Carjacking and auto theft

Whoopi Goldberg broke down in tears on US television yesterday as she paid tribute to her mentor, late film director Mike Nichols.

The 59-year-old fought back the tears on The View and had to be consoled by her fellow panelists just hours after news broke of Nichols’ death at the age of 83.

Whoopi credits Nichols for discovering her after he offered to take her one-woman show to Broadway. The stage production, titled The Spook Show, led to Steven Spielberg offering her a lead role in Oscar-nominated film The Color Purple.

Whoopi attempted to begin the tribute to Nichols – who was married to ABC newsreader Diane Sawyer – but was overcome with emotion forcing co-host Nicolle Wallace to take over the segment.

She said: “Whoopi has a hard time putting it into words, but this man meant the world to her.”

Rosie O’Donnell added: “Mike Nichols is the one who first saw Whoopi performing and said, ‘You got something kid.’

“He said, ‘Let’s do a show’, they put it together and he gave her the entire beginning of her career and recognised her brilliance before anyone else.”

Nicholls died from cardiac arrest on Wednesday.

He is one of an elite few who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award.

His films include The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Working Girl and more recently, Charlie Wilson’s War.

Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, who starred in 2004’s Closer for Nichols, was among the stars to pay tribute.

She told E! News: “He saved me again and again. He was the best way to be a person and an artist. And the most, most fun.”

Meryl Streep, who was due to work with him on a new HBO film, added that the filmmaker was “an inspiration and joy to know, a director who cried when he laughed, a friend without whom, well, we can’t imagine our world, an indelible irreplaceable man”.

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Whoopi Goldberg let off a huge fart during a serious debate on The View.

The 59-year-old star let rip on the US talk show on Wednesday during a ‘Hot Topics’ debate in which singer Ashanti was discussing whether or not she thinks people should get a flu jab.

The camera was firmly focused on the 34-year-old singer when a sudden explosion of air could be heard.

Whoopi then sat in her seat looking sheepish and embarrassingly said: “Excuse me! Oooh, oooh.”

The panel and studio audience erupted into a gale of laughter and Whoop then stood up, put her hand in the air and said: “Hold on for a minute.”

Whoopi’s fellow panellist Rosie O’Donnell then walked around the desk and started to jokingly wave her hands up and down in a desperate attempt to rid the studio of Whoopi’s whiffy wind.

The other panellists joined in by picking up pieces of paper on their desks and frantically waving them up and down to try to exterminate Goldberg’s gas.

Whoopi then declared: “Oh, I feel so much better now!”

Rosie joked: “You know those breakfast burritos, they kill us every day.”

Whoopi added: “They kill you, I tell ya.”

Ashanti quipped: “It was the flu shot, I told you.”

Whoopi then managed to turn the stinky situation into a serious part of the programme by continuing the discussion on flu jabs.

She said: “Now, I have gotten a flu shot because I have to tell you, I think everyone should get one.”

This is not first time Whoopi has managed to stink out a studio as in 2011 she broke wind while sitting on a sofa with Homeland star Claire Danes and fellow host Joy Behar, who was particularly put out by the putrid pong.

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Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter allegedly met the man arrested in connection with her disappearance on Tinder.

Chelsea O’Donnell was found safe in New Jersey last Tuesday after being missing for a week and Steven Sheerer, who was arrested shortly after, is reportedly set to claim he thought she was of legal age because she was using the dating app.

According to TMZ, the convicted heroin dealer, in his 20s, says he started chatting to the blonde beauty, 17, after he swiped right on her profile, and is set to use it as a defence in court.

His lawyers say Sheerer relied on the app, which separates users into age groups, starting from 18.

Law enforcement sources allegedly told TMZ that they found the evidence of pornographic imagery on Chelsea’s phone, but it is currently unclear when she received it.

Sheerer faces charges of child endangerment and distribution of obscenity to a minor, and if convicted he could serve up to 10 years in prison.

He is currently being held on $40,000 bail.

Prosecutors reportedly said that they had found “inappropriate communications” between Sheerer and Chelsea over several weeks before she was discovered hiding in his attic.

A source close to former The View co-host Rosie , 53, previously admitted she was “extremely concerned” about Chelsea, who is battling mental illness and stopped taking her medication before she went missing.

The mother and daughter enjoyed a peaceful reunion last Wednesday after police located the teenager approximately 130 miles from their home in New York by tracking a signal from her mobile phone.

Rosie O’Donnell ‘s ex-wife Michelle Rounds has been found dead after apparently committing suicide.

The 46-year-old was found at her home on Monday, according to TMZ .

The American comedian and actress told the website: “I am saddened to hear about this terrible tragedy. Mental illness is a very serious issue affecting many families. My thoughts and prayers go out to Michelle’s family, her wife and their child.”

Rosie and Michelle had started dating in 2011 and married in a private ceremony in 2012.

They broke up two years later, and Rosie filed for divorce in 2015.

She cited irretrievably broken relationship as the reason for divorce, and it was finalised in 2016.

Rosie and Michelle adopted a daughter seven months after their wedding. Dakota is now four-years-old.

Michelle’s mother posted a statement, writing: “If anyone would like to give to the National Suicide Prevention it would also be greatly appreciated. There are so many out there in this world that have demons that they think suicide is the only way out.”

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American comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell has announced that she has got engaged to Elizabeth Rooney, who is 23 years her junior.

The pair had previously been reluctant to speak about their ‘official’ status but 56-year-old Rosie confirmed their happy news to People on Monday.

It had been a long distance coupling since they revealed they were together in November 2017.

Rosie said that they had, “been dating from two different cities,” and was delighted to be engaged to the 33-year-old police officer.

Elizabeth is in the mountain division in Worcester and Rosie has said that she’s a “wonderful woman,” though there is no date set for the wedding as yet.

Despite the distance between them, Rosie lives in New York while Elizabeth is in Boston, their relationship had “been great.”

Rosie hailed her new fiancée as a “pretty unbelievable young woman,” and that they she was “very much an equal.”

The age gap was always going to be questioned and Rosie said that they joked about this, telling Elizabeth that she was, “too old for her. But she doesn’t seem to care.”

Harking back to her career in the army, Elizabeth said, “I put my life on the line every day you think I don’t know who I want to date?”

Rosie was previously married to Michelle Rounds, who sadly died of an apparent suicide in September 2017.

They had one daughter, Dakota, who is aged five. Rosie also four children with her first wife, Kelli Carpenter-O’Donnell.

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