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Brian Littrell Has Swine Flu
Originally posted 10/05/2009 05:20PM
The Backstreet Boys have cancelled several promotional appearances in New York after member Brian Littrell has been diagnosed with swine flu, the band said in a statement Monday.
The singer and his bandmates, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough and AJ McLean, and touring crew were prescribed Tamiflu as a preventative measure while Littrell, 34, recovers.
The group was scheduled to appear at New York's Hard Rock Café on Monday for the NYC PINKTOBER event. The Backstreet Boys, who are due to release their seventh album, This Is Us, on Tuesday, were also scheduled to perform their new single "Straight Through My Heart" on CBS's The Early Show that same day.
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Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough Welcomes a Son
Originally posted 05/07/2009 01:10PM
There's a new Backstreet Boy: Singer Howie Dorough and his wife Leigh, a real-estate broker, became first-time parents on Wednesday.
James Hoke Dorough was born at 2:30 p.m. on May 6 in Los Angeles, weighing 4½ lbs. and measuring 16¼ inches.
Although the couple wasn't expecting James until June, he was born healthy, a rep for the couple confirms.
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Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough to Be a Dad
Originally posted 01/13/2009 06:45PM
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough and his wife Leigh, a real estate broker, are expecting their first child in June, they tell PEOPLE exclusively.
"I know she's going to be a great mother," says Howie. "If she can take care of me, the biggest baby in the entire world, I think she's going to be okay with the little one coming along."
Adds Leigh: "I think he's going to be more hands-on than anyone expects. He's someone who will get up in the night and change diapers. He's such a partner of mine."
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Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough's Father Dies
Originally posted 06/23/2008 04:00PM
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough is mourning his father, Hoke, who died in his sleep, PEOPLE has confirmed. He was 69.
Dorough's father, a longtime code enforcement supervisor in Orange County, Fla., had been diagnosed in March with lung and brain cancer. Howie, 34, and his bandmates previously canceled their South Africa concerts so the singer and his wife Leigh, 34, could be with his dad.
"Our family just wants to say thanks for all your prayers for my father, Hoke Dorough. His strong will helped him to fight cancer for the past three months. I was blessed to be able to spend the last month with him and create some memories that I will take with me forever," Howie said in a statement on behalf of his family.
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Backstreet Boys Back, 'No Hard Feelings' Toward Kevin
Originally posted 08/07/2007 08:30AM
Their new single "Inconsolable" hits radio this month (hear it below), but it doesn't describe how the Backstreet Boys felt when Kevin Richardson told them during a conference call last year that he was sitting out their sixth album, due Oct. 30.
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Backstreet Boys: Inside Their Lives
Originally posted 06/14/2005 06:00AM
In July, the Backstreet Boys – the quintessential '90s boy band – kicks off a world tour in support of Never Gone, their first studio album since 2000's Black and Blue. Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough talked with PEOPLE about what they've learned over the past years and what they're up to these days.
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Alleged Zeta-Jones Stalker Enters Plea
Originally posted 02/28/2005 08:00AM
PLEADED: A woman charged with stalking and threatening actress Catherine Zeta-Jones entered a no contest plea to one felony count of stalking and three counts of making criminal threats, the Associated Press reports. Dawnette Knight, 33, entered the plea Friday in a Los Angeles court. She is accused of sending threatening letters to Zeta-Jones and people close to the actress, and faces up to five years in prison, which will be determined after a 90-day evaluation. Knight was arrested June 3.
A Powerball Win, A Backstreet Loss
Originally posted 08/31/2001 10:00AM
WON: Delaware first-grade teacher Kathleen Kearney and her brother, Michael, a lawyer, both in their 50s, came forward Thursday to claim their share of the $298.4 million Powerball jackpot, $73.7 million. It took them so long, she said, because they couldn't get their state lottery office on the phone. So they drove there . . . LOST: After failing to prove it had any rights to the Backstreet Boys trademark, the California-based Backstreet Boys Productions Inc. (which makes the band's merchandise) lost its cybersquatting case against Web sites with similar but misspelled versions of the group's name, international arbitrators ruled in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday . . . SPLIT: British actress Joely Richardson, 36, daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and late director Tony Richardson, and TV producer Jamie Theakston, 30, "split up a few weeks ago, but they remain very close friends," her spokeswoman told Reuters. Richardson recently starred Off Broadway with Macaulay Culkin in "Madame Melville" . . . BUSTED: Actor Greg Vaughan, 28, of the WB show "Charmed," was arrested for investigation of drunken driving after he was pulled over for apparently weaving in traffic and speeding Thursday morning in Hollywood, said police. He was released pending a court appearance . . . REINSTATED: Variety editor Peter Bart, 69, who'd been suspended from his job without pay for 21 days after Los Angeles magazine quoted him making offensive comments and accused him of selling a script while running the trade paper, will return to work Sept. 10. He's also been ordered to sit through diversity training, said his publisher, which is donating Bart's blocked pay to "appropriate organizations dedicated to . . . diversity" . . . SUBPOENED: Rappers Snoop Dogg and Ja Rule and Grammy-winning reggae performer Beenie Man were all charged Thursday with using indecent language during performances in the recent Sumfest music festival in the Jamaican resort town of Montego Bay. They have a court date scheduled for Sept. 27 . . . INDICTED: During a $1 million identity-fraud scheme aimed at credit-card companies and casinos that lasted for several years, Texan Patrick Michael Penker, 54, used variations of the name of a law firm inspired by a Three Stooges episode ("Dewey, Cheatem & Howe") to obtain cashier's checks from banks, reports the Associated Press. This week, Parker pleaded guilty in federal court and could get up 40 years in prison and $1 million in fines. No sentencing date has been set.
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Backstreet Boys' Tour to Resume
Originally posted 07/16/2001 01:50AM
Despite A.J. McLean's current rehab stint and the band's taking a concert break, the "Black & Blue World Tour 2001" will go on as planned.
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Backstreet Boys Blasted
Originally posted 06/03/1998 12:00AM
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