Apr
8th

Shakira ’sex tape’ an April Fool’s Day hoax

Internet rumours spread quickly earlier this week about a tape alleged to feature Shakira engaging in a threesome on a yacht with pop star Alejandro Sanz and her boyfriend, Antonio de la Rua.

Argentine DJ Javier Ceriani helped spread the rumour by making comments about the “sex tape” on his Zona Cero radio show.

He said: “It’s been said … there is a private video recorded on a yacht, one that could implicate Alejandro Sanz, Shakira and Antonio de la Rua.”

He suggested the tape was in the hands of the courts.

But representatives for the stars denied a tape exists.

In a joint statement, the singers’ representatives said: “This is a false rumour. This is totally absurd any way you look at it. There is no possibility that such a video exists.

“It is a baseless and malicious rumour.”

Apr
2nd

Cameron Diaz gives gushing speech at Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice awards

While everyone else was getting gunked at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice awards, Cameron Diaz just GUSHED.

The actress, picking up her Wannabe award for being a good role model, told the audience: “Oh wow. And when I say wow, I mean, wow! This is the biggest honour in my entire life.

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Mar
24th

Britney Spears plays Abby on How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother features a high-profile guest appearance tonight — Vancouver’s Sarah Chalke!

Oh, and somebody called Britney Spears.

Spears plays a receptionist, Abby, who becomes smitten with Ted (Josh Radnor), in the ratings-challenged but critically favoured sitcom.

Chalke, for her part, plays Stella, Ted’s “beautiful dermatologist,” according to CBS’s press notes. Think of it as a sitcom version of Bob & Ted & Carol & Alice: Ted wants to land a date with Stella, but she’s not interested; Abby — who’s developed a huge, spazzy crush on Ted — wants to land a date with the big galoot, but he’s not interested. Mirth ensues.

Spears’s appearance came about during her recent tabloid travails, when her agent approached How I Met Your Mother’s producers out-of-the-blue about a possible guest appearance. The writers’ strike had just been settled; How I Met Your Mother was slated to return with new episodes starting last week; and the rest, as they say, is history. Or herstory, if you prefer.

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Mar
21st

Beyonce Channels Stanislavski In Pursuit Of Oscar Gold

Step aside, Ghost of Marlon Brando. Hit the bricks, Bobby DeNiro. The newest disciple of Constantin Stanislavski’s renowned Method acting technique is none other than Miss Foxy Cleopatra herself, Beyonce Knowles. Fresh off of her exciting and unexpected upset of Kanye West in a heated match of Connect Four, Beyonce arrived on the set of Cadillac Ranch this week determined to regain all of the buzz that Jennifer Hudson usurped from her in Showgirls Dreamgirls. In fact, she’s so dedicated to making her performance as Etta James shine that she’s taken to staying in character both on and off the set. As this Media Take Out tipster reports:

I was at the (swanky New York City celebrity hotspot) Waverly Inn a few nights ago and you’ll never guess who showed up - Beyonce … Beyonce was sitting next to some White guy who kept saying to her ‘Don’t worry Etta, ignore it Etta.’”

While we’re not entirely sure exactly who said “White guy” is or, for that matter, what prompted “White guy” to reassuringly address Beyonce by her character’s name, we do know that Daniel Day-Lewis wasn’t spotted traipsing around the booming New Mexico club scene when he was filming There Will Be Blood.

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Mar
12th

Nicole Kidman to Model for Chairty Fashion Show

Nicole Kidman is set to hit the catwalk for a charity fashion show in Melbourne, Austrailia.

The actress will join other celebrities to model creations by different designers in the fashion show to support children affected by cancer at the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne.

Nicole will model clothes by Indian designers Rahul Jain and Gunjan Arora, reports The Hindu newspaper.

Their label ‘Sirali,’ is known for using a unique method where the cloth is prepared using a mix of coloured threads to create an effect of embroidery resembling a huge painting.

“Kidman will wear a long sherwani like blue jacket with lots of red and yellow. The design on the jacket will look like somebody has embroidered the design, but it is a patented method of ours. The different colours blend on the garment to create the effect of an art,” says Rahul Jain to the newspaper.

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Mar
11th

Cameron Diaz and Nicole Kidman’s belly encounter

While at the Academy Awards late last month in LA, actress Nicole Kidman, 40, was reportedly approached by an enthusiastic Cameron Diaz, 35, who spoke with the expectant mother and then asked to touch her belly. Woman’s Day reports,

Cameron asked if she could touch Nicole’s baby bump and Nic agreed. She was just glowing, and proud that people were showing interest in her baby.

Nicole and husband Keith Urban, also 40, expect their first child in July. They know the sex, but are not sharing.

Mar
4th

Salma Hayek on Valentina, values, and her nontraditional relationship

Salma Hayek wears many hats — actress, producer, activist, and most recently, mother. With the September arrival of Valentina Paloma, her daughter with PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault, the 41-year-old multitasker has more on her plate than ever before.

Sitting down for a Glamour interview in her kitchen with V-Day founder Eve Ensler, Salma nurses her now 5-month-old baby girl and chats about her pregnancy (yes, she did have gestational diabetes), her hopes for Valentina, and just how it is you keep a relationship going when your fiancé lives on the other side of the world.

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Feb
29th

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to hold $200k party for Jennifer Lopez, husband

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are reportedly set to hold a $200,000 party for Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony to celebrate the birth of their twins.

Cruise, 45, and Holmes, 29, are good friends with Lopez and Anthony and have arranged a ‘Welcome to the World’ bash for the couple’s newborn boy and girl.

A source said: “Tom and Katie are thrilled for Jennifer and Marc and have offered to throw a party for the twins next month.”

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Feb
26th

Oscar Presenter Nicole Kidman Wears 1399 Carat Rough and Polished Diamond Sautoir Designed by L’Wren Scott to 80th Annual Academy Awards

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ — An extraordinary rough and polished diamond sautoir necklace designed by L’Wren Scott debuted on the Red Carpet today at the 80th Academy Awards. The spectacular sautoir, worn by Oscar Presenter Nicole Kidman, contains a total of 7645 diamonds including rough, faceted, and polished diamonds, which total nearly 1400 carats.

The sautoir, which was designed by Scott, produced and manufactured by Uni-Design Ltd. in Paris and India uses a wide range of shapes and cuts of diamonds. Each diamond was individually selected by the designer to fit together into an overall design. The intricate design required in excess of 6200 man hours to handcraft. Diamonds have never been used in such a truly unique way on the Red Carpet. It is a tribute to the visionary direction of the designer that such an astounding quantity of diamonds can be worn so effortlessly.

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Feb
26th

Kirsten Dunsts partying drove Jake Gyllenhaal away

Kirsten Dunst’s hard-partying ways drove her and former beau Jake Gyllenhaal apart, a pal dished to Us Weekly. Dunst, who entered Utah’s Cirque Lodge rehab earlier this month, and Gyllenhaal dated for three years before calling it quits in 2005. “Jake was turned off by all the partying,” the pal says. Multiple sources confirmed the “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People” star regretted the breakup and started going out and drinking even more after the split. “There was no such thing as ‘just the one (drink)’ for her,” a source said. Dunst’s rep denies that drinking led to the 2005 breakup.

Feb
24th

Harry Potter actors ‘on secret Valentine’s date’

Radcliffe, 18, and Watson, 17, tried to avoid attention as they huddled together in a London beer garden on Valentine’s night, The Mirror reports.

“(Watson) kept looking over her shoulder nervously as if she didn’t wanted to be recognised,” an onlooker was reported as saying.

“When people started to notice the couple and began pointing, she wrapped her scarf around her head so only her eyes were peeping out.”

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Feb
24th

Daniel Radcliffe Wins 2 Top Awards

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has won two top awards for his role in the West End production Equus. The 18-year-old was named as Newcomer of the Year and won the Theatre Event of the Year prize.

The Best New Musical was Hairspray with the ceremony taking place on Sunday at the Lyric Theatre in London.

Feb
13th

Rihanna and Jay Z share an awkward moment at the Grammys

There was an awkward moment for Rihanna and Jay Z as the pair scooped a Grammy for their collaboration ‘Umbrella.’

Rhianna tried to hold Jay Z’s hand as the pair walked up to collect their rap collaboration award but the rapper shook the singer’s hand away.

Cameras then caught Rihanna throwing her hands up in the air as if to say, ‘What’s wrong?’

The pair then distanced themselves on the stage as they were presented with their trophy. The scenes were made all the more awkward by the fact Jay Z’s girlfriend Beyonce was watching from just feet away.

Last week Rihanna tried to quash rumors that she was romantically linked to the rapper.

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Feb
13th

Julia Roberts, Penelope Cruz films premiere at Berlin fest

  • New films starring Hollywood sirens Penelope Cruz and Julia Roberts premiered at the 58th Berlin Film Festival Sunday, bringing celebrity mega-wattage to tragic personal stories.
  • Cruz plays a literature student who falls for her womanising professor (Ben Kingsley) before an illness strikes in “Elegy”, an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet.

    The picture, in the running for the Berlinale’s Golden Bear top prize, deals with the elusive nature of physical beauty and includes several nude scenes with Cruz, who routinely ranks among the world’s most stunning women.

    But she brushed away reporters’ questions about her appearance, saying she had never been typecast as a pretty face or seen her sex appeal diminish her opportunities as an actress.

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    Feb
    12th

    Emma Watson Nominated for ‘Otto’ and Glamour Magazine Awards

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    Further award nomination news comes today from Emma Watson’s official site which has been updated noting Emma’s recent nomination at the Glamor Magazine Awards for her role as Pauline in the previously released TV film, “Ballet Shoes.” Miss Watson (Hermione Granger) was nominated in the category of “Best UK TV Actress” as part of the magazine’s Women of the Year 2008 recognitions. Author J. K. Rowling was also nominated as part of the Women of the Year 2008 awards in the category of “Best Writer” for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Voting is now open, and if you would like, you can vote via the above link.

    Further congratulations go out to Emma as she was also nominated in the category of Favorite Cinema Star of 2007 at the ‘Otto Awards’ handed out by the German magazine Bravo. Additionally, Emma’s Harry Potter co-star Dan Radcliffe was also nominated in the Male category of the Favorite Cinema Star of 2007 award. You may also cast your vote for the Otto Awards right here.Congratulations to all!

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