Former child star Gary Coleman, who rose to fame as the wisecracking youngster Arnold Jackson on the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” but grew up to grapple with a troubled adulthood, has died. He was 42.

Coleman died of a brain hemorrhage at a Provo, Utah, hospital, Friday afternoon, according to a hospital spokeswoman. The actor fell ill at his Santaquin, Utah, home Wednesday evening and was rushed by ambulance to a hospital, Coleman’s spokesman had said in a statement earlier Friday.

He was then taken to another hospital — Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo — later Wednesday night.

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BP approved Costner’s “Ocean Therapy” centrifuge as a cleanup technology Wednesday, after watching it work in New Orleans last Thursday. The centrifuge reportedly can remove 97 percent of the oil from water.

One centrifuge can clean up to 210,000 gallons of sea water per day, according to John Houghtaling, CEA of Ocean Therapy Solutions. That’s the amount some government scientists estimate has been spilling from the remains of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water and separate at unprecedented rates,” Houghtaling told WWLTV. “Costner has been funding a team of scientists for the last 15 years to develop a technology which could be used for massive oil spills.”

Inspired by the 1989 Exxon-Valdez spill, Costner and his brother Dan have invested $15 million in the centrifuge.

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Betty White found herself at the center of a rip-roaring round of applause during her first appearance on screen during the cold open on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ marking the successful viral campaign launched by Facebook fans that ultimately led to White getting the hosting gig.

During her monologue, White — decked out in a glittery top — joked that she made her live TV debut in 1952 because they “didn’t know how to tape things.

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Bret Michaels’s health has taken a turn for the worse, PEOPLE has learned: After an excruciating headache late Thursday night, the star was rushed to an undisclosed hospital where doctors discovered he suffered a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding at the base of his brain stem), according to a source close to the situation.

Michaels, 47, is currently in critical condition. “After several CAT scans, MRIs and an angiogram, [doctors] decided to keep Michaels in the ICU and are running several tests to determine the cause. [It] will be touch and go for the next few days while he is under intense observation,” the source says.

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Ousted “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien will return to late-night television in November with a show on cable channel TBS, the network said Monday.

O’Brien’s talk show will air weeknights at 11 p.m. ET/PT, leading into “Lopez Tonight” which will shift to a midnight start, TBS said.

“I can’t think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in,” George Lopez said. “It’s the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy.”

Negotiations for the deal began last week after Lopez called O’Brien to ask him to consider joining the network, TBS said.

“In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable,” O’Brien said in a news release. “My plan is working perfectly.”

The new show has not yet been given a name.

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