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Fans give Matthews a ride to concert

HERSHEY, Pa.

Dave Matthews may jet to performances around the world, but that doesn’t mean his bicycle never breaks down.

That’s what happened before the singer’s show in Hershey on Saturday when one of his fans pulled over to give a stranded cyclist a ride and realized the hitchhiker was none other than Matthews, who didn’t have a cellphone on him.

Emily Kraus told WHP-TV in Harrisburg that she and her boyfriend helped Matthews stow his bicycle on their bike rack, and he got in their car for the rest of the ride.

“We didn’t know how to make conversation with him, in fact, so we were talking about his tour and where he had come from,” Kraus said. “He had just been in Cincinnati and he said, ‘I’m taking a short break after this one because I have to drop my daughters off at camp.’ ... He was just a very humble guy.”

He invited them to dinner, took them backstage and got them front-row seats.

Christie to appear as himself on sitcom

TRENTON, N.J.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has appeared many times on late-night TV, including “Saturday Night Live.” Now he has scored his first gig on a sitcom.

His office confirmed Monday a report in The Huffington Post that the Republican governor will appear as himself on an episode this fall of the new NBC comedy “The Michael J. Fox Show.”

Fox will be playing a sportscaster with Parkinson’s disease who is returning to work, much as Fox is an actor with Parkinson’s who is returning to series television.

The show premieres Sept. 26. NBC did not announce an air date for the Christie episode.

The governor is running for a second term. The election is Nov. 5.

Prosecution: Revoke Brown’s probation

LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles prosecutors have moved to revoke probation for singer Chris Brown, who was charged last month with misdemeanor hit-and-run and driving without a valid license.

Brown has been on felony probation in the 2009 beating of former girlfriend Rihanna. He has been in and out of court since then making reports on fulfilling the requirements of his probation.

On May 12, Brown purportedly rear-ended a car in the San Fernando Valley and refused to give the other driver his insurance information. A woman in the car with Brown provided her driver’s license, according to a police report, but Brown did not provide his until his lawyer had it delivered to the other driver two days later.

Brown won a Grammy in 2011 for Best R&B Album with “F.A.M.E.”

McCarthy to join ‘View’ as co-host

NEW YORK

Welcome Jenny McCarthy as the next co-host to join “The View.”

The actress and former Playboy playmate was named Monday to join the panel of the ABC weekday talk show. Barbara Walters, who created “The View” in 1997 and has since served as a co-host, made the announcement on the air.

McCarthy arrives at the start of the 17th season Sept. 9.

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