Robert Pattinson in preparatory school

Full Name: Robert Thomas Pattinson
Birthdate: May 13 1986
Hometown: London, England
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue/Gray
Height: 6′1 (185 cm)
Horoscope sign: Taurus
Nicknames: Rob, RPattz, Spunk Ransom
Siblings: Older sisters Lizzy and Victoria
Instruments: Piano and Guitar
Sports: Football, Skiing, Snowboarding, and more
Theatre Roles: Macbeth, Anything Goes, Our Town, and Tess of the D’Urbevilles
Movie Roles/Claim to Fame: The Ring Of The Nibelungs, Vanity Fair, Goblet of Fire, The Haunted Airman, The Summer House, The Bad Mother’s Handbook, How To Be, Little Ashes, Twilight, New Moon, Remember Me, Unbound Captives
Acting Inspiration: Jack Nicholson

Robert Pattinson was born in London, on May 13 1986, from his parents Claire and Robert Pattinson. His mother Claire worked for a modeling agency and his father, Robert, imported cars from the U.S. He showed interest in acting in his early age as he got involved in amateur theatre through the Barnes Theatre Company. Pattinson started in the backstage as an assistant and later took on acting roles as he became more comfortable with the whole theather and acting scene. Robert Pattinson’s first small breakthrough was in a production of Tess of the D’Urbervilles where he caught the attention of an acting agent and began looking for professional roles. Growing up he was a highly skilled sportsman, taking part in every sport from football and athletics to skiing and snowboarding. Robert Pattinson also had a talent for music as he played guitar and keyboards. Robert has two sisters, both older then him, Lizzy and Victoria Pattinson.

Robert Pattinson pozing as a girl

As Robert looked like a girl at young age, he began a modelling career when he was twelve years old. Pattington’s modelling career was a great success until he began to grow a beard and look more or less as a guy, heheh.. I guess he would have been more successfull as a girl then as a boy.. Ok, enough with the jokes.. For real: Pattinson explained in December 2008, “When I first started I was quite tall and looked like a girl, so I got lots of jobs, because it was during that period where the androgynous look was cool. Then, I guess, I became too much of a guy, so I never got any more jobs.

Robert Pattinson Looks like a guy?

I had the most unsuccessful modelling career.” Robert appeared later in an advertising campaign for Hackett’s Autumn 2007 collection. Robert Pattinson had supporting roles in the made for television film “Ring of the Nibelungs” in 2004. Scenes with him were not included in the television screening but he shows up in the DVD version. Pattinson appeared in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2005 but was fired shortly and replaced by Tom Riley. Robert Patttinson also played a role in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” as Cedric Diggory the member of the Hufflepuff and was named the British Star of Tomorrow by The Times in 2005.

Robert Pattinson played Edward Cullen in the movie Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling novel of the same name, which was released on 21 November 2008 in North America and won world wide fame by this role of a young misterious vampire. Pattinson was initially apprehensive about auditioning for the role of Edward Cullen, fearful that he would not be able to live up to the “perfection” expected from the character. He reprised his role as Edward Cullen in the Twilight sequels The Twilight Saga: New Moon and the upcoming Eclipse, which began filming in August 2009 and will be released June 30, 2010.

Robert Pattinson on a bike

Robert Pattinson as a child

Young Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson as a Baby

Robert Pattinson baby soldier

Robert Pattinson Paparazzi

Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson is Slopy

Robert also starred in “Little Ashes”, “How To Be”, short film “The Summer House”, “Remember Me” alongside Emilie de Ravin, which will be released March 12, 2010.

Robert Pattinson was ranked #10 on The Telegraph’s list of the 10 Highest Paid Actors, with earnings of $16 million from the Twilight movies.

Robert Pattison Quotes

• “I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don’t know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it’s kind of stuck with me.”
• “I’ve changed so much. I’m not nearly as cocky as I was, I was a real prat for the first month. I didn’t talk to anyone. I just drank coffee and told everyone I was 24 and this famous theatre actor just back from South Africa.”
• “Thats the worst thing, I dont really care if people say I’m a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he’s ugly thats just like “oh.. really?”
• “I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!”
• “Sometimes I think, ‘To hell with acting,’ and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop, acting is much cooler.”

Barack Obama as a child

Full Name: Barack Hussein Obama II
Birth Date: August 4, 1961
Birth Place: Honolulu, Hawaii.
Nationality: American
Height: 6′2 1/2″
Education: Local schools in Jakarta and Punahou School in Honolulu; graduate of Columbia University, NY(majored in political science) and Harvard Law School
Claim to fame: as the President of United States of America (1994)

Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, also named Barack Obama, was born and raised in Kenya where he herded goats with his own father… I guess he wasn’t too creative when naming his son..lol.. Ok, let’s carry on with the story..

Barack’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in a small town in Kansas. These two people, from very different backgrounds, probably never dreamed in their earliest years that their destinies will meet at the University of Hawaii which will later lead to the birth of the first African-American President of USA.

Barack had a pretty tough childhood as his parents separated and divorced when he was just a child. They separated when he was just two years old and they divorced in 1964. when he was at the age of four. Barack saw his birth father only once more before he died in Kenya in an automobile accident in 1982.

Barack’s mother Ann married an Indonesian student she met later at college in Hawaii. Barack’s stepfather Lolo Soetoro was recalled to his homeland as all the other Indonesian students that studied abroad when Suharto, a military leader, came to power in Indonesia in 1967. Ann and Barack also followed him to Indonesia. Barack attended local schools in Jakarta(Besuki Public School and St. Francis of Assisi School). He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents(Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham) in Honolulu in 1971, and attended Punahou School(private college preparatory school). He graduated from highschool in 1979. Barack’s mother died of cancer in the year of 1995.

Young Barrack Obama in highschool basketball team

Obama recalled from his earliest years: “That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind.” Obama had some dificulties in his childhood and as a young adult as he was a child of a multiracial heritage. He also spoke about using alchocol, marijuana and cocain as a teenager to answer the “big” fundamental questions of life. Barack’s quote: “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.” He stated at “2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency” in 2008 that using drugs through high school was his “greatest moral failure”.

Young Barack Obama smoking

Young Barack Obama smoking

Young Barack Obama with a cigarette

Young Barack Obama posing

Young Barack Obama

Young Barack Obama funny

Young Barack Obama Smoking

Barack Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend “Occidental College” from where he transferred two years later at the age of 20 to “Columbia University” in New York City. He majored in NYC in political science with a specialization in international relations. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation, then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Barack Obama yearbook picture

Barack Obama at college

Obama put his law school and corporate career on hold to pursue humanitarian work in his and other communities after moving to Chicago in 1985 at the age of 25. His mother played a big role in this life changing decision as the values of empathy and service she taught him inspired and moved him to act in order to truly improve the lives of people in his and other communities.  Such changes weren’t restricted locally to his community but were extended to changing the national laws and politics.

Barack Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 where he was selected as an editor and later the first African-American president of the “Harvard Law Review”. His involvement in Harvard’s law journal that publishes eight regular annual issues led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations. The manuscript was published in 1995 under the name “Dreams from My Father”.

Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father

Finally, his work in law and politics led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years and sworn in as a senator on January 4, 2005. As a member of the Senate he worked with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state “Earned Income Tax Credit” and he also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education.

Barack Obama Senate official photo

On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. This placeand the choice of announcement of candidacy was thought of symbolic as the American president Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic “House Divided” speech in 1858 at that very place. Barack Obama proceeded to focus on the general election campaign against the Republican nominee Senator John McCain. In November 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain’s 45.7%. After winning he delivered his victory speech before hundreds of thousands of supporters in Chicago’s Grant Park.

Barack Obama vs John McCain

Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: “The opportunity that Hawaii offered—to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect—became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear.” His entire life provided him with experiences from different social contexts and formed him into a strong and humanitarian oriented person which won the hearts and minds os hundreds of thousands Americans.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his, as the Nobel Committee said, “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.

Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize

Jennifer Aniston in her young days

Full Name: Jennifer Joanna Aniston
Birth Date: February 11, 1969
Birth Place: Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Nationality: American
Height: 5′ 5 1/2″
Education: Rudolph Steiner School in New York, N.Y.; High School of the Performing Arts in Manhattan, New York (attended night classes; majored in Psychology) Fiorello La Guardia School of Music Art & Performing Arts, New York City
Claim to fame: as Rachel Green on TV Series Friends (1994)

We can all thank Jennifer`s father that he decided to move with his family from Greece to New York when she was just a one year old baby, because he enabled the development of a rare Hollywood talent. In the meantime, Jennifer has become perhaps one of the most popular television actresses of her era. She found television stardom on the hit sitcom “Friends” (1994-2004), playing Rachel Green, the spoiled rich girl making her way in life as a waitress. From the first season until its last, one decade later, “Friends” was one of the most watched and discussed sitcoms on TV, and no one could have ever predicted this. After success with “Friends”, she continued her acting career in features that allowed her to display a wider array of talent. Continue reading the article to find out more about her family, her childhood and her school days, as well as details from her way to stardom.

• Jennifer was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, CA, and raised in New York City by her father, longtime daytime soap actor John Aniston, and her mother, Nancy, a former model-actress turned photographer.
• She spent the first year of her life living in Greece with her family, but later moved to New York, when her father landed a role on the daytime drama, Love of Life.



• Aniston’s father is a Greek American, born Yannis Anastassakis, on the island of Crete, while her mother is of Italian-Scottish descent and was born in New York City.
• Despite her father’s television career, Aniston was actively steered away from watching TV, though she found ways around that prohibition.
• When she was six, Jennifer began attending the Rudolf Steiner School, a Waldorf educational school that applied the philosophy of integrating artistic and analytic learning to fulfill a child’s unique and untapped destiny.
• Aniston’s father left her mother for another woman when she was nine years old. After the divorce, she was raised in New York City by her mother.
• Little Jennifer was inspired to act after seeing the play Children of A Lesser God on Broadway. After discovering acting at the age of 11, she joined the Rudolf Steiner School’s drama club. Beside successful acting, one of her paintings was displayed at an exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art at that time.
• Later she enrolled at the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts, where she joined the school’s drama society.



• In 1987, after graduating from high school, Jennifer spent a year living at home with her mom. Instead of going to college, she worked several part-time jobs to earn some money for living, including that one in a burger joint called Jackson Hole in Manhattan, or as a telemarketer and bicycle messenger.
• During those days, she began performing in several off-Broadway productions, including «For Dear Life» at the Public Theater and «Dancing on Checker’s Grave».
• Jennifer moved to Los Angeles and was cast in her first TV role in 1990, starring as a regular on the relatively short-lived series «Molloy» and in the movie «Camp Cucamonga». She also co-starred in «Ferris Bueller», a television adaptation of the 1986 hit movie «Ferris Bueller’s Day Off».
• After few other minor appearances, a pilot of a show called «Friends Like These» came along. Jennifer was originally tested for the role of Monica, but she told the producers that she felt much more comfortable with the Rachel character and they agreed.
• Before getting the role of Rachel Green on Friends, Aniston was told to lose some weight and eventually she managed to lose 30 pounds.



• The program was successful and Jennifer, along with her co-stars, gained wide renown among television viewers.
• Her hairstyle at the time, which became known as the “Rachel”, was widely copied.
• According to the Guinness World Book of Records (2005), Jennifer Aniston (along with her female costars) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
• Jennifer was cast in a Heineken commercial which was later banned due to branding issues. Later, in 1994, Microsoft invited Aniston, along with Friends co-star Matthew Perry, to shoot a 30-minute promotional advertisement for their new operating system, Windows 95.
• In addition to her career as a TV actress, Jennifer has also enjoyed a successful film career. Her biggest box office success to date was her appearance in 2003’s «Bruce Almighty», in which she played the girlfriend of title character Jim Carrey.
• Aniston dated her «Ferris Bueller» costar Charlie Schlatter in 1990. She began a relationship with Daniel MacDonald in 1991. They broke up in 1994 shortly before she was cast in Friends.
• From 1995 to 1998, she was romantically involved with actor Tate Donovan, and the couple was reportedly engaged.
• In 1998, she began dating Brad Pitt and married him on July 29, 2000, in a lavish Malibu wedding. For years their marriage was considered a rare Hollywood relationship success. However, the couple announced their separation on January 6, 2005.



• Jennifer found herself in the center of a media tempest when she announced her separation from Brad, who allegedly began a romance with Angelina Jolie on the set of their film «Mr. & Mrs. Smith».
• Aniston revealed that her divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, Nancy, from whom she was estranged for nearly a decade. They initially became estranged when Nancy talked about her daug
  hter on a television show and later wrote a book entitled, «From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir» (1999).
• Aniston said her relationship with Brad, which she does not regret, was «seven very intense years together” and that “it was a beautiful, complicated relationship.»
• Following her divorce, Aniston began a relationship with actor Vince Vaughn, with whom she costarred in «The Break Up». Relationship troubles were reported in September 2006, followed by a confirmed split in December of that year.
• Jennifer almost missed out on a role in The Break Up, because movie bosses thought it was insensitive to ask her to act so soon after her split from Brad Pitt.

YOU PROBABLY DIDN`T KNOW ABOUT HER:

• Her original family name is Anastassakis. Her father John Aniston had changed the spelling of his last name to Aniston before his marriage to Nancy Dow, and the last name that appears on Jennifer’s birth certificate is Aniston.



• Although she is half Greek, she does not like Greek food. She is also not fond of Chinese, Indian or spicy foods.
• Has a younger half-brother, Alexander Aniston (born 1989).
• Jennifer claims watching her weight is part of her job, adding she knows she is often offered parts because of her slender frame.
• Her middle name, Joanna, was her father John Aniston’s mother’s name.
• Aniston’s jobs before acting include waitress, telemarketer, bike messenger and receptionist.
• Shares a birthday with singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, actor Burt Reynolds, singer Kelly Rowland, and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.
• Was known as a class clown in high school.
• Aniston and Brad Pitt met on a blind date set up by their agents in the spring of 1998.
• Has said that her favorite food is Mexican, and that (when they were still together), she and Brad Pitt would get Mexican food and margaritas three times a week.
• Jennifer saw ex-husband Brad Pitt with Angelina Jolie for the first time at 2009 Oscar ceremony. She presented the award for Best Animated Feature with Jack Black and as she made a joke about Jeffrey Katzenberg, the co-founder of animation company Dreamworks, and Angelina laughed.



• Believes she is so good at helping people through their love woes, she could easily have made a career from it.
• Has found an unlikely savior in the form of a paparazzo. After the photographer reportedly saved her dog Norman from a car collision.
• Her first dog, named Demetri, hated her because she would always pull on its tail. She was three. She thought it was a toy.
• Says catching re-runs of Friends still keeps her entertained, even though she doesn’t like to admit it.
• Says she would like to shake things up by starring alongside Daniel Craig in the next Bond movie.
• Aniston and Owen Wilson were forced to eat dog biscuits after losing a bet on live TV in German.
• Says Angelina Jolie was uncool when she spilled details about her relationship with Brad Pitt while they were filming Mr. And Mrs. Smith.
• Universal Pictures sues blogger Perez Hilton for posting an allegedly stolen picture of topless Aniston, which comes from outtakes in The Break Up.
• Denied reports she’s had a nose job, insisting she simply had a deviated septum fixed in her nose.
• Says yoga helped her heal with her split from Brad Pitt.



• Says she’s fascinated by medicine and has always dreamed of becoming a doctor.
• Jennifer says she would love to record a reunion episode of TV phenomenon Friends.
• Admits that she can’t stand to look at pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in magazines, saying, «It’s poisonous».
• Aniston and Brad Pitt have concluded their $60 million divorce settlement. Aniston got their $29 million Beverly Hills mansion, and Pitt got control of the former couple’s lucrative film company Plan B Productions, with Aniston retaining only a «minor stake.»
• Has reportedly thanked Jessica Simpson for deflecting media attention away from her high-profile split from Brad Pitt with her split from Nick Lachey.
• Says she struggled to keep quiet during the break-up of her marriage to Brad Pitt, because talking is her therapy.
• Reconciled with her mother Nancy, nine years after they became estranged.
• According to relationship expert John Gray, Aniston and Brad Pitt’s marriage was doomed from the start. He said, that they started out like the prom king and queen. Brad was the sexiest man and Jen the sexiest woman. That kind of pressure makes it hard to make a relationship last.



• Credits yoga with helping her get over her heartache, following her split from actor Brad Pitt.
• A life-sized photo of Aniston and ex-husband Brad Pitt has been left behind in the mansion they once shared reportedly because neither Pitt nor Aniston wanted it.
• Aniston and Orlando Bloom are the celebrities American singles would most like to stumble across in an online chat room, according to a survey by one of the leading internet US dating services.
• At one point in 2003, was filming Friends (1994), Bruce Almighty (2003), and Along Came Polly (2004) simultaneously.
• Aniston and Brad Pitt’s $1-million wedding ceremony on July 29, 2000 included a flower-bedecked canopy at a Malibu mansion owned by TV producer Marcy Carsey.
• Aniston and Brad Pitt’s wedding rings, designed by Pitt, were matching white gold bands decorated with small diamonds.
• Michael Baroni, her teenage sweetheart, scuttled plans to auction their romantic memorabilia on eBay after the actress asked him not to.
• Says she’s Courtney Cox’s best friend since the first day, when they met in 1990, on the set of their show, Friends.
• Urged the paparazzi to stop following her in her private time because she’s never sure if she’s being stalked by a photographer or a crazy, armed fan.
• Her parents were so desperate for her to avoid a career in showbiz, they didn’t own a TV or take her to the cinema.
• Has got rid of all the designer lingerie that her former husband bought her and replaced it with a collection from Beverly Hills exclusive La Perla boutique.
• Ellen DeGeneres and her girlfriend, Portia de Rossi, have bought Brad Pitt and Aniston’s Beverly Hills house.;



• Terrified Aniston forced cabin staff to let her off a packed plane when it was stranded with fuel problems when she was returning to Los Angeles after filming thriller Derailed in London.
• Is one of the godmothers of Cox-Arquette’s daughter, Coco.
• For his 40th birthday, Aniston gave Brad Pitt a silk-screened-on-canvas image of Steve McQueen’s 1972 mug shot. McQueen is Pitt’s all-time idol.
• The bouncy but heavily layered mid-length cut that her character Rachel Green sported in the sitcom Friends in the mid-nineties is voted the most influential hairstyle of all time in the poll of 2,000 women by Morphy Richards.
• Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are completely obsessed with talk of babies, according to sources on the set of Friends.
• Fell out with her mum in the late 1990s after Nancy revealed too many secrets about her daughter to the press, and then cashed in by writing a book about her famous daughter.
• Was too high-maintenance and ambitious for her ex-fiance Tate Donovan. Donovan, who dated the actress between 1995 and 1998, says she likes top-notch hotels and luxury while he likes bed and breakfasts and riding his bike.



• Wanted popular comedy Friends to end because she was worried the show would lose its fans. She feared the sitcom would be remembered for going on too long, so she wavered about committing to the current final series.
• Said that always being seen as a good girl was a burden, frustrating and annoying.
• Aniston has had two septoplasties to correct her deviated septum—one which was incorrectly done in 1994 and the second in January 2007. Septoplasty is a surgical operation that helps alleviate a common condition that can lead to breathing difficulty and trouble sleeping.
• In 1997, Jennifer was nominated for a Raspberry award as worst new star.
• Jennifer broke her toe while filming Along Came Polly. Stubbed it on an ottoman.
• She is the godmother of Coco Riley Arquette, the daughter of her good friends, actors Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette.

Jen with parents in Greece.

Jen with dad, 1975.

Jen with dad, 2006.

Jennifer on her Prom

Could you say that young boy on the picture is one of the most celebrated and successful football athletes of his era? There was really huge amount of work and self control involved to reach this title, but everything is possible when you have vision. David Beckham had his vision, and through the years he realized it. Kid which was once rejected for a spot in the junior English league on account for being considered «too small» eventually became most famous English football player of all time. Everything started when one of the country’s most celebrated teams, took an interest in him, and Beckham entered the legendary Manchester United club organization as a 14-year-old recruit in its development league in 1989. Read further to find out the most interesting details from his birth until he became world known celebrity, both on and off football field.

• David Beckham was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, in London, England on May 2nd, 1975.
• He is the son of David Edward Alan «Ted» Beckham, a kitchen fitter from London and wife Sandra Georgina West, a hairdresser.



• As a child, he regularly played football in Ridgeway Park, Chingford, and attended Chase Lane Primary School and Chingford Foundation School.
• Beckham played for a local youth team called the Ridgeway Rovers, coached by his father, Stuart Underwood and Steve Kirby.
• By the age of eight, Beckham was scoring more than a hundred goals over three seasons for his team, Ridgeway Rovers of the Enfield District League.
• In one of his recent interwievs (from 2007), Beckham said that at school, whenever the teachers asked: «What do you want to do when you’re older?» he`d say: «I want to be a footballer.» And they’d say: «No, what do you really want to do, for a job?». And he would said: «But that was the only thing I ever wanted to do». That was my point when I said he had a vision what to do from youngest days.
• His maternal grandfather is Jewish, although Beckham has referred to himself as «half Jewish». When speaking of the influence the religion had on him, in his book «Both Feet on the Ground», he stated that growing up he always attended church with his parents and his two sisters, Joanne and Lynne.
• His parents were fanatical Manchester United supporters who would frequently travel to Old Trafford stadium to attend the team’s home matches. At that time, David was a strong cross-country runner who regularly finished first in his age group in the Essex cross-country championships, but he also inherited his parents’ love of Manchester United, and his main sporting passion was football.



• At the age of 11 Beckham won the chance to take part in a training session at FC Barcelona, as part of a talent competition when he attended one of Bobby Charlton’s football schools.
• As teen he was rejected for a spot in the junior English league on account for being considered «too small».
• He was Manchester United’s mascot for a match against West Ham United in 1986. Young Beckham had trials with Leyton Orient and attended Tottenham Hotspur’s (which was the first club he played for) school of excellence. But once Manchester United offered him a place there was no doubt where he would go.
• During a two-year period in which he played for Brimsdown Rovers’ youth team, he was named Under-15 Player of the Year in 1990.
• David also attended Bradenton Preparatory Academy, but one of the country’s most celebrated teams, took an interest in him. Beckham signed schoolboy forms at Manchester United on his fourteenth birthday in 1989, and then subsequently signed a Youth Training Scheme contract on July 8th 1991.



• He was part of an exceptionally talented group of young players at the club, including the future international stars like Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Phil Neville and Gary Neville. These players later helped the club to win the FA Youth Cup in May 1992, with Beckham scoring in the second leg of the final against Crystal Palace.
• David had his first appearance for United’s first team that year, as a substitute in a League Cup match against Brighton & Hove Albion, and signed his first professional contract shortly afterwards. United reached the final of the Youth Cup again the following year, with Beckham playing in their defeat by Leeds United, and he won another medal in 1994 when the club’s reserve team won their league.
• Then he went to Preston North End on loan in the 1994-95 season to get some first team experience, then finally made his first Premier League appearance for Manchester United on April 2nd 1995, in a goalless draw against Leeds.
• David made his first appearance for the England national football team on September 1st 1996, in a World Cup qualifying match against Moldova.



• His former trainer Sir Alex Ferguson said that he «practised with a discipline to achieve an accuracy that other players wouldn’t care about». He maintained his training routine at Real Madrid and even when his relationship with management was strained in early 2007, Ramon Calderon and Fabio Capello praised Beckham for maintaining his professionalism and commitment to the club.
• Lets now move on his personal life a little bit. Beckham started dating Victoria Adams in 1997, after she attended one of his football matches. At that time she was already famously known as «Posh Spice», performing in the Spice Girls, one of the world’s top pop groups at that time, and his team was also enjoying a great run of success. Therefore, their relationship instantly attrac
  ted a huge media attention, and the couple were named «Posh and Becks» by the media. He proposed to Victoria on 24 January 1998 in a restaurant in Cheshunt, England.
• Posh and Becks finally married at Luttrellstown Castle, Ireland on July 4th 1999. Beckham’s team mate Gary Neville was the best man, and the couple’s son Brooklyn, then four months old, was the ring bearer.
• The media were kept away from the ceremony, as the Beckhams had an exclusive deal with OK! Magazine, but newspapers were still able to obtain photographs showing them sitting on golden thrones. Unbeliveable number of 437 staff were employed for the wedding reception, which was estimated to have cost around $800,000.



• In 1999, the Beckhams purchased their most famous home, unofficially named Beckingham Palace, in Hertfordshire, north of London. It is estimated to be worth L7.5 million.
• David and Victoria have three sons: Brooklyn Joseph Beckham, born March 4, 1999 in London, England, Romeo James Beckham, born September 1, 2002 also in London, and Cruz David Beckham, born February 20, 2005 in Madrid, Spain.
• Name of their youngest son, Cruz, is Spanish for “cross”.
• Both Brooklyn and Romeo’s godfather is Elton John and godmother is Elizabeth Hurley.
• Posh and Becks have stated that they would like to have more children, especially a daughter
• In April 2007, the family purchased their new Italian villa in Beverly Hills, California, because of Beckham’s transfer to the LA Galaxy in July same year. The mansion, priced at $22 million, is near the homes of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and talk-show host Jay Leno, in an exclusive gated community in the hills overlooking the city.
• In April 2004, the British tabloid «News of the World» carried claims by Beckhams former personal assistant Rebecca Loos that he and Loos had an love affair. A week later, the Malaysian-born Australian model Sarah Marbeck claimed that she had slept with Beckham on two occasions.



• It was pretty tough period for Beckham, but he dismissed both accusations as «ludicrous». There has never been any proof of any of the allegations of Beckham’s claimed infidelity.
• In December 2008, Beckham and his bodyguard were sued by paparazzi photographer Emicles Da Mata, who claimed that he was assaulted by them when attempting to take a picture of Beckham in Beverly Hills.
• David Beckham and Victoria have given each other ”magic” necklaces. The couple, who are facing separation when soccer star David heads to Italy on loan to AC Milan, believe the mystical jewelery will keep them safe.
• David and Victoria Beckham celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary by getting matching Hebrew tattoos that says: «I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me, who grazes sheep in rose-like pastures.»
• Beckham is one of the most popular pin-up boys, and his face appears in advertisements for many products and he has graced the cover of magazines such as Vanity Fair and Mari Claire.



• Beckham and George Clooney struck up a friendship after they were introduced by fashion designer Giorgio Armani at 2008 New York Met Ball.
• David is advertising impotence pills in China.
• Stan Lee, the legend behind comic books including Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, was hoping to turn David Beckham and his pop-star-turned-designer wife Victoria into cartoon super heroes for his production company POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment.
• Justin Timberlake praised him for singlehandedly increasing the popularity of soccer in the US.
• Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash claims David was jealous of wife Victoria’s close friendship with him when they teamed up to reinvent her solo career in 2003.
• Usher thinks Beckham is ”one of the coolest white boys” he knows.
• Is to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for children’s charity Unicef after being asked by U2 frontman Bono.
• Made a female fan faint at Jermaine Dupri’s pre-Grammys party in Hollywood’s Club Central when he kissed her on the cheek.
• Met with children in Sierra Leone as part of his role as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.
• Said he was starstruck when he met Stevie Wonder, and told his wife that he wanted to take a picture with the music legend.
• Said that scoring the winning penalty against Argentina in the 2002 World Cup was a defining moment in his career, a moment of redemption after being vilified by the fans for his sending off against the same side four years earlier.
• Played in a special charity match againts some of Hollywood stars to raise money for those affected by the devastating wildfires in southern California.



• David was devastated when his father temporarily suffered severe memory loss after his recent heart attack – and forgot his son’s name.
• Ended the bitter three-year rift with his father by paying a surprise visit to his east London home. They fell out after Ted wrote a book about his famous son without asking his permission.
• The Beckhams shelled out $5,700 for a joystick operated wheelchair for a sick 13-year-old soccer fan, after hearing he is battling his fourth brain tumor.
• His son Romeo has been diagnosed with epilepsy.
• Has reportedly been signed up by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to teach their son Maddox soccer.
• He suffers obsessive compulsive disorder, with a mania for keeping personal items in exactly the right spot.
• Bought super-slim wife Victoria a calorie-laden chocolate fountain for Christmas.
• Said he would consider becoming an astronaut and going to the Moon when he ends his soccer career.
• Is the only British sports star in People magazine’s annual 50 most beautiful people poll.
• Beckham was eyed by pop stars Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles to appear in their music videos.



• The controversial waxwork nativity scene starring David and Victoria Beckham at the Madame Tussaud’s museum, as holy couple Mary and Joseph, was attacked by a visitor.
• Was traded to Real Madrid by Manchester United for a $41 million transfer fee.
• His sending off against Argentina for tripping Diego Simeone and England’s subsequent defeat on penalties resulted in Beckham becoming the scapegoat and public enemy number one.
• He was the highest-paid football player in 2004. He is also the first English footballer to play 100 champion League matches.
• He was also Google’s most search of all sports topic in 2003 and also in 2004. With such global recognition he’s not only excelent
  football player, he has also become an elite advertising brand and top fashion icon.
• David had a cameo role at the end of mega-hit «Bend it like Beckham» when he and Victoria were seen walking through Heathrow airport.
• You could notice that I didn`t mention his numerous tatoos. It is becauce full list of his tatoos is left for end of this post. Beckham has attributed the many tattoos to his obsessive-compulsive disorder, and claims to be addicted to the pain of the needle.
• Here is an impressive full chronology of Beckham’s tattoos includes: Son Brooklyn’s name on his back ( April 1999); «Guardian Angel» on his back (April 1999); Hindi “Victoria” design on his left arm (2000); Roman numeral VII (7) on his right forearm (April 2002); Latin phrase “Perfectio In Spiritu”, meaning “Spiritual Perfection”, on his right arm (May 2003); again Latin: “Ut Amem Et Foveam” or “So That I Love And Cherish”, on his left arm(May 2003); son Romeo’s name on his back(2003); classical art design on his right shoulder (2003); winged cross on the back of his neck(2004); angel with motto “In The Face of Adversity” on right arm (2004); son Cruz’s name on his back(Mar 2005); second angel and clouds added to right arm and shoulder (June 2006); portrait of Victoria on left forearm (Jan 2008); “Forever by your side” on left forearm (Feb 2008); Chinese proverb meaning “Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend on heaven.” down his left torso, running from his nipple to his groin (March 2008).

What to say about Angelina Jolie? This wild in the heart and unique woman is one of the most popular actresses at the moment, on and off screen. Her private life is heavily exposed since her relationship with Brad Pitt and giving birth to her biological children Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. She also gathered attention adopting children from undeveloped countries and saving them from hunger and poverty (Maddox, Pax, and Zahara). Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.

It is time to find out more about her way to fame, Hollywood success, relationships and her children.

• Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, California, as daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.
• She is of Slovak and American descent on her father’s side and French-Canadian and Haudenosaunee (Iroquian Indian) heritage on her mother’s side.
• After her parents’ separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York.



• She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell.
• As a child Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting.
• When she was eleven years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. Later she joined the renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
• Went to elementary school at William O. Schaefer School in Tappan, New York. She graduated from El Rodeo elementary school in 1989.
• Jolie’s mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes.
• She was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces.
• Graduated from Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), the same school as Lenny Kravitz. She also went to school with Michael Klesic and Bahar Soomekh.
• Her self-esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. She started to cut herself; later commenting, “I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me.”



• At the age of 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director.
• During this period, she wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with boyfriend.
• Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother’s home.
• She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, “I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos”.
• Jolie began working as a fashion model when she was 14 years old. She was signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London.
• At age 16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music videos, including those of Meat Loaf (”Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through”), Antonello Venditti (”Alta Marea”), Lenny Kravitz (”Stand by My Woman”), and The Lemonheads (”It’s About Time”).
• Angelina has been long estranged from her father, though a reconciliation was attempted.
• In July 2002, Jolie filed a request to legally change her name to “Angelina Jolie”, dropping Voight as her surname.
• In August of the same year, Voight claimed that his daughter had “serious emotional problems” on Access Hollywood. Jolie later indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father, and said, “My father and I don’t speak. I don’t hold any anger toward him. I don’t believe that somebody’s family becomes their blood. Because my son’s adopted, and families are earned.”
• Jolie appeared in five of her brother’s student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low-budget film Cyborg 2.



• In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996).
• She got a major break in 1999 when she won a leading role in the successful feature The Bone Collector (1999), starring alongside Denzel Washington.
• At her wedding to her Hackers (1995) co-star Jonny Lee Miller, she had displayed her husband’s name on the back of her shirt painted in her own blood.
• Jolie and Miller divorced and in 2000 she married her Pushing Tin (1999) co-star Billy Bob Thornton.

SHORT TRIVIA:

• Jolie means pretty in French.
• Has the letter ‘H’ tattooed on the inside of her left wrist, which is a reference to two people
  she is close to who have this letter in their names: her brother, James Haven, and Timothy Hutton.



• She got the tattoo when she was dating Timothy but since their break up she now says it’s only for James.
• Has a tattoo of the Tennesee Williams quote, A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages, on her left forearm.
• Has the Latin phrase Quod me nutrit me destruit (What nourishes me also destroys me) tattooed across her stomach.
• Has tattoos of the coordinates representing the locations where she adopted Maddox and Zahara on her left arm, which cover up the Billy Bob Thornton tattoo.
• She dropped the Voights as her surname following the bad relationship with her dad Jon Voight.
• Favorite music: Madonna, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Clash, Matchbox Twenty.
• One of her favorite TV shows is King of the Hill (1997). She also enjoys the Game Show Network and Animal Planet.
• Her godfather Maximilian Schell always gave her a doll as a birthday present, from her first to sixteenth. Sometimes it was a modern doll, made of plastic, sometimes it was an old and precious one, made of wood or porcelain.
• Has complained people take her politics ”less seriously” because she is an actress.
• Said she gave up lesbian and kinky sex after falling for Brad Pitt.
• Says she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work, not as an actress.
• Admits that she didn’t want to have her own children until she met Brad Pitt.
• Jolie and her brother James Haven consider themselves orphans after the death of their mother – because they are not close to their father, Jon Voight.



• She has been staying away from her dad Jon Voight, because he has been trying to reach her to get help. They have not spoken to each other for months. In the early 2002, Voight said the last time he saw her was during Paramount’s 90th anniversary party. He ran to give her a hug, and one of her representatives stepped in his way and said, Get back.
• Jolie and Brad Pitt made their first public appearance together at The Muhammad Ali Center’s Grand Opening Gala in Louisville. (November, 2005)
• She adopted a Cambodian baby boy, named Maddox. Jolie took custody of the baby in Africa, where she was shooting Beyond Borders. Maddox Jolie-Pitt, was born on August 5th, 2001 in Cambodia. His original name was Rath Vibol.
• Gave birth to a baby girl, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, on May 27, 2006 in Namibia.
• Says the experience of giving birth to Shiloh was frightening because she was scared she was “not gonna take a first breath.”



• Her brother James Haven Voight claims that she and her partner Brad Pitt named their baby daughter, Shiloh, after him – Their parents -John Voight and Marcheline Bertrand-had initially decided to name him James Shiloh Voight, but they later switched to his present name.
• Has officially adopted a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy almost a year after rescuing him from a Vietnamese orphanage and decided to change his name from Pham Quang Sang to Pax Thien Jolie (Pax means peace in Latin and Thien means sky in Vietnamese).
• Her friends have forced her to take cooking lessons, because she’s such a disaster in the kitchen.
• Angelina has said that she speaks very little French.
• Her height is 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
• Jolie acknowledged a past affair with a woman, saying she was surprised when she suddenly found herself having those feelings she always had for men toward a woman.
• Her petition to have her children’s last names changed to Jolie-Pitt has been granted by an LA judge.
• Barely two months since her birth, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby Shiloh Nouvel has been chosen to be the first infant ever memorialized in wax by Madame Tussauds.
• Gave her mother the nickname Great Lady.
• Holds a Private Pilot Certificate with the Airplane, Single Engine, Land rating. This means that she is qualified to fly any single-engined aircraft based on land (i.e., no seaplanes) under visual flight rules only (i.e., no instrument qualifications yet so she cannot fly in conditions requiring instruments).



• Her adoption of an Ethiopian orphan has given hope to thousands more parentless children, because her example has sparked a huge interest in adoption.
• Praised by a leading U.S. pediatrician for saving the life of her Ethiopian daughter Zahara Marley by bringing her to the hospital, right after she arrived in the U.S. The baby suffered salmonella intestinal infection as well as dehydration and malnutrition, conditions which would have led to her death in her African homeland.
• She began collecting knives and other weapons when, as a child, she used to attend renaissance fairs with her mother and brother.
• Jolie and Brad Pitt celebrated the birth of their daughter in Namibia by donating $300,000 to help other babies in this impoverished southern African country.
• Says she was searching for a father to her children before she met Brad Pitt.
• Says that she and Brad Pitt have never said ”I love you” to each other.
• Has the sexiest lips in the world, according to a poll conducted by UK FHM.
• Says she won’t get married to Brad Pitt.
• Has criticized Madonna for adopting Malawian child David Banda in an illegal manner.
• Jolie hated her famous Lara Croft character at first because she was just a cartoonish cute girl in hotpants, but then she says, Now, I’ve really come to like Lara, so she’s just like a weird friend.



• Mr & Mrs Smith director Doug Liman insists there were no signs that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were an item on his film set, saying the story was just the tabloids working overtime, trying to explain Pitt’s break-up from wif
  e Jennifer Aniston. (June 28, 2005)
• According to her neighbors in the sleepy town of Fulmer, Berkshire, Jolie’s like most women around here and often pops down her local pub for a mineral water and a sarnie.
• Donates one third of all her earnings to charity, saying she has too much money for her own needs and wants her wealth to benefit those who are in need.
• The Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to children affected by the Iraq war; $500,000 for school supplies and education programs for refugee children in Iraq and $500,000 for American children who either lost a parent deployed in Iraq or have a parent serving in that country.
• Visited the Iraqi capital Baghdad, in her role as a United Nations good will ambassador, on a mission to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees.
• Kidnappers reportedly planned to abduct her Vietnamese son Pax when the pair arrived back in the US on March 19 and hold the three year old to ransom for $100million.
• Honored by the United Nations with Global Humanitarian Action award for her work as a goodwill ambassador for refugees.



• Has brought some cheer to a six-year-old Australian boy suffering from cancer, by fulfilling his wish of meeting her.
• Sent letters to the US government, urging authorities to increase the efforts over the disaster left by Katrina.
• Jolie, Sienna Miller, and Charlize Theron refused to play the role of the Bond babe in the 007 movie Casino Royale.
• She was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland after her visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan.
• Granted Cambodian citizenship by the Asian country’s King Norodom Sihamoni on August 11, 2005.
• Is left-handed and therefore had to have guns specially made so that she could reload them easily for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
• Performed her own stunts in Tomb Raider and received cuts from the chandelier scene as a result.
• She wore pads to make her bust appear larger on film.
• Amused assistants at a Los Angeles store when she took some towels into the changing rooms to try them out.
• Has furiously denied reports she enjoyed an intimate affair with actor Colin Farrell, insisting they’re just great friends.
• Used to own several pet reptiles, including two snakes. Therefore she had no problem shooting the snake scene in Alexander (2004).
• Congratulated her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton on his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, by taking out a full-page advertisement in a trade publication. She writes, Billy, I love your brilliant mind… Congratulations! With love and respect always, Angie.



• Her skin-tight black leather pants split down the back while she was on the red carpet for the London premiere of Beowulf. Luckily Brad Pitt covered the exposed area with his hand.
• Forced Brad Pitt to put his beloved minimalist furniture in his Malibu home into storage, along with the items he and Jen picked up.
• Has revealed that she never feels intimidated when she meets with politicians to discuss refugee issues, because she knows so much on the subject that she won’t be patronized.
• Gave her Oscar Statuette, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and Critic Choice Award to her mother. She felt she didn’t need to hang on to awards.

Personal Quotes:

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I’m obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

You’re young, you’re drunk, you’re in bed, you have knives; shit happens.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. And I’d beat her, too!

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers (1995) and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate life now.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons – and not all those stupid things that people tell you you’re useful for.

My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can’t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I’m simply not excited about anything. I’m not excited about going to a film set.

[on what she does with the money she makes each year] Save one-third, live on one-third and give away one-third.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.
[Regarding the possibility of marriage with her current beau and father of her child, Brad Pitt] We have both been married before so it’s not marriage that necessarily kept some people together.

[2002] I’m drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I’m meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.

It’s alright. It’s a part of life . . . I lost my mom. It’s a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young, but it happened. And I’m happy sh
e’s out of pain, because I love her and she’s my friend.

Not many people know this about me but I’m a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child as I loved the look then. So I’loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde.

Full Name: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
Birth Date: November 11, 1974.
Nationality: American
Birth Place: Hollywood, CA, USA
Education: Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School in Los Angeles, CA
Center for Enriched Studies in Los Angeles, CA, John Marshall High School in L.A., CA
Religion: Catholic
Occupation: Actor
Claim to fame: as Toby in This Boy’s Life (1993)

This Hollywood superstar with Italian and German roots has really amazing list of roles in numerous blockbusters like “Titanic”, “The Aviator”, “Catch me if you can”, “Gangs of the New York”, “The Beach” etc. I am sure that most of you watched mentioned movies, but do you know how Leonardo became movie superstar? Where did he come from and what did he do before it was revealed that he is talented actor? I tried to collect most interesting facts about his life, and I am sure that his childhood pictures are the most attractive from all celebrity pictures on this site until now.

• Leonardo was born in Los Angeles, California, as the only child of Irmelin (née Indenbirken), who is a former legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comic artist and producer of comic books.



• DiCaprio’s parents met while attending college together and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.
• His mother moved from Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany, to the U.S. during her childhood, while his father is a fourth-generation American of half Italian and half German descent.
• He was named after artist Leonardo da Vinci, as his pregnant mother was standing in front of a da Vinci painting at a museum in Italy when Leo first kicked.
• His parents divorced when he was one. He lived mostly with his mother, although his father was around intermittently.
• His height is 6′ 1″ (1.85 m), and his nicknames are Leo and Lenny D
• During his childhood, he attended Seeds Elementary School. At that tim he was mostly interested in baseball cards, comic books and frequently visited museums, with his father.
• DiCaprio and his mother lived in several neighborhoods, such as Echo Park, then a particularly seedy, drug-dominated area of Los Angeles.
• During his teen years, he lived at 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, California (which was later converted into a local public library) and his mother worked several jobs to support them.



• Leonardo graduated from John Marshall High School a few blocks away, after attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies for four years.
• After his divorce, his father married Peggy Ann Farrar, who had a son called Adam Farrar, another actor/producer who became Leo’s stepbrother and who inspired DiCaprio to become an actor.
• At the age of five he appeared on his favorite TV show “Romper Room” and was nearly thrown off for misbehaving.
• DiCaprio began looking for an agent at the age of twelve, but was initially turned down several times; one agent suggested that he anglicize his name to “Lenny Williams”, which DiCaprio rejected.
• Leo Attended the same high school as Bo Barrett, Heidi Fleiss, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Julie Newmar.
• Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson are his favorite actors, and Martin Scorsese is his favorite director.
• After a string of commercials, educational films (”Mickey’s Safety Club”), occasional parts in TV series, a debut film role as Josh in Critters 3 (1991), a continuing role as the homeless boy Luke in the TV series “Growing Pains” (1985), he got his break-through part as Toby in This Boy’s Life (1993), co-starring with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin.
• His good friends are Mark Wahlberg., Lukas Haas, Kevin Connolly and Vincent Gallo.



• His favorite food is pasta. His favorite drink is lemonade.
• He purchased a 104-acre island off the coast of Belize in 2005 and plans to develop a resort with renewable energy sources. Purchase price for the island, Blackadore Caye, was estimated to be $1.75 million.
• Originally offered the role of Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997), but turned it down to do Titanic.
• On the set of Titanic, DiCaprio’s pet lizard was run over by a truck, but with some TLC, Leo nursed him to health.
• Bought an apartment in Riverhouse, an eco-friendly building overlooking the Hudson River.
• Has offered a $20,000 reward for the return of a camera he lost in a Los Angeles’ nightclub, prompting speculation over what kind of pictures the camera contained.
• He most relevant relationships are with: Bar Rafael (Israeli model; dating in 2006), Gisele Bundchen (Brazilian model; born on July 20, 1980; broke up in 2005), Vanessa Hayden (model; dated in 1998), Kristen Zang (model; born on June 22, 1974; 1996-1997).
• Good friends with Kate Winslet. They remain firm friends after starring together in Titanic. They chat often on the phone and give each other advice.
• According to Russell Crowe, Leo often complained about being a virgin while they were filming Quick And The Dead. Leo was 17 at the time.
• Was inspired to make global-warming documentary The 11th Hour by Al Gore’s efforts on environmental issues when he was the U.S. vice president in the early 1990s.



• He is an environmental conservationist and often advocates and supports natural causes.
• ˝Adopted˝ a little girl he met while filming Blood Diamond in South Africa. The child will not live with him, but DiCaprio will be funding her expenses and making telephone calls to check her well being.
• He suffered a minor leg injury while filming Blood Diamond in Mozambique, Africa.
• Leonardo has made a large but unspecified donation to UNICEF for tsunami relief efforts in Thailand, where he spent four months shooting the 2000 movie The Beach.
• While filming The Beachoff the coast of Thailand, Leonardo and others were swept off a camera boat by strong winds and waves. No one was injured.
• He’s been spotted out together with Demi Moore at numerous Los Angeles nightspots.
• Is begging his father to leave his motorbike in his garage after he was knocked off his chopper and nearly killed in a recent accident.
• He got an unexpected greeting while shooting The Departed next to a strip club, when an excited group of strippers hunted him down.
• Has filed a police report over an attack at a Hollywood party which left him needing 12 stitches in his neck.
• Helped environmentalists launch an international campaign to draw attention to the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who don’t have access to clean
  water.



• Has the best cheeks among male celebrities, according to an annual survey conducted by the Beverly Hills Institute For Aesthetic And Reconstructive Surgery in Los Angeles.
• Turned down the part of Robin in Batman Forever (1995).
• Says he practiced his losing smile for the 2005 Oscars because he knew he wouldn’t win the Best Actor trophy for his role in The Aviator.
• In January 1999, his lawyers filed an application to allow DiCaprio to copyright his own name.
• His line «I’m the king of the world!» in the film Titanic is dubbed the cheesiest line in movie history.
• Sues Playgirl over plans to publish pictures, including full frontal nudity, of himself.
• Miramax Films has avoided having DiCaprio compete with himself by moving the release date of Gangs Of New York to December 20 — the Martin Scorsese epic initially was scheduled to open on Christmas Day, when it would have competed with another DiCaprio film, DreamWorks’ Catch me if you can.



• He delivered an early present to President Bush: an invitation to attend the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the end of August 2002.
• Police found a photograph of DiCaprio with his arms around two 20-year-old Brazilian call-girls, who charge $90 per hour for sex, when they searched a Parisian flat of two men suspected of running a prostitution ring — However, police state DiCaprio did not know the girls were prostitutes, and did not pay them for sex.
• The move from “star” to “superstar” came when DiCaprio played Jack Dawson in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, along side Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, which soon became the highest grossing film of all time and received stunning 11 Oscars.

Leonardo with family.

Little Leo with mom and grandma.

Leo with his mom Irmelin.

With his grand parents.

Leo´s friends.

With mom again.

Most interesting personal quotes:
I don’t really have many extravagances. I don’t fly private jets and I don’t have bodyguards and I don’t buy crazy things. I have a couple of houses here and there. I bought a very expensive

watch, and I am going to buy a really expensive movie poster, the original for The Thief of Bagdad (1940). I love movie posters.

On turning 30: “I kind of feel like the same person except more time has gone by. I hate to say that I feel like an adult now. I have to admit I wish I was still 18. After all, even through the time while I was representing that wild kid, I really wasn’t. I was just living my life. I was just not making movies at the time.”

I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn’t know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 12. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We’d had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn’t even look her in the eye to talk to her.

I don’t know if I’m ever getting married. I’m probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people took a chance and they did it. We don’t have the guts that Romeo did.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called ‘a little crazy’. And now I guess I’m still that way.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn’t sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

I’m not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I’m the rebel type in the sense that I don’t think I’m like everyone else. I try to be an individual.

I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins. When I’m acting and I take a break, the first thing on my list is spending time by the sea.
My mom and I lived at Hollywood and Western, a drug-dealer and prostitute corner. It was pretty terrifying.

I got beat up a lot. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember I was 5 years old, and this guy with a trench coat, needle
s and crack cornered me. Early on, seeing the devastation on my block, seeing heroin addicts, made me think twice about ever getting involved in drugs. It’s evil. Once you take that step and experiment, drugs can take over your life. You are not yourself anymore. That’s something I never wanted. I didn’t have a lot of friends growing up. It was kind of just me and my parents. But because of them, the neighborhood did not have a bad effect on me. My dad introduced me to artists, and every few months we’d go to some hippie doo-dah parade as Mudmen in our underwear, carrying sticks and covered in mud. My mother did everything to get me into the best schools she could find.

When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?’

On his life: “What I would do in order to be popular was, I’d put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.”
On love: I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.
Dark green is my favorite color. It’s the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

I’m not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I’m the rebel type in the sense that I don’t think I’m like everyone else. I try to be an individual.

I’m absolutely clean. I’ve never tried anything. That’s not a lie!

I don’t have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don’t get sad and enormously happy. I think a lot of people who talk about all that crap are lying. Right now I’m just trying to maintain happiness – that’s all I really care about. Anyway, when you’re my age and your hormones are kicking in, there’s not much besides sex that’s on your mind.

I hate speaking in front of a large audience. I don’t know where it came from…but its just this gut-wrenching fear of slipping up and doing something horrible.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.

It’s tricky stuff. If you’re not perfect in every film, then people say ’see, he was just lucky in one role’.
Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don’t know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I’m a weirdo.

If you hear of any incident about me – a fight, a change of clothes, a little extra gel in the hair, don’t believe it till you talk to me.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.
The main thing for me right now is just to live my life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not ‘Leonardo, Master Thespian’. That’s all I need to keep my sanity.

The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.
On success: “I’ve just been jolting along from one film to another. . . . Now, it’s sort of a shock to realize what I’ve achieved.”

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

I’m just starting to scratch the surface of what makes me happy, and it has taken me a while to admit that acting like a child and a jerk is fun.

On acting: “Don’t think for a moment that I’m really like any of the characters I play. That’s why it’s called acting.”

A consensus has emerged in our scientific community that global warming is no longer merely a theory but a reality, a crisis with truly global implications for planet Earth and all of us who share it. – Told to thousands at the New Jersey concert for Live Earth

I have finally collected the most interesting pictures and things about Jessica and finished this post. Beside Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, she is one of the most famous pop icons of the moment. She even had similar way to success like the other two mentioned singers. From early auditions to Newlyweds with Nick and her movie roles, everything is on one place…

• Jessica Ann Simpson was born July 10, 1980, in Abilene, Texas. She is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has also begun working as an actress.
• Jessica is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, an internationally successful pop rock singer and actress.



• Her dad is a psychologist and minister at a Baptist church in Texas, and also manages her musical career and her official website.
• She attended Richardson North Junior High( she graduated in 1995.) and J.J. Pearce High School(1995-1998).
• She began singing at her local Baptist church.
• She auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club and made it to the finals at the age of twelve; in 1992(but the roles were later given to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera).
• Jessica is just five feet, three inches tall, and she is a natural brunette.
• Jessica signed with Columbia Records in 1998.
• Jessica and her ex-husband Nick had their own reality show on MTV for three seasons called Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica.
• After Newlyweds began airing, Jessica’s album sales skyrocketed.
• Jessica married to Nick Lachey on October 26, 2002.
• Jessica is a devout Christian; she was against premarital sex, and waited until she and Nick were married.
• Refused to sign a pre-nuptial agreement with pop star husband Nick Lachey because she’d happily give him half of everything if their marriage doesn’t work out.
• Jessica and ex-husband Nick Lachey officially announced they were separating on November 24, 2005.
• She reportedly dumped Nick in an email.
• Simpson reportedly told Jane magazine in October 2006 that she knew her marriage to Lachey was over when he refused to join her on a charity trip to Africa, even though it was on their third wedding anniversary
• Simpson and Nick Lachey’s Newlyweds mansion is bought by Malcolm in the Middle teen actor Justin Berfield (for $3.75 million).



• Jessica and Nick completed the splitting of their assets following their divorce. Their settlement was completed in December 2006.
• Covered “Let Him Fly by folk singer Patty Griffin, the song that made her ”cry like a baby” after splitting from Nick.
• Simpson received increased publicity following her divorce, reportedly having romances with her Employee of the Month co-star Dane Cook and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.
• Her next date was John Mayer for over nine months. Dating rumors started in August 2006 with a People magazine article, but kicked into high gear when Simpson and Mayer spent New Year’s holiday together in New York City, both attending Christina Aguilera’s New Years Eve 2006 party.
• Her manager father Joe has given his personal approval to his daughter’s romance with John Mayer, insisting he is a big fan of the Grammy-winning star.
• Jessica was only 14 years old when she released her first album.
• Simpson released her first single, “I Wanna Love You Forever,” which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2000.
• Jessica is a close friend to the musical group Destiny’s Child.
• She used to have a crush on Justin Timberlake.
• Jessica beat out Britney Spears for the role of Daisy in the movie The Dukes of Hazzard.
• Her favourite tv show is Dawson’s Creek.
• Jessica discovered that she is allergic to cheese, wheat, tomatoes, corn and hot peppers, chocolatea nd coffee.
• In August 2007, Jessica broke her nose on the set of her movie Major Movie Star after she fell over, accidently hitting herself in the face with a gun.
• Jessica claims to be a big Shakespeare fan. When she went to London, the first place she went was the famous Globe Theatre.
• Pretty Woman is Jessica’s all-time favorite movie. Beside this her favorite movie is anything romantic or anything with Julia Roberts. Her favorite actor is Brad Pitt
• Her favorite singers are Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Celine Dion.
• She is addicted to high heels, even donning them to the beach.
• Jessica says that Angelina Jolie has inspired her to adopt children.
• She donated a minivan she won at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2006 to an orphanage in Mexico.
• Jessica performed at George W. Bush’s inauguration.
• On the set of Blonde Ambition, she has to have her movie lines fed to her by a microphone in her ear – because she is struggling to remember them.
• Although she plays the “dumb blonde” on camera, Jessica claims to have a high IQ.
• Was in tears after forgetting the words to Dolly Parton’s song “Nine to Five” she was performing at a star-studded bash in Washington DC.
• Jessica has a dog called Daisy, that she named after her role in Dukes Of Hazzard, that’s a Maltese/Poodle mix (the breed name is called “Maltipoo”).
• Jessica’s most memorable gift she’s ever received was her pup Daisy.



• In 2004, Jessica had eye surgery to correct her vision.
• Jessica is insecure about having short legs, which are not proportional with the rest of her body.
• She likes lovers with imagination, and loves to kiss with eyes open because she can take in the entire situation and knows if she’s enjoying it or not.
• She launched her own range of sexy lingerie.
• Voted pop music’s sexiest-eyed star, according to a Rohto V. Sexiest Eyes Survey.
• Has signed with Epic Records, ending a seven-year deal with Columbia Records.
• Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey were left red-faced when Chris Rock jokingly blasted them for kissing during his act. The celebrity pair were part of the audience at Rock’s stand-up show at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles and decided to occupy their time in the balcony with some physical intimacy. Rock warned the embarrassed couple that he’ll blame them if he makes any major mistakes when he presents the Oscars on February 27, 2005
• Plans to avoid deep, dark movie roles because she’s on a mission to make people happy.
• She was briefly hospitalized in Chicago for a stomach virus while shooting a segment for The Oprah Winfrey Show.



• Jessica aced a legal battle with fitness company Speedfit, after disagreements over the singer’s workout style in an exercise video.
• Jessica’s favorite place to relax is in a hot bubble bath.
• Some of Jessica’s favorite things are sour Skittles, vanilla ice cream, Velveeta cheese dip and chips, chicken-fried steak, the cartoon Scooby-Doo and the board game Scattegories.
• Simpson guest starred on Fox’s That´s 70´s Show in an episode titled Your Time Is Gonna Come – the singer appeared in a total of three episodes of the popular comedy series as Annette, Kelso’s hot new girlfriend from California.
• She is paranoid about the size of her bottom and gets enraged when it is mocked by her Dukes of Hazzard co-star Johnny Knoxville.
• In July 2007 Jessica enrolled in a boot camp in Louisiana, in order to prepare for her role in the film, Major Movie Star. The camp teaches people how to salute correctly, perform drills and other army requirements.
• Jessica turned down a part in Coyote Ugly.
• Has emerged as the clear frontrunner in the race for the role of Daisy Duke in the movie version of classic TV series Dukes Of Hazard (beating Britney Spears and other competitions).



• Jessica’s first movie, The Dukes of Hazzard, opened at no.1 in the box offices, and earned $31 million on its opening weekend.
• During filming the Dukes Of Hazard, she was required to break a pool cue by whipping it across a man (a stunt)’s back repeatedly. Unfortunately, she started attacking wrong the person.
• Jessica is the “oldest” of the four current famous “pop queens” in music (the others are Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Mandy Moore.
• Jessica is good friends with Jewel.
• Jessica stars in a Ice Breaker’s Liquid Ice commercial with her sister Ashlee.
• Doesn’t have a problem with remarks her dad made in a past interview about her breasts. Her father Joe Simpson infamously told a magazine in 2004: She’s got double D’s; you can’t cover those suckers up.
• Raised in strict Christian upbringing, Simpson admits she barely goes to church and reads the bible anymore.
• People magazine has pulled its sponsorship for Jessica and Ashlee Simpson’s MTV Video Music Awards after-party reportedly because of Jessica’s outrageous demands.
• Denied reports that she had a fling with Fred Durst in Las Vegas.
• Jessica’s clothing line Princy is named after her childhood nickname, “Princess.”
• Jessica’s friends call her “Jess” for short.
• Police were called to control crowds when thousands of fans turned up to meet Simpson at a Massachusetts store on Thursday night where she was hosting an album signing at the Wal-Mart in Danvers.



• Jessica’s favorite book is Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks.
• Jessica and her sister Ashlee both love the music group “Maroon 5.”
• She sued California jeweler Inspired Silver for illegally using her image in ads.
• Jessica did a remake of the song “These Boots are Made for Walking,” for her movie The Dukes of Hazzard.
• Jessica’s best friend and personal assistant is Cacee Cobb.
• She denied reports she fired Cacee Cobb because she was involved with her ex-husband, Nick Lacey, insisting it was Cobb’s decision to resign and move on with her work.
• As of 2006, Jessica finished a video for her new song “Public Affair.” Jessica let some of her hollywood friends be in the video such as Eva Longoria, Ryan Seacrest, and many more.
• Jessica and Eva Longoria share the same hairstylist: Ken Paves.
• She appeared on the cover of GQ magazine wearing camouflage pants, an American flag bikini top and military dog tags.



• Was sued for $100 m
  illion by the Tarrant Apparel Group that licensed her name for a line of casual wear, claiming she refused to properly endorse the sensibly priced range in public.
• Jessica said in an interview that she would like to adopt before having her own children..
• Jessica’s song “These Boots Were Made For Walking” was rewritten for a Pizza Hut commercial. Jessica sang the rewritten song for the new Cheesy Bites Pizza in the ad.
• Has fired back at Christian critics who have blasted her raunchy new video ˝These Boots Are Made For Walking¨ for being too sexy, insisting they should be more accepting.
• Jessica’s favorite song is “Take My Breath Away,” originally recorded by Berlin.
• Jessica’s favorite flowers are hot pink colored roses.
• Jessica’s beauty line “Desserts” is actually edible body products.
• Says she was stung when ex-husband Nick Lachey jumped back into dating after their high-profile breakup.
• She says she’s in no hurry to get pregnant.
• Is facing a barrage of criticism from humanitarian agencies after she cut short her charity trip to Africa to go on safari instead.
• Has signed a $10 million licensing deal with Andrew Sports Club to develop her own fashion line.
• In November, 2007, Simpson began dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
• In October 2007, news outlets reported that Simpson was planning to move to Nashville, Tenn. She had secured a recording deal with the Nashville division of Columbia Records, a SonyBMG label.
• In late March 2008, Nashville sources speculated that Simpson was the buyer of a $3.5 million home in a gated community in Nashville. That rumor turned out to be false, however, as the buyers were actually Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban.

I am sure that Paris Hilton doesn`t need any kind of introduction. I mean, if you didn`t hear about this hotel empire wild heiress, you probably lived in cave or something for last few years. Here you can read a lot of cool facts that I collected about her life that you didn`t know before. I started from her younger age when she wasn`t so famous (I can`t write down when she wasn`t so rich, because she was born rich:), like with schools which she attended, where did she live back then, and when she started modeling, all the way to these days fresh stuff. Also read most interesting love stories about her, and many more…

6th annual Mother/Daughter Fashion show(1987) Paris was 6 years old on this one. With her parents and sister Nicky (can you guess which one is Paris:)

Same show, but one year later.(1988)

FACTS THAT YOU DIDN`T KNOW ABOUT PARIS HILTON:

• Born in New York City, Paris Hilton is the oldest of four children of Richard and KathyHilton. She has a sister Nicky and brothers Barron and Conrad.
• Her paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton, and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley; Barron Hilton’s parents were Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron.
• Paris is the niece of Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, two popular Disney child stars of the 1970s and 1980s.
• Paris’ nicknames are “Star” and “Princess.”
• Hilton moved between several exclusive homes when she was young, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons.
• Paris attended Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California her freshman year of high school; Dwight School in New York for her sophomore and junior years; then a few months at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut before dropping out. Hilton eventually earned a GED( General Educational Development ). She also briefly attended the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California.



• Paris attended the prestigious Professional Children’s School in New York City with fellow actors Christina Ricci and Macaulay Culkin.
• Paris is a Roman Catholic.
• In high school, Paris scored the title roles in school plays “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Annie.”
• Hilton began modeling as a child, initially at charity events.
• When she was 19, she signed with Donald Trump’s modeling agency, T Management. Hilton has also worked with Ford Models in New York, Models 1 Agency in London, Nous Model Management in Los Angeles, and Premier Model Management in London.
• She has appeared in numerous advertising campaigns, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano.
• Paris loves dogs, especially small ones! She has three Pomeranians named Dolce, Sebastian and Prince. She also has a Chihuahua named Tinkerbell.
• Hilton loves small dogs, and owns a Yorkshire Terrier and a female Chihuahua named Tinkerbell.
• Has signed a deal with toymakers Gund to manufacture Tinkerbell (her pet chihuahua) soft toys.
• In August 2004, Tinkerbell (Paris’ chihuahua) was reported lost and a $5,000 reward was offered for her safe return. Tinkerbell was found a week later, having been left by Paris at her grandparent’s house.
• Beside Tinkerbell, Paris has three more chihuahuas named Harajuku, Tokyo and Bambi.
• In February 2007, questions were asked if Paris’ dog, Tinkerbell, was in fact the same dog as the one reported missing in 2004. While Paris claims it is the same dog, experts claim this is untrue after comparing photos and noticing the dog’s nail colour has changed.



• Paris has moved on from chihuahuas, to a new kind of animal–ferrets–which are banned in California as pets! Besides ferrets and Chihuahuas, Paris is now sporting a Kinkajou named Baby Love. Kinkajous are nocturnal rainforest mammals related to raccoons. The adults typically weight around five or six pounds.
• Was taken to a hospital after being bitten by her pet kinkajou named Baby Love.
• Paris once said that Randy Spelling was her first lover.
• Paris was insecure about being flat-chested back when she was younger.
• Denied Tom Sizemore’s claims he slept with her when she was 19.
• Paris has been romantically linked to Randy Spelling, Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Furlong, Jamie Kennedy, Rob Mills, Deryck Whibley, Robert Evans, Oscar De La Hoya, and Ingrid Casares.
• Paris dated Backstreet boy Nick Carter from Jan 2004-July 2004; details are still hazy on why they broke up, but it is strongly believed that Nick abused Paris, after she showed up to an event with a black eye. She also dated singer Avril Lavigne’s husband Deryck Whibley, star of punk band Sum 41.
• Paris showed up at a Hollywood police station in the early hours of the morning in late October 2006, to file an assault report. She claimed she was hit in
  the face by Shanna Moakler, the ex-wife of Blink 182 rocker, whom she’d recently been caught kissing!
• Hilton was engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw from mid-2002 to early 2003, and Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, from May 29, 2005 to November 2005.
• Paris’ engagement ring from Paris Latsis was 24-carats, approximately worth $5 million. He proposed to her in the living room of their Beverly Hills love nest. No word on whether or not she returned it to him when they broke up.
• In June 2005, she got the Esquire house in Beverly Hills, California, worth a $12 million, from fiance Paris Latsis as a lavish gift.
• Wanted to marry her fiance Paris Latsis in St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey or Windsor Castle.
• Called off her five-month engagement to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, saying she’s not yet ready for marriage.
• Since her break-up with Paris Latsis, Paris has been spotted with a new Greek shipping heir, Stavros Niarchos, who used to date actress Mary-Kate Olsen.



• A Hawaiian taxi-driver claims the socialite urinated in his cab. Harden Jamison says the star was too drunk to notice she’d wet herself when he picked her and boyfriend Stavros Niarchos up after a party on Maui.
• Has reportedly split from on-off boyfriend Stavros Niarchos again because he gets too jealous of the attention she gets from other male admirers.
• Narrowly escaped electrocuting herself by drunkenly jumping into a swimming pool at her boyfriend Stavros Niarchos’ birthday party – a garden light had fallen into the pool.
• Paris’ trademarks are wearing blue colored contact lenses, wearing shirts that read “That’s Hot” and her long blonde hair.
• Paris’ favorite sport is golf.
• Paris has three perfumes: Paris Hilton, Just Me, and Heiress.
• Paris has taken Britney Spears out partying several times since she filed for divorce from Kevin Federline.
• Has offered tips to Britney Spears how to deal with paparazzi, insisting she should try and cooperate with the paparazzi and not antagonize them.
• Paris attended Hugh Hefner’s 80th birthday party at the Playboy Mansion. She sang happy birthday to him.
• For her 21st birthday, Paris threw five parties for herself in New York, Las Vegas, London, Hollywood, and Tokyo.
• One of Paris’ favorite vacation spots is Greece. “I love Mykonos in Greece.” Her favorite club there is Mykonos Club Paradise.
• Paris’ best friends are actress Tara Reid and reality TV star Nicole Richie. Yet, she said no one knows her more than her sister, Nicky.
• Paris’ favorite movie is There’s Something About Mary.
• Paris’ popularity skyrocketed after a homemade sex video between her and ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon scattered all over the internet in October of 2003. The video was made when she was 19.
• Paris announced at the end of 2003 that she is recording an album. She enlisted the help of *NSYNC star J.C. Chasez and his producer Rob Boldt to help in the creation of a dance-pop album.
• Paris’ single Stars Are Blind has been marred by claims she doesn’t sing the lead vocals on the hit track. A music insider claims the vocals belong to Carah Faye Charnow, lead singer with LA band Shiny Toy Guns. Paris brought Carah in to sing backup vocals however Carah’s vocal talent became the lead.



• Paris founded the record label, Heiress Records.
• Paris is considering plastic surgery to correct her drooping left eyelid. While she has had the problem since a toddler, she has ignored doctors’ orders not to wear her tinted contacts. Paris has naturally brown eyes but has always worn blue tinted contact lenses to keep up her Barbie-style image
• In January 2007, Paris was sentenced to three years probation after pleading no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving. She pleaded no contest under a plea agreement with prosecutors and can reduce her probation by a year if she completes 40 hours of community service.
• On May 5th, 2007, Paris was sentenced to 45 days in prison for a parole violation, after she was caught driving on a suspended license in February following her no contest plea to drunk-driving.
• Authorities said that because of a number of factors, including turning up for her court appearance, she would spend about 23 days in prison instead of the 45-day term she was sentenced to for breaching her probation for a driving offence.
• Appealed to fans to sign an online petition urging California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute her 45-day sentence for driving while disqualified.
• Filled her time in jail by responding to fans’ letters.
• Told television journalist Barbara Walters from the medical wing of a Los Angeles jail that she believes God has given her a new chance and said she plans to stop acting dumb and to instead put her influence to good use.
• Her wax work dummy at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in New York has been outfitted in a black and white prison jumpsuit while she serves a prison sentence.
• Paris has starred in an anti-drink driving campaign. Paris, who was arrested for drunk driving, is featured in a full page public service announcement in a US teen magazine.
• Paris has claimed that she read the Bible frequently while she was in jail, yet when Larry King asked her what her favorite Bible verse was, she couldn’t think of anything on the spot.
• While on the set of the movie, House of Wax, she received an invitation in the mail that said a girl named Remi was having a birthday party, and she wanted to have Paris there. The party’s theme was to dress like Paris Hilton, and Paris accepted the invitation.
• Paris owns a chain of night clubs called Club Paris.
• Paris was the subject of a South Park episode entitled “Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset” in which she opens a store called “Stupid Spoiled Whore” selling girls everything they need to emulate her.



• Paris wears size 11 shoes, so she has all her shoes custom-designed to fit her large feet!
• Paris stands tall at 5′8.”
• Paris tries to fit in an hour of yoga every day.
• Paris admits she has a weakness for McDonald’s French Fries
• On July 19, 2007, Paris attempted to demonstrate her environmental consciousness by telling Us Weekly magazine that she had ordered a “Hummer Hybrid.” However, a Hummer spokesperson told the magazine that, “Such a car doesn’t exist.”
• Paris and social networking website Bebo were the hottest topics on Google in 2006.
• Partying at ‘Tao’, in December 2006, Paris jumped on stage to mime to a couple of her own songs. By this time she had had much too much to drink and vomited all over the stage.
• In October 2006, Paris and Nicole Richie agreed to make a fifth series of their reality TV show The Simple Life.
• Paris is hiring herself out for New Years’ parties. Paris will host a bash in either Miami, New York or LA for $US100,000 plus expenses and a private jet.
• Paris posed semi-nude for the March 2006 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
• Paris was banned from Vanity Fair’s annual post-Oscar party.
• Dr. Dre and Scott Storch are listed among the producers on Paris’ upcoming album, which is a big shocker for hip-hop fans.
• Paris likes Hello Kitty jewelry and other accessories bearing th
  e Sanrio character’s image.
• Paris’ stairwell is lined with her magazine covers, including Vanity Fair and Playboy.
• Paris was named “Sex Star of the Year,” in the March 2005 issue of Playboy. The picture on the cover of the issue appeared to be her but she did not pose for it, claiming she does not know where Playboy got that picture.
• Paris once stood in line at a club, waiting to use the restroom, but she had to go so bad, she peed right there on the floor!
• Paris was a spokesperson for Guess (clothing line) in 2004.
• Stephen Shapiro is the real estate agent handling the sale of Paris’ and ex-fiance Paris Latsis’ $13.8 million mansion in Beverly Hills. He is also the agent selling Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s former love nest (November 2005).



• Paris had her T-Mobile Sidekick hacked in 2005. It had many celebrity’s phone numbers, personal notes to herself, and such. One of her notes was a reminder to get herself a birth control pill.
• After her mobile phone has been hacked, the address book were posted on the internet, angering her celebrity friends – including Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Andy Roddick, Vin Diesel, Anna Kournikova – who are being deluged with calls.
• Mayor of Las Vegas has proclaimed August 29, 2006 as Paris Hilton Day.
• Two nightclubs known as Club Paris will no longer be associated with Hilton, because she couldn’t arrive on time for appearances.
• Showed her generous side on a recent trip to London by tipping her hairstylists thousands of dollars.
• Was furious with Cher’s son, Elijah Blue Allman, for claiming the two had sex and worrying he caught a sexually transmitted disease from her.
• Rushed to the aid of an Oompa-Loompa performer left injured when the crowd rushed the stage at a Miami, Fla., nightclub.
• Animal rights activist Heather Mills once made Paris cry by showing her films of animal cruelty, and managed to persuade her not to wear fur ever again.
• Has replaced former pal Lindsay Lohan as Las Vegas nightclub LAX’s New Year’s Eve good time girl — for a whopping $1 million.
• Narrowly escaped injury when a photographer’s car sideswiped her Cadillac Escalade as she was in the back seat of the vehicle.
• A Los Angeles college student who accidentally inherited Hilton’s former cell phone number said she constantly gets calls and messages meant for the socialite.
• Has been a victim to an elaborate practical joke set up by Richard Branson at his son’s spectacular 21st birthday party. She had asked if she could come dressed as Alice in Wonderland. But when the Virgin tycoon found out, he secretly ordered that all 60 waitresses at the event should also wear Alice costumes.
• It has been revealed that Paris, who recently announced she was giving up sex for a year to concentrate on her career and to make herself a stronger person, made the vow to win a bet – she has formed a single girls club with her friends and they have a bet to see who can last the longest without sex.
• Has bought the plot next to Marilyn Monroe’s grave to bury her pet goat.
• Has increased her security after a stalker pretending to be her fiance arrived at her father’s office armed with a knife.
• Doesn’t like one night stands, saying it’s gross when you just give it up.



• Has been banned by her parents from Paris Hotel and Casino and ordered into gambling rehab after she gambled away her $178,000 Bentley car.
• Paris teamed up with French game publisher Gameloft to develop, publish and distribute mobile games based on heiress and pop culture icon.
• Was offered the chance to earn over L27 million-a-year as a high-class prostitute by a psychiatric patient via a letter to the New York Daily News. (2005)
• Was eager to purchase one of kangaroos while filming in Queensland, Australia, recently. But she changed her mind after she was told they punch their owners in the stomach.
• Photographs of Hilton embracing and kissing another woman when she was 20 are set to be published by Hustler magazine.
• Her television show The Simple Life got higher ratings than President Bush’s exclusive ABC interview Tuesday night.
• She had a cameo appearance in “Zoolander” (2000).
• Made it into the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records, chosen the Most Overrated Person.

Although she is still only at age 21, Lindsay Lohan became planetary popular long time ago. She started with show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and various television commercials. Because of fact that she became famous practically as a child, she fall into some serious problems with alcohol, drugs and rehabs. This is not unusual with young film or music stars which became overexposed in media and magazines to have such problems. Despite she has recently been involved in a series of personal problems, Lindsay revealed that she’s now been signed up to star in a new comedy film. In this post you can read everything about her childhood and Holywood beginnings.

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Lindsay Lohan was born in New York City, or more precisely in Bronx (on East 236th Street), but grew up in Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. She is the oldest child of Donata “Dina” (maiden name Sullivan), and Michael Douglas Lohan, Sr. Her mother was a Wall Street analyst before becoming Lohan’s manager, and her father was in the pasta business, and after making enough, he went to Hollywood financing independent films, so her family was financially well assured. Michael Lindsay has three younger siblings, all of whom are actors or models: her brother Michael Jr., appeared with her in The Parent Trap; sister Aliana had a small role in Freaky Friday, as did brother Dakota, the youngest Lohan child.

Lohan is of Irish and Italian heritage from her maternal side and was raised as a Catholic. She attended Sanford H. Calhoun High School (public school on Long Island) where she was straight ‘A’ student, and was especially talented at math and science. Beside her excellent grades, as a student she found some time to enjoy gymnastics, swimming, ice skating, roller blading and biking. She finished her studies at home through Laurel Springs School of Ojai, California.

Lindsay began her career with Ford Models at age three, and has been studying dancing and singing since age four. In fact she had the distinction of being the first red-headed child to be signed by the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency. Although in the beginning she didn´t found much work as a fashion model, she persisted and eventually appeared in numerous print ads for Toys “R” Us. She also modeled for Calvin Klein Kids (usually with her siblings Michael and Ali), Abercrombie Kids, and filmed over sixty commercials for The Gap, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, and Jell-O. Despite she just turned 18, Lohan was already featured in such magazines as Vogue, Elle, Bliss (UK), High Club (Bulgaria), and Blenda (Japan).

Filming her ads led to her first movie roles. She won the dual role of the two sisters in “The Parent Trap” after a six-month casting search in the United States, Canada, and Britain. She’s also stars in Disney’s “Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen.”. She was already considered a show-business veteran in 1996 when she landed the role of Alexandra “Alli” Fowler on Another World. On television, she starred in two movies for Disney—the Wonderful World of Disney’s “Life-Size,” with Tyra Banks, and Disney Channel’s original “Get a Clue” — and in the sitcom “Bette.”

Beside being model and actress, Lindsay tried herself as a singer too. Her first pop single, “Ultimate”, appeared on the soundtrack of “Freaky Friday”. Her debut album, Speak, was released in December 2004, and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. By early 2005, it was certified Platinum. Though primarily a pop-rock album, Speak was introduced with the single “Rumors”, described by Rolling Stone as “a bass-heavy, angry club anthem”.

LINDSAY LOHAN´S TRIVIA:

• Sister of Michael Lohan, Ali Lohan (aka Aliana Lohan) and Dakota “Cody” Lohan.
• Once saved her brother and youngest sibling, Dakota “Cody” Lohan, from drowning.
• Lindsay enjoys singing, reading, writing and playing with her siblings.
• Her mother is Dina Lohan, née Donata Sullivan, a former Rockette and Wall Street analyst, who now helps managing her daughter’s career.
• Her father is Michael Lohan, a long-time Wall Street trader who developed his family’s multi-million-dollar pasta business, then sold it to pursue funding and development of major studios and independent Hollywood projects.



• Lindsay started modeling at the age of three, and was the only redhead child at the agency. She modeled for companies such as ‘Abercrombie and Fitch Kids’ (A&F Kids) and ‘Calvin Klein Kids’.
• Lindsay is of Italian and Irish descent.
• A straight-A student at school, she excels at math and science. She also enjoys gymnastics, swimming, ice skating, roller blading, singing, biking, reading, writing, and playing with her siblings.
• At age 7, she got to dress as garbage (”Things You Find on the Bottom of the Subway”) for a Halloween skit on “Late Night with David Letterman” (1982).
• Attended the famous school for the stars, Laurel Springs School.
• Her favorite food is Italian, Chinese, and Japanese.
• Shares a birthday with singer/songwriter Michelle Branch.
• Lohan took voice lessons as a girl.



• Her real middle name is Dee, but at 2005, Lohan had decided to use Morgan as her middle name because it sounded more professional.
• Attended Cold Spring Harbor Jr./Sr. High School on Long Island for several years following her role in The Parent Trap (1998). Her family’s home was in Laurel Hollow before moving to Merrick, where she attended Sanford H. Calhoun High School (where Deborah Gibson also attended high school years before) for only a few months before resuming her acting career.
• For a short time, she attended a public high school, Sanford H. Calhoun High School, in a suburban town called Merrick on Long Island.
• She has worked as a model for Abercrombie & Fitch Kids (A&F Kids) and Calvin Klein Kids.
• She dated pop star Aaron Carter for a short time.
• Good friends with Paris Hilton and Ashlee Simpson.
• Her debut album “Speak” was certified for platinum sales in the USA.
• The youngest person to host an MTV Movie Award show, and also the first host to win an award (for Freaky Friday (2003)).



• Along with Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Bijou Phillips, Kimberly Stewart, and Nicole Richie, Lohan is one of Hollywood’s most famous party girls
• Her idols are Marilyn Monroe and Ann-Margret.
• Huge fan of Professional Wrestling.
• Rejected playing the character Regina in Mean Girls (2004) because she felt fans would perceive her as arrogant.
• Good friends with Mean Girls (2004) co-star, Amanda Seyfried.
• Her stylist is Rachel Zoe, who’s also the stylist of ‘Nicole Richie’.
• Is often seen singing karaoke alongside Emile Hirsch, Bo Barrett, Michelle Rodriguez, and Nicole Richie at Beverly Hills hot spot “Guys”.
• Good friends with actor Simon Cutmore.
• According to Lindsay, Sex and the City changed her perspective on dating and sex itself.
• Dyed her hair blond for her role in A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
• Lindsay has had bronchial asthma since she was two years old.
• Lindsay broke her wrist after slipping on water at a Fashion Week party in 2006.
• Provides a track on the soundtrack for Freaky Friday (2003), in which she also stars. The song “Ultimate” is performed by her character at the beginning of the movie’s end credits.
• Admitted on “Last Call with Carson Daly” (2002) that she fell asleep during the premiere of The Released her debut album in December 2004. She co-wrote her debut single, which was “Rumors.”

Parent Trap (1998).

• Lindsay is allergic to blueberries.
• Nicole Richie and David Spade were among the guests at her 19th birthday party.
• Watches and studies Marilyn Monroe films.
• Has a net worth of approximately $7 million dollars based on her movies, albums, and other works.
• Ex-girlfriend of Wilmer Valderrama.
• Was the subject of “Lindsay Fully Loaded”, a music video by Omovies.
• Lindsay’s acting role models are Meg Ryan, Bruce Willis, Dennis Quaid and Will Smith.
  In June 2007, Lindsay’s former bodyguard, Lee Weaver, revealed what life working for Lindsay was like. His tales include reports of how she once attacked a gun-wielding cocaine dealer for ripping her off, slashed her wrists with knives, binged on coke with Nicole Richie and had a series of lesbian flings.



• In April 2007, some of Hollywood’s biggest stars revealed they refused to work with Lindsay after her refusal to treat her various addictions. Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman both told their agents they wanted no part in any film Linsay was attached to because her wayward behaviour brings shame on their profession.
• Kevin Federline, Britney Spears’ ex, made a romantic move on Lindsay on December 31, 2006 by sending her a text message that said, “We should hang out.” Lindsay is said to have responded with a text saying, “Why would I hang out with you?” An offended Kevin replied by calling her “Firecrotch.” Oddly enough, in November 2006, Lindsay told Britney that Kevin was “yummy,” to which she told her she could have him.
• Lindsay filmed commercials for Jell-O, Pizza Hut, and The Gap when she was a child.
• Lindsay has smoked since age 15. She took part in the ‘Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’, which aims to prevent teenagers from beginning to smoke. In early 2006, she vowed to quit smoking.
• During an alleged July 24, 2007 DUI bust, police were said to have found cocaine in Lindsay’s pocket. Headlines were made when Lindsay’s reps not only claimed that the drugs weren’t hers, but went so far as to say that Lindsay was “wearing someone else’s pants at the time.”
• Lindsay has been romantically linked to Aaron Carter, Jared Leto, Joe Francis, Johnny Knoxville, Mitch Moratza, Ryan Adams, and Wilmer Valderama.
• Lindsay traveled to Kenya with the charity organization The One Foundation to visit schools and clinics and help draw attention to poverty and AIDS.
• Lindsay’s favorite sneaker brand is Nike and Puma.



• She describes her perfect date as staying in and watching a movie.
• Lindsay wears a size 9 shoe.
• She enjoys the music of Maroon 5, Melissa Etheridge, Prince, Simple Plan, Britney Spears, and Mario Winans.
• Lindsay’s favourite stores are Abercrombie, Sweats Appeal, Steve Madden, Sephora and Prada.
• Lindsay is 5′5″ (1.65m) tall. She is 5′7″ while wearing heels. Lindsay’s measurements are 36-26-32.
• Lindsay has a tattoo on her hip that reads La Bella Vita. This translates to “The Beautiful Life.
• She has her navel pierced.
• Lindsay is a big fan of Angelina Jolie.
• A representative of Lindsay revealed she now wants to endorse bottled water and has been appealing to mineral water brands for sponsorship. An assistant, acting on behalf of Lindsay, contacted Evian’s office in July 2007, asking for free shipments of Evian to be delivered to her.
  Lindsay was left battered and bruised after taking pole-dancing lessons. She has been having strip-tease training in preparation for her role as a topless dancer in new movie I Know Who Killed Me, but has been finding the work-outs tough.



• Lindsay’s favorite foods include Italian cuisine, sushi, ice cream, ice cream cake, and chocolate mousse cake. She also likes to drink Pepsi.
• Lindsay is friends with Rumer Willis, Bruce Willis’ daughter, who is just 2 years younger than Lindsay. Rumer’s step-father, actor Ashton Kutcher, reportedly does not approve of their friendship and has asked Rumer not to party with her.
• Lindsay has reportedly had crushes on Colin Farrell, Orlando Bloom, Eminem, Josh Harnett, and Johnny Depp.
• Lindsay publicly denies ever having gotten breast implants.
• At February 2007, Lindsay was driving a white 330 BMW Convertible.
• Lindsay opened her house to a complete stranger and let her stay after discovering a young girl couldn’t return to her home in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Lindsay was forced to reimburse L20,000 after she lost a Cartier bracelet in London loaned to her for her presenting job at the World Music Awards in November 2006.
• Lindsay has fought off rumors of anorexia, and is currently wanting to make a documentary on eating disorders to help young girls realize that it isn’t at all the glamorous disease Hollywood makes it look like.
• In September 2005, Lindsay purchased a luxury crash pad overlooking Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. She paid about $1.9 million for the three-bedroom home, which is in the same building as Matthew Perry.
• Lindsay practices Kabbalahism, which is the mysticism of Judaism, like Madonna and Demi Moore.

This talented British singer is constantly in focus of media and public not just because her singing qualities. Apart from her singing, she is turning heads because of her eccentric and rowdy behavior, as well as because of her heavy consumption of alcohol and drugs. But it seems that fans and partly critics like her rugged charm, brash sense of humor, and especially soulful and jazzy vocals. Her distinctive style, most notably her former signature beehive hairstyle, has spawned imitators and been the muse for fashion designers, most notably Karl Lagerfeld.

Amy´s (and her husband’s) struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, as well as self-destructive behaviour, have become regular news today. It didn´t past quite a long time from her five Grammy awards and positive rehab results in London to another problem related to her husband(he overdosed and almost died in prison). But how her life and Amy herself looked like before she became a popular singer?

Sylvia Young Theatre School

The BRIT School

AMY WINEHOUSE IN SHORT TRIVIA:

• Amy Winehouse is an English songwriter and jazz and soul singer.
• her mother, Janis, is a pharmacist
• her father, Mitchell Winehouse, is a taxi driver
• born in the Southgate area of Enfield, London, England
• growing up in Southgate, she attended Ashmole School
• at around age ten, she founded a rap group named Sweet ‘n’ Sour (she was “Sour”)
• Amy has one brother, named Alex
• her eye color is hazel

  

• Amy´s height is 5 feet 2 inches
• Amy trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School when she was twelve years old, but was expelled at age fourteen for “not applying herself” and piercing her nose.
• she attended the BRIT School in Selhurst, Croydon with singer Katie Melua
• received her first guitar at the age of 13.
• she is a good friend of Kelly Osbourne
• with her first cheque earned with singing, she moved out with childhood friend Juliette Ashby
• Amy’s debut album, Frank was released on October 20, 2003.
• she pierced her nose when she was 13.
• her second album “Back to Black” reached #1 in the UK Albums Charts (2006).
• won a Brit Award for “Best British Female” in 2007.
• her “Back To Black” album was inspired by her relationship with Blake Civil-Fielder prior to their marriage
• has constant problems with bulimia as well as alcohol problems
• married Blake Fielder-Civil in an unannounced ceremony in Miami, Florida.
• her husband threatened to divorce her if she did not check into rehab
• has been cleared of bribery charges against her involving her jailed husband Blake Fielder-Civil
• banned from normal visits to her jailed husband after he failed a drug test.
• admitted to have previously been affected by eating disorders. A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I’m not totally OK now but I don’t think any woman is.
• was hospitalized for severe exhaustion, causing her to miss a festival appearance in Norway.
• will appeal a $714 fine on marijuana possession charges in Norway because she didn’t understand that accepting a fine is the same as pleading guilty in the Scandinavian country.
• her husband has urged her to take more care of herself after becoming concerned over her skinny figure.
• she is friend with singer Remi Nicole.

  

• ranked #2 in Richard Selzer (aka Mr. Blackwell) ’s 48th annual Worst Dressed Woman list
• was questioned by police in connection with a video which allegedly shows her smoking crack cocaine.
• was hospitalized to receive treatment for dehydration during her efforts to beat her drug addiction.
• she is a huge fan of Marilyn Monroe – She’s been viewing the legendary ’50s actress’ films on repeat to help her through rehab.
• Mary J Blige is hoping Winehouse will get over her drug addiction because she feels the future of music depends on her.
• is considered as a style icon by Victoria Beckham and fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld. Beckham says she’s original and unique, and Lagerfeld calls her his new muse and the next Brigitte Bardot.
• was caught by paparazzi wandering outside her London home early in the morning barefoot and wearing jeans, a red bra and a pained expression.
• was forced to have her trademark beehive hairstyle searched for drugs on a visit to her imprisoned husband Blake Fielder-Civil
• Amy plans to travel to Jamaica to work with Damian Marley son of reggae legend Bob Marley
• while performing at a concert in Birmingham England in November 2007, Amy was booed by the audience, with others walking out in protest to her drunken state
• artists who have influenced her style include Nas, Mos Def, Teena Marie, Beastie Boys, Carole King, Mahalia Jackson, The Ronettes, The Shangri-las The Shirelles, Sarah Vaughan, Minnie Ripperton, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, The Specials, Toots and the Maytals and Thelonious Monk.

  

• she has a number of old school tattoos of naked women on her body. When asked about them, she was quoted as saying “I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl. I’m not a lesbian, though — not before a sambuca anyway.” Her most recent tattoo is the word skank across her neck in response to criticisms in the press that she does not wash as often as normal people.
• before 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards, Amy trashed her hotel room in Berlin by throwing furniture and spaghetti at the walls. It was reported that damages cost thousands of dollars worth.
• in October 2007 it was revealed that Prince had asked Amy to perform a duet with him for his next album
• in her song Rehab, she mentions the names Ray and Mr. Hathaway. These are references to the soul singers Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway.
• Amy announced she had been approached by one of the producers of the James Bond movies to sing the main theme of Bond 22.
• she missed a crucial rehearsal for 2008 BRIT Awards after discovering her imprisoned husband was trading signed pictures of her for hits of the drug
• her song “Rehab” is based on her past refusal to attend an alcohol rehabilitation centre after it was encouraged by her management company.
• her favorite artists include Nas, Mos Def, Teena Marie, Beastie Boys, Carol King, Mahalia Jackson and Thelonious Monk.
• Amy’s favourite cocktail is Rickstasy. That is actually three parts vodka, one part Southern Comfort, one part banana liqueur, and one part Baileys.

  

• earned six 2008 Grammy Awards nominations including “Album of the Year” and “Record of the Year” for “Rehab”
• Although she was finally granted an entry visa in the United States to perform at the 2008 Grammy Awards, she remained in London and sang two songs via satellite. During the show, she was awarded five Grammys for “Best Pop Vocal Album”, “Record of the Year”, “Song of the Year”, “Best Female Pope Performance” (for “Rehab”) and “Best New Artist”
• Amy used her trademark black eyeliner to draw a make-shift bra onto the tattoo of a topless woman on her right arm as she performed via satellite link from London at the Grammys.