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Kelly Ripa says Regis Philbin, her co-host on ''Live With Regis and Kelly,'' is in good shape after having heart bypass surgery this week in New York.

Eddie Cibrian, who starred on television's ''Third Watch'' and ''Invasion,'' and his wife, Brandi, are expecting a second child next month, publicist Lauren Kucerak said Friday.

Richard Hatch, who won $1 million on ''Survivor,'' says being in prison for failing to pay taxes on his reality TV prize and other income is no day at the beach.

Hatch, who became known as the ''naked fat guy'' for refusing to wear clothes for much of the CBS show, was convicted last year. He was sentenced to 51 months in prison, and is at the Federal Correctional Institution in Morgantown, W.Va., a minimum security facility.

His lawyer, Michael Minns, has said Hatch deserves a new trial because a judge improperly kept him from testifying about claims of cheating on the show.

One of the men who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby is splitting with the high-profile Beverly Hills attorney who has been representing him in the case.

Larry Birkhead and Debra Opri ''have terminated our attorney-client relationship effective immediately,'' Opri said in a statement issued Friday.

''I wish Larry the very best of luck in his continuing efforts to prove that he is Dannielynn's biological father. My prayers will be with Larry and Dannielynn always,'' Opri said.

Attorney Howard K. Stern, who was living with Smith at the time of her death last month, is listed on the birth certificate as 6-month-old Dannielynn's father. He and the girl are living in the Bahamas.

Birkhead, Smith's former boyfriend, claims he is really the father, and Opri has been vocal in demanding publicly that Stern come to California to take a paternity test to resolve the matter.

The Who, scheduled to perform in Mexico City today, postponed the show because singer Roger Daltrey, 63, is still sick with bronchitis, concert organizer Ocesa said Thursday.

Earlier, an Ocesa spokesman had said the show would go on, despite Daltrey's illness. Daltrey abandoned the stage in the middle of his opening song during a concert in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, disappointing thousands of fans. That show will be held March 25.

Oprah Winfrey opened her second school for poor South African youth Friday, an innovative, environmentally friendly institution she hopes will be a model for public education.

The Seven Fountains Primary School was funded by Oprah's Angel Network, a public charity that supports organizations and projects focused on education and literacy.

''The Seven Fountains School is an example of what schools in South Africa can become,'' Winfrey said at the school's formal dedication outside the remote town of Kokstad in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province.

Winfrey first visited the school in 2002 when it was located on a farm, bringing gifts, clothing, books and teacher-training materials for its 1,000 students and staff.

The school was later forced to move from the farm and relocated to a building with no windows, little electricity and running water, and only four toilets.

The $1.6 million school, which will be run by the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education, has 25 classrooms, three multipurpose rooms, a library, computer center, landscaped playground and two sports fields.

The supply of water to the area is irregular, so the school has an innovative system that recycles rainwater and uses seesaws and merry-go-rounds to pump water. It also uses solar power and has landscaped gardens that supply vegetables for school meals.

''It can be done within the expectations of budgets. We used our imagination and creativity to build not only a good school but a great school,'' Winfrey said.

Winfrey emphasized the importance of education in combating poverty and said every child had a right to succeed. ''We are here today to celebrate the transformative power of education,'' she said.

Principal Veliswa Mnukwa praised Winfrey for responding to their plight and called her an ''angel.'' ''This is the second time you are visiting us, but now it is a very different school... Nothing compares with what you have done for us,'' she said.

''Even as a parent I am going to participate here. There is a night school, a computer center and a library that we can use. I can't express my gratitude for Oprah. The old school was so miserable,'' she said.

Winfrey opened her Leadership Academy for Girls outside Johannesburg to great fanfare Jan. 2, with celebrities like Tina Turner and Spike Lee in attendance, as well as former President Nelson Mandela.

The lavish $40 million school was the fulfillment of a promise she made to Mandela six years ago and aims to give 152 girls from deprived backgrounds a quality education in a country where schools are struggling to overcome the legacy of apartheid.

But some parents have complained to local media about academy rules limiting the girls to one family visit a month and restricting their cell phone calls and consumption of junk food.

''They say they are satisfied that the girls are not being treated unfairly,'' he said, adding that the school had tried to discourage parents from bringing the girls soft drinks or sweets because they were fed a nutritious diet.

Samuel also dismissed complaints the school was culturally insensitive and said it was based on the African philosophy of ubuntu, which places an emphasis on the collective.

Built on 52 acres, the 28-building campus resembles a luxury hotel, with state-of-the-art classrooms, computer and science labs, and a library, theater and wellness center. Each girl lives in a two-bedroom suite. It will eventually have 450 students.

But the school has been called elitist. ActionAid, a global development group, said Winfrey's money could have been better spent improving the quality of education for more children.

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