'Flabbergasted' stepmother Sian hits back at Blair wedding snub: As Euan celebrates idyllic ceremony, TV star tells of 'rudeness' at being disinvited (and asks: 'is it because I was against Iraq war?')

Cherie Blair declared the bride the most beautiful she had ever seen. The groom, her son Euan, looked similarly ‘amazing’. And filled with ‘breathtaking’ flowers, the church in the quiet Buckinghamshire village of Wotton Underwood was a worthy backdrop. In fact, the wedding of the Blairs’ first-born Euan was pretty near  perfect. Even the rain held off. But one dark cloud hovered over the big day in the form of TV weathergirl Sian Lloyd, the stepmother of the bride, Suzanne Ashman. Happy couple: Euan and Suzanne emerge beaming through the autumn leaves as friends throw confetti Tying the knot: Euan Blair and Suzanne Ashman emerge from the church in Buckinghamshire Barred: Stepmother of the bride, TV weather girl Sian Lloyd with husband Jonathan Ashman The...

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Get Your Celebrity Fix And Career Advice In 3 Fun Reads

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 02: Television Personality Kim Kardashian celebrates DuJour magazine's Spring issue collaboration with Kim Kardashian and Bruce Weber at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on March 2, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Standing Ovation Presentations by Robyn Hatcher Robyn Hatcher is founder and principal of SpeakEtc, a boutique communication and presentation-skills training company based in NYC. She’s also a former actress and writer for two daytime dramas. In her new book, Standing Ovation Presentations (Motivational Press, 2013), Hatcher shares a thorough overview of communication...

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Giada Does Vegas: New Restaurant Doubles Female Celebrity Chefs On Strip

Emmy-winning TV Star, bestselling cookbook author, and classically trained chef Giada De Laurentiis is about to open her first restaurant - in Las Vegas - and it's a big deal. Las Vegas is an amazing eating city, with a stunning number of restaurants by many of the world’s most famous chefs, including the global flagships of several noted culinary maestros like “Chef of the Century” Joel Robuchon and seafood guru Rick Moonen, who turned his back on 3-Stars in New York to make the move west. There are satellites by just about every famous chef you could name – as long as you stick to naming men. With the notable exception of Border Grill’s (Mandalay Bay) “Two Hot Tamales,” Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, the celebrity chef scene in Las Vegas has long been a boy’s club...

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Madonna Tops Forbes 2013 List Of The Top-Earning Celebrities

Madonna‘s latest album, MDNA, was a flop. Her 12th studio album, Madonna sold fewer than 1 million copies of MDNA in the U.S. and the singles, like “Give Me All Your Luvin,” failed to impress on the pop music scene. Madonna But the tour that the Material Girl launched to go along with her new album was a spectacular success. Fans didn’t flock to stadium and spend upwards of $100 per ticket to hear Madonna’s latest stuff. They went to hear hits like “Vogue,” “Like a Virgin” and “Lucky Star.” The tour grossed $305 million and earned her the Top Touring Award at the Billboard Music Awards. Add to that strong merchandise sales, a clothing line, fragrance and investments in companies...

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Billionaire Sound Pioneer Ray Dolby Dies, Age 80

Ray Dolby died Thursday in San Francisco, age 80. He suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease and acute leukemia. A pioneer in the field of sound, Dolby will be remembered as the man who took the hiss out of sound recordings. With a fortune of $2.4 billion at his death, Dolby truly did make silence golden. He founded his namesake Dolby Laboratories DLB +2.95% in 1965. His work revolutionizing the immersive experience of movie theater sound started with Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1971 and matured with Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. Over the years Dolby earned 50 patents, two Oscars, multiple Emmys and a Grammy. He first entered the billionaire ranks in 2005 when Dolby Laboratories went public. The company’s revenues last year were in excess...

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