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Model and actress Elizabeth Hurley filed for divorce from Arun Nayar, her husband of four years, on Friday.
In the divorce papers filed at London’s High Court, Hurley cited the Indian textile heir’s “unreasonable behaviour” as the reason behind the marriage breakdown.
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A French skyscraper climber known as ‘Spider-Man’ has scaled the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Alain Robert took just over six hours to climb the 828-metre (2,717-foot) building, including the tapered spire above its top floors.
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British designer Max Parker has launched the world’s most expensive poker set – priced at £4.4 million.
The set boasts 384 solid 18-carat white gold chips encrusted with precious stones, as well as four platinum-plated decks of cards.
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After 25 years on television, the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show will air on May 25, Winfrey’s Harpo Productions announced on Friday.
Winfrey first announced that she would be ending the show’s long run live on television during a show back in November 2009.
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Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles at age 79.
The Oscar-winning actress, who was married eight times, had a long history of ill health and was being treated for symptoms of congestive heart failure.
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A song by a 13-year-old American teenager – dubbed as ‘the worst song ever’ – has gone viral on YouTube, attracting over 30 million views.
The pop song called Friday is sung by Rebecca Black and was uploaded to YouTube last month by Ark Music Factory, a Los Angeles-based company that was hired by the girl’s parents to produce the song for their daughter.
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Reality show American Idol made more money from advertising revenue than any other US television show in 2010, according to a survey by Forbes magazine.
The show raked in an estimated $7.1 million every half hour during its last series, when Simon Cowell was still on the judging panel, accompanied by Ellen DeGeneres, Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson.
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A big thumbs up to Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock who donated $1 million to the American Red Cross this week to aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami crisis in Japan.
The contribution came after the US aid agency announced it had given $10 million to the Japanese Red Cross to help after last Friday’s devastating quake.
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US actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays a country singer in the country drama film Country Strong, has just signed a deal with Atlantic Records to record her debut album.
The deal is worth $900,000 and will see her debut album released later this year.
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Troubled actor Charlie Sheen has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the makers of the hit TV sitcom Two and a Half Men for sacking him from the show.
Sheen’s lawyers claim the 45-year-old’s contract was breached when he was fired this week in the wake of a string of media outbursts by the actor attacking the show’s producer, Chuck Lorre.
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