Tiger Woods is a new Daddy

Woods became a father Monday morning(18Jun) in Orlando, Fla., when his wife, Elin, gave birth to a daughter they named Sam Alexis Woods. The news was announced on his Web site, leaving out such details as height and weight and when she was born.

"Pictures of Sam Alexis Woods will be made available shortly," it said beneath a short note from Woods.


The big question is when anyone will see this child in public.

Woods can rarely go anywhere at a golf tournament without getting pounded by the press and the public, and sometimes his peers.

He draws such a clear line between private and public that Woods won't reveal his schedule until a week before a given tournament. He doesn't let anyone except his friends inside his home, even before he got married. The name of his yacht says it all — "Privacy."

Ditto for his wife, a one-time model from Sweden, who will turn and walk away from a conversation when she sees a group of photographers pointing cameras at her.

There was one moment in South Africa at the Presidents Cup when Woods had just lost a match and was standing behind the 17th green at Fancourt with his wife, watching his teammates. A dozen photographers began taking pictures of them, and Woods finally stepped in front of his wife and barked, "You got enough, already?"

Imagine how much more protective he will be of his daughter, or any other children who follow.

The great coincidence about this birth was the timing.

Woods' daughter was born the morning after he finished second by one shot at the U.S. Open, needing a 30-foot birdie putt on the last hole to force an 18-hole playoff Monday. It might be the one time, in hindsight, Woods didn't mind settling for second.

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The only time Elin Woods was a prominent part of the picture was last summer at Hoylake, and only because Woods was a blubbering mess of tears having captured his first victory since the death of his father.
For other players, children are part of their careers, traveling to tournaments, caddying at the Par 3 Tournament at the Masters.

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Woods is so protective of his private life, it is difficult to imagine allowing his child or children to be at a tournament lest they feel part of the circus.

Lisa Bonet having another baby????

Lisa take a stroll with Zoe, I guess no one should reconize her with the floppy hat?

Jada said she will not work with Will Smith again

Will Smith's actress wife Jada Pinkett Smith refuses to ever work with her superstar husband again because he patronized her on the set of Ali. The pair starred together on the boxing biopic, and the actor admits he stepped over the line trying to give his wife advice.

He says, "Jada prefers not to work with me after 'Ali.' I'd be like: 'Baby, you did it this way last tine, Maybe you should try it like this?' And she was like: 'Boy, you worry about you. Let me worry about me.' We try to keep a happy home, so we avoid that now."

OJ Said News was over the top about Paris Hilton

Former American football star O.J. Simpson has criticized the media for its coverage of Paris Hilton's prison sentence. The socialite was readmitted to jail on Friday at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California to finish the 45-day sentence she began earlier this month - after a judge reversed the decision to allow her to complete the sentence under house arrest.

However Simpson, who in 1995 was acquitted of the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, believes the media circus surrounding Hilton's jail sentence was over the top.

He says, "When Paris Hilton was going to jail last week, more people knew about that than knew that we were sending people into space that day. It has replaced what is real news. There was always a place for it, but it was (gossip writer) Rona Barrett. Now it is the equivalent of (late, high-brow journalist) Edward R. Murrow reporting it today."

The Travolta's Want A New Baby

June 1, 2007 -- JOHN Travolta, 53, and his wife, Kelly Preston, 44, just announced they want to try for their third child - even while they fall under increasing pressure to publicly acknowledge the disability of their son, Jett.

Travolta has either pretended there is nothing wrong with Jett, 15, or claimed his condition is Kawasaki syndrome, a disease characterized by high fever, skin rash and swelling of the lymph nodes.

But parents of autistic children say that Travolta should join Sylvester Stallone, Doug Flutie, Jenny McCarthy and Toni Braxton, who all have autistic kids, in raising awareness and research funds to cure the disease.

One magazine editor who has interviewed Travolta more than once says that the star's son is disabled - and yet he continues to behave as if nothing is wrong.

"Travolta sits there in interviews talking about how Jett loves to read or play sports, but it is clear that the boy can barely do either," the editor said.

Tim Kenny, the father of a 4-year-old autistic girl from Ocala, Fla., near the Travolta estate, told Mark Ebner of HollywoodInterrupted.com that he introduced the actor in February at a restaurant he manages "as one autistic child's father to another" but that Travolta was in denial.

"Scientology is keeping him from acknowledging his son's autism. They see it as a weakness," Kenny told Ebner.

According to the Church of Scientology, people with mental illnesses are "degraded" and capable of curing themselves by working harder on the church's teachings.

"It's fine with me if Travolta doesn't want to become the poster child for autistic parents, but every time the parent of an autistic child hears about someone else who is in this fight, it makes them feel better," said the editor who interviewed him.

"He could do so much good for autism awareness if he would just come forward."

Travolta's lawyer, Marty Singer, told Page Six: "The Travoltas are wonderful, loving parents, and their priority is their children. They have [taken] and they continue to take the best possible care of their children. To suggest anything to the contrary is very hurtful to a loving family and also would be false and defamatory."


Source:NyPost