Kristin Davis is more popular than Scarlett Johansson. The star auctioned off the chance to meet her at the world premiere of Sex and the City: The Movie on eBay to raise money for charity.
The winning bid was a staggering $US52,100, and easily surpassed the $US42,000 Scarlett raised when she offered a similar experience earlier this month to meet her at the premiere of her latest movie He's Just Not That Into You.
The money will be donated to Oxfam America.
The winner of Kristin's auction, identified only as 'superiorlotus912', will be driven to the New York premiere on May 27 in a chauffeured car where they will meet the actress and receive a pair of Jimmy Choo 'Felix'-style shoes in their size.
Other celebrities who have auctioned off meet-and-greets to raise money for the international poverty relief agency include Colin Firth and Charlize Theron, while The Blood Diamond star Djimon Hounsou is currently offering a fan the chance to accompany him to the press junket and premiere of his new film Push.
Oxfam America is a Boston-based branch of Oxfam International. It offers development programmes and emergency relief services, and campaigns for change in global practices and policies that keep people in poverty.
Via stuff.co.nz
Kristin beats Scarlett at auction
miércoles, 26 de marzo de 2008 | Etiquetas: Kristin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Sex And The City
Pop star Britney Spears' appearance on US TV comedy How I Met Your Mother has pulled in almost 3m extra viewers.
The CBS show attracted 10.6m people on Monday - its highest ratings this season, according to official figures.
The boost is likely to secure a fourth series, which has averaged 7.8m viewers during its current run.
Spears, whose assets are currently controlled by her father, was praised for her performance as a doctor's receptionist in the show.
Ditzy
The New York Daily News said: "Spears proved she can act every bit as well as she can sing."
"Brit looked slim, trim and gorgeous," added the New York Post.
Alison Godges, a student at New York University who watched Monday night's show, said: "She looked like the Britney we used to know. Long blonde hair and great make-up. She was funny too."
The star's ditzy character had a crush on the comedy's main protagonist, Ted, and flirted with him badly.
Spears, who was admitted to a psychiatric ward and lost custody of her two sons earlier this year, said working on the show was "terrific".
Meanwhile, a legal challenge to her father's conservatorship of her affairs was dismissed by a California court.
A judge ruled that he did not possess sufficient powers to grant an appeal, lodged on the grounds that Spears had not been given enough notice that the order was being implemented.
Via bbc.co.uk
According to reports published online Tuesday, pregnant teen actress Jamie Lynn Spears has been showing off an alleged engagement ring to friends around her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, and that she and beau Casey Aldridge are going to get hitched this summer.
And while a rep for the former Zoey 101 star would neither officially confirm nor deny the rumor to OK!, a wedding would be in line with what Casey's great-uncle, Pastor Odus Jackson of Galilee Baptist Church, recently told OK!. "They are fully committed to each other," explained Odus. "He wants to propose to her and get married!”
However, some friends of Jamie Lynn have also told OK! that Brit's little sister had been wavering on the subject of walking down the aisle and was hoping instead to get her career back on track after she gives birth in June.
In the months since announcing in an exclusive interview with OK! that she was expecting, Jamie Lynn has maintained a relatively low profile around her hometown, finishing her high school education in private and spending her free time with Casey.
Via okmagazine.com
Carla Bruni nude portrait to be auctioned at Christie's New York
| Etiquetas: Carla Bruni, Nicolas Sarcozy
A nude photo of the French First Lady, Carla Bruni, has been put up for auction at Christie's New York, just hours ahead of a state visit to Britain.
The portrait, by photographer Michel Comte, shows a younger Miss Bruni gazing thoughtfully into the camera with nothing but her crossed hands to cover her modesty.
The pose, apparently in reference to the paintings of French neo-impressionist artist Georges Seurat depicting models, is expected to fetch around £2,000 when it goes under the hammer on April 10.
Miss Bruni and her husband, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, are to arrive in the UK on Wednesday for the start of their two-day state visit, and will be meeting the Queen and the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
Mr Sarkozy has faced criticism that his flashy, Rolex-wearing image is not in keeping with his function, and he had hoped that the visit would add some much-needed gravitas to his public persona.
According to aides, he is relying on the refinement of his 40-year-old Italian wife to wow the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
Educated in a Swiss finishing school, Mrs Bruni speaks fluent English unlike her husband, who has been taking intensive lessons to catch up and impress his hosts during the visit.
Christie's defended its decision to put the picture on sale, describing Miss Bruni as "one of the most beautiful women in the world".
"It's a work of art. It was shot in 1993 when Miss Bruni was a model and it's a tasteful nude portrait executed by a well known, respectable artist", said Milena Sales, spokeswoman from Christie's.
"Christie's stands by the works it represents to its clients, it doesn't censor or pass judgement on any content or subject matter. It's a perfectly respectable work of art."
Via telegraph.co.uk
English singer songwriter Amy Winehouse is willing to go back to rehab. The 24-year-old 'Rehab' singer recently shocked onlookers when she stepped out with scabby skin for a night out to dine on kebabs. "Amy has admitted she needs to check into rehab again," the Sun quoted a source as saying.
"There are too many temptations for her in the UK — people around her in London are making it impossible for her to stay clean for any length of time," the source said. “Her management had considered flying her to a clinic in Israel but are now looking further afield. They are assessing a clinic in Cape Town in South Africa," the source added. Amy had earlier spent two weeks in rehab in January 08.
She was seen earlier in the day visiting her husband Blake Fielder-Civil in jail, and later visited at her flat in Camden by grubby-looking junkie rocker Pete Doherty, 29. Winehouse says her skin condition is impetigo, which is a bacterial infection. "The damage is quite severe, but not unusual with crack cocaine abuse," Sun doctor Carol Cooper said.
"She's got a number of sores, some of which look infected, and others that have formed ulcers," she added.
Via oneindia.in
The couple got engaged in Amsterdam and will get hitched soon.
The Kills' Jamie Hince and model Kate Moss are engaged to be married, after the couple agreed to tie the knot while in Amsterdam.
According to The Sun, Moss told members of the public that she was getting married, after spending time with Hince in various Amsterdam bars. The newspaper reports that she said that the ceremony would be "soon".
The newspapers goes on to quote an anonymous "friend" of Moss's as saying: "We're all so happy for Kate. Everyone was worried she would end up with Pete [Doherty, her ex-boyfriend], who we thought was no good for her.
"Jamie looked like it could be a bit of a rebound thing at first, but now it seems like the real deal."
Via nme.com
Thomas Beatie is one of the few man in the world claiming to be pregnant, but the secret behind the Oregon man's pregnancy is - he was born a woman. According to reports, Thomas Beatie has had a chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy, but decided to keep his female reproductive organs. Before Beatie became a transgender man, he was Tracy LaGondino living in Hawaii as a woman. LaGondino fought for the right for gay couples to adopt children and against hate crimes when she lived in Hawaii. Today Mr. Beatie is legally male and lives with his wife, Nancy, in Bend, Oregon.
And now the transgender man claims he is 5 months pregnant and feeling great about it. He told the Advocate, a magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender audience, that carrying a daughter for his wife, Nancy, and himself was an "incredible" experience, but people already question if the Oregon man is really pregnant or if it's just another hoax. "I saw him a few days ago and he didn't look like that," one of Beatie's neighbors told the media. His side of the story - he and his wife Nancy tried to have a child for over 10 years, but Nancy was unable to conceive, having suffered severe endometriosis and undergone a hysterectomy. Stopping the hormone injections and using frozen sperm from a donor, the Oregon man was able to become pregnant twice, the first time the pregnancy was entopic and required surgery, but the second time it was a success and the Oregon man and his wife are expecting their daughter in July.
Via ogpaper.com
Pregnant former pop star Kerry Katona, who was taken to hospital with suspected pre-eclampsia, is not as ill as initially feared, it has emerged.
Katona, 27, who is expecting her fourth child, was admitted after her midwife became concerned she had the potentially life-threatening condition.
A spokeswoman said: "In fact it was water retention and low iron levels, which brought on similar symptoms."
Katona is expected to be released from hospital soon.
"Mummy and baby are fine," her spokeswoman added.
Rehab clinic
Katona's publicist Max Clifford earlier said the singer had been in "increasing pain" before being admitted for treatment in Macclesfield on Tuesday.
He stressed that she had been taken into hospital by her husband Mark Croft as a "precautionary measure".
Katona, who won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2004, recently ended a stay at a rehab clinic.
Filming on her current MTV reality show Crazy In Love was suspended after she was admitted to The Priory for a fourth time last week, and is again on hold.
Mr Clifford said that Katona has been receiving treatment for bipolar disorder.
The ex-Atomic Kitten singer has two daughters by her first husband, former Westlife star Brian McFadden, and already has a daughter with second husband Mr Croft.
The pair have said they will name their second child, a son, after Max Clifford.
Via bbc.co.uk
Magician Penn Jillette and tennis champ Monica Seles were the first stars eliminated from the sixth season of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." Each came into Tuesday's results show in last place.
Jillette, 53, added a dash of magic to his quickstep, but his footwork failed to impress the judges. Despite his dismissal, the magician insisted that he and his professional partner would continue to rehearse daily and planned to perform in the parking lot.
"There's no way my dance career ends now," he said.
Before her name was announced, Seles said being the first woman to leave the show "would be really hard."
"I'm not used to losing," said the nine-time Grand Slam champ.
Judge Bruno Tonioli acknowledged that her tennis prowess didn't translate to the dance floor: "You're not a performer, and it's hard for you."
Still, he called the 34-year-old athlete "a legend."
"Somebody of your stature being here with us really is a privilege, and you threw yourself (in) at the deep end," he said.
The show's first double-elimination round also featured a Cirque du Soleil-style acrobatic dance performance and two live songs by tween fave the Jonas Brothers. The pop-rock group played a cover of a-ha's 1985 hit "Take On Me," which was released before the trio of brothers was born, and the new song "When You Look Me in the Eyes."
The remaining competitors include radio host Adam Carolla, pro football player Jason Taylor, Olympic skater Kristi Yamaguchi, R&B singer Mario, and actors Steve Guttenberg, Shannon Elizabeth, Christian de la Fuente, Marlee Matlin, Priscilla Presley and Marissa Jaret Winokur.
Each will perform the tango or jive on next week's show.
Via associatedpress
Britney Spears delivers 'Mother's' highest ratings
martes, 25 de marzo de 2008 | Etiquetas: Britney Spears
A guest appearance by Britney Spears on Monday gave the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" its highest rating ever.
"Mother" spiked to a series high 4.5 preliminary rating among adults 18-49, even as the rest of the CBS comedy lineup fell from last week's record-setting return to original episodes.
Critics were relatively impressed. "Britney the Trainwreck showed how she can still be Britney the Performer," wrote the Associated Press. "Spears proved she can act every bit as well as she can sing," wrote the New York Daily News. "Brit looked slim, (OK she was behind a desk), trim and gorgeous," wrote the New York Post.
The second week of strong "Mother" ratings (10.6 million, 4.5/12) assures the one-time bubble comedy will be renewed for the fall. "Mother" was the fourth-highest-rated show of the evening, and CBS won the night (averaging 12.5 million, 4.4/11).
At 10 p.m., "CSI: Miami" was the first major broadcast network drama to return with post-strike original episodes. "Miami" easily won the 10 p.m. hour and outperformed its previous season average by 7% (15.8 million, 4.8/12).
CBS' other comedies dropped slightly from their post-strike returns last week, however. "Big Bang" was down 6% (8.6 million, 3.4/10), "Two and a Half Men" was the highest-rated show of the night but also fell 6% (14.2 million, 5.1/13), and "The New Adventures of Old Christine" dropped 12% (9.9 million, 3.8/9).
ABC was second with the second week of "Dancing With the Stars" falling off 11% and "The Bachelor" dropping a steeper 16% to place last in the 10 p.m. hour, matching its series low amid the increased competition from "Miami."
Fox and NBC tied for third. NBC aired "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad," dropping to a new all-time low and going below the line for a major broadcast network series (7.1 million, 1.2/3). NBC then aired "Deal or No Deal" (7.1 million, 3.0/7) and "Medium" (8.8 million, 3.0/8). Fox had a repeat and "New Amsterdam" (6.3 million, 2.0/5).
The CW had a repeat and "Girlicious" (1.5 million, 0.8/2).
Via hollywoodreporter.com
