During the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night, Jordin Sparks performed Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’. Kevin Costner was reportedly so overcome with sadness, that he had to leave the room.
Bobbi Kristina was seen breaking down in tears during the song, and later took the stage to accept the Millennium Award on behalf of her mother.
Kevin worked with Whitney Houston on their hit film ‘The Bodyguard’ and remained close to the singer until her death. He found the tribute hard to watch and had to leave the room.
“I did see [Bobbi] speak,” Kevin told ET Online. “That’s a hard song for me to listen to anymore also so I kind of just walked out of the room, but…I was glad that she was out in public.”
Whitney’s last record was released this week. The disco-inspired track is called Celebrate and is a duet with Jordin. The single, which was produced by R. Kelly, premiered on Monday ahead of the late singer’s upcoming film, Sparkle.
Whitney plays Jordin’s on-screen mother in the musical drama.
Celebrate will be available on iTunes from June 5.
Here are some new pictures of Kevin and his wife at the premiere of his new TV series, ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ in Los Angeles.
Kevin Costner stopped by Anderson Cooper’s talk show to talk about his upcoming miniseries ‘Hatfields & McCoys’, and ended up talking about his ‘Bodyguard’ costar, Whitney Houston.
The two hadn’t been close since they starred together in the 1992 blockbuster, but Kevin always had a soft spot for the late singer (he even acted as a pallbearer in her funeral). Now the actor is opening up about what he knew and didn’t know about her battle with drugs.
“A couple of times there were some people that really loved Whitney and a couple times in the last seven or eight years they asked me if I would I write her a letter,” he told Cooper.
“It’s so odd. I have this level of celebrity and fame — international or national, whatever you want to refer to it — but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life,” he explained.
“You think to yourself, ‘How the hell did I get famous?’ What is this some weird club that we’re in?’”
“So when someone said, ‘Would you write someone a letter to someone who you know is having trouble?’ I did, there were two occasions.”
The gorgeous movie star couple will always be joined in fans’ eyes, but in real life the Dances With Wolves star said: “I elected to let Whitney have her life after The Bodyguard, she would always be close to me, she would always be someone I appreciated.
“I saw pretty much what everyone else saw. But when someone asked me to write a letter I did, I don’t know if those letters were ever read.”
The Academy Award-winning director of 1990 Best Picture Oscar winner Dances With Wolves, 56, will play the Man of Steel’s adopted father, Jonathan Kent.
I love this news! I’m such a huge Kevin Costner fan, it’s not even funny. According to Movie Web, it was rumored for a while that Kevin would have a role in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot. Now a source close to production is spilling the secrets on Kevin’s role in the new film!
If the source is correct, Kevin Costner will portray Clark Kent’s adoptive human earth father Jonathan “Pa” Kent, the man who finds baby Kal-El and raises him to become the superhero disguised as a mild mannered newspaper reporter.
Kevin Costner will be following in the footsteps of Glenn Ford, who played Pa in the original 1978 big screen version of Superman.
Look for this casting rumor to be confirmed in the next few days.
Superman comes to theaters in 2012 and starsHenry Cavill. The film is directed by Zack Snyder.
Stephen Baldwin is suing Kevin Costner, claiming Costner and his business partner “schemed” to make millions of dollars off the BP oil rig disaster … by allegedly duping Baldwin into selling shares in a company that builds machines that separate oil from water.
In a lawsuit filed in Louisiana federal court, Baldwin claims in April, he had a meeting in the wake of the oil disaster, and decided to become a 10% partner in an invention backed by Costner — a device that separated oil from water that was actually developed during the filming of “Waterworld.”
According to the lawsuit, Costner and his partners made it seem as if Costner had already sold his shares in the company when in fact he was still heavily invested. Baldwin also claims the company misrepresented that there was no deal to sell the contraption to BP.
Baldwin alleges he was duped into selling his shares back to the company so Costner and his partners could score a bigger profit in a deal that was already inked — specifically, a deal with BP valued at more than $52 million.
Kevin Costner and his wife, German model Christine Baumgartner, welcomed their third child yesterday in Los Angeles, E! Online reports. Baby girl Grace Avery Costner made the 55-year-old actor-director a dad for the seventh time.
“Both mother and daughter are doing well,” Costner’s rep said in a statement.
Baumgartner, 36, and Costner were married in 2004. Their first two children are both boys — Hayes Logan, 1, and Cayden Wyatt, 3.
Grace was born at 5:46 PM, weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces, and measuring 21 inches long.
Costner was married once before Baumgartner. His eldest child is 26.
The ‘Waterworld’ star made headlines recently for dedicating years (and a fortune) to an armada of seawater-cleaning machines called Ocean Therapy — technology that could help solve the crisis of BP’s gargantuan oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
“I’ve lost $40 million-plus,” Costner said. “But I knew that if I was right, it would change things in an incredibly positive way.”
Kevin Costner is expecting his seventh child, Extra reports.
The 55-year-old Dances With Wolves star and wife Christine Baumgartner are expecting their third child in June. They are already parents to two sons: Hayes Logan, 1, and Cayden, 2.
Costner has four children from previous relationships; three with ex-wife Cindy Costner, and one from a brief relationship following his divorce from Bridget Rooney.
