O'Connor OK in Chicago
Sinéad O'Connor is found Sinéad O'Connor, reported missing overnight, has been located, Wilmette, Ill., police said Monday afternoon, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Irish singer, who has been living in the Chicago suburb since February, had not been seen since she left home at 6 a.m. Sunday for a ride on her Raleigh motorized bicycle.
Sinéad O'Connor is found
Sinéad O'Connor, reported missing overnight, has been located, Wilmette, Ill., police said Monday afternoon, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Irish singer, who has been living in the Chicago suburb since February, had not been seen since she left home at 6 a.m. Sunday for a ride on her Raleigh motorized bicycle.
Police were making inquiries Monday morning when they issued a statement saying O'Connor was missing. TMZ claimed authorities had classified O'Connor as "missing/suicidal." In November, the singer posted a suicide threat on Facebook, saying she had taken an overdose because of a "horrifying set of betrayals."
Wilmette police released a new statement at 3:45 p.m. Monday. "She is safe and no longer listed as a missing/endangered person," it read. No further information was given.
The gossip and the fury
Kourtney Kardashian discard Scott Disick, 32, is not romancing her 20-year-old sister, Kendall Jenner, as rumors have suggested. He's been seen at the Cannes Film Festival, getting hot and heavy with a gal who looks like Kendall, a 20-year-old named Christine Burke, says Hollywood Life. . . . Wendell Pierce, who played Detective William "Bunk" Moreland on The Wire and also trombonist Antoine Batiste in HBO's Treme, was arrested Saturday in Atlanta after allegedly assaulting a woman named Maggie Baca at the Loews hotel. CNN says the actor and a friend got into a dispute about politics with Baca and her friends. Things got heated.
I am woman, hear me . . .?
Hollywood can't handle strong female characters, Susan Sarandon told folks at Cannes. The Atlantic City star said film execs today would not have green-lighted her '92 outlaw women pic, Thelma & Louise. Pundits at the time said the film would usher in a new age of strong women. But nothing happened, said Sarandon. "I don't think the studios have fallen off their horse and had some kind of epiphany about women in film," she said, adding that the industry is still run by men.
Speaking of which . . .
Deadline reports that CBS has axed plans for a mystery about Nancy Drew as a grown-up detective because the show tested "too female" at early screenings. Sarah Shahi, who played Drew in the pilot, tweets, "I believe we need strong female role models. She def could have been one."
To nude or not to nude?
Emilia Clarke made my knees tremble anew Monday by confirming that she did not use a body double in a scene on Sunday's Game of Thrones in which she walked out of an ocean of flames in her gloriously unattired selfhood.
"This is all me, all proud, all strong," she tells Entertainment Weekly.
Costar Lena Heady did use a body double, says E!News.
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