Were Spencer and Heidi Pratt deprived of food and water for almost three days while being forced to live in blacked-out seclusion on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here?
That’s what their family is claiming. A show insider, on the other hand, says all reports that the pair were mistreated have been greatly exaggerated.
“They kept them locked up and through the roof they were dropping spiders the size of [Heidi's] hands in on her in the black,” Spencer’s sister, Stephanie, just told me at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s A Time for Heroes Celebrity Carnival in L.A.
“They treated them like they were criminals or terrorists,” she added.
Stephanie said Heidi, who was reportedly rushed to a local Costa Rica hospital yesterday, was transferred to another medical facility today. She said she wasn’t sure what the final diagnosis was. But it sure doesn’t sound pretty…
“She was throwing up 30 times with nothing in her stomach,” Stephanie said. “She was really sick. She thought she was dying….I know they pulled such shitty antics,” she said. “But being treated like criminals or terrorists? It’s insane!”
The newlyweds will likely return home sometime this week, according to Stephanie.
A rep for NBC declined to comment, but ITV Studios, producers of I’m a Celebrity, deny any wrongdoing. (more…)
The FBI has offered its assistance to Thai authorities investigating Thursday’s death of actor David Carradine, agency officials tell PEOPLE.
After Carradine’s half-brother, Keith Carradine, met Friday with FBI officials in Los Angeles, those officials contacted the FBI’s legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok “to determine if the Thai authorities are requesting or would welcome FBI assistance in this matter,” FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimilller tells PEOPLE. She adds there is no word yet as to whether Thai authorities will invite the FBI to join their investigation.
The FBI has no jurisdiction in other countries, but occasionally offers assistance investigating the deaths of Americans when foul play is suspected or when the family requests such intervention.
Keith Carradine, 59, “wants authorities to investigate his brother’s death, and to determine if anyone else was involved,” says Keith Carradine’s attorney, Mark Geragos, who arranged Friday’s meeting with the FBI.
Geragos tells PEOPLE that Keith and other family members are finding the grieving process even more difficult because they keep getting conflicting details regarding the condition of Carradine’s body when it was discovered. (more…)
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Whether by choice or by act of God, Speidi keeps getting out of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
Heidi Pratt was hospitalized today in Costa Rica during her and Spencer‘s stay in “isolation” from the rest of the cast of the NBC reality series. Spencer accompanied his wife on the ambulance ride and remains by her bedside.
Various reports said she was suffering from a stomach infection, but there was no immediate comment from either NBC or Spedi’s rep.
The news was broken by Spencer’s sister, Stephanie Pratt, who tweeted that “[Heidi was] rushed to the hospital and has an IV in her arm after being locked in a dark room for 3 days w no food or water. Pls pray she will be ok…Her family is flying out to see her in the hospital.”
The younger Pratt blames NBC for going “too far” in punishing the Hills couple after they tried to quit the bug-eating, jungle-surviving show after just one episode and then begged to return.
Last week, NBC exec Paul Telegdy said the “insincere, lazy, entitled” Pratts had to endure a stint in “isolation” before producers would decide the twosome’s fate on Monday’s show, vowing that the Pratts “really are going to bare their souls.”
The former Charmed actress kept her pregnancy a secret as it was considered high risk, but has now welcomed another healthy boy into her family.
Holly Marie Combs is now a mother to three little boys. She gave birth to Kelley James Donoho on May 26th. He was delivered at 35 weeks via an emergency C-section.
The actress said that her and her husband ”didn’t feel comfortable making any announcements until everyone was home healthy.”
She went on to tell Celebrity Baby blog, “We are and now it is time to celebrate. I, now a mother of three boys, will be going to take a nap!”
Holly has two other boys with her husband David Donaho. Riley Edward, 2 ½, and Finley Arthur, 5.
How would I‘m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! possibly survive with “supercelebrities” Spencer and Heidi Pratt banished and, for the most part, off-camera?
Pretty well, actually.
For the first time all week, in fact, the reality show’s audience got bigger from one night to the next, scoring 5.2 million viewers for Speidi-free Thursday, per preliminary Nielsen estimates, up from Speidi-focused Wednesday’s 4.8 million.
I’m a Celebrity… goes away now until Monday. NBC says we need to tune in then to see if the Pratts go away for good.
Maybe if the network gets some more Nielsen encouragement, we can all be happy.
