Showbusiness News

Breast cancer battle helped Kylie find her true identity

2007-01-11T21:47:00.000-08:00

Breast cancer battle helped Kylie find her true identity

Washington, Sept 21: Pop singer Kylie Minogue feels that she has grown more focussed towards her life after a year-long break from showbusiness forced by her breast cancer battle.

The I Can`t Get You Out Of My Head singer had to take a sabbatical from the music industry for one year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2005, for which she had to undergo chemotherapy in Paris, the Capital of France.

And now that Minogue is back in business, she believes she has developed a new sense of purpose.

"It`s difficult for me to articulate the way in which things have changed. "Before last year everything in my life was such a rush. I was travelling, I was touring, I was recording, I was going to meetings, always moving from one thing to the next, Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

EVERETT: 'STONE IS UNHINGED'

2006-12-15T22:43:00.000-08:00

EVERETT: 'STONE IS UNHINGED'

RUPERT EVERETT claims Hollywood star SHARON STONE is deranged. The MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING actor insists being slightly mad is a necessary quality for surviving in the film industry. The British actor discusses BASIC INSTINCT star Stone and other A-listers, including JULIA ROBERTS, in his autobiography RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS. He writes, "Saying that Sharon is unhinged is not rude; being unhinged is a prerequisite for being in showbusiness. "It is to their credit that these women are mad and tough and incredible. "Sharon Stone is an extraordinary character, extremely intelligent, totally controlling, really fun but... unhinged. And that's kind of fabulous."
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X Factor Betting Odds: Chico To Present?

2006-11-30T00:16:00.000-08:00

X Factor Betting Odds: Chico To Present?

We're still no closer to knowing which of the 100,000 grasping, deluded approval-seekers who applied for X Factor will make it to the live finals shows, but it doesn't matter.

Why should it? Instead of fretting about which of the X Factor contestants you'll want to blow your wages on by voting for, you should be working out how X Factor can make you money - by betting on this week's borderline demented X Factor special bets. Yesterday we looked at the betting odds of Rebecca Loos becoming an guest X Factor judge, but today's bet is something so genuinely horrific that we can't even bring ourselves to think about it in case it actually drives us insane.

Here are the X Factor betting odds for Chico to stand in for Kate Thornton and present X Factor…

Chico to stand in for Kate Thornton and present X Factor in 2006 - We get the feeling that, no matter how ill she ever gets, Kate Thornton would still drag herself to the X Factor studio ready to present the show every Saturday.

Brangelina give $2million to charity

2006-11-19T23:54:00.000-08:00

Brangelina give $2million to charity

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continued their ongoing fight on behalf of good things in the world when they announced that they were each giving $1million to charity.

The move comes after they previously donated $300,000 to the state hospitals of Namibia where their spooneristic child Shiloh Pitt was born and then reportedly donated all of the approximately $10million that the sale of the first pictures of Shiloh made to an undisclosed charity.

And it was reported that a portion of the profits from the terrifying Madame Tussauds waxwork of them and Shiloh (pictured right) would go to UNICEF.

Jolie has also previously pledged $5million for a wildlife centre in Cambodia, while Pitt recently spent $200,000 to set up an architecture competition to design environmentally friendly buildings for New Orleans.

No mystery with Peter

2006-11-09T18:32:00.000-08:00

No mystery with Peter

Popstar Peter Andre loves showbusiness - but he loves his family more. He was meeting his fans today, signing his autobiography at the Merry Hill Centre.His book, All About Us - My Story, describes his life from growing up in Australia to living with glamour model Jordan. And after his lavish wedding Peter admitted he doesn't like to be away from his new wife for too long. "I don't like to leave my children or wife.

"I love my home in Brighton and being in the UK is wonderful.

"I have done lots of music stuff before in Dudley, back in 1996 when I released Mysterious Girl and more recently in 2003 and 2004.

"This is the first book signing I have done and I have noticed that people 'up north' dress very well and give us southerners a run for our money."

Peter Andre first found fame on Australian talent show New Faces where he made history by being offered a recording contract by Molly Meldrum live on air.

Janice Turner

2006-10-25T23:14:00.000-07:00

Janice Turner

WE SHOULD LISTEN more to that great seer and philosopher Elizabeth Hurley. Â“Fashion has no mercy,Â” sheÂ’d intone plummily on the TV programme Project Catwalk, as she cast some wannabe Armani back to changing-room duty. And fashion has no morals either, no conscience, no heart. You might as well implore arms traders to have compassion for landmine amputees as beg fashion designers to ensure that their scrawny teens have eaten a proper breakfast.

Fashion is a multibillion-pound industrial engine that generates desire in women for an impossible ideal of beauty. That is how it flogs clothes: maybe if we shell out for that Â£300 dress we will attain beauty, for a flickering moment, before fashion sweeps imperiously on.

David Sinclair at Wembley Arena

2006-10-15T18:47:00.000-07:00

David Sinclair at Wembley Arena

Showbusiness personalities who announce their intention to retire rarely stick to their plan. But few performers have ever looked less retired than Shawn Corey Carter, better known as Jay-Z. The 36-year-old record company mogul and leisurewear entrepreneur from New York, who supposedly gave up his life as a hip-hop star after the release of The Black Album in 2003, returned to the London stage on Sunday amid a searing blaze of white light and a thunderous blast of bottom-end noise. Head enclosed in a diamond-encrusted hoodie, he slouched to the front and barked out the self-aggrandising message of What Else Can I Say? with the authority of a man who has risen from the rough quarter of Brooklyn to international rap royalty.

Boomerang: No Undies Mondays

2006-10-08T19:01:00.000-07:00

Boomerang: No Undies Mondays

Boomerang, Cartoon Network's commercial-free, all-classic animation network, has found yet another new way to spotlight its unmatched catalog of cartoon stars in a new weekly franchise featuring a catchy, if somewhat provocative title-NO UNDIES MONDAYS-premiering Monday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. (ET). Great personalities from Hanna-Barbera, the dominant cartoon studio of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, will link their laughter-inspiring adventures each week for a new one-hour salute to pants-less-ness. "Boomerang is home to some of the biggest stars in the world. The one difference between these celebrities and the rest of Hollywood is that our characters have absolutely no problem with being caught with their pants down," said Marc Buhaj, vice president of programming and scheduling for Boomerang and Cartoon Network.