It was revealed yesterday that popular TV personality Yuusuke Santamaria (33, real name Nakayama Yuusuke) recently got married. He is to make a formal announcement today at the Fuji TV center in Odaiba, Tokyo. Sources say the couple had been going out for four years and the new bride is a beautiful 35-year old company employee. Yuusuke has had a very busy schedule this year, appearing as a regular on several shows and the TBS drama series “Home Drama!” and his health has been said to be suffering. Yuusuke made his debut in 1994 as the vocalist of the “latin rock” band Bingo Bongo. After the band broke up in 1997, he made his breakthrough in the TV cop show “Odoru Daisosasen” (Bayside Shakedown). The movie version later became one of the biggest Japanese box office hits ever.
• Writer Nakajima Ramo died this week. As reported here on July 22, Nakajima was hospitalized after a drunken fall down a flight of stairs. He was 52.