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  • Marie Osmond Announces ‘Donny and Marie’ World Tour

    Marie Osmond stopped by the Today show on Friday to announce that she and brother Donny are re-teaming for a world-wide tour next year.

    The “little bit country” singer also revealed that she and her “little bit rock’n roll” brother, Donny Osmond — whose Emmy-nominated 1970s television show was a world-wide phenomenon — will be heading out on a world tour while their good friend, Olivia Newton-John, takes their place in Las Vegas.

    Osmond told Kathy Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb that after the success of their show in Las Vegas, they decided to take it on the road while their good friend, Olivia Newton-John, holds down the fort.

    “She’s going to take half the time,” said Osmond, apparently referring to their Vegas show. “We’re going on a big world tour.”

    Osmond said they plan to start off the tour in places like Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

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    Osmond said it wasn’t that far-fetched that they would have fans in other countries.

    “Do you know what’s crazy about it?” Osmond said. “The Donny and Marie Show was dubbed into 17 languages. It was everywhere and I had no idea. I had no idea because I was a 14-year-old kid.”

    [CORRECTION: This article was updated on Jan. 4 to reflect that fact that Olivia-Newton John would be performing in Los Vegas and not going on the world tour with Donny and Marie as originally published]

  • Kathy Lee Gifford Promotes Wine, Makes Friends

    Kathy Lee Gifford was in the Northeast over the weekend to promote her line of wines called Gifft.

    The popular co-host of the fourth hour of NBC’s The Today Show was in Nashua, New Hampshire at a liquor store signing bottles of wine and making friends with fellow wine lovers.

    Kathy Lee Gifford was also doling out samples of Red Blend and Chardonnay for customers to try.

    Gifford is having a great time with her new business venture, which she started with Scheid Family Wines, of Monterey, California.

    “This is a fun business,” Kathy Lee Gifford told the New Hampshire Union Leader.

    “I am in it for the long run. I love the wine business,” she added.

    There were also plenty of locals taking advantage of the opportunity to snap photos with the Kathy Lee Gifford.

    She insists that this is wine that anyone can enjoy.

    “I think people are surprised. People think it is another celebrity wine, but it is anything but,” said Kathy Lee Gifford. She said her affordable wines at an average of $14 a bottle are just as great as similar wines that cost about $60 each.

    So, why is Kathy Lee Gifford so far from home?

    “New Hampshire is widely known as a premier shopping destination for wine enthusiasts thanks to our commitment to delivering the latest brands at unbeatable prices at our 77 NH Liquor & Wine Outlets,” NHLC Chairman Joseph W. Mollica said.

    “We are also fortunate that unlike anywhere else in the country, some of the biggest names in the wine world flock to New Hampshire to interact directly with our consumers. We are delighted that Kathie Lee Gifford will share her love for wine and newest creation with our customers,” he added.

    Congrats and good luck to Kathy Lee Gifford on her new wine venture!

  • Busy Philipps On Naming Daughter ‘Cricket’

    Busy Philipps On Naming Daughter ‘Cricket’

    Baby names just seem to get stranger and stranger by the minute, especially names given to celebrity kids.

    Busy Philipps and her husband, Marc Silverstein, named their 8-month-old daughter Cricket Pearl. They already have a daughter who goes by Birdie Leigh.

    The Cougar Town actress told Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb on TODAY Monday that Cricket and Birdie are her daughters’ real names. She said she and her husband thought long and hard on just the right name for their daughters.

    She explained that it was just an easier way to avoid a nickname.

    “Since I grew up with a nickname — Busy being short for Elizabeth — when my husband and I started to have our babies, we decided that if wanted to call our kids something, we would just name them that thing that we wanted to call them,” said Philipps.

    “I like the names,” Philipps said. “I think they’re cute.”

    Philipps told the TODAY hosts that felt compelled to defend the Cricket’s name on Twitter just days after her birth in July.

    She returned to the set of Cougar Town just weeks later.

    “I had to go back to shooting Cougar Town this season four weeks after giving birth to Cricket,” she said with an eye roll, “which was a little intense.”

    “But I was also a big pregnant lady,” said the mother of the 8 lb. 5 oz. baby girl. “I gained a lot of weight when I was pregnant, and so then had to go right back into work, which was tricky.”

    Philipps told Gifford and Kotb that she took Cricket to work every day, which she said was amazing.

    “It’s a real blessing,” Gifford said.

    “Yea, Not every woman can,” said Philipps. “I always say, if you’re going to be a working mom, being an actress on a TV show is not bad.”

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