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Sheen blindsided by removal of sons

NEW YORK

Charlie Sheen said Wednesday that after his two young sons were removed from his house overnight, he’s “very calm and focused” but ready to fight to get them back. Interviewed live on NBC’s “Today” show, Sheen said the nearly 2-year-old twins, Bob and Max, were removed after a court order was granted to his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, who is their mother.

Mueller is claiming the youngsters shouldn’t be raised in that environment, where Sheen lives with his two “goddess” girlfriends and where partying that Sheen has described as “epic” has taken place. The star of CBS’ “Two and a Half Men” said he doesn’t know where the boys were taken. Moments after the “Today” interview, Sheen told reporters outside his Los Angeles home that the legal move caught him by surprise. “It came out of the bleachers, actually,” he said.

Zsa Zsa Gabor rushed to hospital

LOS ANGELES

Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to a hospital Wednesday in an ambulance when blood flow stopped to her leg, a publicist said.

Doctors ordered the ailing 94-year-old actress to go to UCLA Medical Center because of the problem with her left leg, publicist John Blanchette said. Most of Gabor’s right leg was amputated in January because of gangrene.

Gabor broke her hip and had replacement surgery in July. She has been hospitalized several times since then for swelling, clots and infections.

Aretha Franklin says she’s lost 85 pounds

DETROIT

Aretha Franklin says she’s lost 85 pounds as part of an ongoing effort to drop weight. The legendary singer said in a taped interview on “The Wendy Williams Show” that she’s been trying to shed pounds ever since looking at pictures of herself and deciding she was “entirely too fat.” The 68-year-old Franklin underwent surgery for an undisclosed ailment in December and didn’t go into detail about it during the interview with Williams.