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Nicole Kidman is in love but not happy

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Aren't they happy? Keith Urband and Nicole Kidman

The press purportedly called former Mrs. Cruise boring. Mainly because she doesn’t propagate reports of insanity unlike the young celebrities of today where being outrageous is the norm. Nicole Kidman is always this prim and proper and professional actress we know all along.

She doesn’t engage in wild sex, you don’t catch her in parties without her knickers on, or she doesn’t open her mouth full of b–s–t. Instead what we see is a reluctant diva adorned in designer clothes standing all by herself.

Maybe a part of its is because she isn’t American? Unlike her ex-husband Tom, whose fascination with himself is tremendous, Nic’s marriage to fellow Aussie Keith Urban, though gossiped and revered, wasn’t as big as the wedding’s of Tom and Katie Holmes.

Though Keith’s drug and womanising problems almost tore them apart, Nic stands by him and hopes that love will lead their way. After 90 days of being married in June, the country singer immediately went to rehab on the behest of his missus.

In a recent interview conducted by US Magazine via Daily Mail, she admitted that she is yearning to be a mother. And that her relationship isn’t always that happy. Or so it seems.

Love isn’t a guarantee that they will last long. When asked that they always appear together:

“You never know where something’s going. My husband and I are committed to each other and deeply in love. That’s how I would put it. We are working on staying in that place and hopefully we will for the rest of our lives.”

She also added that she doesn’t have to broadcast that they are having problems as it isn’t the public’s business to find out.

Her recent Vanity Fair interview, which angered Tom, also revealed her innermost thoughts, concerning her marriage with Tom and that she had a miscarriage. At 40, Nicole aches to have her own children.

“I’m yearning to have one. I think I would be very sad if I wasn’t able to have a baby. Keith knows I want one, and he has been getting there slowly. My husband really wants a couple of years, he said, ‘Where I just have you.’ So it’s kind of romantic. That’s what we decided.”

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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony: Partners forever?

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Success! Marc and Jennifer

There’s nothing like a good partnership. Either personal or professional. Look at Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. They are doing it together!

I won’t judge the music they make but the two are having a good time despite rumours and controversies that Marc is just riding on his wife’s popularity. Perhaps La Lopez has found the man of her life. Perhaps, their two egos, err careers, have found the way to complement each other. They have been together for three years and JLo is still content on his side. Compared to her two previous husbands, who have become tragic characters, this partnership will go on for the longest time.

Yesterday, the couple did a concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden in front of raving salsa and pop fans to their delight. Dubbed “Juntos en Concierto” (Together in Concert), the couple wowed the audience also last Friday at Verizon.

The choreography was done all the same inspired by their biopic “El Cantante” where Marc played as the troubled salsa legend Hector Lavoe, and Jennifer as his wife Puchi. The film was released last summer.

La Lopez had several wardrobe changes. Critics also noticed her careful dance steps.

Marc, on the other hand with his chest opened for the audience to see, appeared in a smoke-filled extravaganza. Jennifer’s choice of robes might severely baffle the public with news of pregnancy, overweight and all. Her gold lame empire dress cut on the thighs would fuel more speculation of her being a mother-to-be.

Still, La Lopez never confirms nor denies it. In fact, why should she when it isn’t our darn business, right? Only her husband, through his publicist, dismissed the baby rumour.

JLo might have learned her lessons well. The couple bears an average interest of public attention unlike when the actress/pop singer was still with actor Ben Affleck, who recently admitted that his relationship with the diva was a bad career step. She might be more careful now, has gone more mature. Most of all, she keeps her life with Marc really free from prying eyes.

“You don’t have to go where everybody goes; there are a million other places that are great. From the day Marc and I met we’ve always had amazing chemistry, but the timing has to be right. We established early on that our relationship was not for public consumption. When we’re out there, it’s ’cause it’s part of our work, but you won’t catch us hanging out at some random place with paparazzi following us ’cause we don’t let them. And we have such a tight circle of friends, we don’t have people calling the photographers saying, ‘Marc and Jennifer are coming here.’ “

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in New York

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Angi_and_Brad_in_New_YorkOkay, okay. So not another post of the famous Hollywood couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

The two were spotted on the streets of Manhattan, New York, last Thursday. Young Maddox’s school, the exclusive Lycee Francais, is just located there. This time the actress was wearing all black and beige ballerinas compared to her beau’s grey outfit.

Despite ugly reports that they are going separate ways, the two simply manage to appear very much together. In one photograph Brad showed how gentleman he is by opening the door for his love.

They might not hold hands in front of the paparazzi’s expensive cameras but can you tell me is this the picture of a troubled couple?

Recently, Angie told Cosmopolitan (via Entertainmentwise) that she only had sex with four men and married the two of them. Still, doubting Thomases couldn’t believe that the actress is telling the truth. She is often portrayed as a sex bomb, a man eater, who can break your heart whether you are a man or a woman.

We know the chapter between her and ex-lover Jenny Shimizu, who is very sure that her attachment to Brad is just a facade and that in the end she would return to her old wild ways.

Enter Bai Ling.

Bai Ling hopes to sleep with Angie..and perhaps Brad

Angie’s latest admirer is the Chinese-American actress, whose first American film was the cult favourite “The Crow” with the late actor Brandon Lee as the avenging angel.

The naturalised American, who admitted in interview that she has had also affairs with women, said that she and Angelina had a “spark” when they worked together in two movies, “Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow” in 2004 and the documentary “A Place In Time.”

“I felt this energy between us, when we look at each other there’s an energy, an attraction. Her eyes transfer a sexual energy to me that makes her irresistible.”

She also mentioned that Angelina felt the same connection too.

“Angelina said, ‘Next time we’ll play lovers.’ We could have hooked up, but it just wasn’t the right time or place. But she told me, ‘My heart’s open to you.’ She is like me. She is totally open sexually.”

And now that the Angie and Brad have gotten together, she was also hoping to bed Brad together with Angie.

“I’ve always thought Brad was the sexiest man on the planet. So now that Brad and Angelina are together, now maybe I could experience both at the same time!”

Menage a trois! Way to go Bai!

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Gwen Stefani’s world is doing fine

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Gwen Stefani and Gavin RossdaleFormer No Doubt singer and fashion icon Gwen Stefani is optimistic. Life is good. Career is doing wonderful. Family is stable. Apart from her new L.A.M.B. collection, which she launched last month during the New York Fashion Week, she is doing concerts to support her latest album, “The Sweet Escape.”

Gwen is about to take over the Viennese stage on October 17 in Stadthalle and she sat down with the staff of Woman, a Viennese fashion/style women’s magazine, talking about her newfound fame, her inspiration, her family. Most of all, she gushed about her wonderful son Kingston James and why the partnership between her and husband Gavin Rossdale isn’t perfect like other couples.

In the interview she also mentioned that her role model has come all the way from Austria, the Viennese nun who became the governess of the legendary singing Von Trapp family from Salzburg, Maria von Trapp.

“Every time I wouldn’t know what to do or when to start, I would always listen to ‘The Sound of Music.’ They told me: Follow your dreams, look forward, and trust yourself!”

She also confessed that she dreamt of having babies when she was a teenager and was praying that ex-boyfriend Tony Kanal would hear her wishes. Sadly, it didn’t happen as Tony needed his space and she ended up brokenhearted.

And that during the trying times when they discovered that Gavin was the father of Daisy Lowe, the two were separated for a little while.

When asked if she gets to miss Gavin while she is on tour, hearing each other’s voice is the most important thing. She is confident that he readily understands the demands of being a musician.

“We see each other now and then. Calling each other often is very important. Gavin knows the touring lifestyle and he finds the right words whenever I am powerless and depressed from having concerts.”

But she quickly asserted that son Kingston relieves her of woes.

“Then I cuddle with Kingston a bit and look what is he up to, how he laughs over simple things and learn his new discoveries, the bad mood suddenly disappears.”

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Does Luciano Pavarotti’s family fighting over his money?

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Luciano Pavarotti and Nicoletta Mantovani

It was sad to hear that the Maestro died at the age of 71.

When Luciano Pavarotti visited the Philippines to perform in the 1990s, the authorities installed a large screen outside of the Folk Arts Theater so those who couldn’t afford to pay would be able to see him and be awed by his voice, his ability to hit the high C, in which he was popular of. It is known that not every professional tenor singer can do it.

It was a nice evening. People of all walks of life congregated and the outside premises were full. His way of making it into the pop culture was admirable. He showed that classical music isn’t at confined to upper echelon of the society, in which everyone could enjoy and relish.

Not only he performed well, he was also seen with pop singers and was even friends with the deceased Princess of Wales, Lady Diana. Most of all, his founded his yearly Pavarotti and Friends to raise money for humanitarian cause.

His own website is reduced to a black and white border with the quote saying in English and Italian: “I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to.”

Now that he is dead, it is unfortunate that we hear stories such as the controversy within his family.

It was reported that as his health deteriorated his relationship with his second wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, 37, also did.

She was Luciano’s producer. They have lived together since 1996 and was married on December 13, 2003, at a ceremony in Northern Italy.

Though the opera star’s dietologist, Professor Andrea Strata, mentioned that it was nothing but a usual husband-wife argument.

“It’s all very sad… he isn’t even cold in his tomb yet and now all this is coming out. I don’t want to say too much, but let’s just say that with every husband and wife there are always things going on and Nicoletta and Pavarotti were no different from any other couple.”

He was close to Pavarotti. While his wife, Franca, revealed that Nicoletta was in frantic when she found out the missing papers for their properties in New York. It happened a month ago when the opera star was taken to the hospital and the seriousness of his pancreatic cancer became obvious.

There were reports that he also changed his will favouring his daughters from his first wife, Adua Veroni. They lived together for more nearly 40 years.

Luciano’s daughters–Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana–however, were upset over the rumour that they are fighting over their father’s 250-million pounds of property fuelled by Italian and British new agencies. Cristina read a prepared statement over the Italian state yesterday.

“We know that in Italy, as elsewhere, false news and idle inferences that involve us are coming out. This is causing us bitterness.”

Luciano also has a daughter with Nicoletta, the four-year-old Alice.

For a million-selling star like the opera star, the question is: Are they only in it for the money?

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Spiderman took the plunge

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer are marriedTobey Maguire married his longtime love Jennifer Meyer, who is also the mother of his 10-month old daughter Ruby Sweetheart.

The couple went to Kona, Hawaii to tie the knot for a sunset ceremony on Monday. Only a small group of family and friends, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Lukas Haas, witnessed their exchange of vows.

The pair first met in 2003 while Tobey was shooting the movie “Seabiscuit” at Universal Studios. The actor and Jennifer, an accomplished jewelry maker and the daughter of Vivendi Universal Entertainment CEO Ron Meyer, became engaged in April 2006. Her collection has been worn by noted actresses such as Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, among others.

Tobey admitted that being a father has made a difference to his life surrounded with the superficiality of Hollywood:

“I’m at that stage where I have to start thinking about where I want Ruby to grow up and go to school … Even though L.A. is pretty laid-back, maybe it would be a good idea to try a different, less ambitious kind of atmosphere.”

Whatever it is, it seems that Tobey has found the magic of having his own family.

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Why Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts hate the pesky paparazzi

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Get this: Actor Liev Schreiber didn’t enter show business just so to be famous who enjoys being snapped by paparazzi like the wanton Paris Hilton or the Beckhams. One could trace the thespian’s aggressive and forthcoming action toward the curious press people who tried to invade his and his little family’s privacy.

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber buckling up their son

First, there was the complete denial of Naomi Watts’ pregnancy if not for the actress’ sponsored gown’s press release that erroneously gave away her condition.

Second, Liev’s “unwillingness” to confirm this via an American TV show. Third, Liev who tried to goof around with the press by making false announcements of their supposed-to-be wedding. Lastly, their trouble with the overeager photographers escalated all because they wanted to snap a picture of the couple’s three-week-old son, Alexander.

Naomi Watts' Baby Alexander

On Sunday, this actually happened. The couple was in Malibu, eating out, and afterward hitting the beach courtesy of the party hosted by John Favreau.

It was claimed that Liev went berserk when the photogs took a much closer look on his family. TMZ caught the actor losing his temper full with unsavoury words towards the paparazzi even pushing one of them away.

A limping Schreiber was carrying the couple’s three-week-old son into Greek restaurant Taverna Tony’s when he placed the baby carrier down when one snapper got too close.
Turning round to confront the photographer, Schreiber shouted, “You f**king disgust me. It’s a f**king child and I have one f**king foot.”
After they finished their meal they were again surrounded by the paparazzi, forcing Watts to protest “Are you out of your mind?” as she tried to make way for Schreiber to place their baby in a waiting car.

You’d think the photographers would leave them alone after the earlier fracas. No way! A witness claimed that one of the photographers even taunted the “Scream” actor.

When it comes to respect and courtesy the paparazzi definitely don’t have any of these two traits. There are actors who will resort to anything just to be the talk of the town. Naomi and Liev, I am afraid, don’t belong into this caliber.

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The King and Queen of Pain

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Sting and Trudie after the Police show

Okay, so the members of the Police have reunited. Do we wonder why Trudie Styler, the missus of Sting, and the King of Pain himself are always seen everywhere? Simply put the seminal band is touring right now. Do they deserve the attention they are getting? At least, yes. The two have been together for more than two decades.

Here is the couple taking a break from their dinner date after the Police’s performance at the Blue Door at Delano in Miami Beach, Florida.

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Weekend Celeb Couple Sightings

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Aside from Eva Longoria and Tony Parker who took advantage of the magic numbers 07/07/07, many couples all over the world head to their churches or congregations to tie the knot.

Eva and Tony wedded

Eva Longoria and Tony Parker made it official. Before the big day, the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë officiated the couple’s civil wedding. Eva was seen wearing a Chanel pink minidress with black trim outside before she changed it to a white dress once she was inside the building.

According to USA Today:

The ceremony was in French and English, and in a twist, Parker said his vows in English, while Longoria spoke hers in French, OK! says on its website. But she broke into giggles when she struggled to pronounce poverty in French: pauvreté.

The extravagance of the couple’s wedding went beyond the gifts for the female guests receiving an 18K-yellow gold bracelets from Van Cleef & Arpels’ Sweet Alhambra range, with a miniature mother-of-pearl clover charm, and a custom shade of L’Oreal Paris lipstick called Pink Romance. While Eva’s bridesmaids got Rafe Swarovski snakeskin clutches that is worth $395 each to match their robes. Whoa!

Guests include Eva’s costars in “Desperate Housewives” Felicity Huffman and husband William Macy, Teri Hatcher and daughter Emerson Rose, Victoria Beckham, any many more.

The Police, Sting and Trudie with the Gores
Members of the Police, Sting’s wife Trudie Styler attended the brunch hosted by Al and Tipper Gore in their home in New York last weekend. Yes, you don’t believe it but Al Gore’s wife, Tipper, got to hobnob with some of the musicians whose albums she and her group, Parents Music Resource Center, have censored. Yes again, she is one of the four women who was reponsible of introducing the Parental Advisory sticker, also known as the Tipper sticker. Can’t you believe this is one of the many reasons the recent Live Earth concert is a phony?

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Couple of the Week: Fiona Swarovski and Karl-Heinz Grasser

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Karl-Heinz Grasser and Fiona SwarovskiSurely, the circuslike atmosphere of show business has become synonymous with the way politics work.

Look what it did to Fiona Swarovski, the heiress of the famous Swarovski luxury crystal from Austria, and the Austrian ex-politician Karl-Heinz Grasser. The couple has been making the headlines–notably they are a favourite item in Austria and the rest of Europe–ever since they were caught intimately kissing in Paris Airport. The curious crowd slowly and passionately followed their story. Come to think of it. The 38-year-old former finance minister was then engaged with a lovely yet middle-class Argentinean Natalia Corrales Diez, whose family members were former asylum seekers in Austria. Before that their personal vacation in Maledives became a controversy as the public realised that their flight was upgraded to business class owing to KHG’s high position to the government.

His critics called him a political entertainer and an opportunist, even citing that he was incompetent. Mainly due to his botched tax policy to reduce the country’s debts while using his clout to further his interest. There’s also his private antics that have become the target of the paparazzi and his haters. For a while the Austrian public found him charm irresistible. He used to belong in the far-right political party, the dreaded Freedom Party with its Nazi connection and racist leanings. The common people and the young generation saw his persona as the hope to revive the sleeping economy of the country. The economy sector pictured him as a neoliberal. Young, handsome, intelligent and very clever, most of all, he is very educated. His endless hobnobbing with the elite brought him to the society columns that has become his rise and downfall.

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Antonio Banderas is a proud dad

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Antonio Banderas and Melanie GriffithAntonio Banderas, who has been married for more than a decade to Melanie Griffith, educates their children that “the world is not Hollywood.”

“I don’t give them whatever they ask for. They have to earn it. I tell the kids the world is not Hollywood. I’ve taken them to Mexico and Argentina when I’ve been making movies there so they could see how kids in different countries live. They’ve seen the shanty towns. I don’t want them to think that the world is just full of beautiful cars and houses and everything you want.”

The Spanish actor is father to Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith, 10, his child with Melanie and stepfather to her two other children Dakota Mayi Johnson, 17, (from her first and third husband Don Johnson) and Alexander, 21 (from actor and second husband Steven Bauer).

He is proud to say that his style of parenting is paying off with daughter Stella. Though I am not sure about Melanie’s infuence on her rumoured fascination to go for beauty surgery, which one time angered her husband, who is three years younger than the actress.

“My little baby, Stella, is a straight A-plus student. I don’t know where she came from because I wasn’t like that at all and neither was her mother.”

Antonio and Melanie met in 1995 during the shooting of “Too Much,” a story of a con man/galerist who fell in love with two sisters and pretended that he had another twin to be with them. Year after that Melanie divorced her third and first husband Don of “Miami Vice” fame.

Melanie’s famous mom Tippi Hedren also married four times.

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Who has the last laugh?

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

geri-halliwell.jpgBlame girl power. But Geri Halliwell is feeling for co-Spice Girl Melanie Brown. The ecstatic Geri after declaring victory against pricks like Eddie Murphy, who was proven to be the father of Melanie’s child, Angel Iris, last week, bought bandmate Melanie, a.k.a Scary Spice, a £7,000 necklace to celebrate the DNA testing.

An unnamed source close to Geri said:

“Being a mother herself, Geri really felt for Mel during her ordeal and designed a special diamond and white gold necklace as soon as she heard the good news.”

Perhaps, it must be Melanie’s conviction that she was telling the truth. Mother’s instict? The heavens smiled on her after finding out the result. In the past Eddie kept on denying that the singer’s baby was not his but someone else’s.

The results of the DNA test, which Murphy took on June 11, were received by Brown on Thursday afternoon, says rep Liza Anderson.
“He’s the baby’s father, it’s official,” says a source close to Brown. “The baby is undoubtedly, 110 percent his.”

If you still remember Mel was dumped by Eddie while she was pregnant declaring on Dutch TV expressing his doubts on the child’s paternity.Now Mel B expressed her relief.

A source said:

“Mel is now looking forward to moving on with her life with her new baby. There was no doubt in people’s minds anyways, least of all hers. It wasn’t a surprise to her. She knew all along.”

However, Eddie hasn’t commented on the test and is not even responding to Mel B’s people concerning support et al. The Spice Girls are preparing for a comeback this year.

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The Hiltons: Parents’ turmoil

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Kathy and Ricky HiltonEveryone knows the “suffering,” of socialite and now prisoner Paris Hilton. A double meaning depending on the pro-Paris and anti-Paris camps.

But what do we know about her parents, Kathy Richards and Richard Hilton, who before Paris and her sister Nicky already hogging the limelight, and are celebrities in their own accord?

Kathy isn’t only Paris and Nicky’s mom but also mother to brothers Baron and Conrad, but she was a former actress as well. Okay, she tried acting but it didn’t work out. Unlike her more or less successful sisters Kim and Kyle, she was a better socialite. Perhaps, if she were chosen to replace Eve Plumb as Jan Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” her fate would have been different. The role went to Geri Reischl. Sister Kim was dubbed to be an adorable and a promising child actress in the ’70s.

It wasn’t known when and where did Kathy and Ricky meet but you could probably guess how.

On November 24, 1979, at the age of 19, she married the heir of the Hilton chain of hotels, Richard, or Ricky as we know him. It is somewhat a tradition in the Hilton family, that is, the Hilton men marry rising stars for their own (and perhaps, their business’) benefit. Richard’s grandfather, Conrad Hilton married Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1942. His uncle, Conrad Hilton Jr., married the young Elizabeth Taylor. Of all the unions with actresses, Ricky’s marriage has proven to be the longest. Maybe because Kathy semi-retired to concentrate more on the family. Come to think of it, she enjoys her wealth while doing nothing, I mean, not acting.

Right now, she is the star of the show, “I Want to Be a Hilton” and her husband the producer. I haven’t seen it yet but it seems to be another boring reality show that even the owners find the whole thing sucks.

The Hiltons are hardly the parental types that we also know. Feature articles, gossips and scandals spawn a straightforward description of Kathy and Richard. Kathy, a self-absorbed mother who refuses to take up her maternal role. Ricky, the forever silent father whose only concern is to make money.

Kathy has been blamed for the way she has brought up their two girls. The sisters appear to the public as these forever spoiled brats thinking they can do whatever they want. This is what happens when the mother has an unfulfilled wish for herself: To be a celebrity. (Don’t forget that she is an autograph-crazy as well, she continually uses her status to be photographed next to the celebrities like Andy Warhol, and the like. The photos hanging on the walls of their mansion in Bel-Air.)

We have witnessed how she encouraged her girls to attend parties before they were barely 16, spend their money like they pee, etc., etc…

You’ve never heard anything from Papa Hilton, asserting that he too has an upper hand on their daughters’ upbringing. Instead he remains quiet while his wife do the maneuverings.

The reason Paris and Nicky turned out like this was their mother’s doing, who pressured her daughters to enter show business as the children won’t inherit anything from the Hilton fortune. Owing to the fact that their Paris’ religious great-grandfather, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, gave most of his fortune away to the Hilton Foundation and other charities. When he died he left nothing to his children. This is according to his autobiography, “Be My Guest,” which by the way is included along with the Gideon’s Bible in all of of Hilton Hotel rooms worldwide.

An entry to the Wikipedia states:

When Barron’s father died in 1979, he left the bulk of his estate to the Roman Catholic Church and other charities, and almost nothing to his children. Barron contested the will because of his lifelong career of working to build the hotel company and won his lawsuit in 1988. His half-sister, Francesca, lost her case though and received nothing.

In 2005, Newsweek interviewed the family. Kathy admitted she didn’t like it when Paris’ sex tape leaked and became a controversy.

“Well, that was very painful. Very painful. But it taught me that I really can’t trust everybody.”

Which seems to be bollocks because behind the scene, it turned out that Paris’ parents were so proud of it they even released it on DVD without asking their daughters’ permission.

Biographer Jerry Oppenheimer claims that while researching his book ‘House of Hilton’ he had found that the hotel heiress’ parents, Rick and Kathy, were not fazed when ‘One Night In Paris’ was leaked onto the internet, and eventually released as a DVD, without her permission.
“I have family sources telling me that Rick and Kathy Hilton are proud of everything Paris has done, including the X-rated video that launched her to this international stardom, infamy and fame,” Celebrag.com quoted Oppenheimer, as telling New York Daily News.
“It is a bizarre family. Behind the scenes her parents were not opposed to the video because that totally launched her,” he added.

When actress Jamie Lee Curtis made a stunning analysis on what happened to Paris and co., she asked what did their mothers have done to their daughters. So what do Kathy, Dina Lohan and Lynne Spears have in common? Simply, they push their daughters to reach the limits of stardom without giving them a time to pause, acting as their friends instead of a mother. I guess, she knows what she is talking about. Her own parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, are products of Hollywood.

Can we take the wrenching sight of Paris asking her mother, “why?” and ask it of ourselves?
My analyst told me this: “Children are paparazzi. They take your picture mentally when you don’t want them to, when you don’t look good, and show it back to you in their behavior.”

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The secret of Sting and Trudie’s marital success

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Sting and Trudie Styler still having sex all through these yearsSex, drugs and rock and roll.

Clearly, Sting and Trudie have almost everything in common. And it isn’t any wonder if the rock star left his former wife, the Irish actress Frances Tomelty, for Trudie because Trudie understands his needs.

So, yeah, everyone hold your breath, Sting’s wife missus recently admitted to Howard Stern via Österreich, the infamous US radio jock, that she enjoys watching her hubby getting on with other women and doesn’t have any problem if Sting longs for group sex activities.

“I am not jealous. He goes into these clubs, where everybody is naked. While I relax there and talk with the people.”

I didn’t have any idea that rock star Sting is a famous proponent of tantric sex. Four years after releasing his memoirs, he admitted to Guardian that tantric sex is about “a journey”, not “fucking for eight hours”.

“I try to be lighthearted about it, but at the same time, there is some serious information about couples and how they can relate and sex is only a tiny proportion of it. It’s about ritualising a period of the day with your partner; it can be looking at each other, touching each other, running a bath, a massage, deeper levels of connection. Sex is only the surface. Once you really connect, telling the truth, talking, all of that. Tantra is much too complex for me to discuss. But it’s about reconnecting with the world of the spirit through everyday things. My church happens to be the person I live with. She is my connection to the sacred. I don’t know how that’s going to look in print.”

Millions of radio listeners listened to Mrs. Sting relating how her husband had invited women for a threesome. Not only that, he is also a regular visitor of German swingers’ clubs “where all have sex with one another.”

Trudie, who has been sporting a thin frame of a body due to daily practice of yoga, said: “It is rock ‘n’ roll. But it isn’t who we are. I am a European. We can do everything here and clearly have more fun than the others.”

The couple has been happily married for 15 years.

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Hail, hail the royal births!

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Felipe announcing the birth of a new daughterAs we witness the aftermath of the breakup between Prince William and his would-be bride, Kate Middleton, the living royals of other houses are welcoming additional members.
It’s a baby girl for Spanish Princess Letizia.
The princess gave birth to her daughter on Sunday, April 29. Her husband, Prince Felipe de Bourbon, announced the event in front of the media people at the Ruber International Clinic, where the couple’s firstborn daughter Infanta Leonor was also born. The girl is named Infanta Sofía of Spain, or Sofía de Borbón y Ortiz in Spanish, after her paternal grandmother, Queen Sofía of Spain.
Felipe and Letizia before the birthShe is the third in line after her older sister and father. She was born at 5:28 p.m. in Madrid by means of a caesarean section, two days after Letizia’s due date, weighing 3.3 kg and was 50 cm long at birth.
The Spanish royal palace announced the news to journalists via text message, stating, “Her Royal Highness the princess of Asturias has given birth to a girl.”
It was also announced that her umbilical cord cells would be sent to a European private bank and to a Spanish public one for future prevention of diseases. The couple did the same practise with Princess Leonor’s cells, which were taken to a private centre in Arizona, which caused controversy in Spain.
Yesterday the Spanish queen and the Prince of Asturias were seen visiting Letizia waving at the photographers and onlookers in front of the Ruber clinic. (Pictures below)
The family of Mary and Frederik Meanwhile, Princess Mary of Denmark, who gave birth also to a girl on April 21 two weeks before her schedule, is experiencing heavy criticisms from her hometown Australia. Gala reported that her fellow Aussies are branding the princess a Rabenmutter, a bad mother, after deciding to put the young Christian to a public day-care center.

Australian children usually stay at home with their mothers. They go to the kindergarten, two to three days a week, when they reach the age of three years. Working women in Australia still fight against the prejudices when they choose their career over their families. In Denmark nobody can say anything against or accuse Mary, 35, and Frederik, 38, as bad parents. Little did the Australians know that it is normal in Scandinavian countries to bring the children aged 6 months in a kindergarten. In order to learn social interaction with other kids at an early age.

The yet unnamed PrincessThe controversy toned down a little after the announcement of the birth, still Mary is doubtful. The unnamed princess is scheduled to be christened on Sunday, July 1 at 11:30 a.m. in Fredensborg Palace Church, Fredensborg. The name of the newborn princess, who is third in line to the Danish thrown, is not expected to be revealed until her christening ceremony, in keeping with the region’s tradition.

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