SHARAPOVA WANTS NO FALLOUT FOR CHERNOBYL VISIT: Maria Sharapova will be bringing her radiant beauty to a radiated area, as the tennis star is planning a visit to Chernobyl:

The INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE reports that Sharapova hopes to go to areas affected by the 1986 nuclear plant explosion as a United Nations goodwill ambassador, probably after next year’s Wimbledon. But it’s not just a photo-op, as one affected area was once her family’s home.Maria’s mom & dad originally lived in the city of Gomel in Belarus, and she would have been born there, if not for the radioactive clouds spewing from the infamous reactor 80 miles to the south.

Her family quickly fled to Siberia shortly before her birth, but she still has many relatives living in the infected region, including her grandparents.Sharapova hopes to see how life goes on for those that remained - “I want to visit the facilities that they’re building right now for the children — computer labs and hospitals.”