LOS ANGELES – Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband is saying happy anniversary in a big way. Frederic Von Anhalt has taken out a billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to celebrate the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary. Beside the couple’s wedding photo, it reads, “Prince Frederic & Princess Zsa Zsa 25 years and counting.” It also includes Von Anhalt’s website.
Gabor and Von Anhalt were married Aug. 14, 1986.
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He said the billboard is an anniversary gift for his ailing 94-year-old wife, who smiled when she saw a picture of it on TV.
“She said, ‘Oscar de la Renta,”‘ Von Anhalt said Thursday, adding that she is wearing a dress by the designer in the photo on the billboard. “It was her favorite dress, and she looked at it and she remembered it.”
Von Anhalt said he spent his “life savings” on the $68,000 billboard.
William and Kate get to be the subject of another movie
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Break out the cake: Another movie about Prince William and Kate Middleton is set to debut on TV.
Hallmark’s “William & Catherine: A Royal Romance” premieres Aug. 27. In April, the Lifetime network aired the much maligned telefilm “William & Kate.”
“We are not afraid to explore the real side of the relationship and the challenges,” Dan Amboyer, who plays William, said while promoting the movie at a meeting of the Television Critics Association.
“Diana features in the film,” Alice St. Clair, who portrays Middleton, said Wednesday. “There is just really a great sense of relationships within the family. So there is William’s relationship with his father and his brother, and you see him calling upon Diana’s interview. …”
Lady Gaga fashion book to feature 350 photos
NEW YORK – Lady Gaga will release a book of photographs with fashion photographer Terry Richardson.
Grand Central Publishing announced Thursday that it will release the book, “Lady Gaga,” on Nov. 22. The publisher said the book will include more than 350 color and black-and-white photographs of Gaga.
Richardson followed the singer for 10 months between Aug. 2010 and Feb. 2011. That time period includes Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour and the recording of her album “Born This Way.”
Lady Gaga will write the book’s forward.
On Thursday, the pop star surpassed 12 million followers on Twitter.
‘Dog’ heavy on the spray?
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Surveillance videos in the Grand Junction, Colo., lobby of the sheriff’s department show people having coughing fits after a pepper-sprayed fugitive was delivered by Duane “Dog” Chapman.
The videos back up claims by the Mesa County sheriff that the star of the A&E show “Dog the Bounty Hunter” excessively pepper-sprayed the fugitive during a scuffle on July 20 and then took him in without decontaminating him. Chapman and his wife said they didn’t understand why the sheriff was upset because the suspect, Andrew Distel, was cleaned and fed.
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