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A trio of professional athletes, a pair of teachers and an oyster farmer have won the right to compete for a woman’s heart on the coming season of “The Bachelorette.”
ABC unveiled the 25 guys who will woo recent “Bachelor” finalist DeAnna Pappas on the fourth installment of “The Bachelorette,” which debuts Monday, May 19. Pappas became known to viewers last fall when Bachelor Brad Womack picked her as his final woman — but then opted not to propose or continue their relationship.
The viewer response led the network to resurrect “The Bachelorette” for the first time since 2005 — when, coincidentally, Jen Schefft opted to stay single rather than pick one of her two final guys.
Among the 25 men who will meet Pappas in the May 19 premiere are three who are described as professional athletes: snowboarder Jesse, basketball player Graham and football player Ryan. Because the network has released only the first names of the contestants, it’s tough to check just where and how well the three ply their trades.
The other contestants include a single father, a personal trainer, a barber-shop owner, a chef and two guys named Brian W, who will have their home states appended to their names for as long as they’re on the show. In a slight twist on the show, DeAnna will invite three guys at a time to live with her in the mansion rented for this season. The rest of the guys will have to make do with an “unspectacular bunkhouse” nearby.
Brian W. (Texas), a 31-year-old high school football coach from Weatherford, Texas.
Brian W. (Indiana), a computer network consultant from New Castle, Ind. He’s 29.
Chandler, 25, an insurance representative from Spotsylvania, Va.
Chris, 29, who’s from Dallas and works in medical sales.
Donato, a 26-year-old sales rep from Charleston, S.C.

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The actor Bill Murray is embroiled in an acrimonious divorce, with his wife filing separation papers detailing lurid accusations about his behaviour.
Jennifer Butler Murray, who has been married to the Lost in Translation star for 11 years, has accused her husband of being repeatedly unfaithful, physically abusive and addicted to drugs and sex, according to the court papers filed in South Carolina.
The complaint suggests that the couple’s marriage has been on the rocks for some time. The divorce papers, obtained by a local newspaper before the courts sealed them, state that Mrs Butler Murray moved out with their four children to a house in Sullivan Island, South Carolina, due to Mr Murray’s “adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behaviour, physical abuse, sexual addiction [and] frequent abandonment”.
The papers have since been leaked to the Smoking Gun website which often posts embarrassing legal documents regarding American public figures.
One of the most serious charges accuses Mr Murray of physically abusing his wife “more than once” since their marriage in 1997, as well as making “threatening and abusive” phonecalls since his wife moved out.
The latest altercation, the papers say, was in November 2007 at Sullivan Island when Mr Murray reportedly hit his wife in the face and told her she was “lucky he didn’t kill her”.
One passage states that Mr Murray’s “violent, abusive and erratic behaviour toward Plaintiff has destroyed the marital relationship between the parties and Plaintiff no longer feels safe being in the presence of Defendant”.
Mrs Butler Murray, 42, is also seeking a restraining order which would ban her husband “from interfering with, abusing, intimidating, threatening, threatening to abuse or molesting the Plaintiff, stalking the Plaintiff, or making abusive or threatening telephone calls or text messages to her or the children”.
The injunction is also seeking to forbid the star from introducing his children to anyone he has been romantically involved with outside of marriage.

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Jennifer was a child. A child with a deep, dark secret.
She was 11 or 12 the first time it happened. The man was someone she knew well. A parental figure she thought she could trust. She tried to forget about it.
She was 13 when he violated her so badly that she knew she would never forget.
She held the secret inside, not sure what to do.
One night she was at her cousin, Amy’s, house for a sleepover with Amy and another friend. Amy and her friend were a couple of years older than Jennifer.
They stayed up late, talking and giggling and doing all the things teenage girls like to do during a sleepover.
But at some point the conversation took a turn. The friend confessed that she had been sexually abused as a young girl.
It was too much for Jennifer. All of the hidden anger and pain inside erupted. She began to cry. And then, she told them her story.
Her life, as she knew it, was about to come to an abrupt end.
Her aunt and uncle — Amy’s parents — got involved. They, along with Jennifer, went to the police.
But instead of the accused offender being removed from the young girl’s life, Jennifer was reported — by a family member — to be a troublemaker and was hauled away and booked into a juvenile facility. She lived at the facility five weeks. “I was treated like a criminal,” she said.
Another aunt and uncle — not Amy’s parents — picked her up at the detention facility and took Jennifer to live with them in another city some 40 miles from her childhood home.
By the time she was 14, she had lost her home and her loved ones, including her younger sisters that she had cared for as if they were her own, and she was living with relatives in a strange town and attending a new school.

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STUDIO CITY, Calif. — Thanks to the three “Back to the Future” films, actress Lea Thompson was already a movie star in her 20s. That’s enough to rattle some performers for the rest of their life. But not Thompson.
“I think it’s always difficult just dealing with how you age gracefully, how you redo your time when you’re not chasing little kids around, and how you deal with the transition of becoming a mature woman - how you deal with that gracefully in a society that’s telling you you’re over,” she says in an office conference room here.
“You don’t feel over. You feel like, `I’m just starting.’”
Thompson has worked most of her life and, at 46, that’s not changing. She presided over three TV series, including her sitcom, “Caroline in the City,” and has costarred in scores of films like “Article 99,” “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Some Kind of Wonderful.”
“I have a sunny disposition about it,” says Thompson, who’s dressed in a white gauze top, pearl and gold necklace, loop earrings and navy-blue pants. “I’m not one to sit and whine about parts and everything.
“But it’s the truth. It’s a 20- and 30-year-old’s world. On the other hand, it’s nice to not have the pressure. When I think of my 20s and I was a movie star doing movie after movie, and movies coming out and doing publicity. And in my 30s when I was doing `Caroline in the City’ and the pressure of all the awards shows and the dresses and the publicity and how mean everybody is. I was just always nervous, and it’s not always as pleasant as people think it is.”
Thompson, who started in ballet, learned in her 20s that fame is fickle. “It’s a short ride,” she nods. “I had the wisdom even at that point to know it wasn’t real that it wasn’t because I was so fabulously special that I was doing all this stuff. It was because I was young and pretty and talented, but I knew it was not necessarily me. I was a piece snapped into a business machine. I knew that. It’s ridiculous to feel ashamed about not having a huge career, because no one does.”

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Jennifer Aniston and musician John Mayer have been spotted enjoying a date together.
The pair spent the whole of Friday together, when they had lunch in a Miami restaurant that opened just for them, before dining together that evening, too.
Charles Bell, general manager of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in the Miami Design District, which opened its doors for the pair early at 3:30 p.m. for the 90-minute meal, told People: "I was happy to accommodate them.'
Jen, currently in Miami shooting new flick Marley & Me with Owen Wilson, reportedly ordered a chicken salad, while Mayer had a Serrano ham sandwich, 'which Jen ate some of', revealed Bell.
He added: 'I can't speculate on what kind of meeting it was but they looked happy and seemed to have a great time.'
The pair carried on the date that evening, and later hit the Casa Tua on South Beach.
With his arm around her, Mayer, 30, and Aniston, 39, left the restaurant a bit before 1 am. When they returned to her hotel, they were an onlooker saw them holding hands.
If Aniston is Mayer's new girlfriend, she will be following in the footsteps of Cameron Diaz and Jessica Simpson, who have both dated the singer.
Monday 28 April 2008

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