Thursday, 4 September 2014

I’ve learned to accept my childlessness – why can’t you?





WOMEN who don’t have children are treated as if they’re from another planet, says AMANDA REVELL WALTON, and it’s time things changed.


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Another Loose Woman! Judy Finnigan makes return to TV on daytime chat show





SHE'S ONE half of the most recognisable couples on TV but Judy Finnigan is going it alone, having signed up for ITV show Loose Women.


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Sheridan Smith admits she was 'too nervous' to call Cilla Black during filming of biopic





SHERIDAN Smith has revealed that she was "too nervous" to call Cilla Black for advice during the filming of her biopic, despite being given the green light to do so.


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10 celebrity dermatologists you need to know about





WHETHER you’re at the dermatologist, in a spa or simply browsing on the high street you are likely to come across one of the high-tech skincare ranges that have been created by the world’s leading dermatologists.


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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Broadway's 'Cinderella' musical closing in January

NEW YORK (AP) The fairy tale for "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" on Broadway is over. The musical will close in January after nearly two years.Producers said Wednesday the show will end after the Jan. 3 performance at the...


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Disney announces short film sequel to Frozen

lsa, Anna, Olaf and the rest of the Frozen gang are set to return for a new Disney short film due out next year.Fans of the Oscar-winning hit movie have been pushing for a sequel since its huge success last year, but producers...


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Cee Lo Green says rape tweets were 'idiotic'

Grammy-winning US singer Cee Lo Green has apologised for comments on Twitter about rape, made just after he was put on probation for giving a woman ecstasy before going back to her hotel.Green also deleted the offending tweets from...


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Lydia Jenkin: Homegrown and top class

I'm not sure what's got into the water this year, but it's clearly agreeing with local film-makers, because we're currently enjoying one of the best crop of local films to be released in quite some time -- and it's not just us local...


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How to force bulbs in time for Christmas displays





LATE summer is the time to plant pots of bulbs that you can bring inside for Christmas – so there is not a moment to lose.


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Angelique 'Frenchy' Morgan booed as she is booted out of Celebrity Big Brother





ANGELIQUE 'Frenchy' Morgan has tonight become the third housemate to be booted out of the Celebrity Big Brother house.


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Rod Stewart's NZ return: My life is an open book

Where are you? In Vegas? I'm in ... . Florida. I'm out in Palm Beach, Florida. It sounded that you had to check. I'm actually having my hair cut. My hairdresser is just cutting my hair as I talk to you. Can I


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Eva Longoria says Apple staff accessed private details

Eva Longoria has waded in on the hacking scandal that has seen indecent, privately taken images of more than 100 female celebrities leaked onto the internet by sensationally claiming an Apple employee accessed her personal information.The...


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TV's highest paid actress makes $390,000 an episode

Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is the highest-paid US TV actress for the third year in a row, earning some US$37 million (NZ$44m), according to Forbes .The 42-year-old earned significantly more than the top paid actor, Ashton...


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Carey Mulligan taking 'Skylight' to Broadway

NEW YORK (AP) Carey Mulligan will reprise her role as an English school teacher when she brings a much-cheered revival of David Hare's "Skylight" to Broadway this spring.Mulligan plays a woman who works at a troubled inner-city...


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'Simple' Norman and his Pieful Tower are out of The Great British Bake Off





FAT bottoms, Robert Burns, pastry-wrapped pears and piles of pies filled out a subdued follow-up to last week's ice cream meltdown


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Alicia Keys ready for December release: baby No.2

NEW YORK (AP) Alicia Keys, who often releases albums in November and December, says she is preparing for another delivery at the end of the year: her second baby."December album? Well, I know one thing. I'm having a December baby,"...


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Album review: Wiz Khalifa, Blacc Hollywood

As far as rap albums go, Wiz Khalifa's fifth studio release is blockbuster material.The North Dakota rapper's guest roster is like a who's who of hip-hop, with Schoolboy Q, Snoop Dogg, Nas, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Jeezy all making...


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Album review: Mirel Wagner, When the Cellar Children See The Light of Day

Pitched somewhere between a weary self-analysing Kurt Cobain acoustic session, Mazzy Star raised on death ballads and P.J Harvey's most introspective work, this concise collection - 10 songs, 32 minutes - comes from an unlikely but...


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Album review: Banks, Goddess

Sounding like the love child of Nelly Furtado and James Blake, 26-year-old Californian Jillian Banks' debut album has a wondrous confidence and is the work of an artist dead certain of who she wants to be. Five tracks (out of 14)...


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Movie review: 52 Tuesdays

Formally audacious and driven by a performance of astonishing poise by its 16-year-old star, this provocative low-budget Australian indie doesn't quite carry off its risky ambitions - it's too long by 20 minutes or so, and it chases...


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