'View' host says DeVito is a 'fun drunk'

The women of "The View" are laughing off Danny DeVito's loopy behavior during his appearance on the show. "Danny DeVito is not an alcoholic," co-host Rosie O'Donnell said yesterday. "He's just a guy who had one too many drinks with his friend." On Wednesday's show, the 62-year-old actor admitted he'd had a late night out with George Clooney and said, "I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me." Asked if he had been to sleep, DeVito replied, "I don't know." DeVito slurred his speech slightly and told a long-winded story about spending an amorous night in the White House's Lincoln bedroom with his wife, actress Rhea Perlman, and some of his words were bleeped out while he joked about President Bush, whom he'd imitated as a monkey and one of the Three Stooges. Co-host Joy Behar said yesterday that DeVito was "drunk as a skunk." "But he was a fun drunk," said co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Her marriage didn't work out on "Desperate Housewives," but things are looking rosy in real life for Eva Longoria: She's engaged to her beau, basketball star Tony Parker. Longoria, 31, who plays crafty Gabrielle Solis on the hit ABC show, met Parker, a 24-year-old Frenchman, in the San Antonio Spurs' locker room after a game two years ago. Longoria divorced Tyler Christopher, who stars on ABC's "General Hospital," in 2004, after two years of marriage.

The frontman of one of Australia's most successful entertainment acts, children's group the Wiggles, quit yesterday to battle a rare illness. Greg Page, the magician and Yellow Wiggle in the popular fluorescent-clad foursome, suffers from orthostatic intolerance, a disorder that stops his heart from pumping enough blood while he's standing or dancing.

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