Mark Priestley commits suicide
All Saints actor Mark Priestley has died.
The much-loved actor, 32, who played nurse Dan Goldman, is believed to have killed himself while suffering depression.
It is understood he fell to his death from a building in Sydney’s CBD yesterday afternoon.
Cast members of the hit Channel 7 medical drama are in mourning after the news was broken today.
“Mark Priestley was a tremendous young person – loved and respected by his fellow All Saints cast members and crew,” Channel 7 said. (news)
Paul Newman has only a few weeks to live
Paul Newman has finished chemotherapy and has told his family he wants to die at home.
The Oscar-winning actor was pictured being pushed from a New York cancer hospital in a wheelchair.
Yesterday, it was reported in America that Newman, 83, had only weeks to live and had returned home to his wife, Joanne Woodward.
“Paul didn’t want to die in the hospital,” a source said. “Joanne and his daughters are beside themselves with grief.”
The source, described as a close family friend, said that the star had spent the past few weeks getting his affairs in order. (news)
Michael McLindon gets 6 yrs for rape
The mother of a young woman raped by a TV actor has reacted with anger and disbelief at the length of his jail term.
Michael McLindon, 30, was yesterday warned by a judge to expect a significant jail term for spiking a woman’s drink and then raping her.
A jury found that McLindon, who appeared on Home and Away and played a trooper in the most recent Ned Kelly film with Heath Ledger, raped his victim at her Thornbury home early on February 16, 2006.
Today, he was sentenced to a maximum of six years in jail, but will be eligible for parole after he has served three-and-a-half years.
McLindon has already served eight months in remand. (news)
Paul Newman has cancer
A longtime neighbor and business partner of Paul Newman said Wednesday that the actor has cancer, a day after FOXNews.com reported that the screen legend was seeing an oncologist for lung cancer.
Writer A.E. Hotchner, who partnered with Newman, 83, to start the Newman’s Own salad dressing company in the 1980s, told the Associated Press that Newman told him about the disease about 18 months ago. He didn’t say what kind of cancer.
Late Tuesday, the screen legend issued a statement to the Associated Press that he is “doing nicely.” A spokesman for Newman, Jeff Sanderson, issued the one-line statement.
Newman has been in and out of New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital for treatment, FOXNews.com reported. (news)
Rupert Everett apologizes to ‘wimps’
Actor Rupert Everett has apologized for calling British soldiers “wimps” and suggesting they joined the army to torture prisoners.
The 49-year-old on Monday issued a lengthy statement apologizing “without reserve” to the “many in this country, and hundreds and thousands of others across the world who have lost their brothers and sisters, their fathers and mothers to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all the countless others,” Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reports.
The apology came after he said during an interview to promote his new film The Victorian Sex Explorer – in which he plays the renowned explorer Sir Richard Burton: “In Burton’s day they were itching to get into the fray. (news)
