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Paris Hilton wants to warn young girls from making "humiliating" sex tapes. The blonde socialite was devastated when X-rated footage of her and ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon surfaced in 2003 and has vowed to stop other girls from agreeing to film themselves engaging in sex acts to please their lovers. She said: "I want young girls to never put themselves in that situation I was in. Don't ever let someone talk you into doing something you don't want to do." She added: "I was humiliated, embarrassed and in shock that it happened. It wasn't my fault, it was something that someone did to me, so I've just learned to be a strong woman and nothing can hurt me at this point. "It was definitely very painful. When you trust someone and love someone - for them to do that to you, it's really hard. It's something that bothers me everyday." The 28-year-old hotel heiress - who receives a percentage of profits from the footage, which was eventuall...

Britney Spears will appear on the X Factor tonight for her first UK television performance for more than four years. The pop singer will perform her current single Womanizer , while the five remaining finalists will each cover one of her songs. Her appearance is part of a whistle-stop tour to promote the release of her sixth studio album, Circus, which is out in the UK next week. Spears, who is 27 on Tuesday, recently announced two concerts in London next summer as part of her world tour. She is scheduled to play at the O2 Arena in London on June 3 and 4. The new album and tour mark a comeback for the singer, who in recent years has hit the headlines for her turbulent private life. In January this year police took her to a psychiatric hospital, fearing she would harm herself. Her parents said at the time that they believed her life was at risk. A representative for Spears said she would only be performing on X Factor and would not coach the show's contestants, as previous guests ha...

Angelina Jolie may be playing an anguished mother in her latest film The Changeling, but in this exclusive interview, she explains why she's never been happier. Angelina Jolie is in a buoyant mood as she sweeps into New York for the premiere of her new film The Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood. "This is such a beautiful time for me," the elegant, green-eyed actor says. "When I look back on my life, I never really believed that I would find this kind of happiness on so many different levels. "I think I trained myself to expect less, but meeting Brad and being with him has shown me that sometimes it just takes the right circumstances for you to meet a good man who enjoys being with you and working towards the same goals in life. Brad has always been there for me." A year after her appearance in the harrowing A Mighty Heart, Jolie delivers another remarkable performance in The Changeling, a searing drama based on the true story of a child's disappear...

The British couple who supplied singer Amy Winehouse with drugs have pleaded guilty and could face jail. The news comes as Winehouse checked out of hospital after a brief stay, E! online reported. Johnny Blagrove, 34, and Cara Burton, 22, confessed to supplying cocaine and Ecstasy to the 25-year-old Grammy winner and then secretly filming her getting high and selling the footage to The Sun. The newspaper published images of the Rehab star's binge in January. The video sparked a police raid on the pair's east London home. There, investigators turned up a purported "hit list" of stars, including Winehouse, whom they regularly supplied. Authorities did not press charges against Winehouse. Blagrove pleaded guilty to two counts of offering to supply Class A drugs, specifically cocaine and MDMA, and one count of offering to supply Class B, while Burton copped to two counts of offering to supply Class B drugs. Prosecutors dropped an additional charge each of conspiracy. The ...

Paris Hilton has revealed that she and boyfriend Benji Madden fell for each other before his split from his Australian fiancee Sophie Monk. The Hollywood heiress made the surprise admission during an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph yesterday in Los Angeles. Hilton, 27, said she and the Good Charlotte rocker fell in love shortly after the January 11 birth of Harlow Richie-Madden, the daughter of her best friend Nicole Richie and Madden's twin brother Joel. "Ever since Harlow was born I was over playing with her and visiting Nicole and Joel - and we just fell in love right away,'' Hilton said yesterday. "We've been friends for seven years and he said he always had a big crush on me and when I finally became single it was great that we got together - it was the best.'' Hilton revealed that the couple had been together for "like 8 months'', meaning from mid-February. Monk's publicist announced on February 12 that she and Madd...

Lizzie Smith Angelina Jolie has admitted that she and Brad Pitt fell in love while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston. Hollywood's most glamorous couple have always stressed that they only fell for one another AFTER Brad had split from the Friends star. But Jolie has now confessed that they found love on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2004, when rumours of romance first emerged but long before Brad's break-up. However, it was not clear if the 'confession' was a bid for more openness - or an accidental slip-up during an interview with The New York Times which she was 'jet-lagged'. The revelation came during a seemingly innocent aside that she is excited about her children being one-day able to see their mother and father in Mr And Mrs Smith. Tellingly, she explained: 'Not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love.' But Angelina will not be afraid of a public backlash, as she insisted: 'I live in a bit of a bubble when i...

Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus in mothers and babies around the world within four years. Hayek, a paid spokeswoman for Pampers' tetanus vaccine program, recounted her experiences during a recent trip to the West African nation of Sierra Leone, where she met with tetanus victims. "One of the things that was very moving about the trip was to see 15-year-old girls, really young, taking responsibility for their lives and their children before they're born by saying 'I am going to be healthy, I am going to take this vaccination,'" she told journalists at the United Nations on Thursday. "I had no idea how much this was going to really personally move me," added the 42-year-old star of films including Desperado and Frida. The Pampers-UNICEF partnership has already provided over 50 million vaccines to mothers and babies in developing countries, where tetanus kills up to 140,000 infants and 30,00...

Hey, everyone! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have arrived in America for the first time since the birth of their twins! This is very important news, and we’ll tell you why soon. Anyway, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrived in New York for the first time since the birth of their last children so that Angelina can promote her new movie The Changeling. We said we’d tell you why it was so important that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were returning to America, didn’t we? Well, alright, we will - it’s important because, um, well, Brad Pitt is, um… and Angelina sort of… no. We’ve got nothing. Literally nothing. Maybe they left the gas on or something. We genuinely couldn’t care less. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins haven’t been on this planet for long, but the time they have spent on it has almost exclusively been in France. Imagine that - 10 weeks surrounded by nothing but onion trees, shrugging mechanics, afternoon naps and excessive female bodyhair. That’s tantamount to child ab...

Britney Spears' new single called "Womanizer", which has been leaked three days ago, was supposed to hit the airplay today, but has been pushed back for another week. A publicist from Jive/Zomba Records named Wendy Washington says that the release delay happens because the song "needs more mixing and editing." The track, which record company bosses had been desperate to keep secret until the singer's big relaunch in November, was discovered on YouTube by an LA radio station. The station played a 40 second clip of the song, which has now been picked up by hundreds of thousands of fans. The revelations follow reports of a fake leak which appeared last week when new website BritneySpearsCircusLeak claimed to have a leaked version of single Candy from Strangers, from the singer's new album Circus. It was later proved to be a fake. The record company are now trying to track down the insider who posted the version of 'Womanizer' on the internet, along ...

While they have neither confirm nor deny their rumored pregnancy, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are hunting for a new home, in which to raise their expanding family. Just days after Garner's former Alias co-star Victor Garber reportedly let slip the couple is expecting a second child, the actors have been snapped house hunting in Los Angeles. Affleck and Garner, who was struggling to hide a distinctive baby bump, spent an hour on Monday (21Jul08) at a construction site in Brentwood viewing a luxury house currently under construction. Although the couple has yet to confirm the pregnancy, Garner is expected to give birth later this year (08) to a little brother or sister for two-year-old daughter Violet. Garber insists comments he made about the possible pregnancy were taken out of context, and he has no idea if Garner is with child.

Megan Fox hates her position as the Sexiest Woman In The World - insisting the flattering title "annoys" her. The Transformers actress was voted the top babe in FHM magazine's annual list of lovelies earlier this year (Apr08). But the sexy star isn't keen to promote herself as a screen siren, and hates getting raunchy on set after her "awkward" love scenes in upcoming movie Jennifer's Body. She tells MTV UK.com, "I'm not comfortable with it (FHM Sexiest Woman) at all. It annoys me. "I have a few love scenes (in Jennifer's Body). I eat and seduce everyone - boys and girls. There's a lot of kissing and craziness. It was awkward, it's always awkward and it's never fun."

The chance of having fraternal twins at Angelina's age (33) naturally is under 1 percent; with in vitro, the chances are 25 percent. Says Dr. Arthur Wisot of L.A.'s Reproductive Medical Group (who did not treat the couple), "We live in an era of reproductive freedom, so anybody can do anything they want within legal limits." The actress chose the procedure (which can cost around $12,000 a pop) so "she wouldn't have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant," the source tells Us. "She could just knock it out." Indeed, Jolie has spoken about her goal to do just that. "If we're going to have 10 kids, we'd like to raise them while we're young," she told Elle U.K. last year. Brad Pitt turns 45 on December 18.

Paris Hilton has recorded a gushing interview with the talk-show host claiming she and relatively new boyfriend Benji Madden are planning to marry. Urgh. The blonde bombshell dropped the clanger, with Madden - who only recently was set to wed Monk - giving the idea the thumbs up. Hilton waxed lyrical about what a great couple they were, while flashing his initials in bling on her ring finger. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton has swapped partying for Monopoly. The Simple Life star, who is currently dating Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden, prefers quiet nights at home preparing homemade food and playing the property board game with her friends. She said: "When I was younger I loved to go out, but now that I'm in a really great relationship it's so much more fun to stay at home. We don't really like to go out. We have game night where friends come over and play Monopoly. "I love to cook for Benji, I cook great lasagne. I've grown up a lot and I'm at peace. He has ch...

Pop princess Kylie Minogue has been spotted out on the town in Paris with her estranged lover, French actor Olivier Martinez, sparking rumours they may be back together a year after they split. The pair, who split in 2007 after a four-year relationship, were snapped walking arm-in-arm during a late-night stroll and the pictures were splashed in Britain's Sunday Mirror. The tabloid said Minogue arrived in Paris on Sunday and her chauffeur dropped her at her former boyfriend's apartment before Olivier walked her back to her hotel about 11pm. The next day, the two walked the dog they once shared, Sheba, who still lives with Olivier but often receives visits from Kylie. Minogue and Martinez also reportedly went shopping and visited a cafe. Martinez's father, Robert, told the paper: "We love seeing Kylie in Paris, especially Olivier. She makes everybody very happy." Asked whether his son was still single, Robert was quoted as saying: "But of course." Kylie fl...

Spears was taken to the UCLA Medical Centre about 1.30am Los Angeles time to be held against her will because she was deemed a danger to herself or others. A psychiatrist treating the singer contacted Los Angeles police to set the events in motion, celebrity website TMZ.com said, quoting law enforcement sources. A Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance transporting the 26-year-old was escorted by dozens of police on motorcycles, accompanied by a police helicopter, the Los Angeles Times said. The operation appeared to be thoroughly planned, it said. A motorcade the length of a football field surrounded the pop star and kept photographers and onlookers at bay. Spears was told of her impending confinement by her psychiatrist and did not resist when paramedics arrived and placed her on a gurney, TMZ said. The doctor told police of concerns about her reckless driving and erratic behaviour. Spears had not slept since Saturday, the website said. Continue Below Video By Reuters She was stripped...

A JUDGE has refused to restore Britney Spears' right to visit her two sons, a court spokesman said, after the troubled pop star showed up outside court but never made it into the hearing. Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon left in place a ruling that barred Spears from visiting with her young sons at least until another hearing on February 19, lawyers for her ex-husband Kevin Federline said outside court. Mr Gordon issued the original order earlier this month, after police were summoned to the troubled pop star's home when she became distraught and refused to return the boys to Federline's representatives. Spears, 26, was taken away on a stretcher and hospitalised for two days. She arrived hours late for today's hearing and was mobbed by photographers as she stepped out of a sport utility vehicle outside the downtown Los Angeles courthouse. But instead of heading into the building where the hearing was under way with Federline in the courtroom, Spears climbed quic...

As if 2007 could get any worse for Lindsay Lohan, now this: Moviegoers tagged her with the year's worst performance by an actress. Fifty-eight per cent of voters in an online poll by AOL's web site Moviefone gave Lohan that dubious honour for her turn as a woman escaping a sadistic killer in the box-office flop, I Know Who Killed Me. The poll, which tallied more than 3.8 million votes, had more bad news for the starlet, who recently spent a brief stint in jail for drunken driving and cocaine possession and also attended voluntary rehab. Another of Lohan's films, Georgia Rule, finished second among voters for biggest waste of $10 spent on a movie ticket. The No 1 biggest waste? Norbit, a slapstick comedy starring Eddie Murphy, whose performance in the movie was the runaway pick for worst by an actor. Voters were given five choices in each poll category. Two box-office smashes were voted the most worthy of the price of a ticket: The blood-soaked ancient war epic 300 edged out...

Kate Hudson has spoken about her ex-lover Owen Wilson for the first time. The actress, who began dating Owen last year after they met on the set of You, Me and Dupree but split in June, said she will always love Owen and hopes he is happier following his failed suicide attempt. She said: "Owen is such a lovely person, and I love him dearly. And I wish him beautiful things - health and everything that he desires in life." Kate, 28, also revealed her marriage to rocker Chris Robinson began to falter after their three-year-old son Ryder was born. The actress, who split from Chris in 2006 after six years, admitted her divorce was the most "painful" thing she has ever gone through. She told Vogue magazine: "We had Ryder, and we both sort of looked at each other and went, 'Something's off.' "The divorce was the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life. The process of discovering with somebody that you love that you don't work is so pain...

Nicole Kidman has taken another step up the celebrity ladder with the unveiling of her very own wax work at Madame Tussauds. Draped in a glamorous floor-length red gown, Kidman's wax work has taken its place at the world-famous museum alongside models of fellow Hollywood A-list celebrities including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Despite her long career as an actress, it is the first time the museum has created a Kidman wax work. Designers spent about three months creating the figure, unveiled overnight in London, based on thousands of photographs of the Australian actress. "Nicole is wearing a stunning floor-length red dress which really emphasises her flawless beauty and grace, idolised by so many women around the world," Madame Tussauds spokesman Ben Lovett said. "There's no mistaking that she is a hugely popular global celebrity and we are delighted to be unveiling her." Kidman's latest film, The Golden Compass, opens in Australia on December 26. On l...

Hollywood star Brad Pitt has told American television he wants more children with his partner Angelina Jolie. "We're just getting started," he said in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live that aired last night in the US. The 43-year-old star of such movies as Babel and Ocean's Eleven described Jolie as "a fantastic mother" to their four children - Maddox, six; Pax, four; Zahara, two; and Shiloh, one, adding that while parenthood is "the hardest job in the world", "it is everything" to him. Pitt said in the interview that acting was becoming less important to him and that he would like to spend his time on other pursuits. "It's become less and less a focus as I get older," he said. "I think it's really more of a younger man, younger woman's game." He said he didn't intend to give up acting - "I'd like to drop in if I'm still invited every few years or so" - but added, "It take...