How is Wilmer Valderrama dealing with his breakup with “Mean Girls” star Lindsay Lohan?
Just fine, thanks, the actor told TV tabloid “Access Hollywood.”
“I’ll tell you, it’s good to be able to say that people move on and they experience other things,” he said.
Lohan and Valderrama announced in November that they had ended their relationship. They had acknowledged being a couple in July, after Lohan turned 18.
But the “That ’70s Show” star is thinking in the present. He even listed, in no particular order, a few Hollywood ladies he wouldn’t mind moving on with.
“It could be Halle Berry,” he said with a smile. “It could be Angelina Jolie or Lucy Liu. I don’t know, that’s three of the best worlds you can have.”
Full disclosure
Bernie Mac suffers from a rare and sometimes life-threatening disease that can cause inflammation of the body’s tissues, particularly the lungs, the comedian announced in a statement issued Thursday.
Mac was diagnosed with sarcoidosis when he was in his 20s, eonline.com reports. Mac’s publicist told Star magazine that the symptoms “became more pronounced” when Mac was battling a case of pneumonia last summer, the product of a hectic filming schedule.
But Mac assures fans he is able to live with the disease. “I’ve had sarcoidosis since 1983, and it has not altered or limited my lifestyle,” his statement reads. “No one knows where sarcoidosis comes from or where it starts, and there’s no known cause for this condition that effects primarily minorities.
“I still walk, play basketball and do normal things. … Since sarcoidosis hasn’t slowed me down, then it shouldn’t be a concern for others.”
SETTLE DOWN: Not to sound like a broken record, but Jessica Simpson is denying rumors of any impending split with husband Nick Lachey–again.
Tabloids ran pictures of Lachey surrounded by cheerleaders at a Super Bowl party in Jacksonville and reports of a dinner with ex-girlfriend Jordana Jarjura, but Simpson says their difficulties have been greatly exaggerated.
“I trust Nick totally, and he trusts me,” Simpson told Us Weekly magazine in an issue hitting newsstands Friday. “We are committed to our relationship.”
Simpson says she was unaware of Lachey’s meeting with Jarjura, and while it was “innocent,” it was also a learning experience. “There are lessons to be learned,” Simpson says. “Now Nick and I will tell each other about something like this ahead of time.”
HOLDING COURT: Courtney Love pleaded no contest Thursday in Los Angeles to an assault charge related to an incident at the home of an ex-boyfriend. Later in the day, she pleaded guilty to a drug count stemming from an earlier break-in at the residence.
As a result, she has agreed to anger-management counseling, random drug testing and three years’ probation.
In April 2004, Love allegedly found a 32-year-old woman sleeping on a sofa at the man’s home, and threw a liquor bottle at the woman and chased her with a flashlight. Initially charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon, she pleaded no contest Thursday to a reduced assault charge.
In 2003, the singer allegedly broke into the same former boyfriend’s home, and three drug charges were lodged against her. She was sentenced in July to 18 months in a rehabilitation program after pleading guilty to a charge for drugs found in her system at the time. Her guilty plea Thursday to a lesser charge disposed of two felony charges for possession of oxycodone and hydrocodone.
RED CARPET
Oye como va
Carlos Santana’s bringing his guitar to the Oscars–and to Chicago.
The rock icon will team with Enrique Iglesias to perform the Oscar-nominated “Al Otro Lado Del Rio” off “The Motorcycle Diaries” soundtrack, billboard.com reports.
Of more interest to us Chicagoans, Santana has announced a summer tour with a July 2 stop planned at the Taste of Chicago and a show the next day at Summerfest in Milwaukee.
Elsewhere at the Oscars, ABC says it plans to use a five-second video and audio delay during the Feb. 27 telecast for the second straight year.
CBS, meanwhile, will use a video and audio delay of between five and 10 seconds on its Grammy telecast Sunday.
Compiled from news services and edited by Leo Ebersole (lebersole@tribune.com) and Michael Morgan (mnmorgan@tribune.com)
