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Wellington rapper and reality TV star Vanilla Ice, a.k.a. Rob Van Winkle, tells Page2Live he is honored that college Republicans on the West Coast used words from his famous tune to promote a party that caused protests on campus!

Last week at Central Washington University, in the small city of Ellensburg, Wa., campus Republicans honored Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a raid on the town that netted 30 illegals.

The party was dubbed ICE ICE Baby, using both the acronym for the Customs, ICE, and Vanilla Ice’s famous 1991 rap anthem.

“I think it is great because people can relate to it, and it gets attention,” Ice wrote in an email from England, where he’s filming a TV show. “These people are stressing a point and I feel honored that they use my song to get it across.”

Ok, Rob, tell us more about your politics.

“Two things I will never talk about in public,” he emailed back, “religion and politics.”

Protesters, meanwhile, told the Associated Press the ICE ICE Baby party made a mockery of those caught, including folks with campus connections.

For more on Vanilla Ice:

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Gala Chairwoman Petra Levin (above, left) went back to the relaxed society-function concept that she tried out last year for the 2011 Caron Renaissance gala and, once again, it worked.

A record 400-plus supporters of the drug and alcohol rehab clinics, including one in Boca, gathered at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach to mingle and munch on fancy buffet food poolside. Then, everyone headed into the grand ballroom to hear Gloria Gaynor (above, with Levin and socialite Nicole Munder) intone some of her 1970s anthems, including  I Will Survive.

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In tribute to Gaynor, Levin had the ballroom decorated to look like the old Studio 54, the legendary New York City disco.

“I figured it’d be different from the same old,” said Levin, a former Miss Germany.

It was different, and in the end, the non-profit was $800,000 richer.

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More on this story:

– Click here for coverage of the 2009 Caron Renaissance gala

– Click here for coverage of the 2010 Caron Renaissance gala

– Click here for coverage of this year’s Palm Beach Zoo Gala

– Click here for coverage of this year’s Everglades Foundation Gala

Jeff Beck (AP Photo)

While SunFest officials have traditionally been close-mouthed early about the lineup of the yearly downtown West Palm Beach music extravaganza, the advance buzz has been particularly loud this year.

Thank the Internet for that!

Legendary axman Jeff Beck’s website posted this month that he signed up for an appearance at SunFest on May 1, the festival’s last day.

Things kick off April 27.

A long ago member of The Yardbirds (like other guitar gods Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page), the 66-year-old Beck  is considered one of the greatest guitarists ever. He’s a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after playing on albums by Mick Jagger, ZZ Top and Cindy Lauper, among dozens of others.

And two feel-good bands also have announced they’ll be in West Palm that weekend.

The mellow folk-pop sound of the 1990s alternative group Toad The Wet Sprocket (All I Want, Walk on the Ocean) is slated to ring out on Flagler April 30.

The classic disco band Earth, Wind & Fire (Shining Star, Got to Get You Into My Life), meanwhile, is scheduled for May 1. The group also joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

SunFest, by the way, is scheduled to announce its 2011 lineup Thursday morning on its Facebook page.

More about SunFest:

– American Idol’s David Cook and Princess Ka-Ching!

– SunFest is freebie heaven for politicos

When Canadian singer Celine Dion showed off her palatial Jupiter Island home this week on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Erik Littleton got his three seconds of fame.

Unless you blink, you’ll spot him 3 minutes and 37 seconds into the video below. That’s him, the good looking guy with red shorts and the red rescue tube in the middle of Dion’s controversial waterpark.

Littleton

Yes, Celine Dion has a private lifeguard, sometimes two, when her St. Marys-born infant twins and son Rene-Charles decide to try out the lazy river, the two water slides or the two giants pools.

– Click here for more photos of Dion’s home, and the houses of other local celebs

Littleton, 30, is a Palm Beach County Ocean Lifeguard and an EMT based at the Juno Beach Pier who moonlights as lifeguard at the pools of local celebrities.

“When you have 30 people having fun in and around the pool, you don’t want to have the burden of making sure everyone is ok,” Littleton said. “That’s my job.”

Littleton was assigned to Dion after she hired Lifeguard Services Inc., a local company that provides private lifeguards. According to published reports, the company charges $59 an hour per lifeguard. Dion hires them one or two weeks at a time, mostly when she has visitors.

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The star of The Apprentice would probably fire hip-hop sensation Rihanna if he could, and hire songbird Jennifer Hudson!

Donald Trump tells Page2Live he felt insulted when Rihanna canceled her performance hours before she was to appear at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach. Rihanna reportedly was to be paid $500,000 to sing at a fund-raiser for the Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute but was replaced by Hudson at the last minute.

“I thought that (Rihanna bailing) was insulting to everyone,” the maybe presidential candidate said. “But for Rihanna to go to the (NBA) All-Star game and perform after she told us she was sick, that is just a lack of respect.

“But, nothing was missed. Jennifer’s a beautiful girl. She came on her day off even though she performs almost every night. She is an unbelievable talent, and her voice is better.”

Hudson, the Oscar winning actress of Dreamgirls, and Trump must have hit it off. She dined with the billionaire, and about 400 members, Sunday night at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach and even sang a set with the house band.

More on this story:

– Cerabino: Trump may need to learn to sing for ‘R-e-s-p-e-c-t’ during presidential bid