Keyshia Cole Singer Cole, Cavalier Gibson have baby boy

March 4, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Singer Keyshia Cole and Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Daniel Gibson have announced the birth of their son.

Cole’s publicist, Tresa Sanders, says in a statement to The Associated Press that Daniel Hiram Gibson Jr. was born Tuesday evening.

He weighs 7 pounds, 3 ounces.

Sanders says “mother and baby are doing great” and Cole would especially like to thank her fans.

The 28-year-old Cole is a Grammy Award-nominated R&B performer who has starred in her own BET reality show, “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is.” The 24-year-old Gibson was drafted by Cleveland in 2006. They’re engaged.

The heart of Reynolds

Burt Reynolds’ manager says the actor has been released from a Florida hospital after a planned heart bypass operation.

Erik Kritzer said in a statement Wednesday that Reynolds had been scheduled for the operation for over a month.

Kritzer said Reynolds , 74, went into the hospital on Monday and was discharged Tuesday. Kritzer says Reynolds told him that he is “feeling great.”

Bobby Rydell’s charge

Bobby Rydell, the 1960s teen pop idol, has resolved a Pennsylvania drunken-driving charge by entering a program for nonviolent first-time offenders.

Under the terms of the program, the 67-year-old Rydell will be on probation for a year and lose his license for two months. Police say Rydell’s 1969 Bentley jumped a curb and struck a wall in the Philadelphia suburb of Narberth in August. No injuries were reported. Prosecutors say Rydell’s blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit at the time of the crash.

One angry Jessica

Jessica Simpson says she’s “a little bit angry” with ex-boyfriend John Mayer for an interview he gave to Playboy magazine in which he called the singer “sexual napalm.”

Simpson said on the Wednesday episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she doesn’t want people “to know how I am in bed.” In the interview, Mayer talked about Simpson’s sexual ability and said Simpson “is like crack cocaine to me.” Simpson told Winfrey that she is “absolutely” comfortable with her weight and loves her curves.

Simply the best for Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters says her last Oscars television special will be her best. Walters will sit down with actresses Sandra Bullock and Mo’Nique, both nominated for Academy Awards. Bullock is up for Best Actress for “The Blind Side,” and Mo’Nique for Best Supporting Actress for “Precious.”

Associated Press