FOSTER DUMPS GAL PAL
Actress Jodie Foster is parenting solo these days. According to reports, the movie maven has split with her live-in partner Cydney Bernard.
Interestingly, news of the break-up comes less than six months after the extremely private star thanked Bernard for 14 years of “loving support” at an awards ceremony.
During her an acceptance speech at a Los Angeles film gala in December Foster called her partner, “My beautiful Cydney, who sticks with me through the rotten and the bliss.”
She then gushed about how happy she was with her. The moment was noteworthy because prior to that verbal acknowledgement the 45-year-old actress had never spoken of Bernard in public.
Which is why the National Enquirer’s report regarding Foster’s split with Bernard came as a shock to many.
Foster’s rep has yet to comment about the alleged break-up (and I doubt she will) or the new rumor that the couple’s two children —- Charles, 9 and Kit, 6 –will remain with Foster.
According to the National Enquirer, “Foster and Cydney have been together for so many years and have two children together, the potential fallout and legal wrangling from this split could be monumental.”
WALTERS GETS DUMPED ON
Ever since TV journalist Barbara Walters released her new memoir detailing her affair with a married senator during the 1970s her life has been a series of “Hot Topics.”
Walters has been busy making the rounds of Oprah, Larry King and “The View” dishing about her fling with former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke following the breakdown of her two previous marriages.
In the process she has taken public hits from former “View” co-host Star Jones and now the former news anchor is coming under fire from a conservative media watchdog group The Resistance, which claims she is a “shameless media whore”.
The groups’ spokesperson says, “Barbara has now sunk to the very level of other attention-starved celebrities such as Paris Hilton.”
Not one to duck controversy, the 78-year-old struck back via her rep, telling New York gossip column PageSix, “This conservative watchdog seems to have lived a sheltered life in his doghouse.”
In her book, Walters claims Brooke, the first black member of the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, wanted to make her his wife (only problem, he was already married at the time). When Brooke’s wife threatened to reveal the affair to the National Enquirer, Walters ended the relationship.