08:47 AM EST on Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Richard Hatch of Newport hasn't participated in a same-sex marriage -- yet.

On Friday, the same day the mayor of New Paltz, N.Y., began conducting same-sex weddings, Hatch announced that he planned to go there to marry his live-in boyfriend.

So far that hasn't happened, according to a CBS spokesperson. Hatch, who won the first Survivor contest and was voted off Survivor: All Stars on Thursday, called and left a message for the mayor of New Paltz, but hasn't received a reply. Since Friday, New Paltz has established a wedding waiting list of more than 500 people.

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Rhode Island's latest Survivor may still be single, but Beyonce's little sister is now a married woman.

Solange Knowles, 17, wed Daniel Smith in a ceremony in the Bahamas over the weekend, according to her record company, Columbia Records. Beyonce, her parents, Mathew and Tina Knowles, and Destiny's Child member Kelly Rowland were in attendance.

"I am excited about this new phase in my life," Solange said Monday in a statement. "I am very happy and feel truly blessed to have the unconditional love and support of my parents and my entire family."

Solange released her debut CD, Solo Star, last year. She'll make her feature film debut in Johnson Family Vacation, due out later this year, her record label said.

Smith, a college football player, and Solange are natives of Houston.

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The go-between who helped record the interview tapes on which Princess Diana described her failed marriage says people would be surprised at what a cheerful lady she ultimately was.

Dr. James Colthurst, a longtime friend of Diana's, recorded interviews that became the basis for Andrew Morton's 1992 book, Diana, Her True Story.

NBC is using these tapes -- never before heard in the United States -- as the basis for a two-part special. Princess Diana: The Secret Tapes will air this Thursday and March 11 (10 p.m., channels 7 and 10).

Cheerfulness is the last thing people might expect, considering Morton's book gave Diana's side of an unhappy marriage. Diana soon separated from Prince Charles and they divorced in 1996, a year before her death in a Paris car crash.

"She was actually a lady who had a great deal to offer -- a great spark and enthusiasm," Colthurst said in an interview with The Associated Press.

That doesn't come across in subsequent, downbeat portrayals of Diana, or even in the written transcripts of the tapes she made with him.

"It's very hard to transcribe a giggle or a laugh," he said.

Compiled from wire reports by Lifebeat editor Alexis Magner Miller.