Greg Norman not listed for Chris Evert’s charity; replaced by ‘Burn Notice’ hunk
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| Monday 26 October 2009 3:08 pm
Greg Norman and Chris Evert at last year's event (Alan Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post)
Aussie golf legend Greg Norman’s name was quietly dropped from the list of the stars scheduled to appear at the Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic next week.
As Evert’s husband of a little more than a year, the Great White Shark was a lock for the 20th annual Delray Beach/Boca Raton fundraiser. But now that Norman and Evert are splitsville, the lineup for the Nov. 7-8 tournament was altered.
With Norman out, the prettier, and younger, actor Jeffrey Donovan is in. He’ll play tennis at the Delray Beach Tennis Center and should walk the red carpet at the black-tie gala at the Boca Raton Resort.
Jeffrey Donovan, on the set of Burn Notice (Courtesy USA Network)
It’ll be a first appearance at Evert’s wingding for Donovan, the star of USA Network’s Miami-based Burn Notice. His previous first appearance was in a Miami court in July. DUI!
The pros, ex-pros and wannabe pros enrolled: former tennis great Martina Navratilova, Navratilova’s doubles partner Pam Shriver, Lindsay Davenport, Monica Seles, Justin Gimelstob and Vince Spadea. The show biz celebs: actress Elisabeth Shue; comic Jon Lovitz; reality TV stars Bruce and Kris Jenner (Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian’s mom and her Olympic hero husband); rocker Gavin Rossdale; and Today host Matt Lauer.
The popular Norman, after all, may not be missed.
“It’s one of the freshest lineups in years,” said event publicist Tip Nunn. “Among the tennis players, you have four former women’s No. 1 players. And there are several new names on the entertainers’ side. Donovan and the Jenners have never been here before. And it’s been years since we saw Matt Lauer.”
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Forget Norman! I’d love to see Matt Lauer!!
Who effin’ cares! The sun will still rise in the east and set in the west.
So I guess there is no “Love” in tennis after all!
We should all come together for important social causes.
Matt Lauer is a putz.
It’s good that Jeffrey Donovan will be there. He’s cool.
What happened to that thing he had, though? Didn’t he have a DUI stop or something?
Chris Evert should be commended and applauded for what she has done for the state of Florida and especially Broward and Palm Beach County. She fights drug abuse and child abuse and neglect!!! The event that she does is the most amazing event that this area has seen. Chris Evert may be a hall of fame tennis player, but she is a hall of fame perosn in my eyes !!!! I have met her on many occasions in the Boca area and she is one of the most down to earth nicest person I have ever met !!!!
I can go the rest of my life without seeing any EX I have ever had !!! SO CAN GREG !!! Keep up the good work, Mr. Norman, it appears somebody is playing a 6th grade game and your job is to laugh it off !!! You’re not from our Lame country and that my Man….. Makes you #1 !!
Excuse me Mr. Simon….. #6 Poster with NO BRAIN…..Rich people ONLY give and look good as a tax shelter !!!! They All Do That…….DUMMY !!! That is why your name is Simon and not a name like Giovanni ! The Italian Stallion has spoken !!!! The man who thinks with his Head and didn’t come from a LIBERAL SCAM STATE LIKE YOU DID !!
To Jose Hosebag Lambiet………No such thing as a No Show…….You are nothing but a Reporter, Liberal and Possibly Gay from looking at you…….Mr. Norman is a Man who carefully plans his get togethers…….You are obviously not invited and neither are his Ex’s ! You job is to put words in your perspective, It just isn’t working…… We have Conservatives in this world who RUN THIS COUNTRY !! In better terms……YOU’RE NOBODY !
Jose,
Why didn’t you mention that Jeffrey Donovan was arrested for DUI in Miami earlier this year? Isn’t this the kind of stuff you’re supposed to “report” on?
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Joe M…..who lets you out in the daytime? You seem to know the inside track to everybody in this town. WHO ARE YOU???? Maybe you should get your own column and let everybody know the “facts”.
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They should also in vite Donovans co-star Gabrielle Anwar to add some real class and beauty to the fundraiser.
Who’s Jeffrey Donovan? Never heard his name ’til today.
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