Jordan strips off for George

Glamour girl Jordan has been stripping off for George, and before Peter Andre starts to get worried, it is of course George at Asda.


Launching a new 32-38 D-G cup lingerie line yesterday, the model stripped down to her underwear with six competition winners to show how the range looks great on any figure.
And Mrs Andre was pleased with the results.

Now Magazine reported the model saying:

"I'm showing that girls of all shapes and sizes can look good. We all got on really well. It wasn't like we were all comparing boobs and stuff. We were having a laugh and I encouraged the girls to be confident."

Blogger Hayley this the timing couldn’t be better.

"In a week where the UK has its first ever Plus-Size Miss England entrant, Jordan the queen of cosmetic surgery has surprised everyone by launching the lingerie range using big, beautiful women! It just goes to show that not all Celebs will stoop low enough to ban larger people from endorsing their products. The lingerie looked stunning on every single one of the models."

Gordon Smith, editor of the Sun’s Bizzare explains how Jordan picked her models.

"Lucky members of her fan club stripped off for the glamour girl's new range alongside the star herself. Chatting at the launch, Jordan said: "I decided that I wanted girls from my fan club to model with me in front of the press so I got them to write in and then I chose six girls."

One of the lucky girls was 20-year-old Emma Dunn from Dorset. She told the Daily Star:

"Kate was amazing. She gave me lots of advice about how to pose and work the camera. I always wanted to be a Page 3 girl but I know I’m a big girl so I never dreamed I could do something like this."

If you want to try out Kate’s lingerie range by Panache, 32-38 D-G cup, is available at George at Asda stores nationwide.

What a Week for Winehouse!

A week in the life of Amy Winehouse would never be dull, well….especially not this past week!


Last night the Bee-hived Brit picked up only one award at the NME Awards in London – for Worst Dressed Star. It seems her style isn’t a favorite of the music magazine’s readers.

This comes only a few days after The Sun revealed the singers plans to launch Cosmetics and Fashion lines.

The tabloid said:

“Trampy Amy Winehouse is launching her own brand of clothes and make-up so fans can copy her unique style…The range will include hairspray, but the signature piece is set to be the heavy liquid eyeliner the Rehab singer has made famous.”

The Sun also reported that a friend of the star has been discussing the new range.

“Amy’s style has been copied by girls around the country and there’s a lot of money to be made. It’s a very distinctive look. She wants to bring out a range of cosmetics and fashion products. There could be hairspray, head scarves, liquid eyeliner, perfume. All the things that are distinctive of her look.”

Not everyone is so sure.

Excited Style Life said:

"Signature clothing item? We wouldn't like to say. Oh all right then. Greying wife-beater worn over a brightly coloured bra? Manky piece of leopard print carpet worn as a bandana? Stone washed mini with bare legs and pixies? The possiblities are endless. ..Leave it to the experts. If Primark tells you to wear it, think about it. If Amy tells you to wear it. Don't. You'll look like a turkey."

Harsh? Apparently not...

It was echoed by Blog, Get Fame.

“Yay! Maybe Amy will get some new clothes out of the deal. Who knew drugs were such a fashion statement. Tiny fine point red liner will be part of the makeup line for drawing avant-garde blood scratches for that freshly cracked-out look!...I love it! Good for Amy. I like that people are accepting her just he way she is! She doesn't have to be anything more than a crackhead to get love. That's big!”

But the NME awards wasn’t the only event to draw attention to Winehouse being a bad dresser.
She came second in Richard Blackwell’s 48th Annual Worst Dressed of 2007.

So Feminine were quick to remind us.

"Forgive us, but we're not convinced it would take off...Amy's all-too-well-documented problems with drink and drug abuse have left her looking rather less than fresh of late…The style guru [Richard Blackwell] said of Amy: "Exploding beehives above, tacky polka-dots below, she's part '50s carhop horror."

Blogger Jane Murphy, for Orange’s Celeb page is some what confused by the plans.

“Hmmm... what exactly will the perfume smell like, do you suppose? And why stop with the eyeliner and head scarves? We want wigs! Fake tattoos! Cigarettes! Incarcerated husbands! Oh no - hang on..."

Here is to hoping that the recent award won’t put a spanner in the works for the singers extra-curricular activities.

Regardless…Winehouse is still considered a style icon, even if NME readers disagree.
Colleen Last, MSN’s Celebrity Editor http://msnukentertainment.spaces.live.com/ explains why.

“No matter what the general public thinks, top fashion house Louis Vuitton loves Amy’s style, so much so that its paying her £500,000 to perform a one-off gig at Paris Fashion Week. Lucky Amy flew by private jet to France today.”

The self harmer, who wore a skinny white vest revealing red scratches on her arms, managed to find time to visit her hubby this week.

Blake Fielder-Civil, or maybe more recognisable as “Blake Incarcerated”, pleaded not guilty against his charges of assault and trial-fixing today while Wineo was jet setting and living the showbiz lifestyle.

Maybe this will make her realize what she is missing out on.

Good on her…Lets hope she finds herself a nice young French Fancy to take her mind off bad-boy Blake.

As the saying goes…When the cat is away, the mice will play!

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Europeans Clean-Up at Oscars

Designers will be able to hang up their needles and threads, as last night saw the most prestigious award ceremony of the year.

It is the one that everyone has been waiting for. The one everyone wants to be invited too. The one where everyone wants to win.

Of course it is the Academy Awards…or the Oscars to you and me.

The red carpet was rolled out at the Kodak Theatre at Hollwood & Highland Center® for the 80th ceremony...having seen more Jimmy Choo’s or Valentino gowns, over its years, than a girl could dream of.

With such a huge lead-up, it is doubtful that anyone could have predicted the outcome….

With Europe cleaned up, winning all four of the highly prestigious acting awards.

Nick Plowman explained how rare it is.

“Not one acting award went to an American, with Javier Bardem (Spainish), Daniel Day-Lewis (British born), Tilda Swinton (British) and Mation Cotillard (French) taking them all - something only achieved once before, in 1964. The Oscars truly are International.”

British and Irish national, Daniel Day-Lewis won the Best Male Oscar for his outstanding performance in “There Will Be Blood”. This is the second Oscar he has after previously winning one for his role in “My Left Foor: The story of Christy Brown”.

Michelle Forbes thought the British born Actor was the only clear winner in his category.

“Daniel Day Lewis totally deserves the Oscar. No one else is even close. If he wasn't in the race I'd say it was between George Clooney and Viggo Mortensen. It must have been a slow year for men though because I'm not sure why the other two [Jonny Depp and Tommy Lee Jones] were nominated. They were good, but Oscar?”

Tilda Swinton was the second Brit of the night to walk away with one of the top four awards, after winning Best Supporting Actress for ‘Michael Clayton’. This role also won her a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

But despite never having a leading role, she has quite a fan base.

Rick, writing for his blog The Trifecta, couldn’t speak more highly of the actress.

“I’ve always had a lot of respect for this fascinating actress. She’s had lots of small roles that have really stuck with me in some of my top tier films. I loved her business exec in Adaptation, her struggling mother in Thumbsucker, and her conflicted litigator in Michael Clayton was certainly Oscar worthy. Hopefully we’ll get to see more Tilda Swinton now, perhaps in some starring roles”

This was echoed by MSN Life and Style Blogger, Imogen Lloyd Webber.

“The more I hear about Tilda, the more I think: only made in Britain, and God how cool is this woman? She doesn’t give a flying f**k what people make of her outlandish outfits, or her unusual domestic set-up – she and her partner bring up their children in Scotland while she has a toy boy painter amour for when she’s not there.”

But she is not everyone’s cup of tea.

Alex Billington is clearly not her number one fan after writing:

“Best Supporting Actress, Tilda Swinton did not deserve it, hands down. Literally a minute before they announced the winner, I was telling Peter [his brother] that almost all of them were fairly good nominees, except for Swinton. She didn't seem to fit in that list, but anyone else would have been a fine and acceptable winner. And mere seconds later she won! Come on, over Amy Ryan or Cate Blanchet, or even Ruby Dee?!”

The BAFTA’s, two weeks previous to the Academy Awards, proved to be a great predictor for things to come.

Causing controversy after beating British leading ladies Keira Knightly and Julie Christie to the hotly tipped award in London, French actress Marion Cotillard again walked away with the Best Actress award for the second time this month.

Surely that is proof, if any, that she is well deserving?

Other winners last night included Ratatouille (Best Animated Feature), Juno (Best Original Screenplay), Atonement (Best Music Score) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Best Art Direction).

The big winner of the night was No Country For Old Men walking away with 4 Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

That’s it for this year....All we have to do now is to think about the big winners for 2008.

Sex and the City, now that has Oscar written all over it!

You heard it here first…Watch this space!

Suprise of the Sexiest?

It’s that time of year again.

FHM is set to name the Sexiest Women in April and there has been a surprise new entry.

Heather Mills has reportedly made it in to the top 100 in the annual poll and will therefore be names one of the sexiest in showbiz.

The Sun were first to break the news.

“The former model has amazed bosses at FHM magazine by getting 1,000 votes a DAY in their online poll to name the world’s 100 hottest females…the 40-year-old’ s attractiveness rating has rocketed since she began hammering out a massive divorce settlement from Sir Paul McCartney, 65.”

This is a huge jump from the 15 votes she was getting before her court appearances.

Chris Bell, deputy Editor of FHM Magazine told the tabloid:

“Heather Mills has always been vilified as a gold-digger with a dubious past…But readers have realised she's about to become the world's most eligible - and richest – women.”

However it is doubtful that Jessica Alba, named Sexiest Woman in 2007, will be left quaking in her Jimmy Choos.



The pregnant actress is favorite to walk away with the crown again this year, along with Girl’s Aloud singer Cheryl Cole.

Mills is currently in 95th place, ahead of socialite Paris Hilton, Gwen Steffani and Superman actress Kirsten Dunst.

GabbyBabble can’t understand the way the public have voted.

“I wonder what these voters have been smoking…If voters are serious (but I doubt they are), I just can't believe Mills would be ahead of Gwen Stefani - that's just crazy! It's surprising that Paris and Kirsten would make the list too, but even they should be ahead of Mills.”

She isn’t the only one.

Christi Hall from the National Ledger said:

“I'm not certain I understand the whole voting process that would put Heather Mills anywhere near the top.”

It is safe to say, we know one person who wont have voted for the ex-model.

Will Sir Paul be kicking himself when the winners are announced on 24 April?

Vote now for FHM's Sexiest Woman.

Big Brit Bender

Champagne will be on shortage after yet another star studded award ceremony last night.

In their fancy frocks and swish suits, celebs graced the red carpet at London’s Earl’s Court for the 2008 MasterCard Brit Awards.

Turning up in their plenty, someone must have told them that there was free booze…but wait…there was!

Determined not to let a drop be wasted The Arctic Monkeys, dressed from head-to-toe in tweed and twill, would have certainly won the award for “Drunkest Band”.

Toby Ricketts said:

“Just how drunk can the arctic monkeys get before they attend the awards naked and use expletives exclusively to accept their award?”

But the Sheffield boys weren’t the only ones to take advantage of the free booze.

Friday Night Project Funnyman Alan Carr apologized to the audience when he came on slightly sozzled to present the Best British Single to Take That.

The Sun reported the cheeky comedian saying:

“Sorry I am a bit p***ed…I put a straw in Amy Winehouses beehive. I kissed them all [Take That] last year. Will they get past first base?”

However the pièce de résistance came when Vic Reeves pulled out all the stops to take a pop at pint-size pop princess Kylie Minogue.

Monk Seal said:

“Vic Reeves, who majestically pulled out of the punch line to a decidedly foul-tasting quip about Kylie Minogue and cancer, leaving him clearly panicked at the sudden prospect of his career sloshing down the bogs faster than Michael Richards can say the N-word.”

Despite the not-so-sober slur, speculation has mounted that the only reason the Aussie star got the International Female gong was due to her illness.

MSN Music Editor James Hurley couldn't agree more:

“International Female to Kylie Minogue. That may well have gone to Rihanna had it not been for the old cancer scare. You can't begrudge her anything though, can you?”

Other winners of Brits this year included Kate Nash (Best British Female), Mark Ronson (Best British Male) and Mike (Best Breakthrough Act).

But with the tipple on tap, money is on the stars waking up this morning not really remembering what they did or didn’t win.

Funny enough the soberest star at the ceremony appeared to be Amy Winehouse but like they say…

There’s a first for everything.

Trio to Save Ledger's Last Film.

Jonny Depp, Colin Farrell and Brit actor Jude Law are to appear as Heath Ledger’s character in the unfinished film “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”.

It all sounds a little confusing but Variety has explained the theory behind hiring three actors to play one part.

"Ledger's character steps into three different dimensions, each transporting him into a new world; worlds which will now be inhabitated by Depp, Law, and Farrell."

Filming for the Tony Gilliam movie was postponed after the tragic death of Ledger on 22 January.

But the director was determined to finish the film in honor of his close friend who died of an accidental drugs overdose.

It was originally reported that he planned to finish it by using Computer Generated Imagrey.

Chris Plummer who is also starring in the movie said:

“Terry’s throwing himself into the job of trying to salvage the picture. Fortunately, because the film deals with magic, there is a way, perhaps, of turning Heath into other people and then, using stills and…CGI. He very wants to go on with the movie…Because he wants to dedicate it to Heath.”

But is now thought that three actors will stand in for the late star.

BBC said:

“It is thought that original footage of Ledger will remain while Law, Depp and Farrell will play different incarnations of his character, Tony.”

Sounds like a lot of pressure for the three stand-ins.

BuzzSugar is glad filming is continuing but waiting with baited breath to see the outcome.

“Good for these guys for stepping up to the plate and taking on such a challenging and delicate task. I'm curious about this whimsical film and I look forward to seeing what these three can do with the part. I hope they can do justice to Heath's last role.”

Irish actor, Farrell has admitted that he feels honoured to be replacing Ledger in the film but he is still struggling to deal with the reality of the stars death.

He was reported by Now Magazine to have said:

"It makes me feel uncomfortable to think about it too much…It's an incredibly painful honour to have, an honour I wish wasn't bestowed, but an honour none-the-less."

But he is determined to do a good job.

"It's about getting Heath's work out there…he is too good for any of his work not to be seen, and I'm really keen and looking forward to doing it and just doing the best job I can do."

It has not yet been confirmed if British hunk, Jude Law will be getting involved but it looks hopeful.

A spokeswoman for Law told the Time Online that he is in discussions to appear along side the other stars as the lead character Tony.

"Negotiations have not yet been finalised…his participation will depend on the whole thing falling into place."

Over all, it sounds like the best solution but there has been mixed reactions to the new recruits.

Mariarty posted her excitement on Ain’t It Cool News.

"Have I mentioned how much I love this idea? Because I do. I think it’s beautiful that the script loaned itself to this sort of idea, that we’re going to see Heath Ledger’s work in Terry Gilliam’s new film, and that we’re also going to see three very interesting actors step up to offer interpretations of him as a way of paying one final tribute."

Others can’t understand how it is going to work.

Celebitchy, a showbiz blog, said:

“When I first read this story I thought it must have been something cooked up by a journalist with an overactive imagination, and it very well might be.”

All in all, everyone is in agreement that it is a sad situation when an actor has to be replaced because of his life being cut short.

HerBadMother summed it up well.

"I, for one, am thrilled that we'll get to see a Colin-Johnny-Jude sandwich - of a sort - but, yeah - the cost of it was far too high."

We will have to wait until its release in 2009 to see how “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” will turn out.