*Jon Stewart, who drew mixed reviews for his first Oscar stint in 2006, has been picked for a return engagement in February, the film academy announced Wednesday. “I’m thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time’s a charm,” Stewart said Wednesday in a statement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
*Jail officials will not need to make maternity accommodations for Foxy Brown; her manager says the rapper isn’t pregnant, despite her lawyer’s courtroom contention that she is. The announcement came Wednesday as her manager and Koch Records announced that Brown would release a new album while serving a 1-year jail sentence. Brown was sentenced Friday for violating probation that stemmed from a fight with two manicurists in a New York salon three years ago.
*Pamela Anderson isn’t choosing sides in the wake of the big battle of the exes at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards. “I’m staying out of it,” Anderson said Wednesday on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” She also said she doesn’t know what set off the fight between her former men Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, but DeGeneres had an idea. “Could it have been over me? Could they be fighting over me?” she jokingly asked.
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Personals was compiled by Emily Rosenbaum from Tribune news services and staff reports.
