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What happened to Chelsea Clinton?
—Reva W., Nebraska

The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, Chelsea, 24, has a six-figure consulting job in the New York office of Mc-Kinsey & Company, which researches topics such as health care and corporate finance. She was a popular student in England during her two-year (2001-2003) master’s program at Oxford University, where she studied international relations and got to know celebrities such as Boy George and Prince William. Named for the Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning, she is dating Ian Klaus, who was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, like Chelsea’s father.

I would like to know about Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan.
—Mickey J., Oregon

The venerable journalist is 82, but she’s far from retired. Though she no longer helms the magazine as she did for more than 30 years, becoming editor-in-chief in 1965, she still launches its international editions. Meanwhile, she’s promoting the reissue of her 1964 best-selling book, Sex and the Office, as well as Dear Pussycat, a collection of letters she’s written through the years. “I’ll go on writing,” she says. “I’d do anything to write fiction, only I have no talent.” The Green Forest, Ark. (pop. 2,717), native has been married to David Brown for 45 years. They have no children.

Sweetheart Becomes Mother of Three Brides

Karen Valentine, one of America’s favorite sweethearts of the 1970s, is now tackling the role of an overwhelmed mother in Wedding Daze, which airs Sept. 6 at 8 p.m. EST on the Hallmark Channel. “I’m mom and married to John Larroquette and we have three daughters,” she says. “John seems to be the nervous one and I sort of reel him in every so often.” Their characters are empty-nesters until, one by one, their daughters return home and become engaged. “It ends up in a triple wedding ceremony,” she says. Valentine, 57, grew up in Sebastopol, Calif. (pop. 7,774), and gained national fame in 1969 as Alice Johnson on the TV show Room 222. After winning an Emmy for Room 222, she starred in the TV series Karen and Our Time before venturing into work in films such as Hot Lead and Cold Feet and The North Avenue Irregulars. She and husband Gary Verna, a musician, recently moved to Los Angeles from Washington, Conn. (pop. 3,596), to be closer to her mother, who has health problems. “My life for the last 15 years has been on the road and away from home doing touring companies and regional theater,” she says. “Sticking close by Mom is what is important right now. This film was done locally, so I didn’t have to travel.”

British Duo Cleans House in America

Do you close the door on messy rooms when friends come to visit? Are you scared of dust bunnies lurking under the bed? If so, tune in to How Clean Is Your House?, Lifetime Television’s comedic reality makeover series that debuts Sept. 6. An Americanized version of a hit British show, How Clean Is Your House? stars the finger-wagging grime busters Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie, who give the most disorganized of family homes a candid filth analysis. Homeowners surrender their residence for two days to the rubber-gloved duo, who attack clutter, dirt and messes, and transform homes into sparkling living quarters. How do such disasters develop in the first place? “Basically, people become overwhelmed,” MacKenzie says. “Once people fall behind on the cleaning, they don’t know how to get out from under it.” The two swear by several common cleaning solutions, including white vinegar, which clears up lime deposits on bathroom chrome.

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