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Seaside celebrity enclave Malibu Colony in California has been ravaged by a fast-paced wildfire, which broke out early on Sunday morning (21Oct07).
The blaze has already claimed an animal hospital and landmark buildings Hodge Castle, which was reportedly once owned by Bob Dylan, and Malibu Presbyterian Church.
Locals are mourning the loss of socialite Lilly Lawrence’s castle home because it included a private museum featuring letters from Grace Kelly, Princess Diana and six U.S. presidents.
More than 500 firefighters are battling the blaze as WENN goes to press, but Los Angeles County Fire Department Inspector Sam Padilla admits the fire is far from under control.
Residents of Malibu Colony were evacuated to nearby Zuma Beach as the wildfire threatened their homes.
Built in the 1930s, the cluster of luxury homes that is Malibu Colony has been a favourite of celebrities over the years.
Linda Ronstadt, Larry Hagman, Jeff Bridges, Mel Brooks, Sting and Bill Murray are among the stars who reportedly own and rent homes in Malibu Colony.
In January (07), a smaller fire hit near the Colony area, and claimed the oceanfront home of actress Suzanne Somers.
Malibu fires in November, 1993 destroyed Sean Penn and Ali MacGraw’s homes, and came close to claiming estates owned by Mel Gibson and Richard Gere.
Students at nearby Pepperdine University have also been evacuated from their rooms to a campus cafeteria.
The wildfire is expected to blaze throughout Sunday and Monday as hot weather and heavy Santa Ana winds marked the height of traditional wildfire season after one of the driest rain years in Southern California on record.
Arson experts have already started to investigate the cause of the fire.
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KIM BASINGER is set to play the on-screen mother of CHARLIZE THERON in new film THE BURNING PLAIN.
The film will be the directional debut of Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and shooting will begin in Mexico early next month with a release date scheduled for 2009.
Basinger, 53, will play a woman seen through the childhood eyes of Theron’s character Sylvia who tries to find common ground with her parents in adulthood.

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Singer AVRIL LAVIGNE, TV movie HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL and HARRY POTTER were the big winners at the first ever Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards U.K in London on Saturday (20Oct07).
British boy band McFly hosted the event at the Excel centre, which saw the Disney musical pick up two awards - Zac Efron was named Best TV Actor while Ashley Tisdale was named Best TV Actress.
Lavigne equalled High School Musical’s awards haul, triumphing in the Best Female Singer and Best Music Video categories.
Harry Potter scooped two gongs - Emma Watson - who plays Hermione Grainger in the boy-wizard franchise - was named Best Movie Actress, while the seventh installment in the series, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows won the Best Book category.
The winners included: Best Reality Show: The X Factor Best TV Presenters: Ant and Dec Best TV Show: Drake & Josh Best TV Actor: Zac Efron Best TV Actress: Ashley Tisdale Best Band: McFly Best Music Video: Avril Lavigne, Girlfriend Best Female Singer: Avril Lavigne Best Sportsman: David Beckham Best Movie Actor: Johnny Depp Best Movie Actress: Emma Watson Best Movie: The Simpsons Movie Funniest Person: Rowan Atkinson Best Book: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

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BRITNEY SPEARS has offered a personal apology - as well as financial compensation - to the owner of the car she hit.
The troubled pop star offered to visit Kim Robard-Rifkin’s house to make a personal apology after her alleged hit-and-run on August 6 (07).
But Ms Robard-Rifkin, whose 1999 Mercedes-Benz station wagon was damaged in the incident, said that a personal apology was not necessary as she was content with an offer to have her car repaired with a rental car provided in the meantime, as well as a telephone apology from Spears’s attorney.
She says, "(Spears) has way more than enough problems right now." Lawyer J Michael Flanagan has confirmed a cheque "in the $1,000 (£500) range" was to be delivered to Robard-Rifkin on Monday (22Oct07).
Two misdemeanour criminal charges of hit and run causing property damage and driving without a valid California driver’s license against Spears still stand.
But when the court sees proof of Robard-Rifkin’s compensation, the hit-and-run charge is likely to be dropped.

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DONALD TRUMP has slammed SIR PAUL McCARTNEY for neglecting to sign a prenuptial agreement before marrying his now estranged wife HEATHER MILLS.
The tycoon sympathises with the Beatle, branding him a "poor b**tard" over his bitter divorce battle He writes in his new book Think Big and Kick As, "I watched Larry King before they were married and Larry said ‘Sir Paul, are you going to have a prenuptial agreement?’ "Paul said, ‘I don’t want one because we’re deeply in love’. I thought, ‘What a mistake. This guy is a schmuck’." Trump, 61, who paid out $30 million (£15 million) to two former wives adds, "Get a prenuptial agreement. Don’t believe me? Ask Paul McCartney what he thinks."

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LATEST: BRITNEY SPEARS has won back the right to see her sons after complying with a court order, according to reports.
The troubled pop star was spotted driving her sons Preston, two, and Jayden James, one, through Studio City, California on Saturday (20Oct07) in her white Mercedes convertible decorated with pumpkins on the dashboard.
An unnamed individual - presumed to be a court-appointed monitor - was seen in the front seat and the children were in the back seats reports People.com.
Spears was devastated when her visitation rights were temporarily suspended last Wednesday (17Oct07) by Los Angeles County Commissioner Scott Gordon, after she breached a court order by failing to provide the court with her contact information.
But her visitation is believed to have been reinstated after the Toxic singer complied with the request.
Spears and her ex-husband Kevin Federline are both required to appear for their next divorce hearing on October 26 (07).

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JAMES LIPTON, the host of U.S. talk show INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO, once worked as a pimp in Paris, France.
The revered TV presenter, who has sat down with Hollywood’s biggest names for in-depth chats about their life and work over the last 13 years, has revealed he once procured clients for French hookers.
He says, "This was when I was very very young, living in Paris, penniless, unable to get any kind of working permit… I had a friend who worked in what is called the Milieu, which is that world and she suggested to me one night, `Look, you’ll be my meck… We would translate it perhaps… as pimp.
"We were earning our living together, this young woman and I, we made a rather good living, I must say." Lipton reveals in his new book Inside Inside he would set up sex shows for clients of his lady friend.
He adds, "I had to accompany my clientelle to the Rue Pigalle, which is where these things occurred. And then I’d take them up to the room and I had to remain there because they were very nervous, they were young Americans for the most part… and they didn’t speak French."

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Actress EVA MENDES is angry at herself for not prolonging a screen kiss with JOHNNY DEPP in 2003’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO - because she has regretted it ever since.
The Latina beauty, 33, admits she has enjoyed numerous big-screen dalliances with a number of cute celebrities - but hates herself for not taking advantage of her intimate scene with her childhood idol.
She says, "All of my screen kisses were the best, though I regret not kissing Johnny for longer… It was the first time I had worked with an actor who I had a crush on as a little girl."

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HARRY POTTER author JK ROWLING has shocked fans of the boy-wizard series by "outing" character ALBUS DUMBLEDORE as gay.
The writer revealed the truth of the Hogwarts school headmaster’s sexuality at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Friday (19Oct07) as part of her American book tour.
When asked by an audience member if Dumbledore had found "true love", she replied, "Dumbledore is gay," adding he was in love with his rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he once beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago.
She says, "Falling in love can blind us to an extent. (Dumbledore was) horribly, terribly let down".

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British censors have been criticised over their decision to allow violent film EASTERN PROMISES starring NAOMI WATTS and VIGGO MORTENSEN to be screened uncut.
The David Cronenberg film centres on the Russian mafia in London, and includes shocking scenes including one in which a knife is twisted into a man’s eye and two victims have their throats cut in graphic detail.
The scenes were so gruesome that members of the audience at the premiere last Wednesday (17Oct07) at the London Film Festival gasped and turned away from the screen.
Now the decision by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to award the film an 18 certificate without any cuts has come under fire from former censors.
Andreas Whittam, former president of the BBFC, says, "If I thought this was the type of film that was likely to make people leave the cinema, or even make them have to look away for quite a while, then I would question why the scene should be left in." But the BBFC stood by the decision, a spokesman adds, "Scenes that make people turn away are part of the fun of going to movies. These days we are not here to cut; we are here to provide information and let people then make up their minds."

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SPICE GIRLS star MEL B’s eight-year-old daughter has fallen in love with the singer’s dancing partner.
Little Phoenix Chi has a crush on Dancing With The Stars hunk Maksim Chmerkovskiy - and her mum approves.
She says, "He taught her to do the cha-cha." (KL/ITC/JC) WENN - FIRST - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - OCTOBER 2007

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JANET JACKSON has learned to accept her weight will always balloon and dip because she loves food too much.
The pop superstar has battled weight issues for as long as she can remember, but, after reaching her 40s, she has a new love for both fat Janet and toned Janet.
She says, "It’s a work in progress. I’m still working it and have my moments and then I have my moments of `I’m good, I’m in a great space.’ "Things can go one way or the other. At times it definitely can be all about emotional eating. There are a lot of people that shy away from food when they’re feeling a certain way. Food is something that’s always comforted me."

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Australian singer DARREN HAYES caused chaos on a flight - in a bid to keep his fans happy.
The ex-Savage Garden frontman, 35, was travelling from Perth to Sydney when he realised he had not written his weekly tour diary on his MySpace website.
Hayes desperately trawled through the plane looking for a power cable for his laptop so he could update his page on the social networking site.
He says, "It was an ordeal. Spilled my drink on my lap. Annoyed the cabin crew walking up and down the plane trying to get power for my laptop. Got in trouble for cutting through the service area.
"I was just trying to find someone who had the right power converter.
"When I finally got it (after three trips back and forth and many ’tisk tisk’ noises from passengers and staff alike) it didn’t work. Ooops! Sorry he he."

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Musician MIKE OLDFIELD has quit Britain - because he hates the country’s smoking ban.
The Tubular Bells composer is selling his $7 million (£3.5 million) Gloucestershire, England, mansion to prepare for a move to Spain, as he insists life in the U.K. has become "intolerable" following the ban on smoking in public places, which came into effect on 1 July (07).
He says, "I went to a very strict prep school. You were so restricted. It was one of the worst times in my life. Britain has been getting more and more like that, what with this health-and-safety business.
"It is too intrusive. Imagine if Winston Churchill was given a £50 fine for smoking his cigar. He would never have stood for it. I don’t want to live in a country where a little old lady has to wear a hard hat and a luminous vest just to look after the village green. It’s ludicrous.
"It seems we have lost our freedom."

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Rapper COMMON has voiced his support for his AMERICAN GANGSTER co-star T.I.
after he was taken into custody over weapons charges.
Common, real name Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr, who plays T.I’s dad in the film, urged the rapper-actor to pray for his future.
He says, "Know that God is with (you). Know that He knows what the truth is and the truth is going to allow (you) to get out and be alright." Twenty-seven-year-old T.I., real name Clifford Harris Jr. - remains in custody after allegedly sending his bodyguard to buy three machine guns and two silencers from an undercover police officer who was posing as an arms dealer. His lawyers asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman to release the rapper on a $2.2 million (£1.1 million) bond with monitored home confinement while he awaits trial.
But the judge said he will reserve his ruling until October 26 (07) when his lawyers are expected to present an approved home monitor.

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Opera legend LUCIANO PAVAROTTI died owing more than $24 million (£12 million) in debt, according to reports.
The Italian tenor is reported to have had an overdraft of more than $14 million (£7 million) and owed more than $10 million (£5 million) in mortgage payments at the Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank in Bologna, Italy.
Pavarotti was believed to have left a personal fortune of more than $400 million (£200 million) - but his personal fortune is believed to be much less.
It is thought the finances of Pavarotti’s estate could put an end to the rift between his second wife Nicoletta Mantovani and his three daughters who reportedly fell out over claims on his will.
Italian newspaper La Republica reported earlier this week (ends21Oct07), "There was no fortune of £200 million and so there will be no family squabbles." Pavarotti lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 71 on 6 September (07).

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