dresed rekekek: January 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

Boys to Men

Let's not forget about the gents at last night's award ceremony. While some were geek-chic, ahem, James Franco, some were just geek. But the big question is, where was RPatz?! (OK, I know the answer. No one likes Twilight. Well, I LIKE him.)

Sexiest Suit

Cory Monteith, Calvin Klein

Hottest Dad

Mark Walberg, Giorgio Armani

Most in Need of a Don Draper Hair Make-Over

Jon Hamm, Calvin Klein

Best Use of Color

Mark Salling

Best Hair

Chord Overstreet, Emporio Armani

Best Boyfriend Material

Jesse Eisenberg, Dolce and Gabbana

Worst Bed-Head Hair

Kevin McHale

Worst Dressed and Worst Pose

Matthew Morrison, Prada

Best Couple

Susan and Jeff Bridges

Hottest Bromance

Mark Ruffalo, and Jeremy Renner

Best Husband Material (left), Best Actor (right)

Colin Firth, Tom Ford and Geoffrey Rush

Best Dressed Gleek

Chris Colfer, Dior

Most Likely to Replace RPtaz in my Dreams

Andrew Garfield, Burberry

Funniest Small Person

Nolan Gould

Most Likely to Be an Entrepreneur

Rico Rodriguez

Best Smile, Best Dressed Man, Best Eyewear, Best...just Best

Taye Diggs

Worst Dressed but Cutest New Boyfriend

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

*Photos via justjared.com and people.com*

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First look: EastEnders' Whitney Dean takes to the streets as a teenage prostitute in soap's controversial new storyline

By Georgina Littlejohn

Controversial: EastEnders' Whitney Dean, played by Shona McGarty, walks the streets looking for clients after turning to prostitution

It's been a pretty tough life so far for EastEnders' Whitney Dean.

First her father died when she was young, she was sexually abused by her adoptive mother Bianca's paedophile boyfriend, and her true love Billie Jackson died from alcohol poisoning.

Sadly, things are only going to get worse for the teenager as she desperately turns to prostitution - as these first pictures show.

Whitney, played by Shona McGarty, is seen walking the streets round Albert Square after descending into a life of vice after being exploited by her new boyfriend called Rob, played by Jody Latham, who is best known for his role as 'Lip' Gallagher in Shameless.

She meets Rob after running away from home after falling out with her family.

According to the People, he manipulates her into sleeping with strangers as favours for him, and she is so smitten, she doesn't realise she is being exploited.

Relaxed: Shona looked happy enough to film the scenes but they are set to cause fresh controversy for EastEnders off the back of the cot death plot

And when confronted by her brother Ryan's estranged wife Janine Malloy, she denies she is is having sex for money.

Instead she tells her: 'If he gets stuck I help him out. A couple of times he's got into a mess I've done favours for him. For his mates. I keep them happy. Off his back.'

And she defends him to cousin Lauren Branning who tries to get her to see sense, and says: 'We're in love. We're soulmates. Why is that so hard for you to understand?'

Don't do it, Whitney! Lauren, played by Jacqueline Jossa, goes looking for her cousin

The storyline, which is set to start in a few weeks, has already been slammed coming so soon off the back of the controversial cot death plot.

Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe said the scenes should be switched to a later time after the 9pm watershed.

She said: 'There are 11-year-old up at this time. We shouldn't be encouraging children as young as 11 to watch stuff like this.'

Former cast member Billy Murray, who played gangster Johnny Allen, said the new storyline was 'near the mark'.

But he added: 'People will vote with their feet. If they don't want to watch it, they can change channel.'

Where are you? Whitney's sister-in-law Janine, played by Charlie Brooks, goes looking for her

But EastEnders bosses had defended the new plot and said it was a serious look at the issue of child sexploitation.

And Eastenders bosses defended their decision and said: 'This is about Whitney being emotionally abused and groomed. It is different to prostitution. Whitney is initially not aware she is selling sex.'

Devised with help from Comic Relief, the storyline will culminate on Red Nose Day March 19 in a special ten-minute episode.

Gilly Green, Head of UK Grants at Comic Relief, said: 'It is vital that we continue to alert young people to the dangers if we are to stop them being exploited and the opportunity to work with EastEnders will make a huge audience aware of this issue.'

Whitney! Janine desperately searches for the teenager to try and stop her unwittingly descending into a life of vice

Source:Dailymail

Katie Price gives Alex Reid the cold shoulder ignoring the cagefighter as he is rushed to hospital

By Daily Mail Reporter

Snubbed: Jordan allegedly ignored Alex Reid's message as he was rushed to hospital with a dislocated shoulder

He has suffered emotional heartbreak following the breakdown of his marriage to wife Katie Price, but now he has suffered physical pain too.

But as Alex Reid lay writhing in pain on the floor his estranged wife Jordan,32, ignored his text from him telling her he had been taken to hospital, according to reports.

The cross-dressing cagefighter,35, was performing martial arts at her mansion in Surrey when he fell over and dislocated his shoulder, The Sun has reported.

While an ambulance was called to the marital home Alex contacted Katie to let her know he was going to be rushed to hospital, but the paper has reported that she snubbed the message.

A close family friend told the paper: ‘Alex was absolutely gutted by how cruel she was and now realises his wife has no feelings for him whatsoever.

‘He thinks she is a heartless b****.

In happier times: Katie Price and Alex have called time on their marriage after 11-months and Alex is said to have refused to be willing to leave Katie's mansion

Although paramedics were reportedly able to pop his shoulder back in at the Woldingham home, Alex was taken to hospital for an X Ray.

The Reidonater has refused to leave the £3million family home and in a statement

Katie said: ‘'It is true that I have asked Alex to leave the family home and that he will not do so.’

A friend has told The Sun he will leave without a fuss but only if the glamour model-turned businesswoman splashes out on a city flat for him to move into.

'He has told her he will accept a flat to leave, but there would still be other financial issues to discuss,' the insider added.

Katie and Alex finally called time on their short-lived marriage on January 19th and neither parties spokesperson was available for comment today.

Source:Dailymail

Has Cheryl blown it? She's not likely to get the U.S. X Factor gig, her new tattoo's silly... and now she's turned to her cheating ex

By Alison Boshoff

Not herself? At the National Television Awards Cheryl did not seem like herself - was she bracing herself for some bad news?

People who saw her at the National Television Awards last week will tell you that there is something different about Cheryl Cole.

Not the immense and undeniably vulgar tattoo which sprawls across her lower back — that’s actually been around for months — but the slight air of embarrassment that hangs about her like a fug of that hairspray she’s paid to promote.

This is something of a first for Cheryl, whose rise to the status of nation’s sweetheart has, thus far, appeared unstoppable.

The Mail understands her hopes of a dream job on The X Factor USA are evaporating — an excruciating public rejection.

At the same time, her unlikely romance with dancer Derek Hough seems to have faltered. And her status as a style icon is under threat, with debate over the wisdom of her £900 tattoo raging on the internet.

Indeed, Cheryl may have thought 2010 was bad, but 2011 is already shaping up as yet another annus horribilis.

In happier times: Cheryl on X Factor with Simon Cowell - but the Mail understands she will not get the USA gig

Most surprising of all is the suggestion her relationship with her ex-husband Ashley is being rekindled. Yesterday it was reported that she met him at their former marital home in Surrey last week. Could a reconciliation really be on the cards?

Well, her romance with Derek Hough appears to be in one of its ‘off’ phases. Sources say she has ‘cold feet’ and doesn’t want to move in with him in Los Angeles. Instead, she plans to rent a place of her own. Her reasoning seems to be that although at times she feels that she loves him dearly, deep down she isn’t ready to make the commitment.

Some of her associates feel that she has yet to move on fully from Ashley. Although they are divorced, they remain in touch. ‘There is a part of me that will always love him and love what we had,’ she told an interviewer.

For his part, Ashley Cole has for months now been texting and calling her, and continues to hope that they can still be friends — and perhaps even more than that.

Surely it would be professional suicide for Cheryl to get back with him, given that he humiliated her with a series of alleged infidelities? Yet she remains — rather soppily, it must be said — unable to cut the cord from the man she regards as the love of her life.

Meanwhile, executives at Fox, who will be making The X Factor USA, appear to have fallen out of love with her.

Chemistry: But the signs are that Cheryl's relationship with Derek Hough has cooled

Cheryl never confirmed stories last year she’d signed a deal to join Simon Cowell as a judge on the American show. But at the time it was widely reported she was offered £3 million to join the line-up in what one commentator described as a ‘golden ticket to world superstardom’.

Certainly the job was mentioned to her by Cowell and executives from Fox. That much both sides will confirm off the record. Fox came to see her in action on the judging panel in the UK. They loved the way she and Cowell bantered and flirted and the expectation was that a contract would follow soon after.

Weeks turned into months, though, and nothing was made official. Yet Cheryl continued to make plans to relocate to America, to try to launch her music career there.

As recently as two weeks ago, Peter Rice, the head of entertainment at Fox, told a seminar of television critics in California: ‘If Cheryl was to be on the show, I think she’s proved she’s a terrific judge. She has wonderful chemistry with Simon.’

But he added: ‘I think Simon is still meeting and trying to find the right mixture.’

That turns out to be an ominous statement for Cheryl. It appears Cowell is keen to have her on the show in some capacity — but the American producers are unconvinced she is a big enough star to merit a place on the panel.

She may end up helping him to mentor his group, a role taken by Sinitta in the UK version. The feeling is that, while she is big in the UK, she is still a nobody in America. The show’s rival American Idol has Jennifer Lopez and Steve Tyler. Fox are keen to put their star power in the shade.

Cowell wanted Katy Perry, but she is too busy touring this year. I’m told he is also intrigued by the idea of getting someone genuinely iconic, like singer Diana Ross, to sit on the panel, possibly alongside a younger star such as former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger.

Speaking at the National Television Awards, he indicated the show needs to be ‘bigger and better’ than any other he has done, which does not augur well for Cheryl.

Cowell is supposedly doing ‘everything in his power’ to persuade U.S. bosses that Miss Cole is the right choice to sit alongside him.

However, one friend of Simon’s told me he is making the decision in his customary way — which is to leave it until the last moment and then go, quite ruthlessly, with his gut instinct. So far, the indications are that his instinct is not favouring her.

Emotion: Ashley Cole is understood to have contacted Cheryl after her breakdown while speaking about him on Piers Morgan's Life Stories

So with Ashley still a presence in her life, Cheryl will continue to carve a future for herself in Los Angeles, even without the help of either Simon Cowell or Derek Hough.

She already has a busy programme of promotional activity in America for her album launch there.

She is also weighing up an offer from her friend Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas to appear as a judge on a TV show searching for an ‘urban’ performer.

This is welcome, as she would like to have more musical credibility. Somewhat predictably, she’s up for Worst Album and Least Stylish at the NME awards. Her supporters point out she has two Brit Award nominations, so why should she care?
But care she clearly does.

The bondage-style £2,200 Versace dress she poured herself into for last week’s awards shows off the handiwork of Mark Mahoney of the Shamrock Social Club tattoo studio in Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Mahoney, who has also worked on David Beckham, spent 11 hours on the butterfly-based design descending down her back. It was done last August, as she holidayed in the city while recovering from malaria.

It’s said to symbolise growth and renewal. You can’t blame her for wanting a fresh start — but to have it emblazoned so permanently is an odd decision.

But then Cheryl is a curious mixture of hard confidence and insecurity, particularly when it comes to her appearance.

Although she loves fashion and calls it a ‘massive’ part of who she is, she has not enjoyed being elevated to the status of fashion icon. She told Elle magazine this year that she ‘couldn’t care less’ what the world thinks of her style. ‘If they like it, they like it.’

She added: ‘There’s only so much you can cope with and then you either allow it to swallow you up or you say: “Sod this.” I have had it with negativity and bitchiness.

‘I want people to like my music, but I couldn’t give a **** about what they think of me.’

Brave words of defiance. Indeed, Cheryl sounds very much like a young woman who — rightly or wrongly — is steeling herself for the probability of a big public rejection.

It remains to be seen whether meeting her ex-husband is another sign of her insecurity.

Source:Dailymail

Will Andy ever win a Grand Slam? Major questions over Scot's big-match nerve after he blows up for a third time

By Mike Dickson, Tennis Correspondent Reports From Melbourne

We came in the hope of seeing the Grand Slam- winning career of Andy Murray take flight. Sadly, we watched as he laid an egg instead.

Three finals in major tournaments and he has yet to win a set, indeed barely looked like doing so.

He looked further away than ever when going down 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 to his childhood rival, the mightily impressive Novak Djokovic, in the Australian Open final.

There is no disgrace in losing to someone who right now looks the equal of Rafael Nadal, but it should trouble Murray that he could not even lay a glove on a player who he had beaten on their last three meetings.

Most disappointingly of all, he appeared to have learned nothing from this same night 12 months ago when his straight-sets defeat by Roger Federer ended in a deluge of tears.

This time Murray was contrastingly matter-of-fact about the result, entirely in line with his flat response to what was surely his best chance yet of breaking Britain’s near 75-year drought of men’s Grand Slam titles.

From the outset he was too passive, just as he had been against Federer in 2010, missing the chance to get on top of the Serb when he, too, was at his most vulnerable and nervous.

About the only animation we saw was the recalcitrant teenager-type ranting at his box and occasional gesturing to them to calm down. Once Djokovic pounced in the 10th game there was really only one man in it.

Wrapped up in a green wax jacket and brown boots, Andy Murray's girlfriend Kim Sears is all smiles as she walks their dog ahead of his big match with Alejandra Gutierrez, the wife of Andy's brother. A few hours later it was a very different story as the 23-year-old Scot lost in the Australian Open final for the second year running

To the victor, the spoils: Serbia's Novak Djokovic poses for photographers with his Australian Open trophy

Murray walks behind Novak Djokovic as they hold their trophies after the Serb's victory

Thereafter, the 23-year-old Serb was outstanding and some of his baseline defence defied human biology as he did the splits and managed to loop back his opponent’s attempts at winners.

Djokovic was terrific and surely no easier a prospect than Nadal or Federer. But that is a reminder these opportunities may not come around too often for Murray, certainly not often enough for him to fail to turn up.

Let us be clear, however, that this is far from the end of the Scot’s Grand Slam ambitions. He can look at Andre Agassi, Ivan Lendl and Goran Ivanisevic as modern examples of players who lost their first three Slam finals (Lendl lost four) and ended up winning — the American and the Czech eight times, the Croat just the once.

It is customary after big matches for the winner to tell the loser that his day will come — Tim Henman often had that ringing in his ears — and Murray’s may come soon, but not until he learns to respond with the proper mindset to the biggest occasions.

Any time you get to the final of a Grand Slam and show the kind of courage he did to win his semi-final, it has not been a bad fortnight, but to achieve the extraordinary you have to come up with something special.

It is hard not to conclude that he suffered from failing to have a coach here who is used to going deep into a Grand Slam — his part-time consultant Alex Corretja, the former world No 2, remaining in Spain.

But the biggest single reason for yesterday’s huge disappointment was the brilliance of Djokovic, who was consistently the best player at this tournament, with his revamped serve to the fore. That was the department in which he outplayed Murray, as well as the relatively flatfooted British

No 1’s traditional forte of defence behind the baseline.

Both players were edgy at the start, but Djokovic was always the more assertive and at 5-4 he noticeably cranked up his intensity, driving deep and clinching the break to 15 when he forced Murray to hit long on the forehand.

That sparked a nightmare 20-minute spell for the Scot who, while his opponent seized the moment, went into meltdown.

Murray was defeated in straight sets by Djokovic, becoming the first player to reach three grand slam finals and not managing to win a single set during any of them

Supporters of Murray in a bar in his hometown of Dunblane react as they see the title bid slip from his grasp

It's all over. In Dunblane, fans of the Scot make their way home after the final

Champagne stays on ice. The bottles on the bar in Dunblane remain unopened as fans of Murray see him lose in the final of the Australian Open

Murray, who could not defuse his opponent’s lethal forehand, stopped the collapse by securing two games at 0-5 and then got his one meaningful break at the start of of the third set.

A missed overhead, one of several, contributed to him getting broken straight back, and although there was an exchange of breaks to keep glimmers of a comeback alive, it never looked like being ‘David Ferrer revisited’.

A final break of service for 5-3 effectively sealed it.

Surprisingly, Djokovic barely celebrated in the immediate aftermath.

Partly it was out of respect for Murray, his friend, but partly it was down to him not having been given much of a contest.It had all been so curiously, disappointingly straightforward.

Murray's mother Judy looks on as she sees her son's title bid in Melbourne slip from his grasp

No need to panic, Murray still has time on his sideINSIGHT: Brad Gilbert, Andy Murray's former coach

Don’t be kidded by Andy Murray’s outwardly composed response to this defeat — I know inside he will be really hurting, even stunned by the result.

My advice would be for him not to panic and, related to that, not to take the extended break he talked about. After having a well-earned rest, get back on the horse and start riding again, because there is still everything to play for.

Andy has lost twice in major finals to Roger Federer and once to Novak Djokovic — on each occasion facing a player ranked above him.

He needs to look not only at Ivan Lendl and Andre Agassi as people who also had difficulty opening their Grand Slam tally but also to this year’s women’s champion Kim Clijsters, who lost in four finals before she got going (she has now won her last four).

There is no doubt that winning your first one is the hardest thing to do, but I still maintain that Andy has a window of about eight, maybe 12 tournaments in which to do that. It is not as if this was like the crushing, fourth round exit at Flushing Meadows against Stan Wawrinka.

But I was wrong in predicting that Andy would narrowly shade a victory yesterday. Where I was right was in saying that the real key to the match would involve who took care of their second serve the best.

The statistics, which showed that Novak won 60 per cent on his compared to Andy’s 31 per cent, tell a lot of the story.

That’s a huge difference and, while the British player had a bad serving night, his opponent really hit his spots.

Andy did not move particularly well, either, in contrast to Djokovic, whose overall calm really impressed me.

I knew he was in a special vein of form when he allowed Tomas Berdych, who had been looking pretty special himself, just eight games in the quarter-final, and he carried that on right through the tournament.

For the last six years we have seen Rafael Nadal and Federer finish the season as the top two in the world. After Djokovic’s US Open final appearance and winning here, there can be every expectation he will break up that arrangement this year.

Andy is the worthy world no 4 and the good news is that he can still improve significantly, because there is so much to his game and it was always going to take time, probably longer than with most players, for everything to come together.

I have mentioned his second serve, but I was actually very impressed with it all tournament until the final.

All he needs to do is remember Lendl, and his fellow former charge of mine, Agassi.

The lesson is that by the end of his career Andre had won every Grand Slam there is to win, which should be an inspiration.

Source:Dailymail

Sunday, January 30, 2011

SAG Awards: Red Carpet Round-Up

Not being a great team player, I never got a superlative in high school, unless it was Least Likely to Graduate. I didn't really know what they were until recently. There are SO many SAG Awards looks that I think superlatives fit perfectly. Tell me what you think! Do you agree?