Michael Jackson turns efforts to Africa

Will Michael Jackson be a thriller in Africa?

The singer’s much-hyped “comeback” performance at the World Music Awards didn’t go so well, but now apparently he’s joining the ranks of celebs such as Madonna and Angelina Jolie doing good deeds in Africa. Jackson will be turning his attention to Rwanda, according to a report.

“Michael Jackson will be here in June 2007, he confirmed this,” Kije Mugisha, the Deputy Director General of the Rwandan bureau of information told Africa News. She said that Jackson was interested in children’s education, health care and the media, but didn’t say how much the cash-strapped performer had committed.

“Michael Jackson is eager to know how many hospitals are in place in Rwanda and how he can help in improving people’s health here,” Kije Muisha, who also doubles as the director general of Rwanda television, said, adding that the star had also promised to help the national television. “He promised to do what he can afford to do. It could be in terms of equipment or any other assistance. We shall get to know much of that when he is here in June next year.”

Buy a piece of Tori
Tori Spelling — who has been selling off her clothes and household goods in online auctions — is also putting her house on the market.

The former “90210” star has been auctioning off her belongings through Sharon Yost, a Los Angeles woman who specializes in selling off estates belonging to film types, and now Yost is advertising on her Web site that Spelling’s Studio City house will be up for grabs on Dec. 8 through 10.

Notes from all over
Celeb bod watchers are commenting on Nicole Richie’s weight gain — and how much of it seems to have gone to her chest ... Anna Nicole’s Smith’s status in the Bahamas continues to be a federal case. A major protest is being planned for today by members of the Worker’s Party who say they will march in front of the Government House to voice their “disgust” about how Smith was granted residency in a matter of weeks while many locals — often black — have waited for years ... Forget that grilled cheese sandwich with the image of Madonna that fetched $28,000 on eBay. Someone has posted on the auction site a piece of toast with the image of Kevin Federline.

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