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Warner Bros is suing a Swiss condom company after they called one of their ranges “Harry Popper”.

The makers of the new condoms are said to have annoyed the film company after the packaging artwork featured a purple condom wearing glasses, similar to Daniel Radcliffe’s character in the movie series, and holding a wand.

Warner Bros is now reportedly planning to sue the company for copyright infringement, according to Swiss newspaper Bote.

Gawker.com reports that the lawyers for the studio have said: “The image of my client is in danger.”

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Will Ferrell has turned into a time traveller for technology magazine Wired.

The Hollywood funnyman dons a tight-fitting spacesuit for the publication’s The Future That Never Happened issue.

In it, he reveals his wishlist of inventions that have yet to be invented, including an “automatic dog translator”, an “edible beard” and “flying cars that go 40 feet”.

He says: “I would’ve bet a lot of money that by now we’d have a device that let us talk to dogs.”

Ferrell, 43, also dreams of a day when he can buy a birthday cake with a burrito inside, and weddings where everyone looks like Star Wars character Chewbacca.

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Or so singer Rufus Wainwright seems to think… and he’s very damn sure about it too. This is what he said about 50 Cent in a recent interview: “And I love, love 50 Cent. I think he’s just the sexiest, and a brilliant writer. And I know he’s gay. That cute little voice of his. It’s okay, 50 Cent. Feel free to call me anytime. My boyfriend and I are experts. You can come over for dinner. And maybe dessert.” That’s a pretty big assumption there… not really sure 50 Cent is going to go for it. But hey, it’s always good to try something new once in a while. Who knows, the man might actually get convinced to turn over a new leaf.

The American Idol star apparently hinted in a recent interview that one of his songs would make a good track for a certain vampire-based movie soundtrack. This is what Adam Lambert said about his song, “Suburban Decay”: “It’s a great song and I hope to perform it someday, nad i think it will find a home, on a soundtrack or something…maybe ‘Twilight’. It just didn’t quite fit [in my album]. It’s very theatrical. Hey, ‘Eclipse’ … Want my song? It’s kind of about vampires.” Given the title, one would think that Adam Lambert’s song is actually more fitted to a horror/comedy movie with soccer-mom zombies… but, given the concept of “vampires” in the “Twilight” saga, Adam Lambert’s song might be just what they need.

And he’s selling the whole house along with it. It seems the singer, having discovered that aliens very rarely chose England as a vacation spot, especially in the winter, has decided to sell his mansion in England for the paltry sum of 1.6 million dollars… after having bought it with 14 million dollars. A source said the following about Robbie Williams’ rash decision: “Robbie is desperate to get things moving quickly rather than hang around just to get a bit more money. Being settled back in the States quickly with Ayda is more important to him. He’s already got a few people interested in the mansion.” Well, looks like 50 Cent isn’t the only one who can afford to lose a few million during the recession… Robbie Williams seems to have things all snug and tight for himself if he’s practically giving away his mansion. Oh well, maybe he and Ayda Field found an interesting crop circle somewhere near LA.

It wasn’t however swallowed up by a Cosmic whirlpool as it may sound, the simpler truth is that the singer fired them… and this close to the release of 30 Seconds to Mars’ latest album. A source said the following about Jared Leto’s bold move: “Jared is too controlling. This latest move just feels like self-sabotage. It’s very strange timing as his management team was very good. His tour manager has now left too. No one can quite believe what’s happening.” Whatever happened to cutbacks in the human resources department are common in times of crisis? It’s not like Jared Leto has any cleaning staff or other dispensable employees he can fire. Or perhaps he found somebody better, maybe a bassist with a management degree.

The Hills star Lauren Conrad has said that her acting is “offensive” and she is an “awful actor”.

Conrad, 23, whose book LA Candy is being made into a film, said to PEOPLE: “I think my acting is offensive! I’m an awful actor, I’m not super comfortable with it. In fact I was just trying to do lines… and they’ll tell you, I cannot memorise lines.”

Conrad is teaming up with Temple Hill Entertainment, the team behind Twilight, to bring her best-selling book to cinemas.

She added: “If you’re putting your name on something, it’s really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it, and then it’s not really you, and it won’t be true.

“I’m planning on being a part of it from start to finish.”

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Transformers beauty Megan Fox has said she is “horrible to live with” and forgets to flush the toilet.

Megan, 23, has repeatedly been voted the world’s sexiest star and is a regular feature in men’s magazines.

However, the Jennifer’s Body star admitted that the fantasy of her doesn’t live up to reality.

She said: “I’m horrible to live with! I don’t clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet!”

The actress has previously admitted to being bullied at school and she said that the fear of being picked on once led to her eating in the bathrooms at school.

She said: “I was not an outcast, but I didn’t have a load of friends.

“I got picked on, and I ate lunch in the bathroom because I was afraid of being picked on in the cafeteria.”

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Megan Fox wowed an audience with a sexy pink dress – and revelations she is afraid of ghosts and paper.

The screen siren looked stunning as she appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on US television and was as open as ever about her personal issues.

Despite starring in scary film Jennifer’s Body she admitted she is afraid of the dark – because of ghosts.

“I have been afraid of the dark all my life,” she said. “If the light is off in a room I have to run through the room to turn it on. I can’t walk through a dark room because I’m afraid of what I can’t see.”

When host Jimmy Fallon joked that ghosts could not kill her, she said: “How do you know?”

But then things got weirder as she revealed she hates touching paper.

“Some people don’t like nails on a chalkboard… I can’t stand to touch dry paper,” she said.

“Like scripts or newspapers or anything that’s not laminated. I can’t touch it with my hands, I have to constantly lick my fingers before turning pages.”

She also revealed she has a very small circle of friends.

“I only had one friend my whole life, she is still my only best friend. We were both outcasts in high school,” said the Florida native.

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Dorian Gray star Ben Barnes has admitted he “almost fainted” during his orgy scenes in the movie.

Ben, 27, is best-known for playing the immortal character Dorian Gray in the new film of the same name. He also played Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia sequel.

Ben’s character Dorian enjoys a number of sex scenes in the movie and Ben admitted that he almost passed out he was concentrating so hard.

He said to Britain’s SFX magazine: “The murders are juicy, shards of glass being stabbed into necks. The sex is strong.

“And Olly has done a marvellous job of pushing me out of my comfort zone, making me scared about where things will go and what evil performance levels I might come up with.

“I nearly fainted with concentration during the hedonistic orgies! My challenge has been making Dorian quite sweet and attractive at the beginning.

“But although it becomes clear what a lecherously downward path he’s on, you still want him to continue being sexy and seductive.”

Ben also admitted that his youthful looks might mean he can play younger characters but he also still gets asked for ID in bars.

He added: “I’m 27 too but have been playing 18-year-olds for the past five years so I knew there was something of an ageless perception I could give to the role. I still get asked for ID in bars!”

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?

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.”

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Lindsay Lohan’s mother has angrily denied her daughter is a thief and lashed out about invasions of the young actress’s privacy.

Dina Lohan attacked reports Lindsay was under suspicion in a missing jewellery affair as “defamatory, false and unfair.”

The items were reported missing from a London photo shoot earlier this month. The British magazine involved this week issuing a statement saying it did not hold Lindsay responsible.

“Elle made a public statement backing Lindsay,” her mother said.

“She is a 22-year-old girl who needs to live her life in peace. The tabloids need to leave her alone with all the lies and reporting with no proof.”

She pointed to Lindsay’s mobile phone number being posted online and her messages being hacked into.

Lindsay recently spent time quality time with her family on Long Island, New York, Dina said.

“Lindsay has been home with me and her family for a while now, celebrating her little brother [Cody's] confirmation and his 13th birthday.”

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Hollywood funnyman Will Ferrell has launched a range of sexy sunscreens.

The Land of the Lost star poses seductively on the front of three different bottles for Sexy Hot Tan, Sunstroke and Forbidden Fruit.

The risqué labels also feature Ferrell in skimpy red Speedo-style swimming trunks, topless in shorts holding a golf club and finally completely naked, holding an apple with just a fig leaf to hide his modesty.

The Sexy Hot Tan bottle is described as: “Are you sexy? Are you Hot? Then why in the world would you not want a ‘Sexy Hot Tan’?”

The Sun Stroke reads: “What golfer wouldn’t want to sport a rich dark tan and add 57 yards to their tee shots?”

And the Forbidden Fruit asks: “Honestly, the less we say about this one the better for fear of being cast into a pit of fire.”

Ferrell is launching the line of sunscreen for a good cause – a cancer charity.

Each 6oz 30 SPF bottle is being sold for $11.99 through the Cancer for College website and all proceeds from the sunscreen will fund scholarships for cancer survivors.

Ferrell said: “I’m proud to be associated with a great charity, Cancer for College.

“Since 1993, my good friend Craig Pollard, who is a two-time cancer survivor, and Cancer for College have helped hundreds of cancer survivors realize their dreams of a college education.

“We are proud to return 100% of the proceeds from sales of our new sunscreen products to the charity.”

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The husband of the woman suing Sacha Baron Cohen and claiming his character Bruno has ruined her sex life refused to comment as he arrived home with an armed security guard.

Richelle Olson’s husband Lance was accompanied by the guard, carrying a gun in a holster.

He did not want to talk about the lawsuit claiming the couple can no longer have marital relations as he and the security guard carried furniture into the house in Palmdale, California, from a van parked in the driveway.

Richelle Olson says she has been “left crippled” in a wheelchair after being “attacked” by Cohen – in character as gay Austrian designer Bruno – in a bingo hall in 2007.

She is now suing Cohen, NBC Universal and others claiming they told her Bruno was a celebrity and would appear and call numbers at the charity bingo game she ran for the elderly.

Olson claims she was not happy when she saw Bruno.

In the lawsuit, Olson alleges Bruno “used vulgar and offensive language” and when she tried taking the mic from him, “a physical struggle ensued”.

She also claims Cohen “offensively touched, pushed and battered” her, causing her to fall.

After the alleged assault was over, the suit says Olson went into another room where she was “sobbing uncontrollably”… then was rendered unconscious… “falling forward onto the thinly covered concrete slab, passing out and causing her to hit her head.”

The suit says Olson was rushed to the hospital with a “diagnosis of two brain bleeds” – and that she has been confined to a wheelchair and walker ever since.

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Guy Ritchie has joked about ex-wife Madonna being his “boss”.

The director made the gag while promoting his new movie Sherlock Holmes with star Robert Downey Jr on American TV show Entertainment Tonight.

Downey, whose wife Susan is a producer on the film, was asked: “How was it having your wife as a boss?”

Ritchie chipped in: “You could ask me that!”

But he did not elaborate, laughing: “Moving on, moving on….”

Both men were in a jokey mood in the interview, screened in the US on Thursday night.

In one scene in the new film Downey as Holmes is naked on a bed with only a pillow to preserve his modesty.

Ritchie said: “We had to augment the size of the pillow for the trailer.”

Downey asked: “Did you have to make it smaller to make me seem more significant, or larger to quell the audiences’ thirst wondering why I would need a big pillow?”

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Star Trek actor Simon Pegg has said he wants to come back as a woman in another life.

Simon, 39, who plays Scotty in the new sci-fi flick, was asked what gender he would like to be if he could return in another life and he said: "Female."

He added to British magazine Psychologies: "And with a pre-existing knowledge of being a man I’d be the most powerful woman on Earth.

"I’d also get to do something genuinely creative for the first time."

He added: "I think men are such neurotic, dangerous creatures because deep down they know they’re only there to facilitate something else.

"Women are here to do the important work, and men are a bit p****d off about it."

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Sex-mad Russell Brand says he is NOT the man to take Britain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle’s virginity.

The 48-year-old singer has revealed she is a virgin who has never even been kissed.

But wild-haired lothario Brand has admitted he doesn’t want to bed one of the world’s most talked-about women.

Brand, 33, who claims to have bedded hundreds of girls, confesses that he is not certain that he could rise to the occasion this time.

He told The Sun: “I don’t think I should be the one to do that. Susan deserves a nice strapping farmer from the North.”

However, Brand – whose conquests include model Kate Moss and actor Andrew Sach’s dancer granddaughter Georgina Baillie – does like listening to the singer from Blackburn, West Lothian.

He admitted being ‘quite charmed’ by her audition song, I Dreamed A Dream, from Les Miserables, on the hit reality show.

Speaking in Los Angeles where he is currently filming, Russell said: “It’s very moving to see latent talent realised.”

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24 star Elisha Cuthbert has revealed she has an “unlikely friendship” with heiress Paris Hilton.

Elisha, 26, met Paris, 28, on the set of their horror movie House of Wax in 2005.

Asked if she is still friends with the star, she said: “I am. It’s an unlikely friendship in that I don’t think it would have happened under normal circumstances.”

She added to the UK edition of Marie Claire magazine: “We filmed House of Wax together for three months in Australia and there were no other women around! But she knows that. You know, she’s a good lady.”

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The pop singer recently injured herself on a treadmill while awaiting the conclusion of her adoption attempt of the Malawian child Mercy. Madonna apparently twisted her ankle when she fell off a treadmill she had flown in to Malawi. A source related Madonna’s little incident at the hotel where she is staying: “There was a bang and she came suddenly flying off the back of the running machine. She looked hurt.” At least Madonna now has probable cause to plead for sympathy from the court in her adoption case that is not going too well. Maybe somebody even sabotaged her… the list of opportunities just goes on an on.