Lindsay Lohan has successfully passed two drug tests

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan has successfully passed two drug tests and is trying her best to stay clean.

The "Mean Girls" actress was ordered by a court for random screening as part of the conditions of her recent probation hearing for driving under the influence of alcohol, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"She (Lohan) is clear of illegal substances. She has already taken two tests and passed both," a source said.

The 23-year-old was also ordered by the court to wear a SCRAM (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor) bracelet on her ankle to monitor her body's alcohol levels every 30 minutes.

Miley Cyrus lesbian kiss with a dancer during a TV show in Britain

Teen starlet Miley Cyrus has provoked another controversy as she simulated a lesbian kiss with a dancer during a TV show in Britain.

The "Hannah Montana" star was invited on the reality show "Britain's Got Talent" to perform on her new single "Can't Be Tamed" in front of show creator Simon Cowell and fellow judge Piers Morgan Thursday night, reports contactmusic.com.

Despite being on a family-friendly programme, Cyrus stunned viewers with a sexy act in which she cavorted on stage in a skimpy basque and ripped fishnet stockings, and pretended to kiss a female dancer.

Cyrus is currently on a promotional tour of Europe for her upcoming album, "Can't Be Tamed", which is due for release later this month.

Sarah Jessica Parker upcoming film, Sex and the City 2

Sarah Jessica Parker gets candid with TOI about her upcoming film, Sex and the City 2

How has the character of Carrie evolved?

Well, its two years since the last movie and she is about to publish her last book and is married. She is experiencing a new change. At the beginning, she starts asking herself and the people about traditions and marriage and the conventions of marriages. When she is invited to this glorious trip to Abu Dhabi, it allows her to carry this question forward further. They arrive in the Middle East, and it’s a wonderful culture to observe with this idea in her head...

And some wonderful fashion?

Yes!

How has the style in the movie changed?

There is a big difference between the first and this movie and that was because we were shooting in a country that is dictated in many ways by the people of faith, who are observant of cultural and social norms. That meant being covered. Our chest and shoulders were to be covered, wearing dresses that weren’t too short and it posed a wonderful challenge for Pat. It inspired her to look at silhouettes differently and this is the first time I’ve spent so much time in that much of fabric. I was really covered and I really came to see how sexy being covered can be and I loved the costumes in this movie. Pat would tell you how much she enjoyed too.

How much of the character ‘Carrie’ is you today?

Regardless of the time spent playing Carrie, I still feel very different. Pretty much all of our choices have been different. I married pretty early in my life. I have children. I got caught into domesticity probably much sooner than Carrie. My single life has been less colourful than Carrie’s. But that’s the beauty of playing somebody who is different. It’s fun. I don’t find my real self to be so much fun and I wouldn’t be very good at that, probably.

So is Sex and the City 3 on the cards?

I don’t know. It’s a conversation that I can have only after the movie opens.

Catch the SATC 2 junket special only on Times Now this weekend.

Michael Jackson Family to Remember at Anniversary Celebration Event

Michael Jackson's legacy continues to live on.

On the one-year anniversary of the King of Pop's death, the Jackson Family Foundation will be presenting "Forever Michael," a red carpet celebration event featuring performances honoring the late singer.

"The vision is to bring together Michael Jackson family members, celebrities, fans, supporters and the community to celebrate and honor his legacy," says VoicePlate Productions, the company producing the June 26 event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The party will be open to the public – $500 for VIP tickets and $250 for general admission can be purchased on VoicePlate.com.

Kelly Brook promotes new toning trainers

She said: 'Easy Tones are luminous; it's like having a little gym built into your trainers. I wear them all the time in particular if I don't have time to get to the gym and then at least I know I'm doing something for my body.

'They make your legs feel toned and bum feel pert, they are like magic shoes! I've been wearing them to tone up for the summer and have really seen a difference, which is why I didn't mind getting my hotpants on for the video.

'I had so much fun re-creating the advert - hula-hoping, trampoline, dancing around in my Easy Tones. My dog Rocky even got a guest appearance in the last shot!'

Kelly, 30, isn't the only celebrity fan of the innovative new trainers - Helena Christensen, Kim Kardashian, Whitney Port, Miranda Kerr and Bar Refaeli have all spoken about how impressed they are by the fitness shoes.

Kelly, who is currently in Los Angeles with boyfriend Danny Cipriani, has always spoken freely about her weight, and says it's sometimes a struggle to maintain her slimline shape.

She said recently: 'I enjoy healthy food and it makes me feel good. But it’s definitely not a crazy diet, I’m not going to deny myself desserts.

'I always try to have three meals a day and don’t snack on bad stuff. I like to make soups, which are healthy, filling and don’t make you feel bloated. I also love making healthy fish or vegetarian dishes.'

Kelly is also the face and body of lingerie brand Ultimo, and has been showing off her amazing figure in a series of flirty outfits while in LA.

After wearing a tight heart-print dress earlier this week, Kelly stepped out in a flowery playsuit to make the most of the LA sun.

source:dailymail.co.uk

Kristen Stewart has ‘never dated someone she’s initially attracted to’

20-year-old actress Kristen Stewart is hugely popular between the fash’ pack. At a recent facade in Australia for a Q&A session with fellow Twilight co-star, Taylor Lautner, K-Stew stunned the crowd in this grey and yellow tee dress. Chiara have a similar version; team with peep-toe shoe boots for the ultimate Kristen style steal.

MTV News recently reported that Kristen confessed she needs to get to know someone first before fancying them: “People want me to say that I really like it when guys are funny and dorky but I’ve never really gone out with someone I’ve found attractive initially.”‘

Kristen also claimed the media interest surrounding her private life is sometimes difficult to deal with; “You want to be excited about something, normal people can be excited about their lives, and I am, too, but it’s such a different thing. It comes out as entertainment for other people and that makes me want to throw up!” That’s unfortunately what we’ve come to expect nowadays when you play Bella Swan in hit vampire flicks…

source:theonlinefashionagency.com

Kareena Kapoor with Matt Damon in FIFA World Cup Music Video

Kareena Kapoor is all set to the official FIFA World Cup music video. She will be seen in a unique video for the event along with Hollywood stars such as Matt Damon, Jessica Alba and Kevin Spacey.

Even though the actress is yet to go on record about her big- ticket project, the buzz suggests her talks with FIFA officials are in the final stages.

“ Yes, Kareena is doing the FIFA video but it is too early to divulge details because things are still being finalised,” said a source close to the actress.

The source added Kareena had previously informed the producers of her current assignments that she would need a break for the video.

Right now, she is busy wrapping up Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal 3 in Goa.

She is also shooting for Karan Johar’s remake of Stepmom and Shah Rukh Khan’s Ra. One , after which she will start work on Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine . Reports suggest the video will be shot in the first week of June.

Kareena is therefore working out her dates and finalising the costumes she will wear.

This is Kareena’s first shot at football, but her co- stars in the video, Jessica and Matt, have had their brush with sports.

While Matt played a South African rugby star in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus , Jessica recently visited the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg as part of a promotional event for the upcoming World Cup.

“ Not only is this going to be a tournament to remember, but the lasting legacy of this World Cup will be education for all,” said Jessica, referring to efforts by 1GOAL, a group that campaigns for education for all.

Kareena apart, Bollywood music originator duo Salim- Sulaiman will be composing an original song that they will perform at the opening and closing ceremonies of football’s biggest extravaganza. The World Cup will take place in South Africa from June 11 to July 11.

Coming back to Kareena, she has decided not to sign any new film this year because she wants to focus on playing an actress in Bhandarkar’s Heroine . Right now, she is doing research for the role by studying closely the works of several famous actresses.

Besides Hollywood greats such as Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, Kareena is also studying the films of Madhubala, Nutan and her mother Babita.

Kareena wants to dedicate Heroine to the yesteryear Indian divas.

source:hotnationalnews.blogspot.com

Naveen Andrews break-up Barbara Hershey

Naveen Andrews break-up relation with  Barbara Hershey.  Barbara and Naveen parted ways over 6 months ago, but the news just broke.

There are no hard feelings between the two and Naveen’s manager stated, “They remain best of friends.”

source:beforeitsnews.com

Charlotte Church break-ups with Gavin Henson

Charlotte Church break-ups with her fiance Gavin Henson.
Just six weeks ago the couple declared their engagement, but now they are calling it quits.  The couples have two children, who are said to be “upset” over the split, and have decided that Charlotte and the kids will keep the family home in Wales.  Gavin plans to buy a new place nearby, so he can visit his children often.

source:beforeitsnews.com

Lindsay Lohan models her alcohol monitoring bracelet for celebrity photographer

Lindsay Lohan seems to be looking a little more relaxed with her alcohol monitoring bracelet as she poses for top celebrity photographer Tyler Shields.

The concerned Mean Girls actress reclines on a white sofa in rolled up jeans which clearly show the court obligatory SCRAM ankle tag.

She is pictured writing in an A4 notepad with her laptop by her side showing the Top Shop website.

A table in front is crammed full of empty cans of soft drinks including her favourite new tipple, energy drink Red Bull.

A Paramount cigarette butt has been stubbed out in a can of Pepsi showing she is keeping some of her vices.

The shots taken on Friday will appear in Shields’ new book ‘The Dirty Side of Glamour.’

LiLo said she agreed to the photo shoot in a bid to halt the frenzy surrounding the tag.

In a statement the actress, said:‘To alleviate the chase to get the first shot of the scram bracelet, it was a good decision to supply one to the public.’

Proceeds from the sale of the photos are being donated to an undisclosed alcohol education charity.

Shields tells People magazine, said: ‘Lindsay is amazing to work with, we have done it a few times and each time it gets better!’

The newly-sober actress, who has been banned from drinking alcohol by a judge, spent the day with the aristocrat Lady Victoria Hervey as they lapped up the California sun.

She a warm embrace with Victoria when she arrived at house in the Pacific Palisades for an afternoon gathering with a group of friends.

source:dailymail.co.uk

Barabanki land deals continue to haunt Amitabh Bachachan

Barabanki land deals keep on to trouble Amitabh Bachachan. This time focus shifts to the promised Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Girls Inter College that proved a non-starter, much to the chagrin of the villagers in the dusty little hamlet of Daulatpur, 40 km off Lucknow, despite a high profile opening ceremony held two years ago.

On Monday, additional chief judicial magistrate (fast track) directed Mohamadpur police to look into a criticism against the superstar filed by the village Pradhan Rajkumari Singh, who has tried tripping Bachchan second time within a year incidentally. In her complaint filed before the court, Singh has charged the actor with fraud, cheating and criminal conspiracy among slew of other serious allegations.

Bachchan is named along with six other accomplices, including daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Nishtha Foundation -- run by Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada and its secretary Devendra Kumar. Singh has demanded lodging of an FIR against the guilty. Taking cognizance of the matter, the court has ordered the police to probe the issue and submit its report on June 10.

The complainant accuses the actor of hatching a conspiracy to acquire land for the girls inter college by fooling the gullible villagers and gifting the same to Nishtha Foundation in an illegal manner.

Talking to TOI, Ranvir Singh, Rajkuari Singh's counsel, said that though the entire transaction regarding the promised girls college was fraudulent, the pradhan's objection mainly centred around the transfer of "gata no 711 and 793". Bachchan, he said, had given up his claims on the land in his affidavit filed before the high court in a bid to wriggle out of the land scam controversy.

"In 2006, the land was registered in the name of Vinay Kumar Shukla his `mukhtar-e-aam' (armed with power of attorney), who later sold the same to Bachchan even though he had ownership of only 1/3rd of the plot. Bachchan and others, says the complaint, was well aware of the reality still the land was transferred to Aishwarya Rai by a registered deed on September 22, 2009.

"Bachchan has been playing games all along," says Avnendra Singh, Rajkumari's son and the de facto pradhan. "Only proper investigation would reveal the extent of fraud involved in the transaction," he said and claimed that several MPs and MLAs contributed generously to the project from their official funds while others used the opportunity for getting income tax rebate.

Meanwhile, Rajkumari has no clue about her role. The illiterate village woman remained silent in the court room letting his son and lawyer take charge. Avnendra effectively ensured that she kept off media and whisked her away. Later when contacted, he claimed the pradhan had gone out of town on some urgent work.

Last October, she had approached the district magistrate, Barabanki, crying foul when Amitabh gifted the Daulatpur land to Nishta Foundation for setting up the inter college. Singh had pleaded that the land was already donated by the actor to the village council therefore the transaction was a forgery.

A five-member committee headed by SDM, Barabanki had probed the charges and give a clean chit to Bachchan on technical grounds even as the actor formally handed over the land to the foundation later on. And even as the local police begins investigations, a section of villagers have begun to question the motive behind "yet another publicity stunt by anti-Amitabh caucus".

source:timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Miss Universe Stefania Fernandez in India

Miss Universe Stefania Fernandez will visit India for a six-city AIDS and female feticide wakefulness tour in June - courtesy fashion designer Sanjana Jon.

Jon's company IG International that deals in celebrity charitable trust events has been bringing a number of former Miss Universe to India for AIDS alertness promotional campaigns.

This year, "Miss Universe 2009 - Stefania Fernandez and Sanjana Jon Aids Awareness Tour 2010” will start on June 25 and continue till July 5.

"This is not the first time. From 2004-2006, we had bought all the reigning Miss Universe to India for a charitable cause and this year too we are doing the same. During the tour, we will be going to various hospitals and orphanages to visit AIDS affected patients,” Jon, who is the founder and president of IG International, told IANS.

"We would be visiting various centres to meet the abandoned girl child. Also, there will be a public testing forum where Stefania will encourage people to take AIDS test,” she added.

Jon also revealed that she would like to have as many celebrities on board to support the “Save The Girl Child” campaign. During the tour there will be a fashion show where a number of Bollywood celebrities were expected to turn up, she said.

"I feel that when a celebrity talks about a cause or supports it, people do listen... that is why having celebrities to support this tour is justified,” said Jon.

source:bollywoodmantra.com,hindustantimes.com

Kutch nahi dekha, to kuch nahi dekha : Amitabh Bachchan

 “It was still dark as we steadily made our way through barren roads. The police pilot GP flashing its orange rotator light ahead and behind, more security — we are just a ‘rann’ away from the Pak region! Moon was out shining at 6 in the morning and the entire region looked strange. There is amazing strange about oblivion. That is what one felt as one strutted about on the salt-laden muddy terrain, the wind so harsh even the vanity van shook and quivered.”

The stark landscape of Kutch desert seems to have brought Amitabh Bachchan’s poetic genes to the fore. He found time to update his blog while shooting the Gujarat tourism film with these words, showing that something of his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s sharp eye was alive in him. “We are really just 60 kilometres away from the border... and it can be seen across the Rann!” he wrote. Bachchan’s signature dialogue for the Kutch shoot is, “Kutch nahi dekha, to kuch nahi dekha.” And he seems to believe it too.

The poet returned as he recounted an interesting incident: “The script flew away from my hands as I was reading it and a couple of unit hands sillily ran after it as it bounced away at rapid speed. It was a strange sight. A white stark bunch of papers flying off ahead chased by a couple of unit hands, until they became a tiny spot in the horizon and still nowhere near catching up with the sheet of paper.”

“Until smart production incharge Mr Kumar did his deed for the day — got on to a bike, readily accessible there as the only machine transport allowed on the Rann and drove off behind paper. We looked at this sight with great amusement and jeered as this chase kept unfolding in front of us, wary of course with the fact that any longer and paper and Kumar would become prized possessions of Pakistan!” Bachchan signs off with these words: “Breathe in the Rann of Kutch! Come breathe in a bit of Gujarat!”

source:timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Hollywood Actresses with Kareena Kapoor in ‘Heroine’

Eva Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Vivien Leigh… these are four legendary Hollywood actresses with Bollywood film director Madhur Bhandarkar will use as position points for Kareena Kapoor’s character in forthcoming Hindi movie ‘Heroine‘.

And to make Kareena’s job easier, Bhandarkar has prepared a three-hour documentary on the quartet of Hollywood greats. But unhappily he couldn’t get enough visual material on the classical Indian screen beauties to put into the documentary for Kareena’s situation.

‘When I set out to put together a documentary chronicling the lives of the screen legends I was also in chorus enhancing my own information of them to make Kareena’s character of Mahi Khanna more rounded complete and contemporary,’ Bhandarkar said.

In fact Bhandarkar has just returned from a trip to Singapore where he discovered loads of invaluable footage on Hollywood greats.

‘For example, take Vivien Leigh. Her stormy relationship with Sir Laurence Olivier is so eventful, dramatic, passionate and romantic. Unfortunately there’s no valid and substantial footage on Madhubala or Meena Kumari revealing their relationship with Kishore Kumar and Kamal Amrohi respectively,’ he said.

Bhandarkar was appalled to note the lack of visual or even written records on our screen legends.

‘When a director wants to make a film about an Indian actor or about our movie industry where does he look for references? On the other hand there’s no dearth of material written and filmed on Hollywood’s icons.’

So for want of choice his documentary portrays only Hollywood actresses. But the filmmaker is keen that Kareena refer to Indian actresses too.

But Kareena, who’s shooting with Shah Rukh Khan for ‘Ra.1′, will be able to watch Bhandarkar’s three-hour documentary only when she’s free in September-October.

‘She’s shooting for ‘Ra.1′ and ‘Golmaal 3′. Once she’s done she will watch the documentary repeatedly. I’ve chosen footage that represents Eva Gardner, Liz Taylor and others most tellingly. Her character Mahi Khanna is an actress of today, not of yesteryears,’ the director said.

The shooting of ‘Heroine’ has been pushed to December, so that Kareena will have time to study the documentary put together by Bhandarkar carefully.

The director rules out rehearsals and worskshops to prepare Kareena for the big challenge. The only director who managed to get Kareena on the rehearsal route was Sudhir Mishra for her role in ‘Chameli’.

source:calcuttatube.com