Wednesday 31 March 2010

Tiger was too frugal say mistresses

Two of Tiger Woods mistresses have accused the golfer of being stingy during the affairs had with them according the People.

Mindy Lawton and Jamie Jungers recently said that Woods refused to buy expensive dinners or give them money. Both women have attributed this to the downfall of their relationships with him.






"With many of his mistresses, Woods was allegedly exceedingly cheap," Vanity Fair reports. "Mindy Lawton says the only thing he ever bought for her was a chicken wrap from Subway (he was stopping there on his way to meet her)."

Jesse James Nazi photograph released?

More woe for Jesse James after his marriage to Sandra Bullock went into meltdown over allegations of his infidelity.

A photo showing Sandra Bullock's estranged husband Jesse James wearing an SS visor and miming a Hitler moustache has allegedly been uncovered.

According to US Weekly, the picture was taken approximately two years ago and shows the mechanic giving a Sieg Heil salute to the camera.

The photograph is reportedly similar to the one taken of James's supposed mistress Michelle 'Bombsell' McGee, in which she wears a Nazi military visor and swastika armband.




It is unclear where the photo was taken, but in the background there appears to be a replica of a Fokker Dr.1 triplane - the same one used by German WWI pilot The Red Baron.


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Tuesday 30 March 2010

Erykah Badu's "naked" video may bring charges.

Police in Dallas Texas are apparently considering bring charges against Erykah Badu over here recent Music Video - Window Seat.

According to NBC affiliate, Dallas KXAS, they are reporting that Dallas Police Department might file charges against Erykah Badu for indecent exposure, for her stripping bare in her new video, Window Seat.

While police were not on the scene, if one witness comes forward to police, she can be charged. The video was shot March 17 in Dallas at Dealey Plaza where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Bystanders including children are seen in the video as the singer strips completely naked before a gunshot sounds and she falls to the ground with the words “groupthink” pouring out of her head.

"I expected the gossip blog sites to spin it negatively . I expected people to ride with me. I've been punished AND rewarded enough times by love and life to dedicate the whole thing to EVOLVING . i am happy."  Erykah said.

"One can't oppose #groupthink , it's a part of human nature , but only recognize his/her position in the thing and redefine his/herself."




Sasha and Malia Obama adjusting well to White House life.

President Obama has revealed in an interview that his two daughters are adjusting extremely well to life in the White House.

The President had a big pat on the back for his young daughters on Tuesday, saying they have taken swimmingly to life in the White House.

After more than a year at the US presidential mansion, Malia Obama, 11, and Sasha Obama, 8, have made their dad proud with their ability to balance their private life with life in the public eye, he told NBC television.

"The happiest thing about the past year and a half has been the girls' adjustment. They have just been terrific. They're doing well in school," Obama said.



"They're not as constrained. They can wander around. Their Secret Service protection is a lot more low key," he explained. "So they've got soccer, they've got basketball, they go sleep over at their friend's houses.

"Sometimes I've got 12 little girls screaming on the third floor of the White House. And they made a great adjustment."

Monday 29 March 2010

Australian Minister brands Lewis Hamilton a d**khead

Australian politicians are famous for not being restrained by diplomatic niceties in the same way many other country's politicians, but the out burst by Tim Pallas against Formular 1 driver Lewis Hamilton was particularly undiplomatic.

Tim Pallas, roads minister for Victoria, the Australian state where yesterday's Grand Prix was held, branded Hamilton a "d***head" on live radio.

But Aussie hero Mark Webber said his home country's attitude to the incident had "p***ed" him off".

Pallas made the jibe at Hamilton as he was quizzed about a government-backed advertising campaign to educate young people about driver safety, in which
ads feature the slogan: "Don't be a d***head."

Asked about Hamilton's conduct, Pallas replied: "He's certainly a very
silly young man, quite frankly."



The show host persisted: "Come on, you're the one who's using the language. Is he a d***head?"

Pallas responded: "Well, yes OK, I'll say it. He's a d***head."

The minister also called Red Bull star Webber "irresponsible" after the driver said Australia had turned into a "nanny state".

Webber fumed: "It's certainly changed since I left here. It p***es me off coming back here, to be honest.

"It's a great country but we've got to be responsible for our actions. And it's certainly a bloody nanny state when it comes to what we can do."


Although indignant at Webber's blast, Pallas insisted he was not as big a villain as Hamilton.

He said: "I think what Mark Webber has done has been totally irresponsible. But he didn't display the behaviour that Lewis Hamilton did, and that was to put people's lives at risk."


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Sunday 28 March 2010

Ginkgo Biloba : Keeping Your Body and Mind Healthy






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Saturday 27 March 2010

£88 in Box Office Receipts : Uma's Thurman's dud....

Spend $5m to make a movie and make £88 pounds in ticket takings not a formula to have Steven Spielberg or James Cameron quake in their boots.

It should have been a red carpet event. When just one British cinema was given exclusive permission to launch Uma Thurman's new film earlier this month, the film's producers presumably hoped that exclusivity would create a buzz around the movie. Though limiting the release would obviously limit takings, they must have hoped word of mouth could make it a slow-burning success.

But the tactic backfired catastrophically. Instead of audiences queueing round the block of the Apollo West End in Piccadilly Circus, London, to see the star of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, they stayed away in record-breaking numbers.

Over its opening weekend, no more than a dozen people went to see Motherhood, a semi-autobiographical account of stressed-out Manhattan parenting written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann. The film made just £88 on the weekend of Friday 5 March. On its debut Sunday, box office takings were £9, meaning one person bought a ticket.



The disaster has now degenerated into a bitter confrontation between Metrodrome, responsible for marketing the film in the UK, and producer Jana Edelbaum, who blames the company for Motherhood's atrocious performance.

The film, thought to have cost $5m to make, earned just over £40,000 when it opened in the US last October, but Edelbaum had no idea quite how badly it had performed in the UK until contacted this week by the Guardian. "You're kidding?" she said. "We must have broken a new record for grosses."

Edelbaum is adamant that Metrodome must be to blame, and insisted that she would demand a full explanation. "Think how much crap succeeds at the cinema," she said. "Motherhood is not bad. It's a very decent movie. I've seen movies that are not half as good."



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Thursday 25 March 2010

Is Beyonce Pregnant ?

A number of websites are reporting from what is supposedly a "ROCK SOLID" source that pop Queen Beyonce and hubby Jay-Z are expecting their first child.

The main report is coming from celebrity website MediaTakeout which says

March 25, 2010. It's been a long time waiting . . . but now it's finally happened. MediaTakeOut.com just learned from a ROCK SOLID source that legendary singer Beyonce and her hip hop mogul husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child together.




According to our source Beyonce is doing fine and resting (for now), but she's expected to continue working throughout her pregnancy. And we're also told that Jay-Z is EXTREMELY happy to be having his first child with Bey.

Wednesday 24 March 2010

Sri Lanka bans Rapper Akon over Bhuddist slurs

Hip Hop star Akon has been banned from Sri Lanka after authorities on the Island took offence at the Video Sexy Chick which featured scantily clad women dancing around a statue of Buddha.

A spokesperson for Akon said later that, due to the protests, the star had "decided to postpone" his show.

They said they hoped to have the issue "resolved in the coming weeks".

In a statement, the government said the video for Sexy Chick by David Guetta, featuring Akon on vocals, "triggered a lot of disappointment among Buddhists".



It added some of Akon's lyrics were not "suitable for public articulation".

Spiritual man

On Monday, hundreds of people stormed the head offices of the Maharaja Broadcasting and Television Network, the media sponsor of the planned concert.

Four workers were injured and windows and parked cars were smashed after protesters threw stones at the building.



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Tuesday 23 March 2010

Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush call it a day

Another day and another celebrity couple call it a day. Kim "the booty" Kardashian and Reggie Bush have called timeout on thier relationship, fortunately this time there are no lurid allegations and it just seems Reggie is not as keen as Kim on the high life.

According to TMZ, the couple put an end to their relationship after Bush grew increasingly tired of the intense paparazzi attention focused on Kardashian's private life.



Sources told the website that the break-up was amicable on both sides and without argument.

Last month, the pair denied rumours that they were engaged.

Monday 22 March 2010

Who would have thought : Muhammed Ali is Irish!

I kid you not! Apparently Muhammed Ali's great grandfather was one Abe Grady form the tiny town of Ennis in County Clare as Ireland's RTE News reports.

Ennis came to a standstill this afternoon with the arrival of Muhammad Ali for a host of events organised in his honour.

At a civic reception in the Co Clare town, the three-time World Heavyweight Champion was made the first Honorary Freeman of Ennis.

The 67-year-old was visiting the birthplace of his great grandfather, Abe Grady, who left the town in the 1860s.

As an overwhelmed Ali accepted the honour, his wife Yolanda 'Lonnie' revealed his celebrated defiance with a declaration to return, despite medical advice against travelling.



'Now that we know Muhammad is an Ennis man, we will be back,' she said.

Thousands of fans, spanning generations, had packed into the town's main square for hours before the civic reception was broadcast on a huge screen.

Lonnie announced that her husband, who has been battling Parkinson's Disease for 25 years and had never before visited Ennis, was overwhelmed by the experience.



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Emirates State of Mind : Jay-Z shows Arsenal Interest

Multi-millionaire and Hip Hop super star Jay-Z has indicated an interest in investing in English Premier League football side Arsenal.

Jay-Z has hinted that he may invest millions in Arsenal.

The rap superstar, married to Beyonce, already holds a stake in basketball's New Jersey Nets and may splash some of his estimated £500million fortune on the Emirates club after becoming a fan five years ago.

Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, said: "I don’t know a lot about the business of soccer, but in the future if the right opportunity presented itself, then who knows? I am a businessman, and I will always look at an opportunity, and if it feels right great."



His confession comes just days after rap rival P Diddy was linked with an unlikely takeover at Crystal Palace.

The 10-time Grammy winner, whose other business interests include clothing line Rocawear, said he started following Arsenal "when Thierry Henry was at the club. I just thought he was an amazing player. Ever since then I have been a big fan of the club and still today you play the beautiful football that Thierry did. I think he had a real long term-effect on the team.



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Susan Boyle banks £4 million

Britain's got talent and it's also got a new millionaire as Susan Boyle runner up in the 2009 edition of the reality talent show banks a mouth watering £4 million from royalties and appearances.

Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle will receive her biggest birthday present next month– a £4million pay cheque.

Subo, who was unknown less than a year ago, will celebrate turning 49 on April 1 by becoming a multi-millionairess. The payout comes from her worldwide appearances and sales of her chart-topping debut album, I Dreamed A Dream which went platinum in six countries.

It broke the British charts’ record for the fastest-selling debut album in history, with 3.1 million bought in its first month. Elsewhere she has sold more than 8.5 million copies.



A source said: “Every day Susan wakes up having to pinch herself. She cannot believe how the public has taken her to their hearts everywhere.

"She has not wanted for anything since finding fame and now she will reap the benefit of her hard work.


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Oscar winner Mo'Nique : Ours is an Open Marriage

Oscar winner Mo'Nique had no qualms about being in an open marriage. Speaking just before she won an Oscar for best Supporting Female, the co-star of Precious revealed all.


On Sunday's Oscar Night edition of The Barbara Walters Special, the Precious star, 42, says that while she has "not had sex" outside her marriage to husband (and business manager) Sid Hicks, he is free to do so.


"Could Sid have sex outside of his marriage with me? Yes. That's not a deal-breaker," she says. "That's not something that would make us say, 'Pack your things and let's end the marriage.'"



And she says she wouldn't call it quits even if he had numerous flings.


"What if it's 20 times?" she asks. "So what? We've been best friends for over 25 years, and we truly know who we are. Often times, people get into marriages and they don't know who they're laying next to. I'm very comfortable and secure with my husband."

So how does she keep her husband's interest?

"He loves the hairy legs,” she says, adding that she never shaves. "And if Sid likes the hairy legs, there you go ... I'm 42 and very hairy."


The one time she shaved her legs, "it was so uncomfortable and painful," she recalls. "I said, 'Never again would I do that to myself.'"

Saturday 20 March 2010

Who is Michelle McGee?

She is allegedly the "other woman" that stands to break the marraige between Jesse James and Sandra Bullock, but who is she ?

If you were, say, Jesse James and had the good fortune to land a wife like Sandra Bullock, you'd probably never look at another woman for as long as you lived, right? Well, that appears not to be the case. So who is this woman, Michelle McGee, who says she allegedly had an 11-month affair with Jesse? Radar has been researching her extensively, and has put up multiple posts in the past 20 hours about her. After the jump, the highlights. But to whet your appetite: she's an Amish stripper.

Michelle reportedly entered the Miss Ink Contest in Las Vegas this year. Heck, even this girl's armpits are inked, with roses and switchblades, natch. She's a mother of two. How did two pregnancies not mess up all her stomach tattoos? And she is also a stripper. She's worked in at least three clubs in San Diego over the past few years, under the name Michelle Bombshell. She's currently dancing under the alias "Avrey" at Pure Platinum Kearny Mesa Club. She's also posted racy photos of herself online, at the site SocalGlamourGirls.com.



She also reportedly told her boss all about Jesse James. Her boss says, "She told me that Jesse's marriage to Sandra Bullock was for publicity, and that's why he did Donald Trump's show, 'Celebrity Apprentice.' He never called on Sandra for money or influence because their marriage was a sham she said."




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Friday 19 March 2010

Jedward are down but not out!

After Sony cancelled their record deal the most irritating twins ever Jedward seem to have bounced back with a bang after their Manager Louis Walsh reveals he has got them another record deal this time with Universal Ireland.

The X Factor judge reckons he can still make the 18-year-olds millionaires – with more music, TV adverts and even Easter eggs in the pipeline. He spoke exclusively to Guilty Pleasures after tying up a deal with Irish Universal, saying the record company’s executives were won over by seeing the twins on The X Factor tour in Ireland this week.

Walsh moved quickly after Sony abandoned its £90,000 deal with John and Edward when their debut single – Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby) – with Vanilla Ice failed to hit the top spot.



‘It’s Sony’s loss and Universal’s gain. F*** ’em!’ Walsh said. ‘Alarm bells started ringing when Sony signed them to the Arista label. I tried to call them the other day and no one in the company knew who they were! ‘The boys were on stage with The X Factor tour last night and totally stole the show. ‘The guys from Universal in Ireland came along and absolutely loved them.



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Thursday 18 March 2010

Siobhan Magnus was the one to watch

The Boston Herald reports on a night of triumph for local girl Siobhan Magnus as she survives this week's cut on American Idol.

Siobhan Magnus survived to sing another week on Fox’s “American Idol.”

Her moody rendition of “Paint it Black” stuck out from a number of shaky performances from the show’s top 12 during Rolling Stones week.

Pre-teens rejoiced and somewhere Mick Jagger and Keith Richards chortled when it was revealed fresh-faced Tim Urban also made the cut, forcing the genuinely talented Lacey Brown upon the judges’ mercy.



For the first time, Simon Cowell and his chums have the power to save a contestant in the top 12 from elimintion. The catch: The decision must be unanimous and only used once per season.

Brown kept her composure singing “The Story” while the judges quickly deliberated her fate. As “Idol” faithful know, the Texas songbird failed to make the top 24 in the eighth season. Despite inconsistancies early on as a member of this year’s top 24 - a shaky take on “Landslide” comes to mind - it looked like smooth sailing for the bottle redhead.


Sadly, the judges didn’t think she was worth keeping.


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After Oscar triumph heartache for Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock has withdrawn from the London Premiere of the "The Blindside". She won an Oscar for her performance in the film and was due to be the star attraction at the Premier in London's Leicester Square.

Sandra Bullock has axed a planned UK tour amid claims her husband Jesse James has been cheating on her.

Heavily tattooed model Michelle McGee said she has had a fling with Jesse, 40, for the past 11 months.

The storm is thought to have made Oscar winner Sandra, 45, axe her visit here - to have included a premiere of her film The Blind Side next week.

She blamed "unforeseen personal reasons". Michelle - described as 24 on a "glamour girls" website - claimed she romped with tattooed Jesse while his wife was away shooting the movie - and he told her they had split up.



She told a US magazine: "I asked him, 'What's going on with you and Sandra?' He said: 'She doesn't live here. She's filming. I can't talk about it'."




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Wednesday 17 March 2010

Who the hell is Justin Bieber?

If you old enough to vote and buy yourself a drink you might never of heard of him but the teenage sensation from Canada is on his way to being the biggest thing since...well since the last teenage sensation!

And like so many stars of this decade he is particularly huge on the Internet and in his case Twitter and if you've been on Twitter recently you'll have noticed.

The story is Justin Bieber was discovered when his performances were seen on YouTube by his manager to be Scooter Braun. Excited by what he saw Braun flew Bieber to Atlanta, Georgia, to consult with R&B star Usher and soon followed a deal with Island Records


His first singles "One Time", "One Less Lonely Girl", "Love Me", and "Favorite Girl", were all Top 15 hits on the Canadian Hot 100 and Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. This accomplishment made Bieber the only artist in Billboard history to have four singles from a debut album chart in the Top 40 of the Hot 100 before the album's release.

An Album soon followed and Bieber also became the first artist to have all songs from a single album to chart in the U.S. Hot 100.




But it is on Twitter the online messaging system that Bieber-mania really comes into its own. Bieber is the most talked about person on Twitter, and nearly the most talked about topic, period.

Bieber-mania is growing on Twitter and is creating a deafening crescendo of chatter that is rising above virtually every other conversation on the popular social media site, which sees 50 million tweets posted daily.

Bieber has been on Twitter almost a year but it wasn't until January that his popularity growth really started registering, said Ingo Muschenetz of What The Trend.

He started out the year around seventh in the weekly Twitter reports and now is consistently dominating the list of the most talked about people.

"He is very, very popular on Twitter, he ranks No. 1, easy," Muschenetz said.

"He's certainly No. 1 unless something else comes along, like when the earthquake in Haiti happened that took the No. 1 spot for a few weeks.

"If it wasn't for the Oscars, he definitely would have been No. 1 (this week)."



As of mid-Friday, Bieber was ranked among the Top 140 most popular Twitter users but his numbers of followers are multiplying daily.

He averages about 11,000 new followers every day, which on Friday helped him pass the Twitter accounts of the influential tech blogs TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider.

If his Twitter account's growth continues its frenetic pace, which it steadily has for months, he'll likely crack the Top 100 by April.

But it would still take months to approach the Top 10, an elite company of Twitter users with more three million followers, such as Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Ellen DeGeneres, Britney Spears and the top dog, Ashton Kutcher.

Bieber may be far behind that group with almost 1.37 million followers but he's got a shot at eventually catching them, said Muschenetz.

Bieber tweets have ramped up as hype builds for his new album, "My World 2.0," due out March 23. He's also appeared on celebrity charity songs for Haiti and has even been getting public shout-outs from rapper Lil Wayne.

It also helps that he's an engaged Twitter user that communicates directly with his legions of fans who send loving tweets to him daily. And he reached out to a three-year-old fan who became a viral video sensation recently after her family videotaped her crying because of how much she loved Bieber. Earlier this month, he surprised her on the late-night "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show much to the delight of Bieber's fans.

Bieber's popularity on Twitter is also buoyed by his detractors, who can't stand to see his name on the list of trending topics over and over again.

"Justin Bieber trends really high and some people love that and some people hate that," Muschenetz said.

"(The haters) then tweet about the fact that he's trending, which only makes him trend higher."

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Tiger and Elin rebuilding their marriage?

Tiger Woods announces his return to Golf and now we find out that Tiger and his estranged wife Elin Nordegren may be close to reconciliation. Is the Tiger constellation back in the ascendancy.

Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren are rebuilding their marriage - amid speculation the golf star's return to the fairway could make TV ratings history.



Billionaire Woods, 34, and Nordegren, 29, have been photographed together for the first time since Woods' rampant secret sex life was exposed last November.

They were seen strolling down the driveway of their Florida mansion.

Both are decked out in sports apparel from Nike, one of Woods' few remaining sponsors. They are expressionless as they walk side by side, and it was unclear if she was wearing a ring.


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Is Jedward's "15 minutes of fame" finally over

We were told they were the new face of the entertainment industry, that they would make millions, that their fame was set to go global, but today X-Factor twins Jedward were brought back to earth with a bump as their recording contract was cancelled.

John and Edward Grimes, 18, were signed to Sony after surviving several weeks on the X Factor, despite being ridiculed for their performances.

The record deal was announced in January with the teenagers saying they were delighted to be ''like our idols... living our dream''.



But their first song, Under Pressure, a duet with Vanilla Ice, was beaten to number one last month by US band Owl City and dropped out of the top 10 a week later.

Jedward failed to top the charts despite benefiting from huge exposure performing the track with the 90s rapper at the National Television Awards.

Louis Walsh, who decided to manage Jedward after they were voted out of the X-Factor, confirmed they had been dropped by Sony and said he is talking to other labels.



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Monday 15 March 2010

Ashley visits sickly Cheryl

Ashley Cole paid a visit to estranged wife Cheryl Cole who's been feeling very poorly.

Ashley Cole shared a 'strained but cordial' chat with poorly Cheryl when he paid a visit to say get well soon.

While the world waits for the singer to instruct divorce lawyers to proceed with a formal split, he dropped in to their �6million Surrey mansion on Friday to see her.

She is bed-bound suffering from bronchitis and the injured footballer wanted to give a personal 'get well soon' message after returning from a sports injury clinic in France.



Ashley Cole was seen today leaving the London address where he is staying following the break down of his marriage

Relations between the pair were 'strained but cordial', a source told The Mirror.

Ashley hobbled up the steps to the front door on crutches after arriving in his supercar.



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Another Take That star in cheating scandal

It seems there is no end to the cheating revelations from celebs. After squeaky clean Mark Owen now bandmate Howard Donald is struggling save his marriage.

It’s not been a good week for Take That, with news emerging about Mark Owen’s infidelity - and now Howard Donald is facing a public backlash after it emerged he had a fling with a married fan.

The 41-year-old singer is alleged to have had an affair with 28-year-old mum of one, Merith Van Onselen, in 2008.



According to reports in The Sun, the dad of two, who was single at the time, seduced the Dutch fan when he was DJ-ing in a club in Berlin.

The pair are then said to have embarked on a “passionate” eight-month affair behind Merith’s husband Dave’s back, while he stayed at home looking after their baby daughter, who is now three.



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Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet are to split

Hollywood Power couple Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have announced their marriage is over.

It has been announced that Kate Winslet has separated from her director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage. Skip related content

"Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year," confirmed lawyers for the Oscar-winning actress.

The statement added: "The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children."



Winslet married Mendes, whose box office hits include American Beauty, in a secret ceremony in May 2003 on the island on Anguilla in the Caribbean. They have a son together, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes who was born in New York on 22 December 2003.

The pair began their relationship after Winslet split from director Jim Threapleton in 2001, with whom she had daughter, Mia Honey, 9.



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Sunday 14 March 2010

Wyclef Jean accused of paying mistress through Haiti Charity

Wyclef Jean has been embroiled in allegations that he has used his Haiti charity Yele Haiti to make payments of tens of thousands of dollars to a woman rumoured to be his mistress.

Yele Haiti, the sketchy foundation that Wyclef Jean founded to help the Haitian people—which received millions in the outpouring of generosity following the wake of the earthquake there—paid Jean's mistress and personal assistant $105,000 in 2008.

According to Yele Haiti's 2008 tax return, which was posted this week by the Smoking Gun, the charity paid Khatou-Chevassus $105,000 as an independent contractor in 2008 for "program development." That amounts to roughly one-third of all the money Yele spent that year on management and general expenses.



So what did she do for that money? Khatou-Chevassus is currently listed on Yele's web site as the organization's vice president. But according to five sources familiar with Yele's operations, in 2008 she served as Jean's personal assistant—working on his commercial endeavours as well as his charitable ones—and was involved romantically with the former Fugees star.


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Sarah Killen : The rise of the Twitterati!

We probably could all guess by now that the if there is one place it is easy to gains some fame, it is the Internet. Just how easy it is may be a bit of a shock to people.

Take the case of soon to be married Sarah Killen. Unknown to anyone other than friends, work mates and family as most of us are. Then out of the blue talk show host Conan O'Brien decide to make her the only person he follows on Twitter and BOOM instant Twitter made celebrity - Twitterati.

March 5th she had 3 followers on Twitter now she has 28,000.

Bride-to-be Sarah Killen has the US TV star Conan O'Brien to thank for her sudden Twitter fan explosion.


The ex-Tonight Show host picked Miss Killen, 19, from Michigan, as the only person he would follow on Twitter.


‘I’ve decided to follow someone at random. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change,’ his posting read last Friday.


Since then she been showered with gifts, including a wedding dress and free wine, and is getting 150 new Twitter followers a minute.



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The Cole Crisis : Cheryl orders Ashley out after 20 minute talks

Attempts by Ashley Cole to reconcile with estranged Wife Cheryl Cole seemed to have hit the buffers after he was ordered out of the marital home only 20 minutes into attempts to persade Cheryl to take him back.

Furious Cheryl Cole threw ­disgraced husband Ashley out after just 20 minutes when he turned up for their first face-to-face meeting in a month.

Heartbroken Cheryl refused to speak to him, see him or even allow him into the same room as her at their £3million mansion, we can reveal.

She stayed out of sight in the living room in a humiliating snub to philandering Cole, who was given just a few minutes to pack some clothes.

Then enraged Cheryl got her mother Joan, 50, to show him the door.

Just hours earlier Cole, 29, had been bragging to friends that he expected to win back X ­Factor judge Cheryl – despite repeatedly cheating on her.

He arrived at short notice on Friday night ­assuming he would get his first opportunity to grovel in person since Cheryl, 26, ordered him out of the Surrey mansion three weeks ago.



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Is Big Mike the man to beat on American Idol ?

Micheal Lynch wow'ed the audience and Judges with a heartfelt rendition of "This Woman's work". It had Randy Jackson beaming with satisfaction, Ellen DeGeneres impressed, Simon Cowell soberly appreciative and Kara DioGuardi in a flood of tears.

Sean Fennessey in his GQ blog breaks down the reaction to Big Mike's Big Moment.

There are but eight men left, and many of them are even better than we initially predicted. But two more have to go. Song choice was the crucial theme tonight. Tim Urban went predictable and preposterous with Leonard Cohen's "Hallejuah." Lee DeWyze dipped into electro-pop with Owl City's Postal Service redux, "Fireflies." Andrew Garcia attempted to rekindle the flame he first blazed with his cover of Paul Abdul's "Straight Up" by reconfiguring Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle." It all mattered very little. This was all prologue to Michael Lynche's moment. So maybe he deserves some extra attention.


THE GOOD THING: Michael Lynche's astounding, near-moving vocal performance of "This Woman's Work." So many things were right with this; it was so gripping so as to be emotional. The bulky, log-necked Lynche, best known as the guy whose wife gave birth during Hollywood week, has been a gregarious but deceptively unlikable force in these first few weeks. Last night's performance shifted everything. It nodded at Maxwell's famous and revered cover of Kate Bush's gobsmacked original about responsibility and family, from the bracing soprano open to the throat-slashing, heartbroken closer, so delicate and strong simultaneously. Listen and hear how Lynche throws in a little Luther Vandross, a splash of Sinatra, and a lot of femininity. This was a savvy choice by Lynche, who is so big he has become known, unfortunately but predictably as "Big Mike." By paying tribute to his wife and newborn child, nodding at two different and essential artists, and wrestling the spotlight upon his burly shoulders, Lynche gave this season the sort of charge that always happens, but never feels less than thrilling.

THE BAD THING: Everything else about Michael Lynche's performance. The way he swaggered around the stage. His hand motions. The smug, knowing smile that crept onto his face at song's end. Even the tacky red handkerchief in his coat pocket. Whether hustling low-rent James Brown or sloppy, babyfaced Maroon 5 in past weeks, Lynche has been a classic Idol groaner all year. He grins, he chuckles, he riffs with the judges. Just the sort of loathsome garbage that looks as natural as a two-billed duck and flies like one, too. The quickness with which Lynche zapped the good will from his performance was like a lightning bolt metaphor for American Idol: Good thing, then, in a flash, bad thing. No matter, he'll fly through to the Top 12 and likely be cursed by his wondrous performance until he is eliminated.



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