David Spade is Father of Playboy Playmate’s Baby
By Vicki Walker
Readers are advised that they may need to take a shower — or another shower, depending on when they read this — after reading today’s roundup of sex-related celebrity news. In fact, we’re washing our hands as soon as we finish typing it.
HE’S REPRODUCED!: David Spade has sired a daughter with a Playboy Playmate. His rep told People magazine that test results prove he is the father of Jillian Grace’s little girl, born Aug. 25 in Missouri.
“David and Jillian have been in close contact throughout her pregnancy and he plans to go see the baby during his first break from shooting ‘Rules of Engagement,’” Spade’s rep, Meredith O’Sullivan, told the magazine.
The actor, 45, announced in January that he had a brief relationship with Grace, whose pregnancy was made public that month, and if proved to be the child’s biological father, he would accept responsibility. That makes him the current leading contender for the 2008 Steve Bing Father of the Year Award.
Grace, 22, a squinty blonde who was Miss March 2005 and actually has old-school 36-24-36 measurements (per Wikipedia), appears to prefer comedians, having formerly dated Pauly Shore and owing her career to an appearance on “The Howard Stern Show.”
In fact, Spade just might be the nicest looking of her famous beaux.
No other details, including the baby’s name, were provided — which is more than you can say for the next couple of items.
AND A FEW ECCENTRIC INDIVIDUALS ARE MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS: Friends as recently as this week had defended actor David Duchovny, saying porn and not infidelity led the “X-Files” star into rehab for sex addiction.
Nope. New reports, specifically from the National Enquirer, claim he indeed cheated many times on Tea Leoni (cue violin), his wife of 11 years and mother of his two children (OK, enough with the violin), and she “finally caught him” and gave him an ultimatum of rehab or divorce.
Backing up the Enquirer’s story is Us Weekly, which claims Duchovny, 48, tried to Californicate with at least one extra on his current Showtime series.
Leoni, 42, has cancelled promotional touring for her latest film, “Ghost Town,” to visit her husband at the Meadows rehab center in Wickenburg, Ariz.
AND WE NEED TO KNOW THIS WHY?: Apparently there’s some desire to know how good cyclist Lance Armstrong is in bed.
And who’s volunteering this information? Not Sheryl Crow; not Kate Hudson; not his ex-wife, but Mr. Tour de Pants himself.
“I had sex if I had the energy. I wasn’t one of those guys who believed in the myths about the guy losing his chi,” he says in October’s Men’s Journal.
Losing his chi? Has he checked any nearby Greek houses? Or Chi Chi Rodriguez?
“But the fact is that if you are riding your bike five, six, seven hours a day, you are not a sex champion. You’re just not,” he insists. “You have fatigue, low testosterone and a lower libido.”
Punch line: “But you know, I never got any complaints.”
Look, we know he survived testicular cancer, and good for him! But great googly moogly, unless this article is titled “DWM, 37, 3 Kids, Seeking Female for Manhandling and Light Housekeeping,” why is he telling us all this?
TONY BENNETT ANNOUNCES CELIBACY: A visibly tipsy Lily Allen and a annoyed-looking Elton John got into a profanity-laced verbal spat Tuesday at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in London.
The tiff came as Allen, cocktail glass in hand, introduced a segment as a “very special point in the evening,” according to the Times of London. John, standing next to her at the podium, retorted, “What, you are going to have another drink?”
Allen then told John to “(expletive) off,” adding, “I’m 40 years younger than you. I have my whole life ahead of me.”
Then John replied, “I could still snort you under the table,” thus becoming the first rock star this week to ridicule someone for being too inebriated while subsequently claiming he could get even more inebriated.
Allen later greeted 82-year-old singer Tony Bennett by announcing, “I’ll still (have sex with) him.”
GAAH! Puppies! Rainbows! Nuns! Santa Claus! Lauren Graham in “Bad Santa” — oh, no, not that — GAAH!
Today’s People Column was compiled by Vicki Walker and Randy McMullen from staff and wire service reports. Questions? Comments? Call 925-943-8323 or e-mail vwalker@bayareanewsgroup.com.
Birthdays: Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul A. Volcker (81), comedian-actor Bob Newhart (79), actress-singer Carol Lawrence (76), actor William Devane (69), actor George Lazenby (69), actress Raquel Welch (68), movie director Werner Herzog (66), singer Al Stewart (63), actor-director Dennis Dugan (62), singer Loudon Wainwright III (62), “Cathy” cartoonist Cathy Guisewite (58), actor Michael Keaton (57), country musician Jamie Oldaker of the Tractors (57), R&B singer Terry Ellis (42), rock musician Brad Wilk (40), TV personality Dweezil Zappa (39), actress Rose McGowan (34).
Originally published by Vicki Walker, Contra Costa Times.
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