Nicole strips for V
Oh my giddy aunt, Nicole Kidman is flashing her butt on the cover of the latest V magazine.
During the shoot the photographer, Mario Testino, was saying: “Beautiful, beautiful … You are so hot it is beyond! Look at your body! It is incredible!”
And she does look pretty damn hot for a 45-year-old – heck, an any-year-old – though I don’t think she’d be very cuddly in bed at night. (A bit like when Guy Ritchie described making love to Madonna as like “cuddling up to a piece of gristle”, one of my favourite celeb quotes EVER.)
The sexy shoot is in honour of her raunchy new movie called The Paperboy (the one where she infamously pees on Zac Efron).
A quote from her V interview: “Their first day on set, Kidman and [John] Cusack did a brutal sex scene atop a washing machine, in which he nearly strangles her to death. “I said, ‘If she can get through this, she can get through anything,” Daniels recalls. “At a certain point, I saw the bruises on her legs. So I said, ‘Nicole, are you okay?’ She lied. ‘I’m fine,’ she said. She wasn’t fine. I could see the bruises. But she kept going.” And going and going and going…”
Oh-kay …
Taylor’s a wedding crasher
I don’t know why I find this so entertaining, but The Boston Herald is reporting that Taylor Swift crashed a Kennedy wedding in Boston over the weekend and didn’t leave after being twice asked to do so.
And one of their sources is the mother of the bride, Victoria Gifford Kennedy: “A source at the hotel reported seeing Swift being asked to leave the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel where Kyle Kennedy, the daughter of the late Michael Kennedy and Victoria Gifford Kennedy, was celebrating her marriage to Liam Kerron Saturday. So we rang up Vicki for the 411.
“They texted me an hour before the wedding and asked if they could come,” Vicki Kennedy said. “I responded with a very clear, ‘Please do not come.’ They came anyway. … I personally went up to Ms. Swift, whose entrance distracted the entire event, politely introduced myself to her, and asked her as nicely as I could to leave. It was like talking to a ghost. She seemed to look right past me.”
“According to Vicki, Conor was invited to the wedding, but he never RSVP’d. When she got a text asking if he and his new girlfriend could come to the reception, the mother of the bride declined, because she didn’t want the country superstar to detract from her daughter’s big day.”
But did that stop Taylor? Noooooo. Taylor wants to be part of the family. She wants to be a Kennedy sooooo bad.
It’s fab.
Ange’s chip off the old block
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s four-year-old daughter, will make her feature film debut opposite her mother in Maleficent, a rep for Walt Disney Studios has confirmed to US Weekly: “Knox‘s 4-year-old twin sister will play the child version of Elle Fanning‘s Princess Aurora in the live-action movie, a reimagining of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, told from the villainess’ perspective.”
Avril’s whopper engagement ring
Avril Lavigne has released a photo of her engagement ring to Hello Canada magazine. Avril and Chad Kroeger from the band Nickelback are getting married after only dating for six months.
Says Avril of her ring, which is a massive 14.01 carats: “It is so beautiful. I love it.”
According to Hello, Avril and Chad fell in love while collaborating on her fifth album. On one of their last days in the studio together, Chad proposed. Awwww.
Prince Harry’s nude scandal rocks the palace
Yep, Buckingham Palace says it really is Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel suite in these grainy shots. Reports The Guardian: “Clarence House has confirmed that the grainy mobile phone pictures, taken in Las Vegas and published online by TMZ early on Wednesday, UK time, are genuine, but declined to comment further.”
Says DListed: “That sound is me sighing with relief, because it’s been confirmed that I did NOT twist my nipples last night to pictures I thought where of Prince Hot Ginge, but were actually grainy pictures of a shaved ginger alley cat humping a Chinese Crested dog in a motel conference room.”
DListed adds: “God has never made my wishes come true until now, sort of. Who knew that God would use TMZ to show me that he exists. I never thought I’d type this, but thank God for TMZ, thank God for Las Vegas, thank God for the MGM GrandWynn, thank God for camera phones, thank God for booze, thank God for bad decision making and thank God for down river trash skanks who are shameless enough to sell almost naked pictures of The Queen’s grandson to the highest bidder. Thank God for all of that! … And somewhere in Buckingham Palace, The Queen has summoned Prince William to tell him that he’s no longer second in line for the throne. Then she’ll bring up these pictures on her bedazzled iPhone and say that THIS is the future of the monarchy!”
Meanwhile US Weekly is reporting that Prince William is furious and so are the British military: “He will be reprimanded [by the army]. Officers should never bring the Service into disrepute, whether on or off duty,” a senior military source tells Us. “This display of social misbehavior has raised eyebrows.”
“Harry, who spent much of fall 2011 in Arizona and California during an intensive training period, “won’t be dismissed” from the army, the source assures Us. “This type of behavior is not expected of someone his age and rank. They will call him in when he gets back and want to talk to him about it.”
Celebs desert New York
A whole heap of Hollywood celebs are selling their New York homes – are they jealous that Katie Holmes is getting all the attention since she moved in?
First Nicole Kidman sold her West Village apartment for $16million.
Next Ben Stiller listed his Upper West Side apartment for $9.6million.
Now Justin Timberlake is selling his penthouse in the Soho Mews building for $7.65 million.
Check out all the glamorous interior pics of Justin’s pad here.
Hot pics & clicks
* Alexander Skarsgard is yummy in this new Calvin Klein ad. Watch the video here.
* See more Prince Harry pool partying pics here.
* Penn Badgley plays Tim Buckley in a new biopic. See stills here.
* Meet Mel Gibson‘s new girlfriend.
* See Bobbi Kristina – Whitney Houston’s daughter – with her new skanky tatts here.
* Britney Spears has posted a pic of herself on Twitter wearing a fitted LBD with the caption: ‘Wishing my uncle happy birthday.” Isn’t that nice …
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Man, you’ve still got it Alana. The above serving was tasty, tasty, taaaaaasty!!
Ah, you’re a good woman Michele.