Brooke Burns hospitalized
Charlie Amter

LOS ANGELES—Former Baywatch beauty Brooke Burns is in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a fractured neck bone in a pool mishap last week. But the actress is expected to make a full recovery and “be back to normal” in a few weeks, her manager, Barbara Stark, tells E! News. Stark says that Burns was swimming at her home late last Thursday when the accident occurred. She dove into the pool, but misjudged the depth and hit her head on the bottom.
Burns, 27, sustained a “slight fracture in one of her neck bones,” Stark says, but did not suffer a broken neck or spinal injury. The actress is hoping to be discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by Tuesday. “She is very blessed and very lucky,” says Stark. Burns rose to fame as a star on Baywatch from 1998 to 2000. She also starred in Fox’s short-lived 2004 beach-based TV drama North Shore. Her feature credits include Shallow Hal and Single White Female 2.
The Dallas-born beauty is also known for her off-screen liaisons. She has a five-year-old daughter with ex-husband Julian McMahon (of Nip/Tuck fame), and her relationship with Bruce Willis, which lasted 10 months before ending in 2004, earned her plenty of face time in the glossies. Stark says Burns will be good to go by January, when she’s slated to begin filming the WB midseason replacement show Pepper Dennis with Rebecca Romijn.