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Madonna aims for a black belt in karate (Go To Top)

     London: She might have taken a liking for Yoga earlier, but fitness freak Madonna seems to be taking her love for exercise a step further. According to The Sun, she has taken up karate, following in the league of her husband Guy Ritchie who is already a black belt.

Jackson's 'Thriller' voted best pop video ever (Go To Top)

     London: King of pop Michael Jackson may be embroiled in legal hassles but he hasn't lost on his popularity as a pop video poll of Channel 4 viewers revealed. Jackson's 1983 music video, Thriller was voted as best pop video f all times, reports Femalefirst. Others on the list were Robbie Williams Rock DJ and Madonna's Vogue.

     Greatest pop videos of all times are: 1. Michael Jackson Thriller 2. Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer 3. A-ha Take On Me 4. Queen Bohemian Rhapsody 5. Madonna Like a Prayer 6. Robbie Williams Rock DJ 7. Michael Jackson Billie Jean 8. The Verve Bittersweet Symphony 9. Madonna Vogue 10. Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit

Cherie raises Kiwis ire by calling them Aussies (Go To Top)

     London: Cherie Blair certainly left her Kiwi hosts in Auckland puzzled when she called them Australians during her controversial tour. According to The Sun, she said it twice in front of VIPs including New Zealand prime minister Helen Clarke guests who had paid up to 380 pounds to attend the charity dinner. "Cherie was very poor. She flogged her book but could have talked about a lot more meaningful subjects.It was all about who painted which walls in Downing Street - crap. And for all the research she hadn't found which country she was in," an insider was quoted as saying.

Jennifer Ellison quits music for movies (Go To Top)

     London: Pop star Jennifer Ellison has quit he singing career in favour of films. "I'm not going to be releasing any more records. I'm glad I did it, but it's not what I want to be doing any more. I really want to do more films - serious stuff and romantic comedies - that sort of thing," femalefirst quoted Ellison as saying. Meanwhile, the star has also donned a nurse's uniform for her latest TV role. "I've just finished playing a nurse for an ITV drama with Alan Davies and that was absolutely brilliant," she said.

The net broke Ben Kingsley's marriage (Go To Top)

     London: Many love matches have been made on the net but it became the reason of Sir Ben Kingsley's split with his wife, when he discovered that she was cheating on him, after finding a photo of her kissing another man on the internet. According to Femalefirst, the Oscar-winning actor is now reportedly divorcing Alexandra Christmann who was seen kissing Sammy Brauner, son of a well-known German film director, at a Berlin nightclub three weeks ago. "It's very difficult for a man to learn on the internet that his wife has a boyfriend. Tragically, I had to file for divorce," the veteran actor said. "It came at a very, very vulnerable time for me and I was deeply, deeply shocked because until then I had no idea," he added. "I've split from Ben. Sammy is my new boyfriend now. We are a couple and we are really happy," Alexandra told photographers.

Keira gets body double for her nude scene (Go To Top)

     London: Actress Keira Knightley reportedly chose her bottom double for her latest movie, 'Domino', the story of a model turned hunter. Twenty-eight-year old Romanian dancer Roberta Lorince, who was chosen from a line-up of beautiful bottoms, was paid 550 pounds a day to double for Knightley in the nude scenes. "We had an audition. I was in an office and women came in and started stripping. They have fantastic bums and it's at that point you go 'OK, unless your bum looks like that, don't show it on film. I don't have a bum like that so it's not in the film," the Daily Mail quoted Knightley as saying. The actress said that she was well aware that her rear view might not make the grade so she decided to get a body double. ""I could do the top half, but not the bottom...In that particular scene, what they wanted was a perfect image, so in this story, in this fantasy, in this dream, you didn't need my a*** up there, you wanted something perfect gyrating around, so let's get something perfect," she said.

Kate Moss voted best dressed celebrity (Go To Top)

     London: Kate Moss has bagged the best dressed title in Glamour magazine's annual chart of the top 50 best dressed ladies. According to Ananova, she beat Jude Law's fiancee, Sienna Miller to a close second. "Sienna's not only the most glamorous woman in Britain, she's one of the sexiest too. Fantastically chic, fantastically sexy and fantastically cool," GQ editor Dylan Jones was quoted as saying. Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker came third and Victoria Beckham managed to take the fourth place.

     The Top 20 include: 1 Kate Moss 2 Sienna Miller 3 Sarah Jessica Parker 4 Victoria Beckham 5 Jennifer Aniston 6 Nicole Kidman 7 Gwen Stefani 8 Gwyneth Paltrow 9 Mary-Kate Olsen 10 Kirsten Dunst 11 Drew Barrymore 12 Scarlett Johansson 13 Beyonce 14 Jessica Simpson 15 Halle Berry 16 Kylie 17 Madonna 18 Angelina Jolie 19 Cat Deeley 20 Jennifer Lopez