I’m not sure who will win the Parent of the Year Award this year, but we can safely rule out Alec Baldwin.
Emmy award-winning actor Alec Baldwin was taken to a hospital Thursday after his 14-year-old daughter called 911 saying he had threatened to take pills during an argument on the telephone, a law enforcement official said.
Baldwin’s daughter, Ireland, told authorities that she was worried about her father after he said, “I’m tired of this. I’m going to take some pills. I’m going to end this,” the official told The Associated Press, quoting from an official report on the matter.
Authorities came to the “30 Rock” star’s Central Park West apartment after his daughter called 911 at about 12:10 a.m. Thursday, the official said. The official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Ireland called authorities after the two ended their phone conversation and she couldn’t reach him again, the official said.
Baldwin, 51, was released from the hospital in an hour and took no alcohol or pills, spokesman Matthew Hiltzik said. “This was a misunderstanding on one person’s part. Alec was quickly released from the hospital; he’s completely fine and will be at work today,” Hiltzik said in a statement. “If there was a real problem or concern, he wouldn’t have been released from a hospital within an hour,” Hiltzik said later Thursday.
In 2008, Baldwin blamed a bitter custody battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger in part for the anger and frustration he was feeling when he berated their daughter in a phone message leaked earlier to the media.
In the message, Baldwin called Ireland a “rude, thoughtless little pig.” He was apparently upset that she had missed his phone call. Baldwin said he apologized to Ireland. He said the message was wrong and “horrified” him.
Truly a pathetic way to deal with a child. Baldwin is a fine actor but he’s rather hysterical and famous for idle threats.  Back in 2004, he told a national television office that he’d leave the country if George W. Bush was re-elected; Bush was and Baldwin didn’t.
Source:Â “Alec Baldwin briefly hospitalized after 911 call” – Reuters/YahooNews
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David Hasselhoff was taken to the hospital Sunday night, after his daughter sounded an alarm that he had been drinking to excess.
TMZ is reporting that 17-year-old Hayley Hasselhoff, who was at home with David, called her mother Pamela, claiming David was extremely drunk.
One of Pamela’s friends called 911, paramedics arrived at the family’s home in Encino and took him to the hospital.
The hospital was supposed to release David Sunday night.
Poor David… he’s like a male, older version of Lindsay Lohan. This isn’t the first time David’s had issues regarding alcohol.
source: David Hasselhoff’s Daughter Says Dad was Drunk [TMZ]
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Mike Tyson‘s 4-year-old daughter is on life support and in very critical condition after her brother found her hanging Monday morning from a treadmill cord in their Phoenix home, police said.
While the girl’s mother was cleaning in the house, Tyson’s daughter was playing separately in a playroom.
The mother sent the girl’s 7-year-old brother to look for the 4-year-old girl. The boy found his sister in distress and got his mother, police said.
The mother found her daughter on a treadmill with her neck on what was described as a cable attached to the treadmill, police said.
She took her daughter off the cable, called 911, and began CPR.
The girl was taken to St. Joe’s Hospital after she was found around 10:30 a.m local time, MyFOXPhoenix.com reported.
Tyson was not home at the time. Initial reports indicate it was, a “tragic accident,” police said.
Very tragic… every parents worst nightmare.
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Spot the difference: Janet, left, has spent $15,000 on plastic surgery to look like her daughter, Jane, right
Hardly surprising, as both weigh in at 8st and, save for a couple of inches in height (at 5ft 6in, Jane is two inches taller) and different eye colours (Jane’s are brown, Janet’s are blue) they are virtually identical.
But Janet and Jane are not twins. They aren’t even sisters. They are mother and daughter. And, in what many will see as a depressing indictment of today’s youth-obsessed society, Janet confesses to having spent more than $15,000 on plastic surgery in a desperate effort to bridge the 22-year age gap between herself and her daughter.
In this image-conscious age, it is a bittersweet moment for many mothers to confront the fact that their daughter’s beauty eclipses her own.
It is a rite of passage that most women, while far from thrilled, are pragmatic enough to accept as a part of life.
But not 50-year-old Janet. She views the small matter of being in her sixth decade as a mere technicality.
She is amused and proud that friends jokingly refer to her and her daughter as Paris and Chantelle after the platinum blonde socialite and the equally platinum former Celebrity Big Brother contestant.
Some might see this as empowering for a woman who is well into middle age. Others might take the view that it is contrary to the laws of Mother Nature – not that Janet has much truck with her anyway.
‘Who wouldn’t want to look like my daughter?’
As she told the Mail this week: ‘It might sound barmy that I had cosmetic surgery to look like my daughter, but she’s gorgeous. Who wouldn’t want to look like her?
‘The way I see it is that she got her looks from me in the first place – mine have just faded with age.
‘Seeing how attractive Jane is made me want to get my looks back. Now instead of mum and daughter we look more like twins. I had good genes and good skin, but I needed a helping hand to make me feel better about myself.’
Certainly Janet wasn’t always such a head-turner. Just a few years ago, she was a size 14 redhead and felt, she says, dowdy and unattractive.
Not, she insists, that she was ever vain. ‘I didn’t have time for vanity in my 20s as I was too busy bringing up Jane and her brother, Pete,’ she says.
‘I didn’t pay much attention to myself.’
That changed as she entered her 30s and became increasingly disconsolate with her changing figure.
‘Like any woman who’s had children, gravity had started to take its toll on my breasts,’ she says.
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