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David Lee Roth has a very severe nut allergy, which caused him to drive his car like a crazy man, and luckily attracted the attention of cops. Here’s the story:

Two Ontario police officers have been credited with saving the life of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth – after he suffered a severe allergic reaction.

The rocker was pulled over on a stretch of highway in Oakland, Ontario on June 8 for speeding, and when cops approached the vehicle, they realized the star was in anaphylactic shock.

Roth has an allergy to nuts and was suffering a severe reaction after coming into contact with a contaminated substance.

The officers called an ambulance and kept Roth calm until paramedics arrived on the scene, according to CTV.ca.

Constable Chris Thompson admits he didn’t realize that he was dealing with a famous rock star when he attended to the crisis.

He says, “At the time I wasn’t star struck, I was just trying to help him. The guy stuck out like a sore thumb. He was wearing a little silk scarf and flashy clothing – it’s not something you see in Oakland too often.”

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Van Halen fans, get ready to “Jump.” The rockers have re-formed with original frontman David Lee Roth and will set out on a national tour beginning in October, according to a report posted Wednesday on Billboard Magazine’s Web site.

In its report, the music industry trade publication said Van Halen will play 50 dates in arenas across North America.

The report coincides with a news release issued Tuesday by touring company Live Nation and Van Halen saying the band will be making “an announcement of monumental proportions” during a news conference Monday in Los Angeles.

Representatives of the band and Live Nation would not confirm the band will announce a reunion tour.

Reports surfaced this year that three of the band’s original members – Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and drummer Alex Van Halen – would tour along with Eddie Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang, in place of original bassist Michael Anthony. That tour never materialized.

In March, Eddie Van Halen entered rehab for unspecified reasons. Later that month, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Roth left the group for a solo career after the release of the band’s “1984″ album, which featured the hits “Jump,” “Hot For Teacher” and “Panama.”

The band carried on into the 1990s with new lead singer Sammy Hagar. Later, former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone joined the band for one album.

Van Halen hasn’t toured with Roth in more than 20 years.

David Lee Roth had such an unquenchable thirst for sex during his Van Halen days that he invented an ingenious way to score at the band’s concerts – doling out generous cash rewards to staffers who supplied him with the hottest girls, according to a new, unauthorized bio of the platinum-selling band.

The spandex-clad rocker developed a “streamlined” system of “ordering sex at shows” by distributing laminated backstage passes to the security staff – each marked with [the staffer's] initials,” writes Ian Christe in “Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga,” out in August from Wiley.

“Then, from the stage, [Roth would call] out, ‘Blonde, pink top, sector A-4,’ pointing out the girls he wanted to see after the show. Whatever crew member’s name Dave saw flapping around the girl’s neck backstage at the end of the night would get a $100 bonus at breakfast the next morning. As far as intimacy went, it was a little like the invention of the drive-through window at McDonald’s, but the morale of tour staff remained high.”

Diamond Dave also kept a scrapbook of provocative Polaroids that showed many of the band’s kinky groupies. “[It] featured sights like a backward-leaning naked girl being used as a coffee table, a lit cigarette in her [private parts],” Christe writes.

But time caught up with Roth, and after a number of breakups and reunions with Van Halen, whose smash hits in the 1970s and ’80s included “Jump,” “Panama” and “Hot for Teacher,” he appeared “frustrated by the role of sex god,” according to the book.

“He routinely vented some [bleep]ed-up male sexuality, inviting pretty soccer moms from the front row for a drink from his trademark Jack Daniel’s bottle and then shaking the stage prop at groin level while [spraying] about a quart of whiskey on [their] heads,” Christe’s book relates.

“Who knows how many times he had enacted the same scene backstage with willing participants during his halcyon days, but now his soaking of loyal admirers revealed the impotent anger of an aging Adonis.”

Meanwhile, rumors continue to swirl that Roth and the band may re-form once again.

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