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Australian pop star ZOE BADWI narrowly escaped injury during the filming of her latest music video after an angry resident allegedly fired a catapult at her and tipped water over the production crew.
The singer was shooting the promo for new song Accidents Happen on a street in Sydney last week (ends23Jan11) when the disturbance took place.
Badwi claims someone took a shot at her from an overlooking window, and the missile narrowly missed a crew member working on the shoot.
She tells the AAP, "I don’t know what was in the slingshot but it was something because it flew past one of the guys’ heads and he heard it hit the wall, so it was pretty serious. I don’t know if the person was angry with life but it was on; i was ready to go buy a carton of eggs and pelt his window… Cars drive down that road all the time which are way louder than me and anyway it was a Friday night." No arrests were made and the video shoot was completed a few days later.

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Singing sensation SUSAN BOYLE has seen off competition from actor EWAN MCGREGOR to be named Scot of the Year.
Boyle enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame after footage of her audition on U.K. TV show Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 spread across the internet and made her an overnight star.
She has since enjoyed two number one records in both Britain and the U.S., and was named Sony’s highest-selling international artist earlier this week (begs24Jan11).
The unlikely pop idol has now earned a much more personal honour - she’s been voted Scotland’s star of the year for 2010.
She received a 95 per cent share of the public vote, ahead of disgraced Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan, who is facing a jail term for perjury, in second place with three per cent.
McGregor was third with two per cent in the ScotsCare survey.

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British rocker MICK JONES is hoping to treat fans to new material when he reunites his 1980s band BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE this year (11).
Jones, who founded the punk rock reggae group in 1984 after leaving The Clash, has convinced the original line-up to get back together after 20 years apart.
The band will kick off a U.K. tour in March (11) and Jones is already making plans to debut new tracks after their long hiatus.
He tells the BBC, "It is all the original guys, so thank God we’re all still alive. It’s very nice to reacquaint ourselves fully… We’re going to have to practice. First we’re going to do a couple of weeks of pre-production, try to find the old tapes and get the old samples.
"I’m hoping to use a lot of the old gear (instruments) as well because it sounded very different. The old songs have matured with age and there’s a possibility we may be able to do some new stuff, who knows? We’re going to try and recreate some of the old feelings and look for some new ones." Big Audio Dynamite has also scored a coveted slot at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California in April (11).

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Rapper/actor ICE-T’s teenage son has been arrested on suspicion of public indecency.
Ice Marrow, Jr., the 19-year-old son of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star, was detained by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in California in the early hours of Monday morning (24Jan11).
He was booked into a police station in Van Nuys and later released on $5,000 (£3,333) bail. Further details were unavailable as WENN went to press.
Marrow, Jr. is set to appear in a new reality TV show called The Real Teens Of Hollywood.

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KE$HA’s former managers are pushing for a resolution to their ongoing legal battle with the pop star - in case she squanders her fortune and can’t afford a pay-out.
The TiK ToK hitmaker is facing legal action from her former representatives at DAS Communications, who are suing for $14 million (£9.3 million) over allegations she owes them commission for unlawfully terminating her contract before she signed a major music deal.
In new papers filed at New York’s Manhattan Supreme Court, DAS bosses suggest the star may be delaying the case - and they fear she may be broke by the time the matter is resolved.
The documents, obtained by the New York Post, state: "(Ke$ha) is a very young and inexperienced artist whose ’star’ may not continue to rise.
"Although she has made an incredible amount of money in a very short period of time, in large part due to DAS’ efforts on her behalf, she could just as easily lose money if not properly guided." Ke$ha is countersuing, claiming bosses at DAS Communications acted unlawfully during her time at the firm because they allegedly booked her a string of jobs in California without the proper paperwork.

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Actor VINNIE JONES is keen to move into comedy roles - but fears he will be stuck playing tough guys for the rest of his career.
The former soccer ace found fame in Hollywood with his gritty role in Guy Ritchie’s 1998 gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and has since taken on a string of similar hard man parts.
But Jones is worried about being type-cast, and fears moviegoers only buy tickets to his films to see him in violent scenes.
He tells Recognise magazine, "I’d like to get into comedy, but no one will take the chance. I’m not known for my comedy. A lot of my roles are tongue-in-cheek but people don’t see it.
"The trouble is you go and do a nice piece, like a film I shot with Derek Jacobi and Vanessa Redgrave (2007’s The Riddle) a few years ago where I had the lead role. All the critics said it was a great little film, a great story and great acting but audiences just want to see Vinnie bashing people up."

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SKINS creator BRYAN ELSLEY has responded to the controversy surrounding the drama, insisting the series "tells the truth" about teenagers’ lives.
The American adaptation of the British TV show, which premiered in the U.S. last week (17Jan11), has been met with outrage from viewers and a parenting campaign group over its risque storylines involving sex and drugs.
Elsley, who wrote Skins with his young son Jamie Brittain, has defended the programme, describing it as an honest depiction of modern youth.
In a statement posted on MTV.com, he explains, "Skins is a very simple and in fact rather old fashioned television series. It’s about the lives and loves of teenagers, how they get through high school, how they deal with their friends, and also how they circumnavigate some of the complications of sex, relationships, educations, parents, drugs and alcohol.
"The show is written from the perspective of teenagers, reflects their world view, and this has caused a degree of controversy both in the U.K. and the U.S.A… It tries to tell the truth. Sometimes that truth can be a little painful to adults and parents." Elsley’s statement comes as a string of major corporations, including Subway and Taco Bell, pulled their promotion from Skins’ ad breaks.

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JAMES FRANCO gained a newfound respect for professional porn stars after he tried and failed to make his own saucy sex tape at the age of 19.
The Spider-Man star admits he filmed his raunchy bedroom antics as a teenager but was less than impressed when he watched back the footage.
Franco, who has dated actress Ahna O’Reilly since 2006, now admits he commends adult movie stars for managing to look attractive and "really selling" sex.
Speaking at Newsweek magazine’s Oscar roundtable discussion, Franco says, "I think (as) anybody who has made a home sex tape knows, what feels best doesn’t always look best. I remember when I was 19 doing that, and then watching it back and thinking, ‘Oh, that looks horrible.’ "You have a lot of respect for those actors in pornography, because they are really not just doing it, they’re really selling it. You understand what it’s like to be intimate with someone, so you just kind of let yourself go over to that situation."

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. is relieved a miniseries about his famous family was axed from U.S. TV - because he feared THE KENNEDYS was "historically inaccurate".
Kennedy, Jr., the son of late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, admits he has yet to see the drama, which was pulled earlier this month (Jan11), but he has his doubts over the creators’ intentions.
And the 57-year-old attorney insists he wouldn’t want Americans to watch a series that is "not true".
He tells Access Hollywood, "You know, I don’t know much about it… My understanding of it was that it was historically inaccurate, that it was created by a group of people who had an extreme and ingrained hostility towards my family and that they, you know, they twisted history.
"I don’t think that - in any case, whoever it’s about - that we should be teaching history to Americans that is not true." The Kennedys, which starred Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy and Katie Holmes as his wife Jackie, was dropped by executives at America’s History Channel after they decided it was "not a fit" for the network.

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Scottish actor ALAN CUMMING felt "awkward" when he first started shooting THE TEMPEST, because he feared director JULIE TAYMOR was still angry with him for quitting her beleaguered SPIDER-MAN musical.
Cumming walked away from his role as the Green Goblin in lavish Broadway stage production Spider-Man:Turn Off the Dark last April (10) after a series of set-backs.
The show, directed by Taymor, has since been further delayed following a string of on-set accidents, including the hospitalisation of seriously injured stuntman Christopher Tierney, who underwent spinal surgery after falling from a ledge during a performance last month (Dec10).
Cumming is relieved he escaped the ill-fated production in time, but admits he was scared his relationship with Taymor would be tainted when filming began on her big screen re-imagining of the Shakespeare play.
He tells Britain’s The Guardian, "My God, that was a lucky escape. Jesus Christ! Talk about dodging a bullet there! It just f**ked me about. It kept getting delayed and delayed, and so I was like, ‘OK, time to move on.’ "It was a bit awkward (with Taymor). She wasn’t best pleased when I quit. But the thing about Julie is that she’s very blinkered about her work, and then things go into the ether. So the next time I saw her for The Tempest, it was like it never happened."

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The first screening of AL PACINO’s new movie THE SON OF NO ONE was marred by a number of walkouts at a preview for Hollywood executives on Monday (24Jan11).
The gritty crime drama, starring Pacino, Channing Tatum, Ray Liotta and Katie Holmes, received a lukewarm response from the audience at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The publication reports "a stream" of movie studio bosses walked out before the credits rolled, while one fan’s attempts to lead a round of applause at the end of the film did not catch on.
The movie, about a young cop with a dark secret, has been picked to close the festival on Friday (28Jan11).

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Australian actress/singer SOPHIE MONK is engaged to marry her businessman boyfriend.
The 31 year old’s longtime pal Jimmy Esebag, who is 20 years her senior, proposed during a recent night out at her favourite Los Angeles restaurant.
Monk announced the news on Australian radio station 2Day FM, where she is currently co-hosting the breakfast show, on Tuesday (25Jan11), describing Esebag as her "soul partner" and revealing, "I got engaged, and I kept it quiet so no one’s heard much about him. He’s a keeper. It feels right - I think you know when you know… I’m marrying a male version of myself, which is dangerous but good." Monk was previously engaged to Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden, who went on to date Paris Hilton.

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JOHN TRAVOLTA has turned down a cameo appearance on GLEE - because producers wouldn’t give him enough time to rehearse for a "knock ‘em dead" song-and-dance number.
The movie star’s Grease sweetheart Olivia Newton-John has appeared on the hit show, but Travolta insists he won’t be following in her footsteps.
He tells news show Entertainment Tonight, "They’ve asked but when I do musicals I train for six to nine months… and a show like that is an on-demand thing.
"I really have a criteria or a pride that I would wanna knock ‘em dead, and I don’t think I’d knock ‘em dead in a week."

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THOMAS HADEN CHURCH was left nursing a rib injury on the set of new movie ANOTHER HAPPY DAY, after his co-star DEMI MOORE wrapped her legs around the actor and "crushed" him.
The two stars play a separated couple in the film about a dysfunctional family, but one scene got out of hand, according to Ellen Barkin, who produces and appears in the picture.
Barkin reveals Church was left in pain after filming one particular shot with Moore.
She tells E! Online, "Demi wrapped her legs around him (Church), and he said her legs crushed his ribs.
"I said, ‘It’s always the guy - the big, macho, muscley guy. Like there’s little tiny Demi and me and he’s hurt?’"

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Actor DAVID HASSELHOFF has been reunited with two cancer survivors he first met when they were diagnosed with the disease as children 20 years ago.
The Baywatch star first encountered the two men when they were just kids newly diagnosed with cancer in Vienna, Austria in the early 1990s, as part of his charity work.
He visited them again on Monday (24Jan11) - and was pleased to see how well they’ve recovered from their early-life health scares.
In a video posted on his website, Hasselhoff says, "Here we are at the St. Anna’s Children Hospital in Vienna where I met these children here 20 years ago. We established a foundation called the David Hasselhoff Benefit Foundation for Children with Cancer.
"We started this foundation and these two children survived cancer and they lived. It’s an amazing thing to come back and see this. Miracles happen. It’s incredible."

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Singer TAYLOR SWIFT took to the seas at the weekend (22-23Jan11) for a special gig onboard a luxury cruise ship.
The Love Story hitmaker was the star guest on the Allure of the Seas liner in the Caribbean - and she reveals the show was a fun experience.
She tells ETOnline.com, "The cool thing about playing the AquaTheater is that the crowd is in front of you, but they’re also all on their balconies and… they’re everywhere. It’s very exciting.
"People had decked out their balconies and were wearing shirts and holding up banners and it was so sweet. I love feeling that love from the fans and they’ve been so wonderful to me."

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British singer ALEXANDRA BURKE is urging her fans to volunteer their time or donate cash to a children’s charity to support the organisation’s latest campaign.
The Bad Boys hitmaker is an ambassador for Save the Children and she’s backing their No Child Born To Die initiative, which aims to provide vaccinations for kids around the world.
She tells Britain’s Live from Studio Five, "There are people out there in this world that definitely need our help.
"I really just wanted to be a part of it, to be able to tell people in this world… to just help - whether it be donating a pound or donating your time for half an hour to volunteer, it all goes a long way." Actress Helena Bonham Carter voices the campaign’s public service announcement, stating, "We are all born to dream, born to achieve, born to discover. Some are born to be the fastest, the greatest, or simply the bestest. But while some are born to grow old and wise, many more will never grow up at all."

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Country star STEVE EARLE is set to become the latest celebrity to get literary - he will release his first novel in May (11).
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish the Guitar Town singer’s new book I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive, which will hit stores a month after his new album of the same name.
Earle’s novel "imagines the troubled life of Doc Ebersole as he is haunted by the ghost of his former patient and friend, Hank Williams".

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