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VANCOUVER, B.C. — – Former “Growing Pains” star Andrew Koenig, who played Boner on the ‘80s TV show, has been reported missing.

“He went up to [Vancouver] to visit friends who last saw him on the 14th,” Danielle Koenig, his sister, told Zap2it.com, which was first to report the news. “Any information we can get on his whereabouts would be helpful.”

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Here we are again, processing the death of a public person who was privately the object of concern. Officials are still investigating Brittany Murphy’s all-too-soon death, but those who knew her say they saw it coming.

While there are speculative rumors of the usual Hollywood chemical abuse beginning to circulate, what many people who knew the actress noticed most was her recent severe weight loss.

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(CNN) — Beloved “30 Rock” cast member Grizzwald “Grizz” Chapman is undergoing dialysis treatment while on the wait-list for a kidney transplant.

The 6-foot-11, 378-pound actor who plays one-half of Tracy Morgan’s security detail on the Emmy-winning show is suffering from severe hypertension that has him on a dialysis machine three times a week. Chapman must lose more than 75 pounds before he can be considered a viable candidate for a transplant. Once he loses the weight, he could remain on the transplant wait list for up to five years.

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(PEOPLE.com) — It’s the stuff country songs are made of.

David Hasselhoff and his ex-wife Pamela Bach are having a troubled start to the holiday season — one landing in the hospital, the other in jail over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Hasselhoff was hospitalized for two days, PEOPLE has confirmed, though his attorney Mel Goldsman would not disclose the nature of his illness.

“David is home now and he’s fine,” said Goldsman.

Hasselhoff’s troubles began at home on Friday. Though authorities did not identify the name of the patient or the owner of the home, a fire department spokesman did confirm that paramedics responded to a call for medical aid at 11:51 a.m. at a home in Encino, and the patient was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. People learned that the address of the home matches the one owned by Hasselhoff.

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“It’s very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better,” the famed actress wrote. “Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I’ll let you know when it’s all over. Love you, Elizabeth.”

The 77-year-old Oscar winner did not go into further detail about her heart condition or the medical procedure.

She was briefly hospitalized this summer for “scheduled testing,” she said at the time.

She checked out “sore, but intact,” the actress said in an online message posted July 17.

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“Due to injuries Steven Tyler sustained last week when he fell from the stage during a concert in Sturgis, South Dakota, doctors have advised the lead singer to take the time to properly recuperate from the accident that resulted in a broken shoulder and stitches to his head,” the band said in a statement.

The accident happened August 5 during a concert at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in western South Dakota.

Tyler was dancing during “Love in an Elevator” when he fell. He was airlifted to a local hospital for initial treatment before returning to Boston, Massachusetts, for treatment with his own doctors.

“Words can’t express the sadness I feel for having to cancel this tour,” said guitarist Joe Perry. “We hope we can get the Aerosmith machine up and running again as soon as possible.”

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“Mays died from a lethal arrhythmia of the heart caused by hypertensive and arteriosclerotic heart disease,” the county said in a statement attributed to Dr. Leszek Chrostowski, the associate medical examiner who conducted the autopsy.

“He further concluded that cocaine use caused or contributed to the development of his heart disease, and therefore contributed to his death,” it added.

The fact that toxicology tests detected only breakdown products of cocaine, not the drug itself, led Chrostowski to conclude that Mays had used cocaine “in the few days prior to death but not immediately prior to death.”

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Taylor, 77, used her Twitter handle, @DameElizabeth, to tell fans that she was home, just as she did last week to announce she would go into a hospital to “to complete a test I was in the middle of.”

Her publicist this week denied tabloid rumors that her hospitalization was brought on by her grief over the sudden death of her close friend Michael Jackson in June.

Taylor, in her latest tweets, addressed her sadness over Jackson’s death:

“I’m home from the hospital sore, but intact. Of course I’m still grieving for Michael … I always w

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The department said late Saturday that it conducted an “extensive interview” with the doctor, who may have been the last person to see Jackson alive.

“Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who was with Michael Jackson at the time of his collapse, voluntarily contacted the Los Angeles Police Department,” the statement said.

“Detectives assigned to Robbery-Homicide Division met with Dr. Murray and conducted an extensive interview. Dr. Murray was cooperative and provided information which will aid the investigation.”

Jackson’s family suspects Murray can answer some lingering questions about the singer’s last hours, but they have been unable to contact him, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday. Video

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Patrick Swayze’s new A&E series, The Beast, has been cancelled after 13 episodes, according to a source closely involved with the show’s production.

“There’s no way it was going to happen without Patrick,” says the source.

Swayze shot all 13 episodes of the show last summer in Chicago during his treatment for pancreatic cancer. “He had challenges while he was working because he was still doing chemo and it wasn’t always easy but in spite of all of that, he’d suit up and show up,” his wife Lisa told PEOPLE. “He was always there.”