STAR SIGHTINGS
Pictures surfaced this week of a fit looking, divorce filing Star Jones riding a Zipline in Costa Rica. However, while the former “View” co-host was coasting through a sweltering hot tropical jungle back in this country the man who is rumored to be her new love was sweating it out on national TV.
NBA player Dwyane Wade was put in front of a firing squad during TNT’s show “Inside the NBA.” Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith put the heat on the Miami Heat guard peppering him with questions regarding his rumored romance with Jones—-a woman nearly 20 years his senior.
“Star is an unbelievable woman. We have a great, great relationship. As friends,” Wade insisted earlier tonight of the state-of-play between him and Al Reynolds’ soon to be ex-wife.
“Are y’all close friends? … Are you the kind of friends that drink out of one cup with two straws?” Smith asked. “Those kind of friends?”
“We are friends. That’s all,” repeated Wade, who happens to be a married man with two sons.
DINOSAUR DUNG
A few months ago I blogged about an unusual auction featuring a pile of dinosaur dung that dated back nearly 130 million years.
Believe it or not the item sold at a New York auction yesterday for nearly $1,000.
Its pre-auction estimate was $450, but according to auction officials, the prehistoric poop ended up fetching $960. The fossilized dung was listed as being from the Jurassic era and pictures of it made it look more like a rock on the outside with colorful minerals on the inside.
So who was willing to drop more nearly a grand on a pile of poo?
His name is Steve Tsengas and he is the 71-year-old owner of OurPets, a company that sells products to treat dog and cat waste. The Ohio resident says he bought the dinosaur dung to use as a marketing tool at trade shows.
“Poop,” he said, “is a big business in the pet industry.”
BITTER DWTS STAR
According to freshly booted “Dancing with the Stars” celebrity contestant Shannon Elizabeth, it wasn’t the fans that plotted to have her eliminated from the popular ABC dance show earlier this week.
The leggy actress recently told a TMZ.com photog that her ousting came from a “bigger force.”
Think the show’s make up and wardrobe staff. According to TMZ insiders, Dancing’s support staff couldn’t stand Elizabeth’s diva attitude and wanted her off the reality series ASAP.