Scottish rockers BIFFY CLYRO were on their best behaviour at the Mercury Prize ceremony on Tuesday (07Sep10) – because they had an important meeting to obtain American visas the following morning. The band had hoped to scoop the coveted prize at the London event, where their album Only Revolutions was nominated for the top honour. [...]
Singer ROBBIE WILLIAMS is reportedly planning to splash out on a new mansion in Britain ahead of his TAKE THAT comeback. The British pop star is set to purchase a $7.5 million (£5 million) Tudor property in Tunbridge Wells, England, to keep as his base while he tours with the boy band that made him [...]
Rockers THE XX are to build a recording studio with the cash they won as the 2010 Mercury Prize winners. The trio scored the $30,000 (£20,000) windfall as a result of winning the best British album honour for their eponymous debut on Tuesday (07Sep10), and singer Romy Madley Croft insists she and her bandmates plan [...]
BEE GEES star ROBIN GIBB has defended plans for a London memorial to British bomber crews after a top German politician declared the tribute insensitive. The singer wants to honour the airmen who gave their lives in World War II with a statue in the British capital’s Green Park to mark the 70th anniversary of [...]
Tragic ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA star MIKE EDWARDS had recently triumphed over cancer before he was killed in a freak accident with a bale of hay on Friday (03Sep10). The 62-year-old cellist died instantly after a 1,320-pound (600-kilogram) bale fell onto his van as he was driving through Devon, England. And friends insist the accident was [...]
TOM CRUISE keeps the romance alive in his five-year marriage to actress KATIE HOLMES by showering his wife with flowers. The Batman Begins star admits her thoughtful husband never fails when it comes to brightening her day with blooms. She tells Parade.com, “My husband has red roses for me everywhere I go and whenever we [...]
JANE FONDA is to reveal all about her recent cosmetic surgery makeover in a new book about aging. The actress and feminist insists she has nothing to hide after initially agonising over her decision to go under the knife to look younger, and she hopes to be able to justify her actions in a new [...]
NATALIE PORTMAN has been offered the chance to replace ANGELINA JOLIE in space survival movie GRAVITY alongside ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. The Tomb Raider star recently pulled out of the upcoming $80 million (£53 million) 3D movie and reports suggest producers are now eyeing Portman after previously considering Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson for the coveted [...]
LEONARD COHEN has been added to the big names headlining the Colosseum in Las Vegas which was built for CELINE DION. Cher, Bette Midler and Elton John have all performed multiple dates at the Caesar’s Palace venue, and now Cohen will perform two pre-Christmas (10) there in December. The two shows will be Cohen’s last [...]
The ROLLING STONES are in talks to stage a 50th anniversary tour in 2011, according to drummer CHARLIE WATTS. The rocker, who will turn 70 next year (11), admits the supergroup can no longer afford to make distant plans, and so they’re talking about an extensive, perhaps final, world trek sooner rather than later. Watts [...]
Outspoken rocker MORRISSEY is at the centre of another racism controversy following remarks he made about the Chinese in a recent interview. The former The Smiths star called the Chinese a “subspecies” in a recent interview with Britain’s Guardian Weekend magazine, as he attempted to put his feelings about the country’s animal rights atrocities into [...]
A woman alleging she is MICHAEL JACKSON’s illegitimate love child has had her legal bid to lay claim to the King of Pop’s fortune shot down by a Los Angeles judge. Mocienne Petit Jackson, who lives in the Netherlands, filed court papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court in July (10), asking a judge for [...]
JOHN LENNON’s killer MARK DAVID CHAPMAN has been denied parole for the sixth time. The murderer, who gunned down the former Beatles star outside his home in New York in 1980, has been eligible for parole since 2000. He’s scheduled to appear before the parole board again in 2012. Chapman, 55, was convicted of murdering [...]
JUNO star OLIVIA THIRLBY has signed on to play JUDGE DREDD’s sidekick in a new movie adaptation of the comic book story. The actress will play Judge Cassandra Anderson, a telepathic detective who shadows the larger-than-life anti-hero, when the movie returns the the big screen in 2012. Star Trek star Karl Urban will take on [...]
Former supermodel TYRA BANKS’ hit reality TV show AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL has been given a big boost by the world’s most revered fashion bible – Italian Vogue. The programme bosses have snagged the publication’s editor, Franca Sozzani, as a judge for its upcoming season – and the winning wannabe will be featured in a [...]
British director CLIVE DONNER has died at the age of 84. The filmmaker, who helped kickstart the careers of actors including Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Bates, passed away in his native London. Donner began his career as a teenager at Pinewood Studios and later made a name for himself as a director with 1960s [...]
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of THE EXORCIST is suing Warner Brothers bosses amid allegations of unpaid profits. Author William Peter Blatty, who wrote the book the 1973 horror film was based on, claims studio executives have refused to allow him access to inspect their accounting books to determine the movie’s total gross. Their actions have prompted [...]
The man convicted of stealing KIRSTEN DUNST’s $2,000 (£1,330) designer purse from a New York hotel room in 2007 has been jailed for four years. James Jimenez was accused of raiding the Spider-Man star’s suite at the SoHo Grand Hotel in Manhattan while the actress was filming How to Lose Friends and Alienate People with [...]
Rocker TOMMY LEE’s eldest son is becoming a hellraiser just like dad – his recent 14th birthday party was shut down by the police. Lee and Pamela Anderson’s teenager Brandon asked his dad to help him organise a rave for his birthday in June (10). The Motley Crue star tells TV show Extra, “Brandon just [...]
Animal activists have taken aim at LADY GAGA for posing in nothing but raw meat for a fashion magazine cover. The pop star posed in a ‘bikini’ made entirely of slabs of red meat for the cover of Japan’s Hommes Vogue – and campaigners at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have been [...]
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