For the 24-year-old actress her weight and her body are an integral part of her profession. "I have to stay in shape because I'm an actress," she claims. "It's f--ked up and it's twisted, but I wouldn't get the roles otherwise. If I'd been bigger, I don't think they would have cast me for Mamma Mia!" Full story

Elizabeth Taylor has eight marriages to remember, the last one in the nineties, to one Larry Fortensky, a construction worker. One may have thought that at her 78 she won’t sail off into another matrimonial adventure, but the lady is not going to give this century a miss. So there is another marriage, the ninth, looming ahead. For the time ... Full story

Oprah Winfrey had her father in Vernon Winfrey, her mother’s ever-present boyfriend, and even regarded him as her biological father for a time. When she learned otherwise, she instituted a search in 2003, although she went on looking on Vernon as the father figure. Full story

Last weekend Las Vegas could freely gape at the newly rearranged Heidi Montag who had ventured a stunning series of 10 plastic surgeries in a single day. Her second plastic improvement in 23 years included chin reduction, brow-lifts and (of course) breast enlargement. Full story

Once again, we can see a marked difference between art and life. Lady Gaga with her sensuous and provocative songs and Stefani Germanotta with her celibate private life may seem to be two different persons – but they aren’t. Going by her recent interview to the Daily Mail, Stefani Germanotta is taking over Lady Gaga as the famous singer urges her fans to be independent ... Full story

At least part of the truth about one of those flash-in-the-pan marriages – that of country singer Kenny Chesney and actress Renee Zellweger – came out on Oprah Winfrey Show last Friday as Kenny decided to unburden himself. Full story