Archive for October, 2008
Kate Moss’ age showed on her bare face as she arrived at Heathrow airport this morning.
After years of hard-partying and hundreds of sunshine holidays the 34-year-old showed natural laughter lines around her eyes as she went make-up free.
But although the blonde supermodel’s looks have matured since she broke into the national consciousness as a fresh-faced 15-year-old, she still looked as enviably beautiful as ever.
Carrying a blue cashmere blanket for the flight ahead, Moss was accompanied by smiling boyfriend Jamie Hince. The reunited couple laughed together as they spotted the waiting paparazzi.
Rock-chick girlfriend Moss wore a stylish all-black outfit, accessorised with a huge diamond ring on her right hand.
Moss is bound to be in a good mood after her latest collection for Topshop caused a sensation this week. One dress sold out within 15 minutes after fashion fans flocked to the store.
source: dailymail.co.uk
October 30th, 2008
Supermodel Elle Macpherson has denied any romantic involvement with a convicted drug smuggler, claiming they are just good friends.
The 44-year-old has been photographed out with Brian Burgess, who was found guilty of drug trafficking in Australia in 1996.
He was sentenced to four years for attempting to smuggle 2kg of cocaine from the US in hollowed-out boots.
He was deported to England, where he was born, after serving out his jail term.
He left a wife and three children in Australia.
Burgess, 56, now owns a removals company called Aussie Man&Van and reportedly met Macpherson when he helped her move from Notting Hill to Ladbroke Grove in west London.
The pair were photographed driving around London in the Australian supermodel’s Aston Martin convertible.
She has issued a statement in which she “emphatically denies that there is any romantic association” between them, but praises Burgess for turning his life around since leaving prison.
“Miss Macpherson is aware of Mr Burgess’s past conduct and also that Mr Burgess has, and continues to take, significant steps towards restoring his life,” the statement said.
The News of the World reported Macpherson collected Burgess from a Chelsea car showroom where he had been looking at Jaguar cars.
“The salesman was an Aussie and they were getting on great,” the newspaper quoted an onlooker as saying.
“Brian was saying how he had been seeing a new girlfriend for a few weeks. He added: ‘I’ve got to go, she’s picking me up’.
“Then Elle turns up in her car. I couldn’t believe it.”
Aussie Man & Van manager John Hess said Burgess’s drugs conviction was “all in the past”.
“This guy spends most of his time counselling people with drug and alcohol addiction,” he said.
Before his conviction, Burgess worked as an airline sales manager and later owned a travel agency
But, according to the Australian press, he became depressed after he lost his job.
He then started drinking and using cocaine and started suffering from bullimia.
Mr Burgess told the court that in the seven months before his arrest, he had become a regular cocaine user after trying the drug at a weak moment.
His wife Jennifer said at the time of his deportation he had been a good father.
“He was always a good dad, unfortunately he lost the plot for a time,” she said.
The 44-year-old has been photographed out with Brian Burgess, who was found guilty of drug trafficking in Australia in 1996.
He was sentenced to four years for attempting to smuggle 2kg of cocaine from the US in hollowed-out boots.
He was deported to England, where he was born, after serving out his jail term.
He left a wife and three children in Australia.
Burgess, 56, now owns a removals company called Aussie Man&Van and reportedly met Macpherson when he helped her move from Notting Hill to Ladbroke Grove in west London.
The pair were photographed driving around London in the Australian supermodel’s Aston Martin convertible.
She has issued a statement in which she “emphatically denies that there is any romantic association” between them, but praises Burgess for turning his life around since leaving prison.
“Miss Macpherson is aware of Mr Burgess’s past conduct and also that Mr Burgess has, and continues to take, significant steps towards restoring his life,” the statement said.
The News of the World reported Macpherson collected Burgess from a Chelsea car showroom where he had been looking at Jaguar cars.
“The salesman was an Aussie and they were getting on great,” the newspaper quoted an onlooker as saying.
“Brian was saying how he had been seeing a new girlfriend for a few weeks. He added: ‘I’ve got to go, she’s picking me up’.
“Then Elle turns up in her car. I couldn’t believe it.”
Aussie Man & Van manager John Hess said Burgess’s drugs conviction was “all in the past”.
“This guy spends most of his time counselling people with drug and alcohol addiction,” he said.
Before his conviction, Burgess worked as an airline sales manager and later owned a travel agency
But, according to the Australian press, he became depressed after he lost his job.
He then started drinking and using cocaine and started suffering from bullimia.
Mr Burgess told the court that in the seven months before his arrest, he had become a regular cocaine user after trying the drug at a weak moment.
His wife Jennifer said at the time of his deportation he had been a good father.
“He was always a good dad, unfortunately he lost the plot for a time,” she said.
source: telegraph.co.uk
October 28th, 2008
Lydia Hearst is out at Page Six. The lingerie model is out as a columnist amidst all sorts of charges and counter charges about her column. Only in New York. Let’s look at Lydia in another way and go back just a bit to when it was announced that she was the new face and body for Myla’s vintage-inspired fall and winter collection.
Bitten and Bound writes, “Looking every bit the 40’s pinup girl, one has to wonder if boyfriend Matt Rains, a Black Hawk fighter pilot deployed to Iraq, keeps her pictures pinned to his barracks wall.”
Lydia Hearst is the heiress to the Hearst publishing fortune, and daughter of Patty Hearst and B & B notes that she “caused quite a stir on the season finale of Gossip Girls, and now she’s at it again as the model for a steamy new ad campaign for Myla lingerie.”
“I’m pretty comfortable posing in my underwear. You may have seen my new campaign for British lingerie company Myla, which has spawned a bit of mudslinging on the Internet about how I’m Paris Hilton. (Remember: I am a supermodel and have the award to prove it, and she is a celebrity. There’s no comparison.” Indeed.
October 27th, 2008
Elle Macpherson’s new boyfriend is a convicted cocaine smuggler.
The 44-year-old supermodel began dating British-born Brian Burgess, 56, after his removals firm Aussie Man and Van helped her move house earlier this year.
It has been revealed Burgess spent four years in an Australian jail after he was convicted of attempting to smuggle 2kg of cocaine into the country from America in 1996.
Aussie Man and Van manager John Hess confirmed Burgess’ drug conviction, but insists he has now put the episode behind him.
Hess said: “That’s all in the past. This guy spends most of his time counselling people with drug and alcohol addictions.”
Burgess was deported back to England after he had served his sentence, leaving behind his wife Jennifer and their three young children.
Speaking at the time, Jennifer said: “He was always a good dad. Unfortunately he lost the plot for a long time.”
Burgess emigrated to Australia aged 17 and quickly found work as an airline sales manager.
However, his life spiralled out of control when he lost his job. He started drinking alcohol heavily, using cocaine and developed eating disorder bulimia.
He eventually lost his ?600,000 home and racked up drug debts of almost ?20,000.
During his trial, Burgess told the court he had been a regular cocaine user in the seven months prior to his arrest.
October 27th, 2008
Kate Moss could be starring in the next Oliver Stone movie - after the American filmmaker spent the weekend trying to hook up with the British supermodel.
Stone is in London promoting his new movie, W, which stars Josh Brolin as George W. Bush.
And the 62-year-old “spent the entire evening on his phone attempting to get Kate to come along and join up with them,” a source told British newspaper The London Paper.
“He’s in his 60s but Oliver certainly has stamina, starting off at The Dorchester, and then going to Paper with Cameron and ending up at Bungalow 8.
“Oliver kept texting Kate and leaving her messages trying to persuade her to meet up.
“His pleas were starting to become a bit desperate and he was obviously having no luck.”
source: showbizspy.com
October 27th, 2008
Model Dinh Lan Phuong will represent Vietnam at the world’s most prestigious model contest, the Elite Model Look 2008, in Sanya, the southernmost city in the Chinese province of Hainan.
Phuong, who is 1.81m tall and boasts a 87-67-97 (cm) figure, was runner up at the 2005 Vietnam supermodel contest in the northern region and took top honors at the Hanoi Miss Teen pageant the same year.
Phuong started her career as a model in 2005 and has since taken part in several major fashion shows including Fashion Week, Dep Fashion Show and Vietnam Grandpix Collection.
She has also modeled for famous brands including Escada, La Perla and Kenzo.
The final round of this year’s contest will be held at the Beauty Crown Theater on Sanya island on November 1.
The top 15 winners will be trained to become professional and international models, and each of the top three will receive a two-year modeling contract worth US$325,000.
Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Linda Evangelista and Gisele Bundchen made their initial forays into modeling through this contest.
October 26th, 2008
It has destroyed relationships, led to a catalogue of injuries from broken bones to a heart scare and brought unwelcome attention to the private lives of its contestants.
Now, the curse of Strictly Come Dancing has struck again after supermodel Jodie Kidd fractured one of her ribs during a complicated dance routine.
The 30-year-old injured herself while rehearsing the American Smooth dance with her professional partner Ian Waite a fortnight ago. But she has ignored her doctor’s advice to rest and vowed to continue her gruelling regime on the programme.
The 6ft 2in star has undergone intensive physiotherapy at a private Harley Street clinic and is taking anti-inflammatory pills to ease the pain.
The BBC, which has a full-time doctor on the set of Strictly Come Dancing, offered Jodie free physiotherapy but she chose to see her own doctor instead. And despite her agony, the model-turned-presenter spent the past week rehearsing for four hours a day.
Last night she and Ian performed a complicated paso doble with some breathtaking acrobatics which earned them a passable 26 points.
A source on the BBC1 show said: ‘Jodie injured herself pretty badly while training to do the American Smooth dance two weeks ago. It was a very challenging routine with a couple of tough lifts.
‘During one of them, Ian held Jodie a little too tightly and fractured her rib. At the time she didn’t realise how bad the injury was but as the week wore on she felt very sore and short of breath. Her chest was very tight and she decided to have things checked out.
‘She had an X-ray, which found a hairline fracture to one of her left ribs. Jodie was upset because she didn’t want to have to pull out of the show. She insisted on doing
the dance last Saturday. She was thrown around and no one knew she was in huge amounts of pain.
‘Ian is feeling guilty – he did not realise his own strength. He has been going to physio with her and doing everything he can to make her comfortable while rehearsing.’
A spokesman for the model confirmed her fractured rib.
Jodie is just the latest Strictly contestant to sustain an injury. Andrew Castle and Ola Jordan both broke toes last month, and Jimmy Tarbuck had to withdraw from a previous series after a heart scare.
Stephanie Beacham injured her back, Kate Garraway suffered tendonitis, and Matt Di Angelo hurt his knee.
Meanwhile Olympic swimmer Mark Foster, 38, was last night branded a ‘stick insect on acid’ for his worst-ever score. He and partner Hayley Holt ended last with 17 points. It makes them favourites to be in the head-to-head dance-off tonight.
source: dailymail.co.uk
October 26th, 2008
The supermodel wishes she could be taller
Kate Moss has earnt a fortune as a top model and fashion icon. She has her own clothes range at Topshop and has just launched new perfume Velvet Hour.
But the 34-year-old from Croydon knows her body is far from perfect - she just makes the most of what she’s got,
‘I’d love to have longer legs,’ she says, ’so that’s why I own lots of leggings: because they make my legs look longer.
‘People would be surprised if they knew how little time I spend obsessing about what I’m going to wear.’
Kate knows that smoking is bad for skin but isn’t prepared to give up the habit to help keep her looks.
‘I couldn’t survive without cigarettes,’ she admits. ‘I’ve been smoking Marlboro Lights since I was 14 and I have no intention of quitting now.’
source: nowmagazine.co.uk
October 25th, 2008
Why is it that people love getting naked for a good cause? Hey, I’m in no way complaining here, but it just seems like these days the outfit of choice for any grassroots campaign is the birthday suit. Case in point: a one Miss Giselle Bundchen in a new ad campaign promoting the Forests of the Future project — an initiative assisting the reforestation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
In the ad, Gisele is photographed standing naked in a forest, donning some strategically placed foliage to cover her modesty and crossing her hands to cover her breasts. Scandalous!
Deforestation is a big problem, and I don’t mean to get all vegetarian on you, but did you know that between 1991 and 2000, the total area of forest lost in the Amazon rose from 415,000 to 587,000 km, with most of the lost forest becoming pasture for cattle? In fact, 70% of formerly forested land in the Amazon, and 91% of land deforested since 1970, is used for livestock pasture!
Kinda makes a brother stop and think, right?
source: ecorazzi.com
October 24th, 2008
At an NYC shoot for Victoria’s Secret, supermodel Adriana Lima gushes to OK! about her fiancé, Memphis Grizzlies basketball star Marko Jaric.
“He’s very honest, he has a great heart and we work really well together,” she explains. “He’s a family man and a gentleman, which I love.”
The supermodel says that she and Marko will marry in Brazil, her native country.
“I want it to be close to my family, where my roots are,” she says, adding, “and I’m the only girl in the family.”
After digging into a luscious peach cobbler dessert during her lunch break, Adriana, 27, returns to set to shoot the $5 million Black Diamond Fantasy Miracle Bra, which she’ll wear for The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, airing Dec. 3 at 10 p.m. on CBS.
“I can picture myself wearing it on the beach with a very thin blouse to see the sparkles through the shirt,” she exclaims. “I would love for someone to get it for me as a gift!”
Hint, hint, Marko!
source: okmagazine.co.uk
October 22nd, 2008
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