Posted on 03/08/2006 1:00:19 PM PST by COUNTrecount
Michael Jackson is happy in his new life in the Middle East – and is doing 300 push-ups a day, according to his brother Jermaine.
The superstar has been living a reclusive existence in Bahrain, where he is a guest of the king’s son, since leaving the US for the Gulf island after being cleared of child sex abuse charges last year.
Jermaine Jackson told CNN’s Larry King Live his brother was “doing wonderful“.
“He’s gained some weight,” Jackson said.
“He’s happy and he’s running on the beach. I spoke to him.
“He’s doing 300 push-ups a day and doing sit-ups. He’s getting those muscles back and he’s getting ready.”
The singer’s family was also “rebuilding“, Jackson added.
“We are getting back to our lives and we got a lot of good things in store,” he told King.
The Middle East was a “very peaceful place“, he said.
Jackson also denied reports that he had planned to write a sensational tell-all book about his brother, and said he would take legal advice over the claims.
The only book he had wanted to write was an account of his family through the years called Legacy, but publishers had turned it down because it contained “no negativity“, he said.
“There was nothing of any sort of what’s being said now,” he said.
Jackson continued: “I stand behind him 1,000%, like I said, since day one and he’s still that wonderful person that he’s always been.”
His brother would be making music again, including the song he has done for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
“It’s coming along well,” Jackson said.
“It’s been taking a bit of time to get out there but it’s going to be released.”
Comments?
where is a rabid jihadi when you need one?
Needs to be strong enough to tote an explosive vest, or he will be of no use to his newfound religion...
Who is the 8 year old boy laying under him while he is doing these supposed pushups?
Is he doing the push-ups while on top of little boys?
"...where he is a guest of the king’s son..."
Yup. No comment needed.
Great minds.. and all that, but I won by posting first ;-)
And he gets all the little boys he wants!
He doesn't look like he's strong enough to do even one pushup, unless it involves.. nevermind.
Isn't it ALL beach?
I heard he got the title role in DC's Plastic Man movie.
We have a winner !
Why does he like twenty-eight year olds?
Because there's twenty of them.
Seriuosly it is sad to see Jacko go so Whacko. Simply because he was an icon in the pop music industry and anyone my age would be lying if they said they didn't own a red zipper jacket or do the moon walk at least once in the ninth grade.
LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget beat me to it though.
Gotta give credit where credit is due.
His brother would be making music again, including the song he has done for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.“It’s coming along well,” Jackson said.
“It’s been taking a bit of time to get out there but it’s going to be released.”
And what about the people who suffered losses from other natural disasters? If the Katrina folks have lasted this long, then they probably won't need Michael's handout. He's not the world. He's not the children.
I never did (although I watched the Jackson 5 cartoon as a kid and ate Super Sugar Crisp which I think had Jackson 5 45s on the back of the box). By the time MTV went pop in the early 1980s, I discovered Chess Records and realized that it didn't matter if my friends didn't like the music I listened to.
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