Garth exits CBS comedy; is she bound for ‘90210’?

Garth exits CBS comedy; is she bound for ‘90210’?

Jennie Garth has exited the CBS comedy “My Best Friend’s Girl,” causing many industry wags to suggest her next stop may be The CW’s update of “Beverly Hills, 90210.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Garth and the “My Best Friend’s Girl” cast had a table read Monday and they reached a mutual agreement to part ways.

There have been widespread reports that the “Beverly Hill, 90210” spinoff’s original scribe, Rob Thomas, was hoping to have Garth return as Kelly Taylor in a move that would create continuity between the two shows

Wayne Brady divorce becomes final

LOS ANGELES — Wayne Brady is officially single again. The 35-year-old comedian has been living separately from his wife, Mandie, for four years, but the couple’s divorce was just finalized this week. According to papers filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, the pair married in April 1999 and officially separated in April 2006, citing irreconcilable differences. They have one daughter, 5-year-old Maile Brady.

The couple used a mediator to arrive at a final divorce settlement. Details about their child custody, child support and property-division arrangements were not made public. Brady recently guest-starred on TV’s “Everybody Hates Chris” and “How I Met Your Mother.”

Streisand donates $5M for heart research

LOS ANGELES — Barbra Streisand has put her money where her heart is. The 66-year-old singer-actress has donated $5 million to endow a research and education program on women’s heart disease at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The hospital on Wednesday announced the new Barbra Streisand Women’s Cardiovascular Research Education Program.

Dr. Eduardo Marban, who directs the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, said cardiovascular disease is the nation’s leading killer of women — responsible for nearly 500,000 deaths a year — but most research on heart disease revolves around men. Streisand said women must get involved in reducing risks for heart disease. The new program will conduct trials on new drugs for women, try to identify the role of gender in heart disease, and work on other ways of reducing risks.

Paris Hilton’s mom lands spot on soap

LOS ANGELES — Paris Hilton’s mom has a new gig. Kathy Hilton will play herself on the May 13 episode of the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” She finds a magazine cover model for her friend Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman), but takes over the photo shoot, infuriating magazine staffers, in the episode taped Wednesday.

Hilton starred in her own NBC reality show in 2005, “I Want to Be a Hilton,” in which contestants competed for a chance to live like a socialite for a year. She made headlines last May at daughter Paris’ probation-violation hearing by laughing when a city prosecutor argued that Paris deserved jail time.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Robert Hooks is 71. Actress Hayley Mills is 62. Actor James Woods is 61. Actress Cindy Pickett (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) is 61. Country bassist Jim Scholten of Sawyer Brown is 56. Actor Rick Moranis is 55. Actress Melody Thomas Scott (“Young and the Restless”) is 52. Actor John James (“Dynasty,” “The Colbys”) is 52. Actress Jane Leeves (“Fraiser”) is 47. Talk show host Conan O’Brien is 45. Actor Eric McCormack (“Will and Grace”) is 45. Actress Maria Bello is 41. Actress Melissa Joan Hart (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch”) is 32. Actress America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”) is 24. Actress Alia Shawkat (“Arrested Development”) is 19.