The 52-year-old said on the 35th anniversary of the hit lifeguard show: “Our producer and directors wanted us to do as much of our own stunts as we possibly could. They were constantly pushing for that because I think that was something people complained about in the past.
“So, when our new cast came about, we were a part of the rookie school class that has to learn everything from the beginning.
“So we were running and running and running. And we had to do all the jumping over water, diving into it, the swims, everything it took to be able to see if you could be a lifeguard.
“And my character was supposed to be that lifeguard, so I remember when we would have scenes running, sometimes I had these guys, obviously these strong guys, that are passing me up.”
Electra, born Tara Leigh Patrick, kicked off her career with glamour modelling in 1996 – including appearances in Playboy magazine – before she landed her breakthrough role as Lani McKenzie on Baywatch.
She also told how she fell behind in the action scenes the show’s director would have to find ways to make it appear like her character was keeping up.
The grizzled rocker, who marked the milestone on September 23 after spending years battling to stay trim and fit to get through his marathon E-Street Band gigs, said he wants to shuffle off while doing what he does best – performing.
He said: “Since I was 16, playing live has been a deep and lasting part of who I am and how I justify my existence here on Earth.
“I plan on continuing until the wheels fall off, and for as long as the audience will follow me. That’s my job.”
Springsteen makes the poignant admission in the upcoming documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
The blue collar hero – whose wife Patti Scialfa, 71, recently revealed her blood cancer battle – released his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. in 1973 and has performed with nearly the same band line-up for 40 years.
In August, he promised his fans that he won’t be slowing down, declaring at a show in Philadelphia: “We’ve been around 50 f—— years, and we ain’t quitting! We ain’t doing no farewell tour bulls—! Jesus Christ! No farewell tour for the E Street Band!”
Furnish, who directed the new film Elton John: Never Too Late with 62-year-old filmmaker RJ Cutler, said about John’s emotional admission in the documentary about how he’s not going to be around forever: “I don’t think it’s a conversation you want to have with your children. I don’t want to plant that seed in their mind.
“Elton’s been through a lot, but he’s also as strong as an ox. He rarely cancels shows. He’s a strong man, and he’s a healer. He’ll probably outlive me. He’s just so tough.”
Furnish admitted watching the film gave him “a lot of anxiety”, and added he never wants his partner to die.
He said: “Look, I want him to be around forever. And both of us, in the 30 years we’ve been together, we’re only just at this moment that we’ve only ever dreamed of.”
Furnish went on about John recently giving up touring: “Elton was always doing 90, 100 shows a year, working constantly… and then we had our sons, and then that whole reality takes place.”
Price then mentions fleeing the scene because she was worried about her own health, saying: “I don’t want to be traumatized right now.”
Adding to the suspicion, Price did not accompany Coleman to the hospital and later made the decision to take him off life support – despite Coleman’s wishes to be kept alive for two weeks in case of a catastrophe.
Coleman’s former girlfriend, Anna Gray, is quoted in the documentary saying: “I think Price’s actions speak volumes, and I don’t have to say much more than that.”
Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, 59, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute the drug to his actor boss.
He admitted to “repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training” – including performing multiple injections on the day Perry died, October 28 2023.
Perry – who spent decades fighting drink and drug addictions – became hooked on intravenous ketamine after undergoing infusion therapy for depression and anxiety, the Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Anne Milgram said.
When the clinic where he was getting treatment refused to increase his dosage, he is said to have turned to “unscrupulous doctors” to get the fixes that ended up killing him.
Kamala Harris’ past relationship with Willie Brown is back under scrutiny as she prepares to be named the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
Aug. 14 2024, Published 1:45 p.m. ET
Kamala Harris’ phenomenal career has been overshadowed for years by gossip she owes her rise to the top to the political powerbroker she dated in the 1990s.
RadarOnline.com can now reveal the secrets of the U.S. president wannabe’s romance with “kingmaker” Willie Brown – including how he gifted her a BMW when she was already in a $100,000-a-year job he arranged for her, as well as the Democrat’s use of his massive network of rich and powerful contacts.
Peter Schweizer forensically detailed Harris and Brown’s relationship in his
He says: “Kamala Harris’ entrée into the corridors of political power largely began with a date.
“In 1994, she met Willie Brown, who at the time was the second-most-powerful man in California politics.
“As Speaker of the State Assembly, Brown was a legend in Sacramento and around the state. He represented a district in the Bay Area and was well known in San Francisco social circles.
“In addition to running the California Assembly, Brown ran a legal practice on the side, which meant taking fees from lobbyists and industries that may have wanted favorable treatment in Sacramento.”
The writer adds by the time Harris, 59, met Brown – now 90 – he was renowned for his penchant for “expensive Brioni suits, Borsalino hats, Ferraris and Porsches” – and once declared his “body would reject a Plymouth”.
Brown retired from political office in 2004 and bought a $1.8million condo in the St. Regis in San Francisco two years later.
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Powerplayer Brown served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004.
Harris was 29 and an up-and-coming lawyer when she caught his eye – with Brown then a 60-year-old influential figure in California politics.
Their relationship lasted less than two years when Brown was separated from his wife at the time – and his influence over her career has led critics to say he is the “sugar daddy” to whom she owes her current spot as frontrunner to succeed Joe Biden, 81, in the 2024 race for the White House.
Brown was also two years older than Harris’ father when they started dating.
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Schweizer added: “Their affair was the talk of San Francisco in 1994… Brown began pulling levers for Harris that both boosted her career and put money in her pocket, rewarding Kamala with appointments to state commissions that paid handsomely and did not require confirmation by the legislature.”
The writer details how Brown put Harris on the State Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later the California Medical Assistance Commission.
Both posts were part-time and, at the time, Schweizer says she was “making around $100,000”.
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Harris became the Democratic Party’s unofficial presidential nominee after Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month.
He added: “Along the way, Brown also bought young Kamala a new BMW.”
But the writer says: “Perhaps the most important thing Brown gave Harris was access to his vast network of political supporters, donors, and sponsors.
“Soon she was publicly arm in arm with Brown in the most elite circles of San Francisco, including lavish parties and celebrity galas.”
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By 1995, Brown was running for mayor of San Francisco and Harris was regularly by his side.
On his mayoral election night, she was at the front of a crowd of Brown’s adoring followers to mark his moment of glory – and handed him a blue baseball cap emblazoned with the moniker ‘Da Mayor’.
It was shortly after Brown’s mayoral victory that he and Harris split up – with most saying the break-up was his decision.
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Schweizer wrote about Harris’ rise to power: “Soon she was publicly arm in arm with Brown in the most elite circles of San Francisco, including lavish parties and celebrity galas.”
But even though the romance with Brown was over, Harris remained close to him as she chased her political ambitions.
Schweizer says: “As mayor, Brown would prove to be enormously helpful in her rise to political power.
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“Willie Brown possessed the most powerful political machine in Northern California. As mayor, he leveraged that power to enrich his friends and allies.
“During his tenure, Brown came under FBI investigation twice for corruption involving lucrative contracts flowing from the city to his political friends.
“His operation was soon dubbed ‘Willie Brown Inc’.”
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Harris started dating Montel Williams after she and Brown split in 1995.
It was around three years after Brown’s election that Harris got her biggest break – San Francisco district attorney Terence Hallinan hired her to head up his office’s Career Criminal Unit.
Schweizer says in his book Hallinan insisted Harris’ close bond with Brown had “nothing to do with the hiring”.
But when the number two slot in the prosecutor’s office opened up and Harris was passed over for the promotion by Hallinan, the writer said “Brown seemed furious”.
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He added: “The mayor was publicly attacking Hallinan for failing to do his job.”
An insider also told the writer: “This whole thing (was) about Kamala Harris.
“Cross one of Willie’s friends and there will be hell to pay.’”
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Schweizer said: “As mayor, Brown would prove to be enormously helpful in Harris’ rise to political power.”
Harris quickly quit the district attorney’s office and went to work at the city attorney’s – run by a close Brown ally.
Schweizer added the “Brown machine” soon cranked up again to help Harris run against Hallinan.
By 2003, she announced her decision to challenge her ex-boss for his position as San Francisco DA – and, as the writer puts it, she had plenty of help from the “Willie Brown Machine” as it “ran so much of San Francisco”.
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Rebecca Prozan, a former Brown aide, was recruited as Harris’ campaign manager to give her a boost, and her finance chair during her run for Hallinan’s job was Mark Bell – a major Democratic Party fund-raiser.
Armed with a letter from Brown, a political consultant named Philip Muller also established an independent expenditure committee called the California Voter Project, Schweizer reveals.
He had worked on both of Brown’s mayoral races and the flow of money directly into her campaign with the Brown-linked support network was “unlike anything the district attorney’s race had ever seen”, says Schweizer.
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Harris was elected San Francisco’s district attorney in 2003 supported by a team of Brown-linked backers.
Much of the cash sluiced in from the “super-wealthy of San Francisco who were close to Brown” according to the writer – and the mayor himself gave the maximum contribution of $500 and wrote a letter telling the city’s elite to cough up the same.
Schweizer stated: “The San Francisco elite embraced her, which meant all-white fund-raisers in Pacific Heights.
“Friends and alliances with the San Francisco elite she had formed while dating Willie Brown also came to her aid.”
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The Getty clan were said to be among the army of supporters “strongly” behind Harris.
She has denied there was a drive by Brown to help her career – but the San Francisco Chronicle noted about her Hallinan campaign “a large number of her contributors also have been donors to Harris’ one-time boyfriend and political sponsor, Mayor Willie Brown”.
But the ongoing outrage over the failure – also revealed by RadarOnline.com – has done nothing to stop her rise to the top, and she is now the betting favorite to beat former president Donald Trump, 78, to win the White House in less than 90 days.
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Harris is now favorite to defeat Donald Trump in the November 5 presidential election.
Harris’ supporters have branded talk Brown was her passport to power – but critics say his fingerprints are all over her career.
Schweizer is far from the only journalist and writer to detail proof of his backing.
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Reporter Dean Morain said in his book Kamala’s Way: An American Life: “Over the course of the relationship, Brown gave Harris a BMW, she traveled with him to Paris and attended the Academy Awards.”
He also said in the 2021 tome Brown took her on a business trip to Boston where he was meeting Donald Trump.
Harris and Brown’s relationship was also well-known fodder for the San Francisco gossip pages, with the city’s Chronicle describing her as the powerbroker’s “new steady” – while the Los Angeles Times more diplomatically referred to Harris as Brown’s “frequent companion”.
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Dean Morain said in his book Kamala’s Way: An American Life: “Over the course of the relationship, Brown gave Harris a BMW, she traveled with him to Paris and attended the Academy Awards.”
After being elected as San Francisco’s top cop in 2003 over Hallinan, she was seven years later elected state attorney general.
Harris got re-elected to the post in 2014, before she went on to become a senator – a huge achievement for the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants who grew up in a broken home with her younger sister, Maya.
Brown has not been silent in the face of critics who say he is the secret to her success.
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He spoke out in July to pay tribute to his former lover – declaring she pulled herself up by her own bootstraps.
Brown insisted: “I think talent is what got her where she is. And she has been through the chairs – district attorney, attorney-general, US senator and now vice-president.
“That’s an indication that she had to be talented.”
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She’s worked with frontman Chris Martin, 47, before, and said after the gig: “He Facetimed me and said, ‘Hey Vic, do you know the song Paradise by Coldplay?’
“And I was like, ‘Yes, I do know that song.’
“And he was like, ‘Would you want to sit in at Glastonbury?’
“And I was like, ‘Sure!’
“I had to check with my friend in the morning if it was actually a dream.
“I literally blacked out. I literally cannot tell you what happened. All I remember before getting onstage, I was jumping up and down to all their other songs, and looking around and Paul McCartney was backstage, Tom Cruise is in the balcony, and all these crazy A-listers… it just felt so fast.”
Kim Zolciak’s estranged husband, Kroy Biermann, has fears his ex will use a return to Real Housewives of Atlanta to air out their dirty laundry and expose their children to behavior that would be harmful to their wellbeing, RadarOnline.com has learned.
According to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, Kroy has asked the judge presiding over their divorce to appoint a Guardian ad Litem to “represent the children’s interest” in the divorce.
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The Guardian ad Litem will be a third party in charge of talking to the children and parents. The official will present their recommendations to the judge.
In the motion, Kroy said he has attempted to shield their children from the “negative fall-out of their parent’s divorce, [Kim] continues to direct, in a derogatory tone, abusive, profane and threat-laden language at [Kroy] with little concern if the children are present.”
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He said Kim recently posted a photo and hinted at returning to Real Housewives of Atlanta. “Based on previous experience, [Kroy] is concerned that [Kim] will use the television show to garner attention by discussing the divorce and exposing the children to behavior that would be great for TV ratings, but not for the mental health and wellbeing of the children,” the motion read.
Kroy addressed Kim’s claims he was smoking marijuana. He said she has provided no proof to support her claims and said “These allegations provide no other purpose than to harass and defame [Kroy] and put the children at risk of not being permitted to see their father.”
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As we first reported, Kim has demanded Kroy submit to a drug test. A couple of days later, Kroy demanded Kim submit to a psychological evaluation claiming she had wasted a substantial amount of their money on online gambling.
“At times she has been so consumed with hitting the “spin” button on the virtual slot machines that she fails to pay adequate attention to the children, except when she permits them to gamble on her account,” he explained.
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Kroy said since the divorce, Kim has “spent little time at home; leaving for house at a time and when she is home, she spends most of the time of her phone, leaving [Kroy] to solely care for the minor children.”
The ex-NFL star even accused his ex of taking videos of herself while driving with the children. Kim has yet to respond.
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As we previously reported, the couple filed dueling divorce petitions on March 5 after 12 years of marriage. Both are asking the court to award them child support for their 4 minor kids: Kroy, Kash, Kaia, and Kane.
Kim and Kroy have both demanded primary custody of the children and support. The cases are ongoing.
A distraught Hayden Panettiere struggled to keep her composure as she arrived at Palisades Presbyterian Church in Nyack, New York, for her brother’s celebration of life memorial service on Wednesday, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Former child actor and Hayden’s only sibling Jansen Panettiere, 28, died last month from an enlarged heart coupled with aortic valve complications.
RadarOnline.com exclusively reported that Hayden, 33, is expected to speak at the service. She paid tribute to her late brother at the funeral by wearing a beloved custom graffiti art jacket that he designed.
The Scream actress was escorted to the memorial service by her troubled ex-boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, who was arrested multiple times throughout their relationship for domestic violence. Hickerson and Hayden split in July 2022 after she revealed she was sober and chose to end the relationship.
In his letter, Kevin said, “I am a full-time student” at a Florida college. He said, “When I moved in, my mom, Wendy Hunter, rented the apartment for me, paying for a full year plus security up front, with her intent being to purchase it at the end of the lease.”
“At her request, I signed the original lease on her behalf,” he said. “As the lease approached the end, my mom went through some health issues that put the court in control of her finances.”
Later in the day, the police were called for a shooting at a hotel in Los Angeles. Once they arrived to the scene, they found Stephen dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Allison told People, “Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else and leading with love and light was everything to him. He was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans.
