Ed Mcmahon

Here's Ed: Ed McMahon will observe his 86th birthday today at an undisclosed L.A. hospital with friends and family on hand, according to spokesman Howard Bragman. McMahon has been hospitalized for several weeks for pneumonia and other ailments.

Ed McMahon, the longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," is fighting to avoid foreclosure on his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills estate. McMahon defaulted on $4.8 million in mortgage loans with a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp., which filed a notice of default in March, according to ForeclosureRadar, a company that sells default data pulled from public records.

Ed McMahon, the jocular sidekick to Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," returned to television Thursday to discuss a somber personal matter -- the looming foreclosure of his Beverly Hills house. Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live," McMahon, 85, began his interview with the throaty chuckle that had been his trademark on Carson's show. Asked what happened, he quipped, "How much time do you have?"

Mortgage troubles continue to bedevil Ed McMahon, the former sidekick to Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," who has been battling to fend off foreclosure of his Beverly Hills home. A Huntington Beach lender has sued McMahon to recover a $250,000 loan it said McMahon had failed to pay back, along with interest and legal costs. McMahon secured the loan with his house. In July, he was sued by his former lawyers for $275,167 over payment of a legal bill.

Although he did other things in his 86 years, Ed McMahon, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles, will be remembered mostly as the man who sat next to Johnny Carson, except when more important celebrities came between them.

An article in Business on Wednesday about the possible foreclosure of television personality Ed McMahon's house quoted real estate agent Alex Davis as saying 100 paparazzi had gathered outside the nearby home of Britney Spears. In fact, Davis said the paparazzi had been outside the gate of the community, not an individual house, and he did not estimate their number.

Ed McMahon has a job. The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC show. "It felt very good to be out of the brace and working again," McMahon, who recently underwent a third neck surgery, said in an interview Friday. "I spent my whole life doing commercials, so here I was back doing a commercial again.

Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick on "The Tonight Show" for three decades, has been sued by his former lawyers for $275,167 over payment of a legal bill. McMahon and his wife, Pamela, owe the money for unspecified legal services for McMahon's daughter, according to the lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan. The suit was brought on behalf of the Sarcone Law Firm in White Plains, N.Y. The lawsuit comes as McMahon, 85, tries to save his six-bedroom, five-bathroom home in Beverly Hills from foreclosure.

Ed McMahon will star in two online rap videos for FreeCreditReport.com, a website owned by credit bureau Experian. The videos will feature the former "Tonight Show" sidekick being chauffeured around Los Angeles in a golf cart and waxing lyrical about his financial troubles. In June, McMahon revealed that he was fighting foreclosure after falling $644,000 behind on mortgage payments on his Beverly Hills home.

Ed McMahon and a creditor settled their financial dispute, paving the way for dismissal of the creditor's lawsuit, a judge said Friday. Details were not released. Westmoore Lending of Huntington Beach sued McMahon and his wife, Pamela, in Los Angeles Superior Court last August for more than $250,000 it said the 86-year-old former "Tonight Show" emcee owes from a 2006 loan. The lawsuit did not specify what the McMahons borrowed the money for, but claimed they defaulted in early 2007.