11/09/2002

Rhode Island contender Helen Glover
is still in the running on the CBS reality hit Survivor, having made it through another week's episode. This means that, at the very least, Glover will remain in the game until the end as a member of the jury that determines which of the final two players wins the game, and the $1-million prize that goes with victory.

For the fourth week running, Glover's tribe, Chuay Gahn, won the show's "immunity challenge," which meant their opponents, Sook Jai, had to trudge to tribal council to vote off one of their members.

This time, the challenge involved breathing underwater using crude snorkels. Because of a numerical disparity in the tribes, Glover sat out, which seemed odd because she's a Navy swim instructor. But her tribe won anyway, and getting the boot this week was 26-year-old Erin Collins
from Austin, Texas.

Both tribes are now living on the same beach, and Glover irritated Jake Billingsley
of Sook Jai with her constant talk of recipes. "I love every person on the other tribe, but Helen with her constant recipes!" he said. "I have heard recipes until I am just about green in the face."

-- Andy Smith

An early heads-up to jazz and folk festival fans in Newport.

Festival Productions Inc. has announced the 2003 festival dates, and the jazz festival comes before the folk festival next summer.

The JVC Jazz Festival
-- Newport takes place Aug. 8, 9 and 10. The Apple & Eve Newport Folk Festival is Aug. 15, 16 and 17.

The festival main stages are at Fort Adams State Park in Newport. Lineups will be announced in the spring.

-- Vaughn Watson

Sharon Osbourne
may regret her hit MTV series, but she's still fond of television, and reportedly has signed up as host of a syndicated talk show.

The wife of rock star Ozzy Osbourne has reached a deal with Telepictures Productions for the show beginning in fall 2003, Electronic Media online reported Thursday.

A spokesman for Telepictures said the company doesn't comment on projects in development. Terms of the deal were unavailable, Electronic Media said.

In an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters that aired this week, Osbourne said she wouldn't invite MTV's cameras into her home for reality series The Osbournes if she had it to do over again.

Although she told Walters she wanted to call it quits after the upcoming 10-episode second season, she later issued a statement saying she would fulfill the contract with MTV that calls for 20 episodes total.

Compiled by Lifebeat editor Alexis Magner Miller from Journal and wire reports.