Chris Cornell, frontman of generation-defining bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, was found dead in his Detroit hotel room late Tuesday night; police are investigating his death as a possible suicide. ABC News reports Cornell’s “wife had called a family friend and asked him to check on Cornell.” Upon arriving, “the friend forced open a hotel room door and found Cornell on the bathroom floor.”
Cornell was in Detroit for a stop on his latest tour with Soundgarden, and posted this to his Twitter account just hours before his death:
He was 52.
[ABC News]
Alan Thicke’s widow, Tanya Callau, claims she and the late actor (and father of Robin) were talking about having another child in the weeks immediately preceding his sudden death of a heart attack last December.
TMZ writes the couple, who were married for 11 years, “had an architect visit their Santa Barbara ranch in early December to draw up plans for a nursery,” and that they planned to use the eggs Callau had frozen three years ago.
Why are we leaning about this now? Because Callau might soon be sued by Thicke’s children.
[TMZ]
This morning’s Dirt Bag has been deeply sad, so this is my half-hearted attempt at lightening the mood.
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- Joe Simpson is cancer free, and celebrating in the most Joe Simpson way possible: by buying a ridiculous looking, lime green, 200k Mercedes. [TMZ]
- This is honestly the best photographic evidence of Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes’s relationship yet. They took the same private plane home from Paris! [Us Weekly]
- Photos from the Museum of Ice Cream makes me feel like I ate ice cream without taking a Lactaid. [Us Weekly]
- When Jennifer Lopez needs to use a public bathroom, no one else is allowed in. That seems reasonable to me! [Page Six]
- **Shivers for a decade** [Hollywood Life]