Jessica Alba

Name : Jessica Alba
Profession : Actress
Date of Birth : April 28, 1981
Place of Birth : Pomona, California USA
Sign : Sun in Taurus
Parents :Mother-Cathy
(French/Danish) ; Father-Mark (Spanish/
Mexican-American)

Biography

Jessica got her big break in Camp Nowhere because her hair matched the actress' who's role she got when the original actress had to pull out at the last moment.
Jessica Marie Alba relocated with her family (her Spanish/Mexican-American father was in the Air Force) several times before finally settling down in Southern California. The Alba family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, then back to California, followed by Del Rio, Texas, and finally back to the West Coast.
Jessica is a PADI-certified scuba diver.
On the set of filming Flipper (1996) she recieved numerous threats for her kidnapping on the phone by an unknown man.
She was chosen to play Max on Fox's Dark Angel. James Cameron (Producer), and Charles H. Eglee (Producer), say they knew she was the perfect one for the job as soon as they met her. They said she was outgoing, and had a great personality. Rumor has it that she was also chosen because of the fact that she looks like no identifiable ethnicity, which is supposed to be the same as Max.

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Born:
Avril Ramona Lavigne on September 27, 1984 in Belleville, Ontario. Her first name means "April" in French.
Personal Quote :
"I'm not punk, that's a whole other world. If anything I'm more rock or pop."
Early Start:
At the age of sixteen, Avril was signed by Ken Krongard, the A&R rep for Arista Records.
Celebrity Catfight:
In March 2004, she and Hilary Duff were involved in a little celebrity catfight with Avril caling Hilary a "mommy's girl" and goody two shoes."
Awards and Recognition:
Avril was named "Best New Artist" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards and was nominated for eight Grammy Awards.
She also won two World Music Awards in 2004 for World's Best Pop/Rock Artist and World's Best Selling Canadian Artist.

Engagement and Wedding News:
In June 2005, she became engaged to Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley. In July 2006, the two were married in Montecito, California in front of 100 of their closest friends.
Legal Controversy:
In July 2005, Avril became tangled in some legal controversy regarding the originality (or lack thereof) for her music. She was accused of ripping off other artist's material for her albums.
Fashion Statement :
Rumor has it that Avril used to travel with a bag full of neck ties to wear on her concert tours. She stopped wearing them in 2003 after realizing that she had unknowingly started some kind of strange trend.
Magazine Acclaim :
She was ranked 92 and 36 on the Maxim Hot 100 List for 2003 and 2005.
She made the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World list in 2003, 2004, and 2005.

In June 2007, she caused a stir with her nearly nude cover shot in Blender magazine.

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Naomi Campbell is dating Lewis Hamilton

Naomi Campbell was shy when the cameras caught her with Formula One race driver, Lewis Hamilton. They were at the Camden Roundhouse gala before leaving for London’s Dorchester Hotel. Lewis was also trying to keep a very low profile. This made the paparazzi more curious. Could the age gap have anything to do with it? Naomi, at 37, is 15 years older than Lewis, 22.


Naomi and Lewis became a couple when they met at the GQ Man of the Year awards in London, last September. Naomi previously was involved in a relationship with another employee from the race tracks. She had a turbulent 4 year romance with the Italian Renault team’s boss, Flavio Briatore.


Lewis has also been seen with Nicole Scherzinger, the singer from Pussycat Dolls.


Source: DailyMail

Britney Spears is pregnant and other updates.

Britney Spears is pregnant with her third child. The baby’s father is JR Rotem. InTouch magazine has reported that Britney emailed her ultrasound photo to some friends. The magazine contacted JR Rotem and he confirmed that it was true.

In another incident on Nov. 18, UsWeekly reported that Britney was in a Hustler store in West Hollywood trying on new panties. The staff refused to allow fitting of underwear and that is a universal policy. Britney stripped and changed into the new pair of hot shorts that had “Barely Legal” embroidered at the behind. She did it in front of 15 eye witnesses. She thought she could walk off with unpaid merchandize but the staff reminded her to pay. The finale came when she took a wig from a mannequin and ran away.

Britney finally recorded her music video, “Piece of Me” in the night. The press caught her arriving and leaving the location in pajamas. Her chauffeur was Sam Lufti.


Sources: InTouch Magazine, Usmagazine, TMZ

Tara Reid to host Hookers Ball in Australia

Tara Reid has been booked to host a Ball. It is not just any Ball. It’s the 21st Annual Hookers Ball, in Australia. This event would be held this Sunday. The Hooker’s Ball has been sponsored by a company dealing in porn/ pornography products. Each ticket to the ball costs $25. The Australians love Tara. The billboard poster proudly proclaimed her as belonging to Hollywood’s A-list. There was a spelling mistake in “American” pie.


Tara was last in the gossip news for her infamous odor. She often carried the smell of cigarettes and alcohol around her. Bill Lawrence said that Tara was a nice person to work with except for the odor.
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Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series, Popular Mechanics for Kids, and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series 24. She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film The Girl Next Door.

Career

When she was 7, Cuthbert started modeling for various lines of children's clothing and also became a foot model.She made her first televised appearance as an extra in the horror-themed series for children, Are You Afraid of the Dark?; she later become a series regular. Cuthbert also co-hosted Popular Mechanics for Kids, which was filmed in Montreal. Her reporting captured the attention of then-First Lady, Hillary Clinton, who invited her to visit the White House.

Cuthbert landed her first role in a feature film in the family drama Dancing on the Moon (1997). She appeared in several other Canadian family-themed movies and an airplane thriller, Airspeed. Cuthbert starred in the Canadian television movie Lucky Girl in 2001 and was awarded a Gemini Award for her performance.

Soon after her move to Los Angeles, Cuthbert was cast in the role of Kim Bauer, daughter of CTU agent Jack Bauer in the television series 24. She appeared in the show's first three seasons, but not in its 4th; she guest-starred in only two episodes in the 5th season. She also reprised her role as Kim Bauer in 24: The Game. She has also said that she would like to play her role as Kim in the upcoming movie, The Movie.

Hollywood film career

Cuthbert auditioned for the role of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film, though the role eventually went to Kirsten Dunst.She began her Hollywood film career with small roles in Old School and Love Actually in 2003.

Cuthbert's next film, The Girl Next Door, cast her in her first lead role as an ex-porn star, Danielle, alongside Emile Hirsch. Cuthbert had initial reservations about taking the part, but was persuaded by director Luke Greenfield into accepting. She researched the role, speaking to actual adult actresses from Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment.Upon its release the film received comparisons to Risky Business— although Cuthbert claims her character was not directly based on De Mornay's character — and was noted for Cuthbert's sex appeal. Critics were divided; some praised the film for its boldness, while others, notably Roger Ebert, decried it for being gimmicky and exploitative.[8][9] Ebert wrote that he saw Cuthbert's character Danielle as "quite the most unpleasant character I have seen in some time."

In her next big-screen outing, Cuthbert starred with Paris Hilton and Chad Michael Murray in the 2005 remake of the classic horror film House of Wax. Cuthbert, along with the rest of her cast mates, was made up to look haggard and frightened. In one scene, her character was to attempt to open her mouth while her lips were sealed with glue. For the sake of realism, Cuthbert opted for real superglue over prosthetics. Despite her efforts, House of Wax was largely panned, with critics citing a range of flaws. It was called "notable for having some of the most moronic protagonists ever to populate a horror film," though out of those characters reviews tended to think Cuthbert "fares the best". Others noted Cuthbert as an "exception" playing her role "earnestly" and "fine".

Cuthbert's next film project was the indie film The Quiet, which she not only co-starred in but also co-produced and helped finance. She played Nina, a temperamental 17-year old cheerleader who suffered from sexual abuse. Cuthbert looked to her younger cousin for inspiration as to how to play a teenager.The Quiet, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and received a limited release in Los Angeles and New York City on August 25, 2006, before expanding regionally on September 1.

Cuthbert had also screen tested for the role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns, but she lost the part at the last minute to Kate Bosworth. She had also been turned down for the lead in Fantastic Four.

Cuthbert appeared in the music video for Weezer's "Perfect Situation" in early 2006, where she played the group's fictional original singer who threw a tantrum that led to Rivers Cuomo, the unlikely roadie, becoming the frontman of the band. Cuthbert also had a small role in Paris Hilton's music video for the song "Nothing In This World".

Cuthbert appeared in two films in 2007. The first, Captivity, was a thriller centered around a fashion model taunted by a psychopath who has imprisoned her in a cellar.

Cuthbert also has several other films in different stages of production. In He Was a Quiet Man, her character, Vanessa, is a quadriplegic. The film will contain comedic and dramatic elements; the cast includes Christian Slater and William H. Macy.She is also slated to voice Cleo, "the feline daughter of a wealthy kitty litter baron" in Cat Tale, an animated film set in a civilized world of cats and dogs.

Cuthbert is scheduled to appear in the family comedy The Six Wives of Henry LeFay with actor Tim Allen.

Paris Sued for Stealing Look

Paris Hilton is being sued by a woman who claims the blonde socialite “stole” her look. The “Simple Life” star has been accused of causing “emotional distress” to fellow Californian Nicolle O’Neill, who fancies herself as an inspiration to the party-loving heiress.

In a bizarre personal injury complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this month, O’Neill alleges that she suffers psychologically because of Hilton and accuses the 26-year-old of ripping off her style, including fashion-related “patens” (sic) and “stiling” (sic) tips. Two pages of documents spell out specific charges against Hilton, including a claim that she stole O’Neill’s idea to expose her underwear under her trousers. O’Neill also claims Paris swiped her idea to shop in vintage stores for retro dresses.

Hilton has yet to issue a response to the allegations.

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Name: Ayumi Hamasaki

Profession: Actress

Height: 5"1

Nationality: Japanese

Why Famous: Japanese pop singer and spokesmodel.

Date of Birth: 2nd October, 1978

Birth Place: Fukuoka, Japan

Ayumi Hamasaki Bio

Despite her child-like persona, you can't help but sense Hamasaki was never truly a child. Born in Fukuoka on the southern island of Kyushu, she was just a toddler when her father walked out. "I don't even know if he's dead or alive," she says. Raised by a single mother and a grandmother, she began modeling locally at seven, in part to earn money for the family. It was an unusual and lonely childhood in this country of steadfastly nuclear families, but Hamasaki says she wasn't aware of what she was missing. "I thought mommy's life was strange, not mine," she says. "I didn't understand my loneliness until I moved to Tokyo." Hamasaki made that move at 14 to pursue an acting and modeling career. Old magazine spreads feature the sweetly smiling young starlet clad in bathing suits or prim outfits that would never make it to her own wardrobe. After bit parts in five low-budget movies and a handful of TV dramas, she tired of acting and, with her tiny frame, did not have a future in modeling. Canned by her talent agency and dropping out of school in the 10th grade, Hamasaki frittered away her days shopping at trendy shibuya boutiques and her nights dancing at the massive Velfarre nightclub in Roppongi.

Then a friend who worked at the club, owned by the record label Avex, invited her out for a night of karaoke that forever changed her life. The friend had also invited Masato ("Max") Matsuura, who introduced himself to Hamasaki as a producer. "I'd never heard of Avex," Hamasaki recalls, laughing. "When he asked if I wanted to pursue a singing career, I said, 'No way.' He was this older guy, and I thought the whole thing sounded fishy." Over the following year, though, Matsuura persisted. Finally she relented to his request that she at last attend vocal training, only because "I had nothing better to do." But the classes were dull and the teachers harsh. "I felt like I'd gone back to school," she says. "If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them."

Finally she confessed to Matsuura that she'd skipped most of the classes. But instead of writing her off, he proposed sending her to New York for some real training. "I thought he was kidding," she says. "I mean, I was 17." Reluctantly she went, staying in a midtown hotel for three months, taking singing classes a few blocks away. "New York was a relief-not all hierarchical and rule-bound," she says. When Hamasaki returned to Japan, Matsuura proposed another challenge. Because she has trouble voicing her thoughts, Hamasaki had over that year corresponded with Matsuura through letters, which must have echoed of simple yet poignant lyrics. "He read them and said, 'Why don't you try writing songs?'" The idea that she could express herself in song imbued her with a new sense of direction. "No one had ever asked anything of me before, or expected anything of me," she says of Matsuura, whom Hamasaki and everyone at Avex calls by his title, senmu, or managing director. "Part of me was flattered; part of me was terrified but didn't want to admit I couldn't do it. Plenty of people had patted my head and said, 'Aren't you cute.' Senmu gets mad, but when he praises me, I know I've won it. He's the one who found me and drew me out." He stuck by her, too, when superstardom didn't occur overnight. Her first two singles in 1998 stopped at No. 20 on the charts; her next four barely broke the Top 10. Then Love~destiny~ busted into the No. 1 slot in April 1999, and every one of her singles have hit the top ever three since. The responsibilities that came with her ascension as a recording star were a fair trade-off for the joyous release of writing. "The 'Hi, this is Ayu' person on TV," she says, slipping for a moment into her alter ego's nasal, anime-character voice, "is the person I know they want to see. I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my song away from me."

She is complicit in the brutal arithmetic of fame: trading the freedom she cherished for the right to tell her story through songs. Indeed, she has transcended mere songstress status and become something even more venerated in our consumer driven society. "It's necessary that I am viewed as a product," she says. "I am a product."


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Vanessa Hudgens biography

Full Name:
Vanessa Anne Hudgens

Birthdate:
December 14, 1988

Birth Place:
Salinas, California

Height:
5' 3"

Career Start:
Still Standing (TV 2002)


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Emo hairstyles are similar to the hairstyles of music artists in the 1980s and the punk hairstyles in the past decade. Commonly, emo hairstyles include straight black hair with long bangs or fringes styled to one side, covering part of the face and eyes. However, the emo hairstyle is not limited to this anymore; styles have evolved so that anybody who wants to have an emo hairstyle can get one.

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HAVE YOUR HAIR COLORED

Have your entire hair dyed black or dark brown. If you want to add highlights, you can do so in a variety of colors. Emo hairstyles tend to use unusual hues in order to create a glaring contrast to the black hair – white, blue and even bright pink, for the more outrageous, are typically used. Highlights are usually added under the bangs and at the nape.

STYLE YOUR HAIR

Having emo hair is high maintenance. Styling emo hair typically involves the use of a lot of hair products. You can choose to either straighten your hair with a hair iron or create a messy, unruly look. For those with curly hair, try straightening even just the front part of your hair. When ironing your hair, remember to do so in small sections so that you go through all the parts. If you are a guy, you can also spike up the back of your hair, while keeping the front pat down. You can also use funky accessories and clips to style your hair.

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Monica Bellucci was born on September 30 1968, in Città di Castello, Perugia (Italy). She began studying law but a year later she left studies. In 1988 Monica moved to Milan and she got a good start in her model career.A year later she was entirely successful in Paris and in New York. Monica Bellucci is one of the few Italian models to have reached the top of her profession, but she decided to study
acting, hoping to find parts in films. In 1990 Monica began to work on television in the Dino Risi's film "Vita con i figli" and in 1992 on cinema in the Francis Ford Coppola's movie as Dracula's bride. In 1996 Monica was nominated for the César (the French Oscar) as best promise actress in the movie "L'appartement". Monica dreams of working with Robert de Niro and Marcello Mastroianni. "It's awful to see your body decaying against your will. I don't really believe some of my older colleagues who rave about the pleasures of being 40 and 50. Everything happens so fast."- Monica Bellucci told in an interview for the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera". At this time Monica is the testimonial of a famous TV commercial.

Biography and the story behind Rihanna

There's nothing like the warm spirit of the Caribbean to re-energize a dry, stale season of the same old song and dance. And with summer fast approaching there couldn't be a better time for Barbados-born singer Rihanna to break into an industry that is eager to celebrate the next big thing.
Luckily Rihanna was able to shake the jitters as soon as she started her impromptu showcase, a performance that forced her future label bosses to sign the deal before she walked out of their offices. "We were there until 4:30 in the morning closing the deal. Every time I signed my name I was just smiling."


Thanks to multi-platinum island-born superstars like Sean Paul, Shaggy and Elephant Man, the mainstream has been primed for a rhythmic female star to step into the forefront of popular music. Besides ripping traditional reggae tracks like a seasoned dancehall queen, the stunning 17-year-old Rihanna possesses a powerful singing voice that conjures up feelings and experiences way beyond her years. It's no wonder that all it took was a quick audition with Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, President and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, for the green-eyed beauty to solidify a recording contract with the multi-million dollar record company. While that performance ended up changing her life forever, the sweet natured island girl laughs at her own naivete at the time. "I was in the lobby shaking!," remembers Rihanna with a healthy dose of her Bajan accent hanging onto every one of her words. "I saw just a little bit of Jay's face down the hall and I was just like, 'Oh my God!' I had never met a celebrity, and to meet a celebrity who's also the president of the label, that was crazy!!"

Growing up in the parish of St. Michael, Barbados, it never occurred to Rihanna that one day she would be sitting in the company of mega music moguls. Before moving to the US in 2005, Rihanna lived somewhat of a simple life on her home island where she attended high school and like most teenage girls sang songs for fun with her friends. Aside from winning her school's beauty and talent pageant, Rihanna never realized how talented she really was until she attracted the attention of a New York City music producer named Evan Rogers. (Evan and his partner, Carl Sturken, have produced hits for such artists as Christina Aguilera, Ruben Studdard and Kelly Clarkson.) Evan and his Barbadian wife Jackie were vacationing over Christmas near Rihanna’s hometown and through a mutual friend were introduced to the young diva. After hearing her belt out a couple of tunes Evan realized Rihanna’s future star power and invited her to New York to record some tracks.

Rihanna, Evan and Carl ended up creating close to a dozen songs. Together they pulled inspiration from the dancehall and reggae that are embedded in Rihanna’s rich musical culture and fused it with a fresh R&B soul sound - a mixture Rihanna likes to compare to one of her favorite Caribbean dishes, callaloo. "It's like a gumbo or a stew," explains Rihanna. "My music is mostly Caribbean beats mixed with R&B. I don't want to be pigeon holed into being just a dance artist because I can sing too. I have ballads on the album as well as upbeat tracks."
Rihanna’s debut album promises to have all the ingredients that make musical magic. And like her influences Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and Mariah Carey, Rihanna is a talented songwriter who has co-written much of her album. "Music is in my D.N.A.!" exclaims the bright eyed singer. Her first single "Pon De Replay" is sure to mash up dancehalls worldwide with Rihanna’s soul stirring vocals demanding the DJ to play her song again and again 'til it touches every single person within earshot. With tracks featuring both Elephant Man and Vybz Kartel, Rihanna is guaranteed to supply some serious heat for both radio and clubs nationwide.
Rihanna is indeed living a real life Cinderella story. "If I hadn't met Evan and Carl I might have just been dreaming forever," she muses. "I am so thankful for everything they’ve done for me." Soon the whole world will be giving both Rihanna and her producers thanks.
Since the turn of the century, every American summer has seemed to produce one or two Caribbean-styled dance-pop hit sensations, and the summer of 2005 was no different, as the relentless dancehall-lite booming rhythms of Rihanna's "Pon de Replay" seemed as omnipresent as sunshine. Like Daddy Yankee ("Gasolina") and Sean Paul ("Get Busy") in summers prior, Rihanna emerged initially as an unknown superstar, known far more for her song than for herself. Unlike Daddy Yankee and Sean Paul, however, she is a woman -- a young and beautiful green-eyed one, to be more specific. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in the St. Michael parish of Barbados a brief 17 years before she reached the Top Two of Billboard's Hot 100 chart (held back from the number one spot by the undisputed song of the summer, Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together"), Rihanna always exhibited a special quality, winning beauty and talent contests as a schoolchild. But because she lived on the fairly remote island of Barbados in the West Indies, she never foresaw the sort of stardom that would later befall her.
That stardom came courtesy of a fateful meeting with a man named Evan Rogers. The New Yorker was vacationing in Barbados with his wife, a native of the island, when someone turned him on to Rihanna. Since Rogers had spent years producing pop artists -- including superstars like NSYNC, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Laura Pausini, and Rod Stewart -- he offered her the opportunity to record some music after he recognized her talent and potential. Along with Rogers' production partner, Carl Sturken (the other half of Syndicated Rhythm Productions), Rihanna recorded some demos that sparked the interest of the Carter Administration -- that is, Def Jam president Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. This led to an audition and, in turn, an on-the-spot offer to sign with Def Jam, which Rihanna indeed inked on the spot.
Come summer 2005, Def Jam rolled out "Pon de Replay," the lead single of Music of the Sun, which was produced almost entirely by Rogers and Sturken and which synthesized Caribbean rhythms and beats with urban-pop songwriting. "Pon de Replay" caught fire almost immediately, challenging "We Belong Together"'s half-summer reign atop the Billboard chart before Music of the Sun even saw release. Her sophomore release, A Girl Like Me, appeared in 2006.
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