FLOYD MAYWEATHER won by unanimous decision, in what turned out to be a pretty boring fight. Even MIKE TYSON Tweeted that he was underwhelmed. Still, the fight brought in $400 million in pay-per-view revenues.
KATE MIDDLETON gave birth to a royal baby girl on Saturday. She’s fourth in line for the British throne, behind her grandfather PRINCE CHARLES, her father PRINCE WILLIAM, and her 21-month-old brother Prince George.
TIGER WOODS and LINDSEY VONN have broken up after almost three years together. They both issued statements blaming their “hectic lives” for keeping them apart.
89-year-old B.B. KING was briefly hospitalized last week, but he’s since been released. On Friday, a message posted on his website said, quote, “I’m in home hospice care at my residence in Las Vegas.” His daughter claims he suffered a mild heart attack. And she’s also accusing B.B.’s longtime manager of elder abuse and stealing tens of millions of dollars from him.
BRUCE JENNER has been sued for the fatal car crash he was involved in back in February. The wrongful death suit claims he was, quote, “negligent, careless and reckless.” Also, politician RICK SANTORUM is cool with Bruce being a woman now. He says, quote, “My responsibility as a human being is to love and accept everybody. Not to criticize people for who they are.”
The Muscular Dystrophy Association will no longer do its annual Labor Day Telethon that comedian JERRY LEWIS hosted from 1956 to 2010. It’s been downsized in recent years, but has still made millions of dollars. Despite that, they want to focus on digital fundraising efforts like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
CONAN O’BRIEN wrote a really cool tribute to DAVID LETTERMAN for “Entertainment Weekly”. And it isn’t just a Twitter-sized tip of the cap, it’s over 1,000 words long. It includes this line: Quote, “Not one single writer / performer in the last 35 years has had Dave’s seismic impact on comedy . . . it’s tempting now to take Dave for granted. Do not. [He] was a true revolution.”
DUSTIN LYNCH spends way too much time doing his own laundry . . . because he doesn’t want anyone else touching it. He says, quote, “All my life at home consists of is laundry. Off the road, I do laundry for three days straight and then I get back on the road.”
RANDY HOUSER is engaged to a woman he’s only been dating a few months. Her name is Tatiana Starzynski, and she’s the sister-in-law of Dallas Davidson who cowrote Randy’s hit “Runnin’ Outta Moonlight”. No word yet on a wedding date.
LEANN RIMES set off an airplane fire alarm when she sprayed her hair with a dry shampoo in the bathroom. She Tweeted about it Friday, writing, “Leave it up to me to set off the fire alarm in the airplane bathroom with dry shampoo.”
It sounds as though Barbra Streisand was understandably pretty mortified when her beloved dog, a Coton de Tulear named Samantha, bit a flight attendant when the singer was headed to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday aboard billionaire Ron Perelman’s private jet. The attendant required stitches.
MIRANDA LAMBERT is bringing an all-female lineup on this fall’s edition of her Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars tour. Openers include RaeLynn, Clare Dunn, Courtney Cole, and Ashley Monroe. Details are still being worked out but you can grab updates at MirandaLambert.com.
SARA EVANS went with “sexy” in her donation to the Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs, California. The shorts and black top she wore on the cover of her “Slow Me Down“ album are now part of their memorabilia collection.
KELLIE PICKLER performed the TAMMY WYNETTE classic “Stand By Your Man” during her recent appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.
Randy Travis is 56
