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Leeza now a public official

Gibbons"Dancing with the Stars" didn't work out for Leeza Gibbons, so the former celebrity gossip monger has time to take a new gig — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's appointee to the board that oversees California's stem-cell research institute. Gibbons will be the designated Alzheimer's advocate on the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee. Gibbons, whose mother and grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's, is co-founder of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation and Leeza's Place. More at the Sacramento Bee.


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