Ling’s view will change

New York :quot; The youngest of the five women on “The View” is leaving for a new job.

Lisa Ling is quitting the daytime talk show to move to Washington, D.C., and become an international reporter for National Geographic Television and Film. Her last show will be Dec. 5

Ling, 29, was an international reporter for Channel One News before being selected for “The View” three years ago. She said Monday that she wanted to try reporting again.

“If I don’t do it now, I may never want to do it,” she said. “Two years from now, I may be thinking about settling down and may not want to travel.”

Hanson brother becomes dad

Tulsa, Okla. :quot; The middle brother of the pop singing trio Hanson has become a father.

Taylor Hanson, 19, and his wife, Natalie Anne Bryant, 18, became parents Oct. 31.

Bryant gave birth to son Jordan Ezra on Halloween morning.

“We’re so excited to start a family,” Hanson said in a statement. “Having Ezra is the best thing we’ve ever done. Life and art are all about these moments.”

The group Hanson sparked the teen pop craze of recent years when they debuted in 1997. The brothers were just 16, 14 and 11 years old when their first hit, “MMMBop,” went to No. 1 in 27 countries.

Taylor and brothers Isaac and Zac are finishing work on their next CD, due early next year.

Gardener nettled by nonpayment

Moorpark, Calif. :quot; A gardener is suing Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins of the R&B group TLC and her rapper husband, Mack 10, for allegedly stiffing him on a bill for snapdragons.

A hearing is scheduled for next month in the lawsuit, filed in July in Ventura County Superior Court.

The lawsuit contends that the singer and her husband, Detrick Rolison, ordered landscaping last year for their gated Moorpark home but never paid their gardening firm, Kevin Persons Inc.

Persons alleges the couple owes him nearly $15,000 for providing 50 flats of mixed snapdragons, four 15-gallon plants, sod, sprinklers, tree lighting and 10 square yards of walk-on bark.

The Thousand Oaks gardener claims he had an oral agreement with Mack 10.

“He’s got more money in cars than what I make in a year,” Persons said.

The couple did not have an immediate comment Monday.

McCartney: Wife-bashing to pass

Radnor, Pa. :quot; Paul McCartney says he believes the bad press his wife, Heather Mills, has been getting will pass once his fans get used to the couple being married.

“All you’ve got to do is think back to Linda,” McCartney told TV Guide for its Nov. 23 issue, referring to his first wife, who died of cancer in 1998. “Linda got rubbished in the first year or so. And then she was established and people got over it. It’s a bit par for the course.”