Kirstie Alley is ready to get real about her weight struggles.

The actress, 58, is close to signing on to star in a new reality series for A&E, which will follow her as she juggles trying to lose weight with life as a single mom to two teenagers in Hollywood, according to Variety.

The untitled show, which will run for 10 half-hour episodes, is scheduled to debut sometime next year.

"Kirstie is exactly the kind of star A&E is drawn to," said A&E nonfiction/alternative programming senior VP Robert Sharenow. "Her personal life has been playing out in the media for years, but this will be the first time she'll be opening up her home to reveal her real life for the cameras."

While the actress has talked

about her weight issues on TV before and starred in the 2005 scripted Showtime series "Fat Actress," this marks her first foray into reality television.

In May, Alley told People magazine that while she had gained 83 pounds, she had a plan to get her life back on track: "I'm gonna go, 'You know what? Get back on the horse, lose the freakin' weight, and then just move forward!' "

Months after being attacked by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, Rihanna is speaking out about her healing process.

"My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see," she says in the December issue of Glamour.

"They have followed every step of my recovery. "The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn't heard. Now I can help speak for those women."

Named Glamour's 2009 Woman of the Year, Rihanna, 21, will be honored in a ceremony at New York's Carnegie Hall on Monday.

As for the massive scrutiny following the February 2009 attack, Rihanna, 21, says, "I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level

of media chaos that happened the next day."

Rihanna will also appear in a multipart interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer set to air Thursday and Friday.

The first part will air Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America." More will air Friday on "GMA" and the piece will conclude Friday night at 10 on "2-0/20."

Her great-grandfather was writer Ernest Hemingway and her mother Mariel was a famous actress.

So coming from such legendary stock, it is little surprise that Dree Hemingway is also making a name for herself.

The 22-year-old trained as a ballet dancer but is now a full-time model. She posed for a racy, topless photoshoot in the current V magazine.

Despite her lineage, she says she hardly thinks about her great-grandfather at all, even though he wrote some of the world's most famous novels such as "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea," for which he won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes.

"Ernest is not someone I'm constantly thinking about. In fact I might like his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald a little more," she said in V.

"Right now, I'm more in a Gatsby phase. I will say though, that Ernest had a great look, that scruffy beer look. I'm into that. A little scruff goes a long way," she said.

She says she finds Ernest's work "kind of depressing."

The model, who was raised in Idaho in the mid-West and in L.A., told V she is more of

a fan of the Harry Potter novels.

Dree, 22, is the eldest daughter of Mariel Hemingway, who played Playboy model Dorothy Stratten in the 1983 film Star 80. She also posed on the cover of Playboy.

Mariel has worked in film and TV for decades.

Mariel's most famous role was in Woody Allen's 1979 film "Manhattan" for which she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress.

She appeared in another of Allen's films, Deconstructing Harry, in 1997.

Dree's aunt Margaux was also a model. She died in 1996 of a drug overdose that was ruled a suicide.

CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz must pay $916,000 yearly in alimony and child support to his ex-wife and give up their

Connecticut home under terms of a newly issued divorce decree.

The ruling, made Monday in Bridgeport Superior Court, dissolves the 26-year marriage of Nantz and Ann-Lorraine "Lorrie" Carlsen Nantz. It comes after both testified about the breakdown of their marriage; Judge Howard Owens concluded neither was at fault.

Nantz, described by Owens as "our nation's most prominent sportscaster," filed for divorce last year from his wife after years of marriage counseling, according to the decree.

Although Nantz, 50, acknowledged he started dating a 29-year-old woman before the divorce was final, the judge concluded the marriage deteriorated years earlier and "this remote event in no way contributed to the breakdown of the marriage." Owens noted that the couple didn't share the same interests in Nantz's television career, which required frequent travel as the network's primary commentator for college football, golf and basketball, as well as appearances at charity events.

Under the ruling, Nantz must pay $72,000 in alimony monthly until he dies or his ex-wife remarries, and another $1,000 weekly in child support for the next two years.

He also must keep his ex-wife listed as beneficiary of a $3 million life insurance policy while he's still paying alimony and/or child support, and pay $70,000 so she can join any country club of her choice.

She had been seeking more than $1.5 million in yearly alimony and child support.

Court documents cited Jim Nantz's $3.2 million salary from CBS and other assets, including millions in other income, shared investment accounts, real estate and other property.

— The Associated Press also contributed to this report

lsmith@denverpost.com

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