Sideshow: 'Snooki' and her Jionni now have a little Enzo to cuddle
Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi gave birth to her first child, a boy, Sunday. The reality star and her fiance, Jionni LaValle, welcomed 6-pound, 5-ounce Lorenzo Dominic LaValle just before 3 a.m. at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.
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Jersey Shore
star
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
gave birth to her first child, a boy, Sunday.
The reality star and her fiance, Jionni LaValle, welcomed 6-pound, 5-ounce Lorenzo Dominic LaValle just before 3 a.m. at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.
"The world just got another Guido!!!," a Polizzi rep told MTV. "Nicole, Jionni & Enzo are doing great!"
MTV congratulated Polizzi and LaValle and looked toward the newborn's possible appearance on Jersey Shore.
"We couldn't be happier for Nicole and Jionni on the healthy delivery of their baby boy!" said MTV's statement. "We look forward to Lorenzo's first trip to the Jersey Shore and can't wait to see his first animal-print onesie."
MTV has said it's bringing Jersey Shore back for a sixth season, with the 24-year-old Snooki as part of the action, but has declined to offer specifics on how big a part she will play in the show about hard-partying Italian American friends.
Trail's end
Former South Carolina Gov.
Mark Sanford
says he's engaged to
Maria Belen Chapur
, the "soul mate" he secretly left the state to visit under the cover story that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
On Sunday he confirmed a statement provided to CNN that announced his engagement; he declined to comment further.
Sanford was a rising Republican star before he vanished for five days in 2009 to visit Chapur in Argentina. The father of four admitted where he'd been when he returned. The affair destroyed his marriage.
R.I.P. that, please
Oops. Huffington Post was among the many blogs to note that while NBC may have been one of the first news outlets to confirm astronaut Neil Armstrong's death Saturday, it made an embarrassing error on its website.
"Astronaut Neil Young, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82," read the headline, which reportedly was on the site for 10 minutes.
HuffPo noted that "Canadian rock legend Neil Young, of course, has never been an astronaut nor set foot on the moon. His album Harvest Moon is excellent and we highly recommend it."
It further noted that NBC wasn't the only media outlet to make a mistake reporting Armstrong's death. A London Daily Telegraph tweet made an equally embarrassing mistake. "Obit: Neil Armstrong: First American woman in space, who showed millions of little girls that they can be heroes ...," it read, in a weird conflation with Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman to orbit the Earth, who died in July.
'2016' opens wide
Hollywood may have run out of summer hits, but an anti-Obama documentary is helping to fill the gap.
Holdover movies topped the weekend box office again, led by Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables 2, but new wide releases were overshadowed by 2016: Obama's America, which went from limited to nationwide release and took in $6.2 million to finish at No. 8. The documentary is a harsh conservative critique of what the country would look like at the end of a second Obama term.
It nearly matched the $6.3 million debut of the No. 7 movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's action tale Premium Rush, which played in more than twice as many theaters as the Obama documentary.