Monitor: Jan. 25 2013
Engaged
He’s wild about Olivia Wilde. SNL‘s Jason Sudeikis, 37, popped the question to the actress, 28, earlier this month. The two have been dating since late 2011.
Expecting
Evan Rachel Wood, 25, and Jamie Bell, 26, will soon have a new Twitter follower. The actress tweeted on Jan. 11, ”Remember when I said, ‘No baby on the way here’ — Well, I didn’t know there actually was!”
Admission
Cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired on OWN’s Oprah’s Next Chapter Jan. 17 and 18. Winfrey appeared on CBS This Morning Jan. 15 and said that ”the entire interview was difficult” but she was ”satisfied by the answers.”
Courts
Here’s one guy who’s immune to Bieber fever: Moshe Benabou, an ex-bodyguard for Justin Bieber, is suing the 18-year-old singer for back wages, according to papers filed Jan. 10 in L.A. Benabou claims Bieber punched him repeatedly, then fired him. Bieber’s reps have called the accusations meritless.
Deaths
Character actor Ned Wertimer, 89, who played the doorman on The Jeffersons, died on Jan. 2 in Sherman Oaks, Calif., of complications from a fall he suffered late last year…. Reddit pioneer Aaron Swartz, 26 — who was facing federal charges for allegedly hacking into MIT’s journal archives — died in Brooklyn on Jan. 11 in an apparent suicide.
Birthdays
Jan. 19:
Dolly Parton, 67
Katey Sagal, 59
Jan. 20:
Rainn Wilson, 47
Jan. 25:
Alicia Keys, 32
Jan. 26:
Ellen DeGeneres, 55