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Robin Roberts’ health troubles not over

 
 

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Robin Roberts is still in recovery mode. In a Facebook message, the Good Morning America host, 51, says she was recently treated for a latent virus that had not responded to medication. “Our immune systems usually take care of a virus like this ... but mine is only 59 days old,” posted Roberts, who had a bone marrow transplant on Sept. 20 due to a rare blood disorder — myelodysplastic syndrome.

He said, he said

Kevin Clash’s accuser’s changing his story again, TMZ reports. Sheldon Stephens, 23, reportedly wants to undo a $125,000 settlement he said he was given to recant his claim that the two had a sexual relationship seven years ago when Stephens was a minor.

No dice

The California Supreme Court has declined to review Nicollette Sheridan’s lawsuit over the demise of her role on Desperate Housewives. The state’s high court said Friday it would deny an appeal by the actress in her wrongful termination case against ABC and Touchstone Television. Sheridan said she was fired because she claimed she was hit in the head by series creator Marc Cherry. ABC attorneys claimed Sheridan’s contract simply was not renewed.

A husband’s fight

The husband of murdered director/actress Adrienne Shelly ( Waitress), Andrew Ostroy, lost a civil lawsuit against Diego Pillco’s employers for negligence. The Appellate Division in Manhattan upheld a judge’s decision to dismiss the suit on the grounds that murder was not part of the job responsibilities, The New York Daily News reports. In 2006, building worker Pillco, then 20, hung the mother of one, 40, from a shower rod after she found him going through her purse. He’s serving 25 years to life.

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    Celebrity birthdays on May 18

    Actor Bill Macy (“Maude”) is 91. Actor Robert Morse (“Mad Men”) is 82. Actor Dwayne Hickman (“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) is 79. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Yes is 64. Country singer George Strait is 61. Actor Chow Yun-Fat (“Anna and the King,” “The Replacement Killers”) is 58. Singer-actress Martika is 44. Comedian Tina Fey is 43. Rapper Special Ed is 39. Musician Jack Johnson is 38. Actor Allen Leech (“Downton Abbey”) is 32.

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    Coming to town

    Wendy Williams gets blunt at Books & Books

    “Busy is good,” says Wendy Williams driving to her home in New Jersey. Today, her plans include grocery shopping, Pilates and cooking dinner. “The phone is on the windshield,” the TV diva admits.

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    The movie scene

    Winona Ryder back in ‘The Iceman’

    Winona Ryder is still pale, diminutive and breathtakingly pretty. She still peppers her speech with the vocalized pauses of her teen years — “you know.”

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