Hit film Les Miserables isn’t exactly a barrel of laughs, but, for one New York family, the experience of seeing the musical tearjerker on the big screen proved positively overwhelming. Amused by their parents’ tearful reaction to seeing the film, Ryan and Kevin Ferguson uploaded a video to YouTube of the couple crying as they drove home from the cinema. Their distraught mother asks h…
…with their single parents near the towns of Nelspruit and Bushbuckbridge, which lie 50 miles apart in South Africa’s eastern Mpumalanga province. The couple reportedly met again at university in 2006 and fell in love. Their families did not meet throughout their five-year relationship, until they were brought together last week to discuss wedding arrangements. In many African cultures it is…
Anne Hathaway has been on a strict diet in a bit to lose weight to play the role of dying prostitute Fantine in the movie adaptation of Les Miserables. Anne Hathaway, 29, displayed the results of the regime, which saw her consuming just 500 calories a day – significantly less than the recommended daily allowance of 2,000 calories a day – as she shot scenes for the movie alongside Hugh…
lfin crop is slicked back to show off her large eyes and generous mouth and her only accessories are a pair of heavy diamond studs. Anne Hathaway also opens up about her September wedding to Schulman, 31. The couple tied the knot in Big Sur, California, and Anne Hathaway wore a custom-made Valentino number. She said working with the designer was a memory she will “treasure forever”. An…
…the photographs, which were taken from a road some distance from the French chateau where the duke and duchess were staying for a short break. Chi, the Italian magazine, said it would print a special 26-page edition featuring the photographs on Monday. Closer, the French magazine which first published the photographs, and Chi are both part of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’…
…and Judith Tebbutt are from Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire and have a 25-year-old son. The couple had only checked into the Kiwayu Safari Village resort, near the island of Lamu, in the same day at 4:00 p.m. They were the only tourists at the resort that boasts around-the-clock security with 21 guards who patrol alongside six police officers. Kiwayu Safari Village resort has a total of 18 bunga…
…han $1,200 in public housing vouchers, plus state and government disability cheques and even food stamps. Prosecutors are demanding they pay back more than $135,000 in federal housing assistance since 2003 and are seeking tens of thousands of dollars in fines. It is thought the couple has spent some of the money they claimed over the last eight years flying to Moscow, Paris, Israel, Turkey, Mexico…
Indian couple Karam, 107, and his wife Katari Chand, 100, who have eight children and twenty eight grandchildren together, have lived in wedded bliss for 87 years making them the world’s longest married couple. Karam and Katari Chand say that the key to success is looking after each other in every way possible. “My trick is to make Katari laugh. I like to tell jokes and make her smile. Bein…
e, from San Luis Obispo, California, who writes about his train hopping adventures from 20 years ago on his website, said: “I don’t recommend it and I encourage people not to do it.” Kevin Rice, 43, listed the dangers of riding the rails: falling off the car, getting robbed by a vagrant, being jolted or crushed when the train’s slack lessens. He said he has heard of many different frei…
in a barn at her estate on May 16. Before Mary Kennedy’s death, he had taken to appearing at public events with their four children, who he had full temporary custody of, and his new girlfriend, 46-year-old actress Cheryl Hines. Documents showed Mary Kennedy was facing a $32,000 lawsuit from American Express, though this was dropped following her death. Speaking after Mary Kennedy’s fu…
Anne Hathaway lost a staggering 16 lbs of her already slim frame to take on the role of Fantine in the new movie adaptation of Les Miserables. In a new interview, Anne Hathaway, 29, has revealed the extents she went to in a bid to shed the pounds. The actress told Allure magazine that she underwent some “pretty crazy weight stuff” to get in shape for the role, and survived on radishes and hummus…
Anne Hathaway is on a drastic 500-calorie diet in order to lose weight in a short time for her latest role in Les Miserables. Anne Hathaway, 29, has been ordered to lose 16 lbs in less than three weeks to play dying prostitute Fantine in the movie adaptation of Les Miserables. As fans of the musical classic will know, the single mother ends up with consumption and later appears as a ghost. Althou…
uthorities. Police arrested the couple who enslaved the German girl in Bosnia-Herzegovina's Tuzla region after a neighbor tipped off the authorities Milenko Marinkovic, 52, and his wife Slavojka, 45, were detained on May 17 on suspicion of treating the woman in an inhuman way. The girl was found in a forest near the town of Kalesija. The couple had allegedly tried to hide her from the authori…
Social network founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is celebrating his first Christmas with wife Priscilla Chan after the couple tied the knot on May 19, laughed and joked during private surfing lessons on the island of Maui. Priscilla Chan looked relaxed in a sporty, red one-piece while her billionaire husband lugged his own surfboard and worked on his tan in a pair of board shorts. Mark Zuckerberg, 28,…
…in 18 miles (30km) of the Kenya-Somalia border, reminding travellers that there had been earlier attacks in Kenya carried out by Somali militia. Two nuns from Western Europe were kidnapped in November 2008 and three aid workers were abducted in July 2009. Accordind to Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said the couple had come from a trip to the Masai Mara reserve and were the resort’s only g…
Anne Hathaway has admitted to cutting her daily food intake down to only 500 calories for her role in the forthcoming movie Les Miserables but she has also agreed to cut her hair. Anne Hathaway, 29, who usually flaunts a thick mane of long brunette locks has trimmed her hair to barely one inch in length, in order to achieve the look of her character in Les Miserables. The actress was pictured lea…
Anne Hathaway’s dedication to realism in the film Les Miserables was hair-raising, according to co-star Hugh Jackman. Anne Hathaway plays Fantine in the movie adaptation of the hit musical and brought in her own hairdresser for the emotional scene where her character becomes destitute and has her long hair chopped off. Hugh Jackman, who takes the part of Jean Valjean, said: “They were in th…
…osted on her Twitter account today: “Lust begins to set deeply in as the delicious day of love draws delicately near — XOs,MUAH!” Doug Hutchinson and Courtney Stodden married in Las Vegas on May 20, 2011. Courtney Stodden had to receive a consent form from her parents to go through with the marriage, as the state of Nevada declares both marriage applicants must be of at least 18 years of age…
…UK, any child is allowed to contest a will – or have it contested on their behalf – if they are excluded or if it is unfair. Robin Gibb’s children from his first marriage – Spencer, 40, and Melissa, 37 – are thought to be included in it as, of course, is Robin John, 29, his beloved son by Dwina. …
…ther magazines or papers in France • The photographs cannot be sold by them to anyone else in the world • Closer would get a 10,000 euro daily fine each time they sell them on or publish them • Within 24 hours the offending pictures must be handed over to the Palace • Legal fees of 2,000 euros handed to the Duke and Duchess At the start of the unprecedented court case in Paris, barrister Aurelien…
A couple was kicked-off from a train for having sex at Toronto subway, but, unperturbed, they got off and continued the deed on the station platform, with the man’s naked derriere and the woman’s legs – akimbo – in full view for all to see. The as-yet-unidentified couple was caught on a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) train on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. after a horrified passeng…
Lindsay Lohan was reportedly crying hysterically as she finally headed off to court ordered rehab on Wednesday. Convicted thief Lindsay Lohan, 25, was sentenced to 90 days in a facility after pleading no contest to charges for lying to police about driving during a car crash last June. And while it may seem like she has gotten off lightly, her father Michael Lohan revealed that did not stop her w…
Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of his wife Eva Rausing, an inquest heard yesterday. Police are still waiting to quiz Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, after interviews were suspended on Tuesday so he could be treated for alcohol withdrawal. Yesterday Hans Kristian Rausing remained in a secure medical facility for treatment and is not fit to be qu…
Erica Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham, a lesbian couple collapsed, wailed uncontrollably and hyper-ventilated in the Charleston courtroom after hearing they would serve life for killing a three-year-old girl. Erica Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham had to be picked off the floor by court officials and held in chairs as they were wheeled out of the room. The two women, both 25 from…
Several Pakistani police officers in the Sindh town of Gambat have been suspended after they were accused of parading a couple naked in public. According to witnesses, police forced the man and woman to walk to the police station naked as punishment for trying to have sex outside marriage. Mobile phone footage shows a naked man being beaten by police and a woman begging them to let her cover hers…
John Lennon guitar sells for $408,000 at Julien's AuctionsA guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles has sold for $408,000 at auction. The custom-made instrument, built in 1966 by the VOX company, was bought…
Arne Svenson: TriBeCa residents threaten to sue artist for secretly photographed them in their own apartmentsResidents at a luxury TriBeCa apartment block in Lower Manhattan are very furious after discovering that artist Arne Svenson, who is their neighbor at a nearby building, has…
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Bob Brozman suicide: Guitarist and ethnomusicologist found dead aged 59 at his Santa Cruz homeGuitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman was found dead aged 59 at his home in Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz County, CA, on April 23. Bob Brozman’s death was ruled a suicide,…
Harper Lee sues literary agent Samuel Pinkus over To Kill A Mockingbird copyrightHarper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has sued literary agent Samuel Pinkus, who she says tricked her into assigning him the copyright on the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
1913 Liberty Head nickel sells for $3.17 million at Heritage auction in ChicagoA century-old US five-cent coin, once branded a fake, has been sold for $3.17 million at a Heritage auction in Chicago. The 1913 Liberty Head nickel, one of only five such…
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