Sideshow: PETA pitches to - Vick
The p.r. pixies are sure sprinkling fairy dust on Michael Vick. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, in prison for funding an illegal dog-fighting ring, is in talks to do public service ads for PETA upon his release this month.
The p.r. pixies are sure sprinkling fairy dust on
Michael Vick
. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, in prison for funding an illegal dog-fighting ring, is in talks to do public service ads for PETA upon his release this month.
"We want him to discourage people from . . . dog-fighting," says PETA director of youth outreach Dan Shannon, adding that Vick is uniquely qualified: "He can say, 'Look, I did it, I was wrong, and it ruined my career.' "
McGillis: Done with guys
Kelly McGillis
, 51, the soft-spoken '80s sex symbol who competed with Iceman (
Val Kilmer
) and Goose (
Anthony Edwards
) for
Tom Cruise
's passion in
Top Gun
, is giving up dudes.
Asked on the Web show Girl Rock! whom she wants to date, the two-time divorcee said, "definitely a woman." Kelly said coming out as a lesbian has been "an ongoing process from the time I was probably 12. I had a lot of things happen that convinced me that God was punishing me because I was gay."
The love report
This swinish swine flu has forced
Heidi Klum
and
Seal
to cancel their annual pilgrimage to renew their vows in Mexico, where they were married on May 10, 2005.
Mariah "Mimi" Carey and hubby Nick Cannon, who is 10 years her junior, celebrated their one-year anniversary Thursday with a Vegas party with 50 friends.
Love lost
Kelis
may be expecting her first child with hubby
Nas
in July, but she's done sharing milkshakes with him. K. filed for divorce Thursday, citing "irreconcilable differences."
O'Dell joins MDA
The Muscular Dystrophy Association yesterday announced that
Access Hollywood
journo
Nancy O'Dell
has been named an MDA National ALS Ambassador.
O'Dell's ma,
Betty Humphries
, died of ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease - last year at 74. Info:
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Shia's twosome
Transformers'
Shia LaBeouf
, 22, has made peace with his status as a (mere) action star.
"I'm not going to lie to you; the acting I do in these movies isn't The Elephant Man," he tells Playboy. Shia says he loves two people more than life itself. One is Steven Spielberg ("the 10 years I worked in the industry before . . . him don't really count"). The other is his mom: "The sexiest woman I know is my mother. She's an ethereal angel. . . . If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would . . . as sick as that sounds."