Kelly Clarkson Gets an Apology
Clarkson is unfazed by critics like Wallace (inset).
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Fox News host Chris Wallace apologized after saying Kelly Clarkson should “stay off the deep-dish pizza” during an April 3 radio chat. (“I admire her remarkable talent,” he said in a statement.) But Clarkson—who gave birth to daughter River Rose last June— isn’t concerned with the attention on her weight. “We are who we are,” she recently told Ellen DeGeneres. “Whatever size.” her home in Mallorca, Spain, on April 1 at the age of 75. She had been battling cancer. Pet Rock inventor Gary Dahl died on March 23 at age 78 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Jacksonville, Ore.
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PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT GIVING BACK
The actor, 48, joined forces with Fight Colorectal Cancer to honor his friends
Perry I lost a friend this year to colon with the cancer, and she had two small Schrack children. And my oldest friend family. Chad Schrack’s wife is a survivor of the disease. He asked me to help him, so I’m helping. It’s about raising awareness. I got involved with the Fight Colorectal Cancer “One Million Strong” campaign because I want people to be proactive about their health, to get information and go out there and get colonoscopies. Don’t worry about the stigma of it. Once I found out the numbers about this cancer—how detectable it is, and how lethal it is if you don’t detect it—it boggled my mind. I think if you gave people a choice of having a colonoscopy or having to have a tumor cut out of them, they would much rather have the colonoscopy. It needs to be put in those simple terms. We need to get For more information, go to everyone talking about it. —REPORTED BY GABRIELLE OLYA
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former presidential press secretary and antigun activist Jim Brady, died on April 3. She was 73. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a statement saying, “She transformed tragedy into a courageous campaign, and because of her work and her remarkable life, American families are safer today.” Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon—and mother to Julian Lennon—died at
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