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Showbiz Wedding Planner; Jolie`s Ring; Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth
Aired April 16, 2012 - 23:00 ET
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A.J. HAMMER, HOST (voice-over): Big news breaking tonight on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Showbiz is the wedding planner. Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT plans the Hollywood wedding of the new century for Brad and Angelina. Where should they get married? Who should be there?
Plus, the big, burning bling questions about Angelina`s engagement ring. Showbiz dares to ask, did Brad do good or is the engagement ring just to conventional?
A SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive. Tussling with Tyson. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is in Las Vegas exclusively with Iron Mike as he pulls no punches in his brand new one-man show.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s the Mike Tyson you`ve never seen. The Mike Tyson you didn`t know existed.
HAMMER: Tonight, Boxing`s bad boy gets real with us in a knockout SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive.
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HAMMER: Johnny Depp, Natalie portman, singing about love for Paul McCartney? Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT brings you the amazing new video as two of Hollywood giants team up with the music god.
TV`s most provocative entertainment news show breaks news right now.
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HAMMER (on-camera): Hello. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. Thank you for watching. Tonight, we are breaking big news with the showbiz wedding planner. Now, I want you to listen up, Brad and Angelina. We do not want to you get all stressed out about your upcoming wedding and that is why tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is right here to help.
Yes. The world was buzzing today because with apologies to Beyonce, of course, Brad Pitt finally, finally put a ring on it. A very big, very expensive engagement ring right on the finger of Angelina Jolie, and she will no longer be a single lady. And there is wild speculation everywhere today about the who, the what, the where, when and why.
Who`s going to come to this thing? What in the world will Angie wear? Do you think people will be paying attention to that? Where will they get married? When will it happen? And why now, after seven years and six kids?
SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is breaking it all down tonight and breaking news with wedding planner to the stars, Kevin Lee. Kevin planned Brad Pitt`s wedding to Jennifer Aniston. He was also the inspiration for the wedding planner in the hit film "Father of the Bride."
Kevin with me right now in New York for the "Showbiz Newsmaker Exclusive Interview". Great to have you here.
KEVIN LEE, WEDDING PLANNER: Hello, A.J.
HAMMER: This is big and exciting news in your world.
LEE: I`m so excited.
HAMMER: You`re over the moon about this.
LEE: Oh, my god! You know what? The first wedding was incredible and so fabulous. And second wedding around, we`ll see what happens.
HAMMER: We`ll see what happens. And of course, the big engagement announcement caught just about everybody by surprise, except for, perhaps, some SHOWBIZ TONIGHT viewers, but SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Kareen Wynter put the question right out there to SAG Awards in January.
She asked Brad and Angelina directly back in January if they would ever tie the knot. Here`s what they told her.
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KAREEN WYNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I have to ask you about the recent headlines where you said the little kids, they`re kind of chomping at the bit saying, mommy and daddy, we want you to tie the knot. Can you set the record straight here for us, Brad?
BRAD PITT, ACTOR: The kids are. The kids don`t understand why, you know, their friends` parents are married and why aren`t mommy and daddy married, and they`re asking.
WYNTER: Do you think that`s a possibility?
ANGELINA JOLIE, ACTRESS: I don`t think this is the moment to discuss it, but thank you for asking.
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HAMMER: It`s all right. Little funny. Angelina little tight lip there. I was listening very closely to what Brad said. I thought he was dropping a hint there that something was in the works. Kevin, I would imagine you would love to have the opportunity to do yet another Brad Pitt wedding.
LEE: Absolutely. It`s going to be the most extreme wedding ever. His first wedding was incredible, I`m sure. But Angelina has her own, you know, beautiful ideas, and Brad Pitt, himself, is this incredible person.
HAMMER: Will you pick up the phone to call him to see if he`s interested?
LEE: I`d love to. Definitely.
HAMMER: And here`s my question, though. You`ve done so many celebrity weddings, correct?
LEE: Yes, I have.
HAMMER: Is it kind of bad luck to bring in the same people to do the second wedding for a different bride?
LEE: I don`t think so. This is Hollywood here. You`re talking about all these celebrities.
HAMMER: Yes.
LEE: You know? Their weddings last about, you know, two or three years, but they`ve been engaged for over seven years.
HAMMER: Keeps business. Good for you. You did a good job the first time.
LEE: Definitely.
HAMMER: Let me bring in SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Nischelle Turner from Hollywood. Help us out with some of the details here, Nischelle. Have they told us where the wedding will be held? What`s going on? I need to know.
NISCHELLE TURNER, HLN CORRESPONDENT: Well, A.J., you know, I couldn`t just pick up the phone and say, hey, Angie, where are we going to do all this, but no, you know, she didn`t pick up the phone. So, anyway, no, we don`t really know exactly where it`s going to be held, but here`s what we have heard.
They may have been planning this for about six months now, and one of the places rumored, the south of France. I`ve also heard rumors that maybe they want to do it stateside. It could be somewhere like New Orleans. So, I don`t know where it`s going to be held.
I would personally say New Orleans, but that`s just because I love the city. So, we have to wait on that and still dig a little bit.
HAMMER: Well, there`s a reason they say (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE), Nischelle. And text Angie next time, by the way. You`ll get a quicker response from her. Kevin, I want you to help us bring all this together, because obviously, you have planned so many lavish weddings, including Brad Pitt`s very first one.
LEE: Sure.
HAMMER: Where do you think they should have it? I actually think New Orleans is a terrific idea. They spent a great deal of time in the city. A lot of special meaning to them.
LEE: I love that area. I think it`s gorgeous. It`s lots of fun. She has a castle. I think she just bought a castle because that (ph). Because, you know, all that paparazzi and people, they have six kids. It`s very tough having a wedding with these humongous celebrities in states. I mean, first wedding was really tough. I mean, it was like --
HAMMER: We remember that. It was a very hard thing to pull off.
LEE: Exactly. You cannot have a privacy wedding like this. So, to me, south of France would be just incredible.
HAMMER: Yes. They could, you know, charter a jet, hire John Travolta to fly everybody over or something like that. I`m thinking -- and I`m thinking this could actually go down in history as, perhaps, the best- looking wedding party ever.
Nischelle, you`re out there on the Internet just like me (ph) looking at all of the buzz about who the maid of honor will be. What do you see in most people saying?
TURNER: Well, you know, that`s the thing, A.J. This could get kind of tricky, because back in December, Angelina did an interview with "Marie Claire" magazine, and she said, you know, I don`t really have many girlfriends. I talk to Brad, but he`s kind of it. So, who`s going to stand up for her?
Maybe her brother and that could be untraditional because they`re not really traditional. He could stand up for her. But I don`t know if it would be that hard of a task to find a girl to stand up there with her for the wedding. As a matter of fact, I can squash all of this right now. I will do it. I`ll volunteer. I`ll be the maid of honor. What do you think?
HAMMER: I`m sure you`re the next phone call if the first choice -- or maybe you`re the first choice. I don`t want to put my foot in my mouth here. What do you think, Kevin? Who do you think should be in this wedding party? I think a lot of us would love to see George Clooney, Brad`s buddy, as best man, obviously.
LEE: Yes, I`m sure. I mean, you know, we`re talking a wedding here. The wedding is very traditional. They have six kids. I mean, you know, when you`re raising six kids, it`s not that easy. So, I mean, this is going to be like a sample of Hollywood traditional wedding ever.
You know, it`s not like that -- you know, it`s like Hollywood is kind of funky, cheesy. You never know all these celebrities, once in a while, - - you know, look at -- Britney Spears, when she had a wedding. No one knew what happened. This is so funky.
HAMMER: Yes. But I don`t think -- you don`t think that a Brad and Angie wedding is going to be funky or cheesy.
LEE: Not at all.
HAMMER: they`re Hollywood royalty, as big as it gets, and perhaps, one of the classiest couples in Hollywood as well.
LEE: I think it`s going to be just elegant and --
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LEE: He has excellent taste, so does Angelina. They have beautiful taste.
HAMMER: Yes. Well, and, of course, you can`t plan a big, lavish wedding without a big, lavish wedding dress or at least something that is going to be just out of this world that everybody is going to be paying close attention to. And I`m predicting, and this may be a stretch, Angelina will look amazing in whatever she wears.
But what do you think, Kevin? What should she wear? Would you see her in some kind of big ballroom gown? That`s not where my head is at. It would be something that, obviously, is custom designed to her, unique and very much Angelina Jolie.
LEE: To me, she`s like a (INAUDIBLE). It used to be she was a very gothic. But she has six kids as she changed a lot and she grown up like such a gorgeous lady. So, I think she`s going to wear just something (INAUDIBLE), also same time very elegant, feminine, something really beautiful gown. I mean, also, I have, you know, "Brides of Beverly Hills" on TLC, and I can just show her gorgeous gowns --
HAMMER: I think we`ll have to make that connection if, you know, they call you themselves and there you have it, because, you know, of all the things people speculate, really, the gown is probably going to get its own issue of many of the magazines.
And of course, look, it`s going to take an enormous amount of time to plan such a lavish wedding as we all expect it will be, all the bells and the whistles.
Nischelle, do you get the feeling this thing is a long way off so they can have all the time they need to plan or do you think it`s going to come together kind of quickly?
TURNER: You know, that`s so tough, A.J. You know, with these two, you never know. They could be married already as far as we know. Who knows? But I would think, and I hope they actually surprise us. Do something low key and do it quickly.
But I would have to say now that they`re kind of going the traditional route for the kids, the kids have been asking, I do think maybe they will actually have that traditional ceremony, and that does take a little time to plan. So, maybe summer, early fall? That would be beautiful. She`ll look great.
HAMMER: What do you thin, Kevin? Could they pull this together by summertime?
LEE: Definitely. I think. Definitely. I mean, you know, if you plan it right, it doesn`t really have to take a long time to plan any wedding.
HAMMER: And if you have the right people on your side.
LEE: That`s right. Just like me. You know, I can plan a wedding.
HAMMER: Did you do a good job the first time for Brad Pitt?
LEE: It was gorgeous.
HAMMER: Because the marriage didn`t work out, but that had nothing to do with you, right?
LEE: No, no. Not at all.
HAMMER: All right. By the way, I think, you know, in addition to having the makings of a great wedding, did you see this wedding ring, the engagement ring? Can we put that up, Charles? Take look at this thing. This is unbelievable.
Just a few moments away, we`ll have answers to all the burning bling questions floating around out there tonight. Kevin Lee, thank you so much for being with us.
LEE: I appreciate it.
HAMMER: Well, there`s more big news breaking tonight. Howard Stern`s brand new Kim Kardashian slam.
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HOWARD STERN, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: This is a girl who got famous revealing everything about her personal life. Now she thinks she`s Jennifer Aniston. She on there, "I don`t want to talk about Kanye, I don`t want to speak about it. I don`t read the tabloids."
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HAMMER (voice-over): Yes. Doesn`t the kind of radio have a point? Can Kim K. really expect privacy after broadcasting every detail of her 72- day marriage to Kris Humphries?
Former "Entertainment Tonight" anchor, John Tesh, has thoroughly covered more celebrity battle with just about anybody on TV. He is right here tonight to weigh in on Stern versus Kim K.
Plus, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is one-on-one tonight with Mike Tyson at his new Las Vegas show.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Mike Tyson you`ve never seen. The Mike Tyson you didn`t know existed.
MIKE TYSON, FORMER BOXER: I was a 14-year-old kid, and I was knocking out grown men.
HAMMER: So, what do you think scares Boxing`s bad boy? Iron Mike getting real in a knockout showbiz exclusive interview you have got to see. this is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN "news and views."
Time now for the "Showbiz News Ticker." These are more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Many people are wondering, is relationship for real or is it just another publicity stunt?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s for real.
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HAMMER (voice-over): How does that not just make you smile? That is seven-year-old`s cutie patootie star of "Toddlers and Tiaras" in wood coming out of retirement from the beauty pageant world to start her own brand-new reality show, "Eden`s World." But it may not be all fun and games.
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HAMMER (on-camera): Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York with in his world. Now, imagine being a sever-year-old retiree teaching a thing or two about beauty pageants to your peers. Well, that is just what former "Toddlers and Tiaras" star, seven-year-old Eden Wood has set out to do.
She`s got a brand-new reality show on Logo. Eden has more than 300 of those catwalks under her belt. Now, she`s setting her sights on Hollywood, but how is she dealing with the ups and downs of fame, because it can be tough. Well, she`s here right now to tell me.
Eden Woods is with me in New York as well as mom, Mickie. It`s great to see you both. Old friends, right? We`re old friends we go back. You give me (ph) high five. It`s nice to see you. And when we first met right here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, it was back in February, so not all that long ago.
And you`re retired from the pageant world, but you are looking to do something bigger, and now -- do I have this right? You`re setting out to be the next big superstar like a Selena Gomez?
EDEN WOOD, REALITY CHILD STAR: Hmm.
HAMMER: So, we take a look at you in action, trying to be the next Selene Gomes.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t think Eden was prepped enough for this. I just don`t think they understood the magnitude. I was so embarrassed.
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HAMMER: It seemed to start out good, but then, it didn`t seem like it was all that much fun. What was going on there?
EDEN WOOD: I was having fun, but Andrew is so crazy.
HAMMER: I mean, you had that look on your face like you were horrified by what was going on. What happened?
EDEN WOOD: Heather and Andrew made me do "cutie patootie," and I really didn`t want to do it so I just did it.
HAMMER: You know, as a big-time celebrity, sometimes, you just have to say no, right?
EDEN WOOD: I haven`t even done it in a long time.
HAMMER: You know, the truth is, Mickie, it is tough for a seven-year- old let alone, you know, to handle rejection, let alone with the cameras rolling and everything like that. Are you worried at all that this quest, as cute as it all may be, might be just too much?
MICKIE WOOD, EDEN`S MOTHER: No, because -- and you can ask her what I tell her. Usually, on a weekly basis, is, Eden, if you don`t want to do this anymore --
EDEN WOOD: We can go home.
HAMMER: And so far, you haven`t said that, right?
MICKIE WOOD: I mean, it`s really all about her. I`m just the hired help.
HAMMER: And you know -- well, I hope you`re paying her well.
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HAMMER: Listen, there are always going to be critics out there any time children are involved with television saying she`s too young to be doing this, but in this brand new show, you said, my baby is going to be a superstar. Will you be heartbroken if that doesn`t happen?
MICKIE WOOD: No, because that`s what she wants. I am giving her every opportunity to have a better life, the life that she`s choosing, while keeping up with the education and the turning out to be a decent human being.
HAMMER: Yes, but choosing your life at seven for a lot of us is a foreign idea. But Eden, what about you? What if you don`t wind up being a big, huge superstar? Is that OK? You`re all right with that?
EDEN WOOD: Yes. I`m fine.
HAMMER: But you`re going to make it happen, aren`t you?
EDEN WOOD: Yes.
HAMMER: Do you love being on TV?
EDEN WOOD: Yes.
HAMMER: Do you love being able to boss mom around a little bit, too?
EDEN WOOD: Yes.
HAMMER: I mean, really, is that the best part of the whole gig?
MICKIE WOOD: Watch it, kid.
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HAMMER: Well, it`s great to see you both, and can I get another high five, too? Come back and see us. We`ll be watching. Eden Wood and Mickie, thank you both so much. Make sure you catch "Eden`s World." It`s on Logo.
As we move on tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Mike Tyson exclusive. You have got to see. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT taking on Iron Mike and his brand new one-man show in Las Vegas.
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TYSON: You have to understand, every man I met, they`re all chauvinistics. You know, they believe they`re superior to women and that`s the world I grew up in.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s stories like that, but Mike Tyson hopes he will pack the theatre here at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. He understands some of this is wrong, even jaw dropping. But it`s his life, what he calls his undisputed truth.
HAMMER (voice-over): Now, this is a side of Iron Mike you have never seen before. It is a pull no punches showbiz exclusive interview.
Please, take me back. Did Marc Anthony just make that desperate plea to Jennifer Lopez? Well, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is revealing the reports of her shocking reaction. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN, "News and Views."
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HAMMER (on-camera): Time now for the showbiz news ticker. More stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.
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HAMMER: Tonight, Ryan O`Neal`s cancer revelation. The actor`s brave confession that he`s facing cancer for the second time.
And Kelsey gets ink. Why Kelsey Grammer just got a tattoo on his hip.
Plus, the new "Three Stooges" movie gets a poke (ph) in the eye. One religious group isn`t laughing at Larry Curly and most updated high jinx. That tops the buzz today.
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HAMMER (voice-over): "Three Stooges" slam. A group of catholic has just blasted the brand-new "Three Stooges" movie over what it says are some unfunny nuns. (INAUDIBLE) who wears a little swimsuit with a big rosary, and Larry David`s (ph) character is named Sister Mary Mangala (ph) (INAUDIBLE).
In a new statement on its website, the catholic (ph) lashes out at the move remake of the classic TV comedy. "In the 1950s, Hollywood was respectful of religion. Today, it specializes in crudity and trashes Christianity with specially Catholicism. Enter. The Three Stooges."
Ryan`s cancer revelation. Ryan O`Neal has just opened up for the first time about his own personal battle with stage IV prostate cancer. Ryan, who battled leukemia in the late 1990s tells People.com in a statement, "According to my extraordinary team of doctors, prognosis is positive for a full recovery."
Ryan`s revelation comes just three years after his partner, Farrah Fawcett, lost her very public battle with cancer.
Kelsey`s hip new tattoo. Kelsey Grammer has gotten himself inked for the very first time. The tattoo artist in Chicago tweeted a picture of Grammer getting the new tattoo over the weekend. Kelsey picked his hip for the new artwork and the design? His fourth wife`s name, Kate.
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HAMMER (on-camera): time now for the showbiz line-up, here`s what`s coming up on the bottom of the hour on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
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HAMMER (voice-over): And tonight, we have burning, bling questions we must get to. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the inside story on Angelina Jolie`s huge engagement ring. So the question is, did Brad do the right thing and pick the right rock?
Plus, Howard Stern blasts Kim K. He`s all fired up now that Kim Kardashian wants to keep her love life private. You know, she did get famous by sharing every single detail of her life on TV. Showbiz dares to ask, does Howard have a point?
And the great John Tesh followed celebrity feuds for years as the anchor of "Entertainment Tonight." Well, john is right here with his take on the Kim K. and Howard Stern showdown.
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HAMMER (on-camera): SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN, "News and Views."
Here`s the showbiz news ticker. More stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really got along with everybody. You know, I liked everybody. Everybody got along with me. So, I don`t really get caught up in the drama, if you noticed. You know, there`s not enough going on on my show, so I want to kind of stand back and watch somebody else do it.
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HAMMER (voice-over): Big news breaking tonight on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Burning bling questions about Angelina Jolie`s engagement ring. Showbiz dares to ask, did Brad do good? And is it just wrong to compare Angie`s ring to Jennifer Aniston`s?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Mike Tyson you`ve never seen. The Mike Tyson you didn`t know existed.
MIKE TYSON, FORMER BOXER: When I was 14-year-old kid, man, I was knocking on grown men.
HAMMER: Mike Tyson unplugged. From boxing great to stage performer? Iron Mike takes on his biggest challenge yet fighting his own demons in a candid, new, one-man show.
Howard Stern`s Kim Kardashian slam. "America`s Got Talent`s" newest judge calls Kim out for her Kanye`s coyness.
HOWARD STERN, "AMERICA`S GOT TALENT" JUDGE: This is a girl who got famous revealing everything about her personal life. Now she`s on, and she thinks she`s Jennifer Aniston. She says, I don`t want to talk about Kanye, I don`t want to speak about it, I don`t want to read the tabloids.
HAMMER: Tonight we`ve got what set Howard off.
And former "Entertainment Tonight" anchor John Tesh sounds off. He`s right here in an all-new "SHOWBIZ Newsmaker" interview.
ANNOUNCER: TV most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.
HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Thank you for watching. It is 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York with big news breaking tonight.
The big, burning bling questions about Angelina Jolie`s brand new ring. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT learned new details today about the engagement ring that Brad Pitt gave her. It is a stunning design and he helped create it. Brad spent a year designing Angie`s ring with jeweler Robert Procop and tell SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Brad had a specific vision for this ring.
But tonight there are actually cries of outrage over Brad`s so-called vision. Could it be that the emerald cut ring is too conservative for Hollywood`s royal couple? Well, who better to weigh in on the bling than Anja Winikka who is the jewelry editor for the Weddingchannel.com.
And I was thinking as we sat down, this is as big as it gets in your world, isn`t it?
ANJA WINIKKA, JEWELRY EDITOR, WEDDINGCHANNEL.COM: This is huge for us.
HAMMER: And the buzz online has been enormous as well about the ring since the news that Brad popped the question, and I was surprised how much negative stuff is out there. Let me now roll out for you SHOWBIZ stats on the ring.
Angie`s ring worth an estimated $250,000. The ring is a reported six karats. It has been reported to be an emerald cut or a cut that Brad designed himself. It seems like a fine ring to me, what do I know? A lot of people are actually calling the ring boring, Anja?
What do you think? Is it really too conservative for Angelina?
WINIKKA: I don`t think it`s too conservative.
HAMMER: Right?
WINIKKA: I think it really fits her. It`s sleek, it`s sophisticated, it`s stylish. It`s who she is. And that`s really what your engagement ring should be.
HAMMER: And the fact that he helped designed it, I mean, something that says it all, famous or not, that just shows commitment and --
WINIKKA: Completely.
HAMMER: Obviously we know they have a great aesthetic.
WINIKKA: Completely. A custom-designed ring from your fiance? How much better it`s going to get?
HAMMER: But you`re probably see in this bus online today that I couldn`t help but notice everybody comparing Angie`s ring and the ring that Brad gave to Jennifer Aniston when they got engaged. I supposed it`s inevitable. Let me run this down for you.
Jen`s worth a whopping $500,000. Hey, that`s twice Angie`s. It had three rose of 20 spiraling diamonds. Her ring was a run cut.
Anja, who wins this ring bling wars? Is it Aniston or Jolie. Or is it just wrong to compare the two?
WINIKKA: Personally I think it`s wrong to compare the two. They`re very different people. You know, Angelina has six kids, they`re raising a family. And maybe she doesn`t want to be so flashy. They`re not living that from flashy lifestyle. So I don`t think it`s really fair to compare the two.
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HAMMER: But it`s going to happen. I mean that`s just what people are going to do.
WINIKKA: But it`s going to happen. You`re completely right.
HAMMER: Look, you`re on the commitment business for Weddingchannel.com. A lot of people asking why not for Brad and Angie? Why mess up a good thing? I don`t think it`s going to mess things up, I think it`s just going to make them stronger.
WINIKKA: No -- I man, a wedding -- we love weddings obviously. And you know I think if their kids were asking for it, this is just another sign of their commitment to one another. I don`t think it really change anything.
HAMMER: I say good for them, everybody.
WINIKKA: Good for them.
HAMMER: Good for them. All right. Anja Winikka, thank you so much for your insight. I appreciate it.
WINIKKA: Thank you.
HAMMER: Well, one Hollywood insider who certainly knows a thing or two or three or four about these megastar wedding. The great John Tesh. John covered more than a share of breaking celebrity moves when he of course was the co-host of "Entertainment Tonight." Well, now John is a big time music star. He`s got a brand new album you must check out, it`s called "Big Band." It`s out tomorrow the same day his public television special "Big Band Live" is out on DVD.
Joining me now from Hollywood -- there he is -- John Tesh, great to see you, John.
JOHN TESH, SINGER: Thank you, A.J. You know, I`m a big fan of yours. I watch you every night. And now under your wedding correspondent apparently which is one of the biblical signs of the end of the world, as I understand.
HAMMER: That`s perfect, John, and quite frankly I`ll take every viewer I can get so I thank you. And by the way, congrats on the CD. We`ve got to talk about that in a moment but first I do need to get your take as my wedding correspondent on the big Brangelina engagement.
This obviously is huge news in our world. Having covered countless celebrity events, celebrity weddings for all those years you were hosting "ET."
HAMMER: Do you think that the Brad and Angeline marriage will certainly turn out to be the wedding of this young century, I do.
TESH: Well, yes, I do. And I also that -- I can comment on this. I think there`s some relevance to my life. My wife and I, Connie Sellecca, and we`ve been married just last week. We`re married for 20 years.
HAMMER: Wow.
TESH: Twenty-one years ago when he met. Her son, now my stepson Gibb. He was 9 years old so what -- we wanted a small wedding. But the reason we have such a huge wedding and at the time it was in the cover of "People" magazine. There are helicopters all -- I mean look at who I married.
It was one of those things when we thought, you know what, we need to have a big ceremony for our son Gibb. That`s why we had it. We also have a three-ring ceremony where it was -- I gave Connie a ring, she gave me one, and we both gave Gibb one, so I`m sure that`s what `s going on here.
HAMMER: And look at you still going strong after all these years. It actually can happen in Hollywood so congratulations to you and Connie on that. Obviously we know, John, it`s not only the case out in that town.
But there is another Hollywood royal couple. Actually you pretty spells this out for us. Jennifer Lopez and Mark Anthony. A lot of us genuinely shocked when they announced their split last summer.
Now a lot of people have even continue to hope for reconciliation there and there is a new TMZ report saying that Mark tried to work it out. Jen wasn`t on board because she`s apparently already fallen madly in love with her 25-year-old boyfriend Casper Smart.
Now, John, only Mark and J.Lo obviously know the real story here. But do you think that this love drama actually turns their fans off?
TESH: I can`t -- I don`t know. I really don`t know. And I think that right now J.Lo is probably watching this, going, why is John Tesh commenting --
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TESH: On my -- on my life. But, you know, is it -- is it a rebound? You know, I don`t know, but again, it`s one of those things where -- when I first -- I`ll take it back to my life. When I first met Connie and we were going out, she refused to let me meet her 9-year-old son until she was serious about me, and I think that whatever they`re doing, I know she`s got twins, I think it`s probably important for her to consider that before she goes, you know, too far. I`m sure the twins have probably met him at this point. But that`s a big deal. I know there are a lot of blended families who are listening to this right now knowing that it`s very important to consider the kids first in any new relationship.
HAMMER: But there has been, John, a lot of talk lately about rumored couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Now while Kim has been mum on the subject, but Howard Stern who is now a judge on "America`s Got Talent," he is not keeping quiet about this at all. You`ve got to watch what Howard just told "Extra" about it.
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STERN: I saw her on an interview. This is a girl who got famous revealing everything about her personal life. Now she`s on, now she thinks she`s Jennifer Aniston. She says, I don`t want to talk about Kanye, I don`t want to speak about it, I don`t read the tabloids, everybody back off. The second her show gets a dip in the ratings, she`ll have Kanye out there in his underpants dancing around on her show. I mean, come on, already.
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HAMMER: Yes, I mean, as usual I think Howard is just spot on. I`ll never fault somebody for wanting privacy, but for serial over share, Kim Kardashian, it just seems to be the height of hypocrisy, don`t you think?
TESH: Well, listen, personally, I actually saw the "Today" show interview. And we were watching it at home and I thought, wow, there`s something, you know, wrong with this. I think that, you know, if you can dig through the -- set aside some of the craziness that Howard does, Howard and have been friends for years, and he`s a smart guy and I think this -- that`s a smart thing to say.
When you trade on using your family, using, you know, everybody you relate to, when you trade on that for money and for ratings like she`s done, I don`t -- I`m not sure you get to back out of that and say, oh, by the way, I just, you know --
HAMMER: Yes.
TESH: I`m going to set this one aside. So I think -- I think those of us who were watching might have been offended.
HAMMER: At least you don`t get to complain about it if you do try to keep some privacy there.
All right. But let`s talk about your brand new CD. It`s "Big Band," all the songs we love on this thing. It`s coming out tomorrow along with it the DVD with a special airing on Public TV through June, I understand. I know you love being in the recording studio, John, but are you most at home on stage?
TESH: Yes, I`m definitely most at home on stage. And we do -- and we do a radio show that`s called Intelligence for Your Life, and so when we get on stage, we go a bunch of concerts coming up in New York. We not only do the "Big Band" show but we also talk about, you know, finding your purpose and your mission in life and all that. So it`s a great -- it`s a great blend for me.
These are the songs that I grew up with when I was a kid, you know, growing up on Long Island and my dad brought them home from Okinawa when he was serving there. So it`s a fun place for me to be.
HAMMER: Best of luck with it, John. Thanks so much for being here tonight.
TESH: A.J., I`m a fan. Thank you.
HAMMER: Thanks so much. Be sure to check out John`s new CD out tomorrow. It`s called "Big Band."
We got to move on to a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive. We are with Mike Tyson exclusively as the former heavyweight champion is back in Vegas not in a boxing ring but in his very own one-man show. Is Mike a changed man?
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TYSON: You have to understand, any man I met, they were all chauvinistic. You know they believed they were superior to women and that`s the world I grew up in.
HAMMER: Tonight it`s a knockout. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive with Iron Mike.
Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Paul McCartney. Tonight rock and Hollywood royalty team up. It is a musical dream team.
It is the totally genius and captivating music video. You got to see it.
This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN, news and views. Time for the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT news ticker, more stories from SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.
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HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.
Tonight, Mike Tyson unplugged. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT just sat down with the former heavyweight boxing champion to talk about the latest chapter in his life. We`ll get to that in just a moment, but first, Iron Mike has just made what is considered by some extremely disturbing comments about the Trayvon Martin case. He just gave an interview to Yahoo News where he said it`s a disgrace that George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon, hasn`t been shot yet. Let me read exactly what Tyson said.
"We have to continue tweeting, we have to continue marching, we have to continue fighting for Trayvon Martin. If that`s not the case, kill George Zimmerman have gotten away with impunity. It`s a disgrace that man hasn`t been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That`s the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It`s a disgrace that man has he been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested, the fact that he hasn`t been shot yet is a disgrace."
Moving on now to a Mike Tyson exclusive. As we are reminded with those explosive comments, Mike has always been considered a loose cannon outside and inside the boxing ring from the infamous bite fight to that face tattoo and of course his rape conviction. Mike Tyson`s public personal has been shaped by a lifetime of outrageous behavior. Well, now Mike wants to put the script and starring in a one-man show about his life and as SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Nischelle Turner found out, when we sat down with Mike in Las Vegas, if you thought Mike Tyson couldn`t still shock you, well, think again.
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NISCHELLE TURNER, HLN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It`s the Mike Tyson you`ve never seen.
TYSON: This is the real stand-up guy.
TURNER: The Mike Tyson you didn`t know existed.
TYSON: I was a 14-year-old kid, man, I was knocking out grown men.
TURNER: But the Mike Tyson that he says good, bad or ugly is his authentic self.
TYSON: I`m a pretty rough individual periodically, I guess. You know? I don`t know. That`s what I want to be. That`s what I was taught to be grow up. My mother and her friends were sex workers and there wasn`t so many men in the house. So I was never really around, not a lot of wind when I was young.
TURNER (on camera): When you say, sex worker, you mean a prostitute?
TYSON: Yes, like -- Yes. Well, you know, politically correct is sex workers. Yes.
TURNER: Do you think that scene, your mother being a sex worker and the other women, do you think that`s what some people would say you didn`t treat women with respect?
TYSON: No doubt about it that I didn`t understand a commitment until a couple of years ago, three years ago. You have to understand, every man I met, they`re all chauvinistic. You know they believe they`re superior to women and this and that. That`s the world I grew up in.
TURNER: It`s stories like that that Mike Tyson hopes will pack the theatre here at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. He understands some of this is raw, even jaw dropping. But it`s his life, what he calls his undisputed truth.
(On camera): Are you intimidated at all? Are you afraid at all to do this?
TYSON: I`d be afraid not to do it.
TURNER: Really?
TYSON: Yes.
TURNER: Why?
TYSON: I think I was born to do this.
TURNER: Tyson says he`s putting himself at center stage so people can get to know the man he is today instead of the controversial figure known for violence in and out of the ring.
(On camera): The truth is, I was a little nervous today because that`s the image. I was a fan of your boxing but the image was this tough, mean, rough, sometimes dangerous man --
TYSON: I was very successful in my job at making you think that.
TURNER: Well, can I ask you this? Because you talked about you went to prison and you talk about that here.
What did you learn from that experience?
TYSON: I was never at peace with myself. I was never comfortable in my skin, you know, because of things I seen as a kid, and I grew up in a real violent, dysfunctional household, and that`s all I seen, violence and dysfunctional and murder and all that stuff. And it`s just really a big burden. I really didn`t like myself because of things I seen.
TURNER (voice-over): I asked about the rape conviction, and how he feels today about Desire Washington, the woman who accused him.
TYSON: I actually never should have met this woman or talked to her, but we had a young kid at the time and I had never been in that situation.
TURNER: A situation Tyson says he actually learned a great deal from and one of many harsh life lessons he revisits in his stage show.
(On camera): Some people will say you have lived nine lives already, sir.
TYSON: Probably. You know? Maybe I lived nine lives or I learned to live life and maybe I just didn`t get it right.
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HAMMER: What a fascinating guy.
SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Nischelle Turner joining me now.
I was surprised, Nischelle, you admitted that you were nervous before you spoke with Mike. So how do you feel about him now?
TURNER: Yes, you know, I was very nervous, A.J., because like I said I was a fan of his boxing, but the image of him and the choices that he`s made is a pretty scary person. So I was really taken aback because I found him to be really soft spoken, almost shy, kind of goofy, if I can say that, and really, really like a low talker. So I was nervous about that. I didn`t know what to expect.
Let me tell you, though, one of the interesting things that he told me, a story. We all loved him in "The Hangover," right? Thought he was so funny and we loved that scene that he shot. He told me he didn`t even remember that because at that time he was high on cocaine when he shot that.
HAMMER: Wow.
TURNER: And so he was in rehab at the time, he said, so he didn`t realize all the hype, he didn`t even remember what he did. I thought that was so interesting. I hadn`t heard that.
HAMMER: That is crazy. Great interview, Nischelle Turner. Thank you so much.
As we move on tonight if they start giving out Oscars for music videos, I think tonight`s viral video is going to be a shoo-in. It`s Paul McCartney`s new video which stars a Hollywood dream team.
It is Sir Paul McCartney and some Hollywood royalty next. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN news and views.
Time now for the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT news ticker. More stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.
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HAMMER: Right now a superstar studded viral video. Paul McCartney just released the video for "My Valentine." This thing is a powerhouse and on so many levels. Oscar winner Natalie Portman and two-time sexiest men alive Johnny Depp star in what is truly a beautiful, creative and emotional video that you will not be able to take your eyes off of.
Let`s watch.
Now Johnny Depp sure can play, but I`m here to tell you the star power does not end onscreen. Paul McCartney`s fashion designer daughter Stella inspired the video. And it was put together by a Hollywood dream team including an Oscar winning cinematographer. I guess you can call that the power of Paul.
Well, Tupac resurrected for his unforgettable new -- yes, new -- concert.
Hologram Tupac at Coachella. We`ve got the performance everyone is talking about next.
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HAMMER: Tonight this has to be one of the coolest things ever. Tupac on stage, a Coachella, 16 years after his death. It`s all thanks to the best use of hologram technology ever. At least since 2008 elections on our sister network CNN. You`ve got to check this out.
In this hologram, Tupac likes to swear. By the way, the hologram Tupac has his own Twitter. Bet you didn`t see that coming.
Well, that is it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Thanks for watching. I`m A.J. Hammer. You can catch SHOWBIZ TONIGHT week nights at 11:00 Eastern and Pacific right here on HLN.
Stay right here for Dr. Drew next. Tonight Dr. Drew talks to a professional gambler who calls himself Robin Hood using his skills to help people in need. That starts right now.
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