NEW YORK — “Nip/Tuck” star Dylan Walsh allegedly told police he was drinking before he got behind the wheel of his SUV and slammed into two utility poles at the Jersey Shore last week.

According to a police report obtained by TMZ, Walsh admitted to officers that he’d been drinking at a tavern near Sandy Hook Beach on Aug. 17 and was on his way home when he crashed his Ford Explorer, causing the air bags to deploy.

Responding officers from the Rumson Police Department said they arrived to find 61-year-old Walsh looking “very red” and “very confused.” During a subsequent search of his vehicle, they allegedly found an open cooler bag with multiple empty and open cans of White Claw Hard Seltzer.

Witnesses reportedly told police they saw Walsh’s SUV swerve into oncoming traffic before plowing into the two utility poles. At least one witness said they heard Walsh’s wife yell “get the bag out of the back seat” several times before officers arrived to the scene, according to the report.

Along with Walsh and his wife, two children and another passenger were in the SUV at the time of the crash. Rumson Police Lt. Christopher Isherwood previously said two passengers were taken to a hospital with complaints of pain in the wake of the incident, though he didn’t confirm who had been treated.

Walsh is married to Leslie Bourque-Walsh and they share daughter Amelie Belle and son Hudson Scott, though it’s unclear if they were the children who were in the car.

Walsh has not yet been charged since evidence collected from the scene, including a blood sample, is still being processed, TMZ reported. He was, however, cited for six motor vehicle violations — having an open container of alcohol, expired registration, reckless driving, failure to keep right, unsafe lane change/failure to maintain lane and driving on a sidewalk.

The crash occurred several weeks after Walsh’s “Nip/Tuck” co-star Julian McMahon died following a private battle with cancer.

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Katy Perry testifies that she's seeking 'justice' at trial over $15 million mansion

LOS ANGELES — A lawyer asked Katy Perry on Tuesday whether she stood to gain money or anything else from a trial in a long legal fight over a California mansion.

“Justice” was the one-word answer from the singing superstar, former “American Idol” judge and recent astronaut, part of an hour of remote testimony she gave in a Los Angeles courtroom.

In her tense, careful testimony, Perry wouldn't concede directly that she stood to gain money if she won, but did say, “I stand to lose money if it doesn’t work in my favor.”

She spoke during the second trial in a dispute over a $15 million mansion in upscale Montecito near Santa Barbara that she and former partner Orlando Bloom bought in 2020.

The seller, 85-year-old Carl Westcott, said he was not mentally competent to make the deal and sued to undo it.

Perry's side — technically the defendant was her business manager, Bernie Gudvi — prevailed in the first trial in 2023. Then Gudvi, representing Perry, countersued over lost rental income brought on by the legal fight and millions in maintenance the house allegedly required. That brought on the current sequel trial.

Westcott's lawyer, Andrew J. Thomas, often tried to steer the conversation toward Bloom. Superior Court Judge Joseph Lipner ruled that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings” actor does not have to testify because it would be redundant and unnecessary, even though the house is officially owned by a company he set up.

Asked if she had any role in a remodel of the house Bloom oversaw, Perry replied that she acted as “partner and adviser.”

The couple, who split up in July, have a daughter together whose fifth birthday was Tuesday.

When asked about the nature of their partnership, Perry replied, “We're family for life.”

Perry's attorney, Eric Rowen, objected to nearly every question by Thomas as irrelevant, including most of the queries about Bloom, which Lipner kept to a minimum.

Rowen objected especially angrily when Perry was asked if she knew that Westcott had entered a mental institution earlier in the legal fight, apparently suggesting the question was an attack for the sake of the media present.

“This is, I don’t want to say unethical, but this is simply an effort to drive a narrative to parties outside this courtroom,” Rowen said. The judge sustained his objection and the question was not allowed.

The judge and lawyers referred to Perry as “Miss Hudson.” Her legal name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson.

She's currently in the middle of an international tour, and has recently been tied to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It wasn't clear where she was during Tuesday's questioning.

Thomas asked Perry repeatedly whether she’d had enough cash on hand to buy the $15 million mansion outright.

“I could have,” she eventually said, “but I wanted to do a mortgage instead.”

Perry conceded that in the previous trial, she said she intended to live in the mansion, not to rent it out. But renters including the family of actor Chris Pratt are central to this trial. There was discussion of having Pratt testify, but he was not on the final witness list.

There was one light moment at the end of Perry's testimony when she described some dealings with Westcott and said, “I was pregnant at the time.”

She couldn't be heard clearly and Lipner said he had heard, “It was private.”

“No, pregnant!” Perry said with a laugh.

Perry's own lawyer declined to cross-examine her and the judge excused her.

Like the previous trial, this one has no jury, and Lipner will decide the outcome. Perry's testimony came on the fourth day of proceedings that are expected to go on for two more days.

It's not the first long public fight Perry has had over a property. She previously sparred in court with an order of nuns who fought to stop the sale of a convent she had bought. She prevailed in that case.

She also testified in a lawsuit that alleged she and her co-writers had stolen key elements of her hit song “Dark Horse” from a Christian musician. She lost at trial, but won on appeal.

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Emil Wakim exits 'SNL' after Devon Walker, as Lorne Michaels hints at more changes

NEW YORK — Devon Walker and Emil Wakim are leaving “Saturday Night Live,” among the first of what could be several cast departures as the storied program prepares for its 51st season.

“Me and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool,” Walker wrote Monday on Instagram. “Sometimes it was toxic as hell. But we did what we made the most of what it was, even amid all of the dysfunction.”

The note in his post was titled: “wait … did he quit or did he get fired?”

On Wednesday, Wakim announced he wouldn't be returning, and indicated he had been let go, calling it “a gut punch of a call to get.” Unlike Walker, a member of the more established repertory player group, Wakim was a featured player who joined the show just last season.

“every time i scanned into the building i would think how insane it is to get to work there. it was the most terrifying, thrilling, and rewarding experience of my life and i will miss it dearly and all the brilliant people that work there that made it feel like a home,” he wrote in an all-lowercase Instagram post that thanked “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels.

“i was so lucky to bring some of myself in there and say things i believed in and i’m excited for whatever chapter comes next,” Wakim wrote. “here’s to making more art without compromise.”

The announcements follow Michaels saying that he anticipates changes following the show's historic 50th season. No cast members had announced their departure following the season's conclusion. In an interview with Puck that ran last week, Michaels answered “yes” when asked if he expected to “shake things up.”

“It’ll be announced in a week or so,” he said then.

Representatives for “Saturday Night Live” did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Meanwhile, “SNL” writer Celeste Yim announced they were leaving after five seasons. Yim, the show's first openly nonbinary writer, posted last weekend on Instagram that the job was a dream come true “BUT was also grueling and I slept in my office every week BUT my friends helped me with everything BUT I got yelled at by random famous men BUT some famous girls too BUT I loved it and I laughed every day and it's where I grew up.”

Michaels told Puck at least one cast member was certain to be back: James Austin Johnson, who plays President Donald Trump.

Since its debut in 1975, the NBC program has reinvented itself often, with performers over the past 50 years ranging from John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd to Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson. The 51st season will premiere Oct. 4.

From combined wire services