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Rockers remain at odds over sex video

By wire services
Published March 3, 2006


Kid Rock blames Scott Stapp for losing a sex video showing them with several strippers, but appreciates Stapp for one thing.

"What perfect timing," Rock told the Associated Press on Wednesday. "I got a record coming up. ... Maybe I should thank him."

The hard-partying rap-rocker, whose new live concert album Live Trucker hit stores Tuesday, defended his backstage antics, saying, "It's not any big revelation that this goes on in rock 'n' roll, especially with who I am."

Still, Rock (aka Robert Ritchie) has fired back against Stapp's claim that the tape was stolen, saying the former Creed singer filmed the tape, which was made in Rock's motor home in 1999, and is responsible for losing it.

Former "West Wing' stars to return one last time

A flock of alumni of NBC's The West Wing will return to reprise their roles one last time for the White House drama's final episodes, the network has announced.

Rob Lowe will come back as Sam Seaborn, the senior political official he played from 1999-2003. Mary-Louise Parker will return as women's-rights advocate Amy Gardner.

Also bringing back their characters: Anna Deavere Smith, Emily Proctor, Marlee Matlin, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Timothy Busfield and Annabeth Gish. West Wing has five episodes remaining. The program airs at 8 p.m. Sundays.

Gary Glitter convicted in child molestation case

A Vietnamese court convicted former British rocker Gary Glitter today and sentenced him to three years in prison.

Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was found guilty after a two-day trial of committing obscene acts with the two children at his rented seaside villa in southern Vung Tau last year. The girls were ages 10 and 11 at the time.

The court announced the verdict after a trial that was held in closed session to protect the girls' privacy.

"One Tree Hill' stars' marriage reportedly over

Sophia Bush is seeking to annul her brief marriage to her One Tree Hill co-star Chad Michael Murray, citing fraud.

According to papers filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Bush married Murray on April 16 and the pair separated five months later.

Calls to Bush's attorney, Fern Wender, on Wednesday were not immediately returned, and Murray's publicist, Megan Moss, declined to comment.

Bush has also appeared in the films Supercross and Learning Curves. Murray has had roles in Dawson's Creek and Gilmore Girls and starred opposite Hilary Duff in A Cinderella Story.

[Last modified March 3, 2006, 08:49:02]


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