Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian have added a selection of new items to their charity eBay auction, Kim’s Kloset.
Kim says on the auction page: “A percentage of the proceeds from this and all my auctions will go to my favourite charity, the Dream Foundation, a really wonderful organisation that grants wishes to terminally-ill adults. I volunteer for them and love the way they’re making a difference in the world … one person at a time.”
Along with items of designer clothing, a Dunamis PVD Plated Spartan Watch seen in episode seven of season three of the family’s reality show, Keeping up with the Kardashians, is up for auction, with a starting price of $5,000.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were voted the decade’s worst celebrity couple in an online dating poll.
The former couple, aka “Bennifer”, dated for several years and almost married before Affleck called it off in 2004.
The Web sites Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com polled thousands of single, male and female online daters and Twitter followers in the United States.
About half of the voters named Bennifer the worst celebrity couple. They were followed by newly divorced reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, with 11.5 percent of the vote, and by Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline with 10 percent.
Other celebs to rate a mention were Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton, Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, Guy Ritchie and Madonna, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson, Paris Hilton and Rick Salomon, and Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen.
Forty-two percent voted US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama the best celebrity couple of the decade.
Film stars and parents of six, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got 15 percent of the vote, while producer Ashton Kutcher and actress Demi Moore earned 11.5 percent.
Other winning couples were David and Victoria Beckham, Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Heidi Klum and Seal, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, and Howard Stern and Beth Ostrowsky.
Former model Tyra Banks has announced she will no longer present her chat show after its fifth season finishes.
The 36-year-old said she will continue with the reality show America’s Next Top Model, but will no longer host The Tyra Show.
In a statement on her website, Banks said: “Thank you so much for your support and love. Without you, there never would have been a Tyra Show.”
The star revealed she is currently working on other future projects.
“This year, I’ll be unveiling some huge surprises from me and my company Bankable – new out-of-the-box projects,” she said.
“I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’ll be launching Bankable Studios soon, which means my company will be making movies.
“I’m so excited and I wish I could tell you about all of the new stuff, but there are people here with me now telling me to stop typing and keep my lips shut about our new projects.”
She also denied the decision to stop recording had been made because of poor viewing figures.
“Most times, a show leaves the air because not many people are watching. Well, you all are watching, in record numbers.”
Brit actress Sienna Miller has been busy planning a birthday surprise for Jude Law, according to reports.
Although the actress celebrated her 28th birthday with a thrilling dinghy ride in the warm waters off Barbados yesterday, she was also busy planning a few treats for Jude’s 37th birthday, today.
Due to family commitments, the recently reunited Hollywood couple could not celebrate their birthdays together – although they are planning to make up for it at New Year.
Jude left Sienna soaking up the sun in Barbados to fly to a £3,000-a-day five-star villa in Bequia, Mustique, yesterday.
But Sienna has phoned ahead and personally spoken to the owner to arrange some special surprises – including champers, choccies and roses.
“Sienna and Jude are taking things slowly and still aren’t officially back together,” a source said.
“With their birthdays so close together, the original plan was to hold a joint celebration. But as Jude has his kids with him, he didn’t think it would be appropriate to have a boozy knees-up.
“Instead he flew to Bequia with his family, as planned, and promised Sienna they’d meet up before New Year. But Sienna has planned a few surprises for him there.
“She’s asked the villa’s resident chef to serve Jude’s favourite meal, had a bottle of vintage champagne dropped off, and got some English chocolate put in his fridge. She’s also asked for a trail of roses in the villa’s garden. It is all very romantic – Jude will be blown away.”
Kate Beckinsale has revealed that she was initially “flattered” when her breasts became a talking point in the press – until she realised that critics were judging her assets.
The British actress said she was pleased with tabloid reports that suggested she had undergone a boob job after she put on weight for her role in 2004 movie The Aviator.
But she was hurt after learning that her chest was being ridiculed by the media.
She said: “At one point, I felt as though everyone was out to get me. We were suddenly talking about breasts – not brains. I was having everything examined from my cellulite to my choice of films.
“I had allowed myself to be flattered when all this talk of breasts started because I assumed it meant I looked good. But when I found out it meant I had horrible boobs, I was taken aback.”
She added: “I began to wonder why I cared about things which, essentially, don’t matter at all.”
The Pearl Harbour star also revealed that, despite being named Esquire magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive, she still worries about her image.
She said: “I’ve always had doubts about my looks. Most women have body issues and I’m no different.”
Gossip Girl Jessica Szohr has called co-star and boyfriend Ed Westwick “awesome, smart, talented and adorable”.
Painting a picture of a typical twenty-something couple, the actress told a magazine: “We go to dinners, have nights by ourselves and fun romantic times in general. And I like just cuddling up on the couch.”
As for how their off-screen romance kicked off, she described how they started out as firm friends: “It can be a little awkward when all of a sudden [you have feelings for] someone you’d call to talk about a different boyfriend.
“But there wasn’t a lot of thinking and talking. It kind of just happened. We had fun together, and we were like, ‘All right, let’s see where this goes’.”
Tobey Maguire’s wife Jennifer Meyer has said that he is an “amazing husband”.
The jewellery designer, who has been married to Spider-Man star Maguire for more than two years, said that she believes their marriage will last because he hasn’t lost his wedding ring yet.
“He’s never worn any jewellery before and he warned me when we got married that he’d probably lose the wedding band, so I should make him a couple,” she said.
“But he’s still on the first one, and we’re over two-and-a-half-years married, so we’re doing good. [He's an] amazing husband.”
Maguire and Meyer have two children together – three-year-old daughter Ruby and seven-month-old son Otis.
Desperate Housewives beauty Eva Longoria and her basketball star husband Tony Parker dressed up as Grease’s Sandy and Danny for an internet video spoofing the classic 70s movie.
The celebrity couple donned wigs and 1950s-style costumes to perform the film’s famous Summer Nights song.
Eva and Tony looked the part in the roles played by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and got their choreography almost spot on.
But they played it safe by miming along to the original vocals.
Basketball ace Tony posted the footage on his website to promote a competition to meet the celebrity couple at one of his NBA games for the San Antonio Spurs early next year.
The competition challenges fans to recreate a scene from their favourite musical comedies.
Tony explained the couple chose to make their own version of Grease because it is Eva’s favourite film.
Jennifer Aniston may be joining her celebrity sisters Madonna, Demi Moore and Gwyneth Paltrow in seeking out the wisdom of the Kabbalah.
Jennifer Aniston of late has struck up a friendship with Moore, a devotee of the teachings of Kabbalah, which are based on Jewish mysticism.
Madonna has been a Kabbalah follower for some years. She took her daughters Lourdes and Mercy James to a Kabbalah Centre in London on Boxing Day. Her sons Rocco and David Banda stayed with ex-husband Guy Ritchie.
Aniston, who has spoken of her dismay at not finding true love, reportedly already shares the same Hollywood life coach with Moore. But they recently bumped into each other at a Mont Blanc party in New York, a source said.
“They spent ages talking and Demi was waxing lyrical about how life-changing and wonderful Kabbalah is, and how much it helps her in her day-to-day life. Jen seemed enthralled by what Demi had to say and was hanging on her every word.”
Madonna’s great pal Paltrow was overheard talking about Kabbalah with Aniston at the recent reopening of the La Mamounia hotel in Marrakesh. “Gwyneth was talking about Kabbalah and told Jen she should come to a meeting.”
Hollywood star Mila Kunis has a macabre hobby – she likes to watch horror movies and then visit the sites of Hollywood’s most grisly celebrity murders in the dead of night.
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall actress has now become a secret murder tour guide for her friends and regularly plans thrilling midnight trips to crime scenes and supposed haunted houses.
She revealed: “We do murder mystery tours in Los Angeles.
“One of my friends has a whole giant book of famous murders that happened in LA, everything from the Valley to Orange County to Malibu.
“When we do these murder nights, we watch movies, then we drive around at midnight, all around to these murder houses and take photos and we recreate the murder scenes. It’s really twisted and weird.
“We went to the Black Dahlia house… We went by the Hillside Strangler’s place and the Playboy model who was murdered by her ex-husband (Dorothy Stratten); that house looks exactly the same now as it does in the murder book… It’s just creepy.
“That house gives us bad vibes every time we’re there. We should stop going!”
Twilight star Xavier Samuel has returned home to Australia and his favorite car, a USD$450 Ford Falcon.
Samuel, 25, is spending time over the holidays with his parents, brother and sister at the family home in Adelaide, South Australia.
He has been spotted driving around town in the beaten-up old car, which he bought with his younger brother.
The actor, who stars in the third film in the trilogy, Eclipse, also says it is “strange” being a celeb but says he will follow the example set by Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
He also told an Australian paper: “It’s a bizarre thing, the whole celebrity phenomenon. It’s a little strange having someone follow you to get a coffee. I wasn’t used to that sort of attention, so I just took it in my stride, I guess. I think Robert and Kristen do a really good job dealing with fans. They seem to handle it really well, so if I can take a leaf out of their book I should be OK.”
The hunk will spend New Year’s Eve with his family before driving to Sydney with his brother.
Benedict is following in Xavier’s footsteps and studying acting at NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Talking about driving to Sydney in the car, he said: “The car only has a tape deck, so that’s what we’ve been asking everyone for Christmas – car tapes.”
Did Nick Jonas upload his own picture onto the gay friendly photo site Guys with iPhones? The singer, complete with his purity ring, popped up on the site earlier this week but the photo of the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers was mysteriously taken down on Tuesday after the picture of the 17-year old went viral. Is there something that he isn’t telling us about his sexuality or did he just not have a clue that the site was gay oriented? He may have had girlfriends and all that but I know that having Miley Cyrus as your ex can easily make you switch teams.
Selena Gomez has gotten fed up with the internet because she’s sick of the negative comments in her direction. The singer/actress used to put up videos on YouTube regularly to share with fans but she has stopped doing that due to the hateful messages she was getting. Selena said “I’ve given up the internet. I don’t read comments, and I don’t go on any of the sites anymore, and I just feel better. And it’s not about being a celebrity – you get on MySpace, Facebook, there’s all these different outlets where people can just feel like nobody’s watching them so they can just say whatever they want to say, and that gets dangerous sometimes.” Screw the haters! I love you Selena!
UK television star Alexa Chung, 26, has captured Vogue’s crown as 2009 style queen.
The best dressed list was put together by the magazine’s UK editorial team. Chung, whose look is the essence of 2009 fashion, was followed by Audrey Tautou, 33, and Sarah Jessica Parker, 44.
Chung has enjoyed stellar success in the US while making her way as a presenter.
The very popular Cheryl Cole, musician and The X Factor judge was fourth, followed by her friendly X Factor rival, Dannii Minogue. Lady GaGa, the wearer of outlandish costumes, came in at number 11. Other stars to rate a mention were Angelina Jolie, Anna Friel and Beth Ditto.
The Top Ten list ran as follows: 1. Alexa Chung; 2. Audrey Tautou; 3. Sarah Jessica Parker; 4. Cheryl Cole; 5. Dannii Minogue; 6. Emma Watson; 7. Sienna Miller; 8. Diane Kruger; 9. Freida Pinto; 10. Kate Moss.
Michael Jackson’ 1986 3D film experience ‘Captain EO’ is making its return to Disneyland. The 17-minute film, which was a popular attraction at the theme park from 1986 to 1997, will be returning to the park for a limited engagement. The Francis Ford Coppola directed musical will be taking the place of the ‘Honey I Shrunk the Audience’ attraction in Tomorrowland during its limited run which will start in February 2010. I say that it’s a pretty smart move for Disney. They still have time to cash in on the King of Pop’s hype yet enough time has passed that it’s being respectful.
Olivia Munn, 29, is desperately seeking Tom Cruise, or the chance to play a part alongside him.
Munn was reported to be intent on acting with Cruise in order to show her family that she’s made it in Hollywood.
Television’s Greek actress and star in the upcoming Iron Man 2 had faced a wall of opposition to her acting career after her mother’s family in China tried to convince her she would never be able to reach the same success as the Mission: Impossible actor.
Cruise for his part knows a thing or two about aspiring actresses. He married two of them – Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes.
Munn said: “My mum’s family are all radiologists and engineers. I got a call from all my uncles trying to convince me that show business was a bad idea. Every single one of them used Tom Cruise as an example. ‘Only Tom Cruise can do it, not you. You (sic) not Tom Cruise.’”
Rachel McAdams is reportedly dating Jude Law’s personal assistant.
The actress, who stars with Law in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes flick, was spotted on a romantic stroll with former model Ben Jackson in New York over the weekend.
One onlooker told a US newspaper: “They were laughing a lot and looked like they were having a good time.”
The pair are thought to have met when Rachel starred alongside British actor Jude in the new movie.
Rachel, 31, has been single since splitting up from actor Josh Lucas earlier this year following a four-month fling.
She previously dated her The Notebook co-star Ryan Gosling for three years after they met on the set of the drama movie.
They split in 2007.
Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie, is set to hit screens in the US on Christmas Day and in the UK on Boxing Day.
New Moon star Taylor Lautner has reportedly qualified as a fitness instructor.
The 17-year-old actor buffed up for his role in the second movie in the Twilight Saga and has reportedly trained as a personal trainer as he is worried about the lack of film roles in the future.
A source said: “His self-esteem shot through the roof when he bulked up for The Twilight Saga: New Moon and he wants other people to experience that feeling.”
According to the report, Lautner took the courses online for $200 and completed them on November 22.
The source added: “He wants to open up his own workout centre one day.”
