Celeb grapevine
Tuesday, 06 May 2008 16:48
Mariah and Nick Cannon are said to have married this week
Mariah marries, Blaine holds his breath and Lindsay gets a second chance in this week's biggest celebrity stories.
Though it made over $100 million (£50 million) at the US box office, her role in
Iron Man left
Gwyneth Paltrow with more than just a bulging bank balance, she revealed this week.
The demands of the high-octane action in the Marvel movie left the actress
with a broken leg, she said, and pleading with director Jon Favreau did no good, she explained.
A guaranteed sequel has probably softened the blow…
Another celebrity whose health was at risk this week was
David Blaine though, as you'd expect, it was all his idea.
The monosyllabic magician successfully
broke the world record for breath-holding live on TV, remaining in a water-filled tank on Oprah for more than 17 minutes.
If his infamous interview with Eamonn Holmes is anything to go by, it's doubtful Oprah missed out on any interesting comments in Blaine's 17 silent minutes.
Avril Lavigne was also under the weather this week and was forced to
cancel six concerts on the US leg of her worldwide tour.
Whether the decidedly-mixed reviews for the tour played a part hasn't been confirmed...
It's been a happier week for
Kylie Minogue, who received the prestige of being made a
knight in the Order of Arts and Letters, one of the highest honours awarded by the French government, while
Pete Doherty saw daylight again after
being released from jail, 29 days into a 14-week sentence.
Celebrity unions were also a theme of the news this week, with
Mariah Carey reportedly
getting hitched to actor Nick Cannon, though friends of the singer - yes, the kind of friends who talk to the press about private matters - professed their
shock at the speed of the apparent nuptials.
A Hollywood wedding that seems more set in stone is the impending one between
Scarlett Johansson and
Ryan Reynolds, who
confirmed their engagement this week, causing members of both sexes across the globe to weep uncontrollably.
The unseemly legal wranglings of
Rob Lowe and family continued apace this week, with his lawyer
attacking a new sexual harassment claim made by another former nanny while the West Wing star's wife Sheryl labelled the claims as
"sickening".
Another star who's no stranger to brushes with the law had some good news this week, with
Lindsay Lohan confirmed for a
six-episode run in Ugly Betty.
Now, a bit part in a sitcom might seem slightly below an actress once seen as one of the brightest prospects in Hollywood but given Lohan's noted drug and alcohol problems, her arrests and her spells in rehab - not to mention all those Razzies for I Know Who Killed Me - a cameo on an ABC comedy's probably something to be proud of... ,
And finally,
Kanye West proved that in terms of humility, he's really not the best go-to guy, after penning a
very sweary blog in response to an Entertainment Weekly journalist having the temerity to award his live show a B+.