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Babies

Worst Week Star Erinn Hayes Is Pregnant

Originally posted 01/06/2009 05:30PM

She may not have an accident-prone husband like her character on the CBS comedy Worst Week, but Erinn Hayes does have one major thing in common with the pregnant Melanie Clayton: She's expecting!

Hayes, 32, tells PEOPLE exclusively that she and her husband, construction superintendent Jack Hayes, 34, planned the pregnancy to coincide with her character's. "I'm nothing if not an opportunist," jokes Hayes.

The actress, who is mom to 1½-year-old Maggie, is due in May. If Worst Week is picked up for a second season, Hayes will resume filming the slapstick show in August. "The timing couldn't be more perfect," she says.

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Levi Johnston Quits His Oil Field Job

Originally posted 01/06/2009 03:20PM

Levi Johnston quit his job in an Alaskan oil field after questions of his eligibility surfaced, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

Johnston, 18, the boyfriend of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, left his position in an electrical apprenticeship program, his father confirmed, after a newspaper columnist raised questions about whether he was eligible to participate.

Johnston had been working for ASRC Energy Services Inc. in North Slope County, Alaska, since the fall.

In his column, radio talk show host Dan Fagan said that federal regulations require members of the program to have a high school diploma – which Johnston does not. He also questioned Gov. Palin's involvement in securing the job for Johnston.

The governor has denied any help in securing Johnston the job. Palin, in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News said she considered Fagan's column "a political potshot taken at me," one that threatens to "destroy a young man's opportunity for work."

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Health

Patrick Swayze Admits He's Scared About His Cancer

Originally posted 01/06/2009 02:00PM

Patrick Swayze has already reached one milestone: although the majority of patients with advanced stage pancreatic cancer die within six months of diagnosis, the actor has been battling the disease for nearly a year.

But despite defying the odds, Swayze tells Barbara Walters, in an interview to air Wednesday on ABC, that his road has been difficult. "You can bet that I'm going through hell," he said. "And I've only seen the beginning of it."

Swayze, 56, who went public with his diagnosis last March, says that that indigestion was the first indication that he might have been sick. Then, on New Years' Eve, 2007, he realized something was very wrong.

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Pink Wants to Give Away Ex at His Wedding

Originally posted 01/06/2009 01:30PM

Pink has no hard feelings toward ex-husband Carey Hart. Not only did the two ring in 2009 together – but the rocker says she wants to stay involved in his life.

"I told him that I would give him away at his next wedding," Pink, 29, says in an interview in Seventeen magazine's February issue.

But that's not to say the split has been entirely easy.

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