Leno exit

Los Angeles, May 15 (Reuters): Comedian Jay Leno, America’s top-rated TV host, will bow out of his 17-year stint on The Tonight Show on May 29 in the company of his successor Conan ’Brien and singer James Taylor.

Leno, 59, also promised “something really out of the left field” for his last Tonight Show” before going on to launch a new prime-time chat and comedy show in autumn.

Actor Mel Gibson, comedian Billy Crystal, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and rocker Prince will be among the guests in Leno’s final week. “It’s not my job to put it together, but everyone knows who I like,” Leno told reporters in a conference call.

Leo luck

London (PTI): Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio came close to being knocked off during a basketball game when one of the players dived into the audience. The Titanic star was sitting in the front row with fellow actor Kevin Spacey during a match being played by his favourite team, Los Angeles Lakers, when a player from the opposing team, Houston Rockets, jumped into the crowd to grab the ball, reports Mirror online. Caprio saved himself from an embarrassing accident by hunching up.