12:44 PM EDT 10/10/2008
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Nikki Blonsky: Airport Brawl Left Me 'Destroyed'
Originally posted 10/09/2008 06:00AM
Nikki Blonsky says she lives "every day in pain" since the July 30 fight involving the family of Bianca Golden, a former contestant on America's Next Top Model.
Speaking for the first time about the brawl, the Hairspray actress, 19, tells PEOPLE that she and her father Carl are "completely destroyed" by the incident.
"The hardest part for me is to see my parents walk around in severe upset and sadness," she says.
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Bianca Golden: Nikki Blonsky Kicked My Mother in Airport Brawl
Originally posted 10/01/2008 06:30PM
America's Next Top Model contestant Bianca Golden is speaking out for the first time about the Caribbean airport brawl, saying both Hairspray star Nickki Blonsky and her father attacked Golden's mother.
Golden says on the Oct. 8 episode of The Tyra Banks Show that her family was at the Turks & Caicos airport on July 29 returning from a family reunion for her dying grandfather when Nikki Blonsky became "very rude to my aunt."
An argument erupted between Blonsky's and Golden's families, then Blonsky's father Carl "punched my mom."
"He knocked her out," says Golden. "He hit my mom with such force she stumbled back and when she stumbled back the whole family got up and attacked my mom."
Then, when her mother was on the ground, Nikki "takes her foot and kicks my mom in her vagina, and that's when my mom fell out completely," says Golden.
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Nikki Blonsky Leaps from Screen to Stage
Originally posted 09/24/2008 06:35AM
Goodbye, Baltimore. And good morning, New York City!
In her first professional appearance since being arrested with her father at a Caribbean airport in August, Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky performed her own cabaret show, called Coming Home, at Feinstein's nightclub in Manhattan Tuesday night.
"I was nervous, but very excited," Blonsky, a high-school production veteran, told PEOPLE after her performance – her first on a New York stage. "My stomach was churning the entire time, but I thought it went well. I'm so excited because I get to perform for 13 more nights."
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Carl Blonsky Released on Bond Due to Ill Health
Originally posted 08/12/2008 10:15AM
Carl Blonsky, the father of Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky, has been released on $3,000 bail from a Turks and Caicos jail, says his attorney.
Blonsky, who was originally denied bail, resubmitted his bond application to an appellate court.
Blonsky is now free to leave the Turks and Caicos, attorney Oliver Smith confirmed to PEOPLE on Tuesday.
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Nikki Blonsky's Father Denied Bail in Airport Brawl Case
Originally posted 08/08/2008 11:30AM
The father of Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky must stay behind bars in Turks and Caicos until a trial starts on Aug. 19, a judge ruled in a heated hearing Friday.
Carl Blonsky, 53, faces assault charges in connection with a July 29 airport brawl that police say involved him, daughter Nikki, America's Next Top Model contestant Bianca Golden, and Golden's mother, Elaine.
Prosecutor Samantha Glinton said Blonsky – who is charged with assault with grievous bodily harm, a felony punishable by up to five years in jail – injured Elaine Golden so badly she had to be airlifted to a hospital in Aventura, Fla. She stayed for five days before being released to a neurologist, according to medical documents Glinton presented.
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Nikki Blonsky's Dad Due in Court
Originally posted 08/07/2008 05:30PM
The father of Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky is due at a Turks and Caicos court Friday for a hearing stemming from his arrest after an airport brawl.
Carl Blonsky, who is charged with grievous bodily harm – a felony – has been jailed since the July 29 scuffle. His bail situation will be addressed at the hearing.
Nikki, 19, and America's Next Top Model contestant Bianca Golden were arrested but remain free on bail.
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Brittany Snow Defends Arrested Nikki Blonsky
Originally posted 08/04/2008 10:00AM
Nikki Blonsky's friend and Hairspray costar Brittany Snow is as taken aback as anyone at the news of Blonsky's Friday arrest for alleged assault in a Caribbean airport.
"Of course I was surprised," Snow, 22, told PEOPLE Sunday at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
"Nikki is one of my really dear friends, and she's not a person that I would ever expect to have that controversy … surrounding her," says Snow.
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Hairspray's Nikki Blonsky & Father Arrested in Airport Fight
Originally posted 08/01/2008 06:00PM
Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky and her father were arrested on assault charges following a brawl involving the family of America's Next Top Model contestant Bianca Golden in a Caribbean airport, police said Friday.
The 19-year-old actress was released on bail, while her father, Carl Blonsky, remained in jail. Golden was also arrested and released on bail. Golden's mother Elaine was reportedly hospitalized with serious injuries.
According to the Providenciales Police Department in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the fight erupted
in the departure lounge of the Providenciales International Airport after everyone had gone through security.
"Things got out of hand in an argument over seats in the departure lounge, and several people were involved in an altercation," a police source tells PEOPLE. "There were some injuries involved."
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Hairspray Star's Managers Sue for Salary Slice
Originally posted 06/04/2008 10:40AM
Starring as John Travolta's curvaceous daughter in last year's movie hit Hairspray may have put newcomer Nikki Blonsky on the map, but her entertainment managers want some of her earnings in their bank accounts, according to a just-filed lawsuit.
Margaret Karaszek and Michael Ostrowski, partners in Morgit Management, formally lodged their complaint in New York's State Supreme Court, claiming that Blonsky, 20, and her mother, Karen Blonsky, breached their contract by not cutting them in for their standard 20 percent of the young star's overnight success, reports Newsday.
Among Morgit's claims: Blonsky was "unknown" when she landed the role of Tracy Turnblad; Ostrowski and Karaszek sent a tape of Blonsky to the film's casting team; and they even drove Blonsky into Manhattan for an audition during a snowstorm.
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Hairspray's Nikki Blonsky Admits to Furniture-Throwing
Originally posted 01/10/2008 02:00PM
This year's Golden Globes ceremony may have been shelved, but Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky isn't letting it get her down – or, stop her from throwing furniture.
Upon grabbing her best actress nomination, "I actually threw a coffee table, I was so excited," Blonsky, 19, told PEOPLE at a Slim Fast party in Los Angeles Tuesday. "I was so excited, I couldn't even control myself and I just picked up the coffee table and I threw it. I was in a hotel – if we were at home, my mom would've probably screamed if I threw a coffee table."
Though Blonsky may not be getting decked out for the Golden Globes this year, the awards season is far from over. Her secret to getting red carpet ready? "I just always make sure my nails are done."
– Shruti Dhalwala and Juliana Bunim
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