Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been airlifted to hospital after falling from a stage during a concert at South Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

The 61-year-old entertainer fell while he was dancing around on stage after a sound system failure cut off the band’s music in the middle of their hit song, Love In An Elevator, according to the venue’s spokesman, Mike Sanborn.

Tyler was doing his best to keep the crowd entertained while the sound issue was fixed, Sandborn said, and was on the stage’s catwalk when he “fell backward onto a couple of fans.” Security rushed in to help him, with the record crowd cheering when the singer got back up.

Sanborn explained: “[Tyler] was good natured about it. He was in good spirits when he got in the helicopter. He was talking and joking with the physician.”

“It was an unfortunate end to an extraordinary evening,” the venue spokesman added.

Tyler suffered minor head and neck injuries and a shoulder injury in the fall, but it isn’t clear exactly how serious these injuries are.

Tyler suffered minor head and neck injuries and a shoulder injury, but it wasn’t immediately clear how serious that was, he said.

The fall occurred at around 12:15 a.m., and Tyler was taken backstage immediately after the fall. Shortly after, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry came back out on stage and told the audience that the show was canceled, as Tyler needed to be taken to the hospital.

Tyler was airlifted to the Rapid City Regional Hospital, the only major hospital in the region, Sanborn said.

TMZ.com have obtained footage of Tyler’s fall from the stage. If you’d like to check it out, click here.

Here’s hoping the ol’ dude’s ok.

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Mischa Barton has left hospital after spending two weeks under psychiatric hold at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre and is ready to go back to work, her rep has confirmed.

Craig Schneider told Usmagazine.com earlier today: “I can confirm that [Mischa has] left the hospital with the intention to resume production [of her new show The Beautiful Life].”

The actress and former model was admitted to hospital on July 15 after making a distressing call to 911 which suggested she was on the verge of suicide.

Ashton Kutcher, the brains behind the new CW series The Beautiful Life, said on Friday that his leading actress was recovering well.

“I can tell you right now Mischa Barton is doing great,” he said.

Ironically, Barton’s character in The Beautiful Life is a pill-popping supermodel, something which is shockingly similar to her own life in recent times.

Production on her new show is set to begin on Friday.

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Bam Margera has been rushed to hospital after paramedics responded to a 911 call at around 1:30 p.m. yesterday, according to TMZ.com.

The Jackass star is suspected of overdosing on drugs.

However, Bam’s mum April has denied the drugs claims, saying that her son was simply “severely dehydrated” after going a little overboard while filming for the MTV show Nitro Circus.

“He forgets to take care of himself and doesn’t eat enough [when he films stunts like that],” his mother said.

April Margera also admitted that some “basic partying” had played a factor in his being rushed to hospital.

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Mischa Barton was placed under psychiatric hold by the LAPD on Wednesday after friends of the actress phoned police, afraid she was about to kill herself.

The former television starlet was supposed to be flying to New York for the premiere of her new film, Homecoming, but had become so disheartened by the movie’s poor reviews that she’d gone on a marathon three-day coke bender and threatened suicide, according to a source.

“She’s in very bad shape,” the source explained.

“She’s running out of money and can’t find love, so now she is looking for a good time to escape her misery. She is on a downward spiral.”

The source added: “She is a mess. She is a suicidal, uninsurable mess.”

Barton’s publicist, Craig Schneider, released a statement on her behalf, confirming that the actress “remains in the hospital under doctor’s orders.” The St. Trinian’s star is being held under section 5150 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code, whereby authorities can hold a person who presents a risk to themselves and/or the community for up to 72 hours – the same law that saw Britney Spears hospitalised at Cedars Sinai last year.

Spears bounced back pretty quickly from her little episode with the help of her family and a strong management team behind her, however, a pal of Barton’s believes it won’t be so easy for the former O.C. star.

“She is a tortured and troubled person,” the friend said. “You can survive a bad review, but when you don’t show up for the premiere of your new film, it’s not a good sign of where your career is heading.”

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Elizabeth Taylor was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital yesterday, reportedly suffering from a “broken heart” after the shock death of her dear friend, Michael Jackson.

Taylor, who skipped the public and private memorials that were held for the King of Pop last week to grieve in silence, is said to be suffering “weakness, tiredness, exhaustion,” and “emotional draining” in the wake of Jackson’s passing.

“She hasn’t stopped crying,” a source revealed. “She and Michael were devoted to one another.”

The actress had been planning her trip to London for Jackson’s opening concert when she was told of his cardiac arrest and subsequent death. Taylor allegedly “began screaming” as soon as she heard the news, and has struggled to cope with the loss ever since.

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As the news reports and rumours surrounding Michael Jackson’s shock death on June 25 keep pouring in, biographer Diane Dimond has added another, claiming an “unnamed family source” informed her that the singer had a cancerous lesion removed from his nose just days before he suffered an alleged cardiac arrest.

“Last week, I had two real sources call me and say he’s getting surgery right now for removal of skin cancer off his nose,” Dimond revealed. “This is not a man who suffers pain well. He likes painkillers. So he got some from here, he got some from there – who knows how much.”

While this new information could prove vital for those investigating the King of Pop’s death, it’s merely one of many instances over the last month of his life involving high doses of narcotic painkillers.

Other sources have revealed that in his final months, Jackson was suffering from extreme insomnia, and had become practically nocturnal in his sleeping habits. When the rehearsals for the tour hit full swing, however, it “totally screwed up his system.”

“For the past 15 years, Michael always slept until 3 or 4 in the afternoon and was up all night,” the source said. “When he started rehearsals for the tour, it totally screwed up his system.”

In order to rise earlier and sleep less, Jackson began adding stimulants to his “daily drug regimen,” the source added. One such stimulant is believed to have been the powerful hospital-grade drug, Diprivan, which the singer’s former nurse Cherilyn Lee “repeatedly” refused to give to Jackson.

Lee is adamant that she never obtained the drug for the singer, however, a strange phone call she received from Jackson and his people just four days before his shock death has left her to believe that he’d somehow managed to obtain Diprivan or another similar drug.

The phone call, from a minder of Jackson’s was very frantic, Lee said, and told her, “Michael needs to see you right away. I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I could hear Michael in the background… ‘One side of my body is hot, it’s hot, and one side of my body it cold. It’s very cold.’

“I said, ‘Tell him he needs to go to the hospital,’” Lee recalls. “‘I don’t know what’s going, but he needs to go to the hospital… right away.’

“At that point I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system. He was in trouble Sunday and was crying out.”

Jackson did not go to the hospital as Lee had instructed, and four days later, the singer had died from a suspected heart attack.

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An as yet unnamed member of the Jackson clan spoke to TMZ.com as the singer was rushed to the hospital, and said that Jackson was in “really bad shape.”

At this stage, there are unconfirmed reports that ambulance officers had to give the star CPR as they drove to the hospital.

Stay tuned for further updates.

UPDATE: Michael Jackson has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, according to TMZ.com. The singer was found without a pulse in his L.A. home, and paramedics on the scene were unable to revive him. No confirmation has come from either a representative or a member of Jackson’s family at this stage, though his parents are believed to be at UCLA Medical Centre awaiting news of their son’s condition.

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RadarOnline reports that an eyewitness at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has confirmed that it was Rihanna who was treated for injuries allegedly inflicted by Chris Brown.

The eyewitness had been waiting in the ER corridor when Rihanna was brought in by a back entrance. Rihanna, had dark sunglasses on and her hood drawn tightly around her face, trying to conceal her identity. Flanked by two LAPD officers, she was taken into a room across from the witness.

Realising that the person on the gurney must be someone famous, due to all the attention she was receiving from from security  and medical staff, the witness decided to take a sticky and was able to make out that the person was in fact Rihanna.

A detective spent about an hour interviewing Rihanna, with an emotional Rihanna was screaming and crying during her interview.

Patrick Swayze’s reps have confirmed that he has been released from the hospital.

Swayze checked himself in, suffering from pneumonia on January 9th. Given his battle with pancreatic cancer, his recovery from pneumonia has been remarkable.

Once again, Patrick has shown how tough and resilient he is. Let’s hope he can keep the fight going for some time yet.

Morgan Freeman has been released from hospital after last Sunday’s shocking car accident, and says he’s feeling good and is now on the road to recovery.

“I left the hospital today just after 12 noon, Memphis time,” the Oscar-winning actor said in a statement released by his rep earlier today. “I’m doing very well. I feel real good. I just really, I thank the staff at ‘Elvis Presley [Hospital]‘ and many, many thanks to my many well-wishers. It’s great to know people care about you.”

Freeman’s rep, Ken Sunshine, added: “He’s recovering nicely at home, and his career will continue as planned.”

It’s not all sunshine and roses for the Dark Knight star, though. Earlier in the week, the 71-year-old’s lawyer confirmed that he and his wife of 24 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, were divorcing. As well as the divorce, Freeman will also have to contend with wearing a neck brace… for the next six to eight months.

Freeman’s good friend and business partner, Bill Luckett, added: “The doctors have said it will be six months to a year before he plays golf again. He hates that.”

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