Tattle: ARETHA THINK-THINKS BETTER OF ENGAGEMENT

January 24, 2012|By Howard Gensler
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  • Aretha: A natural unhitched woman.
  • Aretha: A natural unhitched woman. (ASSOCIATED PRESS )
  • Tracy Morgan: A rocky mountain high. (GETTY IMAGES )
  • Heidi Klum: Seal of disapproval. (GETTY IMAGES )

THE QUEEN OF SOUL will remain the Queen of Solo.

Aretha Franklin has called off her engagement.

A statement released yesterday by her representative said that Aretha's wedding to Willie Wilkerson wasn't going to happen.

"Will and I have decided we were moving a little too fast, and there were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly," Aretha said. "There will be no wedding at this time. We will not comment on it any further because of the very personal and sensitive nature of it.  We appreciate all of the many well wishes from friends."

It's unclear if the pair are still romantically involved.

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* In other splits, the New York Daily News reports that Simon Cowell and fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy are on hiatus.

"It's quite a complicated relationship," Cowell told the U.K.'s Daily Mirror. "We have had a break from each other, and we are still incredibly close.

"I'm vulnerable. It's not on, it's not off; it's somewhere in the middle. I don't know if I will ever get married, but I am happy."

And vulnerable?

Mezhgan has moved out of Simon's L.A. mansion and into a nearby Cowell home, which his alleged friends supposedly call the "girlfriends graveyard."

 

TATTBITS

Heidi Klum may be heading

from "Project Runway" to "Divorce Court."

She and husband Seal have announced that they're separating after seven years of marriage.

* In the ongoing Garth Brooks Wants His Hospital Donation Back case, Garth's Friday deposition, revealed yesterday, says that he couldn't remember what hospital president James Moore had told him about his donation.

Under cross-examination, the defendant's attorney, Terry Thomas, showed Garth a deposition in which the singer said he couldn't remember whether the alleged deal was for a new women's center, or the renaming of an existing one.

Thomas suggested that renaming an existing center could still happen.

Correction: In yesterday's

photo of 2 Live Crew, the man identified as Luther Campbell does not seem to be Luther Campbell. We have no idea who he is and we regret the error.

Peter Jackson is shooting his Hobbit movies at 48-frames-a-second - twice the speed that has been the custom since the 1920s.

"You shoot at 48, project at 48 and you get an illusion of life that's remarkable. You don't realize just how strobing and how flickery 24 frames is," Jackson said at the Sundance Film Festival, where he presented the documentary "West of Memphis," produced by him and his wife, "Hobbit" co-writer Fran Walsh. "You look at something at 48 frames, and it looks gorgeous. It looks like real life. It's amazing."

A Hobbit-sized problem: Most theaters don't have projectors that can handle the faster speed.

* "30 Rock" cast member Tracy Morgan says he'll be back at work today after being hospitalized while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

Tracy tweeted yesterday that Park City's high altitude (7,000 feeet) "shook up this kid from Brooklyn."

Others tweeted: "Tracy Morgan high again."

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

 


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