Don't you love it when even the "celebrities" don't know who each other are? The brilliant thing this series is no one knows who anyone is. Mind you it's no indicator of stardom - even showbiz legends like Michael Barrymore can be hard for the youth of today to recognise (didn't Chantelle think he was Tom Hanks or something?) When Katie arrived at Brat Camp (Snake Rock, do try to keep up), Lynne quietly ID'd her for Janice: “She was in The Apprentice…she was highly competitive.”
Other stuff you missed, or saw, included the Rock gang forfeiting their dinner as punishment for breaking into the chest and eating chocolate biscuits. Lynne suggested that they should share the four meals, but Gemma ever-dlplomatic pointed out: “We knew that would backfire when we did it.”
Then Janice, who I'm liking more and more with each passing minute, said, “I didn’t know. Okay, if the games are going to begin, I’m taking off my mic in a moratorium." The games? In a moratorium?!! Man, it's like Saw IV. Except harder to watch.
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I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here: Katie parachutes in
miércoles, 14 de noviembre de 2007 | Etiquetas: I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here
Silicon Valley's richest bachelor is getting married next month.
Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page, whose stake in the Internet search leader is worth about $20 billion, and Lucy Southworth are tying the knot in a ceremony scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8, according to a report published Tuesday in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Page, 34, is following in the footsteps of Google's other founder, Sergey Brin, who married Anne Wojcicki six months ago in an exclusive ceremony in the Caribbean. The location of Southworth's and Page's wedding was not disclosed.
After Brin's wedding, Mountain View-based Google invested $3.9 million in Wojcicki's biotechnology startup, 23andMe Inc.
Southworth was a biomedical informatics doctoral student at Stanford University, where both Page and Brin were studying as graduate students before leaving to start Google in 1998. Page has been dating Southworth for more than a year.
The invitation list to Page's wedding is expected to include many of Google's current and former employees, as well San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group.
Former Vice President Al Gore, a senior adviser at Google, told the Chronicle he has been invited to the wedding but won't be able to make it because he will be picking up the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. He said he still hopes to make an appearance through video conferencing.
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The Wedding Crashers star, who has been spotted enjoying the company of the blonde beauty several times in the last week, is said to be smitten with Le.
Owen and Le were first seen taking a yoga class at Bikram Yoha in SoHo last week, then spotted enjoyed a cycle ride around New York. The couple also attended a private dinner for British artist Damien Hirst at Lever House on Saturday.
One onlooker told the New York Post newspaper: "They certainly looked cosy. Le Call is a stunning woman and Owen couldn't seem to keep his eyes off her."
Meanwhile, it has been reported Jessica Simpson, who has been romantically linked with Owen, only dated the Hollywood actor to drum up publicity for her upcoming country music album.
A source told MSNBC: "When Jess last had a new album coming out, that's when she was introduced to John Mayer, who she started a relationship with. Now she's got her first country album coming out, so now she's been conveniently introduced to Owen, who is a fellow Texan. Better yet, the public is sympathetic to him."
Owen and Jessica first met on the set of a Willie Nelson music video last month.
In August, Owen was rushed to hospital with slashed wrists following a reported suicide attempt.
The 38-year-old star was said to be heartbroken following his split from actress Kate Hudson in June.
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A lawyer for Kevin Federline is considering calling for an emergency hearing regarding Britney Spears running a red light with their children in the car, according to media reports Tuesday.
Mark Vincent Kaplan, the lawyer, also said that Spears has failed to follow drug-testing procedures, missing eight of 14 drug tests.
Spears was recently chastised by Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon for not making herself readily available for the tests.
And there's more bad news for Spears. It was claimed one of her test results came back positive last week by a US website TMZ.com.
During a hearing Thursday, Spears' legal camp stated that she has showed up for 10 tests and passed every one, and insisted that Spears is innocent of any illegal drug allegations.
A source close to the star said, "The only thing that comes on the results are the prescriptions, that the court doctor prescribed.
"There has been no illegal drugs or even alcohol in any of the test results."
Spears and Federline married in October 2004 and divorced this July. Federline has temporary custody of their kids Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.
Federline has primary custody. Spears can have one overnight visit and two daytime visits a week. A court-appointed parenting coach, a childproofed home and car restraints were asked.
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Lindsay Lohan takes a break outside the American Red Cross the day she started her community service.
Lindsay Lohan began her community service as part of the plea deal for her two DUI convictions last August, a source confirms to PEOPLE.
The actress was spotted at an American Red Cross blood services facility in an L.A. suburb Monday. Arriving at noon, she was greeted by staff in the parking lot before walking into the building. When she left the facility around 7 p.m., she carried a book sparsely titled BLOOD.
Although the actress, 21, was sentenced to the mandatory minimum of four days in jail for her second DUI conviction, prosecutors agreed she could serve 10 days of community service in lieu of two days behind bars.
Lohan was also given credit for one day served from her July arrest, leaving a remainder of 24 hours in jail. She has until January to complete that portion of her sentence.
The actress – who recently finished a lengthy rehab stint at the Cirque Lodge in Utah – was also placed on three years probation and must complete an 18-month alcohol education program.
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Actress Angelina Jolie has said she is surprised her latest movie Beowulf has received a 12A certificate in the UK.
"It's remarkable it has the rating it has," she told reporters at its British premiere. "It's quite an extraordinary film, and some of it shocked me."
Based on the ancient English poem, Robert Zemeckis's film uses hi-tech computer animation for its titular hero's battles with ogres and dragons.
Jolie, though, said it was not "graphic for the sake of being graphic".
"I think it's beautifully done," the 32-year-old added. "It's amazing, and very creative."
The actress, who provides the voice for a shape-shifting demon in the film, arrived at the premiere in London's Leicester Square with partner Brad Pitt.
According to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), no one younger than 12 may see a 12A film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult.
Jolie, however, said she would not be taking her own children to see the film.
Also in attendance were her fellow voice stars Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover and Sir Anthony Hopkins, who said he had made his King Hrothgar character Welsh "just for the fun of it".
Winstone, who provides Beowulf's voice in the film, had high praise for Jolie, calling her "a lovely kisser and a lovely woman".
olie returned the compliment, describing her British colleague as "amazing". "I want to do something else with him soon because he's so much fun," she said.
Wizened hag
Using a similar technique to that used in Zemeckis's 2004 film The Polar Express, Beowulf employs a process dubbed "digitally enhanced live-action".
The actors' performances were filmed on a "black box" sound stage, then used as reference footage for computerised 3-D animation.
Jolie's character was a wizened hag in the original poem, but is here presented as a sultry, slinky temptress.
"I knew they were going to try to make her a little sexy," the actress told the BBC's Emma Jones. "I wasn't going to be just a lizard."
Beowulf opens in the UK and US on Friday.
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Hip-hop superstar Kanye West was mourning the death of his beloved mom Monday night, who died after cosmetic surgery that at least one doctor told her could be dangerous.
Sources say Donda West, 58, received a combination breast reduction and tummy tuck and likely suffered uncontrolled bleeding after going home to recover from the radical operation.
One plastic surgeon who saw Donda West in June said he recommended she first get a cardiac stress test from an internist because of her age. He said she also asked if she could recuperate at home. He said no.
"Donda was pushing me, 'Can I go home after surgery?' But I told her it just doesn't work that way," said Dr. Andre Aboolian of Beverly Hills. "The most dangerous time after surgery is the first 48 hours. I told her you have to go to an overnight care facility with nurses who look after you."
Aboolian called West a "sweet" woman who almost talked herself out of the procedure during their conversation.
"She said she didn't deserve to have this done. She kept asking, 'Do I really need this?'" he recalled. "It's not like she was being vain. It was heavy on her body."
West, a former chairwoman of the English Department at Chicago State University, died at 8:29p.m. Saturday at Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Marina Del Rey, Calif.
"She was brought by paramedics to our emergency room on Saturday evening. She was in full arrest when she arrived," a hospital spokeswoman said. "She had a cosmetic surgery, but not at our hospital."
The Los Angeles County Coroner plans an autopsy by tomorrow, said LAPD Lt. Fred Corral. "We're looking at possible complications of surgery."
A spokesman for Kanye West, the top-selling singer and producer, said the family "asks for privacy during this time of grief."
Death from cosmetic surgery is relatively rare, occurring in just one of 51,459 operations, according to the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
"If, for God's sake, the surgeon tells you it's too risky, don't find someone who will do it for you," said Dr. Richard D'Amico, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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'Toxic' pop diva Britney Spears is in trouble again -- this time she has been caught on camera committing another traffic offence in the US. Spears jumped a red signal while talking on her mobile with her sons asleep in the back of her vehicle as she drove through Los Angeles, the media reported on Monday.
Her court-appointed child monitor was photographed ducking in the front seat of her car to avoid being snapped. It may be mentioned that recently Spears' former husband Kevin Federline had asked a court to ban her from driving the boys over alleged missed drug tests.
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It seems like actress Lindsay Lohan is set to make a return to showbusiness, with a role in hit US series ‘Ugly Betty’.
The ‘Mean Girls’ star is reportedly playing the role of a fallen beauty queen who is forced to work at a fast food restaurant after falling behind with her rent.
"Betty tries to help Lindsay's character by getting her a job at Mode, the fashion magazine where she works on the show," the Sun quoted a show insider, as saying.
However, the production of the series has stopped because its writers joined the WGA strike this week.
Meanwhile, the actress was spotted shopping in West Hollywood.
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Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale & Zac Efron: Signed for High School Musical 3
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For High School Musical 3 to have a big time box office take it will have to have all of the main players. That means Gabriella, Troy and Sharpay (that would be Vanessa Hudgens and boyfriend Zac Efron plus Ashley Tisdale) all would have to be back at east High. That seemed like it might be in doubt earlier when Vanessa wound up as a screensaver for teen boys everywhere with her full frontal photo.
But one can guess that Disney get it and they will have all of them back - right? There have been sever erroneous reports that Vanessa was fired from HSM3, but now the reports have shifted and LA Canyon News claims the threesome are all signed on the dotted line.
I'm not so sure that all of the deals are actually done but there is no way that one little nude photo from Vanessa will derail this juggernaut franchise. It's not like it was wild Paris Hilton type home video - it was a pretty innocent photo (see link below) that was supposed to be a private photo for Zac.
Now Efron has been snapped with a HSM3 script. A Socialite's Life has the photo proof here and reports it this way: "This is interesting. While Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale have both signed on for "High School Musical 3," Zac Efron has not. So do these pictures of Zac only a few mere feet away from a HSM3 script spell jazz hands once again for Zac? I'm thinking someone will be signing on the dotted line very soon, once he's assured of a hefty salary bump."
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