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Rosie O'Donnell Acknowledges 'Issues' with Spouse
Originally posted 10/21/2009 01:10PM
Rose O'Donnell says that she had her spouse of five years, Kelli Carpenter, are undergoing rough patch in their relationship – and passes up a chance to refute speculation that Carpenter has moved out of their home in Nyack, N.Y., and into an apartment in Manhattan.
"We're a family. We will remain a family forever. And we are working on our issues," O'Donnell, 47, tells USA Today in an interview conducted Tuesday.
"Kelli and I love each other very much and we are working on our issues," a tearful O'Donnell says, emphasizing that the couple's four children are "a priority." "Those are the only words I am ever going to say. Ever. And that is something that has been agreed upon by all parties. But everything's fine and everybody's good and we're still both raising them together. We will both continue to parent them and we're friendly and everything's all right."
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Bea Arthur Remembered at R-Rated Tribute
Originally posted 09/15/2009 07:00AM
Golden, indeed: Heavyweights from the stage and TV gathered at Broadway's Majestic Theatre Monday to pay tribute to the late Beatrice Arthur, mixing tears with loud laughs – and ribald recollections that would have been bleeped had the 2½ ceremony been broadcast on TV.
Instead, speaking live before a near-capacity house, Rue McClanahan told of the time her Golden Girls costar opened in her own 2002 one-woman Broadway show and graciously invited McClanahan and her husband, Morrow Wilson, to the opening-night performance and party afterwards.
Admitting Arthur – who died of cancer in April, at 86 – often wasn't at her best when she was drinking, McClanahan said an intoxicated Bea told Wilson when he introduced himself to her, "Rue, I love." But when McClanahan quoted Arthur's description of another costar on Golden Girls ("Betty's a c---"), an audible gasp ricocheted through the crowd – before it erupted into the longest and heartiest laugh of the afternoon.
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Rep Denies Rosie O'Donnell and Partner Are Splitting
Originally posted 08/05/2009 12:55PM
Contrary to tabloid reports, Rosie O'Donnell and longtime partner Kelli Carpenter-O'Donnell are not breaking up, the TV personality and comedian's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"There is no truth to this – at all," says O'Donnell's rep.
Reports have surfaced that the couple, who got married in 2004 and have four children together, split up a few months ago and have been living separately.
"This is ridiculous," says the rep. "I get this rumor every time Rosie travels for work. Right now she is on tour with Cyndi Lauper."
O'Donnell, 47, and Carpenter, 42, "are raising four children – together," adds the rep.
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Rosie O'Donnell Heads Back to the Air – on Radio
Originally posted 06/25/2009 07:05AM
Heading back to the air in a brand new setting, Rosie O'Donnell will be heard and not seen. The familiar TV face is launching her own daily, two-hour show for Sirius XM Radio this fall, to be called – what else? – Rosie Radio.
O'Donnell says that the deal came through after she yakked on Howard Stern's Sirius XM show earlier this year.
"He's been very encouraging," O'Donnell, 47, said about the shock jock, the Associated Press reports. "After I did his show, they called and asked if I was interested. I don't really listen to radio, so I started thinking about it and listening. I asked if they could possibly do it at my house because that would really make it convenient for me with four kids, and they said yes, so I was like, 'Wow. Let's try that.' "
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Rosie O'Donnell: Susan Boyle Brought Out Simon Cowell's Humanity
Originally posted 04/19/2009 11:30AM
Rosie O'Donnell finally sees the human side of Simon Cowell after his response to hearing the Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle.
"Simon Cowell was genuinely moved when he heard Susan Boyle sing," O'Donnell, 47, told PEOPLE Saturday night at a Florida showcase of her artwork in Boca Raton's Wentworth Gallery. "He showed his humanity, and I actually liked him. It was a moment in time."
Count O'Donnell, who is donating all proceeds of the three-hour art exhibition to her Rosie's Broadway Kids charity, as yet another fan who marvels at Boyle's voice.
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Rosie: My Teenage Son Told Me to Join the 'Drunk Club'
Originally posted 02/25/2009 12:20PM
She may be a teetotaler now – but that hasn't stopped Rosie O'Donnell from making some juicy confessions.
In a new interview on the Tyra Banks Show scheduled to air Thursday, the former talk show host says she's sworn off alcohol – and she has her son Parker to thank.
"I stopped drinking on Dec. 1," O'Donnell, 46, says. "On Nov. 29, I was with my son, who is now 13, and I said to him, 'Park, can you get me a beer?'
"And he said, 'No I don't want to,' " she says. "And I said, 'Really why not?' And he says, 'Because you know what, I think you drink too much beer ... Lately I think it's too much.' "
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Rosie Abandons Blog After It Stopped Providing Joy
Originally posted 01/27/2009 09:45AM
With Rosie O'Donnell's blogger days behind her, she's ready to focus on providing a different kind of entertainment: a four-story arts school in the heart of New York's theater district.
"When I started to blog, no one knew what a blog was," O'Donnell tells PEOPLE while cutting the ribbon at the brand-new Maravel Arts Center Monday. "Then it got so commonplace, it was kind of being used on entertainment shows as edited pieces. I was like, 'It's not worth it.' It wasn't providing the joy that it used to."
But she won't be completely offline for long. "I'm gonna start to put up pieces about [Rosie's Broadway Kids], more to showcase things that I'm doing as opposed to my inner angst or thoughts," she says. "I'm gonna put up a little movie about this event."
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Rosie O'Donnell Scraps Future Variety Shows
Originally posted 11/29/2008 12:45PM
Rosie Live will live no more.
Rosie O'Donnell writes on her blog that her NBC variety show – her first TV gig since leaving The View – won't being continuing.
In her signature online shorthand, O'Donnell writes: "there will b no more. no ratings. bad reviews. yet still – a thrill 4 me."
The Wednesday night show attracted just 5 million viewers, down even from the previous week's low-rated Knight Rider. The night was dominated by an ABC televised interview with Barack and Michelle Obama by O'Donnell's View nemesis Barbara Walters.
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Ne-Yo and Alanis Morissette to Appear on Rosie Live
Originally posted 11/11/2008 08:55PM
Rosie O'Donnell's upcoming variety special will feature musical guests Ne-Yo and Alanis Morissette, PEOPLE has learned.
The one-hour NBC special, Rosie Live, aims to bring back the variety program format reminiscent of The Carol Burnett Show with comedy sketches and musical numbers.
Ne-Yo and Morissette will perform live from New York's Little Shubert Theatre. The program will air the night before Thanksgiving, Nov. 26.
• Reporting by MARK DAGOSTINO
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Rosie O'Donnell to Host Variety Show
Originally posted 10/02/2008 09:30AM
She's ba-ack!
Rosie O'Donnell will return to TV next month when she hosts her own variety show, appropriately titled Rosie's Variety Hour, Variety reports.
O'Donnell's NBC special – airing Nov. 26, the night before Thanksgiving – will serve up a smorgasbord of celebrity guests, comic turns, musical acts and a prize giveaway for both the show's in-studio and at-home audiences, according to the network.
"It's going to be the YouTube of variety shows," said an NBC spokesman.
If the hour-long show catches enough viewers' eyes, it could become a recurring event next year.
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