Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines said her daughter has her own way of celebrating St Patrick’s Day – putting green food colouring in everything.
Hines, 44, said her five-year-old daughter Catherine gets excited about the Irish holiday.
She said to OK! magazine: “My daughter likes to put green food colouring in everything. Last year, we might have had some green mashed potatoes and green apple sauce.”
She added: “She likes to do what she calls making potions. She’ll get out a big bowl and put everything she can find from the pantry into the bowl, and that’s her potion. It’s not a good use of food.”
Alice In Wonderland director Tim Burton’s next project is to direct a 3D version of The Addams Family, according to reports.
The legendary film-maker will direct a stop-motion animated flick based on the original drawings of Charles Addams about the gothic family.
According to Deadline, Illumination Entertainment has got the rights to the Addams drawings.
It is claimed the new movie will be unrelated to previous adaptations, such as the TV series in the 60s as well as the two 90s movies starring Angelica Huston and Raul Julia.
Chris Meledandri from Illumination will produce and Kevin Miserocchi from the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation will be the executive producer.
Burton’s last animated movie was Corpse Bride but his most well-known was The Nightmare Before Christmas.
US drama Mad Men has picked up the Best International Programme gong at the recent Royal Television Society awards.
The show, which stars Jon Hamm, January Jones and Christina Hendricks, beat off competition from other shows Damages and Generation Kill to pick up the award.
Talking about the drama, the judges said: “Moving at a glacial pace, and beautifully fetishising the period, this glossy and character-led show cleverly explores the social issues of the time.”
Kate Winslet’s marriage to director Sam Mendes hit trouble when they worked together on movie Revolutionary Road, according to reports.
The Hollywood couple recently announced their separation in a statement saying the decision to split was “amicable and mutual”.
Mendes directed the movie with wife Winslet, 34, co-starring with Leonardo DiCaprio, in 2008.
A source said to UK newspaper Daily Mirror: “Working and living together was incredibly intense and it basically overwhelmed their relationship.
“The pair have a very different work ethos. Whereas Sam wanted to switch off after a long day, Kate liked to analyse every nuance of her performance. It was just too much.”
X Factor judge Simon Cowell will marry fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy in Italy later this year, according to US reports.
The 51-year-old music mogul proposed to make-up artist Hussainy, 36, earlier this year and reports now say the ceremony is set for the spring and will take place in Venice.
A source said to website BettyConfidential: “It is a perfect time of year for Simon to be able to enjoy his wedding, honeymoon and time off as a newlywed before he starts devoting his schedule to The X Factor.”
The couple live together in LA but reports claim they ruled out marrying there or Hussainy’s native Afghanistan. They then thought about Rome before eventually deciding on Venice.
The source added: “It’s perfect. It’s romantic and historical.”
American football legend Emmitt Smith was reduced to tears as he traced his family’s history during a new US TV show.
The Dallas Cowboys great discovered that he was descended from slaves and a white slave-owner in the US premiere of Who Do You Think You Are?
Smith shed tears as he stood by the unmarked site of his great-great-grandfather’s grave, on the outskirts of a white cemetery in Burnt Corn, Alabama.
“I am glad I do not have his heart. And I am glad he never got to know me,” an emotional Smith said when he found out he was a descendent of a white slave-owner.
Smith was told that he was 81 per cent African and that his ancestors were originally from the region of Benin, on West Africa’s infamous Slave Coast.
In the programme, Smith visited Africa with his wife to trace his slave roots.
He said: “This has been such a powerful journey for me and I feel like my eyes have been opened wide.
“I feel good, I feel like I have been cleansed. History is my story now.”
Other celebrities slated to be taking part in the show are former Friends star Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Jessica Parker and hubby Matthew Broderick, director Spike Lee, and actresses Susan Sarandon and Brooke Shields.
Whip It star Drew Barrymore has said “F*** surgery” as she plans to grow old gracefully.
Barrymore, 35, has been in the public eye since she was child and her new movie Whip It, which she directed as well as starred in, is released in the UK next month.
Talking about plastic surgery, she said to UK newspaper Daily Mail: “F*** surgery! I’m so curious as to what’s going to happen naturally that I can’t imagine wanting to alter things just yet.
“And to all those women putting botulism in their faces – we don’t know what the long-term effects are, so stop! I’d rather look like a basset hound than do that to my face!”
Actress Katie Holmes has hit back at rumours that she is pregnant.
Holmes already has a daughter Suri with husband and Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise.
And recently the internet has been buzzing with the news that the couple were expecting a second child.
The buzz intensified when photos surfaced of Holmes supposedly visiting a doctor’s office.
But now her rep has said: “Katie is not pregnant.”
The rep also explained that Holmes was actually visiting E Baldi restaurant in Los Angeles, which is on the bottom floor of a doctor’s office building, to dine with her agents.
Since promoting her upcoming films, The Extra Man and The Romantics, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the actress has been enjoying quality time with her three-year-old daughter, Suri.
The last, unfinished collection of Alexander McQueen has previewed in Paris to rave reviews.
McQueen’s 16-piece autumn/winter collection was shown to an exclusive clutch of fashion scribes on Tuesday.
The fashion designer, deeply depressed, took his own life at the age of 40 in his Mayfair apartment in London in February. Fashion’s elite, gathered in Paris for its Fashion Week, is in mourning.
His last creations are inspired by paintings of the Old Masters, according to Christina Binkley of the Wall Street Journal. She writes: “Entire works of art by Botticelli, Jean Fouquet and Hans Memling were photographed and woven into jacquards, imprinted on silks or embroidered onto garments.”
AFP reports the appearance of the first model in McQueen’s showing caused audible gasps. The Times’ fashion director Hilary Alexander said: “The showing was an emphatic demonstration of the intense skill and artistry of McQueen, but all the more tragic for being such a brief and poignant reminder of what the fashion world has lost.”
Tiger Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren was reportedly talked out of filing for divorce by her twin sister.
The Swedish ex-model was about to go for a formal split from the shamed golf star. But she changed her mind after speaking with Josefin Lonnborg who jetted to Florida to be with her.
Elin, 30, had hired an Orlando-area divorce attorney after her husband’s secret affairs emerged.
But Josefin, a lawyer, convinced her sister not to take radical action. The two are extremely close and Josefin persuaded Elin not to file divorce papers while her emotions were raw.
“Elin wanted to file right away,” a source said. “She was devastated when the first mistress was revealed but when she realised he had betrayed her throughout the marriage, she was furious and she wanted out. But Josefin has been by her side through every crisis, and at every key moment during all of this.”
When Elin travelled to Gentle Path rehab centre in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for Tiger’s therapy, Josefin took care of the couple’s two children, Sam, two, and 18-month-old Charlie.
“When more and more women came forward, it was Josefin who told Elin not to file divorce papers out of anger – that she could always file them later,” the source said.
“When Tiger told Elin he really wanted to change and would do anything to save the marriage, it was Josefin who convinced her sister to give him a chance.”
The stunning blonde is reportedly planning to move back into the family’s £1.3 million home in Windermere, Orlando, after spending the last few months in a rented mansion nearby.
Glee star Jane Lynch said it was a ‘dream come true’ to work with Meryl Streep on Julie & Julia.
The 39-year-old actress can currently be seen on screens playing the role of Sue Sylvester on the US show Glee.
She previously appeared opposite Streep in the hit movie Julie & Julia.
Lynch said: “Meryl is my idol, she’s awesome. It was great – a dream come true. It was a joy meeting her, if intimidating, but I really tried to shut that part of it out.
“I did my best just to act like a normal person. When you come down to it, she’s an actor like everybody else, just a really good one! So I was a little nervous going in, but she made me feel really at home.”
Molly Ringwald, 42, turned out at the Oscars in a slender, Trojan-style gown that made the recent birth of her twins seem eons away.
But the actress laid her fine form to working out and a simple rule of thumb. Always choose something green.
She told People Magazine: “I try to make sure that I eat something green. I think that’s just a really good rule of thumb. I love all different kinds of vegetables, but the green ones are generally the best for you and the best for your diet.”
Ringwald, who stars in The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, just eight months ago gave birth to Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos. She said that getting into her current Oscars shape was a matter of “Just dieting basically. And it wasn’t even like a really strict diet. It was more just a sensible diet, cutting down on sweets and upping the vegetables and protein, less starch, and I just worked out a lot, I’d say about three or four times a week.”
It looks like getting married does not impair Katy Perry from getting a bit of diversity into her career. The singer will be getting into acting, but she is starting out slow at first by doing some voice acting. The character Katy Perry will be doing however is a very interesting choice: Smurfette. Yes, it looks like there will be a new animated movie with the loveable blue creatures and Katy Perry will be among them as the only female representative. Russell Brand must be so proud of her… in fact, it would be a shame if he didn’t join in the group as well. He’d probably make a mean Gargamel.
