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Posted on 04 February 2012.
The latest addition to the family is just seven months old but David Beckham is already dreaming of the next. The footballer, who is relishing every moment of having a daughter after three sons, said he and his wife Victoria would love to have more children. The couple are parents to Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, nine, [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2012.
Aspiring pop star Willow Smith will certainly not be whipping her hair any time soon. For the 11-year-old singer made the bold decision to shave her head and post a picture of the results on the internet. Bald new look: Willow Smith revealed her newly shaved head – a bold new look for the 11-year-old [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2012.
Being annoyed by Gwyneth Paltrow is the very definition of pointlessness – like railing against the existence of death, or buying anti-cellulite cream. Yet at times it’s impossible to resist. The multi-millionaire film star usually doles out impractical lifestyle advice through her website, Goop. But this week she gave an interview to the fashion magazine [...]
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Posted in Just Mums, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Ashton Kutcher visited Demi Moore yesterday and just hours later the Charlie’s Angels star’s other ex husband was also spotted checking in on her. Bruce Willis visited the LA home the actress shares with their three daughters Rumer, 23, Scout, 20, and Tallulah, 17. The actor is said to have pleaded with Demi to seek [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2012.
Grandfather is a rock star and mummy something of a party girl. So if 16-year-old Amba Jackson ever wanted to rebel against the family tradition, she’d have to enrol in a nunnery or become an accountant. But there doesn’t seem much chance of that. Attending the launch of Runway fashion magazine, Mick Jagger’s granddaughter appeared [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2012.
Harry Kewell was pictured tenderly cradling his newborn baby Dolly in Melbourne today. The footballer, 33, shaded his tiny daughter from the sun as he fed her a bottle. He was joined by wife Sheree Murphy and the couple’s three children for a family stroll in the sunshine. Doting daddy: Harry Kewell was pictured in [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2012.
Angelina Jolie’s first film as a director is definitely not for kids. She had to ban her and Brad Pitt’s six children from the Budapest set of In the Land of Blood and Honey whenever she was filming brutal and harrowing scenes, which was much of the time. But, whenever there was a break in [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, TV, Theatre and Film
Posted on 02 February 2012.
Now that he is walking Alicia Keys’s son Egypt was keen to take a stroll around Kauai airport today. The 15-month-old toddler kept his mother on his toes as they prepared to leave the Hawaiian island after a week long vacation. Under the watchful eye of the 30-year-old singer, the adorable boy tottered around, fascinated [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Toddlers
Posted on 02 February 2012.
He hopes to become as huge a force in underwear as Calvin Klein. Yet David Beckham confessed this evening that his children are paying the price for his underpant empire-building – they’re now sick of seeing embarrassing pictures of their dad wearing nothing his smalls and sneer. Launching his new ‘Bodywear’ – aka underwear – [...]
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Posted on 01 February 2012.
Madonna has announced plans to build 10 new schools in Malawi with a new partner after mismanagement forced the pop star to scrap her first project last year. The singer, who has adopted two children from the impoverished southern African nation, said she hoped the 10 new schools would educate at least 1,000 children a [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 31 January 2012.
Amanda Holden was today discharged from hospital after her life-threatening childbirth ordeal. The Britain’s Got Talent judge was said to be “thrilled” to be back at her house in south-west London with new daughter Hollie. Holden, 40, was in intensive care for several days following the birth eight days ago. She is believed to have [...]
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Posted in Babies, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 31 January 2012.
Two men were jailed yesterday for trying to blackmail Coleen Rooney for £5,000 to return pictures of her footballer husband Wayne and their son. The photos were on her digital camera which ended up in the hands of Lee Platt after she lost it at a concert. Platt, 29, recognised personal pictures of Manchester United [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 31 January 2012.
Prince Harry has said he does not believe the Queen can now carry out her public duties without the Duke of Edinburgh by her side. In an interview to mark her Diamond Jubilee, the prince pays tribute to his 85-year-old grandmother’s stoicism and sense of duty. But he makes it clear that none of her [...]
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Posted in Grandparents, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 31 January 2012.
Giving his personal reflections on his grandmother in a rare and candid interview to mark her Diamond Jubilee, the Prince raised the sensitive subject of the monarch’s advancing years and her ability to cope with her massive workload as she approaches her 86th birthday. Meanwhile his brother, The Duke of Cambridge, disclosed that the Queen, [...]
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Posted in Grandparents, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 29 January 2012.
A host of celebrity friends took the time to wish Ellen DeGeneres a happy birthday on Thursday. And one of the most special messages was in the form of a video, from singer Pink and her adorable daughter Willow Hart. The 32-year-old, whose real name is Alecia Moore, filmed the segment at her home. via [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 29 January 2012.
The interior designer said Miss Miller and her boyfriend Tom Sturridge, an actor, were looking forward to becoming parents. The couple are understood to have been together for less than a year. Ms Hoppen said: “Sienna is definitely not engaged or getting married… she is pregnant.” The designer, who made the comments to London’s Evening [...]
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Posted on 29 January 2012.
Anna Wintour may be one of the most successful women in publishing, but she has nothing on Scouting magazine. For they have succeeded where Wintour didn’t, by securing the Duchess of Cambridge as a covergirl for their latest issue. Last October, rumours were abound that the U.S. Vogue editor was desperate to place Catherine on [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Youth Groups
Posted on 28 January 2012.
When they agreed to take part in a series about troubled teenagers, hosted by fashion guru Gok Wan, it’s hard to see what brothers Ben and Michael Watson could have hoped to gain. For their problems were in a completely different league to the acne/bullying/unrequited love ones that normally plague teenage years. In short, their [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Teenagers
Posted on 27 January 2012.
Jackson’s children – Prince, 14; Paris, 13; and Blanket, 9 – were joined by other members of the singer’s family, as they pressed their father’s shoes and a sequinned glove into the cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The ceremony, which was also attended by musical producer Quincy Jones, who worked with Jackson on his album [...]
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Posted on 27 January 2012.
Arsenal and England star Theo Walcott has told how he was forced to catch up at school after reading took second place to playing football. Walcott, 22, said he fell behind and did not start reading properly until he was 10. But he has gone on to write four children’s books as well as his [...]
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Posted in Books and Reading, Fitness and Sport, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 27 January 2012.
The blob of dried glue, that can be said to bear a vague resemblance to the famous cartoon character, has attracted bids of over £2,000 on the internet auction site. After finding the item whilst clearing out his stationery cupboard, London-based seller Christopher Herbert listed the object online after his girlfriend noticed it shared some [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 27 January 2012.
She debuted her bump for a pretty photoshoot with her fiancé earlier this month after announcing she was expecting a boy. But last night, Peaches Geldof showed off her burgeoning stomach for the first time in public as she attended a film premiere in London. And the former wild child, who was famed for her [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Posted on 27 January 2012.
Holden, 40, gave birth to her second child, Hollie Rose, on Monday after going into labour a month early and spent three days in a critical condition. The actress and television presenter is now stable after being treated in an intensive care unit for three days but is expected to take a while to recover [...]
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Posted in Babies, Media and Celebrity, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Posted on 27 January 2012.
She debuted her bump for a pretty photoshoot with her fiancé earlier this month after announcing she was expecting a boy. But last night, Peaches Geldof showed off her burgeoning stomach for the first time in public as she attended a film premiere in London. And the former wild child, who was famed for her [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Posted on 27 January 2012.
At the age of 10 Elizabeth Olsen put her acting career on hold. Yes, she wanted to be an actor, but no, she didn’t want to be a child actor. What kind of 10-year-old makes a sensible decision like that? “Right!” Olsen exclaims, waggling a heavily ringed hand and explaining how her ballet teacher had [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 26 January 2012.
As the director of The King’s Speech, with Colin Firth’s moving portrayal of the stammering George VI, Tom Hooper knows how words sometimes don’t come easily. Certainly, the 39 year-old could not have found it easy to think of a rejoinder when Tara Subkoff, the American actress and fashion designer, informed him that she was [...]
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Posted on 26 January 2012.
Scarlett Anne Mary Brooks was born at 4.05pm on Wednesday at the Portland Hospital, central London, weighing six lb 1oz. Mrs Brooks and her husband, Charlie Brooks, a racehorse trainer, were said to be “overjoyed” at the safe arrival of their first child, in a surrogate birth. The surrogate mother, who has declined to be [...]
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Posted in Babies, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 26 January 2012.
The Prime Minister was forced to deny pranging his children’s nanny Gita Lama’s car after offering to reverse park it for her at Downing Street on Tuesday. Mr Cameron had just returned from a morning run with his trainer, Matt Roberts, when he noticed Mrs Lama, 32, struggle to squeeze her newly bought Honda Jazz [...]
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Posted in Just Mums, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 26 January 2012.
A pushy father who dreamt of turning his two young sons into the ‘next Tiger Woods’ subjected them to horrific beatings when they fluffed their golf shots. The obsessed 33-year-old was so determined for the boys, aged six and eight, to become future champions that he gave them golf lessons before and after school every [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Sport and Fitness
Posted on 26 January 2012.
Sam Taylor-Wood and her fiancé Aaron Johnson today revealed they have become parents for the second time – and named the girl Romy Hero Johnson. The 44-year-old artist and director gave birth at home in Primrose Hill with her 21-year-old partner at her side. Baby Romy is the couple’s second daughter, and joins sister Wylda [...]
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Posted on 26 January 2012.
Bill Gates today made a surprise visit to a London school and asked pupils how he should spend his money to improve the world. The multi-billionaire spent two hours speaking to children at Deptford Green school in New Cross after a teacher asked for someone with an “interest in global issues” to visit her students [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 25 January 2012.
She is best known for her acting skills – and for looking good while flaunting them. But now Jessica Alba is turning her hand to the unlikely world of diapers, creating and selling a line of eco-friendly household products that are far from the usual A-lister’s sideline of fashion or perfume. The 30-year-old star’s new [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Nappies
Posted on 25 January 2012.
Ricky Gervais may often act like a ten-year-old, but he’s lucky he isn’t one. If he were, there’s no way he would have escaped punishment for calling someone a ‘mong’ — the word he used to describe Susan Boyle on a late-night, one-off comedy show on Channel 4 last October. He would have been forced [...]
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Posted in Disability, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 25 January 2012.
Aardman, the Oscar-winning makers of The Wrong Trousers, decided to cut the scene from The Pirates! — In An Adventure With Scientists after it was included in trailers that were distributed before its release in March. It is the Bristol-based company’s first 3D feature and uses computer graphics to complement its usual stop-motion clay animation. [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 25 January 2012.
The actress pulled out of the auditions in Blackpool for the talent content today after she admitted herself to hospital yesterday. A spokesman for the star said she could not confirm reports she had gone into labour but said the TV star is in hospital for “observation”. Holden, 40, proudly showed off her baby bump [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Posted on 24 January 2012.
London Mayor Boris Johnson was involved in a ski accident with an eight-year-old boy while on holiday in Italy, it emerged today. Mr Johnson, 47, clattered into Luigi Zucchi while the two were coming down a slope in thick fog and although the youngster was left in floods of tears he did not suffer any [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 23 January 2012.
Newsreader Kate Silverton has shown off the baby she thought she would never have – and said the little girl is everything she could have hoped for. The BBC presenter gave birth to first child Clemency in November after years of IVF heartbreak and fears she would be unable to give birth. And showing off [...]
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Posted in Babies, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 22 January 2012.
He is barely a month old and already he is being treated like a super star. Baby Beaux Phillips Bird was a very special guest on This Morning after he was taken on to the show by his proud mother today. Former X Factor finalist Charley Bird was co-hosting a section of the show called [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 22 January 2012.
It made for a charming but unremarkable photograph when the 2nd St Andrew’s Brownies lined up neatly for a pack picture at the Bradfield Southend village flower festival in Berkshire. However, in the back row of the picture, taken in June 1991, are sisters who – though there was no reason to believe it at [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 21 January 2012.
She’s had a busy couple of weeks as she promotes her new movie, picked up a Golden Globe, and fended off cutting remarks by fellow celebrities. But Madonna made time for her four children yesterday as she took them to see her long-time photographer friend, Steven Klein. The original Material Girl, 53, wrapped up in [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 21 January 2012.
Model and TV personality Tamara Ecclestone, 27, is the daughter of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone and former Armani model Slavica. She lives in London with her partner, stockbroker Omar Khyami. This is a photo of me, aged eight, when I was at Kensington Preparatory School. I went to Garden House School in Chelsea before [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 20 January 2012.
Star midfielder David Beckham who has signed a two-year contract to remain with the Los Angeles Galaxy, has said one of the main reasons he wanted to continue in LA was because of his family. “For the last five years, we have had an amazing time living here, and working here, and our children are [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 17 January 2012.
Paul Weller’s young wife has given birth to twin boys – and the couple have named one after Weller’s longtime rival David Bowie. The 53-year-old rocker now has seven children by four women after welcoming his sons with Hannah Andrews, 25, on Saturday. A statement on the former The Jam frontman’s website announced the news [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Twins and multiples
Posted on 16 January 2012.
roudly displaying her bump for the first time, pregnant Peaches Geldof beams as she announces she is expecting a baby boy on her late mother’s birthday. And as she cradled her stomach, the 22-year-old daughter of Sir Bob Geldof and Paula Yates said she felt it was her mother’s way of watching over her. The [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Posted on 16 January 2012.
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the birth of a celebrity child. In scientific terms, it is the moment at which the celebrity subdivides as an ethereal entity, and the newly hatched star-child is automatically invested with 63% of its famous parent’s wattage, as well as an air of mystery not cultivated by a [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity
Posted on 16 January 2012.
She’s grown up with two parents in the spotlight. So it was a given that she would become accustomed to a life in showbusiness herself from a young age. But Willow Smith will have shocked even the most seasoned celebrities as she posed on the red carpet at the BET Honors event in Washington. While [...]
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Posted on 16 January 2012.
The 22-year-old said her father, Bob Geldof, was “overwhelmed” when she told him on Boxing Day that she was expecting a baby boy with her fiance Thomas Cohen. She told Hello! magazine: “Oh my God, he was so happy, especially as I’m having a boy. The poor man’s been surrounded by women up till now. [...]
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Posted in Babies, Bereavement and death, Grandparents, Media and Celebrity
Posted on 15 January 2012.
We find it cosy, don’t we, inside celebrities’ wombs. It’s warm there. And the acoustics are excellent, perfect for noisy opining about the woman’s suitability as a mother. This week it was the turn of Peaches Geldof, whose pregnancy news was reported by the Metro newspaper with the headline “Grandfather Geldof excited to see his Peaches ripening”. [...]
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Posted in Media and Celebrity, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Posted on 15 January 2012.
Madonna has agreed to pay almost £100,000 to a group of charity workers who sued the star after her plans to build a school in Malawi were abandoned last year. The singer, who has an estimated fortune of more than £400 million, was facing a court case to answer claims of unfair dismissal and unpaid wages [...]
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Posted in At School, Finance, Media and Celebrity, World News
Posted on 14 January 2012.
Her father may be the President and she may live in the A-list spotlight, but when all is said and done, Malia Obama finds her dad just as embarrassing as all daughters find their dads. For the Obama girls, parent-teacher conference comes with the added hazard of their father’s highly conspicuous motorcade. In a frank [...]
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