Celebrity & Style Mag

Thursday, 21 August 2014

Rolling in the money! Highest-paid model Gisele says she could never retire

DESPITE being named the world’s highest-paid supermodel for the eighth year in a row GISELE BUNDCHEN says she won’t be slowing down any time soon.

NEWLY married Cheryl Fernandez-Versini relaxes in a slouchy jumper, closes her eyes and makes a jokey pout in her latest message to fans, telling them, “I don’t care”.

Jennifer Aniston stays at home to avoid cyber bullying

Jennifer Aniston has decided to leave her house less to avoid public criticism, which she says has worsened with cyber bullying.The actress shares her home with fiancé Justin Theroux."You do the best you can but it feels like...

Twelve Questions: Malcom Black

1. It's more than 30 years since the Netherworld Dancing Toys formed: why was that band so big, do you think? At the time we were playing there wasn't much New Zealand music about, certainly not the breadth and depth of New Zealand...

NZ-bound Miley defends concert raunch

Controversial pop queen Miley Cyrus is defending her raunchy antics ahead of her upcoming New Zealand performance.The former Hannah Montana star is bringing her Bangerz tour to New Zealand in October, a show that has generated...

Theatre review: Dog, Basement Theatre

Playwright Ben Hutchison establishes himself as an original and very distinctive voice with a play that has the gritty realism of a kitchen sink drama merging seamlessly into the weirdness of dream.The verisimilitude of Kenah Trusewich's...

Lydia Jenkin: Radio - what's new?

You may have noticed the extra billboards, ads, and competitions promising grand sums of cash around the place over the past week or so. That's because we're smack bang in the middle of what the radio industry knows as "survey period"...

THE 10 remaining contestants faced the blue-eyed baker's bread test in this weeks' Bake Off, kneading, proving and glazing under his gimlet gaze

Emmys: Billy Crystal to pay tribute to Williams

LOS ANGELES (AP) Billy Crystal will pay tribute to Robin Williams, his longtime friend and fellow comedian, at next week's Emmy Awards.Crystal will honor Williams as part of the traditional "in memoriam" segment for industry members...

Album review: Sola Rosa, Magnetics

Sola Rosa are known for their star collaborations and genre mixing, and their latest album lives up to that reputation. Magnetics launches with a synth beat on Inspired followed by the smooth R&B vocals of Noah Slee, who also...

Album review: Sinead O'Connor, I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss

Too often in popular culture, controversy and craziness are substitutes for, or get in the way of, real talent. Sinead O'Connor has courted her share of both, and strangeness still circles her private life. But these 12 economic,...

Album review: Bobby Bare Jr, Undefeated

Country music fans know Bare's dad as the voice of a string of hit singles and albums in the 60s and 70s. But Junior - now close to 50 - has turned hard left into dark alt-country and bruising boogie rock.However on this, his "break-up"...

HER wardrobe must be one of the world’s most lusted-after collections and now Victoria Beckham is selling more than 600 items in aid of charity.

Review: A sweet Moretz rescues 'If I Stay'

'Tis clearly the season for exceedingly attractive young adults in mortal peril.Just two months ago, we had the charming Shailene Woodley as a teen cancer patient, fighting for time while learning about life and love in "The Fault...

Movie review: Lucy

Here's an urban legend you've seen on screen many times before: humans use only 10 per cent of their brain capacity.That faulty logic is an oft-debunked ruse that has underpinned many sci-fi stories, from John Travolta's Phenomenon...

A close encounter with Miley Cyrus

If she lost her shit, you'd forgive her. After all, Miley Cyrus is being chased by fans who are bellowing so loudly she can't hear herself talk, let alone console her new pets -- a puppy called Emu and a piglet called Bubba Sue --...

Tour news: Shapeshifter and The Upbeats

Dance floors across New Zealand are going to shake this September, because local dance music giants Shapeshifter and The Upbeats have announced a collaborative national tour to celebrate the release of a collaborative EP,

Album review: Broods, Evergreen

Hearing Mother & Father - the opening track from local siblings Broods' debut album - for the first time, is a reminder of what it was like to hear Young Blood by The Naked and Famous when it first came out in 2010. Not because...

Album review: Royal Blood, Royal Blood

If you thought there was a full band backing Royal Blood's guitar-fuelled ruckus, you wouldn't be the only one. On early single Out of the Black they came on like a current take on Led Zeppelin, mixing guitar rawk with a grunty...

Review: Video blackouts impede baseball online

LA PORTE, Ind. (AP) Major League Baseball shows what can be done right when it comes to making its games available on the Internet. It also underscores frustrations fans have with online sports coverage in general: The business of...