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*Online gambling site Bodog.com had to suspend betting on the third season of Fox’s cooking reality show “Hell’s Kitchen” after the odds for one of the contestants suddenly moved from 7-1 to 2-1 before the show's June 4 premiere. SPOILER ALERT: According to E! Online, Bodog's security department is investigating whether the show’s production has a leak after everyone and their mama began voting for 30-year-old Rock as the winner of the show. The executive chef from Spotsylvania, Virginia is the lone African American male among the contestants this season. If Rock is indeed the winner, his prize is the head chef position at a new Italian restaurant in the Green Valley Ranch Resort and Spa in Henderson, Nevada.
*Bruce Willis credits Will Smith for calming down his jealous rage after first finding out that his ex-wife, Demi Moore, was dating Ashton Kutcher. Willis tells Playboy: "During some very dark hours he talked to me about it. He said, 'Dude, you've got to do whatever it takes to get the kids and all the spouses or the girlfriend together. You've got to show your kids it's OK.' It was like a light went on. Ding. So Will, thanks. And thanks for all those good movies you're making."
*Cuba Gooding Jr. got his superhero on last month when he helped save the life of a shooting victim. The actor reportedly heard gunshots outside of a Hollywood restaurant and ran to the aid of a bleeding man believed to be in his 20s. An eyewitness tells the New York Daily News: "Cuba was picking up dinner for his family on the night of Memorial Day. He saw a young kid holding his head and walked toward him. The kid was bleeding from his neck and collapsed." Cuba apparently called for towels to stop the bleeding, hailed a passing police car and waited at the scene until an ambulance arrived. The victim is said to be improving in the hospital.
*MSNBC’s Jeannette Walls says Nicole Richie may be pregnant. “That’s the rumor swirling around the super-skinny reality show star, and she doesn’t seem in any hurry to deny it,” Walls wrote Wednesday on her Web site. She gets her info from Life and Style, which reported that “The Simple Life” actress recently underwent a series of tests, including blood and urine screenings, which “confirmed she is pregnant.” On May 30, Richie was photographed at a reproductive clinic, and the magazine quotes an “insider” as saying, “Nicole’s determined to get healthy for her own sake and the baby’s.”
*Robin Givens talks about her controversial new memoir, “Grace Will Lead Me Home,” in the new issue of Essence magazine. The actress also gets candid about surviving abuse, finding God, and why, despite the naysayers, she still loves Mike Tyson. The entire article is available at essence.com..
*BET founder Robert Johnson will reportedly set up a new gaming operation in Barbados over the next three years as part of an effort to expand operations across the Caribbean, reports the Jamaica-Gleaner. Johnson's RJL Companies, through CAGE Barbados Inc, will establish 2,500 video lottery terminals (VLTs) in Barbados that it has secured a long term contract to install and manage. CAGE Barbados is a wholly owned subsidiary of RLJ's gaming division, Caribbean CAGE LLC. Caribbean CAGE - whose operation covers installation, operation and management of video lottery terminals, linked gaming systems and game content - already operates VLTs in the Turks and Caicos Islands and St. Kitts. It anticipates to start operating in Barbados by the end of 2007.