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CHRISTIE BRINKLEY has launched her third ‘Got Milk’ ad poster at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, 14 years after giving the campaign a celebrity start.
The former supermodel was among the first stars to sport a ‘milk moustache’ for the pro-dairy ads when she helped launched the campaign in 1995.
And she admits she’s always been a big fan of milk.
She says, "We had our glass of milk right there - at every meal. My mom was always just guzzling the milk back."

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RENEE ZELLWEGER has become an unofficial ambassador for underwear company Hanes after insisting the firm’s pantyhose saved her life on the freezing set of her new film.
The actress shot New In Town with Harry Connick Jr. in Winnipeg, Canada, and admits the big freeze there took a lot of getting used to.
Zellweger explains, "I didn’t know cold like that, it was a whole different kind of experience. I had to develop new survival skills. It was a whole new language for the biological things that happen.
"Who knew that pantyhose could be so very important - three or four pairs at a time. I never imagined that I would rejoice at the pantyhose laid out on the bed by wardrobe every morning. They were essential. I would not be here today were it not for the Hanes." But, despite the big chill, Zellweger can’t wait to return to Winnipeg.
She tells WENN, "We had a really good time. There were so many things about that place that were so charming. I loved the ice sculpture downtown. And I loved waiting for the snow to compile and harden - that took probably 30 minutes. That was fantastic.
"The tenacity of the people there was just so impressive. To me, you looked outside and thought, ‘Where is the road?’ - because you can’t see the road. I’d think, ‘I guess there is no driving today.’ But that’s not the case. Everybody just gets up and they get on with it like it’s normal. It’s just commonplace that your face freezes within two seconds of stepping outside of the door."

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Australian actress RACHEL GRIFFITHS is relieved she can finally talk about her pregnancy, after hiding it from the world for the past three months.
The 40-year-old Muriel’s Wedding star has sucked in her stomach and hidden behind loose-fitting clothes, so that no one would guess she was expecting before she was ready to announce the happy news.
And now she’s thrilled she can shout it from the rooftops.
Griffiths, who is expecting her third child with husband Andrew Taylor in July (09), tells People.com, "I feel great - it’s just great… I’m in my second trimester and it’s just amazing. I’m just relieved I don’t have to suck my stomach in anymore."

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SEPULTURA star ANDREAS KISSER has ruled out a reunion with former bandmates IGOR and MAX CAVALERA, insisting the trio isn’t talking about anything.
Fans of the Brazilian heavy rockers were left hoping for an original line-up reunion after Max Cavalera recently announced he’d entertain the idea, but Kisser has slammed the door shut on any plans to reform.
He tells Blistering.com, "Since Max left (the group), it’s (reunion talk) been going on and when Igor left…even more so
. Some people make up the pressure for us to do it, but there’s nothing to it
. We’re not interested in it all..
. I don’t understand all of this bulls**t.
"Max is crazy and doesn’t make any sense and he can change from month to month..
. There’s there’s one version of the story and we have ours." And Kisser is refusing to comment on the band’s split from the Cavaleras: "We’re not into revising history or telling a story regarding what happened.
Only time will tell
. Talk is cheap
. You can say whatever you want..
. We’re not talking."

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AEROSMITH frontman STEVEN TYLER enjoyed his first sexual experience at the tender age of seven - with teenage twins.
The infamous rocker and ageing sex symbol managed the menage-a-trois with two fellow choristers at his childhood church.
Tyler, now 60, tells Elle magazine, "They sat next to me in the church choir and took me home one day. We had a you-show-me-yours-I’ll-show-you-mine session." The star confesses he developed a fetish for twins after the tryst, and tried to recreate the threesome with his second wife Teresa Barrick and her twin unsuccessfully.
Tyler - who divorced Barrick in 2006 - jokes, "I asked her for years and I got so smacked down."

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JENNIFER HUDSON is "feeling good" and preparing for a big showbiz comeback, three months after her mother, brother and young nephew were brutally murdered.
Hudson has delayed her return to public life, as she struggles to come to terms with the killings - for which her former brother-in-law William Balfour has been charged by police.
She had hoped to attend Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday (20Jan09), after having helped her native Chicago, Illinois senator on the campaign trail, but Hudson has delayed her comeback until the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida on 1 February (09), where she will sing the American National Anthem.
And Jamie Foxx, who starred alongside Hudson in the movie Dreamgirls, insists she is raring to go: "Of course she was disappointed (to miss the inauguration). But nobody has seen her in so long, so it would’ve been crazy (to do that).
"She’s doing well, and she said that she wants to get back into the swing of things. She’s feeling good." Foxx was among the stars who paid tribute to Obama at a free concert and spoken word spectacular on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Sunday (18Jan09).
The actor/comedian wowed the crowd by impersonating the President-elect and repeating his election night victory address in November (08).

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Actress EVAN RACHEL WOOD narrowly avoided a hospital visit after cutting her hand on the set of new movie THE WRESTLER - director DARREN ARONOFSKY offered to superglue the bloody wound himself to avoid delaying the shoot.
Wood plays actor Mickey Rourke’s onscreen daughter in the new film, and one violent scene left her hand slashed open.
She says, "I cut my finger throwing something at him (Rourke). I squeezed a can and sliced my finger open in the middle of the scene. I’m covered in blood and (Aronofsky) the director’s going, ‘Use it! Look at your hand! Keep going! Let’s take some photos of that blood make sure ours is authentic.’ "(He’s) Not like, ‘Are you OK?’ He said, ‘So we can call an ambulance, but we don’t have a lot of time. We can superglue it.’"

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R&B star RIHANNA has topped the U.K. singles chart rundown for 2008, selling almost 1.3 million copies.
The sexy singer released hit tracks Take a Bow, Disturbia and Rehab in the country last year (08), and continued download sales of 2007 smash Umbrella ensured she snared the top spot of overall single sales in 2008, with 1,294,093 units shifted.
She beat out competition from Welsh soul star Duffy, who sold just over a million copies, and Leona Lewis who achieved sales of 992,644.
Rounding out the top five best single-selling artists were British reality show winner Alexandra Burke with 867,933 and girl group Girls Aloud who sold 876,050 copies.
And it was British boyband Take That who took the crown in the album rundown of the year, selling 2,051,825 LPs.
Duffy - real name Aimee Ann Duffy - once again came second in the rundown, shifting 1,684,944 copies of her debut album Rockferry, closely followed by rockers Kings Of Leon in third place with sales of 1,620,215.
In fourth place were Coldplay, who sold 1,380,367 units, and The Killers rounded out the top five with sales of 1,137,554.

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The real life hero of DANIEL CRAIG’s new movie DEFIANCE has been accused of conning a woman out of $250,000 (£167,000).
Aron Bielski and his brothers rescued more than 1,000 jews from the Nazis in Poland during the Second World War. Their achievements are portrayed in the new movie; with Bielski, now 81, played by actor George McKay.
But the retiree has landed in trouble in Palm Beach, Florida, where cops claim he swindled 93-year-old Janina Zaniewska.
According to the New York Daily News, Bielski - who now calls himself Aron Bell - has agreed to pay the money back to Zaniewska.
Defiance director Ed Zwick says of his movie’s subject, "(The Bielski brothers’) moral compass at times was askew. Aron is a survivor. When he was a child, he learned to do what he had to do."

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PARIS HILTON has confirmed she went on an unlikely date with GEORGE CLOONEY recently - but she’s not ready to move on after splitting with boyfriend BENJI MADDEN last year (08).
The socialite spent Christmas and New Year single after she and the Good Charlotte rocker decided to end their nine-month long relationship, but she started out 2009 with a much-publicised date with one of the world’s most eligible bachelors.
However, Hilton admits romance stories are a little far fetched: "It was just a group of friends. I am very single." And she insists she’s still struggling to get over her split from Madden.
She tells HollyScoop.com, "He is one of my best friends and the sweetest guy I ever dated in my life. I really grew when I was with him. He made me really happy. Showed me what real, real friendship is."

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BILL NIGHY’s continuous acting success has been marred by bittersweet memories of his late father - who would have been so proud of his son’s achievements.
The Love Actually star has carved out a steady career as a character actor over the last thirty years, starring in theatre, TV and film.
But he wishes his dad Alfred, who died of a heart attack when Nighy was in his twenties, could have witnessed his rise to fame.
Nighy says, "One of the first things that occurs to me when I think of any success that I have had is: I wish my dad was alive.
"My mother got an opportunity to see some of the good things that happened to me professionally, but my father never did. I would have liked it - it would have been the one thing he could have enjoyed. He deserved it. It would have given him enormous pride."

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Black actor MORRIS CHESTNUT has defended Hollywood against claims the studios are racist - insisting the movie industry is motivated by money, not skin colour.
A number of stars have accused the studio system of discriminating against artists, based on their race; most notably Halle Berry and Salma Hayek.
But Last Boy Scout star Chestnut rejects the notion, telling Hip Hop Weekly, "Hollywood’s not black and it’s not white - it’s green.
"Once you start making that green they don’t care what colour you are and that’s just the way it is."

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Tony Award winning star PATTI LuPONE abruptly stopped her performance of Broadway musical GYPSY - to eject a picture-taking theatregoer from the show.
Stunned by a patron who wouldn’t stop taking photographs during the second act, the veteran singer/actress demanded the lights be turned on and cameraman escorted out after flashes continued to go off despite previous warnings by production staff.
Lupone stopped singing to unleash: "Stop, stop, stop taking pictures right now. You heard the announcement. Who do you think you are? Get them out. How dare you? Who do you think you are? I won’t continue with them taking pictures.
Get them out." To the music of boisterous applause, she continued before bursting back into song: "Turn the lights back on. They’re right back there. Three times, three times you took a picture. You heard the announcement in the beginning, you heard the announcement at intermission, who do you think you are? This is a theatre.
"I have to say this: We have forgotten our public manners. And we have forgotten that we are in a community, and this is the theatre, and every single one of you, all of you, except for that person has respect for that. And I and the rest of the company appreciate it."

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JENNIFER ANISTON has found an unlikely saviour in the form of a paparazzo after the photographer reportedly saved one of her dogs from a car collision.
The former Friends star’s Corgi-Terrier, Norman, reportedly escaped from her Malibu, California home at the weekend (beg17Jan09).
A video posted on TMZ.com shows a paparazzo taking the dog back to Aniston’s home after allegedly spotting the animal running dangerously close to a busy road.
Aniston’s pet was reportedly unharmed in the incident.

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Comic book blockbuster IRON MAN is leading the nominations at the upcoming Visual Effects Society Awards.
The 2008 movie, starring Robert Downey Jnr., has scored five nods, with Batman sequel The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Bolt all taking four nominations apiece.
One of the main categories Iron Man will compete in is that for best single visual effect of the year, going up against Cloverfield, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The other big award, for best visual effects in an f/x-driven motion picture, will be battled out by Iron Man, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cloverfield and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
The VES Awards will be presented on 21 February (09) at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

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Former THE DARKNESS glam rocker JUSTIN HAWKINS is embarking on a new career as an actor, after landing a role in a new horror movie.
The star, famous for wearing jumpsuits onstage, will star alongside former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Charisma Carpenter in psychological thriller Vivid, reports BloodyDisgusting.com.
Carpenter will play a New York novelist who moves to the English countryside and becomes haunted by visions of a massacre at her manor house home.
It’s unknown what role Hawkins - who left The Darkness in 2006 - will play.
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Fans of pop legends THE BEATLES have been duped by a plague of forged memorabilia.
Even high profile devotees have fallen victim; Tom Hanks’ wife Rita Wilson is battling a dealer over a forged poster she bought for her movie star husband and a leading expert warns 90 per cent of Fab Four memorabilia is fake.
Frank Caiazzo, the resident Beatles expert at auctioneer Christie’s, tells the New York Post, "This is a growing heartbreak that’s turning up more every day. There’s a never-ending supply of non-authentic signed material.
"Ninety per cent of the Beatles material out there is fake." A top collector, meanwhile, urges fans to check the authenticity of items before they buy.
Brian San Souci adds, "If a dealer refuses to tell you who owned a piece, and when it was signed and under what circumstances, it’s highly suspicious."

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New AMERICAN IDOL judge KARA DioGUARDI has found an unusual family link daytime U.S. TV personality REGIS PHILBIN is her cousin.
The pair’s ancestors both hailed from the small town of Greci, Italy during the 18th and 19th centuries, DioGuardi discovered.
But Philbin failed to recognise the link until the Idol judge appeared on his U.S. chat show Live with Regis & Kelly on Monday (19Jan09), when producers handed him a detailed family tree showing the two were in fact distant relatives.
And songwriter DioGuardi was quick to seal their bond, extending an invitation to Philbin to her upcoming wedding to boyfriend Mike McCuddy, who proposed to the star earlier this month (Jan09).
DioGuardi says, "We’re cousins, maybe eighth or ninth cousins. I’m so proud I’m related to Regis. That’s amazing. I’m getting married. Do I have to invite him? I’m going to hold you to that (coming)."

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