, Mexico (Reuters/Lizbeth Diaz) - Eight American vacationers are presumed to have drowned after a sports fishing charter capsized in a storm and sank off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, authorities said on Monday.

The 115-foot (35-meter) boat Erik left San Felipe on the Sea of Cortez, a haven for windsurfers and sports fishermen, on Saturday for a six-day fishing trip with 43 people on board, including 27 American tourists.

But on its first night out of port, the Erik was struck by an electrical storm and capsized early on Sunday, port and navy officials said.

After searching for almost 24 hours, local rescue officials had found one body and said they had given up hope of finding seven missing people alive. Divers had been brought in to aid in the search.

"We have changed the operation, now we're focusing on recovering ... people, but not alive," said Alfredo Escobedo, the director of emergency services in Baja California state.

The confirmed fatality and all the missing were U.S. citizens, San Felipe port official Dora Winkler said.
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Mexican authorities said the survivors had been rescued by navy teams and locals after the fishing boat's cook and two passengers were saved by local fishermen, who had raised the initial alarm.

The boat was found around 87 miles south of San Felipe, a popular holiday and fishing resort located south of Mexicali.

Local boat operators cater to American retirees and other tourists who flock to the region for inexpensive salt-water fishing. Loyalists boast a sea teaming with yellowtail, sea bass and cabrilla.

It's the Fourth of July and what better way to celebrate -- besides the barbecues, pool parties, little bits of sunburn and your iPod at the highest volume blasting Katy Perry's 'Firework' on repeat -- than to see some of Hollywood's hottest names showing off their patriotic sides.

Whether they are entertaining the troops or gracing the covers of magazines, celebrities love to flaunt their American pride, so in honor of our nation's birthday we've gathered our most favorite photos of celebrities showing some love for the red white and blue.

So sit back, press play on that iPod and click away!

Happy Fourth of July!

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"Billy Elliot" playwright Lee Hall says his latest project, a community opera involving 300 children, has collapsed after backers demanded he cut words spoken by a gay character.
Hall said he refused to remove the lines "I am queer" and "I prefer a lad to a lass" from his opera "Beached" as requested by the primary school involved.
Writing in The Guardian, Hall said he had worked with the school to make other changes but that this request "seemed to come from an entirely different era."
Opera North, which commissioned the piece, confirmed Monday that its July 15 premiere in Bridlington, northeast England, had been scrapped.
Opera North said it had tried to mediate between Hall and the school and regretted that "both sides have been unable to move forward."

After weeks of lying around in the sun, you'd think Frank Lampard and Christine Bleakley would be getting a bit bored of sunbathing.
So the Chelsea footballer decided to liven up his mammoth holiday with the Daybreak presenter by indulging in some playful wrestling.
Currently chartering a luxury yacht off the coast of Spain, Lampard teased Bleakley by threatening to throw her in the sea.
The couple, who got engaged in Los Angeles last month, have been holidaying in the Mediterranean for the past two weeks.
The first week they were joined by Lampard's father Frank Lampard Snr and his two daughters Isla and Luna.

But with the girls returning home to their mother Elen Rivas in London last Monday, the couple have now been joined by a group of friends on a chartered Ferretti 53 yacht called Helissio.
The 575,000 euro vessel includes three double bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large dining saloon.
After spending the past month holidaying in the U.S. and Spain, the pair are both sporting dark golden tans.
Christine and Frank announced their engagement last month after dating for 21 months, which the footballer had apparently spent three months and £150,000 planning.
Christine and Frank flew to America on a trip thought to have cost £30,000, which saw them visit Las Vegas and Los Angeles, while he’s said to have spent around £120,000 on the engagement ring.

As most mothers will agree it's not easy finding time to keep in shape when you have your children occupying much of your time. 
So hats off to Louise Redknapp who showed off her fantastic figure while on holiday in Porto Cervo, Sardinia with her husband Jamie.
Wearing a blue bikini top and black shorts the mother-of-two was beaming as she soaked up the Mediterranean sun in the grounds of her hotel.
As well as an outdoor pool, which they appear to be enjoying in these pictures, the hotel is not far from the Pevero Golf Club - which would appeal to Jamie, a keen golfer.
Louise is mother to two young boys, Charley, six, and Beau, two, but has managed to maintain her naturally slim figure.
The former Eternal singer was once voted World's Sexiest Woman by readers of popular lads' mag FHM and was also employed as the face, and body, of lingerie brand Triumph.

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Linda Hogan has waited patiently to tell her side of the story of her 2009 divorce from wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, and she pulls no punches in setting the record straight about the split in the memoir 'Wrestling the Hulk,' telling PopEater about her motives for writing it and the truth about her new engagement to 22-year-old "soul mate," Charley Hill. Linda, who has kept her ex's surname of Bollea, says it comes down to his alleged cheating and the collapse of trust that came with it. "He's the one who has to live with himself and look in the mirror knowing what he's done, destroyed a family," she tells us, adding that she's forgiven him even though he won't cop to his mistakes.

"I have moved on and forgiven him even though he's never apologized to me or the kids," she told us. "We go through the lawyers. I couldn't care less if I don't talk to him but my kids suffer. It's kind of a cowardly way out. I hope some day he can grow up and be a big boy and talk to his ex-wife for his kids sake."
Did you write this book in response to your husband's memoir?
No, my book had nothing to do with Terry's book. I had a journal I kept for many years and during the divorce it was really difficult to voice my opinion, not that I needed to, but my divorce was so public, it was like my husband was using every media campaign to get his hands on to try and out me and make me look like the bad guy and I really didn't have a voice in that and I thought with my son having got in that horrific accident and going to jail and the divorce, it was just not the time to air my dirty laundry and make things worse. I didn't want to be pouring fuel on the fire then but I thought at some point I will be able to talk and tell my accounting of what I think happened in my marriage which is the truth. it's been a long time coming and I hope that with millions of women in the world going through the same situation as I went through, hopefully when they read the book they'll be able to feel a little bit better knowing that there's some help out there, learn something from this and I'm hoping to help women move forward from sticky situations.

Were you frustrated at being portrayed as the bad guy?
Right, at this point nobody heard my side, he went out there and made it look like I was screwing some 19 year old, my kid's high school friend and it was nothing like that, trying to make it like maybe I was the one possibly doing the cheating. It killed me but I had good lawyers, everything is going through the court system, I don't want to look like a blabbermouth, the truth will come out. At that point I didn't really care what the public thought of me. I was concerned about my kids who were already being embarrassed enough by the public divorce. My job first was to be a good mom, make sure I got through this divorce without too much trouble.