Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has apologised to fans for not attending this year’s Comic-Con convention.
Radcliffe, who has just turned 21, couldn’t make the San Diego-based event because he was in Russia celebrating his birthday.
He told US newspaper the LA Times: “I apologise to all the wishful thinkers for my disappointing non-presence.
“I’ve never done the Comic-Con thing and I really, really want to experience that.”
But the actor revealed that he had an incredible time in Russia.
He said: “It was fantastic, I was in St Petersburg for my birthday, which is probably the most beautiful, the most incredible, wonderful place I’ve ever been in my life.
“It really is absolutely amazing, I went with two friends and it was brilliant.”
Talking about co-star Tom Felton’s recent revelation that he had cried while filming the last scenes of the wizard franchise, he said: “You know what, I’d love to libel him [Felton] and call it a lie, but, darn, he’s absolutely right.
“We all three of us – me, and Emma [Watson] – we just wept.”
He added: “And I’ve never seen [co-star] Rupert Grint cry – that was really weird.”
Mad Men star Jon Hamm said he doesn’t welcome his sex symbol status and said it’s ‘not like he’s Justin Bieber’.
The 39-year-old plays the role of suave ad executive Don Draper in the TV series and said he doesn’t understand the attention he gets from women through the role.
Hamm, who is dating long-term partner Jennifer Westfeldt, said to Parade magazine: “That kind of stuff is only present if you give it attention. If it’s not reflected back, it goes away.
“It’s not like I’m Justin Bieber or anything.”
Hamm added that he also isn’t in a rush to marry his partner, who he has been dating since 1997.
He said: “I don’t have the marriage chip, and neither of us have the greatest examples of marriages in our families. But Jen is the love of my life, and we’ve already been together four times longer than my parents were married.”
Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford has revealed his new love interest in the show is “a raging, conniving mean girl”.
Crawford’s character Nate Archibald finds love in the new season of the hit TV series.
And the new woman in his life is played by former Melrose Place star Katie Cassidy.
While attending the premiere of his new film Twelve yesterday in New York, Crawford told MTV News: “Katie’s great! I know Katie… she just started like three weeks ago and I think 10 or 12 episodes she’s here for.”
But he was less complimentary about her on-screen character.
He said: “She’s obviously a raging, conniving mean girl at the end of it, she sort of does her thing.
“They can’t be straight-up, but she’s fun, her character.”
Rachel Uchitel has reportedly quit Celebrity Rehab 4 after an “intense” day of filming got too much for her.
According to RadarOnline.com, Tiger Woods’ alleged mistress had signed up to appear on the show and receive treatment from Dr Drew for her alcohol problems and addiction to pills.
But the club hostess reportedly got fed up after just one day of filming and left the show.
A source told the celebrity news website: “After a very intense day of filming, Rachel just couldn’t handle being at the Pasadena Centre where Celebrity Rehab is filming, and she decided to leave.”
Robert Downey Jr is the latest celebrity Michael Lohan has reached out to asking him to help his daughter Lindsay.
Michael Lohan claims to be good friends with the Iron Man 2 star as well as Planet of the Apes actor Mark Wahlberg and he admitted he is hoping to enlist their support to help his daughter get back on track.
Lindsay, 24, is currently in a Californian prison where she recently started a 90-day sentence.
Speaking to Nashville radio station 107.5 The River, he said: “My people are reaching out to Robert Downey Jr and to Mark Wahlberg. I know both of them. Mark is a tremendous human being.”
He added: “Hopefully, they’ll see her before she gets out and she’ll get in this rehab and get off these prescription meds, and she’ll get her life back.”
The collaboration between Rihanna and Eminem raised everyone’s interest, but the actors starring in the video seem to gain more of people’s interest. The actors Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings, Lost) were photographed by journalists from On Location News at the end of last week, kissing passionately on the roof of a liquor store in Los Angeles. This moment is part of Eminem and Rihanna’s new video “Love The Way You Lie”. In the video directed by Joseph Kahn, Megan and Dominic share a kiss and a bottle of vodka on the roof of a liquor store, in an unfriendly neighborhood in L.A. Megan and Dominic’s presence in the video was supposed to be a surprise for the fans, but it is hard to keep a secret in L.A.
Angelina Jolie has triggered a fan frenzy at the Japanese premiere of Salt.
The Hollywood actress looked stunning in a long black silk dress with a thigh-high slit as she walked the red carpet at the Tokyo International Forum.
Hundreds of fans had waited hours in 35C (95F) heat and humidity just to catch a glimpse of the star. And by the time she arrived at 7pm the atmosphere was electric.
The crowd exploded into deafening screams as she appeared and began signing autographs.
She was still barely to be heard over the noise as made it to the stage to say “good evening and thank you” in Japanese. “Konbanwa, arigato,” she told the crowd.
Hulk Hogan’s ex-wife is reportedly engaged to her toyboy lover.
According to PopEater.com, Linda Bollea, 50, is to marry 21-year-old Charlie Hill, meaning that he will be stepfather to her daughter Brooke, who is a year older than him.
Limelife.com claims the pair, who have been dating for two years, will marry next summer on her yacht, which is called Alimony.
Katy Perry Posed naked for the cover of her new album “Teenage Dream”. In the picture made by Will Cotton, Katy is lying on a cotton candy cloud, just like she does in the video of “California Gurls”. When Katy saw the picture, she said: “Oh my God! What will my mother say now? Wow. It is so beautiful. I’m so excited. I’m in shock. I’m shaking a little… This is my first real piece of art, excepting my childhood posters with Gwen Stefani, I kept on the wall”. The album “Teenage Dream” will be released on the 23rd of August, and the first single extracted from this video , “California Gurls”, already has a video.
Angelina Jolie says she loved “hanging out as a man” when she was disguised as a guy for the movie Salt.
And the 35-year-old actress says she was so convincing that some of the film’s extras didn’t recognise her.
She says some of them “freaked out” when they discovered she was the person they thought was a man.
Jolie, who plays a spy in her latest thriller, tells the Daily News: “It was odd because you begin to think about what is my internal man.”
She adds that she got some strange reactions from the cast. “The guys didn’t want to stand near me – just stared at me but stayed away from me,” she says.
“And the girls – some of them thought I was cute, but also didn’t know what to do.
“It was just the most unusual feeling.
“But the only thing to do was to really get into it and enjoy it or else you’d feel awkward.
“So I just got really into it. I loved hanging out as him.”
Reality star Stephanie Pratt ‘loved the ending’ of The Hills.
The reality TV series has finished after six seasons and Pratt seemed to enjoy the surprise ending.
She told MTV News: “It’s really bittersweet that ‘The Hills’ is over.
“The finale party was so much fun, though, and then none of us knew about the little surprise ending.”
The 24-year-old sister of Spencer Pratt added: “I think Lo and I looked at each other like, ‘What?’ So only Kristin, Brody and Lauren knew about it, and the crew.
“But I loved the ending and it’s like kind of going both ways: Some people loved it, some people hated it but I loved it, I thought it was genius.”
In the final scene we saw Kristin Cavallari drive away to catch a plane and the camera panning out to reveal her and co-star Brody Jenner on what looked like a film set.
This sparked rumours that the show could have been fake but Lo Bosworth has said the show was true.
Twilight star Bryce Dallas Howard has shared a personal account of her battle with post-natal depression after the birth of her son Theodore Gabel in 2007.
Howard, 29, said she believed she was a “rotten mother, not a bad one, a rotten one, because every time I looked at my son I wanted to disappear.”
“For the sake of those around me, including my son, I pretended, but when I began showering again in the second week, I let loose in the privacy of the bathroom, water flowing over me as I heaved uncontrollable sobs,” she made known, in Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP Newsletter.
Paltrow also opened up about her struggle with the condition following the arrival of her son Moses.
“It wasn’t until my ’shower breakdowns’ began to manifest out in the open that people began to worry,” Howard explained.
“Then one day I was sitting in my home with my best friend and sister and out of nowhere I got this sudden feeling of summer. ‘I got this feeling like everything is going to be okay.’ My depression was lifting.
“To deny the experience is to deny who I am. I also feel deep gratitude for those who stood by me, for the lesson that we must never be afraid to ask for help,” she expressed.
Julia Roberts’ older brother Eric has joined the cast of Celebrity Rehab, according to US reports.
The 54-year-old, who has starred in movies such as The Dark Knight and Fight Club, is the latest star to sign up for the VH1 series and will join Rachel Uchitel and Janice Dickinson as well as Jeremy London.
London told RadarOnline.com: “Eric Roberts is my roommate and is simply amazing. He’s an incredible person.”
He added that the whole cast is ‘unbelievably cool’ and are ‘getting along beautifully’.
The new series of the show is expected to be aired on VH1 in October.
Hollywood’s biggest stars have been re-cast as the undead for the new book Zombiewood Weekly: The Celebrity Dead Exposed.
In it are pictures of Mel Gibson dripping with gore, Lady Gaga as a putrid pop star and Robert Pattinson as a rotting corpse.
The goretastic parody of Hollywood’s heroes and villains, by artist and illustrator Rob Sacchetto, explains the recent menacing behaviour from some of Tinsel Town’s biggest stars including unprovoked attacks on the paparazzi, rigor mortis-like smiles, starlets becoming ever more emaciated and the constant need to travel in packs.
It features hilarious tabloid-style headlines for the pictures, including, ‘Teen queen’s brain addiction’ and ‘Oscar winner’s cheating husband rips her heart out.’
Sacchetto made the leap into ‘Zombiewood’ following the success of his website Zombieportraits.com where anybody can have their own picture turned into a personalized zombie for $80.
Kylie Minogue will go back to acting, and she will play the role of a lesbian in the drama movie Jack and Diane. The actress, who became a singer meanwhile, will play together with Juno Temple and Elvis Presley’s niece, Riley Kenough in this movie that will be released next year. The latest important role Kylie had, was in the movie “Streetfighter” in 1994, and before that in the movie “The Delinquents” in 1989. Kylie released on the 5th of July her new album “Aphrodite” , and the first single extracted from this album is “All The Lovers” that also has a video.
Actress Angelina Jolie had to go to hospital with an injury she sustained shooting new action film Salt.
Phillip Noyce, director of the spy movie, told Eonline: “She took a dive with all the velocity that she needed to, but there was a TV monitor in her way and she collided with it and hit her between her eyes.
“That’s a moment when you don’t know what to do or think until you get the report from the hospital.”
Philllip added: “You know, you hit yourself right there and it looks like nothing but it could be something much worse.”
And Jolie revealed that the injury meant she had to put shooting on hold.
The 35-year-old said: “I returned the next day with this big bandage on my head, they had to paint it [the bandage] out.
“I tried really hard to do my fight scenes and a few minutes in, they were like, ‘You’re really not fighting very well,’ so they sent me home.”
Noyce added that the make-up artist did a good job of covering the injury up.
Angry Mel Gibson is fighting back over the damning leaked tapes – insisting that they have been tampered with to make him look bad.
Mel’s lawyers will try to prove that the tapes his ex Oksana Grigorieva secretly recorded have been edited – making them inadmissible in any court hearings, according to TMZ.
And separate tests by experts also appear to prove that the recordings – showing Mel raging wildly and even making apparent violent threats – are not all as they seem.
“I have found several things that would raise a red flag as an expert,” said Arlo West, CEO of Creative Forensic Services who worked on high-profile US crimes like the Natalee Holloway case.
“I found gaps, transients and fades – all three of these things would be considered in authenticating the tapes.
“I believe these were professionally done and she had helped.”
The LA County Sheriff’s Department will have to authenticate the tapes before sending the case to the DA’s Office, and that could take time.
TMZ insists that Mel’s legal team is planning to use proof of tampering as a key fighting point in any legal battles between the star and his ex.
Oksana’s attorneys said: “We are not aware of any presentation Gibson’s lawyers are making, but we are not surprised they would make such unfounded claims.”
Socialite Kim Kardashian throws a phone at her sister Kourtney Kardashian in an upcoming episode of the pair’s reality show.
In an episode of Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami, Kim goes to see her sister but Kourtney, 31, gets annoyed that her 29-year-old sister is always on her phone.
Kourtney said: “Kim is like a crack addict when it comes to her BlackBerry!
“If it’s not in her hand, she literally starts twitching.”
Kourtney then hides her mobile and when Kim finds out she won’t get a new one, gets angry and throws Kourtney’s phone at her.
The episode of the show Take Miami airs on Sunday in the US.
