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Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford is set to reprise his role as the legendary explorer - despite being almost 70.

Harrison, who turns 67 later on this month, will play the role of Indy in the fifth film in the series and it is claimed it will be his last performance as the adventurer.

It is claimed filming will not start until next year, and it will not be released before 2011, when the star will be 69.

A source said: “Harrison has kept himself in good shape and could still do a lot of the stunts in the last film.”

The source added: “But it’s obviously not going to get any easier the older he gets. He certainly would never have imagined playing Indiana Jones when he was nearing 70!”

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Bruno has now had a dig at Simon Cowell and Kylie Minogue in a spoof new interview.

Cohen plays the role in his new film Bruno, which he has been travelling around the world promoting.

He said: “Simon Cowell is my gay icon. Ein totally straight man who dresses like he does and loves scheisse pop musik.

“And Kylie and Dannii? I love them. Kylie’s like ein Barbie doll zat’s bee shrunk a little bit and Dannii is like a Kylie doll zat’s been left on the radiator for too long.”

Cohen’s character Bruno also had something to say about the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

He said: “Your Prime Minister Gordon Brown alvays looks so sad - like someone has just done ein ‘brown’ in his lap. Ich think he needs some new batteries in his love eggs.”

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Michael Jackson’s death has reportedly led to a number of fans committing suicide.

There is estimated to have been at least a dozen suicides worldwide following the pop superstar’s sudden death last Thursday in California.

In Australia, callers seeking help from a suicide prevention line were citing Jackson.

Callers to Lifeline Australia, which speaks to about 50 people per day, were telling counsellors that Jackson’s death has left them distressed.

Briton Gary Taylor, owner of the biggest online Jackson fan club, said he was aware of 12 suicides.

He said: “It is a serious situation that these people are going through, but Michael Jackson would never want this.”

Source: Splash News

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One of Michael Jackons’ doctors is refusing to confirm or deny reports that he is the biological father of the pop star’s children.

American magazine US Weekly is reporting that the real father of the two children Debbie Rowe gave birth to was her former boss, dermatologist Dr Arnold Klein.

US website TMZ.com also reported that police want to interview Klein about medications he may have prescribed for Jackson over the years.

But Klein is now refusing to make any comment on any of the reports.

Klein’s attorney, Richard Charnley, issued a statement: “Because of patient confidentiality, Dr. Klein will make no statement on any reports or allegations.

“Like millions of Michael’s fans around the world, Dr Klein is saddened by Michael’s death and extends his condolences to the family.”

Court papers indicate that Jacko’s mother Katherine is anticipating a tussle not only over the children but also over the estate, with her lawyers asserting that they do not know of a will but that it was possible that someone will emerge claiming to have one.

According to report Jacko signed a will in 2002 leaving his estate to Katherine Jackson and his children but nothing to his father Joe.

A will that was being held by attorney John Branca has reportedly been turned over to the Jackson family and is expected to be filed in court.

A police investigation, meanwhile, was continuing into the circumstances of Jackson’s death.

A law enforcement source said detectives are interviewing an unknown number of doctors who treated or prescribed medication to Jackson.

Police and coroner’s officials on Monday removed medical evidence from the Holmby Hills mansion where Jacko died while significant quantities of prescription medications were also taken from the mansion last week.

Source: Splash News

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There are reports going around that Michael Jackson may have suffered a cardiac arrest after getting injected with Demerol. The Sun is reporting that shortly after the medication was administered that the singer’s breathing got slower and slower until it stopped. I cannot confirm this story but Michael has been taking painkillers after getting badly burned during a filming of a Pepsi commercial. He became addicted to painkillers and ended up at the Betty Ford Clinic. The painkiller he was said to be given was the drug Demerol. In addition to that, during his child molestation trial, cops seized syringes and drugs, including Demerol. Did he OD?

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Kate Moss has reportedly received a telling-off by boyfriend Jamie Hince for spending too much time on her karaoke machine.

Kate, 35, is said to be a big fan of singing karaoke but her boyfriend Jamie, who is a member of indie band The Kills, has reportedly had enough of the model’s singing.

Jamie has reportedly told Kate that she is only allowed to sing for half an hour a day.

A source said: “Kate’s got a state-of-the-art karaoke system installed in both her London and Cotswold homes.

“When she’s not working she likes nothing more than getting some pals over to her place after lunch, cracking open a couple of bottles and then singing to her heart’s content.

“But Jamie is getting a little bit tired of the lengthy singalongs and he has now told her that she can only rock the mic for just half an hour a day.”

Source: Splash News

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Michael Jackson’s pal David Gest believes the stress of Michael’s 50 London shows killed the star.

Michael recently passed away aged 50 after reportedly suffering a heart attack, but the cause of death has not been confirmed.

He said: “Michael told me he was excited about getting back on stage. I told him I was proud of him. But I really believe in my heart of hearts that the pressure of those concerts killed Michael.

“He thought there were going to be ten dates as announced. But then all of a sudden Tohme, along with Randy Phillips, president of organisers AEG, had arranged 20, 30 then 50 dates.

“Michael was being told: ‘You are going to set the world record for concerts at the O2, you are going to beat Prince’s record.’ They knew how to feed into his ego.

“But when Michael realised his schedule, he began to panic. It was one show after another, with hardly any days off. He should never have been tied to so many, especially a guy who dances through more than half of his set.”

David also expressed his concern at the people that Michael hung around with, and in particular his doctor Tohme R Tohme who he met four years ago.

David said: “We all have weaknesses and Michael’s was that he trusted the wrong people most of the time. He thought all people were good, which they were not.”
Source: Splash News

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Millions have seen him as the cute kid in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace - but these days Jake Lloyd looks unrecognizable from his most famous role.

The former child star, now 20, played a fresh-faced Anakin Skywalker, in the incredibly successful 1999 movie.

Now ten years older and appearing over the weekend at the Supanova pop culture expo in Sydney, Australia, he had a much chunkier look – and told how his future was now on the other side of the camera.

Speaking in-between signing autographs for fans, he said: “I want to become an editor.

“I’m at college now learning all the skills.

“I want to work with film footage because it would enable me to work with the results of other people’s genius. I really like that idea.

“I loved making the Star Wars film. It was an amazing time of my life. But things move on.

“I’m going to be in Australia for a couple of weeks just hanging out with my friends. We’re gong to have an awesome time.”

Jake beat 3,000 other child actors to land the Star Wars role when he was just nine years old.

He was chosen for the part after being personally interviewed by director George Lucas and being screen tested with co-star Natalie Portman.

His last appearance in a film was in the movie Madison made back in 2001.

Source: Splash News

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R Kelly has been dragged into a massive investigation in South Africa but the singer claims that he’s the victim of a grafter gone made. it all started when a woman accused of scamming more than 50 people out of a lot of money claimed that the singer played a part in the plot. She allegedly conned her victims into investing money in an R Kelly tour that never existed. The woman reportedly said that she has deposited the money into the singer’s band account. The woman has been charged with over 60 counts of fraud and R Kelly is wanted for questioning. The singer is denying involvement. He made a statement via his publicist saying “The woman has no connection at all with R. Kelly. This is just some con woman who swindled a bunch of people out of money. R. Kelly had no knowledge of this, he’s just as upset as anyone.”

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When your life isn’t that interesting, you should have the time to turn on a TV or watch some videos on YouTube, right? If your name is Nick Lachey, the answer is no. Apparently, the washed up singer has no idea who Susan Boyle is. The Britain’s Got Talent contestant has been more popular in the last 3 months than he has in the last 3 years. When asked about the Scottish singer, Nick admitted he never heard her sing but his now ex-girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo then clarified that they never heard of her. What rock have they been living under?

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Randy Phillips from AEG Live, which was organising his London tour dates, expressed his sadness at the star’s death.

Michael died suddenly in LA aged 50 after suffering a reported heart attack.

Randy said, in a statement: “Yesterday was a day I will never forget, or want to remember. Michael was both weak and strong, clever and kind, talented beyond belief and equally insecure.

“He was a doting father, respectful son, loving brother, and caring uncle. He was my friend. I take great solace in the pride and confidence he exhibited during production rehearsals on Wednesday night.

“That is the memory I will cherish for the rest of my life.”

Source: Splash News

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The singer and his band, Lounge Against the Machine, will apparently be taking a bit of a break from their daily activity of turning modern day hits into songs that Al Capone himself might have appreciated under the right temporal circumstances. About the upcoming break, Richard Cheese said: “The great thing about what we do is there are always great new songs out that really need that swankification. Songs where you say, ‘oh, well there’s another brand new standard that’s going to be around for 20 years.’ A song like ‘Smack That’ by Akon. What a beautiful love song that is.’’ So technically, Richard Cheese and his tuxedo-wearing, lounge music-playing band isn’t going to just sit back and relax while others take the glory of an old golden age. Well, more entertainment for the common-folk and more things to waste precious earned money on.

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Bruno has slammed Paris Hilton before stripping off his clothes on The Tonight Show.

Sacha Baron Cohen attended the US show as Austrian fashion designer Bruno, wearing metallic silver trousers and a sequined black tank top.

Asked if he was inspired by Paris Hilton, he told host Conan O’Brien: “Paris Hilton is everything I despise. She comes onto chat shows dressed like an idiot and she is a total name-dropper, Orlando Bloom told me that. She’s really bitchy, which most sluts are.”

Bruno was repeatedly bleeped for talking about blowj**s before jumping up on the Tonight Show desk and pulling off his shirt and pants to reveal a black thong. Dancing to Lady GaGa, he wrapped his legs around O’Brien’s head and lent backwards off the desk.

Source: Splash News

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The rocker felt the need to share with us an interesting tip about his personal drug use habits. It seems Marilyn Manson has discovered, much to his shock, that using drugs and alcohol when you’re down just makes things worse, but using them when you’re feeling jolly is a totally worthy experience. Marilyn Manson said: “I’m very objective now. I started to apply this really fantastic rule that they don’t teach you in AA or AAA, or any other acronym - do drugs and drink when you’re happy, not when you’re sad. It has a great effect. But I can’t say that I did that the whole time.” Sure, bail yourself out at the last moment why don’t you? Don’t think that we don’t know what goes on during those parties all the time… and the partying itself too.

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Auction site eBay has been flooded with Michael Jackson tribute t-shirts following his sudden death.

Jackson passed away in LA aged 50 after he reportedly suffered a heart attack. The legendary performer was due to perform 50 shows in London’s O2 Arena later this year.

Tribute t-shirts have started to appear on the auction site less than 24 hours after he died.

Some of the t-shirts read: “King of Pop Michael Jackson 1958-2009.”

Others have “Rest In Peace” messages on them.

Source: Splash News

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Sigourney Weaver has denied reports she will appear in the upcoming film Ghostbusters 3.

The Alien actress played the role of Dana Barrett in the first two Ghostbuster films but she admitted she is "pretty sure" she will not be in the third film.

Sigourney said: "Yeah, I’m pretty sure. I think they’re still writing it, but [laughs] I’d be very surprised… You never know.

"I just did a benefit with Bill [Murray], and we love working together, but I think they’re trying to create something new completely with the Ghostbusters, although I know Bill is in it. I hope my little son Oscar [from Ghostbusters II] is a Ghostbuster!"

She added: "No, I don’t expect to have anything to do with it, although I wish them well."

Sigourney also talked about the idea of a prequel to Alien, where she played Ellen Ripley. Her character was recently named as one of the most important science fiction heroines of all time.

She said: "Oh, I didn’t know that, but that’s great. I was very pleased that MTV named her the second biggest bada** in movie history, although I think she could take on Dirty Harry.

"That was cool. And it is the 30th anniversary of the first film. I love Ellen Ripley. She was a fascinating person to play in each incarnation and a great opportunity for a young actor."

Talking about the film’s rumoured prequel, Sigourney said: "Well, I don’t think that Ripley could appear in an Alien prequel because she doesn’t have any access to the creature until the first Alien. But Ridley [Scott] is producing it and that makes me happy."

Source: Splash News

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The rocker recently revealed how utterly depressed he was when he got dumped by his former girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, and how it all escalated on Christmas Day of 2008. Marilyn Manson related: “My lowest point was Christmas Day 2008, because I didn’t speak to my family. My walls were covered in scrawlings of the lyrics and cocaine bags nailed to the wall. And I did have an experience where I was struggling to deal with being alone and being forsaken and being betrayed by putting your trust in one person, and making the mistake of that being the wrong person. I made the mistake of trying to, desperately, grasp on and save that and own it. And every time I called her that day - I called 158 times - I took a razor blade and I cut myself on my face or on my hands.” Right… Marilyn Manson must’ve been a real sight for Santa when the jolly old dude finally arrived. He probably gawked in horror when he saw him, fainted and perhaps that’s why last Christmas didn’t really turn out so well.

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Here is the new mugshot of convicted murderer Phil Spector.

It was taken when he checked in to his new temporary holding cell at North Kern State Prison in Bakersfield, California.

The music mogul, sentenced to a minimum of 19 years in prison for killing B-actress Lana Clarkson six years ago, can clearly be seen to be bald without any of his famous wigs.

It was previously reported that prison officers had confiscated them, leaving the “wall of sound” producer feeling a little exposed. Wigs and other personal items are not allowed in jail.

But until now, no one had seen him bare-headed.

Spector repeatedly asked to wear a hat but was turned down. He then reportedly informed authorities he was an Orthodox Jew and needed to wear a yarmulke, or skullcap.

Authorities had no choice but to grant his request and he is now believed to be wearing the yarmulke, though he was he was not allowed to wear it during his transfer and for his new mugshot.

During his two murder trials, Spector was renowned for showing up at court in a variety of toupees.

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Shooting the blockbuster Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Shia LaBeouf came close to losing an eye, it was reported.

“I mistimed something and impaled my face. I had a spike in my eye,” LaBeouf said in an interview with cast members on Access Hollywood.

“I had blood coming down my face and it was the dark, dark purplish kind, which is actually a great thing, because if it had been reddish and clear, that means my eye popped,” he said.

Fellow cast were in admiration of LaBeouf, who also suffered a hand injury last year, for the way he took his falls. Josh Duhamel said: “He is a really tough kid. I mean … he took some real lumps in this movie.

“I was right there and it’s just dripping blood … he leaves the set and they run him off in an ambulance and it turned out he just cut the top of it. [But] this is an example of how tough he is, he wanted to come back and work that same day and [director Michael Bay] was like, ‘Get out of here go home!’”

Co-star Tyrese Gibson said LaBeouf’s motivation on the $200 million budget action flick inspired him. “He’s my hero because he’s so young and he [was] so determined to make this movie happen.

“And so he goes off on the military base, gets his stitches above his eye, it’s all swollen and he says let’s keep filming! … Three hours later! Everybody is like, ‘No don’t come back, go rest, you know, anything, you could’ve put your eye out!’ [But] he came back. He was determined.”

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British model Kate Moss has kicked off Virgin Atlantic’s 25th birthday celebrations by dressing like one of the airline’s “flying girls”.

Kate, 35, appeared alongside Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson as they posed on a Virgin jumbo jet’s wing. Kate was wearing a red playsuit and black high-heels.

She was recreating the look of one of Virgin’s “Flying Girls”, who are painted on the side of the aircrafts in the style of a 1940s pin-up girl.

Pamela Anderson dressed in a similar outfit for the company’s 21st birthday.

Sir Richard and Kate posed for photos before boarding the plane and recreated the airline’s inaugural flight, flying from London Heathrow to New York City.

Also at the celebration, Sir Richard admitted the recession is killing first-class travel.

He said: “We have heard that our principal rivals are looking to get rid of first-class all together. And it’s high-time. Who wants to spend £8,000-9,000 on a first-class ticket when they can fly with us for less than half that.

“I suspect first-class travel will disappear during this recession.”

Source: Splash News

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Piers Morgan has been exposed as a fake after using a body double in a new ad campaign and trying to pass the photos off as himself.

Piers, 44, tried to fool the public that the half-naked photo of himself for Burger King’s new meaty fragrance was his own torso.

However, the male model, whose body it really is, has now spoken out.

Model Grant Clarke, 39, from Guildford, UK, said: “It’s obvious I’m younger and leaner than Piers - of course, he needed a double.”

After being rumbled, Piers said: “I didn’t think women would be able to handle the sight of my real torso - it brings a new meaning to flame-grilled Triple Whopper.”

Source: Splash News

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It seems that the epic tale has finally reached its critical point. Today is Chris Brown’s hearing where the decision will be taken whether his case will go to trial or not. This is also the day when Rihanna might testify against the singer and it’s all happening… behind closed doors. So we don’t get to find out anything for another while. Hopefully somebody has somebody else as a source inside the courthouse and the information will leak out sooner than expected and then the conclusion of this drama will finally be unveiled to everyone. Or the legal system will just take its sweet time as it always does and all of this excitement will be for nothing.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has spoken out about his relationship with Paris Hilton.

The 24-year-old footballer met heiress Paris, 28, at swanky celeb haunt My House Hollywood before going back to Paris’ sister Nicky’s house.

Talking about the blonde star, Ronaldo said: “She was a really cool girl and we had a great time talking. I am a young man and Paris a young lady and us talking in a club is just what normal people our age do.”

However, the Manchester United star, who is the subject of an £80m bid from Real Madrid, admitted it may be hard for the pair to see much of each other.

He added: “She lives thousands of miles away and is busy, and I am busy in Madrid, so I am not sure if we will be able to see each other.”

Source: Splash News