decade ago, according to wife Katy Perry.

The "Arthur" star visited the tsunami-ravaged country to see Perry on her "California Dreams" tour, which has stops in Nagoya, Tokyo and Osa, but Brand was ousted soon after his arrival.

"So...my husband just got deported from Japan. I am so. sad. I brought him all this way to show him my favorite place," Perry tweeted. "It was for priors from over 10 years ago! ...But of COURSE I [love] my Japanese fans & the show #MUSTGOON no matter the daily aftershocks or husband kidnappings!"

Welcome, to the drug-related deported celebrities club, Russell. Paris Hilton feels your pain.

Brand, an admitted sex and drug addict, cleaned up his act before marrying Perry last October, but has a history of priors in England. He was also arrested in 2010 on suspicion of attacking a paparazzo at the Los Angeles International Airport. Yet Brand seemed to take his most recent predicament in stride.

"Planning escape from Japanese custody. It's bloody hard to dig a tunnel with a chopstick," he offered.

Brand's previous infractions include 11 separate occasions in connection with drug offenses and public indecency, according to RadarOnline. He's openly acknowledged the arrests before, but Tokyo immigration officials did not comment on the incident because of privacy issues, reports said.

"Stockholm syndrome kicking in. Just asked my guard out for (vegetarian) sushi. He giggled," Brand added. "Alcatraz! Shawshank Redemption! And now this! Ah, sweet blue bird of freedom!" he tweeted once the incident was over.

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Barry Bonds found guilty of obstruction of justice; mistrial declared on three other counts

Home run king Barry Bonds has been found guilty of obstruction of justice for impeding a grand jury from moving forward with an investigation of performance-enhancing drugs, a federal jury decided Wednesday.

The three-week trial of the former San Francisco Giant followed the 2003 grand jury investigation into illegal distribution of steroids. He had denied under oath that he knowingly used steroids or human growth hormones and said that he was never injected with the drugs by personal trainer Greg Anderson, L.A. Now reported.

A San Francisco jury of eight women and four men, which has been deliberating since Friday, heard testimony from Anderson, Bonds' girlfriend of nine years Kimberly Bell, his former childhood friend and estranged business partner Steve Hoskins and his younger sister Kathy Hoskins.

The judge declared a mistrial on the three other felony counts of making false statements to a grand jury. Each count carried a possible maximum sentence of 10 years. However, federal sentencing guidelines recommend 15 to 21 months in prison for a conviction, according to L.A. Now.

The conviction could delay the former Giant's induction into the baseball Hall of Fame.

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Charlie Sheen: Are we witnessing the crash in 'Sheen's Korner'?

Charlie Sheen has his "Sheen's Korner" webcast in heavy production on UStream, and the results ain't pretty. Actually, things got downright disturbing with the Monday night installment.

Looking gaunt and generally creepy, the actor who was fired from "Two and a Half Men" earlier in the day made only shreds of sense during the brief webcast.

For example: "If you own the home in which you own the trash can, you should never have to empty it ever, ever, ever again."

Recycling recent catch phrases ("Winning!" "Duh!") and acting out the title of his imagined autobiography ("Apocalypse Me: The Jaws of Life -- Everybody Wins!"), Sheen suggested he get paid product-placement sponsorship money, tore at his hair and moved in and out of frame.

If anyone was going to find a way to sink further after wielding a machete and drinking "Tiger Blood" on the Live Nation rooftop in Beverly Hills on Monday, after proclaiming to paparrazzi that he was "free at last," we suppose it was going to be Sheen (see the video below). Nice move from a guy accused of threatening his wife with a knife -- but who are we to judge, right?

There's really no good way to accurately describe what went down on UStream; if you can handle the profanity and apparent insanity, see the video here.

Meanwhile, Fox's "House M.D." got in on the Sheen action Monday night with a scene riffing off "Two and a Half Men," featuring Hugh Laurie in one of those "ugly shirts" and taking on Charlie's bad-boy persona while encouraging lawbreaking and decadence from his girlfriend's young daughter.

Miley Cyrus -- as Justin Bieber -- says salvia is LEGAL on SNL's 'The Miley Cyrus Show'

Miley Cyrus let herself be spoofed on "Saturday Night Live" this past weekend on the recurring "The Miley Cyrus Show" sketch -- but she posed as Justin Bieber while doing it.

Cyrus, who hosted the variety show Saturday by singing her monologue and pretending to be Lindsay Lohan, let the writers poke fun at her in stride as they took on her semi-nude Annie Leibovitz photos, Disney grooming roots and that bong-smoking scandal.

"She was up for anything," cast member Kristen Wiig told MTV News. "That's always, to me, what makes a host fun to have around. They'll make fun of themselves or how the media perceives them. She was up for anything, which was so great."

But Lohan didn't seem to think so. The embattled actress even wrote a letter to "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels because she was upset the show allowed Cyrus to tease her. (What a poor sport. Can't one child star make fun of another?)

The highlight, however, was Cyrus dressed up as an eye-shadow-wearing Bieber on "The Miley Cyrus Show" segment opposite Vanessa Bayer.

"It's a Mexican standoff if the Mexicans were tiny, talented geniuses," Jason Sudeikis said in character as always-doting daddy Billy Ray Cyrus.

Bayer, an "SNL" newbie, all-too-convincingly mimicked Cyrus' toothy smile and loud, nasal voice to blood-curdling annoyance levels. And Cyrus effectively parodied Bieber's hair flips, crotch grabs and ultra-laid-back interview style.

Here's some of what they did (CAPS added for blood-curdling emphasis):

Fake Miley: WAIT A MINUTE, JUSTIN BIEBER, DID YOU CUT YOUR HAIR?

Real Miley as the Biebs: Yeah, you know, it's an image change. I also do the middle finger now.

Fake Miley: SO YOU'RE GROWING UP. LIKE ME ... DOING SALVIA! DID YOU KNOW I SMOKED SALVIA?

Real Miley as the Biebs: You know, there's no reason why you wouldn't. Because it's TOTALLY LEGAL, YO!

Point made, Miley. Point made.

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Charlie Sheen gives advice: Stay off the crack, unless you can manage it socially

Charlie Sheen had some words of advice Monday: "Don't do crack, drink chocolate milk."

"Don't do crack" was a recurring theme in his nearly half-hour sports-talk radio interview with "The Dan Patrick Show," during which Sheen described the current "Two and a Half Men" hiatus as "forced" and declared himself "peeing clean" and ready to work.

In good spirits after noting that his voice sounded "like Demi Moore in her 80s, what's up with that?" Sheen cracked wise through most of the interview.

"If I'm not a 'Got Milk?' campaign right now -- stay away from the crack, drink chocolate milk," he said, invoking the beverage he was quaffing when he gave a pep talk to the UCLA baseball team Thursday after hitting a few balls with them in batting practice.

"People kind of know that I've had some problems lately," he said, so with little time to prepare his message to the guys, "... I said, stay away from the crack.

"Which I think is pretty good advice, unless you can manage it socially, Dan. If you can manage it socially, then go for it. But not a lot of people can."

Sheen admitted his own attempts to be a social crack user "kind of blew up in my face. Like an exploding crack pipe, Dan."

The actor reportedly has an addiction team assembled to work with him at home.

Patrick had to ask: How long has Sheen been sober?

"I've been off -- well, I don't use 'sober' anymore, I'm not in AA, I don't believe in it. ... It's hard to say, 'cause then you got people arguing the disease model, and the alcoholic model -- these guys, sober 20 years, [who say] 'I'm an alcoholic.' 'Bro, you haven't had a drink in two decades. What are you talking about?' "

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Miley Cyrus has signed up to host "Saturday Night Live," and the Ministry wants to know: Will the "SNL" writers be free to write bong jokes? Or is that, like, pretty uncool?

People didn't mention whether the March 5 monologue would mention salvia but did confirm that there will be a separate musical guest who is not Miley Cyrus — possibly freeing her up to also make an appearance on "SNL's" "The Miley Cyrus Show," a sketch that mocks, well, Miley Cyrus.

The whole salvia-bong thing back in December, though legal and not radically unusual, was a mistake, she told Marie Claire recently. "I'm disappointed in myself for disappointing my fans," Cyrus said, noting that in contrast to many others her age who might consider salvia smoking no big deal, she's a role model. 

"So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for."

What she stands for, the Ministry has divined, includes no vampires, no Twitter, no more "Hannah Montana," no problem dating a costar, no hassle from your parents (at least most of the time), no underpants, no more good girl and no bra when meeting the queen — though, oddly, yes to cadmium and yes to international beer — all positions clearly at odds with bong smoking.

Miley fans who can't yet stay up late enough to watch "SNL" can see their idol sing with Justin Bieber at Madison Square Garden in "Never Say Never," the just-opened 3-D movie of his life.

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