Rosie and Whoopi's Peace Pact, Carmen Electra's Prince Bombshell, Carlos Mencia's Tax Trouble & More
Plus, Ferris Bueller backlash and Steve-O’s shockingly cheap stunt pay.
Hollywood is serving up old grudges, courtroom chaos, and some seriously delayed truth bombs.
This week, Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg bury their View feud, Carlos Mencia faces a tax mess, Carmen Electra claims Prince turned their breakup into a hit song, and Mia Sara spills on the not-so-fun side of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Plus, John Stamos meets Rebecca Romijn’s husband, Melissa Gilbert leaves NYC and Steve-O reveals just how little MTV paid for his wildest stunts.
This is HOLLYWOOD 411 by KEEPING TABS – let’s get into it.
VIEW VIPERS BURY HATCHET
TV villains ROSIE O’DONNELL and WHOOPI GOLDBERG famously hated each other when they were cohosts on The View. In fact, Rosie, 64, dished in the book Ladies Who Punch, “Whoopi Goldberg was as mean as anyone has ever been on television to me.”
But the dueling divas put their daggers aside after meeting at a Broadway performance of Cats: The Jellicle Ball in New York last month. “You know, she’s been very kind. I’ve seen her a couple times since our disastrous, tag team, hellacious View extravaganza,” Rosie said on a recent podcast. Rosie has been renovating her image in hopes of a TV comeback, so perhaps this peace summit was another effort to grease the skids for a return to The View!
COMIC CRIES FOUL OVER FUNNY TAX CHARGES
Disgraced funnyman CARLOS MENCIA is in hot water with California prosecutors, accused of failing to report $8.7 million in income. The 58-year-old Mind of Mencia star pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles to 12 felony counts of allegedly dodging personal and corporate taxes from 2019 to 2024. Cops raided his Encino home with guns drawn, screaming “search warrant” through a bullhorn – a move Mencia’s lawyers blasted as an “absurd show of force” for a nonviolent case.
Prosecutors say the comic ignored 78 tax notices and owes over $300,000 in state taxes. Mencia’s attorney insists he’s being treated like a violent criminal and claims his jail stint already cost him $40,000 in missed gigs. If convicted, he faces up to 11 years behind bars.
CARMEN CLAIMS SHE INSPIRED PRINCE HIT!
Baywatch alum CARMEN ELECTRA is breaking her silence about her secret romance with music legend PRINCE - and claims his 1995 diss track I Hate U was aimed squarely at her. “Everyone knows” the searing song is about their breakup, the 54-year-old model told a media outlet, but she insists it’s a twisted love letter. “He’s really saying, ‘I love you. That’s why I hate you,’” she said. “It just is so deep to me, because I think it’s probably the first time he publicly said ‘I love you’ to me.”
Discovered by the Purple Rain singer, Carmen cut her 1993 debut album with Prince, who “kind of hid” their relationship to avoid accusations of favoritism. “We were very in love,” she said. “He was very romantic, writing music and songs about me.”
MIA SARA BASHES BUELLER!
Retired actress MIA SARA is shattering the pristine status of one of the most beloved films of the ‘80s, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, saying the shoot was anything but fun for her. Mia, 59, says she felt like a prop in a boys’ club and gripes she spent “endless days just standing there looking pretty,” while the guys got all the jokes.
She blasted the set as “lonely and isolating,” recalling that she was told to “smile more” instead of being given more acting opportunities. Mia says the pressure to be perfect left her “exhausted and anxious,” and admits she has “mixed feelings” watching the movie now. However, she says she still gets feel-good moments from the film: “My kids say they can see the moment their friends make the connection between me and the movie, and they’ll say, ‘Wow, your mom was hot!’”
MAKING PEACE, MOVING ON ... AND MORE!
JOHN STAMOS finally ran into the man who replaced him as Mr. REBECCA ROMIJN when he met JERRY O’CONNELL and had his ego inflated by the encounter! The two met at a birthday party last year and Jerry immediately disarmed the Full House star. He said he was able to lighten the mood a bit by cracking “some self-deprecating jokes,” and threw in one comment intended to pump up his former rival. “I whispered to him when hugged him, ‘She says you’re bigger than me,’” Jerry says.
MELISSA GILBERT and hubby TIMOTHY BUSFIELD are ditching their NYC home as they focus on the actor’s sex abuse case in California for which he has pleaded not guilty. “So long, perfect little one bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side. The last eight years here have been so special,” the Little House on the Prairie icon wrote on social media.
Former Jackass star STEVE-O claims he earned “less than $1,500” for all the daredevil stunts he became famous for during the first season of the show. “It’s comical how little I was paid,” he says. “I didn’t even get paid per episode. I got paid per bit.” Among his wilder moments was swallowing a goldfish and puking it up, a task that scored him $200. “l was broke, unemployed and homeless, and a star on this big MTV show. That’s one of the first things I learned about fame: It comes a lot easier than fortune.”