Kelly is latest Osbourne to check in at rehab

Kelly is latest Osbourneto check in at rehab
LOS ANGELES -- Kelly Osbourne, the 19-year-old daughter of heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne, has checked into a drug rehabilitation center in Malibu for an addiction to painkillers, her parents said in a televised interview.
Ozzy, 55, and Sharon Osbourne, 51, talked about their daughter's drug problem Friday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Sharon Osbourne said that an English tabloid notified them Friday that they had a photograph of Kelly in an apparent drug deal.
Kelly Osbourne was confronted and eventually acknowledged a drug problem "after a lot of twisting," Sharon Osbourne said.
Ozzy said that his daughter denied having a stash of drugs, but the family's maid said she had found a bag of pills underneath her bed.
"So the bag was delivered to me, and I opened this bag and it was full of pills. ... There must have been 500 pills," he told King.
Kelly's brother, Jack Osbourne, checked himself into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic last year, and Ozzy Osbourne has been candid about his decades of battles with substance abuse.
The siblings became international stars following the success of the MTV reality show "The Osbournes," which shows an oft-dazed Ozzy doting over his dysfunctional family with wife-manager, Sharon. The show returns April 6 for its third season.
President disappointscountry singer Haggard
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country singer Merle Haggard says he's as red, white and blue as they come, but has been disappointed by how President Bush responded to the panel probing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Haggard, 66, has been critical in songs and in interviews of the Iraq war and of what he views as an erosion of individual freedom.
"I certainly wasn't going to vote for Gore, so he is my man," Haggard said of Bush in an interview with The Associated Press. "But I'm not really all that happy with him."
On Thursday he cited the administration's flip flop on National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's requested testimony to the Sept. 11 panel as another example of poor leadership.
"There have been some things, like saying no with (Condoleezza Rice) to begin with and then having a White House reversal," Haggard said in a telephone interview from California. "I don't think a White House reversal looks good anytime."
Haggard played for Richard Nixon at the White House in 1973 and at Ronald Reagan's ranch in 1982.
Today's birthdays
Singer-actress Frances Langford is 90. Composer Elmer Bernstein is 82. Actress Elizabeth Wilson is 79. Author-poet Maya Angelou is 76. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is 72. Recording executive Clive Davis is 72. Actor Michael Parks is 66. Bandleader Hugh Masekela is 65. Author Kitty Kelley is 62. Actor Craig T. Nelson is 60. Actor Walter Charles is 59. Actress Caroline McWilliams is 59. Actress Christine Lahti is 54. Country singer Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) is 53. Writer-producer David E. Kelley is 48. Actor Phil Morris is 45. Actress Lorraine Toussaint is 44. Actor Hugo Weaving is 44. Rock musician Craig Adams (The Cult) is 42. Actor Robert Downey Jr. is 39. Actress Nancy McKeon is 38. Actor Barry Pepper is 34. Rock musician Magnus Sveningsson (The Cardigans) is 32. Magician David Blaine is 31. Singer Kelly Price is 31. Rhythm and blues singer Andre Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 30. Actor Heath Ledger is 25. Actress Natasha Lyonne is 25.