Actress who played TV psychic Miss Cleo dies


July 27, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

Actress who played TV psychic Miss Cleo dies

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.

The actress who became famous playing the Jamaican psychic Miss Cleo, claiming to know callers’ futures in ubiquitous TV infomercials and commercials 15 years ago, has died of cancer.

Youree Dell Harris, 53, died in Palm Beach, her lawyer, William J. Cone Jr. said.

The Los Angeles-born Harris was a struggling actress when the Psychic Readers Network hired her in the late 1990s to play Miss Cleo. She adopted her family’s Jamaican heritage for the role, persuading viewers to call for allegedly free psychic readings.

The federal government said those “free” calls cost consumers about $1 billion.

Husband of ex-’Cosby’ actress files for divorce

ATLANTA

Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam’s husband is calling it quits after just six months of marriage.

Former NFL player Edgerton Hartwell II filed a divorce complaint Monday in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta.

The complaint says the two married Jan. 2 and recently separated. The three-page document offers no details or reason for the split, saying only that “the marriage is irretrievably broken, and there is no possibility of reconciling.”

The 37-year-old Pulliam played daughter Rudy Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” and also played Miranda Payne on “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.”

According to the NFL’s website, 38-year-old Hartwell was a linebacker in the NFL, including four seasons with the Baltimore Ravens and two with the Atlanta Falcons.

Nielsen’s top programs

NEW YORK

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 18-24. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership:

  1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 11.10 million; 2. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 10.78 million; 3. GOP Convention Coverage (10 p.m. Thursday), Fox News Channel, 9.72 million; 4. GOP Convention Coverage (11 p.m. Thursday), Fox News Channel, 9.10 million; 5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.87 million; 6. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 7.68 million; 7. GOP Convention Coverage (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 7.34 million.

Associated Press