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She is a former Miss World, a successful Bollywood star and married to the son of one of India’s best-loved stars. She found international fame in the Hollywood film Bride and Prejudice, and Julia Roberts billed her as the world’s most beautiful woman. Thanks to the notoriety such fame and fortune has brought her, Aishwarya [...]

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Forget the reductions in news, arts and music programming announced in the BBC’s latest round of cost-saving alterations to the entertainment schedules – there is only one change that really matters. After 60 years on the flagship – or, in lay terms, “proper” – channel, BBC1, Blue Peter is to be moved to CBBC, the [...]

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Critics also warn that the move will make it harder for parents to regulate their children’s television viewing.   The corporation announced that all shows aimed at children will be moved off BBC One and BBC Two and onto digital channels dedicated to young viewers. They claim the move will save money while at the [...]

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Yesterday she was told in no uncertain terms to stop playing mother to her fiancé’s children. But Elizabeth Hurley is clearly a woman who doesn’t scare easily as she stepped out with Shane Warne’s daughter. The model was snapped with her betrothed and his youngest girl Summer, and her son Damian, both 10. They were [...]

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Lady Gaga will have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia following protests by Islamic hard-liners and conservative lawmakers, who said her sexy clothes and dance moves will corrupt young people. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar, responding to the pressure, said today that the permit for her 3 June “Born This Way Ball” concert [...]

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Women’s empowerment guru, Tyra Banks, has spoken out in support of Vogue’s decision to ban rail thin models from its pages. The 38-year-old media mogul and former supermodel praised the fashion glossy’s 19 editors today for banding together to put a stop to ‘thinspirational’ editorial and called for a toast ‘over some barbecue and burgers’. [...]

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In January she had a modest baby bump but what a difference four months can make. Chris Evans and his wife Natasha Shishman proudly showed off her heavily pregnant shape at the Sony Radio Awards. The Radio presenter, 46, was every inch the proud father-to-be as pointed enthusiastically at his wife’s baby bump, not that [...]

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Aishwarya Rai is no stranger to Cannes. The Bollywood actor and former Miss World has attended the film festival 10 times, but her appearance on the red carpet next week is set to be her most talked about. The cause of a controversy raging in India lies not with her latest film – Rai is [...]

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Prince Edward has declined a Belfast pupil’s appeal for a royal reprieve from homework. The prince was visiting Lagan College on the outskirts of the city in the first engagement of a one-day visit. During a presentation in the main hall, year eight pupil Michael Hare asked the prince to sign a royal pardon which [...]

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She says she has lost two stone since being pregnant, but Una Healy insists that she is still all ‘soft’ and ‘squidgy’ following the birth of baby girl Aoife Belle two months ago. That is hard to believe though, looking at the pictures of the super svelte singer making her way through Heathrow today. Una, [...]

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A balmy evening in South-West London, and I’m trying to convince a handsome chap called Jake to cha-cha-cha. I’m hoping that as a couple we have the potential to dance in perfect harmony, and to encourage him I’ve brought along his favourite food (cocktail sausages) and put on his favourite CD (Strictly Dance Classics). But [...]

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After giving birth to her third child last summer, one could forgive Claudia Winkleman for wanting to take it easy. However, the Strictly Come Dancing presenter tells Mandrake the new child has made her so broody her husband has had to impose a baby ban.   “I’d like another baby but my husband has banned [...]

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Tintin is experiencing new and exciting adventures these days. Not just in the cinema, but in Belgian courts as well. Bienvenu Mbuto Mondondo, a Congolese national studying in Brussels, filed suit to obtain an injunction against the continued publication, distribution and sale of Hergé’s comic book Tintin in the Congo (Tintin au Congo), as well [...]

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Grownup children still living with their parents get a pretty bad press. In Britain and America they’re labelled “Kippers” (Kids In Parents’ Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings) or “Yuckies” (Young Unwitting Costly Kids). In Australia it’s “Slops” (Singles Living Off Parents). In Italy it’s “Bamboccioni” (Big Babies). The Japanese are even less delicate: their “parasaito shinguru” [...]

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Simon Cowell predicts Britain’s Got Talent winner Pudsey will become the most famous dog in the world. He’s probably right. I can just see Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence being cast as Ashleigh and Pudsey portraying himself – and maybe Colin Firth playing Simon since he’s putting up the money? There simply isn’t a Hollywood [...]

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Model Sasha Pivovarova has given birth to a baby girl just two days after posting the first picture of her pregnant bump. The Russian-born 26-year-old, who has yet to reveal her new baby’s name, announced the birth via Twitter yesterday, telling her fans: ‘It’s a beautiful baby girl… ’ It is a first baby for [...]

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He’s been married to his actress wife for seven years who recently gave birth to their third child. And this weekend, ahead of Mother’s Day, actor Ben Affleck paid tribute to Jennifer Garner and praised her for being a ‘world-class mum’. He took to his Facebook page yesterday to post a video of him speaking [...]

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It was a simple gesture; a child’s innocent hug that brought a smile to the face of the Queen.   Amid the grandiose surroundings of St George’s Hall in Windsor Castle — 4,000 miles and a world away from her village in Uganda — Lydia Amito stood in line waiting to meet the monarch.   [...]

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The name Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is not one that slips easily off the tongue but it’s worth mastering because we’re likely to be hearing a lot more of it in the future. Followers of the wilfully perplexing American fantasy series Lost may recall its owner as Mr Eko, the former drug lord turned fake priest who [...]

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Throughout the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year we are featuring some of your memories of meeting and seeing Queen Elizabeth II. While children have formed an important backdrop to the various celebrations and landmarks of the Queen’s 60 years on the throne, it is impossible to predict what a child will do – whether it is [...]

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‘What the —- is this bull—-?” Eyes on mine, Mike Tyson slams his fist down on the leather sofa. Then he smiles – a smile that travels slowly up from those sadistic-looking incisors to the flames tattooed over his left eye. “That was what I was like back then. I had this rage inside and [...]

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Her sense of style is coveted by many but now Kourtney Kardashian has influenced the world of parenting. While Jacob has been found to be the most popular name for boys for the 13th year straight, Mason has come in at second place according to a list made by the U.S. Social Security Administration. The [...]

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Prince Harry has always been a bit of a joker so it is no surprise that he managed to make this little baby smile. The Prince proved he has a softer side as he clowned around for a friend’s baby during a polo match. He couldn’t resist making the little tot laugh as he took [...]

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The Duchess of Cambridge’s parents, who now boast their own coat of arms, could soon be moving to a house befitting of their new status. According to residents in their home village of Bucklebury, Berkshire, Michael and Carole Middleton have viewed The Manor, a £4m mansion close to their current home. But all hopes the [...]

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The two women preside over modern textiles and fashion, and 20th century fashion there respectively. This is indeed an exhibition that lifts the spirits and that is ultimately as light-hearted as many of the designs included display lightness of touch. It is also the place to go to see some of the biggest, boldest, most [...]

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Between her husband’s affair and their very public break-up, it has been a tough couple of years for Yvonne Keating. But the mother of three insists that she has to remain strong for the sake of her children. The former model joined friend Miriam Ahern yesterday at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel for Mrs Ahern’s annual lunch [...]

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A video of cancer-stricken kids singing along to Kelly Clarkson’s hit song Stronger has become an internet sensation with over one million views. The shoot was set up by Chris Rumble, a regular twenty-something from Seattle with a passion for hockey and making amateur movies. Until, that is, he was suddenly diagnosed with leukaemia, which [...]

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Karen David is wearing a vibrant floral vintage dress and a beaming smile when we meet at Soho House in Los Angeles. She has a lot to feel happy about. The actress and singer is soon to marry Swedish record producer Carl Ryden, she’s starring with Kiefer Sutherland in his new TV series Touch, and [...]

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This picture shows me as a Girl Guide aged about 11, shortly after I’d joined up. I loved the Guides (I’m still a supporter) and rose to the heady heights of patrol leader. Camping was the bit I enjoyed most, especially if it involved getting together with the Scouts! The eldest of three girls, I [...]

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I was always determined to earn my own cash, even when I was at school and growing up at home. My mother asked me in the school holidays to do some chores in the garden, which I did a lot of anyway, but this time she said she would give me £10 to do it. [...]

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Mariah Carey’s twins are quickly developing a taste for the millionaire lifestyle. The singer hosted a lavish first birthday party for Moroccan and Monroe in Paris, where she showered them with gifts, including a toy Ferrari. This is how I roll: Mariah Carey’s daughter takes a spin in her new toy Ferrari at a birthday [...]

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Tindall, 33, said he and Princess Anne’s daughter want to follow in the footsteps of her brother Peter and give the Queen a great-grandchild. But the England rugby star said that it was difficult because of their busy sporting schedules.   Speaking at the launch of his new charity Rugby For Heroes, he said it [...]

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Top chef Marcus Wareing has criticised young cooks for chasing 15 minutes of fame on television shows like MasterChef. Wareing, whose restaurant at The Berkeley has two Michelin stars, said trainees needed to put in hours of graft because being on TV was not the key to success. The 41-year-old, speaking at the launch of [...]

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If tattooed warriors can win an audience by chanting Shakespeare in Maori and shaking the hallowed foundations of the Globe Theatre then, come on, there’s hope for us all.   That thought took me back to an evening last year, when I found myself at the Lyric in the West End for a programme of [...]

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Lady Gaga admitted she was nervous filming a part for the 23rd season finale of The Simpsons, which celebrated its 500th episode in February. The Simpsons is the longest-running prime-time scripted programme on US TV and is contracted to run for another two seasons.   The episode entitled ‘Lisa Goes Gaga’ is being shown on 20th [...]

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They say we all have a doppelganger, but who’d have thought so many of our politicians would find theirs in the animal kingdom? Last week, newly  re-elected London mayor Boris Johnson was compared to a scruffy-haired alpaca with a goofy grin. Here, some of the biggest names in politics are paired with their wild lookalikes . . . [...]

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He became a father for the fourth time just a few weeks ago. And now Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming has given his fans a first glimpse of their baby daughter. The model has posted an adorable photo on Twitter of the Hollywood actor cuddling little Mabel Ray in his arms. How adorable! Bruce Willis’ [...]

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A mother of two has told of how she breastfeeds her two sons who are aged three and five. Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, has appeared on the cover of Time magazine breastfeeding her three-year-old Aram as he stands on a small seat to reach her. The Los Angeles mother has spoken about how she applies [...]

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Many schoolgirls now say they feel “exposed” without make-up and spray tan while others feel under growing pressure to actively hide their intelligence, the study compiled for the Girl Guides found.   And while many list characters from television programmes such as The Only Way is Essex among their role models, few were able to [...]

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Children’s life chances are more likely to be linked to parental achievement and wealth in this country than almost any other developed nation, it was claimed. The Education Secretary said the “sheer scale” of the dominance exercised by former private schoolboys pointed to a “deep problem” in British society. In a speech, he said public [...]

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A future first-born child of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge would take the throne regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl, under changes announced yesterday. As the Daily Mail reported in October, an overhaul of the laws of Royal succession will put an end to the system of male preference [...]

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It’s one thing to encourage your child to pursue their dreams, but sometimes encouragement comes at a price. A mother and daughter who live in Los Angeles told Anderson Cooper that moving to Hollywood so the young girl, Presley Cash, could become an actress has so far cost them over $160,000. Not only that but the [...]

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My five-year-old son has taken to looking me up and down each morning and asking: ‘Are you going to wear that to work. Really?’ He stands at the bottom of the stairs critiquing my style. Yesterday, when I asked him exactly what he thought was wrong with my navy blue trousers and blue blouse, he [...]

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As first time parents, the thought of raising a child to be healthy and happy can sometimes be a daunting one. And last night Beyoncé and Jay-Z proved that even celebrity parents turn to parenting manuals and guide books for advice, as they attended the launch party for friend Erica Reid’s book The Thriving Child. [...]

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It seems Niall Horan has finally had a day off from world domination. The One Direction star was seen returning to his home turf in Ireland for a little family bonding. The 18-year-old’s proud mother looked elated to have her son back after months of gallivanting in the US and Australia with bandmates Zayn Malik, [...]

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Being in the public eye can be a minefield. A life lived under the spotlight, your every word dissected. It’s a wonder celebrities ever dare say anything at all.. But when they do, it is so often to put their foot in it. In an interview in this month’s Elle magazine, Chloe Green, the daughter [...]

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At Seattle Children’s Hospital, one floor is full of kids fighting battles that no one should ever have to face — especially not at their age. For a moment, however, the ward was filled with hope and joy from the most unlikely of sources. In the above video, the ward’s patients and staff lip-dub to [...]

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Jessica Simpson wants to cry every time she looks at her newborn baby. The singer-turned-actress gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Maxwell Drew, over a week ago. While she has remained silent about how she and her new family are doing until now, Jessica has revealed she is besotted with her little [...]

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To normal, well-adjusted people, it was genuinely sweet to see that cute dark-eyed, floppy-haired little boy enjoying his father’s triumph. It was heart-warming to see O’Sullivan, a man who has suffered miserably with depression and addiction, so manifestly in love with his son. Ronnie jnr looked pretty happy to see cascades of multicoloured ticker-tape descend [...]

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Carla Bruni is to start singing live again and will release a new album of songs. She is reviving a musical career she shelved while her husband was president. Nicolas Sarkozy announced his retirement from politics following his defeat in Sunday’s election. There are also rumours of France’s outgoing first lady starring as herself in [...]

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