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Valerie Bertinelli: Eddie's Health Issues Are Nobody's Business

Originally posted 03/06/2008 06:35AM

She may have written a tell-all book, but Valeire Bertinelli was suddenly very tight-lipped Wednesday night when asked about ex-husband Eddie Van Halen's mystery illness.

"I really don't think it's anybody's business," the Jenny Craig spokeswoman, 47, told PEOPLE at a Cincinnati book-signing for her new memoir, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time. "He's being proactive and that's good."

The 53-year-old Van Halen guitarist "is undergoing a battery of comprehensive medical tests," the band announced on its Web site Monday. (The rocker, who has a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, previously battled cancer. In 2002, he announced he'd beaten the disease.) As a result of the star's undisclosed illness, they cancelled four concerts, including one slated for Wednesday in Cincinnati.

In fact, Bertinelli said she's just as disappointed as other Van Halen fans. "We scheduled the signing early so we could make the concert in time," she said. (Her teenage son, Wolfie, is touring with dad as the band's bassist.)

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Valerie Bertinelli: My Early Romance with Steven Spielberg

Originally posted 02/22/2008 03:15PM

Valerie Bertinelli is unleashing more bombshells about her life to Oprah Winfrey – including her early dating history with ... Steven Spielberg?

Bertinelli, 47, who also admits on the Feb. 25 episode that she and ex-husband Eddie Van Halen cheated on each other, tells Winfrey about her early romance with the Oscar-winning director in the pre-Van Halen days.

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Divorced

Valerie Bertinelli, Eddie Van Halen Divorce Finalized

Originally posted 12/21/2007 02:00PM

The divorce between Valerie Bertinelli and guitarist Eddie Van Halen has been finalized, court records in Los Angeles show.

Bertinelli, 47, and Van Halen, 52, had been married for 25 years.

"The parties have resolved all their issues amicably in mediation," say the documents, released on Friday. "Neither spouse shall take unfair advantage of the other spouse."

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Confessions of Two Ex-Fat Actresses

Originally posted 08/09/2007 12:00PM

"Is that really me? Did you stretch me somehow?" Valerie Bertinelli stares at the image of herself on a photographer's monitor in disbelief. He tells her no, he hasn't used any computer tricks; rather, after losing 30 lbs. in just over four months as a Jenny Craig spokeswoman, she really is that slim. Hearing that, Bertinelli, 47, tears up a bit. "I want to get to the size I was when [my son] Wolfie was in kindergarten 10 years ago," says Bertinelli, who split with hubby Eddie Van Halen in 2001. (For the past three years she has been dating Tom Vitale, 46, a financial planner.) "I know I can do that. I hope!" Cheering her along every step of the way? None other than fellow Jenny Craig pitchwoman Kirstie Alley, 56, who says she has kept off the 75 lbs. she dropped on the plan. As stars now known as much for the fluctuations of their scales as for career highs like One Day at a Time and Cheers, Bertinelli and Alley convened in L.A. for a frank conversation with PEOPLE's Maureen Harrington about what it feels like to be big – literally big – in Hollywood.

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Valerie Bertinelli to Write Memoir

Originally posted 07/11/2007 08:30AM

Valerie Bertinelli has held many titles: sitcom star, rock-star wife – and now, author.

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