The Dishing Diva

Hollywood actress Thandie Newton has been signed up as the new face of cosmetics giant Olay, according to reports.

The W star, 37, will star in the company’s next advertising campaign promoting its anti-ageing products.

A spokesperson for Olay reportedly said that the London-born actress was chosen because of the mother-of-two’s “inspirational” approach to her work-life balance.

Newton shot to fame alongside Tom Cruise in hit flick Mission Impossible 2 and then bagged a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in 2004 movie Crash.

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Actress Mo’Nique plans to make a movie about the life of fellow Oscar-winner, Gone With The Wind actress Hattie McDaniel, according to reports.

The Precious star, 42, who paid tribute to McDaniel when she picked up her Academy Award last month, has reportedly acquired the rights to the movie star’s life and will both produce and star in the project.

McDaniel, who died in 1952, was the first African-American to win an Oscar, which she won for best actress in a supporting role for her part as Scarlett O’Hara’s sassy maid in the 1939 classic flick.

Talking to US magazine, JET, Mo’Nique said: “She [McDaniel] keeps whispering in my ear. I wake up to her every morning and I go to bed with her every night.

“There’s a picture that sits in my bathroom and we wink at each other, like, ‘All right’ and I’m like, ‘All right’.”

She added: “So, I’m excited to tell that story and I hope she allows me to tell that story.”

In February, Mo’Nique won an Oscar in the same category for playing an abusive mother in the award-winning film Precious: Based On The Novel By Sapphire.

She paid tribute to McDaniel by wearing a gardenia in her hair and the same colour dress that the actress wore when she accepted her Academy Award in 1939, according to reports.

The Parkers star said: “To know 100 years from now, if they speak of me the way we speak of Hattie McDaniel – just a little bit… I’ve won.”

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Top Chef host and new mum Padma Lakshmi has revealed that she wants to pass on her jewellery to her daughter one day.

Lakshmi, 39, who gave birth to baby daughter Krishna a month ago, recently unveiled the third collection from her jewellery line, Padma, and said that she is already planning to pass on her designs to her little girl.

Talking about the designs, she said to celebrity website PEOPLE.com: “It’s very botanically inspired. There are leaves in it and all of the stones – lemon topaz and pink sapphires – are very earthy spring colours. It’s all very light.”

She added: “I would love to pass down my designs [to Krishna]. It’s all pretty delicate jewellery, so it would look good on someone who’s 15 years old or 55 years old.”

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Though Janet Jackson has two decent songs rotating on the radio right now, don’t expect that to mean that the pop singer will be putting out a full album any time soon. Janet says “There was a time where I was actually in the studio and I was recording, but I’m not working on an album. There have been a lot of record labels that have asked me to sit down and talk with them, but I don’t know if I want to do something completely independent, or go with a major.” The bigger question is what direction she will take her music to once she decides to work on it.

Sienna Miller has urged the public to keep donating money to Haiti after she saw a woman die and be brought back to life during a recent trip to the devastated island.

The British actress, 28, was visiting the earthquake zone as an International Medical Corps Global Ambassador.

Writing for US news blog The Huffington Post, she said: “I saw a woman die 2 metres from where I was standing.

“A team of doctors then spent ten minutes doing intense revival work, giving her CPR, adrenalin shots to the heart and defibrillation…”

She added: “They fought and fought and miraculously revived her.

“I saw a life lost and saved by the medical teams International Medical Corps has working here.”

Miller also revealed that she is trying to highlight the problems the Haitians continue to face more than two months after the massive earthquake struck.

Thousands of people risk being displaced from their temporary tents as the oncoming rainy season threatens to wash them away.

She said: “I am not a writer, but one thing I have always somehow managed to do is garner press attention.

“I am now hoping to exploit that for a very good cause.”

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Elin Nordegren’s cool demeanour will stretch to the Augusta Georgia Masters Tournament.

She won’t be attending but will fly out to her homeland of Sweden, putting paid to any idea that the wife of multiple cheater Tiger Woods will be on the sidelines monitoring his on- and off-green play.

Woods’ decision to return to golf as soon as next month was earlier reported to have angered Nordegren. However, the pair seem to be slowly mending their relationship, and Nordegren’s reported decision to fly out while Woods travels to a tournament could be a sign that she was moving forward.

According to Hollyscoop, Nordegren will go to Sweden with her two children while Woods competes in Georgia. A source said: “She wants to be out of the country when Tiger plays the Masters.”

Some golf insiders noted Woods has chosen the most “controlled” of tournaments for his comeback. The source continued: “Elin wants to stay away from Augusta and not get involved in the frenzy of the Masters. By not going, she sends a signal that she is staying with Tiger only because of the children. They come first.”

All is not as rosy at is might seem to be shaping, however. The source also said: “Elin is going through the motions of family life only to keep the children well grounded. She suffered through the pain of her parents divorcing and doesn’t want to do that to her kids. But she is not happy in the marriage. The trust is gone.”

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The Kardashian sisters are on the move.

First, new mum Kourtney has put her Los Angeles area home up for sale after giving birth to baby Mason.

The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house in the gated community in Calabasas features a wine closet and a private yard with a covered patio and has been listed for $800,000.

But as Kourtney is selling her home, sister Kim has just bought a furnished estate in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for about $3.5 million.

The new home is a Tuscan-style walled and gated house that has fireplaces in the dining room, family room, living room, master bedroom and kitchen, as well as outdoors.

The two-storey home includes a screening room, five bedrooms and four bathrooms in about 4,000 square feet.

Reality TV star and model Kim will also convert one of the bedrooms into a walk-in closet.

There are outdoor living and dining rooms, a kitchen, a pool, a spa and a waterfall – even an outdoor massage room.

Kardashian, 29, star of the reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, grew up nearby.

She first toured the home with boyfriend Reggie Bush, the New Orleans Saints running back, and later brought her family for a look.

She sold her three-bedroom, two-bathroom Los Angeles condo in late January for $885,000.

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Joan Jett and Cherie Currie from the famous band recently decided that they should extend a helping hand and a useful word for the rapidly rising star that is Lady GaGa. Joan Jett had this to say for the pop star: “I’ll tell you, The Runaways, when we started, we didn’t have this sort of craziness around us. Really the only time when there was insanity, as far as the press goes, was Japan … it wasn’t a 24-hour media world at that point. I think it’s very difficult if you had to be dealing with this all the time. It’s tough to incubate and do the work you need to do with people in your face.” Maybe telling Lady GaGa that she draws way to much attention to herself in a more straightforward way might prove a bit more productive. Maybe The Runaways could try to write a song about it to at least make it a little subtle.

Reality star Kendra Wilkinson isn’t in a rush to lose her baby weight and said she loves fat.

The 24-year-old gave birth to first child Hank IV in December last year and said she still isn’t taking to low-fat options to lose the added baby weight.

She said on Twitter: “I hate anything that says lowfat!!!! ewwwwwww!! I love fat so much!!”

Wilkinson also wrote: “It’s so hard to diet. i pace back’n forth in my kitchen for like an hour looking for anything unhealthy. hahaha.”

The star previously admitted that she found it difficult to accept her baby figure following the birth.

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Actress Katherine Heigl said she was embarrassed to look at co-star Ashton Kutcher after seeing his “O-face” in steamy scenes from movie Spread.

The 31-year-old appears opposite Kutcher, 32, in new movie Killers, where they indulge in some racy scenes.

Talking about Kutcher, she said to E!: “He is stupid hot. It’s ridiculous. Even his hands are beautiful.”

However, Heigl admitted that she was uncomfortable after seeing his graphic sex scenes with Anne Heche in movie Spread.

She said: “He gave me the movie to watch. I watched it one day during lunch, but when I went back to work, I was like: ‘I don’t know if I could look at you right now. I know you far too intimately and I’m really uncomfortable… I’ve seen your O-face!’”

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