Celebrity Planet | pg.4

Seeing as the tree in New York City’s Rockefeller Center has been lit, the holiday season is officially underway. Tony Bennett, Josh Groban, Brooke Shields, Nick Lachey and Ashley Tisdale were among the celebrities there for the flipping of the switch in Manhattan. One big difference this year is that the 84-foot-tall Norway spruce is sporting energy-saving bulbs and solar panels on top of a nearby building will help power them. ‘Tis the season to go green…

Attention, ladies: Don’t mess with Bill Nye the Science Guy’s greens.

The bow-tied TV host sought a restraining order in L.A. court seeking to keep his former fiancee far, far away after she allegedly tried to poison his garden. In the papers, Bill said that late one night, back in September, Blair Tindal, who was dressed in black, “emerged from my backyard… carrying two plastic bottles filled with some sort of solvent. Apparently she was trying to poison my plants including some vegetable(s). She fled on foot and then a car sped away from the scene.”