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Kevin Bacon: ‘Fame could have left me dead’


Kevin Bacon thinks his "obsession" with fame could have left him in "rehab" or "dead".
The 'Footloose' star admits the idea of becoming famous was "seductive" throughout his early career but it wasn't until he had two children, Travis and Sosie, with his wife Kyra Sedgwick, that he realised there was more to life than being a celebrity.
He told The Sun newspaper: "You can end up in rehab or dead unless there is something else in your life other than celebrity.
"People will be nice to you for no other reason than they've seen your movies.
"So what do you do to escape the obsession with fame? Get a proper life. With me it's my family, my wife and children and a handful of close friends.
Kevin admits he "broke down in tears" following a series of "film flops" throughout his late career, and claims other actors find themselves headed towards a downward spiral if their life outside their Hollywood is unfulfilled.
He added: "Those who are wrecked by celebrity have nothing else to fall back upon."
Looking back at his early career, the 55-year-old star would have some strong words of advice for his 18-year-old self.
He mused: "Don't worry so much - it's a waste of energy - and do not take yourself too seriously."

Drew Barrymore ‘shocked’ by father


Drew Barrymore finds it "shocking" that her father walked away from his family.
The 39-year-old actress - who gave birth to her second daughter, Frankie, last week - insists she is "OK" with the fact her dad John Barrymore wasn't around for her and her mother Jaid very much when she was a child but can't understand his actions.
She said: "My parents split up before I was born and my dad was just never capable of being a father. It's something I really accepted and became OK with early on.
"But it's shocking to me that someone can make that choice. As much as I accepted it with him, I could never accept it in a partner...for some people showing up is just not possible and that is incredibly frustrating.
"When you become a parent, and think about what kids need, it is very emotional."
The 'Blended' actress - who also has 19-month-old daughter Olive with husband Will Kopelman - is a hands-on mother and loves spending time just with her family.
In an interview conducted before she gave birth to Frankie, she told Red magazine: "I am loving being a mom..
"We spend every weekend together. We don't have a babysitter. It's just us. I can't wait to see how that's going to work out with the second one!"
Early in her pregnancy, Drew attended a cooking school with friends Cameron Diaz and Reese Witherspoon and is looking forward to furthering her culinary education this summer.
She said: "I really love cooking, it makes me so happy. But I'm terrible at it. None of it is effortless or sexy or even tastes that good for that matter, but I'm really working on it.
"I might travel somewhere to do it, and bring the family. I love cooking for Olive now, but I used to be Mrs Takeout.
"I've just never learned to cook in my life. Cameron's a great cook, and always has been. I'm just trying to catch up to that."

Tori Spelling hospitalised


Tori Spelling was recently hospitalised for almost a week.
The 'True Tori' star spent at least six days at a medical facility, and was seen heading home from the undisclosed clinic on Saturday (26.04.14) afternoon, still with a pink hospital band on her wrist, though it is unclear what she was being treated for.
Despite her marital problems with Dean McDermott - who has confessed to cheating on her late last year - her spouse was by her side throughout her stay in hospital.
A source told E! News: "Dean would arrive by 10am and didn't leave until 8 most nights. He seemed very stressed out and worried.
''He would bring food and often only left Tori to go outside to catch some air or make a phone call.''
The 40-year-old actress - who has children Liam, seven, Stella, five, Hattie, two, and Finn, 20 months, with Dean - recently admitted her spouse "broke her heart" when he admitted to cheating on her with 28-year-old Emily Goodhand during a trip to Toronto, but she wants to work through their problems for the sake of their kids.
She said: "There are children involved. For their sakes, I need to try to figure this out.
"You don't stop loving someone because they do something really bad to you. He was my soul mate, but he completely broke my heart. It makes you not trust anything that's happened in your relationship. But until I figure it out, I don't want my kids to know any different.
"I owe this relationship more than just saying something horrible happened and dismissing it. I need to figure out if he can change."

Liam Payne has joined Instagram


Liam Payne has joined Instagram.
The One Direction hunk already has almost 600,000 fans on the social media site after signing up at the weekend and has so far posted six photographs from the band's 'Where We Are Tour'.
He took to Twitter last night (27.04.14) to tell followers he was setting up an account, writing: "Right I'm gunna try figure this Instagram sh*t out I sound like a grandad (sic)."
He added his profile name, posting: "Insta ... fakeliampayne."
Liam then posted images of him with friends on tour, a photograph of his Sunday dinner, his tour shoes and a snap of himself after the band's gig, accompanied with the caption: "What a showwwwwwwwwww ahhhhh I love my job... MUTHAF@#!N CRAZZZYYYYY (sic)"
He later posted: "half a million followers on my Instagram in half a day aha crazy times hope that I can make my insta fun for u (sic)."
However, the 'Little Things' hitmaker could become the victim of hacking as fans have been doing their best to guess his Instagram password.
He tweeted: "Lmao can people stop trying to break into my Instagram I only just got lol that sh*ts clogging up my mail (sic)."
The 20-year-old star later added: "Stop trying to guess my password!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My emails going crazy with junk and I need it to make u all nice music for new albums!! (sic)"
Meanwhile, Liam and his band mates - Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan - have kicked off their first stadium tour, playing 69 dates across the world.

Bar Refaeli’s intimate wedding plans


Bar Refaeli wants an intimate wedding.
The 28-year-old model has been linked to businessman Adi Ezra and although she hasn't confirmed they are dating, she admits her current relationship is getting serious.
Questioned on whether she can hear wedding bells in the future, she explained: "My boyfriend will hear my answer to that, so I better say yes! The wedding of my dreams is very simple, not a lot of people, not in a big place, maybe outdoors, barefoot."
Bar - who previously dated 'Wolf of Wall Street' star Leonardo DiCaprio for four years until 2009 - also insists she doesn't need huge gestures to feel loved but prefers intimate tokens of affection like looking into her boyfriend's eyes.
Talking to Britain's HELLO magazine, she said: "I'm in a relationship, there's a special guy in my life, we're not talking marriage yet.
"[I am] a romantic person, but a very solid romantic person.
"I like basic things - when somebody tells me he loves me, or when I say, 'I love you'. I really mean it, I don't just say it, so that's romantic to me.
"I don't need to go to the beach and have a picnic with wine in a basket to feel romantic. I feel romantic when I look into my boyfriend's eyes - that's enough for me."

Chris Martin: I have issues


Chris Martin has suggested his own "issues" were responsible for the breakdown of his marriage.
The Coldplay frontman - who announced last month he and wife Gwyneth Paltrow were separating after 10 years of marriage - admits he has been a "mess" for some time because of his struggle to accept the good things in his life.
Asked if his marriage problems have inspired Coldplay's new album 'Ghost Stories', he said: "I wouldn't use the word breakdown, this was more a realisation about trying to grow up basically. Like I said, if you can't open yourself up, you can't appreciate the wonder inside. So you can be with someone very wonderful, but because of your own issues you cannot let that be celebrated in the right way....
"About two years ago I was a mess really because I can't enjoy the thing that we are good at and I can't enjoy the great things around me because I'm burdened by this - I've got to not blame anyone else and make some changes."
The 'Magic' hitmaker - who has children Apple, nine, and Moses, eight, with Gwyneth - also admitted he had found it difficult to "let love in".
Speaking to DJ Zayn Lowe, he said: "Up to a certain point in my life I wasn't completely vulnerable and it caused some problems. If you don't let love really in then you can't really give it back. So what 'Ghost Stories' means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point."
But the 'Fix You' singer thinks it is important to face "challenges" in life head on and wasn't afraid to be honest about his personal woes in his new album.
He added: "I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way... I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids, or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff. Life throws these colorful challenges at you ... what we decided to do on 'Ghost Stories' was to really be honest about it and say, this is what's been happening."
The full hour-long interview with Chris will be broadcast tonight (28.04.14) at 8pm on Zayn's BBC Radio 1 show.


Katy Perry enjoys date with Diplo


Katy Perry and DJ Diplo went on a date last week.
The 'Roar' hitmaker and her musician friend - who were first romantically linked at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival earlier this month - were spotted enjoying an intimate meal at the Marlton Hotel in New York City on Thursday (24.04.14), before heading to the 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' after-party at Skylight at Moynihan Station, where they were "very affectionate" with one another.
A source said: "They were very affectionate, very lovey-dovey.
"[When they weren't all over each other, they were constantly looking at each other."
However, the pair ensured they weren't pictured together as they left the bash.
The source added to People: "As they departed, they quickly separated. She didn't want it to look like they were together, but they were."
The following evening, Katy - who was previously married to Russell Brand and split from John Mayer earlier this year after 18 months of dating - attended a birthday party at 1Oak, where Diplo was performing.
While the 'Part of Me' hitmaker seems smitten with the producer, friends are worried the romance could lead to her getting hurt again.
One worried pal told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Diplo always has girls throwing themselves at him, and it's fair to say he has his fun partying with them.
"But he's also got a three-year-old son with his on-off girlfriend that he doesn't see that often as he's on tour a lot.
"He also had a public fallout with his other ex, MIA, who he dated for five years, so Katy's friends are worried she could end up getting hurt - again - by a guy who's seen as a bit of a lothario."

Diane Keaton says her exes were ‘mesmerising’


Diane Keaton thinks her ex-boyfriends were all "mesmerising people."
The 68-year-old actress, who previously dated Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty, admits they helped her feel more confident.
She told People magazine: "I really appreciated them, are you kidding? They were absolutely mesmerising people. Sometimes they made me feel better about myself.
"Warren was really good at feeding you ideas about yourself that were just, you know, not possible. That I was so talented, so.... I remember thinking he's lying, but I'm just going to go with it.
"I remember Woody looking at me, we were sitting on a park bench, and he said, 'I wonder if I'd think you were attractive if I didn't know you.' I laughed because, hello! You jerk, how dare you say that to me? But it was funny."
The actress admits she has no desire to go under the knife in a bid to preserve her looks.
She said: "When I grew up (plastic surgery) was the thing you would never do. That was horrible - you weren't authentic. Now I don't believe that for a second, but there's a point where you can't do it anymore because you become, like, a freak. People do the face-lift or the filler, and if you're too old you need to do both and you've created a new face. I haven't done anything."

Kenda Wilkinson’s mum ‘upset’ over rift


Kendra Wilkinson's mother is "upset" she hasn't spoken to her daughter since last October.
The reality TV star, who is due to give birth to her second child next month, hasn't spoken to her brother Colin and her mother Patricia, who believe fame has gone to her head and turned her into an "inconsiderate b***h," since October.
Patricia told the US edition of OK! magazine: "I have not seen or heard from Kendra since October 17, 2013 and I am deeply sad, upset and hurt."
The fight kicked off when Patricia rang the former Playboy star, to enquire whether the pregnancy rumours were true, and Kendra allegedly told her mother to "go die".
And things have escalated since then.
Patricia said: "Kendra seems to have this deep-seated hatred toward me and I cannot figure out why. Until a sincere apology comes my way, we won't be part of each other's lives."

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