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Elizabeth Hurley moved on quickly


Shane Warne claims Elizabeth Hurley moved on "quickly" after they split.
The Australian cricketing legend got engaged to the 'Bedazzled' star in 2011 but they split up late last year and the former sportsman - who is now dating DJ Emily Scott - insists it didn't take his ex-fiancee to find someone new.
He said: "I think she was dating someone pretty quickly after me."
However, Shane, 44, insists he has no hard feelings towards the 48-year-old actress - who has a 12-year-old son, Damian, with former boyfriend Steve Bing - and they remain good friends.
Asked on Australia's Kiis FM by Kyle Sandilands if he got in touch with Elizabeth about her moving on so quickly, he laughed and said: "I didn't take her to the kindergarten playground, Kyle, no [I behaved maturely].
"We're still good friends and all that sort of stuff. I'm in a relationship now and it's all cool and I'm pretty happy."
Shane - who has children Brooke, Summer and Jackson with his ex-wife Simone Callahan - is smitten with Emily and says the 30-year-old beauty gets on well with his kids.
He said: 'Emily is my girlfriend, we're having a great time. She's been fantastic.
"She's met my parents and met my children. We hung out in Vegas, she was fantastic with the children - she's very cool, she's a cool girl.
"We're going great."

Justin Theroux fancies Debbie Harry


Justin Theroux has a crush on Debbie Harry.
The 42-year-old actor - who is engaged to 'We're the Millers' star Jennifer Aniston - first developed a soft spot for the "gorgeous" Blondie singer, 69, when he saw her picture on the cover of a cassette as a teenager.
Quizzed on whether he'd had a crush on any celebrities when he was younger, Justin said: "Debbie Harry was a big one for me. Yeah, Debbie Harry from Blondie.
"I remember my uncle actually had a cassette of hers in the car and I was like, 'Who is this?' I hadn't even heard her music and I was like, 'This person is special'."
Justin - who is currently starring in HBO TV series 'The Leftovers' - confessed it was a dream come true when he finally came face-to-face with his dream woman at an event a recently.
Speaking on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!', he continued: "Then I actually got to meet her ... I met her like only a couple of years ago so it was sort of a dream fulfilled.
"I did get to kiss her, kind of, on the cheek. She was gorgeous."
The 'Wanderlust' star also spoke about the time he spent living in Tokyo, Japan, where he worked at a circus as an "assistant manager" on a snow-cone stall.
Commenting on whether he felt as though his life was a circus, he said: "It is like a circus ... Well, it's not that much ... I mean, I worked at the circus before but it's not that bad.
"I went there [Japan] to make some money for college, for a summer job or whatever ... I ended up getting a job as sort of an assistant managerial position selling snow cones."

Dakota Johnson spotted kissing rumoured new boyfriend


Dakota Johnson was seen kissing her rumoured boyfriend Matthew Hitt.
The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' actress has been photographed embracing the Welsh musician as they enjoyed a romantic stroll in New York on Wednesday (23.07.14).
According to eye-witnesses who spoke to E! News, the couple "looked very cosy with one another".
Another revealed that they looked "happy and in love."
The 24-year-old actress looked beautiful in a mid-length printed dress, which she accessorised with a black satchel and tortoise shell sunglasses. Her beau looked similarly chic in black skinny jeans and a tight-fitting black denim jacket.
The recent photos of Dakota embracing her new man suggest that she has officially broken up with Jordan Masterson.
Jordan was first romantically linked to the brunette in September 2013 and would regularly visit Dakota whilst she was on set filming scenes for 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.
Meanwhile, Dakota has admitted she was a little anxious to see how people reacted to the trailer, which was released on Thursday (24.07.14).
Just like her on-screen character Anastasia Steele, Dakota remained coy, as she said: "We'll see what they think."

Daniel Radcliffe wants a large family


Daniel Radcliffe wants lots of children.
The 'Harry Potter' actor is an only child and would love to have a huge family himself some day although he admitted it will be up to his partner as she will be the one who has to carry them.
Daniel, 25, who is currently dating Erin Darke, told PEOPLE: "Maybe because I'm an only child, I love the idea of lots of kids. But it will depend to a larger part on who I end up having kids with. I think men would be a lot less excited about having kids if we had to actually do it!"
Meanwhile, Daniel revealed his parents have kept him grounded despite him shooting to fame as a child, by reminding him of how lucky he is.
He explained: "I'd come whine about something that happened on the set, and my dad would say, 'You're not down in a coal mine.' It's a very good way of putting things into perspective."
The 'Woman in Black' actor recently admitted he thinks he is "getting better" at sex, though he insists losing his virginity wasn't a bad experience.
He said: "I'm one of the few people who seem to have had a really good first time.
"It was with somebody I'd gotten to know well. I'm happy to say I've had a lot better sex since then.
"But it wasn't as horrendously embarrassing as a lot of other people's were, like my friend who got drunk and did it with a stranger under a bridge.
"For some people sex might be better drunk. But for me and the person I'm doing it with it's much better sober."

Megan Fox won’t let sons date


Megan Fox won't let her sons date until they're 25.
The 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' actress thinks Noah, 22 months, and five-month-old Bodhi - her kids with husband Brian Austin Green - will grow up to "hate" her because she doesn't want them to have contact with the opposite sex until they are much older.
She said: "My kids aren't going to go to dances where they're next to girls. Are you kidding me? No girls! Not until they're 25 or something. I'm going to try and keep them in the house - they're going to hate me!"
The 28-year-old beauty also joked her sons will always think she is "cool" because she isn't planning on letting them out of the house very much.
She told 'Access Hollywood': Kids grow up and don't think their parents are cool at a certain age. My whole thing is to keep that from happening because I want both of my sons to live in my house forever - till the day that I die! I'm trying to convince them I'm the best, most awesome mum ever."
Megan plays April O'Neil in the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' movie and she isn't convinced she wants to have an action figure replica of her character.
She said: "It could be the most embarrassing thing ever. Can you imagine if your mum was an action figure?"



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Beyonce’s Crazy In Love ‘perfect fit’ for 50 Shades


Boots says Beyonce's 'Crazy In Love' was the perfect fit for the '50 Shades Of Grey' trailer.
The producer - who created the trailer's soundtrack - chose to rework the singer's hi-tempo anthem into a slower, more sultry tune and says it was the best choice for the S&M movie.
He told Complex.com: "It just fits. I like to think of myself as more than just a producer. I look at what we did for the trailer and this version of the song is, very much in my opinion, a score. "It was something that I consciously scored. Whenever it comes to the stuff that Bey and I do, I'll never speak for her, but I think that she killed it. She just absolutely killed it. The acapellas that she did gives me chills, so it's really dope."
Boots also believes Beyonce's song is the perfect accompaniment to the raunchy movie which tells the story of how virginal Anastasia Steele falls for bondage-loving billionaire Christian Grey.
He added: "I think falling in love can make you do crazy s**t. That was the spirit of the original song in the first place, we flipped it and it kind of became a whole thing. This is the first time I've ever worked on a trailer."

Este Haim nearly died at Glastonbury


Este Haim "nearly died" at Glastonbury last year.
The Haim bassist suffers from type one diabetes - a condition where the body cannot control blood sugar levels because of problems with the hormone insulin - and after forgetting to eat before her performance at the 2013 festival, she was in danger of slipping into a coma.
She told BBC Newsbeat: "I think we've had a lot of trials and tribulations on the road, there have been a couple of little mishaps.
"Glastonbury being one of them when I almost died.
"I was so out of it that I just didn't remember that I hadn't eaten. By the sixth song, I could feel my blood sugar levels plummeting really really fast. My eyes were kind of fluttering in the back of my head."
Este left the stage and her quick-thinking manager was able to boost her sugar levels quickly.
She explained: "My manager, he's the best manager in the world, he had to put chocolate on his finger and stick it in my mouth.
"[He had to] put it on the side of my cheek and rub it for a good two minutes before I could get back on stage.
"I did the rest of the set sitting down like BB King."
Este says she and everyone around her are now more careful to make sure she has "her fuel for the day", but life on the road makes it tricky to manage her illness.
She explained: "It's due to the fact that your hours are always so different and food is never really constant."

Zoe Saldana: Avatar sequels will take 8-9 months


Zoe Saldana says she'll be working on the 'Avatar' sequels for "at least eight or nine months".
The 'Colombiana' actress - who is pregnant with twins with her husband Marco Perego - has revealed that the upcoming follow-ups to the 2009 blockbuster will be filmed one after the other in California.
She said: "We're going to be shooting mainly in Los Angeles and that will make things easier for me since I live there.
"Because we're doing the sequels back-to-back, it's going to take at least eight or nine months to finish them."
Saldana starred as Neytiri in the first instalment of the adventure fantasy and is to reprise her role in the upcoming sequels, which are to be released in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and she claims the director is nearing the completion of her and her co-stars' - Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver's - scripts.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, she added: "James Cameron is still working on the final drafts of the script and then everyone in the cast will get the call."
The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' star also spoke about the types of characters she likes to portray and confessed she wouldn't feel comfortable appearing in a film as simply someone's love interest.
The 36-year-old beauty explained: "I could never play just the girlfriend kind of role where, as a woman, you're there just as an afterthought to the male character.
"I've always held out to play dynamic and forceful women, and it's worked out very well for me."

Mark Hamill: Star Wars return ‘unexpected gift’


Mark Hamill says his return to 'Star Wars' was like an "unexpected gift".
The 62-year-old actor starred as Luke Skywalker in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy and reprises his role in the upcoming next instalment 'Star Wars: Episode VII', and he's confessed he never imagined he'd be given the opportunity.
He said: "It's certainly unexpected. We had a beginning, a middle and an end - I never thought we'd come back. I still can't believe it's happening, and to go on to those sets that evoke so many memories, it's just astonishing. It just feels like an unexpected gift."
Although Hamill is also joined by his co-stars from the original trilogy - Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher - in the sci-fi follow-up, a host of new talent has also been signed up to star and he's revealed he wouldn't dream of giving them advice.
Speaking to BBC News, he said: "I thought even if they [Disney] did the trilogy, that we [himself, Ford and Fisher] wouldn't be involved because it's really about the new generation of characters, you know, we're just there to lend support.
"These kids, they're not kids but they're so talented I was just overwhelmed. They're all so diverse, there are people I recognise like Andy Serkis and new people I'd never seen before like Daisy Ridley but they're so good that I'm thinking of asking them for advice - I don't want to give any myself."

Chris Pratt dreams of killing Iron Man


Chris Pratt says he would like to see his 'Guardians of the Galaxy' character kill Iron Man.
The 35-year-old actor plays the role of pilot Peter Quill aka Star Lord in the new Marvel Comics film and he's revealed that one of his dreams is for his character to slay Iron Man, played by Hollywood superstar Robert Downey Jr.
Speaking at a press conference for 'Guardians of the Galaxy' at London's Corinthia Hotel, he told BANG Showbiz: "I really, really think that Star Lord should kill Iron Man! It would be so awesome if he came down and he shot Tony Stark through the face - people would be so surprised. I think that would be awesome.
"You know, maybe not me [who kills him], maybe Rocket Racoon?"
Pratt also revealed that he often spends his spare time thinking of how the Marvel stories could evolve.
Regarding the killing of 'Iron Man', he said: "People would be super mad, but it'd be kind of great! They'd ask what prompted you to do that and we'd have to be like, 'Robert Downey Jr. makes $100 million a movie, we can't afford to have him any longer than that'."
'Guardians of the Galaxy' opens in UK cinemas on July 31.

Cheryl Cole determined to win ‘X Factor’


Cheryl Cole is determined to win this year's 'X Factor'.
The 31-year-old pop star - who previously mentored winners Alexandra Burke and Joe McElderry - has revealed she's going to work tirelessly to ensure one of her acts wins the new series.
Talking to Greg James on BBC Radio 1 about possibly winning the show, Cheryl shared: "I'm gonna give it everything I've got."
The 'Crazy Stupid Love' songstress was famously fired from the American version of 'The X Factor' by show boss Simon Cowell in 2011, but now they're both back for the new series and Cheryl says they're good friends again.
Talking about their renewed friendship, she said: "[It's] good, like we've never been away, to be honest. I mean, obviously we don't agree on everything but that's how our relationship is."
Cheryl also downplayed any notion of a rivalry between her and new judge Mel B and praised the former Spice Girl for being "lovely".
She enthused:"She's actually lovely and funny. She's really nice."
The singer is happy that producers changed the audition process last year, with hopefuls now performing for the judges in an intimate room before singing again in front of a live audience.
Cheryl explained: "It's actually been going really well. We're back in to the small rooms for the first stages, which I always find better because it's a bit more personable. You can get to know [the contestants] without 3,000 people screaming."
Cheryl then joked: "And then, especially if you've got Simon's face looking at you, that's scary enough let alone 3,000 people."