May 18 2007

Jessica Biel: ‘I’m too sexy for Hollywood’

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Jessica Biel Jessica Biel fears she isn’t taken seriously by Hollywood studios, because she is too “hot”.

The sexy star - who recently topped a magazine poll of the Sexiest Women in the World - claims her good looks have held her back. But Biel - currently dating pop star Justin Timberlake - hopes the five films she will appear in in 2007 will help change people’s minds.

The 26-year-old actress tells GQ, “I hope all my new work will help producers in getting past my hotness.

“I try not to make the headlines. I’m self-conscious about this. I try to not make my presence known. I have my own fashion style and do not try to fit in. I don’t have my breasts under my chin, I’m not showing butt cheeks, nor much legs. I don’t go for the trendiest look.”


May 18 2007

Paris Hilton drops probation-violation appeal

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Paris HiltonParis Hilton won’t appeal the 45-day jail term she was sentenced to earlier this month for violating probation, according to court documents filed Thursday.

A lawyer for the 26-year-old socialite notified Los Angeles County Superior Court that she is abandoning her appeal, said court spokeswoman Katherine Roberts.

Hilton was ordered to report to jail by June 5 for violating the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. She initially called the sentence unfair, and lawyers representing her filed a notice to appeal.

She has since changed legal teams and is now represented by Richard Hutton, a lawyer specializing in defending drunken driving cases. Hutton didn’t immediately return calls for comment Thursday.

Hilton’s publicist, Elliot Mintz, declined comment. (AP)


May 18 2007

Madonna releases new song for charity

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MadonnaMadonna, one of the headliners at this summer’s “Live Earth” concerts, released a new digital song for the musical event on Wednesday.

The global concert series, taking place July 7, is designed to raise awareness about climate issues. “Hey You,” which Madonna produced with Pharrell Williams, doesn’t specifically talk about earth issues, but the ballad’s lyrics refer to loving and saving each other.

Madonna is scheduled to perform the song during the show at Wembley Stadium in London. Other shows will take place in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.; Tokyo; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; Sydney, Australia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Hamburg, Germany; and Istanbul, Turkey.

“Hey You” is available on MSN.com. The first million downloads are free, and Microsoft is pledging to donate 25 cents per download to the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Besides Madonna, other headliners slated for the London concert include the Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis and the Beastie Boys. (AP)


May 16 2007

Avril Lavigne Topless

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Avril LavigneShe’s grown up already. Avril Lavigne shows her mature side by posing topless for the June 2007 issue of Blender magazine.

The singer takes her top clothes off for the cover of the publication, with more pictures inside show her drinking in one angle and smoking on the other.

Avril, a punk singer, sat down with Blender to discuss the writing of her single “Girlfriend,” boys, booze and the pursuit of happiness.

Avril’s very revealing cover shoot screams, “Hell Yeah, I’m Hot.” Is she? You be the judge.


May 16 2007

Lindsay Lohan tops Maxim `Hot 100′ list

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Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan rules. According to Maxim magazine, at least this month, she’s the hottest woman in the world.

The “Georgia Rule” actress-troublemaker tops the magazine’s eighth annual “Hot 100″ list, a ranking by editors weighing buzz and beauty for women in film, TV, music, sports and fashion.

“There is no other star in the world (who) causes more of a stir in the public eye than Lindsay,” said Maxim Editor in Chief Jimmy Jellinek in a statement. “Her every move is watched and reported on.”

Not surprisingly, Jellinek described his young, male readership as being “obsessed” with the 20-year-old Lohan, a ubiquitous party girl who spent the weekend soaking up the sun (with a new boyfriend) in the Bahamas.

Jessica Alba had to settle with the No. 2 on the list, which is in the magazine hitting stands Saturday. She’s followed, in order, by Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Biel, Ali Larter, Eva Mendes, Rihanna, Eva Longoria, Fergie, Sienna Miller, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce Knowles and Katherine Heigl.

Celebrity sisters Ashlee and Jessica Simpson are on the list at No. 16 and 41, respectively. Ashley Olsen, half of the mogul acting twins, placed 37th, while sister Mary-Kate didn’t make the cut.

The cover of the Hot-100 June issue features a picture of No. 29: Sarah Silverman. (AP)


May 16 2007

Britney Spears’ nappy changing cause a jam

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Britney SpearsBritney Spears’ parenting skills have come into question again after she caused a traffic jam by stopping by the roadside to change her son’s nappy.

Cameras snapped Brit in Malibu making a roadside stop in her Mercedes.

The blacked out windows were clearly not dark enough so Spears’ bodyguard and cousin sprang into action, using their jackets to try and keep the baby hidden.

A pack of paparazzi and fans swarmed the car when she pulled over, causing a traffic jam.

In Florida at the weekend the mum of two will be continuing her mini-comeback tour at the House of Blues in Orlando where she is expected to perform another rendition of her 12 minute lip-synching set.

And on Sunday her crew head to Miami Beach to perform at Mansion where her ex Kevin Federline spent many a night partying. (ITN)


May 16 2007

Anna Nicole diary: Sex, surgery, sadness

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Larry Birkhead“Don’t Read!! Personall,” warns the diary’s inside cover. But its author, Anna Nicole Smith, has no hold in death on the remnants of her life. The public now can discover that she was delighted by rough sex, ecstatic over the prospect of plastic surgery for her breasts, and fearful of a jealous boyfriend. She was careless with spelling, punctuation, and, too often, with her own well-being. Complaining about her then-lover’s carousing, Smith writes that she’ll break it off with him if he doesn’t stop. Then she amends her stand, according to new diary excerpts released exclusively to The Associated Press. “We discussed it and he said he wouldn’t go out and get drunk no more unless it was with me,” Smith wrote in the diaries, which span about a year from early 1991 to 1992. On an evening out a few weeks later with the same man (identified only by first name), Smith wrote that she got drunk and “asked a guy for his #.” Her boyfriend “came unglued. threw me out of his house & broke up with me it was awlful he hit me and my mother,” she said. The model and former Playboy Playmate, who was born Vickie Lynn Smith, was found dead on Feb. 8 in Hollywood, Fla., of a toxic mix of prescription drugs. Copies of 60 diary pages were provided to the AP by Universal Rarities, a Corona-based auction house. The diaries were purchased from a memorabilia shop by a group of investors, who sold two of them to a German businessman for more than $500,000. Those diaries were from 1992 and 1994 and included references to elderly Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom Smith married in 1994 and who died the next year. The newly released handwritten diary pages are from a different diary and will be posted online at urauctions.com, said Thomas Riccio, a partner in Universal Rarities. Smith’s tone in the entries veers between simple joy and deep-seated unhappiness. One entry begins, “I’m a very sad person,” and is illustrated by a weeping face. Smith goes on to write that “my mom hates me so much. She is so jealous of me. … I love my mom but I cant handle it anymore.” She posts intimate details of an active sex life in often-graphic language. She rails against her boyfriend and, in the same scrawled entry, celebrates her upcoming breast surgery. “I’m so excited I could scream. Ahhhhh I just feel so happy,” Smith writes, although she later expresses worry about the imminent operation and how she’ll look. One of the more poignant passages deals with her shock at finding she’s pregnant. “I’m so scared! How can this happen to me,” she writes, adding that her boyfriend “will hate me. he don’t want kid. Can’t do it!” She underlined the last phrase. Smith later had two children. Son Daniel died last September at age 20 of a lethal combination of drugs, three days after Smith gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn. Larry Birkhead was found to be the baby’s father. (AP)