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Local soap star to be presenter for 35th Daytime Emmys

Lexington native and One Life to Live star Farah Fath will be one of the presenters at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday.

The ceremony will be broadcast 8 to 10 p.m. on ABC.

Fath, 24 and a graduate of Lafayette High School, has played the good-hearted Gigi Morasco on ABC's soap One Life to Live since last fall. Before that, she played Mimi Lockhart Brady -- described by NBC as "an insecure yet effervescent young heroine" -- for eight years on Days of Our Lives on NBC.

Other presenters on the Daytime Emmys include Jimmy Kimmel, Barbara Walters, Susan Lucci, Tyra Banks and Montel Williams. The show will be hosted by Cameron Mathison of All My Children and Sherri Shepherd of The View.

SEINFELD ISN'T LAUGHING

Jerry Seinfeld claims a cookbook author is cooking up some fancy semantics by calling him an actor rather than a comedian to minimize the humor in statements she says defamed her.

Seinfeld's lawyers say Missy Chase Lapine's lawyers resorted to the switch in words to describe Seinfeld when several weeks ago they filed a rewritten version of her lawsuit against him and his wife in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

"Jerry Seinfeld is an enormously wealthy and well-known actor," Lapine's revised lawsuit said. The original had called him a comedian.

Lapine, the author of The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals, accused Seinfeld's wife, Jessica Seinfeld, of plagiarizing her cookbook when in October she published her own, titled: Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food.

During an appearance on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld said Lapine was accusing his wife of "vegetable plagiarism."

GUESS WHO CAME TO GRADUATION?

Students at a Staten Island, New York, elementary school for autistic children sure like the way Jennifer Lopez moves.

Teacher Kathy Amati and a paraprofessional showed the video for Lopez's Let's Get Loud to the students at P.S. 37. The children liked it so much, they wanted to watch it every day.

They learned the lyrics and the dance moves from the video.

With their teacher's encouragement, they wrote to Lopez, hoping for pictures or an autograph. Instead, she asked to come to their graduation.

The Bronx-born singer-actress visited P.S. 37 on Tuesday for the graduation ceremony of a group of 10- and 11-year-olds.

POP!