Buzz Briefs: Amy Winehouse, Kanye West
Amy Winehouse Faints, Taken To Hospital
A spokesman for Amy Winehouse says the 24-year-old singer fainted Monday afternoon at her north London home. Spokesman Chris Goodman says her manager's assistant was there and caught her as she fell.
Goodman says Winehouse's father, Mitch, took her to a hospital as a precaution.
Goodman says Winehouse is undergoing tests and may be kept in overnight.
Winehouse's career is flourishing, despite wild nights, missed concerts and stints in drug rehab. The Sunday Times newspaper's annual Rich List has estimated her wealth at $20 million.
Country Star Sara Evans Gets A Touchdown
Country star Sara Evans has married former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker.
Lori Genes, the singer's publicist at Sony BMG Nashville, told The Associated Press on Monday the two married, but she didn't provide details of the wedding.
People magazine reports the outdoor ceremony took place on a farm in Franklin, Tenn., on Saturday.
Delayed Kanye West Gig Angers Bonnaroo Crowd
Photos: Celebrity Couples
West had been scheduled to take the main stage at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival at 2:45 a.m. Sunday morning. While the sleepy thousands in the audience waited, a message on the jumbotrons told them West's show would be delayed until 3:15 a.m., and when that didn't happen, that he would start at 3:30. West didn't hit the stage until 4:25 a.m.
The delay was caused by problems setting up West's elaborate stage set, which included an interplanetary landscape of a wavy black platform with a slanted floor in the middle and a video screen above. West performed a spectacular galactic-themed concert complete with interaction with his spaceship, a disembodied female voice named Jane (a kind of sexier HAL).
Ken Weinstein, a spokesman for the annual festival held on a 700-acre site south of Nashville, said the delay was simply a matter of unloading the Pearl Jam stage (the band went an hour past its scheduled end time, playing until about 1:15 a.m.) and loading the West stage.
A spokesperson for West didn't immediately return a request for comment.
Heidi Klum: Normal Mom
Supermodel and TV host Heidi Klum says that her private life is very different from her glitzy world on the runway and in front of the cameras.
"It's not like I'm this glamorous diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home," she tells Redbook magazine in their July issue. "When we're at home, we're cooking and doing things with the kids, driving them to school. We do the things that everyone has to do."
Klum, 35, says that what she loves most about her pop star husband Seal is that he's a big kid at heart.
"He's 45 years old and he does silly things with me. When we go to Disneyland, we have our faces painted every time," she says.
Simply Red Frontman Turns To The Blues
In a good way.
Hucknall is out with "Red Sings Blue," a solo tribute to soulful 1950s bluesman Bobby "Blue" Bland But that, says Hucknall, is just the beginning.
As has been rumored, Hucknall said the band will retire the name Simply Red after a tour next year. But the group won't break up. Instead, it will call itself Hucknall and change musical styles to the kind of sound he says Bland inspired in him all those years ago.
"I don't feel I could do that under the name Simply Red," he said.
Although he said he didn't know much about Simply Red until Hucknall nervously approached him with his finished effort, Bland, 78, said his son was already a fan.
"I'm a fan now too," Bland said. "It's a great honor for him to single me out like this."
June 13, 2008
Prince Turns 50 & Releases First Book
The legendary Prince is turning 50 and he's doing it in style.
In addition to aging gracefully the icon has become more literary.
Prince will release his first book, "21 Nights," which is inspired by his 21 sizzling consecutive performances in London's O2 Center during the summer of 2007.
The book will feature never-before-published pictures by acclaimed photographer Randee St. Nicholas, poetry by Prince and a CD, "Indigo Nights," of live after-show sessions.
A private party and surprise concert at his palatial home in the hills above Los Angeles was held in honor of the book release.
Photos: Celebrity Circuit
Celebrity guests included Eddie Murphy, Babyface and Diddy.