*Gee, what’s Britney Spears up to these days? People.com reports that she’s been teaching children to dance. And they love her. “I like Britney,” said 5-year-old Elissa Bouganim. The troubled 26-year-old pop star has become a semiregular instructor at the Millennium Dance Complex in L.A. in the past month; meanwhile, a court commissioner granted her father, James, control of her estate for five more months.
*Patrick Swayze is being treated for pancreatic cancer but is doing well enough to continue working, his rep says. The “Dirty Dancing” actor’s upcoming A&E pilot “The Beast” is still in contention to become a series. His doctor said Swayze has a limited amount of disease and is responding to treatment.
*Salma Hayek told Glamour magazine that she suffered from diabetes during her pregnancy and that she was hoping for a son — but now she’s loving being a mom to her 5-month-old daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, People.com reports. “I feel I was born to have this girl,” she told Glamour. Why did she want a boy? “Probably because I was afraid,” she tells the magazine. “I think women suffer a bit more than boys, and there is always conflict between mothers and daughters.”
———-
Personals was compiled by Valentina Djeljosevic from Tribune news services and staff reports.
