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Michelle Obama gets the Vogue treatment
Michelle Obama has been given the cover of US Vogue magazine. The First Lady will feature in the March edition of the style bible - on sale next week - wearing a magenta
dress designed by Jason Wu, the young New York designer who fashioned the white floor-length gown she... [continued]
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Gordon Brown denies make-up accusation
It has been said that when Gordon Brown (pictured) appears on television he wears more make-up than a pantomime dame. Clearly this is the view of the Tory MP Mark
Hoban, who in the interests of keeping ministerial spending down to a minimum in these recessionary times tabled the following... [continued]
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Michelle Pfeiffer is ‘let down’ by Rupert Friend
Michelle Pfeiffer (centre) attended the world premiere of her new film Cheri, an adaptation of the Colette novel, at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday night. Her
appearance in the movie has caused much excitement among the critics as it marks a reunion between the 50-year-old actress, the director Stephen... [continued]
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Ann Coulter’s voting habits investigated
Ann Coulter (pictured), the right-wing political polemicist and US television pundit, has, unsurprisingly, already made enemies in the new White House - the main one being
Michelle Obama, whose fashion sense she berated recently in her book, Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and their Assault on America, saying that the First Lady's... [continued]
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In brief: Madonna and Jesus photoshoot fuels affair rumours
A photoshoot for the fashion magazine W (pictured above) has fuelled rumours that Madonna and Jesus Luz, a 22-year-old Brazilian model, are an
item. The 50-year-old singer, who divorced the British film director Guy Ritchie last year, is thought to be romantically entwined with the New York Yankees baseball... [continued]
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Eliot Spitzer: the story that won’t die
If Eliot Spitzer thought the new year might allow him to forget the troubles of the past, he was wrong. The femme fatale responsible for running the prostitution ring which exposed
the former New York governor as being a regular customer last year has published her memoirs. ... [continued]
People: Book and film follow Spitzer scandal ![]()
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Cohen gives $200,000 to fire victims
Leonard Cohen (pictured), the legendary singer-songwriter, has donated A$200,000 to the victims of the Australian bushfires, which have resulted in more than 200 deaths.
Cohen, 74, who is currently touring Australia, released a statement saying that he had was "shocked and deeply saddened” by the news of the tragedy.... [continued]
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Offer Guus Hiddink couldn’t refuse
Roman Abramovich's decision to make the manager of the Russian national football team Guus Hiddink (pictured with the Russian president, Dmitri
Medvedev) his new stopgap coach at Chelsea, replacing Luiz Felipe Scolari who was sacked on Tuesday, will come as no surprise to the oligarch's intimates. The... [continued]
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Peter Cook’s widow snubs heritage honour
A heritage plaque commemorating the late Peter Cook (pictured), the British satirist and former owner of Private Eye magazine, is to be unveiled on Sunday in Soho, affixed to the building that once housed The Establishment, the comedy club he founded in the 1960s. Many of his family and friends... [continued]



