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Jared Leto takes mum to Oscar Awards


Jared Leto took his mother to the Oscar Awards last night (02.03.14).
The 'Dallas Buyers Club' - who has been romantically linked to Taylor Swift and Lupita Nyong'o recently - decided to take his mum Connie to the awards ceremony, held in Los Angeles, instead of a lover.
The 42-year-old actor uploaded a screenshot onto Instagram of him and his brother, Shannon, video messaging their mother.
He accompanied the cute snap with the caption: "My mothers face when @shannonleto and I told her she was coming to the #Oscars with us! (sic)".
This isn't the first time the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman has taken his mum to an awards show as he took her to the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) in January and also dedicated his prize to her.
Jared - who was honoured as the Best Supporting Actor for his role as Rayon in the biopic - said at the SAG awards: "Last but not least, [thank you] to my mother, the hottest date in town. I just want to say, thank you for giving me such a shining and wonderful example of the possibilities of life. For showing me the power of dreams and being the best mother in the entire world. I love you."

Beyonce and Jay Z drink chicken bone cocktails


Beyonce and Jay Z enjoyed cocktails made from chicken bones on Friday (28.02.14).
The superstar couple wound down after performing together at Beyonce's sold-out concert at London's The O2 arena by visiting quirky pub White Lyan - known for not serving branded products - in trendy Hoxton, east London, where they sipped on unusual concoctions such as the Bone Martini.
A source told the Daily Star newspaper: "They weren't shy about trying something different. The oddest thing they drank was a cocktail made with chicken bones called the Bone Martini. We thought Beyonce would be more reserved when it comes to that kind of thing but she was loving it."
The 32-year-old star was clearly in the party mood after completing the first of six nights at The O2 and let her hair down with her entourage as well as Jay, 44, who had joined her on stage earlier in the night to perform their latest collaboration 'Drunk in Love'.
A source added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Beyonce had a go at making some cocktails and danced the night away with hubby Jay and one of her stylists and some others."
After a night of drinking, the couple - who have a two-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy - opted for a quick snack as they visited one of Brick Lane's famous bagel shops.
Beyonce's late night bagel binge comes a week after she treated her entourage to £700 worth of McDonald's fast food following her concert in Manchester.

Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson earning most money


Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson earn more money than their One Direction bandmates.
The 'Story of My Life' quintet are estimated to be worth over £100 million altogether but as Liam and Louis write many of their songs - with writers typically earning nine per cent of each track's royalties - it's been suggested that they're making more money than their bandmates, and Liam has admitted they're working on even more material.
Liam said: "Louis and I have a little partnership going on. We've been pretty keen to start writing straight away."
The 20-year-old star also revealed that he's focusing on writing music so that he can maintain a career in the music industry.
He told The Sun newspaper: "I've been in the studio already, it's been going really well. Learning how to write is the best way of ensuring your career has longevity and that you have control over it."
Liam, Louis and their bandmates - Harry Styles, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan - have already released three albums since coming in third place on the 'X Factor' in 2010 but Liam says their next could be their best yet.
He added: "I really think the next album is going to be a game-changer for us. I'm excited."

Lupita Nyong’o and Cate Blanchett among Oscar winners


Lupita Nyong'o, Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto were among the winners at the Oscars last night (02.03.14).
'Gravity' cleaned the board with seven awards, while '12 Years a Slave' won Best Picture at the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Lupita picked up the gong for Best Supporting Actress for '12 Years a Slave', while Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for her role in 'Blue Jasmine' and Matthew and Jared took home the Oscar statues for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively for their roles in 'Dallas Buyer's Club'.
Jared couldn't believe his luck when he picked up his award and he later handed it to journalists in the press room for them to take photographs with it.
Meanwhile, director of '12 Years a Slave', Steve McQueen, praised his mother Mary for her "hardheadedness" and insisted the film was about the will "not just to survive but to live", while producer Brad Pitt thanked the Academy for the "incredible" award.
Elsewhere, Disney's 'Frozen' picked up the award for Best Animated Feature, while its soundtrack 'Let It Go' won Best Original Song. 'The Great Gatsby', starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also won two prizes at the 86th Academy Awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.

The full list of winners for the Oscars 2014..

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

Best Costume Design
The Great Gatsby

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club

Best Short Film (Animated)
Mr Hublot

Best Animated Feature Film
Frozen

Best Short Film (Live Action)
Helium

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Best Documentary Feature
20 Feet from Stardom

Best Foreign Language Film
The Great Beauty (Italy)

Best Sound Mixing
Gravity

Best Sound Editing
Gravity

Best Visual Effects
Gravity

Best Cinematography
Gravity

Best Film Editing
Gravity

Best Production Design
The Great Gatsby

Best Original Score
Gravity

Best Original Song
Let It Go - Frozen

Best Adapted Screenplay
John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave

Best Original Screenplay
Spike Jonze - Her

Terry Alderton: Wife made me do EastEnders


Terry Alderton's mother and wife convinced him to join 'EastEnders'.
The actor recently joined the soap as Bianca Butcher's new love interest, cab driver Terry Spraggan, and he admits it took some encouragement from his family to accept the part.
He said: "I wouldn't be here if my wife and my mum hadn't twisted my arm. Mum is a massive fan and only now that I'm in 'EastEnders' does she think I've really cracked it - and I'd thought I already had with 25 years in comedy!"
Terry says his role as the affable cab driver has been life-changing and he is now stopped in the street by fans for autographs and pictures.
He revealed: "No one could have prepared me for the attention you get, it's crazy. I wear glasses in real life, so I've bought thick ones and always wear a hat. But people still recognise me. I'm someone who didn't want to be famous."
However, not all of the attention has been positive as the actor-and-comedian often gets sent abusive messages on Twitter.
Terry told Inside Soap magazine: "I get a lot of nice tweets but I get a lot of trolls - and I love the trolls! My agent and I meet up and spend our time finding all the worst stuff written about me, and then I start following those people. They must think, 'Why is he following me?' But I love it. That's my twisted sense of humour."

Sam Faiers’ Crohn’s fertility fears


Sam Faiers was concerned that Crohn's disease would affect her fertility when she was first diagnosed.
'The Only Way Is Essex' beauty learnt she had the inflammatory bowel disease earlier this month, after experiencing severe pains while in the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house in January, and she became concerned that this would effect the chances of her having children.
Quizzed on her biggest fear, she said: "Whether it would affect my fertility. Googling that was pretty much the first thing I did. I want kids and having Crohn's isn't a problem, thank goodness."
Sam admits it has been a wake up call and although she sometimes had concerns about her weight the most important thing is her health.
She added to Now magazine: "Its made me think a lot about things. I remember worrying if I went from a size 10 to 12, being bothered if I looked too big. I actually worked really hard with a trainer doing weights and 60 squats a day to get in shape for 'Celebrity Big Brother'. And then I lost a stone and a half. All I wanted was my curves back. My bum has completely disappeared.
"I'm going to get [sister] Billie [Faiers] to get me some of those padded knickers.
"We spend all of our time wanting to lose weight but life's about being healthy."

Gravity wins most Oscars


'Gravity' scooped the most Oscars at tonight's Academy Awards (02.03.14).
The sci-fi film won seven trophies, for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and rounded its haul off with Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón named Best Director.
Accepting his award, he said: "Making a film can be a transformative experience. I want to thank 'Gravity' because for many of us involved in this film, it was definitely a transformative experience ...What really sucks is that for a lot of these people that transformation was in their wisdom, for me it was [also] the colour of my hair."
The director also thanked the film's stars and stressed how many of the people who had been involved behind the scenes are the ones responsible for its huge success.
He added: "I want to share this with all the wise people who made this happen. My amazing son and co-writer, Jonás Cuarón, Sandra Bullock, Sandy, you are 'Gravity', you are the soul and heard of the film, the most gifted collaborator, and one of the most amazing people I've ever met ... George Clooney for your absolutely trust ... the wise people at Warner Brothers."
Alfonso also praise a number of his collaborators in a short speech in his native Spanish.

Cate Blanchett wins Best Actress Oscar


Cate Blanchett was named Best Actress at the Oscars tonight (02.03.14).
The Australian star picked up the trophy for her role in Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine' and paid tribute to all the other nominees as she was handed her award.
She said: "As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year, yet again, of extraordinary performances by women.
"Amy Adams, everything you do, but your performance in 'American Hustle' blew my mind. And Meryl [Streep] what can I say? Sandra [Bullock], I could watch that performance to the end of time, and I sort of felt I had.
"Julia [Roberts] hashtag suck it! You know what I mean? And [dame] Judi Dench. What a career. And she's not here tonight, because at the age of 79 because she's in India doing a sequel to her film."
Cate - who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for her role in 'The Aviator' - also showed her support for 'Blue Jasmin's director, Woody Allen, who has endured a turbulent time recently after historical sexual abuse claims against him were raised.
She added: "I am here excepting an award in an extraordinary screenplay by Woody Allen, thank you so much Woody for casting me, I truly appreciate it.
"I'm so very proud that Blue Jasmine stayed in the cinemas for as long as it did ... And to the audiences who went to see it. And perhaps those in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the centre are niche experiences. They are not, audiences want to see hem and in fact they earn money. The World is round, people!
"Thank you to my mum, my sister, to my brother, to my three glorious sons, I would not be standing her without you. To my husband, Andrew, you are a legend."

Matthew McConaughey dedicates Oscar to God


Matthew McConaughey dedicated his Best Actor Oscar to God.
The overjoyed star was delighted to accept the trophy for his role in 'Dallas Buyers Club' - which saw him lose 50lbs to play A.I.D.S. patient Ron Woodroof - and kissed his wife and hugged fellow nominee Leonardo DiCaprio as he went to accept the award.
He said: "First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities which I know are not of my hand or any other human hand.
"He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late [British actor] Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God you got a friend and that friend is you.' "
Mathew then went on to thank his family, including his mother, Mary, his father, James, his wife, Camila Alves, and their three children, Levi, five, Vida, four and Livingston, 14 months.
He added: "To my family, that's who and what I look forward to. To my father, I know he's up there right now with a big pot of Gumbo, he's got a lemon meringue pie, he's probably up there in his underwear, he's got a cold can of Miller lite and he's dancing right now.
"To my dad, you taught me what it means to be a man, to my mother, who's here tonight, you taught me and my two older brothers, demanded, that we respect ourselves. What we in turn learned was, we were then better able to respect others."
Matthew, 44, also thanked his cast mates, including Jared Leto, who earlier in the night won Best Supporting Actor for his role in the same movie.
He said: "Thank you to the other nominees, all these performances were impeccable in my opinion. I didn't see a false note anywhere.
I want to thank Jean-Marc Vallée, our director. I want to thank Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner, who I worked with daily."

12 Years a Slave wins Best Picture Oscar


'12 Years a Slave' was named Best Picture at the Oscars.
The film - based on the real life account by Solomon Northup, a free man who was sold into slavery in 1841 - took home the most coveted prize of the night, and was accepted by an ecstatic cast and crew including director Steve McQueen, producer and actor Brad Pitt, and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong'o.
Brad started the acceptance speeches, saying: "Thank you for this incredible honour bestowed upon our film tonight. I know I speak for everyone behind me when I say it has been an absolute privilege to work on Solomon's story. We all get to stand up here tonight because of one man who brought us here to tell that story, and that is the indomitable Mr. Steve McQueen."
Steve then took to the podium to give his thanks, reading out a list of collaborators.
He added: "I'd like to thank this amazing historian, Sue Aitken, who gave her life to preserving Solomon's book.
"And I'd like to thank my partner Bianca ... My mother, my mum's up there, and my children, Alex and Dexter, and my father.
"Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup. I dedicate this award to all the people who have endured slavery, and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today."
'12 Years a Slave' also took home two further prizes at the Academy Awards, with Luptia winning Best Supporting Actress and John Ridley winning Best Adapted Screenplay.

Jennifer Lawrence fell over at Oscars


Jennifer Lawrence fell over on the Oscars red carpet last night (02.03.14).
The 23-year-old actress, who famously took a tumble when she went to collect her award at last year's ceremony, slipped again in her heels ahead of the Academy Awards and was helped up by her boyfriend, actor Nicholas Hoult.
The 'American Hustle' star, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, fell in front of photographers and fans and held on to a friend as she dropped to her knees.
The shocked beauty, who wore a stunning red Dior gown for the event, threw her head back and laughed before bowing to the crowd as they applauded her.
Jennifer and Nicholas, 24, then made their way into the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, and Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres joked about her clumsiness during her opening monologue.
She said: "If you win tonight we should just bring the Oscar to you."
Jennifer, who lost out to '12 Years a Slave' star Lupita Nyong'o at this year's awards, insisted she'd tested her gown on the stairs to make sure she wouldn't embarrass herself again.
After slipping over, she admitted: "So I guess I'm not safe".
Jennifer, who fell over after collecting her award for Best Actress for 'Silver Linings Playbook' last year, claims it's now all she remembers about the event.
She said: "I look back to Oscar night and all I think about is falling flat on my face - it's not a good memory. I feel like a jerk."

Lupita Nyong’o wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar


Lupita Nyong'o has been named Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars.
The Kenyan star took home the award for her first major film role, as cotton field worker Patsey in '12 Years a Slave'.
Accepting her trophy with a voice quivering with emotion, she said: "It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's. So I want to salute the spirit of Patsey for her guidance and for Solomon thank you for telling her story and your own.
Steve [McQueen, director] you charge everything you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.
"Thank you so much for putting me in this position it has been the joy of my life.
I'm certain that the dead are standing about you and watching and they are grateful, and so am I.
Lupita, 31, also thanked her co-star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, who played the lead role of Solomon Northup, who wrote the book the film is based on, about real events in his life.
She added: "Chiwetel, thank you for your fearlessness and for how deeply you went into telling Solomon's story. Michael Fassbender thank you so much, you were my rock. Alfie and Sarah it was a thrill to work with you. Joe Walker the invisible performer in the editing room ... I could not be here without your work. "When I look down at this golden statue may it remind me and every little child that no mater where you are from your dreams are valid. Thank you."