Travolta’s son killed by seizure, certificate says

Freeport, Bahamas — Jett Travolta’s body shows no sign of head trauma and his death certificate says he was killed by a seizure, an undertaker said Monday, as the 16-year-old’s celebrity parents prepared to return his remains to the United States.

Glen Campbell, assistant director of the Bahamian funeral home handling the remains of John Travolta’s son, told The Associated Press that the body is in “great condition,” despite police officials who had said the teen hit his head on a bathtub.

Jett Travolta had a history of seizures and was found unconscious in a bathroom Friday at a family vacation home on Grand Bahama Island.

Authorities didn’t release the results of an autopsy performed Monday, but Campbell saw the body and the death certificate, which was based on its findings.

Late Monday, a black hearse traveled from the funeral home to the airport after the family indicated they were bringing Jett’s remains to Ocala, Florida, where they own a home. Two white jets waited as police in dress uniforms blocked access to the tarmac.

But the hearse was dispatched as a ruse, funeral home director Keith McSweeney said at a news conference later Monday, adding that Jett’s remains were actually being cremated. He said the family was planning to leave the Bahamas with the ashes today. He said he could not explain the reason for the decoy.

Scribner to publish Laura Bush’s memoir

New York — First lady Laura Bush, among the most reserved and enigmatic public figures of recent times, will, at last, tell her story.

How much she will disclose remains a mystery.

Bush has agreed to write a memoir with one of the world’s oldest publishing houses, Scribner, the house of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and the first lady’s mother-in-law, Barbara Bush. Publication for the book, currently untitled, is scheduled for 2010.

The potential audience is enormous. Despite eight years in the White House, Laura Bush is essentially unknown to her many admirers, who have speculated about her politics (rumors abound that she’s more liberal than her husband), her marriage and a car accident when she was a teenager. A former librarian, Bush is also known as a devoted reader whose favorite authors include Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote and Toni Morrison.

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc., part of CBS Corp., prevailed in an auction involving several publishers, according to Bush’s literary representative, Robert Barnett. Financial details weren’t revealed.

Bush will have a collaborator — still to be determined — to help her meet the 2010 publishing date.

Romijn and O’Connell have twin girls

Los Angeles — Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell are new parents — times two.

A publicist for the “Ugly Betty” actress says twin daughters Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip were born Dec. 28. They are the couple’s first children.

Publicist Lewis Kay said in a statement Monday that “mother, father and both girls are all home and doing well.”

Romijn, 36, and O’Connell, 34, were married in 2007.

O’Connell starred in the TV series “Crossing Jordan” and “Carpoolers.” His screen credits include “Stand by Me” and “Jerry Maguire.”

Cruise: Church helped him overcome dyslexia

Madrid, Spain — U.S. actor Tom Cruise said Scientology teachings helped him overcome childhood dyslexia, a Spanish magazine reported.

Cruise was quoted by Spanish magazine XL Semanal as saying his learning disability was diagnosed when he was 7 years old.

Cruise said he was often anxious, frustrated and bored as a youth and couldn’t concentrate in class, the magazine reported on its Web site Sunday.

The magazine quoted Cruise as saying he was functionally illiterate when he graduated from school in 1980, but learned to read perfectly as an adult through Scientology technology.

XL Semanal said the interview was conducted in Los Angeles, but did not say when. A transcript of Cruise’s original comments in English was not available.

New ‘Bachelor’ says he’s engaged

New York — Though he wasn’t picked in the finale of “The Bachelorette,” Jason Mesnick isn’t just giving love another shot — he says he’s found it.

Mesnick, ABC’s newest “Bachelor,” says he’s engaged to one of the women who compete for his affection on the 13th season of the reality series, which was to premiere Monday.

The 32-year-old accountant has finished filming “The Bachelor,” but can’t reveal his pick until the finale, which will air this spring.

Mesnick says being pursued by 25 women made him empathetic to DeAnna Pappas, who chose snowboarder Jesse Csincsak over him during the “Bachelorette” season finale.

“It gives you a lot more respect for what she had to go through,” Mesnick said.

Csincsak and Pappas, co-host of Lifetime’s “Get Married,” have since broken up.