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Food Network names new host of 'Dinner: Impossible'
One of the Food Network's Iron Chefs says he is ready to do the impossible.
The network on Monday announced that Ohio chef Michael Symon will take over as host of the "Dinner: Impossible" series, which challenges its chef to prepare meals under extreme conditions.
Symon, who won the network's "The Next Iron Chef" competition in 2007 and appears on its "Iron Chef America" series, replaces Robert Irvine, who left last month following revelations that he'd exaggerated details of resume.
Irvine had hosted the show for four seasons. The network says Symon will begin taping 10 new episodes this week. They will begin airing this summer. Also new to the show will be a one-hour format. AP
Ewan's cancer scare
Holy (cancerous) moly!
Ewan McGregor told the BBC Breakfast show that he is just "fine" after having a cancerous mole, and several benign ones, removed from underneath his right peeper.
The 37-year-old star said the surgery was "not that big of a deal ... I went to see a specialist who thought they were better to be removed, and indeed he was correct."
The brogued one, who made the medical disclosure while promoting his new erotic thriller Deception, went on to blame the cancer scare on his pale Scottish skin and his prolonged exposure to the sun.
While his moneymaking visage may now be minus a couple of pesky moles, his sarcasm, at least, has remained intact.
"It was great fun having skin cancer," he said. "It was great. I really enjoyed it." E! Online
Israel says Streisand won't attend 60th anniversary bash
Israel says Barbra Streisand has pulled out of a celebration of the country's 60th anniversary next month.
Streisand was among the celebrities set to appear at a Jerusalem convention hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres beginning May 13.
Streisand, who will be 66 on Thursday, was to perform a rendition of the Hebrew prayer Avinu Malkeinu, or "Our Father Our King."
She gave no reason for the cancellation, Peres' office said. AP
Hasselhoff in LA hospital for surgery above eye
The Hoff's hospitalized.
Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff was taken to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center on Saturday to have something removed above his eye, his publicist, Judy Katz, told The Associated Press Monday.
Rumors that Hasselhoff checked into rehab were not true, Katz said. AP
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