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Oscar winner WHOOPI GOLDBERG has blasted U.S. magazine editors for criticising her wardrobe, branding one fashion writer an "anonymous b**ch".
The Ghost star is tired of the attacks from the fashion police, who have turned on the actress/comedienne for the casual outfits she wears as a co-host on U.S. magazine show The View.
And, when TV Guide writer Ingela Ratledge recently accused Goldberg of "looking like you’re ready to make a run to (discount store) Costco," the star decided enough was enough.
She dedicated the last few minutes of Friday’s (20Mar09) show to hit out at the magazine writers.
Blasting Ratledge, she says, "My style, who I am, is not about my clothing. If I came out in a bag, I would still and always will be me, so you can kiss my a**." She added, "To the young lady Stacy Landon. Stacy, Tracey, whatever your name is. I don’t need you to take me seriously. I am myself, I’ve always been myself, and you don’t judge me by what I wear, you judge me by what I say." Goldberg signed off the programme by tearing up the magazine as her co-presenters cheered.

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LOVE ACTUALLY star KRIS MARSHALL is facing a paternity test after a neighbour alleged she is pregnant with his child.
The British actor has been with his girlfriend Kelly Eastwood for two years, but reportedly began an affair with the unnamed female neighbour last year.
My Family star Marshall split from the woman last month (Feb09) when she revealed she is pregnant - and he is urging her to undergo a DNA test to determine who is the father.
A source tells British tabloid the News of the World, "At first he didn’t want anything to do with it and hasn’t seen her since - but now he must have changed his stance as he now wants her to have the DNA test." The source adds that the neighbour is "devastated" at Marshall’s demand and claims she has had no other lovers.
A spokesman for Marshall says, "If it turns out positive he will hold up his hands and accept his parental responsibilities."

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DICK TRACY director and star WARREN BEATTY is facing a lawsuit over legal rights to the brand.
In a Delaware, U.S. court filing on Thursday (19Mar09), Tribune Media Services - a unit of bankrupt newspaper publisher Tribune - alleged Beatty "wrongly claims" to have exclusive motion picture and television rights to the police detective character.
Beatty bought the broadcast rights to Dick Tracy in 1985, going on to act and direct the 1990 film of the same name which also starred Madonna and Al Pacino.
According to court papers, Tribune Co. claims Beatty "made no productive use" of the rights for more than a decade and therefore they should revert back to Tribune as the franchise is potentially worth millions.
Court papers reveal that the battle for Dick Tracy has been going on since 2006, and in November last year (08) Beatty filed a suit against Tribune Media Services stating he had already begun work on a Dick Tracy television special.

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British Prime Minister GORDON BROWN has led emotional tributes for reality TV star JADE GOODY, who died on Sunday (22Mar09) after losing her battle with cervical cancer.
Goody, who made a name for herself after appearing on the U.K.’s Big Brother in 2002, passed away aged 27 at her home in Upshire, south east England in the early hours of Sunday.
Now the country’s leader Brown has honoured the star by praising her for raising awareness of the deadly disease.
He says, "I was deeply saddened to hear the news of Jade Goody’s death. She was a courageous woman both in life and death and the whole country have admired her determination to provide a bright future for her children.
"She will be remembered fondly by all who knew her and her family can be extremely proud of the work she has done to raise awareness of cervical cancer which will benefit thousands of women." The star’s former partner Jeff Brazier - the father of her two sons Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie - says, "I’m grateful the boys were able to say their goodbyes and spend that precious time with their wonderful mother.
"Bobby and Freddie are my absolute priority and I will be doing everything I can to be their rock and to give them all my love and support to get them through a confusing and upsetting time." Gosford Park actor Stephen Fry, who met Goody when they both appeared on a U.K. talk show, took to his Twitter.com page to write: "Poor, dear Jade… I warmed to her immensely. All impulsive spirit and smiles. What a life.
"Jade lived life under a magnifying glass. Magnifying glasses magnify (obviously) but they distort and they burn. I suppose she was a kind of Princess D (Diana) from the wrong side of the tracks." Prince Azim, the son of the Sultan of Brunei and a friend of Goody’s, added: "Jade was a warm and lovely lady. My condolences to (husband) Jack (Tweed) and her family."

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British reality TV star JADE GOODY has died after losing her battle with cervical cancer. She was 27.
Goody, who shot to fame in 2002 after appearing on the U.K. version of Big Brother, passed away at her home in Upshire, south east England in the early hours of Sunday (22Mar09).
The TV personality was diagnosed with cancer while appearing on India’s reality show Big Boss last August (08), and underwent an emergency hysterectomy.
She bravely battled the illness by undergoing chemotherapy, subsequently showcasing her pain and hair loss on TV in reality show Living with Jade Goody.
Her cancer spread to her liver, groin, and bowel and she was told earlier this year (09) that her chances of survival had been dramatically reduced. Just days later, doctors gave Goody the devastating news that there was nothing more they could do, and she only had months to live.
After her death was announced, Goody’s mother Jackiey Budden said: "My beautiful daughter is at peace." Goody carved out a lucrative career through magazine and book deals and starring in a string of reality shows.
Hugely popular with celebrity magazine readers in the U.K., Goody’s good fortune was left in tatters after she was accused of racism over comments she made to Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty during the filming of Britain’s Celebrity Big Brother in 2006.
After her cancer was announced, Goody documented her struggle in a series of U.K. press interviews, admitting she was eager to earn as much money for her children in case she died from the disease. Just weeks before her death, she wed her sweetheart Jack Tweed in an emotional ceremony - banking an estimated $1 million (£750,000) from a magazine deal for the poignant wedding pictures.
A week later (07Mar09), she and her two sons Bobby, five, and four year old Freddie, were christened.

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The JONAS BROTHERS have given U.S. President BARACK OBAMA’s daughters a lifetime pass to their concerts.
Sasha and Malia Obama are huge fans of the teen pop sensations, who surprised them and their friends with a White House visit in the hours after their father took office in January (09).
And now the Jonases want the girls to know they’ll always be welcome at their shows, including one at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on 13 July (09).
Joe Jonas says, "Hopefully, the family will come out and watch the show. They’re always invited."

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Troubled singer AMY WINEHOUSE has quit trying to saving her marriage to BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL - announcing the decision with a message posted online.
The Rehab hitmaker jetted back from a three-month hiatus on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia earlier this month (Mar09), when she learned Fielder-Civil had been released from his prison sentence for assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Yet despite writing heartfelt pleas for a reconciliation on her Facebook page, an announcement posted on the site on Friday (20Mar09) suggests Winehouse has given up any hope of salvaging her marriage.
She writes, "I don’t think I’ll ever see (Blake) again."

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A group of previously unknown letters written by British royal PRINCE CHARLES have netted more than $29,000 (£20,000) on auction website eBay.
The six handwritten notes sold on Friday (20Mar09) were penned during the 1970s and 1980s - before the prince married his late ex-wife Princess Diana.
They are all said to have been written to receptionist Janet Jenkins, who Charles met while she worked at the British consulate in Montreal, Canada.
One letter, penned just a year before Charles’ marriage to the then Lady Diana Spencer, tells of the media pressure he felt to tie the knot.
It reads, "I can see that I will just have to get married as soon as possible and then all these people might relax a little. Don’t worry - whatever happens I will make sure you are given early warning." Jenkins put the letters on sale when her firm, Everything Royal, went bust. An anonymous bidder bagged the notes for their reserve price.

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Legendary actor SIR MICHAEL CAINE has blasted Britain’s drug culture, blaming addicts for the U.K.’s street crime epidemic.
The Get Carter star has been on location in the grittier suburbs of London, filming latest project Harry Brown - in which he plays a vigilante ex-Marine tired of petty gangsters terrorising his neighbourhood.
And after meeting dozens of disaffected locals on set, Caine - who grew up on a tough London estate - believes drugs are the difference between the violence he experienced as a youth and today.
He tells British tabloid The Sun, "What you have now which you didn’t have when I was young is drugs. You had alcoholism, people getting p**sed, but you never had the drugs and that is a massive problem.
"We were shooting in Hackney (east London) and someone local came up to me and said, ‘Welcome to Crackney!’ It was a gentler time when I was young. There were vicious gangsters but they were professional gangsters. They chose who they hit and what they robbed.
"But the drug addicts today have to kill anybody - it doesn’t matter who - to get the money, so you get this incredible random violence. When I was young you fought the guy in the next street. But it wasn’t so vicious then. We fought with our fists. Now they fight with knives and guns.
"I have now seen it at close hand, very close hand. I was quite aware of it and I come from there, but even I was shocked to find out how bad it is."

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British actresses SIENNA MILLER and KEIRA KNIGHTLEY shunned the Hollywood lifestyle while shooting a movie together - they preferred crossword puzzles to crazy nights out.
The duo lived together on location in Wales while filming Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge Of Love in 2007. And Miller insists her pal’s level head meant evenings indoors playing cards rather than partying.
She tells Britain’s Daily Express newspaper, "(Knightley’s) ridiculously mature for her age. I am 12 compared with her.
"We lived in a house in Wales together. We’d play cards, do crosswords, that kind of thing."

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New mum M.I.A. has named her new baby boy IKHYD.
The Paper Planes hitmaker gave birth to her first son with fiance Benjamin Brewer last month (11Feb09), just days after performing onstage at the Grammy Awards.
Internet gossip sites suggested she had called the tot Ickitt, but the star flatly denied the rumours.
And now the child’s real name has been revealed by celebrity website TMZ.com - it’s Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman.

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METALLICA surprised their fans with a secret gig at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on Friday night (20Mar09).
The rockers played a 13-song set as part of the Guitar Hero: Metallica showcase, performing some of their greatest hits including For Whom The Bell Tolls and Seek & Destroy.
Only 2,100 fans were allowed in to the show at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, which was guarded by a dozen police officers and 75 security guards, according to Keyetv.com.

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Country star LEANN RIMES’ dancer husband has been ‘outed’ as gay by people insisting they’re family members.
One of Dean Sheremet’s cousins, calling herself Pebbles, called in to Michigan’s Mojo In The Morning radio show on Friday (20Mar09) to comment on reports suggesting Rimes has been cheating on her husband with married actor Eddie Cibrian.
And the relative revealed the family is far from shocked by leaked security video footage, which appears to show Rimes and Cibrian getting intimate and kissing at a restaurant on a secret date - they’re surprised the marriage has lasted so long.
Pebbles told the morning show, "There were so many situations that happened when we were teenagers… He’s gay. He’s been gay since he was probably five.
"The family literally used to take bets on what age he would come out, and then all of the sudden he got married!" Both Rimes and Cibrian’s publicists have dismissed the reports of infidelity, and, in his only comment about the media fuss, Sheremet, who renewed his wedding vows with Rimes last August (08), posted, "I love my wife!!!" on Twitter.com.

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A judge in the PHIL SPECTOR murder retrial has ruled jurors can consider a manslaughter conviction against the star.
The music mogul is accused of shooting actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his Alhambra, California mansion in 2003. His defence team maintains Clarkson shot herself.
Both prosecuting and defence attorneys have now rested their cases and closing arguments are scheduled to begin on Monday (23Mar09).
But at a hearing on Friday (20Mar09), Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler said he was "mandated under the law" to give the 12 jurors the option to consider a verdict of involuntary manslaughter instead of second-degree murder.
However, Spector’s attorney, Doron Weinberg, has called the ruling "absolutely erroneous", adding, "All it does is confuse the jury." The trial continues.

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ART GARFUNKEL has been criticised for allegedly insulting a handicapped fan at a concert.
The singer was reading a poem at a show in New York earlier this month (12Mar09) when he stopped midway through and reportedly berated a disabled person at the front of the audience.
According to an online blog, Garfunkel stopped reading his poem at least twice and then said: �I try to be kind to the handicapped, but I�m trying to put on a show here.� A fan in a wheelchair was then apparently wheeled out.
And supporters of the singer have lambasted his behaviour, with one person writing online, �He is an arrogant (bleep). I am sorry I did not walk out of the concert.� The manager of the Turning Stone Resort and Casino has confirmed an incident involving Garfunkel took place at the show.
No more details were available as WENN went to press.

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DAWSON’S CREEK star KERR SMITH is divorcing his wife of five years.
The actor filed for official separation from actress Harmoni Everett on Friday (20Mar09), citing irreconcilable differences, according to celebrity website TMZ.com.
The pair married in 2003.
No further details were available as WENN went to press.

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SEX AND THE CITY actress CYNTHIA NIXON overlooked the shocking content of the series when she first read the TV script - because she was desperate to remain in New York.
Nixon reluctantly considered moving to Los Angeles before the sexually charged story about four single women living in her native New York landed on her lap.
And she was determined to get the attention of casting directors so she wouldn’t need to leave the Big Apple behind.
She says, "It wasn’t so much that it was shocking and risque it was more like, ‘Wow, there’s a show about women that shoots in New York.’ Everything’s shot in California. I was a New Yorker, and I didn’t want to relocate. So certainly how different it was grabbed my attention, but the New York part of it grabbed my attention first."

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The uncle of actress NATASHA RICHARDSON paid a moving tribute to his late niece, dedicating his theatre performance on Friday (20Mar09) night to the star.
Corin Redgrave, brother of Richardson’s mother, Vanessa Redgrave, returned to the London stage for his role in Trumbo following the Maid In Manhattan star’s death on Wednesday (18Mar09).
He revealed his devastation at the loss of a treasured family member, saying: "She was the most adorable niece, most adorable person. Generous, kind, funny with a brilliant talent.
"I will miss her terribly and my thoughts at this time are with Vanessa, Liam and the children." His tribute came on the same night as theatres across the British capital dimmed their lights to honour the star.
Venues in the West End held a two minute switch-off just before curtain-up time "as a mark of respect for both Natasha Richardson and her immediate family, and for the Redgrave family as a whole who have made such a unique contribution to British theatre".
Nica Burns, president of the Society of London Theatre, added that it was "a gesture of condolence at this sad time".
Richardson lost her fight for life after suffering a traumatic brain injury while learning to ski in Montreal, Canada earlier this week (begs16Mar09).
And it has emerged that the star turned down the offer of a protective helmet during the fateful lesson.
A staff member at Mont Tremblant tells British newspaper The Sun, �We are heartbroken that we didn�t do more to persuade her to wear one. A helmet would have cost her just ten dollars (Canadian).
�Every skier is encouraged to wear a helmet, especially beginners like Natasha. But it is not legally enforced and they can always refuse.
"I remember Natasha coming into the shop before her lesson. She seemed cheerful, bright and extremely beautiful. She said she wasn�t a good skier and was a little nervous.� Richardson will be buried in a private family ceremony near her Millbrook Dutchess County home in New York on Sunday (22Mar09).
The actress’ family has requested fans donate to the amfAR foundation for AIDS research, which Richardson was a patron of, instead of sending flowers.

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