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Taylor Hicks's First Crush: Found!
Just two weeks after American Idol winner Taylor Hicks told PEOPLE about his very first crush, the magazine received a call from the object of his affection, Christy Lee Worsham.
Now 32 and a stay-at-home mom, Worsham tells PEOPLE in its new issue, "I don't think I realized how big his crush was until I read about it."
But Hicks, 29, never forgot about her. "I was in the second grade; she was in the sixth," he told PEOPLE. "To a certain degree, I still like older women. I've dated more older women than younger women."
"He was such a fun kid," Worsham recalls, and adds that she wouldn't mind catching up with the Soul Patrolman. "I'm married," she tells PEOPLE. "But I'd love to reconnect. He was like a brother to me."
The proof is in the picture: In this 1984 snapshot, the smitten future Idol (left), then 7, poses with Worsham (center), then 10, and a friend at a YMCA summer program they attended in Huntsville, Ala.
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Police Seize Pitt-Jolie Pictures
Police in the town of Westfield, Massachusetts say they have seized a digital camera with images of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie that were shot in Africa and allegedly hijacked in a local camera-repair shop.
In an investigation on behalf of Los Angeles authorities, Westfield police, accompanied by state police and Secret Service officers, went to the home of William Keys on Tuesday to recover a digital camera's memory stick after three photos that appeared on the Internet were tracked to Keys, police tell the Associated Press.
Officers then went to Keys's place of employment, Precision Camera and Video Repair in Enfield, Conn., and recovered the camera. It remains in custody of Westfield police, though no arrests have been made as of Sunday morning.
"It's an ongoing investigation, and we cannot comment," Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County prosecutor's office, tells AP.
According to the Boston Herald, Jolie's brother, James Haven, took dozens of photographs while he was visiting his sister and Pitt in Africa, where they were awaiting the birth of their daughter, Shiloh Nouvelle (the baby was born May 27).
When Haven returned home to Los Angeles, the Herald reports, he brought the camera to a Best Buy outlet there because it was broken. The store sent the camera to Precision for repairs.
The Herald also says that besides Keys, 36, another Precision employee allegedly downloaded photos from Haven's digital camera. Authorities stepped in once the pair apparently contacted a celebrity baby Web site to inquire as to the value of the photos, the paper adds.
Both Precision employees reportedly could face anti-paparazzi charges in California. Neither has commented on the situation, nor has Precision.Comment
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Ashley Judd on Rehab: 'I Needed Help'
After having endured a "chaotic" and "dysfunctional" childhood, Ashley Judd underwent a 47-day program at a Texas treatment center last February in order to deal with the issues of her past, including depression, isolation and co-dependent relationships, she says.
"I needed help. I was in so much pain," Judd, who says she slept to combat depression and exhibited a compulsion to clean, tells Glamour magazine, according to excerpts obtained by USA Today.
In recounting her childhood, Judd, 38, describes herself as a "hyper-vigilant child" who attempted to behave perfectly in order to compensate for her lack of security. She went to 13 schools in 12 years and shifted from living with her mother, her father and her grandparents.
"Supposedly, my sister was the 'messed-up' one, and I was the 'perfect' one," says Judd, whose mother is Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Naomi Judd and sister is Wynonna, another Grammy winner. Her father is her mother's high-school sweetheart, Michael Ciminella. (Ashley's parents divorced when she was four.)
It was during a visit with Wynonna, 42, while she was being treated for a food addiction at the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas, that counselors reportedly noticed Ashley's emotional problems and approached her about treatment.
"They said, 'No one ever does an intervention on people like you. You look too good. You're too smart and together. But you (and Wynonna) come from the same family, so you come from the same wound.' No one had validated my pain before," says Ashley.
She denies tabloid reports that she was under treatment for eating disorders, "though I did take a look at my eating. Why wouldn't I? I looked at everything else in my life under a microscope," she says.
Of curbing her compulsive habit of wiping down plastic surfaces on planes and at hotels, Judd says: "Now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself."
She also credits the stint at Shades of Hope as helping her 4-year marriage to racecar driver Dario Franchitti, 33. "I was unhappy, and now I'm happy," she says. "Now, even when I'm having a rough day, it's better than my best day before treatment."
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Illness Waylays Katharine McPhee
Katharine McPhee missed Wednesday's Manchester, N.H., kick-off of the 51-city "American Idols Live" tour, blaming severe bronchitis and laryngitis.
It was announced at Manchester's Verizon Wireless Arena that McPhee, the runner-up to winner Taylor Hicks on this year's American Idol, would be missing both Wednesday's and Thursday's performances.
Her doctor, Sean Nassari, ordered "total voice rest," the Associated Press reports.
In a statement, McPhee, 22, said that, while she was disappointed not to perform, "I need to follow my doctor's orders to recuperate and reunite with the rest of the idols."
Adding that her doctor had told her she needed to remain silent, she said, "That's the most difficult part, not talking!"
Before the tour began, McPhee told PEOPLE she planned to bring with her "a couple of pictures of my family and my dog Lily."
McPhee, who has been singing since she was 2, lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and has said she hopes eventually to act in movies as well as musical theater. Her versions of "Over the Rainbow" and "My Destiny" were released on June 27.
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