Buzzin Celebrity Gossip

According to reports yesterday, the father of Blake Fielder-Civil, and father-in-law of Amy Winehouse, was seriously injured after a bicycle crash.

Lance Fielder, 67, was racing his bicycle while circuit training near his home in Leicestershire, when he crashed and went over the handlebars.  He was left unnoticed in a ditch for three hours until he was eventually found and air-lifted to hospital.

He has apparently undergone emergency surgery for a spinal injury at the Queen’s Medical Centre, but doctors fear he may be paralysed.

His wife, Jane said “At the moment, he’s paralysed but it is too early to say if he will be permanently paralysed.  I was really worried.  After calling the police I went out looking for him.  By sheer fluke a lady in a tractor had seen the bicycle and spotted him lying in a ditch

John Cleese split from his third wife Alyce Faye Eichelberger, four months ago after fifteen years of marriage.  He was ordered to pay her £77, 500 a month in maintenance in a Californian Court yesterday.

Mr Cleese, 68-years-old, still managed to laugh and joke while in a wheelchair after his recent knee operation, even though the split had been hard on the actor, at least financially.

Ms. Eichelberger, had cried poor, with her lawyer, Jacqueline Misho, told the court that she had “nothing, zero, because Mr Cleese had not seen fit to pay any support up to this points.”

Mr Cleese was said to be “puzzled” that she was able to stay in a hotel costing £600 per night, if she had no money.

The lawyer representing Mr Cleese said that the actor had been forced to sell his beloved Santa Barbera ranch because of the divorce, although Mr Cleese said “It’s going to be very, very expensive, but it will be worth every penny.”

He added jokingly that he had sent some of his wife’s divorce claims to his old Monty Python colleagues, suggesting they could find enough humour in them for a reality television programme.

Miss Eichelberger has allegedly not worked for years but it was claimed she demanded two houses, half of Mr Cleese’s earnings during the period they were married, and £900,000 maintenance per year.

It was reported that she allegedly claimed entitlement to the money, as while being married to Mr Cleese, a “world renowned celebrity”, she was now used to “being entertained by royalty and dignitaries in castles.”

The next hearing is due to take place on June 13.

Today, attorney’s started questioning 150 potential jurors for the child pornography trial surrounding one of urban music’s biggest stars, R Kelly.

The 16 chosen jurors, four of them alternates, will be key for both prosecutors and defence attorneys to hear the case of the 41-year-old, who has already pleaded not guilty to charges that he videotaped himself having sex with a girl as young as 13.

It is set to be a daunting challenge for the prosecutors, as the girl believed to be in the videotape is now 23, and says it wasn’t her and Kelly’s lawyers haven’t conceded it’s Kelly in the video.

It is claimed that the video was made between January 1, 1998, and November 1, 2000, and that the girl on film was born in September 1984.

When the videotape first appeared on June 5, 2002, Kelly was indicted on pornography charges.  If the jurors find him guilty, he could be facing 15 years in jail.

The first day of the trial began on Friday and the Cook County Circuit Judge Vincent Gaughan said to the potential jurors “As you know, this is a high-profile case, and if you don’t know, God love you.  You’re probably the only person on earth that doesn’t.”

The judge denied a defense motion to postpone the trial, which has already been delayed for six years, suggesting that the jury selection could weed out any tainted jurors.

The selection of the jurors is expected to take about a week, although the trial itself could take several weeks.

R.Kelly is best known for “I Believe I Can Fly” for which he won a Grammy in 1997 and more recently ‘Ignition’ and his current single ‘Hair Braider’.

Mick Hucknall has allegedly said that ‘ginger’ jibes are as bad as racism, as he hit out at the bullies who make fun of people with red hair.

The Simply Red star said “When it comes to name calling for being ginger or for the way you talk, then that’s simply bullying.  It worries me to think how seven-year-olds running around a playground could get bullied just for the colour of their hair.  It’s like racism, not the same but the principle is similar.  It has become acceptable to mock people for the colour of their hair.  But at the end of the day, you’ve just got to ignore the jibes and get on with things.”

Hucknall claims that people only insult him because they are jealous.   He said “The truth is if you’re successful, you’ve sold a load of albums and slept with a load of women - and all the rest of it is just pure envy.”

Mr Hucknall we be releasing his first solo album on 19 May called ‘A Tribute To Bobby’.

In an online auction, a fan of Johnny Depp has allegedly paid £45,000 to play a non-speaking extra, in a scene with the star in the new movie ‘Public Enemies’.

The auctions raises money through charitybuzz.com for the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Fund.

The part was advertised on the auction site as ‘Bid now on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make your big screen debut on PUBLIC ENEMIES in a non-speaking role in a scene with the amazing Johnny Depp’ which was donated to the auction by Universal Studios.

Other lots included a tennis lesson for two with Andre Agassi, and a chance to attend the premiere of ‘Marley & Me’ which includes meeting the Co-Star Owen Wilson.

The name of the highest bidder has not yet been revealed.

The movie is due to released in 2009, and Johnny plays the role of John Dillinger, an American gangster along with his gang who the Feds try to bring down after a boom in crime in the 1930’s.