Scary Spice singer Mel B arrived at LAX yesterday from London and is reportedly planning to audition for the co-hosting duties left vacant on Dancing With The Stars now that Samanatha Harris is moving on to greener pastures.You may recall that in Season 5, the multi-talented Ms Brown wowed the judges with her dancing talents. She landed in the final dance-off against Indy racer Helio Castroneves and ended up with second place honors.
Now she has her sights set on the color commentary and interviewing position that would have her working side-by-side with Tom Bergeron.
Professional free skier CR Johnson, 26, was killed in an accident Wednesday at Squaw Valley, CA.
Johnson was skiing with a group of friends when he tried to negotiate a “very, very tight, rocky area,” said Jim Rogers, a member of the Lake Tahoe-area resort’s ski patrol.
Rogers said Johnson was skiing recreationally and not as part of a competition when he lost his balance on the steep slope in a part of the resort known as the Light Towers area.
Squaw Valley spokeswoman Amelia Richmond released this statement, “Witnesses immediately notified ski patrol and medical personnel arrived on the scene within minutes. Despite efforts to revive Johnson, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the incident, he succumbed to his injuries.”
Johnson was a two-time Winter X Games medalist, earning bronze in the 2001 Big Air and silver in the 2002 slopestyle. In recent years he was admired for his inspiring return to skiing after suffering a traumatic brain injury in December 2005. The injury, sustained when another skier accidentally landed on him during a run, left him in a coma for 10 days. He spent 34 days in the hospital and several months in rehab, but was back on snow by the end of that winter.
Veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, was killed by an orca at SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium in Orlando. The incident occured today at approximately 2 p.m. as Brancheau was explaining the show to the audience.
Authorities report that Brancheau slipped and fell into a whale holding tank and was then fatally injured. Eye witnesses tell a conflicting story. Park guest Victoria Biniak said that the whale rose up out of the water and seized the trainer in it’s jaws.
Biniak describes the horrific scene, “He was thrashing her around pretty good. It was violent. (The whale) took off really fast in the tank, and then he came back, shot up in the air, grabbed the trainer by the waist and started thrashing around, and one of her shoes flew off.”
SeaWorld executive Chuck Tompkins has confirmed the eye witness reports – that Brancheau was pulled into the water by Tilikum, a 12,000-pound male killer whale.
Wednesday’s incident is the third time Tilikum has been involved in a human death. “Tilly” was blamed for the drowning death of a trainer while performing at Sealand of the Pacific in British Columbia. SeaWorld purchased the whale for breeding purposes in 1992. Tilly was involved in a second death in 1999, when the body of a 27-year-old homeless man, who likely sneaked into the park, was found lying across the whale’s back.
Brancheau was one of SeaWorld Orlando’s leading trainers and one of the few who was specifically trained to work with Tilly. Brancheau told her mom on a trip to Shamu Stadium when she was 9-years-old, “This is what I want to do.”
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