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Beauty, Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 24th, 2011
Gwyneth Paltrow says a good night’s sleep is essential to looking good.
The Oscar-winning actress – who has two children, Apple, seven, and five-year-old Moses with husband Chris Martin – admits if she doesn’t get a lot of rest, it shows in her appearance.
She said: “For me, sleep is a major thing. I don’t always get it, and when I don’t, I look like I’ve been hit by a truck.”
Gwyneth also credits drinking lots of water, taking vitamins “religiously” and having at least one cup of coffee – with almond milk – each morning to help maintain her youthful looks.
The 39-year-old beauty detoxes twice a year and is a fan of the Clean Program, an elimination diet that lasts for three weeks and allows a daily lunch.
She told ‘Ask Dr. Brandt’ on Sirius XM Radio: “I find it very rejuvenating. It’s like being high.”
Gwyneth – who credits celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson with her amazing figure – has previously said she doesn’t like to diet and eats what she likes because she exercises so much.
She said: “I had to work hard to get it like this, but now I’m here it’s so great because I don’t have to think about it. I can just enjoy life. What a relief is that.
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Beauty, Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 24th, 2011
Taylor Swift’s fragrance Wonderstruck contains “all kinds of stuff”.
The pop star has collaborated with Elizabeth Arden to create her first perfume and says there is a wide ranging mix of notes in the scent.
She told ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’: “There’s all kinds of stuff in there. It’s got vanilla and amber and freesia and also notes of peach and raspberry. It’s got everything.”
The pop star has previously revealed inspiration behind naming the new scent – which launched last month and will be rolled out worldwide over two years -came from her song ‘Enchanted’ about meeting a special someone and the tune features in the promotional video.
She explained: “I share personal life experiences through my music, and my fragrance will allow me to share these experiences with my fans in a completely different and new way. Falling in love is a moment every girl daydreams about and Wonderstruck represents that magical feeling of promise and hope and intrigue. It was fascinating to learn that you can layer so many different scents to create a beautiful end result.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 24th, 2011
Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa are huge fans of the Duchess of Cambridge’s fashion sense.
The ‘Fashion Police’ star and her only daughter – who are known for their scathing comments on celebrity fashion faux pas – are in agreement that Catherine, wife of Prince William, is an impeccable dresser.
Joan said: “She’s fabulous, she doesn’t put a foot wrong.”
Melissa added: “Never mind what the fashionistas say, she’s like one of your friends who dresses beautifully.”
However, not everyone agrees with them. Nordstrom fashion director Gregg Andrews recently claimed Catherine isn’t a trendsetter and said she wouldn’t stand out if she were not married to royalty.
He said: “She is stylish, but she’s not setting trends, she’s following trends.
“If you take Kate out of the royal family, put her on a street in New York, you wouldn’t look at her twice. She’s a beautiful woman, but she blends into a crowd.”
Gregg’s views were echoed by Elle fashion news director Anne Slowey, who claimed Catherine’s look was only admired because of who she’s married to.
She said: “Is she a style icon of the likes of a Kate Moss? Absolutely not. Is she in the public eye? Are people going to become obsessed with everything she wears regardless of what it is? Yes.”
Ken Downing, fashion director of high-end department store Neiman Marcus, also doubts whether Catherine, 29, will ever be a leading style icon.
He said: “Is she iconic at the moment? Time will tell. She’s certainly influential. In the position that she’s in you can’t be simply stunning as she is and not have influence.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 20th, 2011
Rihanna knew she wanted to kiss British boxer Dudley O’Shaughnessy as soon as she saw him.
The 23-year-old beauty – who has been romantically linked to Dudley after previously dating singer Chris Brown and baseball star Matt Kemp – chose the hunk to take part in her new music video for single We Found Love and was smitten with him from the minute they met.
She said: “I met him and I was like let’s f***ing kiss and … you know what I mean. We had to pretend how to fake f**k.”
Rihanna wasn’t the only one who was happy to film the steamy scenes for the new video, with Dudley saying: “I didn’t want it to end.”
Rihanna and Dudley were particularly taken with each other during the shoot with crew members revealing they were constantly flirting.
A source said: “Rihanna was making no secret that she fancied the pants off Dudley. They hit it off straight away. She had seen his modelling shots and other pictures when he was a boxer.
“Rihanna took every opportunity to get close to him and at one point she was sitting in his lap during a break from filming. She’s very tactile anyway, but this was something else.
“Dudley was giggling like a schoolboy when she had to shoot a scene in a see-through top. She was teasing him with a peak of her cleavage and winking at him.
“Dudley can’t believe his luck. Rihanna’s girlfriends are teasing her, singing songs about her romance.”
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Ad campaigns, Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 20th, 2011
Ashley Greene has become the new face of DKNY and DKNY Jeans.
The Twilight star will appear in the brands’ spring 2012 ad campaigns and says she can’t wait to get to work.
She revealed: “I’ve always loved Donna Karan’s creations. To be a part of the brands’ message is incredibly exciting because it feels like such an organic fit. It’s easy to talk about how these clothes work for my lifestyle, whether I’m in New York, L.A. or traveling for work.”
Donna Karan vice president Patti Cohen says Ashley was the ideal person to front the campaigns because she is aware of the importance of social media sites such as twitter and Facebook.
She said: “Ashley embodies everything DKNY – her energy, her spirit, her eclectic personal style. She is on the forefront of what it means to connect with a global fan base through social media, a focus that is aligned with our digital and new media initiatives.”
Ashley has previously revealed she refuses to get so slim she has a “child’s body” as she prefers to have a healthy and toned figure.
She said: “A lot of people like to be super tiny, but I don’t want a child’s body – I want a woman’s body that is extremely fit. It’s so much sexier.”
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Celebrity gossip, Designers, Models
By Andrea Petrou on October 20th, 2011
Calvin Klein signed Kate Moss for his iconic 1990s campaigns as a reaction to “distasteful” glamour.
The legendary designer was tired of the way women were trying to boost their assets and so chose the slender supermodel to front his collections as a statement against what had gone before her.
He said: “”The reason for Kate and this whole group of women I found that someone named ‘waifs’ was because before that, a lot of women were getting breast implants and doing things to their buttocks. It was getting out of control. I just found something so distasteful about all that.
“I wanted someone who was natural, always thin. I was looking for the complete opposite of that glamour type that came before Kate.”
Calvin, 69, is also known for his eponymous underwear line and while he wears his own garments, he is also willing to wear those created by rival designers in order to see how they compare with his own creations.
He told ‘Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis’: “My second wife Kelly worked with me in the design studio for a long period of time and she was greatly responsible for us doing underwear. I still wear it. And I wear other people’s underwear, too, because I want to check out the competition.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 20th, 2011
Lady Gaga likes her boyfriend to dress up as a vampire in the bedroom.
The You and I hitmaker gets “turned on” by the blood-sucking creatures and has a pair of fangs she makes ‘Vampire Diaries’ actor Taylor Kinney wear when the couple are getting down and dirty.
An insider told The Sun newspaper: “Gaga gets very turned on by vampires and loves being bitten by her partner. She likes to dress up and has a set of fangs which she’ll often get out in the bedroom.
“She calls herself the ‘Kinky Queen’ and has an entire wardrobe of sexy dress up clothes for her sex sessions.”
However, it’s likely Taylor had to wait some time before indulging in bedroom antics with the 25-year-old singer – real name Stefani Germanotta – as she has revealed she likes to make her boyfriends wait for sex and would never “put out” too soon.
Gaga recently said: “It’s always been important to me, as it’s for my generation, a most relevant consideration when you’re growing up. Sex doesn’t mean nothing; sex means so much.
“I hope that young women know that sex is still a big deal, and they don’t have to put out soon. If they want someone to court them for a while before they give it up, that’s wonderful and beautiful, and a man will only respect you more for honouring your body. I am that way.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 19th, 2011
Katie Holmes wants to travel the world with her daughter.
The 32-year-old actress is eager to embark on the “next chapter” in her life, and is looking forward to taking on new dramatic roles and experiencing new cultures with five-year-old Suri, her child with husband Tom Cruise.
She said: “I feel ready for the next chapter of my life. I’m excited to begin a new phase: roles I might have been afraid to play before, places I want to travel to with my daughter. I’d like to build the design business. But not too fast.”
The former ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star also admitted she is also keen to get rid of her mobile phone and live life in a more “old-fashioned” way.
She added in an interview with Marie Claire magazine: “I’m thinking about getting rid of [my cell phone]. Wouldn’t it be great to have an old-fashioned phone sheet? Go to your office, make your calls, and then continue with your day?”
Katie also revealed she has to work hard to balance motherhood with her career, but she is pleased to be able to expose Suri to people with “incredible talent”.
Asked how she balances the two, she said: “Because you have to. As an actress who is also a mother, you don’t have the luxury of drama.
“Being around this business, my daughter is exposed to people with incredible talent, people who are the best at what they do. People I only dreamed of getting to work with as a little girl.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 19th, 2011
Bar Refaeli is to appear in a new fashion reality TV show.
The Israeli model has filmed segments for ‘Scouted’ which aims to find the next big star in the modelling world with Scott Lipps’ New York agency One Management.
A source told the New York Post newspaper: “Bar will appear in one episode, advising and helping aspiring models.”
Despite being one of the world’s most in-demand models, Bar recently revealed how she doesn’t feel the need to be “super skinny”.
The 26-year-old beauty is famed for her amazing figure but said she would never want to be too thin and would rather be happy and healthy.
She said: “I don’t feel the need to be super skinny, but being in shape is important. But even if I wasn’t in this industry I would still want to look after myself and be healthy and keep my body in good condition.”
Bar also said she enjoys exercising but makes sure she increases her workouts if she’s got a big shoot coming up.
She said: “I always want to look my best on a shoot, or for a fashion show, so I do an extra couple of sit-ups the night before and I drink hot water with lemon to get my metabolism kick-started in the morning and to cleanse my system, but I don’t do anything crazy.
“There’s nothing worse than forcing yourself to spend hours in the gym when you don’t enjoy it, so I do all sorts of things to work out because I get bored easily.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 18th, 2011
Beyonce Knowles is not nervous about being a mother.
The 30-year-old singer is expecting her first baby with husband Jay-Z – who she married in April 2008 – and feels “blessed” that everything in her personal life is going well.
In an interview with new! magazine, she said: “It’s going really well, I am so happy with everything right now.
“I am not nervous because I know it’s happening at the right time. I felt I got married at the right time for me, and now we are having the baby at the right time. I feel like we didn’t rush anything, and now we are being blessed with everything naturally.”
Beyonce has also praised Jay-Z – whose real name is Shawn Carter – describing him as her “best friend” and says she can always rely on him for support in every part of her life.
She said: “He is my best friend, and I am so blessed to have him as my husband. We have been together since I was 20, and he is my rock during everything.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 18th, 2011
Scarlett Johansson was deemed too sexy to star in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Director David Fincher decided against giving the role of main character Lisbeth Salander – who is played by Rooney Mara – to the 26-year-old beauty, despite her “great” audition, because people “can’t wait for her to take her clothes off”.
He told Vogue.com: “We flew in people from New Zealand and Swaziland and all over the place.
“Look, we saw some amazing people. Scarlett Johansson was great. It was a great audition, I’m telling you. But the thing with Scarlett is, you can’t wait for her to take her clothes off.
“I keep trying to explain this. Salander should be like E.T. If you put E.T. dolls out before anyone had seen the movie, they would say, ‘What is this little squishy thing?’ Well, you know what? When he hides under the table and he grabs the Reese’s Pieces, you love him! It has to be like that.”
Before finally casting Rooney in the role, David – who directed ‘The Social Network’, the 26-year-old stunner’s last movie – was worried he wouldn’t ever find the right actress to portray the character.
He added: “I had seen a lot of actresses. I was beginning to get to the point where I was thinking, ‘Maybe conceptually you are talking about a person who doesn’t exist’.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 17th, 2011
Jessie J uses glue on her eyes.
The ‘Price Tag’ hitmaker claims using Copydex adhesive has given her the best results with false eyelashes – though she admits it has some unwanted effects.
She said: “I use Copydex adhesive to put on my eyelashes. Everyone looks at me like I’m crazy. It smells a bit fishy but it stays put and it’s so sticky that you can reuse them.”
While Jessie hates the smell of her eyelash glue, she is a big fan of a particular hair product because of its scent.
She said: “My hair hot list includes the John Frieda Brilliant Brunette range, Bumble and Bumble and Argan oil. And I love TIGI smoothing Lusterizer – it has glitter in it and makes your hair smell like bubblegum.”
The 23-year-old star also admitted she is trying to use less make-up as she thinks she has overdone it in the past.
She told Now magazine: “My beauty resolution is to tone it down a bit. Sometimes I look at myself and think, ‘Woah there Jess.’ “
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Celebrity gossip, Celebrity Style
By Andrea Petrou on October 17th, 2011
Alexa Chung has a “terror room” of clothes.
The 27-year-old beauty spends much of her time working in the US, but back in her home in the UK she has a space so full of outfits she is scared to go near it.
She said: “‘Back in London, I had what I called a ‘terror room’. It was floor-to-floor with shipped boxes from the USA, still unpacked one year on, with clothes spilling out of them-basically, a mattress of clothes up to here. I’m worried that if it’s neatly arranged, I won’t be able to get dressed.”
However, it is not the only problem for the British star – who split with Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner earlier this year – she is also scared to take out the Mulberry bag named after her because she thinks it seems too showy.
She joked: “It just seems a bit much now, like, ‘Hey guys, guess what I’m carrying?’
Despite her clothing issues, she also has trouble with the paparazzi, especially when they catch her on a bad day.
She told Teen Vogue: “The annoying thing is that whenever I do spot a pap, I’m like, ‘Ugh! Today wasn’t a good day. Why didn’t you get me yesterday?’ “
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 17th, 2011
Elizabeth Hurley and Shane Warne are going to be engaged for “a while”.
The ‘Gossip Girl’ actress – who split from her first husband, textile heir Arun Nayar, last December, with their divorce completed in the summer – got engaged to the former cricketer earlier this month, but she admitted the pair are not going to rush into a wedding.
The 46-year-old star told You magazine: “It’s a very exciting time for me and Shane. We aren’t making any immediate plans to get married – we’re going to enjoy being engaged for a while.”
Elizabeth – who has a nine-year-old son, Damian, with former flame Steve Bing, while Shane has children Brooke, Summer and Jackson with his ex-wife Simone Callahan – said the 42-year-old sportsman makes her feel “happy” and she his glad her son gets along well with Shane’s kids.
She added: “We both want to spend more time with each other’s families, and Damian and I are looking forward to visiting Australia together in the near future.
“Shane makes me happy. We have a lot of fun together, we laugh a lot and that’s very important to me. I couldn’t put up with the ‘serious’ for too long.”
“My family and my new family with Shane and his kids are what’s important. His children are really beautiful, sweet and affectionate. They get on brilliantly with Damian, and as an only child, it’s great for him to have them around when they come to stay.
“I love having a lot of people in the house – the more the merrier.”
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 13th, 2011
Cheryl Cole is considering buying a $5.5million Los Angeles mansion.
The Girls Aloud singer was spotted viewing the six bedroom, four bathroom 6,000 sq ft luxury home overlooking Beverly Hills “in the dark of the night” with her assistant and a real estate agent, according to MailOnline.
The three-storey home features several balconies which will allow the ‘Promise This’ singer to enjoy the stunning views of the city, a swimming pool, a large games room and multiple dining areas.
It is thought Cheryl is planning to trade up after splashing out on a $3.5 million luxury apartment in Beverly Hills in March.
The property, which is part of the 42-storey Century building, has four acres of private gardens, boasts an in-built cinema, private 74ft pool, wine cellar and is protected by 24-hour security.
The palatial building overlooks the infamous Avenue of the Stars in one of the most prestigious addresses in Hollywood was originally part of a five star hotel.
A local estate agent said: “Cheryl has great taste. She is moving into the most prestigious address in the whole of Los Angeles.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow says a good night’s sleep is essential to looking good.
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