“The Practice” actress Marla Sokoloff and her composer/drummer husband, Alec Puro, recently had a daughter, Elliotte Anne Puro, in California. The baby girl weighed in at 7 pounds and is the first child for the couple.
“Mom, dad and baby are happy as can be and completely in love with each other,” Sokoloff, 31, told People.
In her last blog before giving birth, Marla wrote, “In the grand scheme of things, these nine months went by pretty quickly. … Yes, there were weeks that seemed endless and yes, I’m currently complaining about my feet swelling up like balloons and the general discomfort that comes with the end of pregnancy—but all in all the journey has been one that I will never forget.”
On the flip side of things, comedian Chelsea Handler recently opened up about the abortion she had at age 16, during an interview on “The Rosie Show.”
“I was so delusional,” Handler, now 36, said. “I was like, I’m ready for a baby.”
But it was her parents, Rita and Seymour, who convinced Chelsea to abort the pregnancy.
“I was trying to argue with them and they were like, ‘You don’t understand,” Handler recalled. “`You’re throwing your entire life away. You’re not having a child right now. This is not what our family’s about. You know, you’re supposed to create a life for yourself, and we want you to enjoy your life and not be raising a child. And we’re certainly not going to raise it for you.’”
Handler said she now believes it was the right decision. “I wouldn’t be a good mother,” she said. “I have no regret at all.”
Director/screenwriter Judd Apatow was honored recently by the Writers Guild of America for his body of work, with “SNL’s” Kristin Wiig presenting him with the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence. Not too shabby, Juddster.
Meanwhile, Apatow, 44, is far from resting on his laurels. He’s working on “This Is 40,” his spin-off to his 2007 hit “Knocked Up.”
“I started thinking about writing a movie about a family and their midlife crisis, and then I realized I already have that family in one of my movies and I like them. Why do I have to meet new actors? I can use these amazing actors that people seem to like and were interested in learning more about and it came out really well,” Apatow said.
Among the familiar actors in “This Is 40” will be Paul Rudd, Jason Segel and Leslie Mann, who happens to be Aptow’s wife.
“This Is 40? takes place a few years from where “Knocked Up” left off and follows the lives of Rudd and Mann as they struggle with their jobs and marriage. It’s due out in December.
In a recent interview with the Australian Daily Telgraph, acerbic funny lady Joan Rivers talked about her penchant for having plastic surgery. Joanie, now 78, claims to have had 739 plastic surgeries!
“Every weekend, I just go in and I do something new. I get a 10th one free,” Rivers joked. “It’s a little like coffee—you just keep going.”
Meanwhile, Joan’s daughter, Melissa, says she’s less than thrilled with her mom’s nutso love for cosmetic surgery. ”At one point I start to think the risk outweighs the reward, so I wanted my mom to know how I felt about it and I think I made myself fairly clear,” Melissa said.
Guess Joanie ain’t listening. Coffee, anyone?
Brit actor Daniel Radcliffe feels that his alter ego, the one and only Harry Potter, has gotten a bum rap – the shaft—from Oscar. And he’s sick of it. (And so is his Mum.)
“I don’t think the Oscars like commercial films, or kids’ films, unless they’re directed by Martin Scorsese,” kvetched Daniel, 22. “I was watching [Scorsese’s] `Hugo’ the other day and going, ‘Why is this nominated and we’re not?’ I was slightly miffed.”
Of the uppity Academy Award folks, he said, “There’s a certain amount of snobbery. It’s kind of disheartening. I never thought I’d care. But it would’ve been nice to have some recognition, just for the hours put in.”
Of course, during some of those hours, Dashing Daniel admits he was hitting the sauce. But no need to go into all that rubbish right now. Off ya go!
After pretty much bombing and stinking up the place at the Super Bowl half-time show last Sunday, international pop star Madonna reportedly will launch her new world tour in Israel.
The concert tour for Madonna’s new “MDNA” album will begin May 31 at Ramat Gan Stadium near Tel Aviv, the Jerusalem Post reported.
On two occasions in the past, Madonna has performed sold-out shows in Israel, including the last performance of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour in 2009. She has visited Israel with her children as part of her intense study of Kabbalah.
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