This news today.... although I have thought she was since seeing her in Roseanne....
Roseanne star comes out as lesbian12:00 AEST Sun Aug 1 2010 By ninemsn staff
Roseanne star Sara Gilbert has spoken out about her sexuality for the first time, confirming that she is a lesbian.
Gilbert, who has a son and daughter with her female partner Allison Adler, made the disclosure during a media event for her new show daytime chat show The Talk.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Gilbert, 35, was asked if she was comfortable being "out" on the show.
"This is a whole new world for me. I'm not an expert on this, or I don't analyse these things. I'm just sort of living my life," Gilbert replied.
"I don't think (being out) will be a problem... I don't ever really think of things as being out or in... I just think I am who I am, and when topics come up that are appropriate, I'll talk about them and share when it seems right."
Gilbert, who played Darlene in the hit TV series Rosanne, will host the talk show about parenting with Sharon Osbourne and other celebrity mothers.
I saw her guest appearance once on a US crime show and she appears on the Big Bang Theory also. I cannot imagine watching the show she is going to host.
Susan Boyle's cash crisis12:00 AEST Sun Aug 1 2010 By ninemsn staff
Pop star Susan Boyle is suffering a cash crisis, after her management restricted her ability to withdraw her earnings, according to a report in the UK's News of the World.
Despite rocketing to fame on Britain’s Got Talent and making a number one album, the singer has complained to relatives that she is required to live off an allowance of $A520 a week."
This puts Boyle in the company of some of Britain's lowest paid workers, including hospital cleaners.
According to the news report, she is not allowed to have a credit card, her management have barred her from withdrawing extra cash from the bank, she is forced to buy cheap clothes from supermarket Tesco and she has to travel by bus.
The singer's brother, Gerry Boyle, told the News of the World: "When Susan realised she can't just walk into a bank and take out her own money she had a fit because she thought she was down to her last few quid.
"Her millions are ring-fenced but Susan has no concept of money. She was extremely distressed. She lives in fear of losing everything and returning to her old life before she made it big."
She has a new house, but according to her brother, she does not have enough money to furnish it.
Despite selling 8.5 million copies of her debut album, Boyle's allowance is equivalent to an annual salary of $A27,000.
According to Gerry Boyle, "Susan doesn't look as if she's a successful international chart star. She's lonely and downtrodden. And she's got this paranoia that she's going to go back to square one, back to where she was before Britain's Got Talent."
A trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund says he kept alleged "blood diamonds" given to him by supermodel Naomi Campbell, who told a war crimes court she assumed they came from a feared warlord.
The supermodel said Thursday at the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor that she assumed the former warlord had them delivered to her room following a celebrity dinner hosted by then South African president Mandela in September 1997.
Campbell told judges she gave the stones to Jeremy Ratcliffe, who worked for the Children's Fund, to "do something good with".
But she claimed she spoke to Ratcliffe last year "and he still has them".
In a statement, Mr Ratcliffe confirmed that he kept the stones and never gave them to the charity.
"Three small uncut diamonds were given to me by Naomi Campbell on the Blue Train on September 26, 1997," Ratcliffe said, referring to the luxury train he travelled on with Campbell and other guests of Mandela the day after the dinner.
Campbell had wanted the fund to use them, but Mr Ratcliffe said he did not want to involve the charity in any possible illegal activities.
"In the end I decided I should just keep them," said Mr Ratcliffe. He said he had only recently handed them over to South African authorities.
Police said they received them only on Thursday when Campbell was testifying to the war crimes court in The Hague.
"A factor that influenced me not to report the matter to anyone was to protect the reputation of the [Nelson Mandela Children's Fund], Mr Mandela himself and Naomi Campbell, none of whom were benefiting in any way. So I did not inform the [Fund] or anyone else," Mr Ratcliffe said.
Mr Ratcliffe said he is willing to testify in Mr Taylor's case.
"I am happy to testify should the International Criminal Court at The Hague request it of me," he said.
Mr Taylor, Liberia's president from 1997 to 2003, is charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the 1991-2001 civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone that claimed some 120,000 lives.
Campbell was called as a witness by the prosecution, which claims the stones were blood diamonds mined illegally to raise money to buy arms for a murderous militia in Sierra Leone.
Jury notes from Northern Territory Police files have shed new light on why Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murdering her daughter Azaria.
Azaria Chamberlain disappeared at Uluru in August 1980 and her mother was convicted of murder two years later.
But Ms Chamberlain always maintained Azaria was taken by a dingo.
News Limited papers have published details of handwritten notes from jury members but the ABC is unable to report on those notes due to legal reasons.
Ms Chamberlain was released when Azaria's matinee jacket was found near where she disappeared.
A Darwin barrister says the release of jury notes from the trial is unusual and could possibly be in breach of Northern Territory law.
News Limited says Northern Territory Police allowed them access to their files on the case.
Barrister Mark Johnson says under the Juries Act, jurors' deliberations cannot be disclosed unless they have been revealed in court.
"I'm not aware of this ever being done before, certainly not in modern times," he said.
"In the Northern Territory there is laws dealing with the situation that occurs in criminal trials to provide for jurors to be anonymous and also for anything done in the course of a trial by a jury to be anonymous."
Ms Chamberlain is unable to comment as she is overseas.
No... I don't know... maybe. I meant that I loathe him.
I suspected that she may have been Turkish given her first name, however her surname threw me off.
After having a quick look at her article on Wikipedia, it turns out that she was born to a Turkish father and an American mother. Her birthname was entirely Turkish, however she has stripped herself of her middle and surnames in favour of her mother's maiden name.
Very intriguing, I suspect foul play 
But I suspected that creepy husband 
Logged
I cannot imagine watching the show she is going to host. 
Robbie
