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15 September 2014

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West do naked yoga

Los Angeles - Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are taking private yoga classes naked.

The superstar couple are said to have started the raunchy sessions as a way to keep the rapper calm, while also "spicing up their love life".

Los Angeles - The son of actor Robert Downey Jr pleaded guilty on Friday to cocaine possession and was sentenced to a drug diversion programme that could result in his conviction being dismissed.

London - Prince Harry celebrated his 30th birthday on Monday with a beer after the end of his multi-sport event for wounded troops, and with a windfall from his late mother Diana's estate.

Harry, fourth in line to the British throne, can put his feet up after organising the four-day international Invictus Games for injured veterans, which was deemed a success.

Los Angeles - Susan Sarandon says watching her daughter give birth to her granddaughter made her more pride than anything she has achieved in her acting career.

Is Beyoncé pregnant again?

Los Angeles - Are Beyoncé and Jay Z expecting a baby? Rumours have sparked that the couple are expecting their second child after Jay Z changed some of his song lyrics.

Numerous news outlets are reporting that Jay Z hinted that his wife was pregnant during Beach Is Better whilst the couple performed their On The Run tour in Paris.

The 32-year-old rapper reportedly changed the lyrics to say: "Cause she's pregnant with another one."

Los Angeles - Daniel Craig is set for a secret cameo appearance in Star Wars Episode VII.

The Skyfall star is a big fan of the science fiction saga, and he has reportedly filmed a mystery role in the upcoming seventh instalment of the franchise - but his face will be kept hidden.

An insider told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: "Daniel asked for some sort of secret cameo role - and was happy to have his name left off the posters.

Mark Ruffalo wants Star Wars role

Mark Ruffalo

Los Angeles- Mark Ruffalo wants a role in Star Wars: Episode VIII.

The Avengers actor has revealed that he'd love to star in the science fiction series, as he admitted to begging the director of the eighth film, Rian Johnson for a part.

Lady Ggaga

Los Angeles - Lady Gaga almost quit music earlier this year. The Applause hitmaker admits she almost gave up her career for good six months ago after her third album ArtPop received mixed reviews from critics.

Speaking in Parade magazine, she said: "Six months ago I didn't even want to sing any more. I was so sad. I couldn't sleep. I felt dead.

Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin.

Los Angeles - Chris Martin has introduced Jennifer Lawrence to his friends.

The 37-year-old Coldplay frontman reportedly invited The Hunger Games actress to a dinner at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood with his pals.A source told E! News: "They seem very comfortable in each other's company - and happy!

Lady Gaga smoked hookah and got painted in henna in a desert

Lady Gaga

Los Angeles - Lady Gaga smoked hookah in the desert. The Bad Romance hitmaker - who is currently enjoying a getaway in Dubai - took time out of her busy schedule on Thursday to relax with a shisha pipe after riding camels, watching belly dancers and having her hands decorated in henna.

Los Angeles - Iggy Azalea has denied claims she recorded a sex tape with an ex-boyfriend.

TMZ reports that a top Hollywood porn boss has claimed that he'd seen footage of Iggy with one of her ex-boyfriends - something the Fancy singer has strenuously denied.

Adrianne Palicki gets engaged to her stuntman bae Jackson Spidell

Adrianne Palicki

Los Angeles - Adrianne Palicki is engaged.

The Friday Night Lights actress is set to marry her stuntman boyfriend Jackson Spidell after he popped the question to the blonde beauty.

The 31-year-old actress' representative confirmed the news to website Just Jared. Adrianne met Jackson on the set of the couple's forthcoming film John Wick, which also stars Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe and Jason Isaacs.

Cape Town - South African TV personality Janez Vermeiren recently welcomed a baby boy into the world with his partner Juliana Vasconcelos.

The Man Cave presenter, who co-hosts the show with Lunga Shabalala, got his baby's name Vincent tattooed on his arm during filming of the their show which airs on SABC 3 every Wednesday at 20:00.

Jennifer Aniston at the premiere of Cake at the Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto - The sheer physicality of playing a character in chronic pain was the most challenging part of starring in the film Cake, Jennifer Aniston said of a leading role that turns one of the world's most glamorous actresses into a bitter, unpleasant woman.

In the film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Aniston plays Claire Simmons, a woman suffering from constant pain and pill addiction who is haunted by hallucinations of a fellow support-group member who committed suicide.

To prepare for the role, the former Friends star drew on the experiences of two friends who lived with chronic pain. She also wore a brace that prevented her from slouching to mimic the stiff movement required.

Melissa and Joan Rivers

New York - Melissa Rivers hosted a private party to honour her mother Joan Rivers after her funeral.

The daughter of the late Fashion Police presenter held a small gathering on Sunday at Joan's home as a final tribute to her famous mother and she purposefully decorated the apartment with floral arrangements and plenty of candles in her mom's favoured style.

The insider told the New York Post's Page Six: "Melissa presented it just like Joan had done. It will probably be the last time we see the house that way. It was like Joan was going to come down the stairs."

Johannesburg – Season 3 of the popular amateur chef show MasterChef SA is cooking on M-Net.

With the selection of the Top 12 the competition is heating up and the pressure is on to perform.

We had the opportunity to get to know each of them better and spent the day with them at The HTA School of Culinary Art in Johannesburg.

Cameron Douglas, 35 - who is currently serving time at Cumberland FCI in Pennsylvannia for possession of crystal meth and cocaine with intent to distribute - is believed to be getting out a year earlier than his expected 2018 release date on March 18 2017, according to prison reports viewed by RadarOnline.com.

Cameron - who has been in jail since 2009 - is the Wall Street star's only child from his first marriage to Diandra Luker and was released from solitary confinement in the same prison earlier this year.

Aaron Paul accepts the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for Breaking Bad

Cape Town – Our favourite Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul is totally hanging out in Stellenbosch right now.

How do we know?

Well, Channel24 reported on Monday that Helen Mirren arrived in Cape Town to shoot Eye in the Sky and that she will be joined by Aaron Paul and Colin Firth. Channel24 also reported that production is expected to begin on 12 September 2014.

Los Angeles - Morgan Freeman has joined Ted 2.

The 77-year-old actor has landed the role as a civil rights lawyer in Seth MacFarlane's comedy sequel, which follows the adventures of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) and his living bear Ted (MacFarlane).

The plot details are being kept tightly underwraps but it is thought Freeman's character will step in to help the foul-mouthed bear when he finds himself in a spot of legal trouble, according to Variety.com.

Beyoncé and Jay Z interrupt wedding in Italy

Jay-Z, and Beyonce, watch Game 4 of the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center

Los Angles - Beyoncé and Jay Z accidentally gate-crashed a wedding in Portofino, Italy over the weekend.

The world famous couple - around whom there continue to be rumours of marital strife - walked into a church to unexpectedly find they were interrupting the nuptials of the soon-to-be husband and wife.

However, fortunately for Jay and Beyoncé, the newlyweds took kindly to their unexpected arrival, inviting them to pose for pictures and generally joking around with the two music superstars.

Chris Brown says jail made him more mature

Los Angeles - Chris Brown claims his "maturity level has risen" since leaving jail.

The Loyal hitmaker, who was released on 2 June after spending 108 days behind bars for violating his probation after he allegedly made threats about using guns while seeking anger-management treatment in rehab, admits it was "a humbling experience" and made him realise he is "human like everyone else".

The 25-year-old star told Billboard magazine: "I'm just more appreciative of the things I'm blessed with and the things I do: music, being able to take care of my family, being able to see my friends and family."

Los Angeles - George Clooney will marry Amal Alamuddin in Venice "in a couple of weeks."

The 53-year-old actor revealed he and the human rights lawyer, who have been dating since last September, are to tie the knot towards the end of this month at a secret venue in the Italian city.

Speaking during his acceptance speech at the Celebrity Fight Night event on Sunday in Tuscany, Italy, he told the audience: "I met my lovely bride-to-be here in Italy, whom I will be marrying, in a couple of weeks, in Venice, of all places."

Los Angeles – Neil Patrick Harris got married on the weekend.

The How I Met Your Mother star shared the happy news on his Twitter profile.

London - Sir Cliff Richard is unsure who is accusing him of sexual assault.

The 73-year-old singer is being investigated over an historic allegation that he sexually assaulted a schoolboy at a religious rally held in Sheffield, England in 1985.

The Sunday Mirror reports that Cliff told a friend: "I've no idea who's behind this. It's so unfair."

A friend of the Summer Holiday hitmaker added: "He's mystified by all of this. He doesn't know his accuser. He has no idea when his ordeal will end, Sir Cliff very much wants to return to performing full-time without a stain on his character. This has affected him greatly, and he just wants to get on with his life."

Cast member Chris Pratt and his wife, actress Anna Faris pose at the premiere of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' in Hollywood, California July 21, 2014.

"Guardians of the Galaxy," already the biggest film of the year, continued its improbable assault on the box office, collecting $10.2 million to lead all films after a month in theaters.

Featuring a cast of misfit super heroes that includes a machinegun-toting raccoon, "Guardians" leapt from the pages of Marvel Comics to total $295 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was second with $6.5 million in ticket sales for the three days from Friday through Sunday on a relatively slow post-holiday weekend. "If I Stay" was third with sales of $5.8 million, according to the box office tracking site Rentrak.

The code-breaking machine that may have cut World War II by two years and saved millions of lives was invented by British mathematician Alan Turing, a prickly genius and unlikely war hero unknown to most of the world.

That might be because his work to crack Germany's Enigma code remained classified for decades. But also, Turing met a tragic end following the war, taking his own life at 41 after he was convicted for being homosexual and sentenced to chemical castration.

Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki poses at a special screening of the animated movie 'Ponyo' at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California, in this July 27, 2009 file picture.

The artistic legacy of Hayao Miyazaki, the reclusive and bearded Academy Award-winning director and animator sometimes called Japan's Walt Disney, has never been more certain.

Yet at the same time, the commercial future for Studio Ghibli, the privately held Tokyo studio he left behind in retirement, has never been more in doubt.

Under Miyazaki, Ghibli became famous for intricate, hand-drawn animation and imaginative coming-of-age story lines that made films like 1988's "My Neighbor Totoro" into an international hit. A dozen years later, he masterminded what remains today as Japan's highest grossing film, the Academy Award-winning "Spirited Away".

Former Pink Floyd co-founder and bass guitarist Roger Waters performs with a Romanian children choir during ''The Wall'' tour live concert in Bucharest August 28, 2013

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters says a new movie about his monumental, three-year remounting of the band's famous "The Wall" album should be seen as a protest against the growing spread of armed conflict, rather than just a concert documentary.

"Roger Waters: The Wall", which had its world premiere on Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, documents the massive concerts that included pyrotechnics, animation, a flying inflatable pig and an actual wall constructed on stage as the show progressed.

But it also includes vignettes of Waters visiting war cemeteries and memorials in Europe, including the grave of a grandfather who died in World War One, and the site of the 1944 battle that killed his father when Waters was just a baby.

Television personality Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner arrive to attend the funeral of comedienne Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York September 7, 2014.

Family and friends bid farewell on Sunday to Joan Rivers, the outspoken comedian who became famous around the world for her acerbic wit and brash style, at a private funeral sprinkled with jokes, laughter and songs.

Journalists Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer, comedian Whoopi Goldberg, tycoon Donald Trump, actress Sarah Jessica Parker and comedian Kathy Griffin were among the celebrities who attended the service at Temple Emanu-El, a landmark synagogue on New York's Fifth Avenue where Rivers, 81, was a member of the congregation.

Comedian Jeffrey Ross described it as "somber but funny" with plenty of hearty laughs from Rivers' friends.

Charlize Theron’s new Dior ad is pure gold

Charlize Theron

Los Angeles – The South African born actress, Charlize Theron, can be seen in the latest Dior J'adore ad.

In the short video the blonde beauty shows off some impressive acrobatic skills while smoothly delivering her lines.

Ricky Martin

Los Angeles - Ricky Martin wants to have a baby daughter next year.

The 42-year-old singer is already a father to six-year-old twins Matteo and Valentino - who were born by a surrogate mother in 2008 - but he insists his family won't be complete until he adds a little girl to his brood.

Speaking to Fox News Latino, he said: "The little baby will come next year.

''When daddy's little girl arrives, I want to be there."

Amy Winehouse

Los Angeles - Amy Winehouse ''reeked of alcohol'' and was barely able to talk the day before her death, according to her mother Janis Winehouse.

Amy's mother found "broken bottles of white wine" lying around the singer's house in Camden, north London, the last time she saw her alive and claims her daughter was so drunk that she was only able to make it downstairs courtesy of her bodyguard Andrew Morris.

Julia Roberts to star in Oscar winning movie remake

Julia Roberts

Los Angeles - Julia Roberts is to star in the remake of The Secret in Their Eyes.

The August: Osage County actress has been signed up to play the female lead in the upcoming Billy Ray-directed remake of the 2009 Argentine crime thriller, Deadline reports.

12 Years A Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor is set for the male lead of a former MI-5 agent who returns to Boston on a joint task force with the FBI.

Roberts will play his friend and former partner whose daughter was murdered.

Ejiofor's character refuses to get over the crime and digs up the case years later when he thinks he's found the man who got away with it.

Gwyneth Paltrow has also been signed up to appear alongside Ejiofor and Roberts, who recently impressed in HBO series The Normal Heart.

The Secret in Their Eyes is scheduled to begin shooting in Los Angeles in October with Mark Johnson producing.

Petition to stop SA playwright's 'racist' exhibition in UK

Petition to stop SA plJohannesburg - A petition is circulating in a bid to stop South African playwright Brett Bailey's exhibition about colonial oppression, that features living people, from going to London, Beeld reported on Saturday.

According to artnet.com, 7 000 people have signed the online petition to stop the exhibition from opening at London's Barbican Centre on 23 September. It has already been to Edinburgh, Berlin, and Vienna.

Simone Battle

Los Angeles - Girl group singer Simone Battle has died.

According to the Los Angeles County coroner's office, Battle was found dead in her West Hollywood home on Friday morning.

Battle gained notoriety through performances on the television show X Factor, and her band — G.R.L. — had been signed by mega-hit maker Dr Luke.

The 44-year-old singer was adamant she and her husband Gavin Rossdale didn't want to have any more children but she was left stunned when she fell pregnant with Apollo, six months, after her eldest son Kingston, eight, asked God for another little sibling.

Gwen - who also has Zuma, six, with Gavin - explained: ''He has a direct link to God, basically. He asked me, 'Mum, are you gonna have a baby? I want you to have a baby.'

''I was like, 'It's over. We're not having any more. This is our family.' ''

Imitating her son, the blonde beauty said Kingston would clasp his hands together, close his eyes and say out-loud: 'Dear God, please let my mum have a baby. Please, God! Please let my mum have a baby!'

She added: ''And four weeks later, I was pregnant!''

The Voice USA coach, who married Gavin in 2002, admits she's slightly concerned about what Kingston will pray for next because his faith is so strong.

Speaking on Late Night this past Wednesday, she explained: ''He prays for everything. He's like, 'Please, God, please let me have another cupcake... Yes!' He really believes.''

P-Square are not doubt one of the top singers not just in Nigeria but in Africa. Its no wonder the duo, Peter and Paul Okoye who have a large fan base are always busy cooking up something new for their fans.

Just recently, the multiple award winning twins, P-Square revealed on a radio station that they do not live with their wives.

Comedian Joan Rivers moved to private room from intensive care: daughter

TV personality Joan Rivers and daughter Melissa Rivers leave following a Spring/Summer 2013 collection show at New York Fashion Week September 10, 2012.

Comedian Joan Rivers, who suffered cardiac arrest last week, has been moved out of an intensive care unit in a New York hospital and into a private room, her daughter said on Wednesday.

Rivers, 81, is "being kept comfortable" in a private room at Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to her daughter, Melissa Rivers.

The comedian was placed on life support after she stopped breathing and suffered cardiac arrest during outpatient surgery on her vocal cords at a nearby clinic on Aug. 28.

Cast member Romain Paul poses during the photo call for the movie 'Le dernier coup de marteau' at the 71st Venice Film Festival September 3, 2014.

A French film that improbably links soccer and classical music in a tale of a sports-mad teenage boy living in poverty with his dying mother and who meets his estranged conductor father for the first time charmed the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.

Alix Delaporte's "Le Dernier Coup de Marteau" (The Last Hammer Blow) relies heavily on body language rather than dialogue to communicate its bittersweet coming-of-age story.

"What you will see in the film is there is not much dialogue, people do not talk much, characters do not talk much," Delaporte told a news conference. "I've tried to replace words with movements."

Director Sabina Guzzanti poses during the photo call for the movie ''La trattativa'' (The State-mafia pact) at the 71st Venice Film Festival September 3, 2014.

An Italian documentary about the Mafia whose director said she checked all the facts "1,400 times" cast a spotlight at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday on a mooted, covert deal between Italy's political establishment and organized crime.

"La Trattativa" (The State-Mafia Pact), shown out of competition at the world's oldest film festival, is directed by Sabina Guzzanti, a former television satirist and a longstanding foe of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who, through film clips, figures prominently in her new film.

"In understanding and getting to the bottom of this material, I too, had moments of depression, of fear and I thought the same things all of us have for years, 'I'm leaving (Italy), there's nothing left to do here'," Guzzanti told a news conference after the screenings.

Gael García Bernal as Maziar Bahari in a scene from Rosewater.

Having hosted late night television's satirical "The Daily Show" for 15 years, comedian Jon Stewart grew accustomed to a daily churn that he says "forgives sloppiness."

Now, he has crafted his first feature film in a more meticulous fashion, and hopes it will not be more permanent evidence of his own idiocy.

His directorial debut is the drama "Rosewater," the story of Tehran-born Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was imprisoned and tortured in Iran at the hands of a man who smelled of rosewater. Stewart advocated for Bahari's release and then invited him to his nightly show.

Singer Ariana Grande performs on NBC's 'Today' show in New York August 29, 2014.

Pop singer Ariana Grande landed her second chart-topping album on Wednesday as her latest record debuted atop the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart.

"My Everything," the second album from 21-year-old Grande, sold 169,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

The record was released in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 24, where Grande performed her song "Break Free" to kick off the televised event.

Los Angeles - Imagine Entertainment want to make a 24 movie.

According to TVLine, the production company's chairman, Brian Grazer, has expressed an interest in taking the hit Fox series to the big screen following the end of the show's latest series 24: Live Another Day.

It is believed negotiations have stepped up in recent weeks after 24 producer Jon Cassar admitted he felt there was huge potential in reviving the show in a movie format, despite previously insisting that there were no planned future installments of the Keifer Sutherland fronted series in the pipeline.

Superhero 'Turtles' swing back onto big screen in new mutation

Cast members (from L-R) Danny Woodburn, Jeremy Howard, Alan Ritchson, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Noel Fisher and Pete Ploszek pose at the premiere of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' in Los Angeles, California August 6, 2014.

The teenage mutant heroes in a half shell are battling their way back to movie screens with teen crushes, insecurity, rage and a hankering for pizza in a franchise reboot for a new generation.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," based on the 1980s comic book series that led to a television show and then a film in 1990, features four turtle brothers trained as fighters.

In the 2014 version out in U.S. theaters on Friday, the amiable Turtles named after Renaissance artists are brought to life with new performance capture technology.

Mick Jagger, frontman of British rock band The Rolling Stones, performs during a concert at the Tele2 arena in Stockholm July 1, 2014.

Singer Mick Jagger, actress Judi Dench and scientist Stephen Hawking are among 200 British stars who have signed a letter urging Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom, six weeks before a historic referendum on independence.

The letter, an attempt to sway Scots before the September 18 vote, was organised by "Let's Stay Together", a group which says it aims to give a voice to the millions of Britons outside Scotland who don't have the right to vote.

Only Scots residents can take part in the referendum, meaning people who live in the three other constituent parts of the UK - England, Wales and Northern Ireland - don't have a say.

Beyonce performs 'Drunk In Love' at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles,

U.S. pop star Beyonce, currently on a U.S. tour with rapper husband Jay Z, will receive a special award and perform at the MTV Video Music Awards this month, the cable TV network said on Thursday,

Beyonce, who received eight nominations, will be awarded the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the show, one of the industry's top ceremonies that will be aired live from California on Aug. 24.

"As a performer, Beyonce has delivered some of the most memorable performances in VMA history," MTV said in a statement.

Beyonce, 32, earned nominations for best video and best collaboration with Jay Z for her hit "Drunk In Love," and will compete for Video of the Year against Australian rapper Iggy Azalea.

Cape Town - Big Concerts announced on Thursday that John Legend will be performing in Durban for one night only with his highly anticipated All Of Me Tour on Friday 21 November 2014 at the Moses Mabhida Stadium.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, 8 August 2014 at 09:00 from Computicket.
An Evening with John Legend: The All of Me Tour, has currently sold out in over 60 cities the US and features John in an intimate setting, highlighted by guitar/vocal accompaniment as well as a string quartet.

"I've enjoyed this tour immensely," said Legend. "The opportunity to get up close and personal with my fans and tell my story has been so much fun for me."

OK! Old School: Vivica A. Fox Shares Her Bad Ass 90s Big Screen Moment

There is pretty much nothing in the entertainment industry that Vivica A. Fox hasn’t done (seriously, it took me five hours to scan through her IMDB page) and her most recent turn as Skye in Sharknado 2 was nothing short of awesome. We asked her to hop in the way-back machine to answer some of our pressing 80s and 90s questions—here’s what she had to say.

Beyoncé and Jay Z’s On the Run Tour is supposed to be a celebration of music’s most powerful couple, and for the most part, it is — aside from those pesky rumors that the pair are in marriage counseling and may split at the end of the tour.

There is no way of telling if the reports are actually true, but just the thought of a world without Hov and Bey in holy matrimony is enough to make us nervous. Here are seven reasons why we need Jay Z and Beyoncé together forever.

1. Their Music

2. The Inspiration They Give

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