'Hair Spray' And 'Top Model' Stars Charged In Fight

August, 02, 2008 in Entertainment

The Associated Press/Newsday
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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos - Maybe it's a Queens-Long Island thing?

A judge in the Turks and Caicos Islands has released on bond "Hairspray" actress Nikki Blonsky and a former contestant from "America's Next Top Model" in connection to a recent fistfight.

Prosecutors say that both Blonsky, of Great Neck, and Bianca Golden, who attended Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, were aboard a flight in the Caribbean nation when they started fighting over an occupied seat. Blonsky's father was also charged in the fight and will remain in jail until Aug. 8.

All three appeared in court Friday. Prosecutors said that a fourth person related to Golden was injured Wednesday in the fight and treated at a hospital in the United States.

Golden, 19, almost made it to last year's "America's Next Top Model" finale. Since the show, Golden has signed with Major Model Management in Manhattan. She has appeared in Essence Magazine and earlier this year walked in New York Fashion Week.

In June, Blonsky, also 19, was sued by her former management company, Morgit Management of Elmont, for alleged breach of contract. The firm wants a cut of money Blonsky made in her now-famous film role as Tracy Turnblad in 2007's "Hairspray."

Blonsky received a Critics' Choice Award for best young actress for that role, a part she found out about while working as an ice cream scooper at the Cold Stone Creamery on Grace Avenue in Great Neck. "I was just floored," she told Newsday in 2006. "I couldn't believe it."

Courtesy of Newsday/Associated Press