PAUL’S PAINS: Super Hunk Paul Bettany hates going through all the gym work required to turn his body into the kind of “every woman’s dream” he achieved in his hit Legion. The British transplant, who now lives in New York, wants all his admirers to know how hard he worked for them. “My job for six months was to go to the gym for at least two hours a day, every day. But, I promise you the moment we wrapped, it was over and my abs no longer look like that. I’ve been abusing my body with cheese and booze ever since.”
JEREMY’S DISTRACTION: Jeremy Piven never thought he’d find himself being almost strangled by a co-star while he was trying to recite his lines, but that is exactly what happened to him while working with a stripper on the set of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. His ‘co-star’ was supposed to be giving him a lap dance while he delivered his monologue, but the girl got really into what she was doing and got the Entourage star into a scissor hold with her legs. The hunk says, “I had this massive monologue and she’s cutting off all my oxygen. It’s really difficult, but it was sort of fun too. It was a challenge and it was really fun and difficult at the same time.”
DOLLY’S RECIPE: Super cute Dolly Parton thinks it’s incredibly difficult for celebrities who marry celebrities to stay married. In fact she attributes her forty-four year marriage success to the fact that her husband Carl Dean has nothing to do with celebrity and prefers to hang around in the shadows. “We’ve been married so long because Carl isn’t in show business. He’s a homebody and has nothing to do with the celebrity world. He’d never want to be in it!”
DREAMING: Gemma Arterton, who stars in the upcoming Clash of the Titans playing the goddess Io, says being the only girl in a scene with several guys can have extra benefits. She had to be showering in a waterfall while a group of ‘warriors’ were in the pond. About half way through the scene she realized that the guys were arguing, “Who’s going in with the loofa to give Io a scrub?” She says, “There were all these guys being totally macho and then there I was showering in a waterfall. It’s every girl’s dream!”
HER WORKOUT REGIME: Rachel Weisz doesn’t need any special work out to stay in shape. The happy long term partner of director Darren Aranofsky says she has two secrets to remaining healthy. The first is happiness and her Darren gives her that. The second is why she doesn’t need to go to the gym. And, that reason is her three year-old Henry, “Carrying a toddler around is incredible. I’ve gotten in shape from the baby, not from any gym.”
CHANGES: The worlds of Harry Potter and Twilight are drawing closer. Bonnie Wright, who plays Ginny Weasley in the boy sorcerer franchise and Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Caius in the Twilight, franchise met when Bower joined the newest of the Potter films. Sparks flew and now the pair are an old fashioned item. Wright has admitted, “Yes, we’re dating. We’ve actually been seeing each other for a few months.” It’s unsure whether she’s trying to make a sorcerer out of him or he’s trying to turn her into a vampire, but they’re having fun trying.
A BRAND NEW GIRL: If you’ve seen a recent photo of Kelly Osbourne, you’ve seen a totally new girl! The twenty-five year old Kelly has banished all the weight that made her cute and rolly poly. Now, she’s definitely turned into a major hottie! Sharon’s daughter says, “I’m on a turkey burger kick right now because I’m trying so hard to get rid of as many carbs as possible. I used to live on mashed potatoes and bread, but I’ve ruled all that out and love my new slim figure!”
STEALTHY SCARLETT: Gorgeous Scarlett Johansson gloats over how she managed to arrange her wedding some time ago to Canadian hunk Ryan Reynolds. “We got married in a remote part of Canada with bears, whales and eagles for witnesses. Planning my stealth marriage was a very secretive adventure, a bit like a drug deal, I suppose.” It must have taken as the couple have been married two years without even just the whisper of a scandal or fight. Johansson allows, “Being married is a bit like being part of a tribe.”
TARANTINO GIVES BACK: Quentin Tarantino may have been born in Tennessee, but he was raised in Los Angeles and fondly remembers the little independent movie house where his love of motion pictures was born and grew. That little theatre had struggled for years and when recently told that it was going to close and become a cut rate barbershop, its most famous and most loyal patron stepped up and made the guarantees needed to keep the New Beverly Cinema alive.
PAMMY’S WHAMMY: It seems that nothing ever goes easily for Baywatch’s arguably most famous alum, Pamela Anderson. The plane bringing her to an invitational runway show during New York’s Fashion Week celebrations was three hours late and tempers were reported to have flared. Planes, delayed flight plans and bad weather aren’t Pammy’s fault. Still with all that she was still only fifty-five minutes late for the scheduled opening so no one can say that the girl didn’t try!
HE LOVES AGING?: Brit superstar Colin Firth claims that he loves growing older. He claims, “When I was twenty-five I was very conscious of being featureless, of having no texture. There is a wealth of knowledge, experience and hopefully wisdom an older man can pull on which just aren’t there for younger men.”
JUST A LONELY BOY: Most people would never think it possible, but Leonardo DiCaprio has a deep seated fear. The Hollywood Hottie most often seen in the company of a series of international beauties says his biggest fear is being left alone. The thirty-five year old says that, “Loneliness is my personal demon. During my last movie the world kept on turning and I was stuck on the set. It was like a strange form of every day amnesia.”
A NEW PERSPECTIVE: Elton John, like most stars, was motivated by a desire to be a celebrity back when he was young and climbing the ladder. Now that he’s got it all, he no longer is interested in it. The musical knight now says, “Fame attracts lunatics. Princess Diana, Gianni Versace, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, all gone. Two of them shot outside their homes. Fame is the curse that kills. Being famous just isn’t as much fun as it used to be.”
JAKE’S DREAM COME TRUE: Jake Gyllenhaal may be single now, but that won’t last. The hunk is soon to be starring in The Prince of Persia, which has blockbuster written all over it. And it can’t come too soon for Gyllenhaal, who admits, “I’ve always wanted to play an action role. I’m very athletic and love being physical. On one take I actually punched a guy in the face by mistake. Even if they had to use stuntmen, I would try the scene first. I love combat, any opportunity to fight.”
IT WORKS FOR THEM: Demi Moore has admitted that husband Ashton Kutcher has had a chore most husbands don’t have to face. He has to be very careful because Demi says almost anything can trigger her tears and set off her own personal Niagara Falls. The beauty admits, “I cry at everything. Even if I am happy. Even at commercials on TV.” But Kutcher says he’s got a secret weapon, when he was a youngster a neighbor took him under her wing and taught him how to treat women. “I basically learned etiquette and how to use it when dating a woman.” It must work as by all reports the couple has one of the strongest marriages in Hollywood.
SHE’S BAAACCCKKK: Where does a star go when she tires of Hollywood? Why to Germany, of course. Joan Collins has been a huge star in the U.K. and in Hollywood and so adding a central European focus will be just like rolling off a log. Joan has landed a role in a German soap opera and gloats, “I don’t even have to speak German!”
DESIGNER NICOLE: Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have two beautiful children together and have now let it leak out that they plan nuptials for this summer. The girl who achieved star status on reality TV is a multifaceted talent. Nicole has even designed her own engagement ring and thinks this might be the beginning of a whole new experience for her as a high end jewelry designer. Famous celebrity jeweler Neil Lane worked with Nicole on her ring and says, “Nicole was wonderful to work with. She wanted a beautiful, special ring and wanted to be intimately involved in the design. Joel just wanted her to have her dream ring.”
HE WANTS TO STAY SKINNY: James McAvoy, the Scotsman most American women would like to bring home, broke into huge prominence in Wanted with Angelina Jolie. Now McAvoy wants to do a sequel, but he’d have to carry the entire film by himself as Angelina’s character was killed off at the end of Wanted. He’s a naturally skinny guy and hates the idea of going back to the gym to bulk up again. With a Scotts’ twinkle in his eye, he asks, “Couldn’t I just go skinny in this one, maybe my character is so conflicted that following each of his hits, he staggers off to the side and throws up. Maybe he could be bulimic?” Somehow that just doesn’t seem likely.