Heidi Klum offers to take in Britney Spears

Heidi Klum offers
to take in Britney Spears

HAMBURG, Germany — Heidi Klum wants to help Britney Spears.

The 34-year-old model says she’d be willing to open her home to Spears while the troubled pop singer puts her life back together.

“She can call me and come live in our house with us for a couple of months,” said Klum, a mother of three who is married to the singer Seal and lives in Beverly Hills, Calif. “I would help set her straight.”

“I am sorry when a young person gets thrown so off track,” Klum said, according to a transcript of an interview that will be aired tonight by the German broadcaster ARD. “She has, of course, lived an extremely wild life.”

After more than a year of bizarre behavior and two stints in a psychiatric hospital this year, Spears was placed under a conservatorship by the Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner at the beginning of February. Conservatorships are established when a court determines that someone cannot take care of themselves or their affairs.

To hear Klum, the host of Bravo’s “Project Runway,” describe it, her own life seems like a fairy tale.

“I have never been as happy as I am today,” Klum said. “I have found the man of my life and we have three great kids. They are all so different and fantastic that it really can’t get better than this.”

Owners of Carpenters’
former home want it razed

DOWNEY, Calif. — Owners of The Carpenters’ former home aren’t feeling on top of the world about the legions of fans who keep stopping by to pay tribute.

The five-bedroom tract house, where siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter lived and penned some of their greatest hits, was featured on the cover of their 1973 hit album “Now & Then.” It was also where an anorexic Karen Carpenter collapsed in 1983 before dying.

Owners Manuel and Blanca Melendez Parra have apparently grown weary of the parade of fans paying homage.

The couple have submitted plans to officials in Downey, a city about 15 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, to raze the 39-year-old main house, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The Parras have already torn down an adjoining house and have begun construction on a larger home.

The proposal to level the rest of the residence has angered fans.

“This house is our version of Graceland,” said Carpenters aficionado Jon Konjoyan. “When they photographed the ‘Now & Then’ cover here in 1973, the house was instantly immortalized.”

Today’s birthdays

Actor George Kennedy is 83. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is 81. Singer Yoko Ono is 75. Singer/songwriter Bobby Hart is 69. Singer Dennis DeYoung is 61. Producer-director-writer John Hughes is 58. Actress Cybill Shepherd is 58. Singer Juice Newton is 56. Rock musician Larry Rust (Iron Butterfly) is 55. Actor John Travolta is 54. Game show host Vanna White is 51. Actress Greta Scacchi is 48. Actor Matt Dillon is 44. Rapper Dr. Dre is 43. Actress Molly Ringwald is 40. Actress Sarah Brown is 33. Singer-musician Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) is 31. Actor Tyrone Burton is 29. Actor Shane Lyons is 20.