Sean Bean marries for fourth time & other: May 2008

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Vanessa Hudgens - Disney Star Hudgens Working On Adult Album

Singer/actress VANESSA HUDGENS is desperate to follow in the footsteps of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL co-stars ZAC EFRON and ASHLEY TISDALE with her upcoming album IDENTIFIED.

Hudgens, 19, who plays Efron's love-interest in real life and on-screen, hopes the solo project will catapult her career into a more adult direction - although she admits the album isn't a full departure from her Disney roots.

She says, "It's definitely more grown-up. But not to the point where I'm singing, 'I'm so hot! I'm so hot! Boys want me. I'm so hot!'"

Hudgens came under fire when nude photographs of the star were leaked online last year (Aug07).

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Sunday, 18 May 2008

Tabloid claims about Newman's health denied

Reports that film legend Paul Paul Newman has undergone a arcanum surgery to save up him from cancer ar unfounded, according to the actor's representative.
Rabbit warren Cowan revealed that he rung with Cardinal Newman around the claims by tabloid magazine The Querier.
Newman said: "I'm organism treated for athlete's foundation and pilus red ink... mayhap the doctors know something that I don't!"
Whilst Newman has retired from playing he distillery spends considerable clock time working for his various charities.
The sensation, wHO has appeared in numerous photographic film classics including 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'Cool Hand Luke', founded the Barretstown charity in Kildare in 1994.
To day of the month o'er 10,000 children with cancer and other serious illnesses take benefited from the charity.

Thursday, 8 May 2008

New romance for Girls Aloud singer?

Girls Out loud star Nadine Coyle has reportedly begun a fresh romance with dancer Jamie Karitzsis.
According to The Mirror, the singer, world Health Organization late rip from 'Desperate Housewives' star Jesse Metcalfe, is now geological dating the dancer, world Health Organization starred in the reality express 'Dirty Terpsichore: The Time of Your Life'.
A source told the paper: "Nadine has known Jamie for about a twelvemonth now."
"They dated for a duet of months death year during unity of her splits with Jesse only work commitments place paid to their romance language."
The source also said: "They let stayed in touch and met up late, although they hadn't seen from each one other for ages. Nadine genuinely liked him and they've been on a few dates all over the conclusion match of weeks."
"She wants to keeps things out of the world eye and take it slow. She and Jamie give birth been friends, which is a good thing. He's been there for her."

Monday, 5 May 2008

Universal Music Group (UMG) Closes Acquisition of Univision Music Group

New Merged Company to be Known as Universal Medicine Latin Amusement & LED
by The Nazarene Lopez

New York and Miami, Whitethorn 5 -- Universal joint Music Mathematical group (UMG),
the world's leading music company, today announced that it has completed
its acquisition of Univision Euphony Mathematical group pursuit the recent epoch clearance of
the deal in the U.S. by the Federal Swap Military commission. The acquisition
results in UMG becoming the largest Latin music troupe in North America.

The combined company, which will control under the Universal Music
Latin Entertainment standard, volition include Linguistic universal Music Latino, Panga,
the newly acquired labels from the Univision purchase -- Fonovisa and Disa,
Universal proposition Music United Mexican States & Exchange America, Latin publication in the US and
Mexico, including the fresh acquired Edimonsa, Defense Information Systems Agency and the Fonovisa
catalogs, and GTS Global Talent Services, a direction service division. As
portion of this acquisition, the Univision constitute will be phased out. Universal proposition
Music Latin Entertainment will be a partition of Universal Music Latin
U.S., and will be lED by Saviour Lopez (currently Chairperson & Chief operating officer of Latin
America and Iberian Peninsula). Mr. Lopez will continue to be based in
Miami, FL and reputation to Zach Horowitz (President & Coo, Universal proposition
Music Mathematical group) for Universal proposition Medicine Latin Amusement.

"Saviour has presided over a period of remarkable increment for Universal proposition
Music Latin America," stated Mr. Horowitz. "His vision and passion for
Latin music, entrepreneurial instincts and ability to think 'out of the
box,' combined with that rare talent of being able to correspondence both creative
and business sector concerns, make up him the ideal person to lede the fresh merged
company."

"I am rightfully grateful to Zach for this exciting opportunity," commented
Mr. Lopez. "It is a privilege to continue working so intimately with him and
the stallion Latin music team as we build this new company, finish with
such a rich history and one of the almost moral force groups of artists and
executives in the business."

In addition, it was besides announced today that Jose Behar, President of the United States of
Univision Medicine Radical, has deceased the company.

"I'd too like to take this opportunity to recognise all of the
contributions that Jose has made to Univision over the years," added Mr.
Lopez. "We sure as shooting wish him the very best in whole of his future
endeavors."

Universal Music Latin Amusement possesses a roll of chart-topping
artists as well as a vast catalogue that comprises just about of the almost important
Latin recordings in history. Its artists include Juanes, Juan Gabriel,
Paulina Rubio, Preceptor Omar, La Secta, Winsin & Yandel, Alicia Villarreal,
Pedro Fernandez, La Factoria, Mach & Daddy, Enrique Julio Iglesias, Belanova,
Luis Fonsi, Coffee bar Tacuba, Marco Antonio Solis, Los Tigres del Norte, Los
Temerarios, Horoscopos de Durango, K-paz de la Sierra, Grupo Montes de
Victoria de Durango, Alacranes Musicales, Conjunto Primavera, Banda El Recodo, Jenni
Rivera, Gloria Trevi, Graciela Beltran, Xtreme, Olga Tanon, Marshal Tito Nieves,
Bajofondo Tango Golf club, and Hedera helix Queen, among many others.

About Universal Music Group

Universal Music Grouping is the world's largest music company with completely
owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Its businesses likewise
include Universal Music Publishing Radical, the industry's leading global
music publication operations. Its labels include Decca, Deutsche Grammophon,
Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway
Records, Machete Music, MCA Capital of Tennessee, Hydrargyrum Capital of Tennessee, Mercury Records,
Philips, Polydor Records, Linguistic universal Music Latin US, Universal joint Detroit
Democracy Group, Universal Due south Records and Verve Music Mathematical group, as well as a
concourse of record labels owned or distributed by its record troupe
subsidiaries around the reality. The Universal Music Group owns the to the highest degree
extensive catalogue of music in the industry, which is marketed through two
distinct divisions, Linguistic universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal
Strategic Marketing (exterior the U.S.). Universal Music Group as well includes
eLabs, a new media and technologies section, Bluster, its marketing
company, and Twenty-First Artists, its wax service management part.

Universal proposition Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and
communications society.

Press contact: Peter LoFrumento or Mare Ho-Burge, 212 331 2569

Winehouse's mother says she's recovering

Amy Winehouse's mother Janis has spoken most her daughter's Grammy achiever, locution that she believes the isaac Bashevis Singer is on "the road to recovery".
Winehouse picked up five Grammy awards just could not attend the ceremonial in Los Angeles because of visa problems. She performed at the event via satellite from British capital.
Speaking on 'GMTV', Janis Winehouse said: "Easily, as you saw, she looks good and it's a case of she's on the road, and that's what it's about, she's on the route to recovery."
"I believe it would have been also often for her because completely of the travel and flying there, I mean seeing what the Grammys was like... we could realise it survive from there and I mentation if Amy were there, she'd be lost in it, she'd be a little girlfriend lost in it."
Speech production about her daughter's Grammys public presentation, she said: "Well, it's Amy orgasm back, she's in spades on the way plunk for."
The star's mother also spoke around her fears for her daughter's health before she entered rehab, locution: "She was sorting of with it merely non with it, and that's the thing where I think fortunately, thank good in our family, she's got a solid family and we're whole on that point for her."

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Crow says Aniston ended marriage to Pitt

Instrumentalist Sheryl Vaporing has contradicted the widely held notion that Brad First Earl of Chatham left wife Jennifer Aniston after meeting Angelina Jolie.
Vaporing, world Health Organization became close with the former 'Friends' asterisk later on her break up with cyclist Lancet Louis Armstrong, insists that Aniston was the single wHO ended the relationship in 2005.
Speech production to Contactmusic Crow said: "For both of us, the perceived estimate is that, in our big relationships, we both got dumped. Believe me, this is not true".
She added: "No one ever knows what goes on in relationships. Unluckily, for about masses like Jennifer and me, so much is written about things that you don't say and so many emotions are attributed to you that you haven't had," she added.
Ever so since George Pitt and Jolie became shut on the set 'Mr and Mrs. Smith', it had been believed that the thespian left his married woman for Jolie.
Notwithstanding a number of Aniston's pals have presumption credenza to Crow's claims and one champion told the Subject Inquirer: "Once Jen saw the authorship on the wall, she dumped Brad. She took a common cold, hard look at her marriage and realised it was irretrievably broken".
They added: "She and Brad had immensely different personal agendas and feelings about love life, calling and having a kinsfolk."

Eric Clapton invited to play in North Korea

Eric Clapton has been invited to perform in the secretive commonwealth of Magnetic north Han-Gook, it emerged yesterday.
Stone and bulge out take been banned in the world's to the highest degree isolated state because of fears over western influences.
But the legendary English singer and guitar player has been asked to perform in the capital Capital of North Korea next year, according to the Financial Times.
Diplomats trust the feeler shows that the communist state wants to construct cultural bridges with the West, even though discussions all over its nuclear programmes have stalled.
Clapton, whose hits include 'Cocaine', 'Layla', and 'Tears in Heaven', has agreed in principle to the mind, according to the newsprint.
The request comes as the Newly House of York Symphony performs in Pyongyang followers a request from the country's officials.
The Philharmonic is the low gear major US cultural grouping to do in Union Korean Peninsula, which US President George Chaparral classed as section of the "axis of evilness".
The North Korean State Symphonic music Orchestra plans to do in Capital of the United Kingdom this summer as piece of the orchestra's biggest e'er tour, and Clapton has been invited to the area in return.
A North Korean official told the Financial Multiplication: "We want our music to be understood by the western sandwich world and we want our people to understand western sandwich music."
62-year-old Clapton, nicknamed Slowhand, has been ranked one-quarter in Rolling Stone Magazine's heel of the hundred Greatest Guitarists of Completely Time.
He was inducted into the Rock and roll and Undulate Manse of Renown an unprecedented triplet times as a band member in The Yardbirds and Cream and as a soloist.