Astronaut Buzz Aldrin survived to waltz another day on television’s “Dancing With the Stars” contest on Tuesday, as “90210″ actress Shannen Doherty became the first celebrity to be voted off this season.

Aldrin, 80, the second person to walk on the moon in 1969, was saved by the public vote after having finished bottom with the judges following a stiff foxtrot and despite adding a little moonwalking to his Cha-cha-cha.

An eliminated Doherty, 38, said she had entered the show to please her father, who is a big fan of popular ballroom dancing contest.

“I think that dancing isn’t really my thing,” she said. “I’m an actor and it’s what I love to do. I did this for my dad and I did exactly what I wanted.”

Former “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson was a surprise finisher in the bottom two after a sensual Marilyn Monroe pastiche earlier in the week.

But Anderson just scraped through, along with reality TV mom of eight Kate Gosselin, who was compared to a “Stepford wife” for her wooden jive performance on Monday.

A strong cast has attracted big audiences for the 10th season of the ABC series, which is the second most-watched TV show in the United States after “American Idol” on Fox.

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It was exactly a year ago when LeAnn Rimes and married actor Eddie Cibrian were first photographed kissing in a Los Angeles restaurant.

But after splitting from their respective spouses and becoming an official couple, Rimes, 27, and Cibrian, 36, are more than happy to be photographed together.

The country singer enjoyed her first ever family holiday earlier this week with Cibrian and his two young sons as the foursome hopped over the border to Mexico.
Clad in a stripy bikini, Rimes bonded with the actor’s sons Mason, six, and Jake, two, as they played in the sand.

Still clearly in the honeymoon period of the romance, the pair couldn’t keep their hands of lips off each other as they put on many a public display of affection on the beach.

At one point, they posed for a photo with Rimes’s legs wrapped around the former Sunset Beach star.

Rimes was married to dance Dean Sheremet and Cibrian to Brandi Glanville when they were first photographed together last March.

The pair had met earlier that year while filming made-for-TV movie Northern Lights in Canada.

The Can’t Fight The Moonlight singer initially denied she was involved with Cibrian, but conceded she and her husband were going through a ‘difficult time’, appealing to her fans to have ‘faith’ in her.

Cibrian’s wife Glanville walked out on him in July, declaring ‘Eddie and LeAnn deserve each other.’

The following month, they filed divorce papers, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.

On her website in September, Rimes finally wrote: ‘After much thoughtful mutual consideration, Dean and I have agreed to move forward with dissolving our marriage.

‘This decision was amicable and we remain committed and caring friends with great admiration for one another. Thank you so much for all of your continued love and support – it is deeply appreciated.’

Rimes married dancer Sheremet in 2002 when she was just 19 and he was 22.

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The next few months could keep Conan O’Brien very busy.

For starters, he needs to keep posting those random tweets on his recently opened Twitter account.

Then in April, he hits the road for a cross-country comedy tour that’s scheduled to last two months.

And by mid-May, he just might be anointed by Fox as its late-night leading man, when the network’s program lineup for next season is officially unveiled.

Rumors and reports that O’Brien was likely headed for Fox were almost instantly set swirling in January with his abrupt departure from NBC. Since his “Tonight Show” finale Jan. 22, O’Brien has been out of sight. But next season he could be back on the air with a new late-night show on Fox.

“They are definitely talking,” said O’Brien representative Leslee Dart on Thursday, but added that Fox “is by no means the only place he’s talking right now.”

The logical moment to have a deal in place would be Fox’s upfront presentation May 17. But that’s two whole months from now and, lately, things have been moving very fast for O’Brien.

He exited NBC after just eight months as host of “The Tonight Show” when NBC proposed reinstating his predecessor, Jay Leno, to the 11:35 p.m. Eastern time slot, and pushing back O’Brien’s show a half-hour.

Within three weeks, a theater tour for O’Brien was in the planning stages.

The tour was announced last week, beginning April 12 in Eugene, Ore., and concluding June 14 in Atlanta. Dubbed “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour,” it takes wry note of a provision of O’Brien’s severance package with NBC that keeps him off the air until September.

It is unclear whether a Conan show on Fox would premiere as soon as the fall, or instead debut midway through next season. It would likely air at 11 p.m. Eastern time, which would require Fox stations to relinquish a time period they typically devote to profitable syndicated fare such as “The Simpsons.”

Fox spokeswoman Gaude Paez said Thursday the network had no comment about signing O’Brien beyond the words of News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, who in February told reporters, “We’re giving it a lot of thought and a lot of examination.”

But O’Brien is also entertaining other options. These include a new home on any of several cable networks, or even a syndicated show that might bring O’Brien out of late night for the first time since he started on NBC in 1993, slotting him in “early fringe” weeknights between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.

O’Brien’s camp is “at a point where they’re considering everything,” Dart said. “Everybody wants to get this done as soon as possible, regardless of where he ends up. But whether the reality is that he can get it done quickly, I don’t know.”

Meanwhile, his tweets keep coming every day or so. For example, with the recent return to daylight saving time, he posted a helpful reminder for his fans that, more to the point, seemed to mock NBC: “Remember everyone – tonight at eleven set your clocks two hours back. Then at 2 a.m., a half hour forward. You’re welcome.”

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A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch pop star Lady Gaga says she squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name and helped get her record deal.

Rob Fusari filed a $30.5 million lawsuit against the Grammy Award-winning performer, saying his protege and former girlfriend ditched him as her career soared.

“All business is personal,” said the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a Manhattan state court.

Lady Gaga’s spokesman, Dave Tomberlin, didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail sent Thursday by The Associated Press.

Fusari had credits on such hits as Will Smith’s “Wild, Wild West” and Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious” when a friend steered the piano-playing singer – then known by her real name, Stefani Germanotta – to him in March 2006, according to his lawsuit.

Though he initially dismissed her, he realized she had star potential after hearing her play in his Livingston, N.J., studio, the suit said. He spent the next several months working with her every day and “radically reshaping her approach,” persuading her to drop rock riffs for dance beats, it said.

As they co-wrote songs such as “Paparazzi” and “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich,” which would appear on her debut album, “The Fame,” he transformed Germanotta into Lady Gaga, a name adapted from Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga,” the lawsuit said.

In a 2009 interview with the AP, Lady Gaga said her “realization of Gaga was five years ago, but Gaga’s always been who I am.”

“I was Gaga from the time that I was 19 through my first record deal,” the 23-year-old said of her over-the-top, avant-garde style, which has captured the imaginations of millions of fans. “I always dressed like that before people knew me as Lady Gaga. I was always that way … I stuck out like a sore thumb.”

According to the lawsuit, Lady Gaga and Fusari’s relationship turned romantic and then became a business partnership in May 2006, when they created a joint venture called Team Love Child LLC to promote her career. Fusari’s share was 20 percent, it said.

Fusari – whose account of his role in the multiplatinum-selling artist’s early career has been told in interviews – says he introduced Lady Gaga to a record executive who ultimately shepherded her to Universal Music Group’s Interscope Records, which released “The Fame” in 2008. The album has sold more than 3 million copies in the United States; Fusari has a producing credit.

But the lawsuit says their personal and business relationship had soured by then and he has been denied a 20 percent share of song royalties, 15 percent of merchandising revenue and other money he’s owed. He acknowledges getting checks for about $611,000 but says that isn’t his full share.

Lady Gaga won two Grammys in January: best dance recording, for “Poker Face,” and best electronic/dance album, for “The Fame.”

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Raquel Welch escaped the Oscar madness in LA only to get held up at the security checkpoint at O’Hare in Chicago after her black Dolce & Gabbana bustier set off the metal detector.

Welch was in town to tape “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and promote her new book, “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage.”

The star was patted down by a TSA agent for several minutes in a clear, square box in full view of waiting passengers. The agent eventually blamed the problem on the boning in her bustier. “She probably isn’t going to fly in a bustier anymore,” said Welch’s spokeswoman.

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A producer who helped launch Lady Gaga’s career is suing the pop star for $35 million over allegations she dumped him as soon as she hit the big time.

Rob Fusari signed a production deal with the singer in 2006, and claims to have come up with her stage moniker. He also maintains he was instrumental in landing her a deal with record label Interscope.

The hitmaker, who has also worked with Destiny’s Child and Will Smith, produced several tracks on Gaga’s debut album, The Fame – including the hit Paparazzi – but Fusari reveals his working relationship with the star soured after she allegedly ditched him upon gaining global recognition.

He filed a lawsuit against the star in New York on Wednesday.

The producer hit the headlines recently when he took aim at his former collaborator Beyonce, who ironically appears alongside Lady Gaga on new single Telephone, accusing the star of taking all the credit for using a Stevie Nicks’ riff in Destiny’s Child hit Bootylicious.

Fusari claimed it was his idea to use the sample and he was upset when Beyonce claimed it was her initiative.

In an interview with Billboard magazine, he said, “I came up with the idea to build a track using the guitar riff from Stevie Nicks’ Edge of Seventeen. I figured I’d put the guitar loop on there temporarily, and later go into the studio with a guitar and replay it, because I’d learned, after sampling Stevie Wonder’s I Wish for Will Smith’s Wild Wild West, that I didn’t want to lose 50 per cent of the publishing (royalties).

“I vividly remember telling (Destiny’s Child manager and Beyonce’s father) Mathew Knowles, ‘Mathew, you got to book me into your studio and let me replay that riff.’ He didn’t want to do it. So 50 per cent got cut for one note. That whole experience was bittersweet for me.”

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The ‘Harry Potter’ star contracted a bug while in the US and was forced to spend two days in a New York medical facility being treated for dehydration.

The 20-year-old star caught a flight home to the UK on Saturday, and reportedly filled in fellow passengers with the details about his embarrassing stomach upset.

A passenger on the same plane told The Sun newspaper: “He looked as white as a sheet. He said he felt like he was going to die and had spent most of his time on the toilet.”

The actor had been in the country to support the Trevor Project, a non-profit US suicide prevention charity which works with young gay and transgender people.

Daniel had previously spoken about why he’d lent his face to the project, which runs a 24 hour helpline.

He said: “I grew up knowing a lot of gay men and it was never something that I even thought twice about – that some men were gay and some weren’t. And then I went to school and for the first time and I came across homophobia. I had never encountered it before. It shocked me.

“I think it’s important for somebody from a big, commercial movie series like ‘Harry Potter’ and particularly because I am not gay or bisexual or transgendered. The fact that I am straight makes not a difference, but it shows that straight people are incredibly interested and care a lot about this as well.”

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