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WHITESNAKE stars URIAH DUFFY and CHRIS FRAZIER have quit the rock group t o pursue other musical ventures.
David Coverdale’s band announced the news of the bass player and drumme r’s departure last week (ends18Jun10).
Drummer Brian Tichy will replace Frazier and the group is still "explor ing options" for a new bassist.
A statement from Coverdale reads, "We wish Uriah and Chris every succes s in pursuing their individual musical careers and express our sincere gr atitude for the exceptional contribution they both made to the legacy of the band."

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Oscar winner A.R. RAHMAN had to call off two shows in North America at th e weekend (19-20Jun10) after the stage he had planned to perform on colla psed.
Crew members were left injured when the stage at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan collapsed during set-up on Saturday.
Officials at the Pontiac Fire Department have opened an investigation i nto what went wrong.
Slumdog Millionaire score composer Rahman also cancelled his Jai Ho Con cert: The Journey Home World Tour date at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre in Canada on Sunday (20Jun10) to allow time for stage equipment damaged to b e repaired or replaced.
In a tweet to fans, he wrote, "I regret any inconvenience this causes m y fans and am deeply grateful no one from my team or the local Detroit st age crew was seriously injured. It’s a miracle that my team escaped with minor injuries. The lighting rig came apart. Thanks to the almighty that everyone’s safe." Rahman will pick up the tour in San Francisco, California on Wednesday (26Jun10). Both postponed shows are expected to be rescheduled next month (Jul10).

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Rapper THE GAME has assured fans he’s alive and well following sick repor ts he was gunned down at the weekend (20Jun10) in a comical tweet from be yond the grave.
The Dreams hitmaker, real name Jayceon Taylor, was alleged to have been fatally shot in the head at Los Angeles’ Beverly Center shopping mall on Sunday night.
But The Game has reached out to fans via his Twitter.com blog to prove he’s well.
In a series of tweets posted on Monday morning (21Jun10), the star reve als he’s living and breathing in Sacramento, California.
He writes, "Hello Sacramento. Who ever started da rumor dat I was dead is funny as hell. If u gone spread rumors, b more creative (sic)." He goes on to joke about the situation: "As a matter of fact, I am dead .. I’m the 1st n**ga to #graveTweet!!! …now tweetin from the grave (sic) …. I tell you one thing though, you can’t really get good (cell phone) r eception down here in this coffin…" And The Game has even set a date for his ‘funeral’ - instructing fans t o go out and buy his new CD The R.E.D. Album when it’s released in U.S. s tores in August (10).
He adds, "My funeral is 8-24-10 @ da nearest Best Buy. The obituary is $9.99 located (at) da front of da store (sic)."

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TV series GOSSIP GIRL is getting a magical twist - HARRY POTTER star CLEM ENCE POESY is joining the cast.
The French actress, who appeared as Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, will help take the show - about the lives of a group of rich youths - to Paris.
Entertainment Weekly magazine suggests she’ll play a character called E va.
Filming for the new season is expected to begin in Paris and New York i n July (10).

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CAMERON DIAZ always paces herself when partying with Aussies after one he avy night out left her with alcohol poisoning.
The actress has always boasted a great tolerance for booze but she lear ned Americans should never try to keep up with their cousins from Down Un der.
She says, "I was 19 and in Australia for the first time doing a commerc ial. I didn’t know that Australians are actually superhuman and don’t hav e livers.
"I was out one harmless, wonderfully fun day with a group of hospitable Australians who were showing me Sydney. I was keeping up with them drink ing, and they got pretty s**t-faced, but I got alcohol poisoning.
"I survived, but it was as bad as alcohol poisoning gets. I thought I w as dying."

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A graphic oral sex scene in cult vampire TV drama TRUE BLOOD had to be ax ed because cameras couldn’t get close enough to the action.
Show regular Stephen Moyer reveals he and real-life lover Anna Paquin w ere game to get the vampire/human sex session on film, but it technically wasn’t possible.
He explains, "My character would have had his head between Anna’s chara cter’s legs. It was scrapped because of technical difficulty getting the shot with the number of camera set ups they had planned - as opposed to b ecause it was too graphic."

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The retired judge who oversaw the ANNA NICOLE SMITH burial trial is urgin g police to reopen investigations into the star’s death, calling the trag edy grounds for "a potential murder case".
Former Fort Lauderdale, Florida judge Larry Seidlin has revealed he isn ‘t satisfied with the Seminole Indian Police Department’s investigation o f Smith’s February 2007 death, which was ruled an accidental overdose.
In a new book, titled The Killing of Anna Nicole Smith, he claims the f ormer Playboy model died under "highly unusual circumstances"; and he bel ieves someone is guilty of manslaughter.
Seidlin does not say who he believes should be considered a suspect, bu t he is highly critical of enablers of Smith’s drug use, writing, "I thin k enablers should be punished. How about keeping her off drugs while she was alive?" The retired judge also calls for investigations into the death of Smith ’s son, Daniel Smith, to be reopened. The 20 year old died five months be fore his mother, in September 2006.
Seidlin presided over the six-day televised hearing into the fate of Sm ith’s body, and ruled it could be buried in the Bahamas. (JMA/WNWCZM&WNWA

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A man arrested outside THE HILLS star AUDRINA PATRIDGE’s Los Angeles home has pleaded no contest to a stalking charge and will undergo psychiatric evaluation.
Zachary Loring entered the plea in a Los Angeles court on Monday (21Jun 10).
He will undergo a 90-day diagnostic evaluation before he’s sentenced on 20 September (10).
He faces up to two years in a state prison if experts find him to be co mpetent.
Patridge did not appear in court.
Police reports suggest 25-year-old Loring repeatedly visited the star a t her home and left her a number of disturbing items, including drawings and poetry.
Loring has been banned from approaching Patridge and her family until 2 014.

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ORLANDO BLOOM is engaged to marry his supermodel girlfriend MIRANDA KERR.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 33, has been dating the Australian b eauty since 2007 and they have repeatedly dismissed reports they’re headi ng down the aisle.
Kerr, 27, was forced to deny the most recent engagement rumours in Febr uary (10) when she was spotted wearing a ring on her wedding finger.
She insisted the band was of no real significance, explaining, "We were in Cannes at the film festival and it was so hot that my fingers were sw elling. I was wearing it on that finger because that’s the only one it wo uld fit on. It was totally an innocent thing." But Bloom’s spokesperson has now confirmed the actor has proposed to Ke rr and the couple is making plans to wed.
His rep tells ETonline.com, "Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr are getting married."

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Australian singer SIA is having second thoughts about quitting music afte r discovering a thyroid condition is to blame for her constantly feeling sluggish and lazy.
The singer vowed to quit music following the June (10) release of her f ourth record, We Are Born, insisting she was tired of life in the spotlig ht and wanted a "normal job".
But the star, who has collaborated with artists including Christina Agu ilera, Zero 7 and Beck, is reconsidering her plans for the future after l earning an underactive thyroid has caused her to lose the motivation to m ake new records.
She tells New York Magazine, "It’s a relief. I realised I’m not lazy an d I’m a nice person. Maybe, I’m not mental!"

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OZZY OSBOURNE and his BLACK SABBATH bandmates used to wrap up their tours by seeking treatment for sexually transmitted diseases they might have c ontracted from groupies.
The Paranoid rocker admits he regularly visited a doctor for an injecti on before he went home to ensure he wouldn’t pass any infections on to hi s steady partner.
But Osbourne admits he was often distracted by the hospital’s pretty nu rses, who he was too embarrassed to discuss his sexual health with.
In his health column for Britain’s Sunday Times magazine, he writes, "A h, the clap (gonorrhoea). I’ve seen more than a few cases of this during my career, and the only way to go is penicillin. When I was in Black Sabb ath, me and the lads would check ourselves into the nearest emergency roo m at the end of every tour to get a jab.
"The only problem was, more often than not, the chick on the front desk at the hospital would be young and beautiful, and none of us wanted to s ay, ‘I’ve been s**gging groupies in motels for the last two months, so ho w about a shot of penicillin to make sure the missus doesn’t get what I’v e got?’…
"I’ll never forget the sight of half a dozen headbangers, trousers down , bending over, their pale and spotty a**es ready for their jabs." (PAW/W

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KANYE WEST’s on/off girlfriend AMBER ROSE has heaped praise on the rap su perstar for "saving" her life and helping to kick-start her modelling car eer.
The curvaceous beauty grew up in poverty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but shot to fame last year (09) when she began dating West and the couple became a mainstay at red carpet events.
West and Rose, who briefly split last summer (09), were recently rumour ed to have parted ways once again - but that hasn’t stopped the model fro m crediting the hip-hop star with boosting her career opportunities.
She tells YRB Magazine, "Honestly, Kanye saved my life, and I don’t eve n think about what I would have been; I just think about what I’m going t o be." Rose refuses to let her newfound star status inflate her ego and she’s constantly amazed when fans recognise her on the street.
She says, "I don’t look at myself as a celebrity. I’m just a dope chick from South Philly! I mean, it’s crazy when fans come up to me and cry an d just want a hug from me. It bugs me out! But it’s really cool." However, she admits the constant paparazzi presence has begun to irk he r - and she now struggles with anxiety every time a snapper is near.
"Sometimes it does get overwhelming because, for example, I like to be on the beach with my man with no top on. I’m very comfortable with my bod y. But there’s no privacy - that’s the only thing that overwhelms me. Eve ry time I see a light flash, I think it’s the paparazzi. Those f**kers gi ve me anxiety." Rose landed a contract with top modeling agency Ford Models last summer (09) after posing nude with West to promote his new sneaker line with Lo uis Vuitton.

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British rockers RADIOHEAD have backtracked over their decision not to rel ease a new album this year (10) - guitarist ED O’BRIEN has confirmed the band is recording new music.
Earlier this year (10) online gossips claimed the Grammy winners were p utting the finishing touches to a new release called Tehrangeles, a follo w up to their 2007 album In Rainbows.
But the band insisted the gossip was false and there would be no new mu sic in 2010. In a statement released to NME.com, the group insisted: "Mos t of it is made up and there is no album or album title." But O’Brien has revealed plans for a 2010 release are in fact in the wo rks - and could be released in "a matter of weeks".
He tells BBC 6Music show: "We’re in the heart of the record. It’s genui nely exciting. It’s very different from what we did last time. It’s reall y nice to be doing this. It’s so good to be making music with the band th at you feel is still as good as it’s ever been.
"Ideally, it would be great if it came out sometime this year. It has g ot to. I hope so. We’re at the finishing line. When you’re making a recor d, a film, writing a book for ages and ages, you think the finishing line is miles away. Now it feels it’s in touching distance. But of course, it being a creative process, at the last bit also, you have bursts of energ y, you achieve a lot of things in a small period of time and then you’re nearly there, it might slow down. But yeah, hopefully it will be a matter of weeks."

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s estate has generated almost $1 billion in revenue since the pop superstar’s shock death last year (25Jun10), according to U.S. r eports.
The Thriller hitmaker has sold 33 million albums around the globe, in a ddition to 800,000 copies of albums by the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons sin ce his fatal cardiac arrest, reports Reuters.
Billboard magazine estimates music sales have already brought in $429 m illion (=C2=A3286 million) in sales, assuming a worldwide retail price of $11.62 (=C2=A37.75) per unit. The report also included revenue from inte rnational track downloads, global ringtone sales and digital performance royalties.
The revenue report claims a staggering $392 million (=C2=A3261 million) has been garnered from TV and movie projects, including the Michael Jack son: This Is It documentary about the singer’s final rehearsals for his d oomed residency at the O2 arena in London last year (09) - which he repor tedly agreed to sign on for as a means to rid him of his huge debts.
Jackson died weeks before he was due to hit the stage, but despite the cancelled dates, the revenue from licensing royalties and retail sales ar e valued at another $35 million (=C2=A323 million) - due in part to fans failing to claim refunds for tickets in favour of keeping them as souveni rs.
Meanwhile, Jackson’s highly profitable half-ownership of the Sony/ATV m usic catalogue and other music publishing deals have earned the estate a reported $130 million (=C2=A397 million).
And millions more are expected to pour in.
In March (10), the King of Pop was crowned with one of the most lucrati ve posthumous recording contracts in history. The Jackson estate is guara nteed to earn between $200 and $250 million (=C2=A3133 and =C2=A3167 mill ion) after signing a deal with Sony Music Entertainment bosses to release 10 Jackson albums between 2010 and 2017. The projects will consist of a collection of reissues and previously unreleased Jackson songs. (JMA/WNWC

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DAME HELEN MIRREN has heaped praise on controversial pop stars LADY GAGA and MILEY CYRUS - insisting she is "thrilled" young girls are embracing t heir sexuality.
Mirren admits she struggled to use her own sexuality as leverage early on in her career, until her scandalous role in films like 1969’s Age of C onsent - in which she stripped as the teenage muse of an older painter.
And she’s happy to have paved the way for contemporary actresses and mu sic artists.
She tells New York Magazine, "I much prefer overt sexuality to sleazy, vulgar prurience… I was kind of a trailblazer because I demanded to do it my own way. I’d say, ‘I’m not having it put on me by someone else…’ "I’m thrilled young girls are claiming their sexuality for themselves. I love bold women: Madonna and Scarlett Johansson - sexy and gorgeous, bu t not only that. And Miley Cyrus - fantastic! And Lady Gaga. I love the w ay she’s elevated pop to performance art, or dragged performance art down to pop, or maybe made a wonderful amalgam of the two."

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GEORGE W. BUSH’s daughter JENNA has been targeted by thieves - two expens ive mountain bikes were stolen from her home in Maryland on Friday (18Jun 10).
Police were called to the South Baltimore house Jenna Bush Hager shares with her husband Henry on Friday afternoon after the burglar alarm was s et off while the couple was out.
Officers left the property after finding no signs of a break-in, but th e Hagars later returned to discover their bicycles, worth a total of $3,5 00 (=C2=A32,330), had been stolen.
No other items were taken in the burglary, according to local police.
Bush Hagar, 28, is the younger of the former U.S. president’s twin girl s.

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Italian comedy KISS ME AGAIN has triumphed at the 2010 Shanghai Internati onal Film Festival in China after winning a trio of top awards.
The sequel to The Last Kiss, directed by Gabriele Muccino, was honoured with the Golden Goblet Best Picture prize and Best Screenplay, while its star Vittoria Puccini took home the Best Actress accolade.
Chinese filmmaker Liu Jie was named Best Director for Deep in the Cloud s and the film claimed the Best Music honour as well as the jury prize, w hich was headed by Hong Kong moviemaker John Woo.
Christian Ulmen landed the Best Actor title for his performance in Wedd ing Fever in Campobello, and Colin Farrell’s Ondine won Christopher Doyle the Best Cinematography prize.
The nine-day festival wrapped on Sunday (20Jun10).

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WOODY ALLEN only makes movies to "amuse" his ex-girlfriend DIANE KEATON a nd a group of close pals - insisting their opinions are the only ones tha t matter.
The director famously refuses to revisit his work once it’s been releas ed and reveals he only steps behind the camera to create stories to enter tain his close circle of friends, including his Annie Hall leading lady K eaton, who he dated in the 1970s.
He explains, "I will say this: when I finish a film completely, there’s about a half dozen, maybe eight people, that I do want to see the movie.
I will invite Diane Keaton here (to watch it). I will invite some person al friends of mine, between six and 10 maximum. And once they’ve seen the picture, I don’t much care any more. That’s the fun that I get: to sit i n here with Keaton, or my friends, and amuse or delight them with it. Tha t gives me a kick. After that, it doesn’t matter to me." And Allen insists he is no perfectionist when it comes to shooting film s - because he’d rather call it a day and head home to watch a sports gam e.
He adds, "If you look at guys who are not lazy - let’s say Steven Spiel berg - you know, they work. They go out on location somewhere, and they l ive in the desert for a year, or in some godforsaken country for ages, ma king a film. And they shoot every angle and do everything. I can’t do tha t. I don’t have the patience. (On set) I’m thinking, ‘There’s a basketbal l play-off game on tonight, or the Yankees are playing.’ You know, artist ic perfection is not my top priority."

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