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GWEN STEFANI burst into tears trying to keep her pregnancy a secret from fans each night during her LOVE ANGEL MUSIC BABY tour.
The Sweet Escape singer, who gave birth to son Kingston last year (06), struggled through nine costume changes each show and would cry before going onstage.
She says, "It was terrible. I was bloated and just felt so gross."
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Rock offspring KELLY OSBOURNE was so nervous during her London stage debut in hit musical Chicago - she threw up minutes before the performance.
The 22-year-old says she has never experienced nerves as much as on the opening night as jailkeeper Mamma Morton in the capital’s West End show - and found herself in an embarrassing situation.
She says, ‘’I threw up in my mouth. I thought, ‘What am I going to do? There’s no bin here.’ So I had to actually swallow it.'’
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PARIS HILTON is the modern day version of PRINCESS DIANA - according Oscar-winning actress DAME HELEN MIRREN.
Mirren, who played The Queen on the big screen, insists the pair both gained popularity and icon status by fooling the world into thinking they were dumb blondes.
She says, "I don’t applaud Paris Hilton… but I think she’s pretty cool.
She’s developed, like Princess Diana, that deliberate foolishness, which is disarming." Mirren isn’t the only person to notice similarities between the two socialites - Hilton herself claimed she is the latest in a line of "iconic blondes".
She said last year, "I think every decade has an iconic blonde - like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana - and right now, I’m that icon.
"I read these stories about me starting fights and saying stupid stuff. I’ve become a cartoon."
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Fashion guru KARL LAGERFELD has urged fellow designer VALENTINO to reconsider his decision to retire next year (08).
The German designer, 74, spoke out about Valentino’s recent announcement (Sep07) after the launch of his new ready-to-wear line.
He says, "I am not very pleased because I think it is not good that he’s stopping; he is in great shape." Valentino, 75, will retire next year after a glittering 45 year career in the industry. His final Haute Couture show will take place in Paris in January (08).
Lagerfeld adds, "He should continue. It’s no fun, he will be bored."
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British actor JASON STATHAM has defended director pal GUY RITCHIE, insisting any criticism of his films is based on jealousy.
The 35-year-old - who has worked with Ritchie on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver and Snatch - believes Madonna’s husband is subjected to criticism because he is so talented.
He says, "Guy’s a good-looking, talented man with a great family. He’s very successful and people are jealous - maybe more so than they like to admit, and that puts a bad taste in people’s mouth’s."
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Singing waitress VICTORIA HART has been summoned to perform for her movie idol GEORGE CLOONEY - again.
The British 18-year-old was plucked from obscurity to sing for the Ocean’s Thirteen cast at a star-studded ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this year (07), and now Clooney wants to hear her again - in New York.
The movie hunk, who called Hart "simply lovely" after she sang for him in Cannes, is jetting her to the Big Apple for a repeat performance next month (Nov07).
But the trip will be bittersweet for the teenager because she’d like to date the movie hunk - and then she could sing for him every day.
Clooney, however, has found love with another waitress - Sarah Larson.
Hart, who was earning just $12 (£6)-an-hour when Clooney spotted her in a London diner, says, "When I heard he was dating someone new, I was like, ‘I’m a waitress. Why not me?’ But I guess it wasn’t meant to be.
"I’m very lucky though. I’m flying out for two days in November, staying in New York, singing for George again. I don’t get star-struck anymore, but I do know that what I’m doing is very special and very exciting." And Hart, who performs standards from Doris Day and Ella Fitzgerald’s songbooks, is still hoping to find love in New York: "I haven’t got a boyfriend - but I’m looking. I’m single and ready to mingle!" While her love life is standing still, Hart’s music career is really taking off - her new album, Whatever Happened To Romance?, is a hit on the world’s jazz charts and she’s currently being courted by music executives at EMI and Universal, who are hoping to sign her to a major deal.
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Screen veteran DONALD SUTHERLAND is such a fan of his son KIEFER’s hit show 24 he once blasted him for revealing plot details over dinner.
Donald never misses an episode of the series, which stars Kiefer as anti-terrorism expert Jack Bauer.
However, Kiefer once felt his father’s fury after he unwittingly gave away story details.
He says, "I remember last year we were having dinner and I made the mistake of saying I had to go home soon because we’re shooting x, y and z. And he got cross with me, because I had told him what I was shooting, just not thinking about it, and obviously gave away a piece of the plot." It’s no surprise Donald took it so hard - he even followed the show when he was in France filming.
Kiefer explains, "My old man started to watch 24 in France when he was on location - it didn’t have any commercials over there.
"Then he came to the States and he hated the commercials. Then he went back to France and he missed the commercials, because it gave him time to breathe. I always found that funny."
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DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES has come under fire in the U.S. for poking fun at the Filipino education system.
Angry viewers called the show’s broadcaster ABC after Teri Hatcher’s character Susan questioned the medical training in the Philippines.
Hatcher’s character quizzes a doctor about the possibility she may be going into menopause. She says, "OK, before we go any further, can I check these diplomas? Just to make sure they aren’t, like, from some med school in the Philippines?" More than 30,000 people have signed an petition in a bid to get the scenes axed and are pressuring ABC to apologises.
But a ABC spokesman says, "There no intent to disparage the integrity of any aspect of the medical community in the Philippines."
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American journalist RITA COSBY has accused HOWARD K. STERN of deliberately seeking publicity after he filed a lawsuit over her ANNA NICOLE SMITH book.
Stern filed a $60 million (£30million) lawsuit against Cosby on Tuesday (02Oct07) over "false allegations" in her new tome Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death.
He claims allegations he was in a sexual relationship with Larry Birkhead the father of Smith’s daughter Dannielynn - are " nonsense".
Cosby was officially served with the legal documents during a book signing in New York on Wednesday (03Oct07).
She says, "It’s all PR and spin. So I’m not surprised that they used this opportunity. This is par for the course for these characters." Cosby, a former MSNBC correspondent, maintains there is a sex tape to prove the pair were lovers.
Both Stern and Birkhead deny it exists.
Smith passed away earlier this year (07).
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Actor-turned-musician JARED LETO is giving up alcohol completely, in a bid to prove he’s a responsible rocker.
The 30 Seconds to Mars singer is about to head off on tour with his band and insists he’s more interested in putting on a good show than exploring the hedonistic side of rock and roll.
He says, "We’re not irresponsible, overgrown adolescents out on the road to have an excuse to get f**ked up all day.
"We’re not out to prove to the world how rebellious we are. This is something different for us."
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New York rappers WU TANG CLAN have been given permission to use a sample from BEATLES classic WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS on a new track.
The rap collective will record a cover of the song, which was originally written by the late George Harrison in 1968.
The former Beatle’s son Dhani - an accomplished musician in his own right will also perform on the track.
In an online message posted earlier this week (02Oct07) the band say: "Special thanks to Danny (sic) Harrison & Erykah Badu for helping bring this song to life!! Also thanks to The Harrison Estate & The Beatles for helping make this possible!!"
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Rap star M.I.A. has been teaching music to the inmates of an Australian detention centre.
The hip-hop star, 28, conducted the two day workshop in Sydney as part of the Heaps Decent programme, which attempts to help disadvantaged youths break into the music industry.
She says, "(I was) asked if I’d go there to meet these teenagers in an all-girls juvenile detention centre and help them to make music… teach them.
There were around 15 girls, aged from 13 to 20. All the girls just wanted to gangster-rap, but we had to make a censored version and an uncensored version, ‘cos they just wanted to be like, ‘F**k the police.’" The result of Mia’s motivational visit is a single which has now been scheduled for a full Australian release.
She adds, "We used the doors shutting in the prison; all the random noises they made to make the beat, and then we made sure that all the girls got a go rapping on it and stuff, and they just did their thing. It was really cool."
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FOO FIGHTERS frontman DAVE GROHL is spearheading a campaign to send the SEX PISTOLS classic GOD SAVE THE QUEEN to the top of the U.K charts - 20 years after its release.
Grohl believes the hit - first released in 1977 to celebrate the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II’s jubilee - is "one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll record of all time" and should be recognised within the modern day charts.
He says, "Am I backing the campaign to send God Save The Queen to Number One? Absolutely man! Name one rock musician who doesn’t consider that to be one of the greatest rock’n'roll records of all time. "That’s a classic and it inspired everybody to do what we’re doing right now.
Ah, yeah I’ll be there. If you need me to picket or protest I’ll be right behind you."
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Rocker COURTNEY LOVE has accused Los Angeles police of victimising BRITNEY SPEARS because of her fame.
The former hole frontwoman believes Spears is being deliberately targetted by the police and media because she is currently an easy target.
Love defended the Toxic hitmaker just days after she lost was ordered to hand over custody of her two sons, Sean Preston, two, and Jayden Jones, one.
She writes on her blog, "I know everything. The DCS in LA is a horror show they are angry … they hated me for my status wealth etc - and they took it out on the kid. Once your in that system it is f**ked up, so B (Britney) get out! "Before you judge walk a mile in her shoes."
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LATEST: Troubled pop star BRITNEY SPEARS is returning to rehab in a bid to win back her children, according to U.S. reports.
The Toxic hitmaker, 25, spent one month in the Promises Treatment Centre in California in March this year (07) after having her head shaved.
According to website TMZ.com, Spears has admitted herself to the Crossroads Centre in Antigua "in an attempt to get custody of her children".
Spears was ordered to hand over custody of her two sons, Sean Preston, two, and Jayden Jones, one, earlier this week (begs01Oct07).
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Actress ISLA FISHER was banned from performing her own stunts in new comedy HOT ROD, because movie bosses feared the pregnant star would cause harm to her unborn child.
The Australian beauty, 31, stars in the film about a hapless stuntman with funnyman Andy Samberg - but was prevented from doing anything remotely daring because of her condition.
She says, "They wouldn’t even let me do that one scene where you see me standing on the moped. They only let me drive up and turn, and then the stuntwoman took over."
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KID ROCK has accused ex-wife PAMELA ANDERSON of lying about miscarrying their child.
The rocker claims Anderson made up the story after he went to a Los Angeles Lakers game rather than visiting her onset in Vancouver, Canada.
He says, "That leads into her saying, ‘You don’t care about me, blah blah blah’ … She finally comes up with this: ‘I just had a miscarriage’ … and hangs the phone up." The 36-year-old says he refused to believe Anderson was ever pregnant because she was "drinking champagne, jumping on the tables" when he did finally meet her in Vancouver.
Anderson has branded the claims"bitter", adding, "It’s sad to see. I don’t want to battle with him."
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LARRY BIRKHEAD is in talks to star in a reality TV show documenting his life as the father of late ANNA NICOLE SMITH’s daughter DANNIELYNN.
The professional photographer has an agreement in principle with one U.S.
network - after being inundated with offers since he won custody of the one-year-old earlier this year (07).
Birkhead tells the New York Daily News, ‘’I don’t want to give something away yet. It’s basically the ‘day in the life of daddy duties.’ ‘’The truth is, people came to me with pitches, and I haven’t accepted anything. It’s something they continue to talk to me about. It’s multiple networks. I’m listening to what they have to say.
"My daughter is my focus now. I’m being a great dad. She’s teething. She’s got about eight teeth. Everything is great with her. She chomps on me every day. All she has to worry about is her Barney video."
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