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Go Away, Paris Hilton!; Hasselhoff`s Hassle; Ricki Lake`s Documentary
Aired May 03, 2007 - 23:00 ET
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A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST: Shocking and disturbing video of a very drunk David Hasselhoff filmed by a family member. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.
BROOKE ANDERSON, CO-HOST: And Paris Hilton may be going to jail, and, there`s a new song that asks her to just go away, period. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.
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HAMMER (voice-over): On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, celebrity stalker scares. Sandra Bullock`s startling move to fight back against the woman who allegedly tried to run over her husband with a car. Tonight, a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT investigation, what makes someone go from fan, to obsessed fan, to dangerous stalker? We`re taking you inside the mind of celebrity stalkers.
Tonight, Ricki Lake`s shocking new movie. Why did Ricki let cameras film her giving birth, naked in a bathtub?
RICKI LAKE, ACTOR: When I filmed it I never, ever, ever intended for anybody to see it.
HAMMER: Tonight, Ricki Lake tells us why her most private moment is now her personal mission, in the interview you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
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HAMMER: Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.
ANDERSON: Hi there, everyone. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. And what we have to show you tonight is absolutely unbelievable. Take a look at this video of David Hasselhoff, obtained by the TV show "Extra." Absolutely incoherent and apparently drunk out of his mind.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why do you like doing this to yourself?
DAVID HASSELHOFF, ACTOR: Because I`m lonely and I`m having trouble in my life.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tell me you`re going to stop drinking, tell me right now, or I`m not going to talk to you ever again and I will totally disown you because it is not fair to me, your family, what you are doing.
HASSELHOFF: I`ll be fine.
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ANDERSON: That was not David Hasselhoff acting. Sadly that is the real thing, A.J. And he reportedly actually asked a family member to shoot it so that he could get help for his drinking. We`ve got that amazing story and more video to show you, coming up.
HAMMER: Yes. Amazing indeed. But first tonight, actress Sandra Bullock is taking drastic action to keep her family safe from an obsessed woman who is accused of trying to run over Bullocks husband with a car because Bullock is seriously worried it could happen again.
ANDERSON: Yes, tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has the late-breaking details as we take you inside the minds of celebrity stalkers.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Another star falls prey to a stalker.
ANDERSON (voice-over): A horrific attack that literally hit close to home for movie star Sandra Bullock. As she watches in horror, reported stalker Marcia Valentine allegedly tries to run over Bullock`s husband, celebrity motorcycle mogul, Jesse James.
Now, out on bail, Valentine is back on the streets, and Bullock and her family are worried about what could happen now.
JIM MOREY, "INSIDE EDITION": According to the police, this woman is an obsessed fan and obviously of greatest concern for Sandra Bullock and her husband is that this woman doesn`t come back.
ANDERSON: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you that right now Bullock is taking steps to make she doesn`t come back. According to these documents obtained by celebrity Web site tmz.com, Bullock has filed a request for restraining order against her alleged stalker. The attack was a shocking violation of the privacy Bullock recently told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT she cherishes.
SANDRA BULLOCK, ACTOR: You spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to protect it if it`s valuable to you, and it`s really valuable to me.
ANDERSON: Unfortunately, Bullock isn`t the first star who has had to deal with deranged fans. Madonna, Halle Berry, Sheryl Crow, Catherine Zeta-Jones, each of them, like Bullock, stalking victims.
MOREY: You know, when you are a celebrity, you`re a target.
ANDERSON: SHOWBIZ TONIGHT goes into the disturbing world of the stalker to try to find out how an obsession with Hollywood can turn into someone deadly.
Valentine reportedly had had run-ins with Bullock and James before.
MOREY: According to neighbors and according to police, this woman has been outside their home on a number of occasions.
ANDERSON: On the night of their attack, Jesse James reportedly confronted Valentine who was lying on the driveway of the home he shares with Bullock. Valentine then allegedly got into her Mercedes and tried to run him over, not once, not twice, but repeatedly before escaping on the Pacific Coast Highway.
MOREY: Clearly this was terrifying not only for him but also for Sandra Bullock and James` so 10-year-old son who saw this happen from their home.
ANDERSON: James was not hurt. Valentine was arrested the next day and released on $25,000 bail.
DR. KEITH ABLOW, FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST: I think the profile of a celebrity stalker is someone who is feeling deprived, very deeply deprived of attention.
ANDERSON: Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, author of "Living the Truth," tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT celebrity stalkers live in their own warped reality which can turn dangerous for stars.
ABLOW: There are times in our lives where we have relationships and we misinterpret. Right. That`s normal to say, well, I thought she was certainly interested in me or I thought he loved me. The stalker is simply exponentially further out on the bell curve. And so what you have is somebody who literally feels empowered and licensed to pursue you or me or Sandra Bullock because they think, oh, I`m just not getting the feedback right now that this is welcomed, but it is.
ANDERSON: And as we saw in Sandra Bullock`s case, stalkers can pose a danger to the star`s loved ones as well.
ABLOW: Love triangles, whether there`s actual romantic contact doesn`t matter. Again, it`s really about whether the person feels that affection is being denied them because of somebody else.
ANDERSON: Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones received graphically threatening letters from a deranged woman who claimed to be in love with Zeta-Jones` husband actor Michael Douglas. That woman was arrested and sentenced to prison before any harm was done.
But as we saw in the case of sitcom star Rebecca Schaeffer ,killed by a deranged fan outside her home in 1989, or John Lennon, killed on a New York City street by a deranged fan in 1980, these stalker stories can have tragic endings. Dr. Ablow says it`s a sad reality that remains the downside of fame.
ABLOW: Stalkers are working off their own stories so it doesn`t much matter who the other players are in the drama. To them, they are interpreting every event and all the feedback according to their own script. That`s why they are dangerous people.
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ANDERSON: Now the woman accused in the attack on Bullock`s husband is free on bail, scheduled to appear in court on May 22nd. And in an irony found only in these bizarre Hollywood stories, Sandra Bullock is actually set to play a stalker in her next movie.
HAMMER: Paris Hilton, buckle up. The next time you get in a car, you might be headed to jail. Paris Hilton has a court date tomorrow and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has obtained court documents that show prosecutors want her to spend 45 days in the slammer. For some reason that makes smile. With me tonight from the COURT TV studios in New York, Ashleigh Banfield, host of COURT TV "Hollywood Heat."
Ashley, thanks for joining us.
ASHELY BANFIEND, HOST, "HOLLYWOOD HEAT": Thanks, A.J.
HAMMER: So this whole is about the two times that Paris got caught for driving with a suspended license while on probation for that DUI charge she got. When the barely there heiress goes to sleep tonight after likely getting home from the clubs, Ashley, should she be worried?
BANFIELD: Yes. She should be very, very worried at this time. Listen, I think the most important lesson that all of us can take out of this is this stuff is serious. And you can`t thumb your nose at the law once or twice or three times.
HAMMER: Is it wrong that I`m taking such glee and pleasure in bringing this story to the people?
BANFIELD: No, I don`t think it`s wrong. And look, nobody wants to tear down somebody who doesn`t deserve it, but look, when you make a deal and you come forward and say I`m guilty of something, and you deal with the consequences and then you thumb your nose at those consequences, it`s a problem.
And a lot of people look up to Paris Hilton, for whatever reason, lots of teenagers out there. So they should know that you can`t get away with this stuff. This is very serious. And it`s almost like a PSA to see that something can happen to people who look like they`re impervious to the law.
HAMMER: And it`s wild, when you look through these court documents, some of the things that the prosecutors are asking for, among those things they are asking that Paris be banned from drinking alcohol for 90 days. They are also asking that she wear an alcohol monitoring device.
Let`s take a look at what that might look like. In the case -- you see right there on her leg, we have installed a little alcohol monitoring device. I have no idea those things even existed and actually they do. And they can monitor if she`s drinking or not. I think she will turn it into some kind of fashion statement if she does it.
Does that punishment, though, the 90 days off of booze and wearing that thing, is that a little extreme, Ashley, in this case, or is that pretty much on target for this offense?
BANFIELD: It may seem a little extreme when you hear about it altogether, but it`s not off base. And we are hearing about those SCRAM devices a little more. Tracy Morgan was ordered to wear one. And I believe Michelle Rodriguez was wearing one at New York Fashion Week although she never called it the SCRAM device so I haven`t got it clear whether it is exactly that device.
But it is being ordered more and more. And that 45 days is jail is not over the top either again because there were two violations of probably and driving with a suspended license. Not just one. You could talk away one, saying oh, you know, it slipped my mind. My attorney told me that I had to have all my papers in order, but you can`t do it twice.
HAMMER: Yes. And that`s the thing. In the court documents that SHOWBIZ TONIGHT obtained, the suggestion is that Paris is blaming her attorneys for not making it clear she couldn`t drive. It seems pretty simple to me. Paris, your license is suspended. You can`t drive. I mean, does she really need an attorney to clear that up for her?
BANFIELD: Well, listen, I will say this for busy people. Sometimes other people are handling a lot of their paperwork and their affairs. And that is -- I understand if she made the mistake once. But there is absolutely no way that an attorney would tell her it`s OK to drive, sweetheart, even though you a suspended license. You`ll be fine. We`ll beat the rap.
So maybe what her defense should be was that, hey, you know what? Ineffective counsel. This guy gave me bum advice. I`m taking my client to the California Bar. But to my knowledge she hasn`t done anything like that.
HAMMER: So it looks really good that Paris Hilton might wind up in the slammer, Ashley.
BANFIELD: Entirely possible.
HAMMER: All right. Ashley Banfield, from COURT TV`s "Hollywood Heat," thank you as always.
BANFIELD: Thanks, A.J.
HAMMER: So, Brooke, it really looks like Paris may be going to jail, but there are some people who just want her to go away, period. They actually started a petition, and they even wrote a song about it, not to be missed. It is coming up at 44 past the hour.
Also this.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tell me you`re going to stop.
HASSELHOFF: I`m going to stop.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Promise?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ANDERSON: Truly shocking video of David Hasselhoff. I`ve got to say, it`s truly sad. So why did a family member tape him while he was drunk and incoherent? We`ve got the disturbing video and the even more disturbing story straight ahead.
HAMMER: And Britney`s gum-chewing, lip-syncing comeback machine chugs along. But is she using the right strategy? Should she maybe try something else like, oh, I don`t know, learning how to play an instrument? Coming up, what Britney really needs to do to make a comeback.
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ANDERSON: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, TV`s most provocative entertainment news show. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. Tonight, is Britney Spears back on track or should we be worried that her return to the stage could do more harm than good? Brit is performing yet again tonight, performing another lip-sync and dance routine, which began Tuesday in San Diego.
Spears is performing for the first time after a nearly three-year break and a virtual meltdown in her personal life, including a quickie marriage, a divorce, a shaved head and two stints in rehab. With me in Hollywood, Howard Bragman is publicist to some of the biggest stars out there, he`s also the founder of 15 Minutes PR.
Howard, good to see you.
HOWARD BRAGMAN, FOUNDER, 15 MINUTES PR: Hey, Brooke.
ANDERSON: Hey, there. And you know, there`s nobody better than you to talk about this. Because you deal with plenty of celebrities in crisis. You did P.R. for Naomi Campbell. You`re working with Isaiah Washington from "Grey`s Anatomy" following the controversy after he uttered that anti- gay slur.
Howard, if Britney came to you and said, hey, I want to get out there, do these quickie lip-synching concerts, would you have said, great idea or you`re out of your mind?
BRAGMAN: I don`t think the idea was bad. I think the idea was pretty good actually, because these were small concerts, they were what I would call a semi-public appearance. The problem is coming in the execution. First of all, she`s lip-synching so we don`t really get to hear her sing which is really disappointing in a small venue and she doesn`t look very good.
She`s kind of dumpy and trashy and not the Britney we want to see. So while the idea may have been good, the execution is really hurting her again.
ANDERSON: So maybe not as sharp as you think she needs to be when she makes her comeback. And speaking about a support team, you`re dealing with Isaiah, you`re helping him out. In fact, you just confirmed for us yesterday that he`s going to do PSAs for GLAD.
So you know how important that is. But Britney has reportedly split with her long-time manager. Last we heard, Howard, she doesn`t have a new one. It seems to me that for somebody just out of rehab like Britney, she should have a whole support team in place. But that doesn`t seem to be happening. Is that dangerous?
BRAGMAN: It`s absolutely dangerous. You need the team and you need the vision. You don`t just go up and say, I`m going to do this event or I`m going to do this appearance. You do it against (ph) strategy and you say, here`s where I want to be in six months or a year.
Here`s the image I`m trying to craft and this will take us there. And the hardest thing for celebrities to do is sit on your hands and sometimes you have to say, sit on the sidelines, let`s not talk now and let`s wait until a more opportune time. And these are people who are aggressive and successful. And they are used to controlling their own fate so you really have to work with them to understand that patience is going to work.
And this didn`t work for her. She needs to build her team. She needs to develop a strategy and have some patience with her career if she wants a true comeback.
ANDERSON: Well, jumping right into it like she has done, do you think that maybe she`s just scared, Howard, that if she stays out of the spotlight for too long that people will forget about her and say, Britney who?
BRAGMAN: I don`t think it`s a fear. As we have discussed before, I think it`s an addiction. I think Britney likes the spotlight like other people love alcohol and other people love drugs. I think she has got a real problem with attention and she needs it. And when she goes a few weeks and nobody has paid any attention to her, nobody has written about her and she`s not on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, then she screams and says, what am I going to do?
ANDERSON: But does she run the risk, Howard, if she completely bombs that people could say, this girl is done?
BRAGMAN: You know, we have written Britney off again and again. And America loves second acts, third acts, we do give people another chance here.
ANDERSON: Very true.
BRAGMAN: And we will certainly give Britney another chance.
ANDERSON: Well, Howard, hopefully she`s watching because she would be lucky to have you in her corner. Howard Bragman of 15 Minutes PR, always a pleasure to have you on the show.
BRAGMAN: Thanks, Brooke.
ANDERSON: All right. Now we want to hear from you. It`s our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day: Britney Spears, does she need to reinvent herself? Vote at cnn.com/showbiztonight. Send us an e-mail, showbiztonight@cnn.com. You can also vote on the question of the day by sending a cell phone text message to 45688. To vote yes, write SHOWBIZ YES, to vote no, write SHOWBIZ NO.
HAMMER: Tonight in the SHOWBIZ "First Look, "A Mighty Heart," this is the movie based on the true story of journalist Daniel Pearl, who of course was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan. Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, Daniel`s widow.
And she has said that filming some of the more emotional scenes in this movie was the hardest thing she has ever done. Here now your first look.
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DAN FUTTERMAN, ACTOR: You make me happy every time you smile. We`re going to create a beautiful world together.
ANGELINA JOLIE, ACTOR: The day after 9/11, Danny and I flew to Pakistan. He was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and I was working for French Public Radio.
FUTTERMAN: Sorry I`m so late. I`ll call you. Leave your phone on.
JOLIE: OK.
By the end of January, we were ready to go home, but there was one more interview that Danny wanted.
When will you be home?
FUTTERMAN: I`m hoping 9:00. Listen, I love you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Danny, how are you? Is everything OK?
FUTTERMAN: Why? Is there a problem?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no. There is no problem.
JOLIE: I can`t get through to Danny.
FUTTERMAN: How far are we going? Is it far?
JOLIE: Danny had an interview, and he`s not back. He didn`t come home last night.
Hello?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Coming to you from the home of Daniel Pearl, the journalist who has been kidnapped in Pakistan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The most important thing for us is to find your husband.
JOLIE: There are so many people in this city. How would you find one man?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will fight kidnappers with kidnappings.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is Danny Pearl still alive?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought Jalani (ph) was the guy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was just the bait.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why did your husband have to meet with these people?
JOLIE: He`s a journalist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t think this is the business of a journalist.
JOLIE: Forgive me for correcting you, but it is absolutely the business of a journalist.
COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: We`re doing everything we can to try to locate him and rescue him.
JOLIE: There`s a gun to his head and he is smiling. And he`s telling me he`s OK.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you could say one thing to your husband now, what would you tell him.
JOLIE: I love you.
This film is for our son, so he knows that his father was an ordinary man, an ordinary hero.
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HAMMER: "A Mighty Heart" in theaters on June 22nd.
Well, Oliver Stone is taking on the war in Iraq. Coming up, the Oscar-winning director tells us why he absolutely had to make a commercial that is absolutely blistering in its criticism of the war.
We`ll also have this.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tell me you`re going to stop.
HASSELHOFF: I`m going to stop.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Promise?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ANDERSON: This is really sad. I was truly shocked to see this video of David Hasselhoff. Why did a family member tape him while he was drunk and incoherent? It is stunning to see this video. And we have the disturbing pictures, the video, and the even more disturbing story straight ahead.
HAMMER: And I was shocked to see Ricki Lake naked in her bathtub giving birth. Why did she let the cameras in? Ricki tells me the very moving story behind her fascinating new project, coming up.
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ANDERSON: Tomorrow, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger`s brutal custody battle heats up. They`re heading to court, and you can bet it`s going to get ugly, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the ferocious fight over their kid, tomorrow.
HAMMER: Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone is taking on President Bush and the war in Iraq. Stone is unveiling a new TV commercial, featuring a U.S. soldier who served in Iraq. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT talked to stone, but first, let`s take a look at the ad that he directed.
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SGT. JOHN BRUHNS, U.S. ARMY: One day there was a riot in the Abu Ghraib market area. We had 2,000 people protest our presence in their country. These were not terrorists. We were told that we were there to liberate these people. They were shooting at us. To keep American soldiers in Iraq for an indefinite period of time, being attacked by an unidentifiable enemy is wrong, immoral and irresponsible.
RON KOVIC, VIETNAM WAR VETERAN: Support our troops, bring them home.:
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HAMMER: Stone is a Vietnam veteran and he says that Vietnam vets have the same issues that the troops returning from Iraq are starting to talk about.
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OLIVER STONE, DIRECTOR: This confusion that these guys that are coming back now wounded, debilitated, some of them like John are in good health but they are saying what they feel. And this is what you`ve got to do. You`ve got to listen to these people. Not the spin, not the politicians. Not the generals. Listen to these people.
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HAMMER: Ron Kovic narrated the add. He wrote "Born on the Fourth of July" which Oliver Stone then directed for the big screen.
ANDERSON: A.J., I was really stunned and saddened when I saw this video of David Hasselhoff.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tell me you`re going to stop.
HASSELHOFF: I`m going to stop.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Promise?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ANDERSON: straight ahead, the disturbing video shot by a family member and the shocking story behind it.
HAMMER: Unbelievable. Also, goodbye business suit, hello birthday suit. A former contestant on "The Apprentice" is here to tell us why her spread in Playboy was all for a good cause.
ANDERSON: And everybody raise your hand if you want Paris Hilton to go away. I know there are a lot of you raising your hands right now. Coming up at 44 minutes past the hour, the song that is begging Paris to pack it in once and for all. Stay with us. We`re coming right back.
RICHELLE CAREY, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: I`m Richelle Carey with your HEADLINE PRIME news break. Senator Barack Obama is now under secret service protection at his request. Homeland Security Department won`t disclose details but the spokesman says there is no known specific threat against the Democratic presidential candidate. Obama staffers say the campaigner has been receiving hate mail and other threatening materials. The only other candidate receiving Secret Service protection is Senator Hillary Clinton because she is a former first lady.
And check out this amazing home video of a twister touching down near the White Sands, New Mexico, missile range. Two tornadoes were spotted there Wednesday and a third was seen over El Paso, Texas. No injuries or damage were reported.
And Queen Elizabeth is marking the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, England`s first permanent settlement in North America. In Richmond she offered Virginia`s General Assembly her condolences for last month`s Virginia Tech shootings. She later met with some victim`s families and people wounded in that attack. That is the news for now as we keep it right here on HEADLINE NEWS. I`m Richelle Carey.
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HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. It`s 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.
ANDERSON: And I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. This is TV`s most provocative entertainment news show.
HAMMER: Brooke, someday you might have kids. Would you ever let a camera crew film your birth?
ANDERSON: Heck no. Are you kidding? No way. Absolutely not.
HAMMER: Well, take a look at this.
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HAMMER: Recognize her? That is former talk show host Ricki Lake, giving birth, in her bath tub. And I actually give her a lot of credit for doing this. Coming up, Ricki is going to tell me why her most private moment is now her personal mission. It really is quite a story.
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ANDERSON: What a brave, brave soul Ricki Lake is.
Another amazing story, a former "Apprentice" contestant, who beat cervical cancer, posing in Playboy. Her inspirational story of why she`s taking off her clothes -- she`s going to be right here in a bit.
But first tonight, A.J., I have to say, I`ve seen shocking video in my day, but a videotape obtained by the TV show "Extra" of David Hasselhoff drunk on a Las Vegas hotel room floor -- just unbelievable. The "Baywatch" star and father of two is a recovering alcoholic who asked to be videotaped if he ever relapsed. Well, he did. A close family member was right there to capture the really disturbing incident. Take a look at this.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tell me you`re going to stop.
DAVID HASSELHOFF, ACTOR AND SINGER: I`m going to stop.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Promise?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes?
HASSELHOFF: Yes.
This is a mess.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why do you like doing this to yourself?
HASSELHOFF: (INAUDIBLE.)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tell me you`re going to stop drinking.
Tell me right now, or I`m not going to talk to you ever again. And I will truly disown you, because it`s not fair to me or your family, what you`re doing.
HASSELHOFF: I`ll be fine.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ANDERSON: Joining me from Las Vegas is "Extra" correspondent Jerry Penacoli. Jerry, thanks so much for joining us.
Hasselhoff, a recovering alcoholic, and he admits in a statement to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT that this is a relapse. Hasselhoff says, quote, "Because of my honest and positive relationship with my daughters, who were concerned for my well-being, there was a tape made that night to show me what I was like. I have seen the tape. I have learned from it, and I am back on my game. I thank God for the love and concern from my daughters. The tape was never meant to become public, but got into the hands of individuals who are not worthy of mentioning who maliciously released the tape for their own self purpose. I hope that someone else will learn from the tape, as I have."
Jerry, obviously, he`s not talking about "Extra," but about others close to him. You worked closely with Hasselhoff`s family and team throughout this whole thing, didn`t you?
JERRY PENACOLI, EXTRA CORRESPONDENT: We absolutely did. Let me just set the record straight. We have had this tape for quite some time and we have worked with the Hasselhoff family and with his team of lawyers to make sure that this tape was released in as respectful a way as possible. Because let`s face this, this is an astounding public intervention, precipitated by, shockingly, David Hasselhoff himself.
So why would this tape, you know, and how would this tape get into any other hands? We don`t know. But we do know that other outlets have purchased this tape, and for lots and lots of money. "Extra" -- and I`m going to go on the record, and I mean this unequivocally -- "Extra" paid no money for this tape. We wanted to make sure that the wishes of the Hasselhoff family were respected. And this tape was shot because David Hasselhoff wanted this tape shot.
ANDERSON: When was it shot? You say you have had it for a long time. When was it filmed?
PENACOLI: I can`t really reveal many more specifics about when and how and why, but I do know that we have had this tape for at least several weeks now. And Hasselhoff has admitted in the past that he has relapsed. And it`s a situation where he`s a guy holding up a mirror to himself and saying, look, I don`t want this to happen anymore. So take this videotape of me and remind me of what I`m like when I have a relapse.
ANDERSON: It`s ugly behavior.
PENACOLI: It is ugly and shocking and frankly, it`s sad.
ANDERSON: It`s disturbing. And how is his condition now? Is he sober?
PENACOLI: Apparently, he tells us through his lawyers that he is on the road to recovery. Now, any recovering alcoholic will tell that you that is a very rough road, as is evidenced in this videotape.
ANDERSON: Absolutely. Going to have to take it day by day. And this comes in a week, Jerry, that there was another court date. Pamela Bach and David Hasselhoff have been fighting over the custody of their two kids. You actually interviewed Pamela when they were first divorced. What did she tell you about her now ex-husband?
PENACOLI: At that point, she said that she has always loved David and will always love David, that they just can`t live together. But theirs was a very, very strong bond. Whatever happened obviously is between them and this custody battle is obviously an ongoing situation. But it`s, again, a sad situation because here`s a woman that admitted that she was still -- she still leave loved him. Whether she was in love with him, that`s another story.
ANDERSON: For the sake of the kids, let`s hope it plays out as peacefully as it can possibly play out. Thank you so much for joining us.
PENACOLI: My pleasure.
ANDERSON: You can catch more of the Hasselhoff video tonight on extratv.com
HAMMER: If you thought the David Hasselhoff video was shocking, we`re not done yet. I`ve got former talk show host Ricki Lake as you`ve never seen her before -- completely naked in her bathtub, giving birth and it`s all caught on tape. You heard me right. Ricki`s the executive producer of a new documentary called "The Business of Being Born." The film is about the ways women give birth.
I had the chance to go one-on-one with Ricki, who told me what she learned.
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HAMMER: You are clearly a passionate advocate for the idea that women should at least consider their options when they are going to give birth, whether they are going to go into a hospital situation or they should know that they can have natural childbirth, give birth at home. And you`re passionate to the extreme.
RICKI LAKE, FRM TALK SHOW HOST: Am I?
HAMMER: That you not only did this documentary, but you appear in your bathtub, naked, having your baby. And I have to say -- and childbirth is beautiful, don`t get me wrong -- but I saw it, and I was like, whoa!
LAKE: You didn`t expect it. That seems to be the thing that the press is picking up on. But it really is a very small part of the film, and I felt like it was necessary because I am speaking out about what I believe in, and I have to sort of practice what I preach. And I was trepidacious, because when I filmed it, I never intended for anybody to see it. In fact, I didn`t watch it for about a year after I actually had my baby. I didn`t want to look back and see, I`m naked throughout my house. It`s a beautiful moment, and I do think it`s a really important moment in the film. But I did have some issues about oh, gosh, what am I -- you know, I`ve always been pretty much an open book, but now I really am about as open as you can get.
HAMMER: Don`t get me wrong, I`m not latching onto it, even as a sensational moment of the film. It is just a part of the film and does seem to be an important component. You didn`t have to do that. You made the documentary. It spoke for itself.
LAKE: It was -- I`m sorry I cut you off -- but my director was questioning whether, in one cut of the film, the editor and Abby were trying to figure out where does her birth fit? It might not even fit in the film. And I was like, I think --
HAMMER: It obviously was important enough to you to include it.
LAKE: The experience itself was so transformative for me, and it stayed with me. Every day, and even through the process of the birth of this film, I`m changed by that experience, having been, you know, on my own terms, giving birth, on my own, not saved by anyone. It was just -- I can`t even -- it`s hard to come up with the words, but it`s pushing my body to the limit and being so resilient and to say I can do that. I can do anything.
HAMMER: It seems like the ultimate accomplishment. Never having gone through the process, and I never will, but the truth is, I got it, in terms of, it was such a connection to, Look, this is how women are giving birth in most of the world, and it`s also how birth was had long before the machines and the doctors who did surgery to perform births existed.
LAKE: That`s one of the aspects of the film, is the history of obstetrics in this country, I found fascinating as we were making this film. I didn`t know half the stuff. It`s really about empowering and educating women about the choices that they have today. Some of them are slowly being taken away with midwives being put out of hospitals and birth centers being shut down. We are advocating that women do their homework. And maybe have an interest in the process of labor and delivery and not just the end result.
HAMMER: One of the first things that struck me, as you appear first in this documentary, it`s like, wow, look at her. She looks terrific.
LAKE: In the documentary I look good?
HAMMER: Yes.
LAKE: It was a recent transformation.
HAMMER: Looking at you now, you look great. You did go through a very public battle with weight, when you were doing your television show.
LAKE: I still do. It`s not over.
HAMMER: Do you mind my asking what your weight was at its peak?
LAKE: Yes. I have been very candid about it -- 260 pounds. I was a size 24. And I was very young when I was that heavy. I was in my early 20s. It was right after I did a show called "China Beach" and after that, kind of the work for me dried up. I gained a lot of weight between "Hair Spray" and that time and I felt that my agent wasn`t calling me back. There were no other opportunities for me. I felt like I had to do something, change my -- something. Have a new gimmick.
I went on a big diet. It wasn`t healthy at that time for me, because I starved myself and didn`t know what to do. I had no money. It was when I reinvented myself that the talk show opportunity came up. It was a great fit for me and I did it for a long time.
And now, this is about kind of reinventing me in another way and showing that, though I really loved my talk show and I can`t believe we did 11 years and we did two thousand shows and I had a great time, I also love the fact that I can talk about something I`m so passionate about and hopefully gain some credibility as a producer and maybe teach people a little something about what I learned.
HAMMER: Congratulations on the documentary. It is terrific. And it will get some terrific information out there. It`s great to see you.
LAKE: Thank you so much. Great to see you, too.
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HAMMER: I asked Ricki if she would come back to daytime TV, maybe taking over Rosie O`Donnell`s soon-to-be-open job at "The View," she told me, never say never. "The Business of Being Born" is screening at the Tribeca film festival right now here in New York City.
ANDERSON: A.J., I think it`s fair to say, Paris Hilton gets on a lot of peoples` nerves. Up next, the new, no-holds-barred movement, sweeping the nation, to get Paris Hilton to go away once and for all.
HAMMER: That is fair, indeed.
Also, I`ve got an inspirational story coming up next. So amazing. An "Apprentice" contestant, who battled cancer, now posing for Playboy. Why she decided to trade in her business suit for her birthday suit. It will shock you. Plus this --
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Number five, lemon jello endorsements by celebrity guests.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE).
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HAMMER: Lot of controversy on "The View." But maybe none as big as the one that`s been brewing for ten years. A very funny look at that, coming up on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
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ANDERSON: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood.
Okay, if you are one of the many, many people that just can`t stand Paris Hilton -- I know there are definitely a few on our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT staff -- you are absolutely going to love this. There`s a brand new song out there called "Go Away, Paris Hilton." It`s got all Hilton-haters cheering and screaming from the rooftops. Take a look --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): I saw a story on the news today, it made me want to throw up, about a girl who just won`t go away. I think we`ve all had enough. And now I heard she said the N-word, then she said she`s just like me. Well, I don`t have $50 billion in my family. So here`s to you, Paris Hilton, could you hear me when I say, you`ve got every thing you want, so could you please just go away?
Here`s to you, Paris Hilton. Can I say what`s on our minds? Go away, go away, Paris Hilton. Leave America behind.
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ANDERSON: Actually kind of catchy, isn`t it? The band, Citizens for a Better America -- yes, that`s what they`re called -- are also circulating a "Go Away, Paris" petition on their web site, goawayparis.com.
HAMMER: Now, the inspirational amazing story of a TV star who battled cervical cancer and is bravely posing nude in Playboy to help others. We saw Christian LeFebrve on this season`s "The Apprentice," Donald Trump`s reality show, of course. But before she joined up with that show, underwent a radical hysterectomy as part of her treatment.
And after all that surgery, getting fired by the Donald, she has decided to trade-in her business suit for her birthday suit to inspire women everywhere.
Christine LeFebvre, joining me from Hollywood. It`s good to see you.
CHRISTINE LEFEBVRE: Hi, how are you?
HAMMER: As I mentioned, you were on the apprentice, Los Angeles version. You didn`t get hired. You got fired by Donald.
LEFEBVRE: I got fired.
HAMMER: But after the apprentice, the phone rings. It`s a personal phone call from Mr. Hugh Hefner himself saying, I want you to pose nude in Playboy. Did you think at first maybe somebody was playing a practical joke?
LEFEBVRE: It was pretty surreal, but I have had a professional relationship with Playboy for about seven years, so it wasn`t completely crazy, but to actually have Hef pick up the phone and call me -- I thought maybe his assistant was calling, and it literally is Hugh Hefner on the phone, and I`m like, Okay, when?
HAMMER: That doesn`t happen all the time. I`ve got to know, because now that I have worked with two of the big shots, Hugh Hefner and Donald Trump, which was harder -- that whole interview process you do with Donald on "The Apprentice" or doing that spread in Playboy magazine, of course knowing millions of people are going to see you naked?
LEFEBVRE: Absolutely working with Donald was far more difficult. Hef is fantastic. The people at Playboy were fantastic. And I had, you know, you have beautiful light and you have beautiful makeup. We looked like hell when we were sleeping in the tents. I don`t usually go through a job interview going to the bathroom in a Port-a-potty.
HAMMER: Let`s talk about what happened before you did "The Apprentice." Even six months before it started taping, you did a radical hysterectomy because of her cervical cancer. I know you told our producer that some people in society -- and this is for better or worse -- equate a woman`s worth and femininity on her ability to have children. Here you are, celebrating your body and the beauty of it, nude in all its glory. I have to imagine, after undergoing that hysterectomy, it was a pretty empowering experience.
LEFEBVRE: I, myself, when I was younger -- people in college would joke -- I was actually deemed good breeding stock. And when my husband and I had been undergoing infertility treatments for about two-and-a-half years, so when they literally take the only organ out of you that separates men and women, it`s a complete and total mind bender, and you`re just like, am I really still a woman?
And it took me a long time to deal with that, and when Mr. Hefner calls me and says I`d like you to be in Playboy, I`m like, this is the man who has set the standard for what women are in this country and in this world by having one of the most successful men`s magazines out there. So that`s when I took a step back and I said you know what, just because I can`t bear my own children, I`m still a woman and I`m going to be proud of that. And I hope that, whether it be one woman or thousands of women, whether they have undergone hysterectomies or mastectomies, feel good about who you are as a woman, go find that sexy lingerie that you used to wear, because you`re still a woman. Because it`s only inside of us that we know that there`s something missing. There`s nothing less about us.
HAMMER: Well, it`s really terrific that you have taken that kind of an attitude with it. And you`re raising awareness by doing this. Not only about the risks of cancer but also the importance of early detection.
LEFEBVRE: Oh, absolutely. They caught mine on a fluke. I was -- when we were undergoing the infertility treatments. To me in this day and age with medical technology out there and having vaccines -- I`m not a doctor and haven`t studied it -- but you have to take care of yourself.
HAMMER: You have to go in for the early checks.
Thank you very much for what you did.
And, of course, you can pick up your copy of Playboy, not only for Christine, but for the great articles, too, on newsstands Friday.
ANDERSON: There`s another "View" controversy tonight.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Number five, lemon jello endorsements by celebrity guests.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE).
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ANDERSON: A very funny look at the latest show scandal -- it`s been brewing for ten years. That`s next.
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HAMMER: With all the controversy, all the scandal, this just might be the year that "The View" co-hosts finally win that coveted Daytime Emmy. The show`s been nominated all 10 years it`s been on, but has never taken home the statue in the host category.
So, here, now, Joy Behar, with a very funny list of why she thinks this is the year for her, Elisabeth, Rosie and Barbara.
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JOY BEHAR, CO-HOST, THE VIEW: Every year, I say we`re never going to win an Emmy on this show, because there`s always one of us to hate. But this year I really think we have a shot, and I`ve come up with ten reasons why I think we`re going to have a shot.
Number ten, we`ve already lost nine times and Susan Lucci is worried we`ll beat her record.
Number nine, we`re the only show with hot topics and hot flashes.
Number eight, we promise our acceptance speech will be shorter than Britney`s hair.
Number seven, we give free juice, cookies, and foot massages to our studio audience.
Number six, we all know how to decoupage -- smooth, smooth, smooth.
Number five, lemon jello endorsements by celebrity guests.
Number four, if Barbara Walters` dog can talk --
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BEHAR: -- then anything is possible.
Number three, two words -- celebrity feuds.
Number two, we support the American confetti industry in between parades.
And the number one reason why we might win the Emmy this year, Donald Trump is not a Daytime Emmy voter!
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HAMMER: They`d better be careful. Donald might try to find a way to vote. Joy Behar doing a little schtick there.
The Daytime Emmies air Friday, June 15th on CBS.
ANDERSON: Yesterday we asked you to vote on our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Question of the Day. It was this: Britney Spears performs again: Can she ever be as big as she was? Only 27 percent of you say yes. That means 73 percent of you say, no, she can`t ever be as big. The e-mails that we received:
Mallory from Michigan thinks Brit can bounce back: "Britney obviously has battle she needs to overcome, but so does a lot of the population. People can relate to her..."
But Susan from Maine is mad at her comeback shows: "Britney Spears did not `sing` her songs at that short concert. If she can`t actually sing live, she`s going to...fade away."
HAMMER: I think she should become a punk rocker. I thought that was a good idea.
That is it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. thanks for watching. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.
ANDERSON: I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. Have a great night.
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