Family Ties's Meredith Baxter: 'I'm a Lesbian Mom'

Most people know Meredith Baxter as Elyse Keaton, everyone's favorite mom from the hit '80s sitcom Family Ties. But now the actress reveals to PEOPLE that she's ready for the world to see her in a different – and surprising – way: "I'm a lesbian mom," she says.

Before Baxter, 62, first started dating women seven years ago, the thought of being gay "had never crossed my mind," Having been in three failed marriages to men (most famously to actor David Birney), she says of her many difficult years before coming out, "I was never comfortable with myself." But she's quick to add, "That doesn't mean I was questioning."

Now in a four-year relationship with building contractor Nancy Locke – the couple have lived together for two years – the actress, who continues to act and run a skincare company, says, "I feel like I'm being honest for the first time."

Baxter was open about her new-found identity almost immediately with her five kids. Her son Peter’s reaction, like that of his siblings, was both reassuring and supportive. "I just couldn't stop smiling," says Peter, 25, "because she finally figured it out."

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WOW! I so want to go out and get me some!

Local News Commits a Twitter-Induced Billboard FAIL

We understand why the mainstream media would want to take every opportunity they can to let the world know that they're on Twitter. After all, Twitter's "hip," right? Sometimes, though, they can get a bit overzealous, go on a blind, Beckettian tweeting rampage -- and commit a massively hilarious fail in the process.

Such is the case for one local TV station in Mobile, Alabama that had the great idea of putting up live news tweets on their electronic roadside billboard, which featured three of the channel's anchors. Good idea, except when the headline involved three people accused of gang rape, which ran directly opposite the trio of statically smiling broadcasters. The implication, of course, being... well, obvious.

The station probably feels embarrassed about the blunder, but then again, there's no such thing as bad publicity. If they really wanna turn this lemon into lemonade, they could even make it into a regularly recurring joke, and take advantage of the potential for humor that running text alongside an awkward family photo offers.

Elin Nordegren Attacks: The Shocking Reenactment

You know what they say. If there's no video to supplement the story you're reporting on, make up your own via high-tech computer animated graphics!

A Chinese news station did just that with the Tiger Woods saga, reenacting what happened (or at least what many think happened) Friday morning.

Skip ahead to the 55-second mark and see Elin Nordegren go off on Tiger over his alleged affair with Rachel Uchitel, causing him to flee his house.

The scorned spouse chased after the athlete with a golf club, whacking away at his Cadillac SUV, he got distracted and the rest is very-recent history ...



The only thing this video lacks is a simulated Jaimee Grubbs coming forward and looking for her 15 minutes of fame. Maybe that'll be in Part II.

Looks Like The Tiger Had A Woody! - Tiger Admits He Let His Family Down

Tiger Woods said he let his family down with transgressions he regrets "with all of my heart," and that he will deal with his personal life behind closed doors.

His statement Wednesday follows a cover story in Us Weekly magazine that reports a Los Angeles cocktail waitress claims she had a 31-month affair with the world's No. 1 golfer.



"I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves," Woods said on his Web site . "I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone."

The cocktail waitress, Jaimee Grubbs, told the magazine she met Woods at a Las Vegas nightclub the week after the 2007 Masters - two months before Woods' wife, Elin, gave birth to their first child. Grubbs claims to have proof in 300 text messages.

About three hours before Woods' statement, the magazine published what it said was a voicemail - provided by Grubbs - that Woods left her phone on Nov. 24, three days before his middle-of-the-night car crash outside his home in Florida.

Woods did not offer details of any alleged relationship.

"I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves," Woods said. "For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology."

Woods has been subjected to more media scrutiny over the last week than when he first won the Masters in 1997 and set off the first wave of Tigermania. He has spoken only three times through his Web site, although this was his longest posting.

"Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means," Woods said. "For the last week, my family and I have been hounded to expose intimate details of our personal lives."

And he continued to say accounts that physical violence played a role in his Friday morning car crash were "utterly false and malicious."

"Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect," he wrote.
His statement came one day after the Florida Highway Patrol closed its investigation into the accident - without Woods ever speaking to state troopers. He was charged with careless driving, which carries a $164 fine and four points on his driving record.

The story soon shifted from a patrol investigation to sordid allegations into his personal life.

In the voicemail released by the magazine, a man says to Grubbs:

"Hey, it's, uh, it's Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Um, can you please, uh, take your name off your phone. My wife went through my phone. And, uh, may be calling you. If you can, please take your name off that and, um, and what do you call it just have it as a number on the voicemail, just have it as your telephone number. That's it, OK. You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye."

Adam Lambert, Former 250-Pound 'Ugly Duckling' (VIDEO)

Adam Lambert hasn't always been as comfortable in his skin as he appeared during his hypersexed AMA performance. Back in high school he was the fat kid--and now getting a reaction from his audiences helps him love what he sees in the mirror when he takes off all the makeup.

"I suffered from a little bit of an ugly duckling complex early in my twenties and definitely in my teens," he told Morning Jolt's Larry Flick on Sirius radio. "When I was in high school I was 250 pounds and that creates some stuff...some body image stuff, some confidence issues and I got a lot of my confidence from the validation I got as a performer."

In the second clip Lambert talks about the meaning behind the track "Soaked," which was written by Muse's Matt Bellamy, off his new album For Your Entertainment.

"I think the lyrics to me personally are about one night stands," he said. "Being soaked in booze...searching for something to fill that void... And you see that guy at the bar, or that girl, or that tranny, and they're just searching, and it's always the same thing and that's what the song says...it's not the first time, it's not the worst crime and your soul will be OK."

White House Crashers Speak!

They came, they saw, they outraged – by breaching White House security and attending the Obamas' Nov. 24 State Dinner, to which they had not been invited – and now Michaele and Tareq Salahi are telling their story. And they say it's about "to take a dramatic turn."

"We can tell you, we did not party-crash the White House," Tareq Salahi said at the top of Tuesday morning's Today show.

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In response to host Matt Lauer's questions, Tareq repeatedly answered that he and Michaele are co-operating with the internal review being conducted by the Secret Service. "We're proud to be working with them," said Tareq, who also stated that he and his wife would be "completely exonerated. The truth will soon come out."

But there are those who think the truth will not work to the couple's advantage, and NBC News reports that the Salahis could be charged with misdemeanor trespassing to discourage others from following their example.

"This was not a misunderstanding. You don't show up uninvited to the White House," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Today. He further took issue with the Salahis' claim that their names appeared on the guest list for the dinner, which was in honor of the prime minister of India.

But Michaele took issue with what Gibbs – and others – had to say.

Insists They Were Invited

"We were invited. Not crashers. And there isn't anyone who would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that," she said. "The White House is the house, and no one would do that."

"Who invited you?" asked Lauer, to which Tareq once more reiterated that the couple is cooperating with the Secret Service.

The Salahis, who said they were not paid for the Today interview, said that they have been mischaracterized in the press. "This has been the most devastating thing that's ever happened to us," he said. She said, "Our lives have been destroyed. Everything we worked for, Matt. For me, 44 years, just destroyed."

For Facebook

According to reports, evidence exists that the couple – he a polo and wine enthusiast, and she an aspiring reality star – had been planning their stunt for months, and Michaele had boasted about trying to get close to the Obamas on her Facebook page.

At last week's event, the pair breezed through metal detectors without sounding an alarm. They then managed to slip past security officers armed with the list of the 320 invited guests.

While the Salahis mingled during the cocktail hour, and separately posed with the president and vice-president (with the photographic evidence later posted on their Facebook page), they did not stay for the sit-down dinner.