FameCrawler : family values

Vanna White: Glamorous Letter Turner by Day, Single Mom by Night

Karl Erikson — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:02:00 GMT

For more than 25 years now, Vanna White has held the most useless job on the planet: letter turner on "Wheel of Fortune." And these days there's not even any letter turning! Still, it's hard to imagine "Wheel" without the glamorous Vanna White, a 51-year-old single mom. I watch "Wheel" most every weeknight, followed by "Jeopardy."

While she's looking fab in designer clothing on the show, Vanna says when it comes to her off time, she's all about the comfort and can usually be found in jeans and a t-shirt.

"That is the real me," she says.

Fortunately, the "Wheel" job is rarely very demanding upon her time because her most important job is being a mom to Nicholas, 14, and Giovanna, 11. A few years ago, Vanna caved and hired a nanny when the show started taping during the day and night.

Now, though, she's going it alone...no nanny and no spouse. It's her family that inspires her to give it all she's got. "My grandmother stayed home. In her generation, this is what they did. I have that from her. Then I have the business sense from my mother. She was great with numbers and organization. I definitely have that, as well."

Nicholas and Giovanna are Vanna's kids with ex-husband George Santo Pietro, who she divorced 6 years ago.

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Former Witch Melissa Joan Hart Talks Family Values

Karl Erikson — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Melissa Joan Hart, former teenage witch and mom of two sons, talked recently to Tasty Baby about her family. Melissa's boys are Mason Walter, 2, and Braydon Hart, 5 months. Hart is the oldest of seven kids...yikes!

She says "I have always made my family come first and now I have my own little family to care for. Helping them become incredible adults is my biggest job now."

Her favorite family tradition: "We go to Disneyland on a birthday."

She also says she's trying to be green, but "it is so difficult with kids. With kids you want everything easy and clean and sometimes disposable stuff is the way to go."

The number one thing she's trying to teach her children: "I want them to try a little of everything and pick what they like when they are older. I always wanted my kids to have every opportunity to get really good at something that could stick as a hobby or career. I have been looking for a hobby my whole life but havent been able to find one."

Sounds like Sabrina has a good head on her shoulders, and is raising her kids to have the same. That's an odd thing in the celebrity world.

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Palin's First Baby Daddy Levi Johnston to Attend Republican National Convention

Whit Honea — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:24:00 GMT

Poor Levi Johnston. All the kid wanted was to be held and now he's being paraded in front of Alaska and America, respectively, as the official mascot of teen sex (unfunded teen sex, of course). Actually, he's probably loving every minute of it. Teen boys work hard for reps like that.

His plans have changed quite a bit. Normally he'd spend a Wednesday night hanging around the motherland (Alaska) waiting for the mullet to fill in, but not tonight! Levi will be joining his pregnant girlfriend and her family on the big, fancy stage that is St. Paul, Minnesota (not to be confused with the big, fancy stage that is Minneapolis, Minnesota) . He will get to experience first hand the magic made when two bodies that love each other, in this case Alaska and America (hey, which country comes first?), join together for a night and just let their emotion get the best of them. If it wasn't so political it would almost be romantic.

Speaking of romantic, Levi's mother has been quoted as saying that the couple had planned on getting married prior to the pregnancy. Regarding the new addition Sherry Johnston said, "'This is just a bonus." An unfunded bonus. In the country of Alaska. That has Hallmark channel written all over it.

I wonder if they'll get David Brickner to officiate the ceremony. Now that would be a bonus.

All of that being what it is, the real reason I feel sorry for Levi and Bristol is that their 2 minutes in heaven is going to cause them years, maybe a lifetime, of unwanted attention- much of which can be directly attributed to Sarah Palin throwing them to the lions, and to a lesser extent the fact that they had sex. Tonight they'll be fed to the media and let's face it, they aren't as nice as I am.

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Michelle Obama Tells All!

Whit Honea — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:25:00 GMT

Michelle Obama, the next First Lady, is featured today on Babble in an interview with Anita Doberman.

It's a great interview with an interesting woman discussing politics and family.

Some highlights:

On protecting their kids in the media Obama replies, "We protect them the best as we can. We're figuring it out. We've gotten some great advice from people like Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore, who have been in this situation before and handled it wonderfully."

On Barack's passion for pushing family values, "... he is determined to change Washington, so that instead of just talking about family values, we actually implement policies that value families."

Read the interview here.

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Whit Honea — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:10:00 GMT

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Nancy Grace Back To Work

HerBadMother — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:32:00 GMT

CNN must not offer much in the way of maternity leave. That, or Nancy Grace just doesn't like staying home with her babies: she's reportedly going back to work just two months after giving birth prematurely.

According to the CNN Headline News show page, Nancy returns to her anchor seat on January 7. She gave birth to the twins on November 4th of this year, but they were kept in hospital until just two weeks ago.

It's no secret that I'm not the biggest Nancy Grace fan, so it should come as no surprise that I'm tempted to go all snarky on her decision to return to work after only a few weeks of being home with her babies. That said, I usually totally support a woman's decision to return to work after having children, whenever she sees fit. But so soon? When her babies are, like, only just home from the hospital? She's going to shove them in the arms of the nannies already? Family values much, Nancy?

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