Archive for March 20th, 2009
Hollywood is awash with rumours that actor Bruce Willis is set to marry his lingerie model girlfriend Emma Heming this week.
U.S. reports suggest he is looking to make an honest woman of his 32-year-old partner in an intimate ceremony in the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean.
The couple, who have been dating for around 18 months, have a holiday home there and Willis’s ex-wife Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher are said to be attending.
If the wedding goes ahead, it would see Willis following in the same footsteps as his former wife by marrying a younger partner.
The Die Hard actor, who turned 48 yesterday, is 14 years older than Emma while Moore, at 46, is 15 years senior to 31-year-old Kutcher.
After divorcing in 2000, Willis and Moore have remained on good terms and have three daughters together – Rumer, 20, Scout, 17, and 15-year-old Tallulah.
Moore and Kutcher, who wed in 2005, have booked hotel rooms near to Willis’s house, according to the U.S. publication People magazine.
Another source said a block of ocean view rooms and private villas have been reserved for Willis’s guests at a hotel near the action movie star’s home.
His rumoured wife-to-be Emma was born in Britain and raised in London and California.
She shares an uncanny resemblance to Moore, with her flawless skin, brown hair and svelte figure.
An impending wedding may be just what Willis needs to cheer him up after he was sued for $4 million earlier this month for breaching a contract to produce the movie Three Stories About Joan starring Owen Wilson and Camilla Belle.
source: dailymail.co.uk
March 20th, 2009
Everyone wants a piece of Kaya Scodelario.
The 17-year-old from north London has emerged as the hit of the third series of Skins, the racy E4 TV drama where she plays sensitive wild child Effy Stonem, and now movie scripts and cosmetic contracts are being dangled in front of her.
Kaya seemed pretty savvy to me when I met her at the First Light Movie Awards.
She was one of several young actors presenting prizes to the young filmmakers who had made live action and animated movies for First Light, which is backed by the UK Film Council and Barbara Broccoli, the force behind the Bond films.
Kaya has been with Skins since it began, but series three has really brought her into the public eye.
Even so, I recall a storyline from an earlier series, in which she was abducted, that was pretty hair-raising.
I had a sense then that she would do well.
‘People think I’m a psycho because of how Effy behaves,’ Kaya told me, laughing. ‘As you can see, I’m nothing like her.’
A major Hollywood agent has just signed her up, but Kaya’s in no hurry to pose poolside in Pacific Palisades.
‘I’m having fun doing Skins in England and learning about acting.
‘People talk about going to work in America but I’m scared of America, of working in Hollywood, although being from north London I’m sure I’d be able to look after myself,’ she joked.
The Skins alumni have done well. Nicholas Hoult, once Kaya’s screen sibling, last night opened at the Trafalgar Studios in New Boy, while Dev Patel is soaring after playing the leading man in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
source: dailymail.co.uk
March 20th, 2009
The supermodel, Naomi Campbell , and the Indian hotelier, Vikram Chatwal, have joined forces to stage a major charity event in Mumbai to celebrate the opening of Lakme Fashion Week.
The event, a gala fashion show, will be held on March 28th, will raise funds for Citizens For Justice and Peace (CJP) and the ongoing relief programs in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks, providing much needed emergency medical care and ambulances.
A star-studded cast of models will walk the runway in Indian-inspired pieces by some of the most glamorous designer labels in the world, including Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Zac Posen, Roberto Cavalli, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera and Diane von Furstenberg.
The designs will be available to buy via a silent auction, and online on eBay with proceeds being used directly to support CJP’s initiatives, in tribute to the 26/11 victims.
Naomi Campbell launched Fashion for Relief in 2005 to galvanize the fashion community to raise funds in times and places of need. Events have subsequently been held in New York and London. Ms Campbell hopes that the event will send a message of solidarity and hope to the citizens of Mumbai.
source: telegraph.co.uk
March 20th, 2009
Ethiopian Supermodel Liya Kebede to appear in the April issue of J.Crew catalog. Fashion Weekdaily also reports that Liya Kebede will be the first model to be the exclusive face of a J.Crew catalog. The company will also carry Liya’s own line of hand-made children cloth collection known as Lemlem. Lemlem was launched in 2007, where all the pieces are made by hand in Ethiopia.
source: nazret.com
March 20th, 2009
Who better to lord over Mischa Barton and a gaggle of other wannabe supermodels than one of the beauty biz’s premiere mannequins?
Elle Macpherson, whose acting career to date is perhaps best summed up with Batman & Robin (though Sirens did have its certain charms…), has landed a recurring role in A Beautiful Life, the CW’s Ashton Kutcher-produced pilot about models cohabitating in a co-ed Big Apple residence.
Macpherson will play Claudia, a retired supermodel who is now the iron-fisted owner of a top agency, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Other new additions to the Beautiful ensemble include Sara Paxton (Summerland), Ben Hollingsworth (The Cutting Edge 3), Ashley Madekwe (Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and Nico Tortorella.
High School Musical’s Corbin Bleu, says Zap2It, is reportedly on board for at least the pilot, playing “a male model with a Lenny
source: tvguide.com
March 20th, 2009
Serial partygoer Kate Moss was still going strong last night as she turned out for a fourth night on the town in so many days.
The supermodel showed the sort of stamina now expected of her as she headed out in a transparent leopard-print vest with hair scraped back in a bun.
At least she ditched the presumably now slightly whiffy black tuxedo which had accompanied her out the previous three nights.
And what significant cultural event was it that lured her out onto the social scene once more?
No less than the PlayStation Sing Star launch at the Volstead nightclub in London.
Boyfriend Jamie Hince certainly looked like he could have done with a quiet night in front of the box as he left the club at around 3am.
Joining in the fun was the effervescent-looking Jo Wood who seems to have been rejuvenated since her split from Rolling Stone rocker Ronnie, and she partied with the younger guys such as T4 presenter Miquita Oliver and The Kills’ Alison Mosshart.
But it was Moss’s determination to keep the party going that impressed most after her late night at the Mummy Rocks charity event at Garrard jewellers in Mayfair the previous night.
The 35-year-old wore a diamond necklace for much of the night as she enjoyed drinks with her old pal Sadie Frost but removed it as she left, kissing Jamie passionately en route.
The previous night she had been in Shoreditch in leather trousers for designer Alexander McQueen’s 40th birthday party, where she chatted to her new friend Beth Ditto, the Gossip frontwoman, and Stella McCartney.
She had kicked off her week on the tear with another birthday party, TopShop boss Sir Phillip Green’s 57th – which she had ensured would grace the gossip pages by contributing an hilarious wardrobe malfunction.
She had unwisely elected to head out without a shirt or bra in the tuxedo she picked up from a photoshoot in Paris at the weekend.
And as she emerged from her car at home at the end of the night, she gave the awaiting media pack a good look at her modest charms.
It can only be assumed she’s planning a quiet Friday night.
source: dailymail.co.uk
March 20th, 2009
