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Larry telling ET that he does not want Anna and Daniel buried in the Bahamas but will wait until Dannielynn is older to move them.

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LARRY AND DANNIELYNN BIRKHEAD VISIT THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH ON THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF HER DEATH

February 5, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA)– ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’s JANN CARL was exclusively with Larry Birkhead and daughter Dannielynn this week in Nassau, Bahamas as the 17-month-old made her first trip back to visit her mother and brother’s graves, one year after her mother’s sudden death.

In an a multi-part interview to begin airing on Wednesday, February 6th, Birkhead says the visit is difficult for him, but he arranged it for his daughter, “It’s tough. Even though she doesn’t understand, it was important for us to come. One day I can tell her that we went to visit her mom.” When they arrived at the unmarked gravesites, Dannielynn placed a pink toy turtle on Anna Nicole’s plot and whispered, “mama.”

On why the graves of Anna Nicole and Daniel are without tombstones, Birkhead says, “A rough draft came back with a sketch of a picture I didn’t care for. I could just hear her hitting me over the head saying, ‘Why did you let that picture go down!?’” Birkhead reveals that the design of the headstone will be “so grand and big. It’s going to encompass Daniel’s stone too.”

When asked how he feels about making the journey from Los Angeles to Nassau, Birkhead speaks candidly, “I don’t like the fact that they’re here, I never did. I know that Daniel didn’t want to be here and I know that his mother was only here because of what was going on between us with the paternity question. To me it feels really odd.” On if he has considered moving the graves, he says, “I’m going to leave the decision to Dannielynn when she’s older. It would probably be very hard, if not impossible to take both of them and I definitely don’t want to separate them.”

In an effort to keep Anna’s memory alive for their daughter, Birkhead tells ET, “I keep a lot of memories around. I quiz her and she knows Mama. I say, ‘Where’s Mama?’ and she’ll give Mama a kiss on the picture.”

Well, I’m glad you posted that article with the gist of the story about the ET exclusive.

I confess that I did watch it, in fact twice, trying to get some idea of what it was all about. LB opens his mouth and all I hear is “blah blah blah blah”. Charlie Brown’s teacher (*wah wah wah* - horn sounds) is more intelligible.

Something about a family reunion for DL at the graves? They didn’t show the screaming Dannielynn pix that were in the first day’s preview. They showed her sometimes with little black Mary Janes on and sometimes with them off.

(Dad obviously doesn’t worry about green grass stains on little white tights, lol. Shoes were on while she was being carried from the parking lot, shoes were off when he was putting her down or picking her up from trying to stand in the grass by the grave. Then they were on again, then off again, then on, then off - every frame was different.)

She was saying “ma ma ma ma ma” like that and both Larry and ET said she was saying “Momma” when she wasn’t! She was just making baby sounds!

ET was being so morbid about all the Anna “death stuff” and perhaps the dumbest (well, maybe not *the* dumbest) statement made was when they did a close-up on Dannielynn’s hair. She had on two bows, one on each side - a black one and a white one, to match her outfit.

ET zoomed in close on the side with the black one and the dramatic voiceover says “wearing a black bow in her hair” as if it is her widow’s weeds.

She didn’t do any standing or walking, just a lot of kicking - but there will be more tomorrow, so maybe they’re saving it.

Jann Carl was just urpy when saying how “touching” it was that DL left Anna Nicole a “gift” on her grave, a little pink plastic turtle that was her favorite toy. Carl went on and on about how easily DL “just let go of it and left it there.”

Come on! How stupid does this coverage have to get? They had led up to it the whole show like it was some big inside secret - “what Dannielynn left on the grave.” I thought, if nothing else, the dullard dadster would say he and Anna always joked about wanting to be turtles and just crawling inside their shells or something. Nope, just a toy of DL’s, that’s all!

LB said he always goes to Anna’s grave “every time he’s in Nassau.” Good grief - how often does he go there and why can’t he go testify at the inquest, and who the heck *else* would he “go see” or where the heck *else* would he go when he is there? This was just idiotic.

Next (today) is supposed to be DL in the church where the funeral was, looking out a stained glass window, for some reason. She has on a *different* black dress for this one.

There was also some buildup about something, but it went in one ear and out my other. Probably about the headstone, but who knows?