Posts Tagged ‘Interviews’

News From Across The Pond: Robert Pattinson Reveals ‘Deep Connection’ With Canines; David Beckham Visits Army Soldiers For Thanksgiving

November 18th, 2009 / Author: Nikki Barr

Cheryl Cole, Robert Pattinson & David Beckham

• Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson says he’d be a dog if he could shapeshift and reveals his ‘deep connection’ with four-legged friends (more)

• Soccer star David Beckham shows his support for U.S. soldiers with a Thanksgiving visit to an Army barracks… but he has sparked anger by failing to visit British troops (more)

• Scottish hunk Gerard Butler had a cupcake minder to follow him round the set of Law Abiding Citizen ahead of a nude scene, reveals his co-star Jamie Foxx (more)

• Hitmaker Taio Cruz reveals how X Factor judge and pop star Cheryl Cole turned down his No1 single Break Your Heart (more)

• OK! columnist Katie Price starts a bikini war on jungle set of reality TV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! (more)

News From Across The Pond: Megan Fox Reveals Body Hang-ups; Anna Friel Adds Glamour To After-Party

September 30th, 2009 / Author: Nikki Barr

Megan Fox, Anna Friel and Katie Price

Megan Fox has revealed she has “no body confidence” and was bullied at school in a candid interview (more)

Anna Friel shimmers in gold gown at Breakfast At Tiffany’s opening night after-party in London (more)

Katie Price’s new relationship with cage-fighter Alex Reid revealed as a “sham” (more)

Hugh Grant shows off his swing at Scottish golf course ahead of big tournament (more)

Barbra Streisand reveals how she sprained her thumbs while filming Meet The Fockers (more)

News From Across The Pond: Robert Pattinson talks about being single & being Edward Cullen; Has Lily Allen caused a celeb feud?

August 4th, 2009 / Author: Nikki Barr

Robert Pattinson talks to OK! about being Edward Cullen• Interview: Robert Pattinson tells OK! he’s a single man and explains why it’s not easy being Edward Cullen when he has to be scary and pretty at the same time (more)

• Trouble could be brewing for Lily Allen and Peaches Geldof as Lily makes out with Peaches’ ex-boyfriend (more)

• EXCLUSIVE: Peter Andre hits out at ex-wife Katie Price (aka Jordan) and calls her “desperate” (more)

• EXCLUSIVE: Katie Price (aka Jordan) finally admits she’s dating cage fighter Alex Reid after meeting him at fight school (more)

• Video: Watch Kerry Katona’s husband Mark Croft fumbling with a stripper as she slept in their holiday hotel (more)

Caroline Rhea ‘So Into Momminess’

July 6th, 2009 / Author: Valerie Nome

Caroline Rhea reaches into her purple purse to whip out a few 8×10 photos of her eight-month-old daughter Ava during a swank party held at NYC’s Le Parker Meridien.  In one, she’s wearing brown teddy bear ears.

She introduces me to boyfriend and father Costaki Economopoulos.

Clearly, motherhood agrees with the Sabrina, The Teenage Witch star.

“I love it,” the actress, 45, tells me. “It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever done. She’s the sweetest, loveliest … yeah. I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now. It’s very exciting. I’m very sappy about it, but I adore her. I’m so into momminess.”

What precious moment can they share?

“She’s bound to laugh at everything we say,” Caroline says. “She’s an excellent audience.”

Costaki adds, “I feel so bad, because people go ‘oh my God, she smiled at me.’ I go, ‘she smiles at everybody.’”

This summer, Caroline and Costaki look forward to taking Ava to the beach. “She’s going to discover sand.”

What makes him such a great dad?

“He loves it, and he loves her so much,” Caroline says. “I have the tiniest bit of resentment. His material is doing better with her than mine is. Yeah. He goes for the laugh, and then he repeats it over-and-over and over again. Like the tickling. I can’t stop squeezing her thighs. I can’t.”

They’re also perfect for each other.

“We’re both comics,” Costaki says. “Tell her our rule. We have a rule: it’s OK to be mean to each other as long as it’s funny.”

Caroline adds, “It’s a very tricky rule. As long as it’s funny. It’s a very fine line.”

As for wedding plans?  Costaki yuks, “Yes! I need health insurance.” Caroline slyly echoes, “He needs health insurance.”

Stars Share July Fourth Plans

July 2nd, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff

Dancing With The Stars champ Shawn Johnson is gearing up for her annual holiday tradition.

“I have a Fourth of July play that we always go to, and I hang out with my family,” Shawn, 17, tells me. “It’s good.”

The gymnast looks forward to noshing on carmel ice cream, sitting by the pool and swimming this weekend. She says “I love massages. They’re relaxing.” She keeps her skin routine  “normal and natural” for summer, and “likes comfy clothes from the Victoria’s Secret Pink Collection. The sweats and stuff.”

On the other side of the coin is Margaret Cho, whose Lifetime show Drop Dead Diva premieres July 12.  “Oh I don’t really have a tradition,” the actress, 40, tells me. “I never go in the sun because I have a lot of tattoos, so that means Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day – I am not included.”

She calls her favorite tattoo “a little gun.”

“It’s a little pearl-handled pistol stuffed into a garter belt or a little garter around my left thigh, so that I’m always armed,” she says. “I don’t believe in guns, but I just think it’s a cool little gun.”

Jason Aldean will be performing in Canada, but he says his family typically heads to the beach. “I like down in the Destin, Florida, area,” the country singer, 32, whose kids are Keeley, 6, and Kendyl, 22 months, with wife Jessica, tells me. “The Panhandle. I grew up not far from there, and that’s where we always went when I was in school. Now that I’ve got my family, it’s a good family spot down there, and it’s probably the closest beach, too, which narrows it down. That’s where we always go. We go there every year, and have for years.”

Jessica Harp enjoys the annual Fourth of July blowout.

“I love, love, love fireworks, but unfortunately in places in Tennessee, they’re illegal,” the country singer, 27, tells me. “I’m from Missouri originally and my parents have six acres. It was a tradition every year where all of our family and friends, we would go buy the big, big professional fireworks, and we would sit there for hours and shoot off fireworks. That’s one of my favorites.”

Happy Fourth of July, everyone!

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Michael Jackson’s ‘Aura Was Mesmerizing’

July 1st, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff

Taylor Dayne witnessed Michael Jackson at the height of his fame.

“I opened for him during his Bad tour in Europe,” the singer, 47, whose hits include I’ll Always Love You, With Every Beat of My Heart and Love Will Lead You Back, tells me. “It was 1988. I just had the #1 single throughout Europe — Tell It To My Heart — and Prove Your Love was climbing the charts in Europe and just breaking in the States. I played a month of dates at stadiums from Nice to Barcelona to Wertzberg, Germany. This was at the absolute height of Michael Mania.”
 
She says, “Michael was gracious to me. And extraordinary to watch as an entertainer, the mesmerizing effect his show and aura had on people. From his huge entourage and entire crew, his band who on backup was Sheryl Crow, to the dancers and production … it was a traveling circus and fun. I was the new sensation and [Michael’s manager] Frank DiLeo two years later began managing my career from meeting during that tour.”

SEE TAYLOR’S ‘I’LL BE THERE’ TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL JACKSON:

Beyond music, Taylor followed in Michael’s footsteps in at least three ways: She performed for President Bush (him, H.W.; her W.) , delivered her children through a surrogate and has copped to cosmetic enhancements.

Despite all her success, she calls the birth of her twins Astaria and Levi, 7, her proudest moment.

“They’re pretty divine,” she says. “They’re young. They’re blessings. I went for it, and I did it as a single mom. They’re precocious, alive, fantastic, thoughtful and every day they’re bringing home something new and different. I’m very proud of this achievement, and I’m very proud they chose me and I’m their mom.”

She stays true to her 80s roots by remaining friends with Paula Abdul, and holds onto her mementos.

“I have a couple of costumes,” she says. “I have that skirt from the Tell It To My Heart video, which is still a closet piece from living on Eighth Street and Second Avenue, Love Spit Love and all that stuff. God, you look around and you see your gold records and your platinums. Those are always prized possessions. Those are reminders.”

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Michael lives on through his music and remarkable legacy.

Taylor Dayne’s latest album, Satisfied, featuring the hit Beautiful is in stores now, and she’s in the studio rerecording her greatest hits for release in 2010.

Taylor Swift, Long-Distance Lover

July 1st, 2009

Even at the young age of 19, country star Taylor Swift has already done enough touring and traveling to know that having — and keeping — a steady boyfriend is a lot easier said than done.

"It’s always going to be long-distance, even if I date the boy who lives next door to me in Nashville," she admits in the upcoming issue of Glamour. "I’ll be flying to see him and flying him places to see me. It feels like it would involve more scheduling, and I already deal with a lot of scheduling in my life."

But considering Taylor’s penchant for writing confessional songs about the real people in her life, maybe it’s for the best that the young guys out there don’t get their hopes up?

"For me, rebelling is done with words," she explains about her candid songs. "I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do."

Michael Jackson Had ‘Unbelievable Energy’

June 30th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff

98 Degrees singer Jeff Timmons was lucky enough to perform for Michael Jackson twice.

“We did a show in NYC for Z100, and it was us [98 Degrees] and Beyonce, and they came back in the green room and said ‘rumor has it, Michael Jackson’s gonna be there, and they want you guys to sing a cover of Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,’” Jeff, 36, whose vocal group hit it big with hits including The Hardest Thing, Because Of You, I Do (Cherish You) and True To Your Heart, tells me.

“We all got up onstage and sang it, and then he came out and introduced himself to the crowd, and obviously the place erupted. The energy that came in with him when he stepped on the stage was unbelievable.”

What was Michael really like?

“He was a very nice guy, and polite,” Jeff says. “He was not a bit weird, like we had heard and seen him depicted as on television. He was just a nice guy. He was just really quiet.”

He also performed for Michael during VH1’s Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special, The Solo Years filmed at NYC’s Madison Square Garden on September 10, 2001 – the last time 98 Degrees performed together.

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“It was an honor,” Jeff says. “We met him briefly, and he thanked us for being part of the event. I was hoping for my next project, I’d have the opportunity to work with him, but unfortunately that’s not going to happen.”

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Jeff’s solo album, Emotional High, will be released in October.

Ashley Olsen, the Private Twin

June 30th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff
From their mid-teens to their early twenties, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were two of Hollywood’s most photographed and written about celebs. Every party they attended, every boy they dated, every oversized cup of Starbucks they guzzled was documented for a public hungry to know every detail about the pint-sized duo.

But in the two years since they turned 21, the two have not only managed to step out of the tabloid spotlight, but the sisters each began to follow their own career interests, with MK continuing to pursue her acting and Ashley receding further away from the fame that dogged them for the first two decades of their lives.

While Ashley may have said goodbye to the big screen (at least for now), she is the star of the cover of the new issue of Niche Media’s Hamptons Magazine, where she talks openly about what it’s like to have gotten off the celebrity roller coaster

ON HER PARTY-GIRL PAST
“I’ve definitely had a past life of being a personality, and a very public one… But that’s not what makes me comfortable. I’m not an actress. I’m not a public figure or acting as one.”

ON WHY SHE PREFERS NYC OVER L.A.
“I can actually live here. I don’t get followed. In L.A., paparazzi wait outside my house. I don’t leave my house. I can’t.”

ON THE SUCCESS OF HER & MK’S CLOTHING LINE ‘THE ROW’
“It hasn’t been easy by any means. I started with T-shirts. I wasn’t sure it was going to become a company. It was more something I was doing for myself creatively.”

ON OTHER ACTORS-TURNED-DESIGNERS
"That’s the thing about celebrity brands these days. People think they can define a brand by just a name, but the product has to speak for itself. It doesn’t really matter whose name is on it. That’s the truth. It’s the work behind it. It makes you step up to the plate.”

ON MK’S CONTRIBUTION TO ‘THE ROW’
“She couldn’t be more supportive. From a design perspective she’s always bringing concepts to the table.”

ON A POSSIBLE RETURN TO ACTING IN THE FUTURE
“Never say never."

For the entire interview, be sure to pick up the new issue of Niche Media’s Hamptons Magazine.

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