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John Lennon’s parents met at a park one afternoon. Lennon’s mother (Julia) made fun of his father (Freddie)’s hat and the rest was history. But when Julia got pregnant and eventually gave birth to John, Freddie was off at sea, only to return when John was five. And when Freddie returned, he had plans to leave again, this time with John.

Nine-year-old John Lennon and mother Julia Lennon | Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images John Lennon’s father showed up after being gone for five years

When Fred finally arrived home, he explained his five-year absence. He claimed he’d gotten drunk at a stopover in New York and didn’t make it back before the ship left dock, according to The Love You Make by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. He was arrested and then remanded to a ship heading to North Africa. On that ship, he was...

Liz Smith, the legendary gossip columnist who detailed New York goings-on for decades, died Sunday, NBC New York reports. She was 94. Smith’s column was syndicated to nearly 70 newspapers and is credited with helping to bring forth the era of celebrity journalism. Literary agent Joni Evans told the Associated Press that Smith died of natural causes in New York. Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2017 (Photos) Often referred to as the Dame of Dish, Smith wrote her eponymous column for more than two decades, beginning her run as a columnist at the New York Daily News. Smith’s coverage of the divorce.

US football player Tom Brady was shocked by ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan's public announcement she was expecting his child. The 36-year-old actress announced she is more than three months pregnant with the New England Patriot star's child through Liz Smith's gossip column in the New York Post. Moynahan reportedly didn't inform Brady, who is now dating supermodel Gisele Bundchen, that she was announcing the pregnancy until the very last minute. A friend of Brady's tells American publication Us Weekly he was blind-sided by Moynahan's press blitz saying, "He's disappointed this is how she's decided to play it. She announced it to make him look like a jerk." Sources say the couple didn't know Moynahan was pregnant when they broke up in November, but Brady "has known about it for a while." The birth announcement reportedly put a damper on Brady's romantic Paris getaway with Bundchen. The couple were on holiday at The Ritz hotel when news of the pregnancy broke.

Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon has fled Hollywood and moved back home to Charleston, South Carolina with her two children. WItherspoon announced she was separating from husband Ryan Phillippe in October, after seven years of marriage. The couple have two children, Ava Elizabeth, seven, and Deacon, three. According to New York Post columnist Liz Smith, the star was thoroughly disgusted with both marriage and her life in Hollywood and wanted to return to her Southern roots. Witherspoon moved back to Charleston to be closer to her family and has enrolled both of her children in local public schools. The Walk The Line star recently claimed she was coping with life after the split saying, "I'm doing fine. I'm getting out a little more now. You'll be seeing more of me."...

Actress Tara Reid has viciously attacked the New York Post's gossip columns for claiming she is close friends with teen star Lindsay Lohan. The American Pie star has been a regular feature in showbiz columns over the past few years for her party-loving ways and hit the headlines last month when her breast fell out of her dress on the red carpet of Sean 'P Diddy' Combs' 35th birthday party. In an interview with America's Stuff magazine, Reid blasts, "The reporters from (New York Post's) 'Page Six' hate me, and I don't know why. They will write anything they can and always in a derogatory way. You can't do anything about it." Reid focuses on one of "Page Six"'s three female correspondents Liz Smith, Cindy Adams and Elisa Lipsky-karasz, but refuses to clarify which reporter she hates. Reid fumes, "She's just evil. But karma's a bitch, so she'll get hers." The blonde beauty is furious she's been associated with Lohan, who, despite being underage at 18 years old, is regularly spotted in the nightclubs of Hollywood and New York. She explains, "A tabloid reported she moved into my house and she's never even been to my house. Some article said I was a bad influence on her, because she was going out and going crazy. But Lindsay Lohan is way more wild than I was when I was her age. Don't put me with her - I don't want to be dragged into her s**t."...

Sarah Jessica Parker was taken by surprise when she discovered she was pregnant - but shocked and horrified that the media found out so soon afterwards. The svelte beauty, married to actor Matthew Broderick, decided to keep the news of her pregnancy quiet until she'd safely completed her first trimester. But in early April, American gossip columnist Liz Smith was tipped off, and when the couple was called for comment, Parker and her husband made a "mad dash" to tell relatives before it was splashed across tabloids the following day. Parker says, "Neither of us was able to call all the people we wanted to and we felt bad. People's feeling were hurt." The actress explains that she really was surprised by the good news, adding, "I think to say you want a family implies that you're at home on certain given days really focusing and trying. But that just wasn't the case. My husband and I had been working in separate cities and were on different schedules. We were not expecting the doctor to say, 'You're pregnant.' It was a wonderful surprise."...

Revered gossip queen Liz Smith has lashed out at Barbra Streisand's three-page letter to America's democrat party urging them to stand up against President George W. Bush. Smith, still riled at Streisand's complaints regarding her column, which was mainly complimentary about the singer, has lashed out at Streisand's lack of common knowledge. She says, "Barbra is always carrying on about the people, the rights of the people. She hasn't been near any 'People' in years. She hasn't even flown commercially in nearly 20 years."...