I'm a Celebrity may be over, but the romance between Marc Bannerman and Cerys Matthews may well be about to begin.
The pair, who struck up a very cute and affectionate friendship in the jungle, are now facing up to the outside world as viewers wait to see if they will get together for real.
And Cerys, who is divorced with two children, told the News of the World that she has "found a soulmate" in ex-EastEnders star Marc.
"I'm in love with Marc and I think he feels the same. I'd like us to spend the rest of our lives together," she said.
Marc was also quoted by the Daily Mirror as cooing: "I hope to settle down and have children with the right woman. I think Cerys is that woman."
But while the pair seems to be falling head over heels for each other, Marc's early eviction from the jungle left him facing up to now ex-girlfriend Sarah Matravers, who reportedly moved out of their home and dumped him after his behaviour.
Meanwhile, winner Christopher Biggins commented on the relationship, telling the Sunday Mirror that he would love to be matron of honour if the two were to get married.
Via myparkmag.co.uk
Cerys Matthews says Marc Bannerman is her soulmate
lunes, 3 de diciembre de 2007 | Etiquetas: Cerys Matthews, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Marc Bannerman
Those are the words found on Jennifer Love Hewitt's blog after her bikini-clad body was photographed and criticized during a recent vacation in Hawaii with her fiancé, Ross McCall.
Several sites have posted Jen's bikini photos, claiming she's gained too much weight.
Well Jenn has decided to address the photos - and the disrespectful comments accompanying them.
"Like all women out there should, I love my body," Hewitt, 28, wrote on her blog after the unflattering photos surfaced. "I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family."
"I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized. To set the record straight, I'm not upset for me, but for all of the girls out there that are struggling with their body image."
Hewitt finishes with a few words of encouragement to other women struggling with their bodies.
"A size two is not fat! Nor will it ever be. And being a size zero doesn't make you beautiful. ... To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini - put it on and stay strong."
Unfortunately, Jennifer's not the only celebrity criticized for gaining weight.
Tyra Banks was also furious after tabloids published unrealistic photos of her in a bathing suit.
Via egossip.com
Gemma Atkinson: The hottest blokes on I'm A Celeb were the security guards
domingo, 2 de diciembre de 2007 | Etiquetas: Gemma Atkinson, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here
Lack of male celeb hunks forced her to eye up the security team
She may be dating footballer Marcus Bent, but that didn't stop Gemma Atkinson from eyeing up the off-screen talent on I'm A Celeb.
The actress, 23, reveals her sex drive rocketed during her stint in the jungle - so she scoured the jungle for testosterone.
'The best thing was the security guards!' says Gem. 'They were dressed in camouflage gear and had their faces painted so they could hide in the bush.
'They were not allowed to speak. They used to walk by with fingers on their lips going: “Shhh!”
Gemma confesses she resorted to drastic measures to feel their biceps.
'They were massive and I liked them!' she tells the Daily Star. 'I used to get lost so they would come to my rescue and I could have a good look at them. I also liked to smell them!'
But Gemma, who admits she didn't wash for three days straight, says she was never tempted to flirt with any of her campmates.
'I didn't feel sexy in there,' she says. 'I think it's because in the jungle everyone was so smelly. There was no one I wanted to have sex with.
Via nowmagazine.co.uk
Troubled singer Amy Winehouse's drug habit is taking such a bad toll on her health that it is causing her teeth to fall out.
She has already lost two teeth and is risking gum disease and other appalling side-effects as a result of her excessive drug use, experts warned last night.
Amy, 24, who cancelled her UK tour last week on medical advice, is seeing a doctor daily because of her poor health.
Sources close to the Back To Black singer, who has admitted to heroin addiction and once collapsed after a drugs overdose, said she was "falling apart mentally and physically" and has developed a nervous disposition which causes her to constantly pull at her teeth.
And they said she is "in pieces" over the remand of her husband Blake Fielder-Civil in Pentonville Prison on charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
"Amy is very upset about her teeth because they have literally been falling out," a source said last night.
"She has one missing from the front of her mouth, and another one at the back which is less visible.
"Her mouth is full of holes and she is desperately worried she is going to lose more. She has actually pulled a tooth out herself, which is absolutely disgusting." Amy was photographed following a recent gig in Brighton pulling at her teeth and covering her nose.
"She picks at them all the time," the source said.
"Her gums are always red and sore as a result of it and some of the teeth are loosening."
Just two weeks ago she was photographed in Blackpool with a suspicious-looking white powder up her nose.
"She picks at them all the time," the source said.
"Her gums are always red and sore as a result of it and some of the teeth are loosening."
Just two weeks ago she was photographed in Blackpool with a suspicious-looking white powder up her nose.
Via dailymail.com.uk
Sibling’s Sean and Sarah Smith have been bickering as tension rises on the ITV1 talent hit.
They rowed as Sean nagged Sarah to tidy her room, with Sarah snapping back: “If I didn’t spend all my time cooking, cleaning and washing for you, I’d have time to.”
He yelled: “You think you know it all, but you don’t.”
Elsewhere, love is in the air.
Hunky Leon Jackson and Emily Biggs, the blonde from girl group Hope, have been on TWO dinner dates this week.
Via thesun.co.uk
X FACTOR Scot Leon Jackson was shattered after closest friend Emily Biggs and her band Hope were booted off the show last night.
They had enjoyed intimate meals in the run up to last night's show.
A show insider said: "The relationship seems to be blossoming with them enjoying a few romantic dinners for two.
"They seem keen to spend any spare minute they can with each other."
Hope's X Factor mentor, Simon Cowell, told the girls: "The show won't be the same without you."
Emily, 17, has denied dating Leon, despite dumping boyfriend Louis Hill.
But Leon, 18, of Whitburn, West Lothian, has admitted having a crush on the Torquay-born singer, saying: "She is a lovely, lovely girl."
Meanwhile, Leon's former music teacher Stuart Hamilton revealed he was too shy to join Whitburn Academy's choir.
He added: "Leon only sang in physics class when the radio was on and his mates used to take the mickey."
Via sundaymail.co.uk
Biggins crowned king of the jungle
sábado, 1 de diciembre de 2007 | Etiquetas: Christopher Biggins, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here
Actor Christopher Biggins is celebrating being crowned "king of the jungle" after the public voted him the winner of this year's "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here" reality television show.
Flamboyant Biggins broke down in tears after learning he had clinched the title, beating off competition from runner-up Janice Dickinson, an American former supermodel, and Jason "J" Brown, former 5ive singer, placed third.
"It's been a wonderful, wonderful experience and I can't believe that I'm here, that I've done it," Biggins said after taking his place on the jungle throne.
"I've made wonderful friends and I've done wonderful things that I never thought I would do. Unbelievable fun, it was just the best."
He was later greeted by his partner Neil, who he wed in a civil partnership ceremony in London last year.
Dickinson likened being on the show to child-birth, saying: "This is the most difficult thing I've experienced."
The final, aired on British television on Friday night, followed a day in the Australian bush in which the three remaining contestants each had to endure a trial.
Biggins was given the "bushtucker bonanza" in which he ate a witchetty grub, crocodile's foot, three cockroaches, a kangaroo penis and a kangaroo testicle.
"I'm really a breast man," he joked while eating the penis.
Via reuters.com
Evel Knievel, the daredevil motorcycle stuntman who made sensational jumps over cars and double-decker buses in the 1970s and broke dozens of bones in even more sensational crashes, has died. He was 69.
Knievel had been in poor health for several years. He suffered from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung condition, the Associated Press said. He also had a liver transplant in 1999 after he almost died from hepatitis C, a disease that he likely got through a blood transfusion, the news service reported.
Evel Knievel was extreme long before the popularity of the ESPN's ``X Games'' competition. Starting in the 1960s, he went from jumping over pits of live rattlesnakes to leaping over buses and other obstacles. Dressed in a red, white and blue leather jumpsuit with a cape flowing in the air, his jumps attracted hundreds of spectators. As his popularity and fame grew and his stunts became more spectacular, the hundreds became thousands and millions watched on television.
``With America in the midst of the Vietnam War quagmire, the country was looking for a hero, and Knievel's heroic, death- defying feats and his popular messages to the world's youth, promoting abstention from drugs and a healthy lifestyle with positive mental attitude quickly transformed him into a national icon,'' the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum said in its tribute to the daredevil.
Famous Stunts
Knievel's most famous stunts included an attempted jump on a jet-powered ``Skycycle'' over the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on Sept. 8, 1974; the New Year's Day 1968 jump across fountains in front of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which left him in a coma for a month; and a jump over 13 double-decker buses at London's Wembley Stadium in 1975, when he broke his pelvis.
``I think about God a lot more than ever, though I used to ask him, `Help me make a good jump,''' he told USA Today earlier this year, as he breathed through oxygen tubes and a pump installed in his abdomen pushed morphine and synthetic heroin into his system.
``I'm awfully tough to get along with, but I'll tell you what: I am a good person,'' he said. ``I wish there was such a thing as reincarnation.''
Robert Craig Knievel Jr. was born on Oct. 17, 1938, in Butte, Montana, and raised by his grandparents from the age of 6. When he was 8, Knievel saw Joey Chitwood's Auto Daredevil Show, and he later credited it as the impetus for his career, according to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
First Crash
Knievel got his first motorcycle at the age of 13, and crashed it into a neighbor's garage. He began his professional daredevil career in 1965, forming a troupe called ``Evel Kievel's Motorcycle Daredevils,'' with him riding through walls of fire.
One of his early sponsors wanted him to use the name ``Evil.'' He decided on ``Evel'' because he didn't want an image of a bad person.
Knievel went from international popularity to obscurity, and then in the 1990s he returned to the limelight with TV commercials and TV specials retelling his life.
Knievel reached a settlement this week with Grammy Award- winning hip-hop singer Kanye West over a parody music video that Knievel claimed damaged his reputation and trademarks.
Details of the settlement weren't disclosed in a notice dismissing the case filed in federal court in Tampa, Florida. Both parties agreed in July to mediate an end to the dispute, triggered by West's February 2006 video for ``Touch the Sky.'' West's character in the video, ``Evel Kanyevel,'' crashes while trying to jump a canyon in a rocket.
Knievel's youngest son, Robbie, followed in his dad's daredevil stunts. The two were estranged for years until last summer.
``I'm the only one in the family who stood up to him,'' Robbie, 44, told USA Today.
Knievel's survivors include another son, Kelly, daughters Alicia and Tracey, 11 grandchildren and ex-wives Linda Knievel and Krystal Kennedy, the former Florida State golfer who was his caregiver and companion, according to USA Today.
Via bloomberg.com
Her latest flick was a flop, but sexy Reese Witherspoon has taken the crown as this year’s highest paid Hollywood actress, commanding $15 million to $20 million a picture.
Witherspoon, who was second to Nicole Kidman on last year’s list compiled by the Hollywood Reporter, edged out Angelina Jolie, who commands about the same salary. Jolie took considerably less for the animated "Beowulf," getting just $8 million - but it was for just five weeks of work.
Cameron Diaz was third, with a $15-million-per-movie price tag. Kidman dropped to fourth place, with an asking price of $10 million to $15 million a film.
Renee Zellweger, Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts also get $10 million to $15 million paychecks, even though Roberts hasn’t appeared onscreen since 2004’s "Ocean’s Twelve." Her next film, "Charlie Wilson’s War," hits theaters in January.
Drew Barrymore and Jodie Foster, who ask $10 million to $12 million a project are numbers eight and nine, with Halle Berry in the 10 slot, asking $10 million a picture.
The full salary list appears in The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment: Power 100" issue, on newsstands Tuesday.
Via nydailynews.com
Miss China Zi Lin Zhang was crowned Miss World 2007 at a glittering event at the Chinese tourist resort of Sanya Saturday, beating 106 participants. India's Sarah-Jane Dias failed to make it to the semi-finals.
Miss Angola Micaela Reis, 18, was the first runner up while 19-year-old Carolina Mor n from Mexico was the second runner up at the gala Saturday night held in the Crown of Beauty Theater at Sanya in Hainan province.
Zhang was crowned by last year's Miss World, Tatana Kucharova, from the Czech Republic, after Julia Morley, chairperson of the Miss World Organisation and of the international panel of judges, announced her name as the winner.
Valene Maharaj of Trinidad and Tobago and Annie Oliv of Sweden were the other two in the last five at the pageant, the second largest edition after Miss World 2003.
The delegates reached Sanya on November 2 and visited a number of popular spots in China.
In the fast track awards, Zhang was the Miss World Top Model, Miss Dominican Republic Ada Aim e de la Cruz the Miss World Beach Beauty, Miss United States Abigail McCary the Miss World Sports and Miss Ghana Irene Dwomoh the Miss World Talent.
The Beauty With A Purpose title was won jointly by Miss Ecuador Valeska Saab and Miss Hong Kong Kayi Cheung.
Unlike 2005 and 2006 editions, this year's event did not have continental zones in the selection of the semi-finalists.
The event, hosted by Chinese TV presenter Angela Chow and Latin American celebrity Fernando Allende, also witnessed some high voltage and touching dance performances.
One of the highlights was Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, introducing his grandfather's televised message on World Aids Day. It was followed by children from South Africa and a local school and all the contestants joining in singing the World Aids Day song.
Via ndtv.com
