Whoopi Goldberg will host the 62d annual Tony Awards on June 15, which CBS will telecast.

"I'm very excited to be hosting the Tony Awards," said the View cohost. "I love Broadway and I'm thrilled to be doing anything for the first time. I'm going to have a blast."

Driver: Z's not the da!

San Francisco musician Craig Zolezzi is not Minnie Driver's baby's dada. So says the Riches star in response to persistent tabloid rumors.

The actress-singer, who is six months pregnant, tells London's the Independent that the father is English and is "sort of in the same business." Driver, who is in England to promote her new CD, Seastories, warned that she and MysteryMan have no plans to wed.

"I want to shield the baby's dad as much as I can because it wasn't his choice to get roped into all this stuff," Driver said. She also revealed that she has a craving for a cheese sandwich every day at precisely 11:30 a.m.

Heath's post-mortem beauty

A parabolic portrait of Heath Ledger, which shows the late star sans shirt, staring from the canvas while two images of him whisper into his ears, yesterday won an Australian art prize.

Vincent Fantauzzo's painting, Heath, which was made weeks before Ledger's death in January, won second prize in a national portrait competition sponsored by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The painting also was voted the show's most popular piece by the 32,000 aficionados who attended the exhibition.

Sydney artist Del Kathryn Barton won first prize with a self-portrait.

Channel change for CBS soaps

Due to coverage of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski's funeral today from noon to 2 p.m. on CBS 3, the Young and the Restless and the Bold and the Beautiful will air on CW57.

Paris' singular passion for children

Revered British tabloid the Sun reveals that celebutante, philanthropist and noted dog owner Paris Hilton yearns - and yearns - to make babies so she can, um, . . . take them for a walk.

"I have a lot of beautiful animals that I look after and I feel I would have a lot to give my children," the Sun quotes Paris as saying.

Marie O. weighs in

Marie Osmond has finally figured out her reaction to the Miley Cyrus-Vanity Fair faux-scandal: She tells AOL Television it's all down to Billy Ray Cyrus because he left his 15-year-old superstar daughter alone in the clutches of celeb photog Annie Leibovitz. "My parents never, never left us alone," Marie says. (That explains a lot.) "We always had some form of a guardian . . . [who] would represent what [my parents] would have done."

Double divas: Tina & Cher on 'Oprah'

Tina Turner, 68, who teamed up with Cher, 61, yesterday for a joint appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, says she will launch her first concert tour in eight years Oct. 1 in Kansas City. Things got a little bleak when Oprah, 54, asked the girls how they're handling the March of Time, which forces us all so inexorably toward age, decay and death.

Cher seemed outraged: "I think it [stinks]."

Tina went with denial: "That number doesn't mean a thing. It just doesn't."

Madonna to mount world tour

Madonna says her 27-date "Sticky & Sweet" world tour will start in Cardiff, Wales, on Aug. 23, and bow out Nov. 26 in Miami. The saucy spiritualist will play the Wachovia Center in Philly on Nov. 19 and Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Nov. 22. Tix for both shows will go on sale on June 2.

A reunion at WMMR

WMMR (93.3), marking its 40th anniversary, will bring back old voices to reminisce all weekend for two-hour shows.

Tomorrow's lineup is Mark Goodman (7 a.m.), Earle Bailey (9 a.m.), John DeBella (11 a.m.), Anita Gevinsen (1 p.m.), David Dye (3 p.m.), Bubba John Stevens (5 p.m.), Lyn Kratz (7 p.m.), and Razz (9 p.m.).

Sunday's lineup starts with a DeBella rerun (6 a.m.), Christian (8 a.m.), Cyndi Drue (10 a.m.), Steve Martorano (noon), Joe Bonnadonna (2 p.m.), Michael Tearson (4 p.m.), a one-hour Ed Sciaky tribute (6 p.m.), Chip Horaneck (7 p.m.), Ray Koob (9 p.m.) and Dee Snider (11 p.m.).

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