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‘Star’ wedding: George Lucas engaged

 
 

hobson and Lucas
hobson and Lucas
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George Lucas has stars in his eyes for his fiancée.

The Star Wars director, 68, finally popped the question. His soon to be bride is DreamWorks animation chairman Mellody Hobson, a rep for Lucasfilm confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Hobson, 43, has hung in there with Lucas since 2006. This will be her first marriage; Lucas was married to film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, whom he divorced in 1983.

Hobson is also a contributor to Good Morning America.

They met at a business conference, Lucas told Oprah.

Chapter 2

Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes is engaged to her ex-husband, Gregg Leakes, she told Jimmy Fallon. The couple divorced in 2011 after 13 years of marriage. Gregg had said that fame got to her head, according to Us Weekly. They have son, 13.

Full moon

Moon Bloodgood’s ex boyfriend Jeffrey Donovan is a dad, and now she’s a mom.

The former Burn Notice guest star, 37, and her producer husband Grady Hall welcomed a daughter they named Pepper.

Circus act

Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the scheduled euthanasia of two sick circus elephants. The 1960s screen diva says authorities have ignored her “numerous proposals” to save Baby and Nepal, a pair of 42-year-old elephants dying of tuberculosis at a Lyon zoo. In a statement on her foundation’s website Bardot says that if the elephants are killed she will request Russian citizenship “to flee this country that is now just a graveyard for animals.”

Plane truth

The family of a makeup artist killed in a plane crash that also claimed the life of singer Jenni Rivera is trying to force the aircraft’s manufacturer to identify all those who had owned, operated and repaired the Learjet 25.

Rivera’s makeup artist, Jacob Yebale, was among the seven people killed when the aircraft crashed Dec. 9 in northern Mexico.

Yebale’s family filed a request this week in an Illinois court to compel Bombardier Aerospace and its Learjet division to turn over information on the aircraft’s history, including the names of all those who owned, operated and performed maintenance on the plane.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 20:  Artist Robert Russell (L) and actress Lisa Edelstein attend “Yesssss!” MOCA Gala 2013, Celebrating the Opening of the Exhibition Urs Fischer, at MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary on April 20, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for MOCA)

    Celebrity birthdays on May 21

    Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 72. Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals is 70. Actor Richard Hatch (“Battlestar Galactica”) is 68. Singer Leo Sayer is 65. Comedian-turned-U.S. Senator Al Franken is 62. Actor Mr. T is 61. Actor Judge Reinhold is 56. Actress Lisa Edelstein (“House”) of 47. Actress Fairuza Balk (“The Waterboy”) is 39. Rapper Havoc of Mobb Deep is 39. Actress Ashlie Brillault (“Lizzie McGuire”) is 26. Actress Sarah Ramos (“American Dreams”) is 22.

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