Someone's feeling confident: Kym Marsh shows off her figure in another tight dress as she attends Manchester United awards | UPDATED: 23:29 GMT, 14 May 2012 At the weekend she showed off her slender figure in a snug mini dress and last night Kym Marsh's look was no different. The 35-year-old actress arrived at the Manchester United Player of the Year Awards in yet another tight and short garment Continue reading

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The A-Z of love: M is for marriage | UPDATED: 21:57 GMT, 13 May 2012 James Kerr and Matthew Johnstone celebrate the A-Z of love. This week, M is for marriage. Congratulations, you’re married Continue reading

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There was an odd little story about Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively last week and I never got around to talking about it. You know how they’re all WASPy and perfect now, and how there were many reports that Blake and Ryan had purchased a Bedford, NY country home together ? Well, first of all, there’s some reporting that indicates Blake bought the Bedford home herself, without Ryan’s involvement whatsoever. Ryan also seems to have bought another property in the area recently – basically, they’re both buying real estate like it’s going out of style. But! The New York Post reports that whether or not both their names are on the deed, they are spending time together in Bedford, NY. And Ryan doesn’t seem happy about it at all. After months of looking for digs in the city, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have opted to buy a $2.3 million mansion in Westchester’s tony Bedford area. The house sits on 2 acres and overlooks the Cross River Reservoir. We hear the couple, who met on the set of “Green Lantern” last year, were “over the top” in their demands for confidentiality with their purchase. And Reynolds, who divorced Scarlett Johansson in 2010, hasn’t been making friends with the locals. When another couple happened to walk out of Richard Gere’s Bedford Post Inn restaurant at the same time, Reynolds became hostile. “Are you following me?” he snarled at the diners, who thought the actor needed a reality check. [From The New York Post ] I used to hear lots of stories about Ryan being a d-bag to many, many people. Maybe he’s a really nice guy when you get to know him, but the idea I have of him is of a dude who is rather temperamental, rude and tightly wound. So, basically, I have no problems believing that he’s not making friends in the area. Meanwhile, many of us wondered why Blake Lively was not at last Monday’s Met Gala. Surely she was invited – she has a Chanel contract, she’s a self-styled fashion girl, she’s on Gossip Girl… why not go to the Met Gala? LOVE. She didn’t go because of LOVE. Blake Lively blew off the ball for her beau. Sources tell us the “Gossip Girl” beauty — who was the belle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala last year — passed on attending Monday so she could go on a lengthy romantic trip with boyfriend Ryan Reynolds. Beginning the last weekend of April, an insider says Lively and Reynolds, who’ve been together seven months, jetted to Napa Valley, where they stayed at the world-class Auberge du Soleil luxury resort and restaurant in Rutherford, Calif. The couple then headed to San Francisco, where their activities included an intimate dinner at Charles Phan’s revered Vietnamese restaurant, Slanted Door. The leggy Lively and the abs-fabulous Reynolds also took time to stroll the city’s artsy Red Light District. They then made a brief stop in Los Angeles before traveling to Reynolds’ hometown of Vancouver. Our source points out that the lovebirds were visiting Reynolds’ family the night of the Met Ball on May 7. Instead of walking the red carpet at Vogue editor Anna Wintour ’s haute happening, Lively, 24, and Reynolds, 35, ate dinner with one of Reynolds’ four brothers and his wife at Asian restaurant Blue Ginger, in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. They stayed overnight and returned to the mainland the next day. According to the insider, Lively and Reynolds stayed at the Coast Hotel in Vancouver, but have since relocated to Parksville in British Columbia to continue the more-than-two-week idyll. Fashion insiders were surprised Lively skipped the Met Ball, since the style- and shopping-obsessed actress was the hit of last year’s party. The blond bombshell is the face of Chanel Mademoiselle handbags and attended last year’s soiree on the arm of the French fashion house’s creative director, Karl Lagerfeld. Our first source says Lively’s absence from the fashion extravaganza is a sign that she has really fallen for Reynolds. A second source notes that Lively would have been more than welcome at the “Oscars of the East Coast,” but decided on the low-key vacation with Reynolds instead. “Anna loves her,” notes the insider. Lively also missed the Cinema Society screening of her film “Hick” here on May 3, because she was traveling. She and Reynolds have become increasingly serious during their seven-month courtship. After shopping for homes in Westchester and Connecticut together, Lively recently purchased a $2 million estate in Bedford Hills, N.Y. Our initial source says Reynolds has been spending a lot of time at Lively’s new pad, and also “gets along great with Blake’s [half] sister Robyn .” A spokeswoman for Lively did not respond to our request for comment by deadline. [From The NY Daily News ] At some point does it become unprofessional? That’s my question. I don’t have any problems with Blake and Ryan being loved up, and I don’t have any issues with Ryan settling down with the first big-boob’d blonde he finds. I also think the mini-breaks are cute. They’re both working actors with lots of appearances and obligations, so when they can find the time to go on holiday, why not go? But that’s the problem, isn’t it? Blake is ignoring some of her appearances. Like, how could she not even go the premiere of her film? Is she that important? And surely her Chanel contract requires her to put in appearances at some of the big fashion events of the year, like the Met Gala. Ugh. Blake, what’s going on with you, girl? Photos of Blake at the 2010 & 2011 Met Galas, courtesy of WENN. [gallery

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Of all the dumb things Jennifer Love Hewitt has said over the years, she really seemed to get the ball rolling by telling outlets that she got over her 2010 split with comic Jamie Kennedy by “vajazzling” her hoo-ha . This involves getting a Brazilian wax and then getting rhinestones glued on your private area, basically making your mons look like a cheap QVC t-shirt that your grandma would wear for a night out out Sizzler. (I learned way more about this process than I ever wanted to know when an editor for the Huffington Post endured vajazzling at a salon and then made a video about it .) Well Hewitt is still vajazzling, just like she’s probably still visiting her three engagement rings at Tiffany’s every month. She told the NY Daily News that she’s currently vajazzled and that it balances her energy or something. Over-share. JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT doesn’t just get dressed up for special occasions — she gets vajazzled. At Wednesday’s A&E Networks 2012 Upfront event, “The Client List” star told us that beneath her cleavage-bearing Alexander McQueen dress she was vajazzled because “it’s a special occasion.” Hewitt created a stir several years ago when she told then-TBS talk-show host George Lopez she was a fan of vajazzling. For the uninitiated, that’s when women apply glitter and jewels to their nether regions for esthetic purposes. When we asked the 33-year-old hottie if she was emblazoned with clear crystals — said to balance energy disturbances when placed on the body — she enthusiastically confirmed that “I’m full of good energy.” [From NY Daily News ] I understand that this woman has something to promote, and that claiming she wants to be a Victoria’s Secret angel and telling the world her crotch is bedazzled get her press. Her show “The Client List” glamorizes prostitution, so maybe she’s trying to play up that sexy image with all these ridiculous quotes she’s giving. At some point she’s got to realize that her primary goal, getting and keeping man, is not going to be fulfilled if she keeps looking so desperate. It was one thing to spread the word about vajazzling back when it was a novelty, and to dedicate a chapter of her book on it. It’s another thing to continue to share her personal grooming habits. Men like mystery. They don’t want to know that there are jewels on your crotch prior to earning the right to see said nether region. That should be between Hewitt and whatever dude is going to hit it and quit it, to quote one of our commenters. I don’t know why I bother, since it’s always the same thing from her. Hewitt’s Client List was of course renewed for a second season by Lifetime. She’s shown here at the A&E upfronts on Saturday. I like her flattering red dress and her style has improved quite a bit lately. She needs to ditch those terrible huge fake eyelashes of course. Hewitt has been looking like she’s got caterpillars on her eyes in most of her recent appearances. Look at her posing like a Kardashian. photo credit: Mr Blue/WENN.com

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Kristen Stewart is the cover girl for the June issue of American Elle – she was also the cover girl for the June issue of Elle UK too , for what it’s worth. There are two distinctly different photo shoots and interviews, so just pretend for a second that Team K-Stew hasn’t completely taken over Elle and all of the international editions of the publication. The photo shoot seems very Victor/Victoria – Kristen is doing some menswear/drag-king-inspired looks, and then she goes sort of gothy-glam for other shots. I’m reminded of how beautiful she is, and how she has the figure to be an excellent “clothes hanger” for designers. Unfortunately, Kristen often seems kind of dead-eyed in pictorials, and her posture is still atrocious. As for the new Elle interview, well… God bless the Twihards. They’ve already transcribed the whole thing from the early scans – you can read the full piece here . Here are some highlights… the whole thing takes place in a bookstore (just an FYI for why the conversation is so book-intensive): She loves William Styron’s Lie Down in Darkness : “Have you ever read Lie Down in Darkness?” Stewart asks excitedly. “I want to play Peyton more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life. I want to play her so bad. Peyton is bright, beautiful, suicidal narcissist, preyed upon by her father. But Stewart, 22, sees it as more complicated than that. “Oh, dude, she f–kin’ loves it! She’s in love with him. I mean, I think she’s in love with him. It’s not his fault. They’re the most f–ked-up family!… There’s a script adaptation I’ve read and it’s good,” she says, continuing down the aisle. “Two people vying for the part of the father are Daniel Day-Lewis and Colin Firth. Daniel would be perfect.” Stewart stops suddenly and smiles, picking up an autobiography. “Let’s not be pretentious – let’s buy Snooki.” (She doesn’t.) She calls Robert Pattinson her “f–king boyfriend”: “Oooh, Martin Amis.” Stewart plucks Money from the shelf. “My copy just got soaked – my toilet overflowed.” And then, “Oh my God, my f–king boyfriend just did this movie,” she says, referring to Robert Pattinson while pulling down a copy of Bel Ami. “The French, they’re up in arms that he did it.” The brown contact lenses she wears to play Bella: “It’s like I always have sunglasses on – soulless, googly-eyed sunglasses. You can’t feel your eyeballs. They ruined me.” Working with William Hurt in 2008’s The Yellow Hankerchief: “He was the first guy I ever saw take a script and f–king turn it on its head. He threw us all up into the air,” Stewart says fondly. “It was so cool working with him. He is so beat – he’s like, On the Road. Incredibly intense. Dude!” The book Black Hole: “This f–king store is like kismet!” she says. “I want to do this movie!” The book, about a sexually transmitted plague, “is disgusting, so gross,” Stewart enthuses. “I love the first image” – she turns to a completely black page with a white vagina-shape opening in the center – “a slit. You just grow, like, holes in your body. The imagery is so weird. See” – she flips to another page – “he’s looking at her hand and soon there’s gonna be a little mouth in there. It’s so sexual the desire is so f–king palpable, but it feels so dirty, like [the characters] are so ashamed because they’re diseased, they’re literally getting these holes.” Riding horses and leading the charge in Snow White and the Huntsman: Despite being terrified of horses, Stewart saddled up to lead an army of 250 mounted men charging down a beach in the rain. “I hated it,” she admits of riding. “I didn’t take to the whole mentality of f–king ordering that thing around – ‘Go now!’ You have to be an a–hole, basically. Not to say that horse people are a–holes to their horses. But you have to basically tell that thing who’s boss, and I didn’t want to do that. I was like, ‘No, do your thing. I don’t even want to be up here.’” Child-acting and home-schooling: One role begot the next, and from seventh grade on Stewart was homeschooled, something she regrets, in a way. “Because I didn’t go to f–king school, I feel I would have had a bit something extra if I had,” she says. “Maybe because my life is so perfect, when I see the other side of life, it just seems like, almost like I want…” Stewart struggles for words. “You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can’t wait for something crazy to f–king happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f–k me over! Do you know what I mean?” That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? “Exactly. It’s one of the reasons I want to act. I love living in different worlds, because a lot of times mine is pretty nice and easy.” She still smokes, and her car is gross: She unlocks a nondescript rental car (she can’t drive her Mini Cooper without being followed by paparazzi), drops the books in back, slides into the driver’s seat, starts the engine and offers up a Camel. Pushing the cigarette-lighter button, she says, laughing, “I went for the high-class rental. This car’s got all the fixin’s!” Scattered on the passenger side floor are a pair of plaid Van sneakers, an empty protein drink, a Coca-Cola can, and a plastic to-go container with a half eaten sandwich covered in mold. A nearly empty Snapple sits in the cup holder, cigarette buds floating in it. She wears a mysterious ring : Stewart taps her hands on the steering wheel, her short nails lacquered in bloodred. On her thumb is a silver spoon ring. “All four of my brothers and my mom and dad have these,” she says. “My mom went and got them for Christmas.” And the gold ring circling her index finger? “Everyone wants to know,” Stewart says slyly. She shakes her head. “Everyone knows already – it’s ridiculous.” As painful as it is to be so publicly pushed and prodded, how does she square wanting to be projected on a 40-foot screen? “Laurence Olivier was asked, ‘Actors, what’s the impulse? Why?’ And he was just like, ‘Look at me, look at me, look at me, …’ That was his answer. But at the same time, it’s like, ‘Nooo, don’t look at me. Look at some version that I’m going to present to you. Let me control it.” [Elle excerpts via Strictly Robsten’s transcript ] The cursing is getting kind of ridiculous. She wasn’t always this foul-mouthed, it’s something that’s happened over the past year, where every interview is laden with f-bombs. The article also quotes extensively from people who have worked with Kristen over the years, and an unsettling theme arises, although I don’t know if that was Elle’s intention. While Kristen’s directors and costars all had nice things to say about her, there seems to be a theme of Kristen not having much respect for the script of whatever film she’s doing. Everyone says that she constantly going off script, constantly changing lines, constantly trying to make the characters sound more “authentic”. Which… maybe that only bothers me. I understand going off script when it’s something like Twilight, but it really feels like Kristen never bothers to learn her lines for any given film. As for the mysterious ring thing – I anxiously await the Twihards’ explanation. Did her “f–king boyfriend” Rob give her the gold ring? Is it a promise ring? A wedding ring?!?! Elle scans courtesy of Tom Munro/Elle, via The Fashion Spot .

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Just weeks after she welcomed her first daughter into the world, Jessica Simpson hooked a deal with People magazine to sell pictures of Maxwell Drew Johnson for $800,000. These exclusive photos of the two-week old baby girl, fathered by the fashion icon’s fiance Eric Johnson are an addition to the $3 million deal Miss Simpson signed with Weight Watchers to promote her more than 40 pound pregnancy pound shed. “The market for celebrity babies simply doesn’t exist anymore,” Jo Piazza, a journalist specializing in celebrity income told the blog Fashionista. “Magazines realized that it doesn’t benefit them to pay over a million.” In 2008, the publication paid Jennifer Lopez an outstanding $6 million for pictures of her twins, while OK magazine offered Matthew McConaughey $3 million for exclusive prints of his baby boy the same year. The blonde beauty is not putting the extra earnings to waste as she continues to shower her little one with gifts and tweeted Friday (May 11), “I’m addicted to buying headbands w massive flowers for Maxwell on etsy,” the gushing mom and “Fashion Star. She is insanely beautiful I can’t help but play dress up!”

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These are new photos of Duchess Kate and Prince William today (tonight) in London for the British Olympic Association Concert . Kate is wearing this Jenny Packham number which… hm… I don’t really dislike. I can’t say I’m in love with it, but I do think it’s mostly good. Great color, love the pleated skirt, love the fit. I feel like Kate didn’t want to show too much skin, and seeing as how Kate LOVES LACE (along with buttons), she asked Packham to cover the back in both lace and buttons. I wish we had access to photos of the back, but we don’t – go here to see it from behind . There are literally two dozen buttons on Kate’s back. Girl, sit down. This is a button intervention. UPDATE : BAM!! Buttons. What else? The shoes are Jimmy Choo – I think t hey’re the same ones from earlier this week , when Kate wore the white Roland Mouret. Once again, the Duchess is without pantyhose!! OMG. But really, we just need to talk about her hair. Can you even believe your eyes? Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, in an evening gown with a completely appropriate and elegant chignon?!?!?!? WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE REAL WAITY?!?!!? As I’ve said before , THIS is what she should be doing more of. Look at how beautiful she looks! I feel like we’re seeing her for the first time, this tall, elegant, regal duchess. And you know we have to praise her whenever she does something right – good job, girl. Keep it up. Literally! Keep your hair up and out of your face. You’re 30 years old, you don’t need a hairy security blanket. Photos courtesy of WENN.

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'He freed us as much as the Pill and mini-skirts': Mary Quant pays tribute to Vidal Sassoon, whose scissors made the 60s swing | UPDATED: 10:30 GMT, 11 May 2012 Dashing past the wrong end of London’s Bond Street one day in the early Sixties, I saw a photograph of a haircut in a salon window that stunned me. It was unlike any style I’d ever seen before: sharp, geometric and precision-cut. Continue reading

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She just announced her pregnancy while also gearing up for the fifth season of her hit HBO show “True Blood” to get underway beginning June 10th, and Anna Paquin pitched in on promotions by gracing the cover of the June 2012 issue of Fashion magazine. The 29-year-old actress looks darling in Marc Jacobs for the James White shot front page while opening up about topics including her fashion preferences and her marriage to co-star husband, Stephen Moyer . Highlights from Miss Paquin’s interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Fashion ! On her fashion tastes: “I’m not a ballgown kind of girl. I don’t think the red carpet is my prom. I prefer edgier cuts and darker designs because they suit me. I’ve learned how to dress for my shape, and I have to be able to sit, stand, walk properly and shake hands in an outfit without feeling confined. I’ve spent a lot of time figuring out what looks good for my body for fittings, and I’ve taken notes. I’m 5’4″ and change! I know I will never be like Gisele [Bundchen], and I also know I will never be a hipless, assless supermodel.” On her ‘True Blood’ role as Sookie Stackhouse: “There have always been aspects of her that I connect to, empathize with and understand – that’s the only way I can approach my job. You have to find a common ground with any character. I spend a lot of time with scripts, looking for my truth.” On being married to Stephen Moyer: “Work does come up pretty frequently, because that is how we spend most of our year. Aside from trying to spend no more than two or three weeks apart, I’ve never been one for rules in a relationship. I don’t have any guidelines on how much shop talk we have at home.”

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Divorce is never a pleasant experience, but Reese Witherspoon’s mom Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon is out to prove her ex-husband John’s new wife Tricianne Taylor is nothing but a gold digger. According to a report, Mary has filed documents with a Nashville court seeking to annul John and Tricianne’s recent marriage, stating that John’s early-onset dementia precluded him from making the decision in the first place. Mrs. Witherspoon also cites Ms. Taylor’s spending habits, living in family homes, and driving family cars without proper permission proves that she’s only after John’s money. In addition to annulling the marriage, Mary is also demanding that Tricianne return all property, pay back any loans, and vacate the family houses.

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