Demi Moore scored $250,000 for her anti-sex slave charity when she beat Kevin Bacon in an online charity contest.
The Ghost star, who wowed with her fashion choice at Sunday’s Oscars, won the cash for the DNA Foundation, which she founded with her husband Ashton Kutcher, in the Pepsi Refresh Celebrity Challenge.
The public placed votes in the challenge. Bacon of Mystic River fame – not to mention online social network friending site six degrees – will not go home empty-handed. His SixDegrees.org is currently raising funds for Haiti and receives a $100,000 grant.
Moore’s foundation offered the cash to the Girls Educational & Mentoring Services for female victims of sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.
Rachel Lloyd of GEMS said the grant will “support us in the important work of transforming survivors of domestic trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation into future leaders”.
Mackenzie Phillips says she no longer believes that having sex with her musician father was consensual.
Phillips, 50, shocked the showbiz world when she wrote in her autobiography last year that she had a sexual relationship with John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas.
Phillips claimed in her book that it began the night before her first wedding when she was 19.
Now Phillips says has totally re-evaluated it.
“Well, you know it is a very difficult word and was a very difficult word for me to wrap my mind around when I was writing the book,” she told CNN talkshow host Larry King.
“I kept thinking ‘I am so not comfortable with this word’ as it did not seem to tell the right story.
“But for want of a better word, I used the word ‘consensual’.
“I have since been schooled by hundreds of thousands of survivors around the world and country that there is really no such thing as consensual incest.”
Asked about her half-sister Chynna Phillips, who has just been in rehab to treat anxiety, Mackenzie said: “She is doing great. She is home with her family and I feel like she did a great thing for herself and for all of us. I support her the way she supported me.”
Cougar Town star Courteney Cox has opened up about marrying a younger man and said she ‘can’t imagine’ dating someone her own age.
Cox, 46, is married to husband David Arquette, 39, with whom she has a six-year-old daughter, Coco.
In reference to her new TV show, she spoke about her real-life experiences of marrying a man younger than herself.
She said: “My husband is seven years younger than me. I can’t imagine dating anyone my own age.”
Cox added: “At my age, it’s still young enough. The experience and knowledge and the overall confidence that an older woman has is attractive to younger men.”
Photographs and video of Oscar nominees, including George Clooney, Helen Mirren, Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock, before they became stars were dug out of the archives on a US TV special.
The 20/20 Before They Were Famous show had Best Actor nominee George Clooney’s dad Nick opening the family album to reveal childhood pictures of the star with a crooked smile from Bell’s palsy – which partially paralyses the face – and wearing glasses.
Best Actress nominee Helen Mirren was pictured as a young girl, while never-before-seen video of Matt Damon was unearthed from a student production at Harvard.
A youthful Damon was also seen in a TJ Maxx commercial.
Sexy Penelope Cruz, nominated for Best Supporting Actress, featured in clips as a teenager in a screen test, a synth-pop music video and on a Sunday morning TV show.
Meryl Streep’s high school yearbooks were opened up to show photos of the Best Actress candidate as a cheerleader and budding performer.
Her rival for the award Sandra Bullock was seen getting the giggles in a school play and as the Bionic Girl in a 1989 show that failed to be picked up as a series.
Emily Blunt’s trust in a costume designer enabled her to wear corsets that sucked the life out of her in The Young Victoria.
Blunt, the 27-year-old British star of The Devil Wears Prada, said she put her faith in Sandy Powell, her costumier, saying: “When you’re playing a character like Queen Victoria it helps to have a visionary like Sandy Powell.”
Digital Spy reports the young actress said: “She corseted me within an inch of my life.”
Blunt, who described getting into the corsets as “hell”, said: “[Powell] said, ‘The shape needs to be right’. I said, ‘Well I can’t breathe, Sandy’. And she said, ‘I don’t care’. But it worked. It transported me to a whole other place so I have to be grateful, I think.”
The Young Victoria chronicles the dramatic early years of Queen Victoria’s rule.
Gabourey Sidibe’s Precious audition tape has been shown on US TV.
The 26-year-old actress sobs on camera as she reads the part of the sexually abused teenager.
Wearing a pink hoodie, blue T-shirt and white headband, Sidibe looked very different to the groomed Hollywood star who has been pictured gracing the red carpets recently.
But director Lee Daniels said he immediately knew she was the right person for the role.
He said: “I always look for the truth, so I’d been to 7/11s and bus stops. Then Gabby came in and she just started talking like this white girl.
“After the audition, I said, ‘This is the truth’ and – unlike the girls I was going to cast – Gabby can articulate this role.”
Sidibe, who beat more than 400 girls to the role of Precious, is nominated in the Best Actress category at this year’s Academy Awards.
The film has five other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Mo’Nique and Best Director for Daniels.
But Daniels confessed he was shocked by the film’s success.
He said: “I thought it was going to go straight to DVD.”
The march of a toddler was the inspiration for the Red Queen, a part played by Helena Bonham Carter in Alice Wonderland.
Bonham Carter, 43, said she modelled the character on her two-year-old, Nell. “I thought, well, she’s a toddler, because she’s got the big head, she’s a tyrant – a toddler tyrant, toddlers are tyrants. The no sympathy for any other living creature – that’s our toddler, in fact. No empathy, just commands. She just bosses us around – dictatorship. No please, no thank you. ‘Mummy come here’, ‘Mummy go’, ‘Mummy! Watch telly.”
Bonham Carter, who is married to the film’s director Tim Burton, added:”And another toddler quality – it’s all about me, it’s all about her, never considers us, ask, ask, ask. So the toddler thing was a big inspiration.”
In Burton’s interpretation of the Lewis Carroll tale, a 19-year-old Alice returns to Wonderland to find it is under the rule of the Red Queen. The flick was set to premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday night.
American actress Lisa Rinna has revealed her nanny is looking after Charlie Sheen’s baby sons.
Sheen, 44, and his wife Brooke, 32, are both currently in rehab and Rinna, 46, revealed that their 11-month-old twin sons Bob and Max are being cared for by her former nanny.
She said on Twitter: “Good news is the sheen babies r being well taken care of by our beloved nanny that was with us for 6 yrs she is a god send.”
Rinna and hubby Harry Hamlin are parents to two daughters – Delilah, 11, and Amelia, eight.
A rep recently told UsMagazine.com that Sheen has ‘entered a rehabilitation facility’ as a ‘preventative measure’.
Brooke was reportedly recently moved from rehab The Canyon in Malibu to an ‘undisclosed facility’.
Sandra Bullock’s Oscar nomination has left her feeling like she has reached all her personal peaks.
She told reporters at the Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon: “It scares me more than anything, because you think, ‘What do I do now? What do I do now that I don’t step backwards – I step forward.’ I’ve been thinking a lot about that – what do I do next? I feel like because of this honour and what I’ve been given these last couple of months, I really have an obligation not to step back even the smallest bit.”
Bullock, 45, who was just awarded a Golden Globe and a SAG for The Blind Side, is up for Best Actress at this year’s Academy Awards to be held in the heart of Hollywood on March 7. She vowed to not step backwards and told the luncheon she hoped to work hard for 10 or 15 more years.
She said: “I know I work very hard. But just because I work hard doesn’t mean the elements come together to make a good performance or a good film. So when all that happens and all those elements do come together, I’m always shocked and so happy and amazed. It’s always unexpected to me because I expect to fail – and that’s why I work even harder.”
Bullock also revealed her motto for success. “I had a little Post-it by the side of my bed for many years that said, ‘Expect as good as you give’. And that’s really been helpful. You either step up your game or expect others to match your level, so that’s a good one, I think.”
Valentine’s Day star Julia Roberts has been named as the new face of Lancome.
The 42-year-old mum was recently unveiled as the new global ambassador for the L’Oreal brand.
Talking about her new responsibilities, she told WWD: “I think I have to stand up straighter and wash my face more.
“It’s kind of like every girl’s dream, really.
“To be 42 and have three kids and be a working mom, it’s a great moment to be asked to do this and to be able to do it. I think it says a lot about Lancome and what they stand for.”
Her first ad was shot for Lancome by photographer Mario Testino and will appear in magazines later this year.
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