Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol will make her acting debut on the ABC Family drama series, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.”
The network says the 19-year-old will play herself on an episode scheduled to air this summer. It will deal with the consequences of teen pregnancy. Bristol Palin was pregnant as her mother campaigned for vice president. Bristol Palin gave birth to her son, Tripp, in December 2008.
Jay Leno will be reclaiming “The Tonight Show” with help from Sarah Palin, Lindsey Vonn and Jamie Foxx.
They will be among Leno’s guests next week when he returns as host of NBC’s late-night show.
Foxx, Olympic skier Vonn and musical guest Brad Paisley will appear on Monday. Palin is scheduled for Tuesday, along with Olympic snowboarder Shaun White.
NBC said Monday that other guests set for Leno’s first week back include Olympic champion Apolo Ohno, Avril Lavigne, Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey.
Charlie Sheen’s publicist says the actor has entered rehab and is taking a break from the hit CBS show “Two and a Half Men.”
Publicist Stan Rosenfield wrote in a statement Tuesday that Sheen has voluntarily entered rehab for an unspecified reason and is seeking privacy.
The move comes about two months after Sheen’s arrest in Colorado after being accused of holding a knife to his wife’s throat and threatening to kill her. Sheen faces a felony domestic violence charge in the case.
Sheen’s wife, Brooke, is also in rehab for an undisclosed reason.
The Country Music Association on Tuesday announced that Ferlin Husky and three other genre-expanding country music stars will be new inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Husky joins fellow crossover pioneer Jimmy Dean, producer Billy Sherrill and top-selling singer Don Williams.
The men will be inducted into the Hall in Nashville, Tenn., later this year.
The clock will start ticking again for “24” when Kiefer Sutherland returns to the set Monday after surgery that shut down filming of the Fox network thriller for two weeks.
A statement released Tuesday from Twentieth Century Fox Television said Sutherland, who plays counterterrorism hero Jack Bauer, has been cleared to return to work.
Neither the studio nor Sutherland’s representative has commented on the nature of Sutherland’s ailment. The Los Angeles Times first reported the production halt and says Sutherland suffered from a ruptured cyst near his kidney.
A federal appeals court will re-examine the FCC fine it threw out against CBS over Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will consider whether the FCC’s $550,000 fine for the broadcaster over the breast-baring performance is permissible.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year directed the lower court to consider reinstating the fine, following a ruling in another case that said the FCC could threaten fines even for fleeting profanity.
The lower court threw out the fine in 2008, saying the FCC acted arbitrarily and capriciously in issuing the fine for the half-second of nudity.
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