Are Harry Styles and Cara Delevingne An Item? – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 11 September 2013

Are Harry Styles and Cara Delevingne An Item? – the long-standing rumours of a relationship between the One Direction singer and the model have resurfaced after they have been seen out together on several occasions over the last week.

A source close to the model has spoken to E! News and said the couple have been seeing each other for the last couple of weeks. This ties in with several reported sightings and a recent Instagram snap of the couple spotted at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London watching the new musical Book of Mormon. The new show is by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and has received some great reviews although it is not the sort of show that you would take an elderly religious relative to!

Harry and Cara were thought to have been an item back in 2012 just before the whole Harry/Taylor fiasco but it seems that this may be more serious.

 

Raquel Welch In New Versace Movie – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 17 August 2013

Raquel Welch In New Versace Movie – the 72-year old sex symbol is to star in a new movie about the late fashion legend Gianni Versace.

The new House of Versace movie will star Raquel Welch as Gianni and Donatella Versace’s Aunt Lucia and also features performances from Gina Gershon as Donatella Versace, Colm Feore as Santo Versace and has Enrico Colantoni playing the part of Gianni Versace.

The screenplay is based on the book House of Versace:The Untold Story of Genius, Murder and Survival and concentrates on the Versace empire after Gianni’s untimely death in 1997.

Although Raquel had a small guest appearance in CSI:Miami last year she has not had a major part since her 2008 tv appearance in Welcome to The Captain. Her last movie role was back in 2006 when she played the part of Christine DeLee in the somewhat disappointing Forget About It.

The 4 times married movie star has not been idle since cutting back on her screen appearances as she has released the best-selling book Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage which tells some of her secrets of looking so good  into her 70s. She reveals that part of the secret to her looks is good diet, exercise and yoga although she self deprecatingly says that one reason she still looks good is that it takes her 3 hours to get ready!

 

Kate Moss In Nude Bejewelled Photos For Esquire – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 29 July 2013

Kate Moss In Nude Bejewelled Photos For Esquire – the 39-year old supermodel is back on the cover of mens mag Esquire some 20 years after she last posed for them at the age of 19.

Kate is known for her numerous fashion mag features having graced such mags as French Vogue, UK Vogue, American Vogue, The Face and Vanity Fair to name but a few.

Moss has been a feature of the fashion scene since first coming to our attention back in 1988 when she was just 14-years old. Her waspish, almost gamine figure has seldom been out of the limelight ever since and in recent years her image has moved on from her original associations with the so-called “heroin-chic” fashion movement and her early problems with drugs. This includes a cocaine scandal in 2005 when she was pictured on the front of the Daily Mirror under the headline Cocaine Kate.

Nothing seems to have affected the model’s rise to the top of her trade and indeed to the top of the earnings tree. In 2012 she was still rated as the 2nd highest earning model of the year with only the earnings phenomenon that is Gisele Bündchen, who earned a staggering $45m, appearing ahead of her.

 

Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies At 70 – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 05 April 2013

Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies At 70 – the legendary film critic from the Chicago Sun-Times has finally lost his long battle with cancer at the age of 70-years old.

The newspaper announced Ebert’s death on Thursday tweeting that: “There is a hole that can’t be filled. One of the greats has left us.”

It was only on Tuesday this week that Ebert posted on his blog that he was facing a fresh battle with cancer and would be writing fewer reviews whilst he took a “leave of presence.”

The movie critic was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002 and eventually lost part of his lower jaw following surgery to halt the cancer with the additional blow of the loss of his voice and the inability to eat.

Ebert first came to the attention of the wider public in 1975 when he and fellow movie critic Gene Siskel featured in a new review programme where the rated films with a simple thumbs up or thumbs down. The two critics became an instant hit and what started as a regional review programme soon went both national and international. The programme continued until Siskel’s death in 1999 following complications from surgery to treat brain cancer.

As well as being the year that he came to the attention of television audiences 1975 was also the year that Roger Ebert won a Pulitzer Prize for the quality of his film criticism, becoming the first movie critic ever to win the prestigious award.

Roger Ebert loved producing his annual Top Ten Movie List, which he had published every year since 1967. As well as his own annual Top Ten list he also took part in what is seen as the greatest of the critical movie lists, the SIght and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll which is taken every 10 years. As a tribute to him here is his last contribution to the Sight and Sound poll which will now become Roger Ebert’s final list of his greatest  films of all time.

 

Queen of Cleavage Holly Willoughby Launches New Fashion Line – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 18 March 2013

Queen of Cleavage Holly Willoughby Launches New Fashion Line – the 32-year old who famously topped a poll of celebrities last March to win the title Best Celebrity Cleavage, has just launched a new range for online retailer very.co.uk.

Holly, who beat celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Beyonce and Marilyn Monroe in the Wonderbra poll, has released photos showing herself modelling several of the outfits in the new Spring/Summer 2013 range for Very.

The collection features a number of floral-themed dresses and as you would expect from somebody who is famed for their curves all of the outfits flatter those with plenty of womanly curves.

 

Kim Kardashian Is Pregnant – What’s Hot and What’s Trending New Years Eve 2012

Kim Kardashian Is Pregnant – the 32-year old reality star confirmed the news on her website today.

She said on her site: “It’s true!! Kanye and I are expecting a baby. We feel so blessed and lucky and wish that in addition to both of our families, his mom and my dad could be here to celebrate this special time with us. Looking forward to great new beginnings in 2013 and to starting a family. Happy New Year!!! Xo.”

The news was first released by the baby’s father however when Kanye West said to the audience during his Atlantic City concert on Sunday night: “make some noise for my baby mama right now?”

Kanye’s words were instantly shared by many of the audience via the social networks and those watching said that Kim seemed as surprised by his announcement as many of the audience were. Perhaps the couple had not planned the announcement but Kim seemed happy to confirm the good news today.

Kim and Kanye have been in a relationship for 8 months now and the talk for some time has been that the relationship has been more serious than was first thought. At the beginning many thought that the relationship was more of a publicity stunt for them both but today’s news is likely to put that to rest.

Following the announcement of Kim’s pregnancy the two main topics seem to be: 1) what will the baby be called? and 2) will the baby be due at the same time as Kate Middleton’s?

Kanye’s mood should be improved by the news that he is to become a father as he has seemed to be in something of a bad mood on his previous dates at the Ovation Hall in New Jersey. At his earlier concerts he has stated that he will not be attending the Grammy Awards next year after he failed to win Best Album this year (cries of throwing toys out of the pram?). He also said that he would be cancelling his planned world concert tour with Lady Gaga.

 

Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco Reveals Hot Body Secrets – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 30 December 2012

Kaley Cuoco Reveals Hot Body Secrets – Big Bang Theory actress Kaley Cuoco is on the cover of Self magazine’s January 2013 issue and inside she tells her secret to looking hot.

The 27-year old, who stars as waitress Penny in the show, talks about what food she likes in real life. She said to Self:

‘I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk, If I don’t, I’m dying by noon and eating everything in sight.

‘On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.’

As regards exercise it seems that the key to her great abs and legs is lots of spinning classes which Kaley says completely changed her body especially her abs and legs.

Despite looking so good Kaley reveals that she also suffers from body self-doubt saying: I judge myself all the time. It takes a huge effort to look this way, and I still think I could lose 5 pounds!”

One thing that she thinks help her keep grounded despite the huge success of Big Bang Theory is her close group of friends who she has known since before she was famous. Kaley says that she thinks several celebrities would do much better if they had some good friends to advise them on some of their choices. One thing she seems amazed about is that so many Hollywood stars seem to go out without remembering to wear underwear. Clearly commando isn’t on Kaley’s dress choices when going out for the evening!

Although Kaley was first seen in award-winning US sitcom 8 Simple Rules it is Big Bang Theory that has made her into a big star. The series, which has been running since 2007, is often described as a ‘geek comedy’ and centres on the romantic and social problems that a set of male geeks have in dealing with the non-geek world.

Another hot looking woman who has become one of Kaley’s best friends is the small but very curvy Melissa Rauch who plays Howard’s girlfriend Bernadette Rostenkowski. Melissa started off her career as a stand-up comedian and first achieved fame in her one-woman show The Miss Education of Miss Jenna Bush, where she played the former US president’s daughter.

The series became a big hit in its native US and by the 4th series it overtook Two and a Half Men to become the highest rated comedy series in America.

It seems that we here in the UK are also pretty keen on the show as a new YouGov survey for The Sun reveals  The Big Bang Theory is the 2nd Best Liked TV Show in the UK second only to Downton Abbey.

Big Bang Theory features a favourite ploy of sitcom writers with the character of Howard Wolowitz’s mother (as voiced by Carol Ann Susi) never being seen on-screen. This is one of the latest of a long line of classic unseen characters such as Norms’s wife Vera in Cheers, Niles wife Maris in Frasier, Karen’s husband Stan in Will and Grace, Arthur Daley’s wife in Minder, Hyacinth Bucket’s son in Keeping Up Appearances, and Captain Manwaring’s wife in Dad’s Army.

 

Sofia Vergara Posts Hot Swimsuit Photo – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 29 December 2012

Sofia Vergara Posts Hot Swimsuit Picture – the Modern Family actress showed us that she is still in good shape after her Christmas celebrations when she posted a picture of herself wearing a sexy one-piece swimsuit.

The 40-year old actress is currently on holiday in Miami and posted this photo of herself on her Whosay account with the comment ‘Holyday!’

She shows that with a body as hot as hers you can still look great in a one-piece swimsuit and they can look just as hot as a tiny bikini. In case you were wondering the swimsuit in question is a black and white number from Agent Provocateur.

Sofia, who is on holiday with several family members and fiance Nick Loeb, has just finished filming some sizzling scenes with Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone for the movie Fading Gigalo. Several publications got very excited a week or two back when they reported scenes showing the busty Latino lovely ‘spilling out of her black lace lingerie.’

Although the scenes involve Sofia hanging around the bedroom in black lingerie it seems that early reports of her appearing to seduce Sharon Stone’s character in the movie are premature. Sofia told Extra ‘No lesbian loving.. somebody, I don’t know, thought it was more interesting to write, “Oh, Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara, they have to have like a lesbian scene.’

Fading Gigolo is set to open at UK and US cinemas late 2013.

 

Top Wikipedia Articles of 2012 – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 28 December 2012

Top Wikipedia Articles – although Wikipedia itself doesn’t release Top 10 lists anymore it does still allow researchers to access its log files and Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson has done all the hard work for us.

Although data is not available for separate countries we can see what are the most popular wiki articles in the different language versions of the site. In the English language version, which is unsurprisingly the biggest, the most searched article this year turns out to be ‘Facebook’ which had over 32m hits. Gunnarsson believes that the reason this article is so popular is either: 1)  users are typing Facebook into an integrated search engine in their browsers intending to go to the site and end up on Wikipedia (which could be a self-reinforcing habit based on search history), or 2) it reflects high-level interest and curiosity about top websites and their history, policies and background.

The second most popular article was ‘Wiki’ with over 29m people looking at it, presumably to work out the meaning of the Wikipedia site itself. Curiously though there is a ‘Wikipedia’ article on the site and this came in at 27th place in terms of number of hits.

Other Top 10 Wikipedia articles this year included ”Deaths in 2012′ and movies ‘The Avengers’, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and ‘The Hunger Games.’ The list also has One Direction and Fifty Shades of Grey making the Top 10.

Other language versions of Wikipedia also had Top 10 details released and it seems that the Japanese are keen on actresses in porn movies, the Germans have an unusual preoccupation with cul-de-sacs (sackgasse to them), the Vietnamese are keen to read about sex positions and the world’s French-speaking nations are strangely curious about houx crenele, a type of holly from Asia.

Top 10 Articles on the English-speaking version of Wikipedia during 2012

1. Facebook
2. Wiki
3. Deaths in 2012
4. One Direction
5. The Avengers (2012 film)
6. Fifty Shades of Grey
7. 2012 Phenomenon
8. The Dark Knight Rises
9. Google
10. The Hunger Games

Admit it, the articles on holly, Japanese porn and cul-de-sacs sound more exciting don’t they!

 

Kate Winslet Marries Ned RocknRoll – What’s Hot and What’s Trending 27 December 2012

Kate Winslet Marries Ned RocknRoll – as the 37-year old actress confirms that she has married the big question being asked is will she use his last name?

Kate has been married twice before, firstly to film director Jim Threapleton in 1998 after they met on the set of Hideous Kinky and then again in 2003 when she married American Beauty and Skyfall director Sam Mendes.

Ned was previously married to Eliza Pearson the heiress daughter of Viscount Cowdray. Their wedding was held at the Cowdray country estate near Midhurst in West Sussex. The estate is seen as the home of British polo, the favourite sport of many of the Royal Family.

Kate and Ned met whilst she was on holiday on Richard Branson’s luxury holiday destination Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. At the time Kate was in a relationship with Burberry model Louis Dowler and the relationship was said to have ended during a stay at Necker in August 2011 when a fire broke out at the island’s main property.  Kate received praise at the time of the fire when she rescued Richard Branson’s elderly mother from the burning building.

Ned, whose birth name was Abel Smith (not so rock’n’roll is it?) is a nephew of Richard Branson and works for his company Virgin Galactic, which famously deals in space trips for rich tourists who have been everywhere else. Ned’s mother Lindy is Sir Richard’s sister.

Kate’s spokesperson conformed that the couple had married earlier in December at a small private ceremony held in New York. The couple invited just 6 friends each to the ceremony, which was held in a converted barn. In fact neither the bride or groom’s parents attended the ceremony and were apparently even surprised to hear that a wedding had taken place.

Kate’s Titanic co-star Leonardo Di Caprio gave her away and Ned’s brother Jack was his best man.

It was announced this September that Kate and Ned had permanently relocated to the UK and were living together in a 15th Century estate in West Sussex. Their new move has not been without its problems however as the local parish council objected to the pair’s plans to erect a 2m gate and fence at the property saying that it believed the alterations were more suitable for an urban property than one in their small hamlet.

Kate has been amazingly successful in her movie career and as well as winning the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Reader she also became the youngest person to get 6 Oscar nominations when her nomination for Best Actress for The Reader at the age of 33 surpassed the achievement of Bette Davis who was 34 when she received her 6th Oscar nomination for Now Voyager.