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I dont have a home Will.i.am
Singer Will.i.am doesn't have a home despite purchasing properties for several close family members and paying off their mortgages. The "Scream and Shout" hitmaker has never bought a house for himself and calls his recording studio his abode, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "I don't have a home. But I bought my mum, uncle, aunt and grandma their homes," said the 38-year-old. "And then what some ...
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Katy Perry reveals hair colour disaster
Singer Katy Perry says she started dyeing her natural blonde hair black after an attempt to bleach her locks like pop star Madonna went wrong. The 28-year-old said: "I've been dyeing my hair black since I was 15. The whole reason I dye it is that I was 15 and I chopped it all off. I had it bleached blonde like Madonna and it didn't look right so I bought a box of hair dye and dyed it all black ...
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Kate Middleton voted top fashion icon
The Duchess of Cambridge has been voted the 'fashion icon', while late Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn has emerged as 'icon of all times' in an online poll. StyleinView.co.uk, a one-stop shop for fashion, has conducted a poll of 2,000 people to find out who they considered the fashion icons of today and of all time. The Duchess of Cambridge, whose maiden name is Kate Middleton, unsurprisingly ...
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Britney Spears kids to star in new music video
Britney Spears' sons Sean Preston, 7, and Jayden James, 6, have starred in her upcoming music video 'Ooh La La,' which has been included on the animated movie 'The Smurfs 2' soundtrack. She told the Mirror that she has always loved the Smurfs as a kid and now her boys are the biggest Smurfs fans ever. The 31-year-old pop diva said that her kids were really good on set. Spears asserted that ...
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George Clooney in touch with ex-girlfriend
Hollywood actor George Clooney might be dating former wrestler Stacey Keibler, but his ex-girlfriend Lisa Snowdown says he stays in touch with her as well. Clooney dated Snowdown on and off from 2000 to 2005 and Snowdown says they are good friends now, reports contactmusic.com. "I haven't seen him for a while, but we text one another. He is a good guy. There are some people in your life that ...
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The Devil Wears Prada [DVD]
Based on the best-selling roman clef about the soul-sucking world of high fashion by Lauren Weisberger, who worked a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the infamously diabolical editor of Vogue, The Devil Wears Prada was a clever bit of counter-programming i ... ...
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Charles Saatchi confesses to assaulting wife Nigella Lawson in public
Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson's billionaire husband, Charles Saatchi, has admitted that he assaulted his wife by choking her in public during a heated fight at the Scott's restaurant in Mayfair. Earlier he had described his act as merely a 'playful tiff' with no grip during a discussion where he was trying to 'emphasize' a point, the Herald Sun reported. Saatchi was interrogated for five hours ...
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What distracts Taylor Swift on stage
Singer Taylor Swift says while performing on the stage she is distracted by fans with sign boards and she goes off track. The 23-year-old, known for her songs like "Love story", "Teardrops on my guitar" and "You belong with me", starts reading the signs and forgets her lyrics, reports thesun.co.uk. "It's amazing and adorable, but if there's a really long sign and I'm trying to read it while ...
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Britney Spears sons embarrassed to kiss mom
Singer Britney Spears' kids are embarrassed of kissing her in front of their friends. The 31-year-old singer admitted Sean Preston, 7, and Jayden James, 6, from her marriage to dancer-rapper Kevin Federline, don't like to kiss her in front of their friends because they don't think it's "cool", reports contactmusic.com. "My sons are six and seven, so they're just now getting to the stage of ...
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Dalai Lama promotes peace and pop in Melbourne
The Dalai Lama promoted peace and a pop song during an event in Melbourne. The Tibetan spiritual leader also spoke at the Melbourne Convention Centre to a crowd of about 6000 devotees. Actress Magda Szubanski hosted the event and introduced a pop song in which he features. According to the Herald Sun, introducing the song, she said that it would be pretty cool to see his Holiness at number ...
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Avril Lavigne balancing work wedding plans
Singer Avril Lavigne, who is engaged to Chad Kroeger, says she is trying to divide her time between work and wedding plans. Lavigne, 27, will soon release her yet-to-be-titled fifth studio collection, and is enjoying every moment with her singer beau. "I've already been planning the wedding. It's just more meetings than usual, more emails, more phone calls. But it's been good," thesun.co.uk ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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