Tila Tequila says she’s leaving the spotlight — for now.
The reality TV starlet says she’s retiring to concentrate on her pregnancy.
“With so much going on in my life right now and being pregnant, I’m retiring from being a star in Hollywood,” Tila told RadarOnline yesterday.
“Yes I have seriously retired.”
Tila denied a series of reports earlier in the week that her team, including Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, had abandoned ship.
“Joe Francis and I are very much still partners,” Tila said. “I was the one who told him that I wanted to do my blog on my own because it would be less of a headache for him.” Of her assistant, Tila says, “We love working together. We’re in Australia right now having a blast!”
Leonardo DiCaprio says never mind what he said about wanting to get married by age 35.
The star of such movies as “Titanic” and “Blood Diamond,” appearing on “Good Morning America” yesterday, was asked about the comment he made about marriage a while back to Oprah Winfrey.
“Ahh, give me another 10 years,” the now 35-year-old DiCaprio said, laughing. “We say a lot of things, don’t we?”
DiCaprio, who is back again with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Bar Refaeli, said he wants to focus on work, “but if other stuff natural progresses along … so be it.”
John Malkovich, one of the few celebrities launching a fashion line lately, showed his new menswear collection, Technobohemian, to a select group of editors and buyers at Soho House this week.
The line features shirts, pants and coats in rich Italian and Spanish fabrics and will soon include shoes, the New York Post reports. The pieces are expensive — overcoats are about $3,500 — but the actor says he’s not concerned about sales volume: “I don’t want a trillion-dollar empire to run.”
Virginia has granted official recognition for the Patawomeck Indians, the tribe of Virginia-born entertainer Wayne Newton.
The Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday to grant state tribal recognition to the Patawomeck, or Potomac, tribe.
The resolution already was passed by the House and takes effect immediately.
The state recognition gives the tribe a seat with the Virginia Council on Indians but does not grant sovereignty.
Newton visited the State Capitol earlier this month to ask for recognition for the tribe. He and Patawomeck Chief Robert Green said the move would validate their identity and help them protect sacred burial grounds.
—The Associated Press also contributed to this report
lsmith@denverpost.com
