Stone unhappy wearing shoes onstage

English singer Joss Stone is refusing to wear shoes on stage because she feels they cripple her feet. The 20-year old Stone rarely wears shoes on stage and admits that she is too clumsy to perform in heels, contactmusic.com reported. She said: "It's nothing to do with being grounded and it's nothing to do with a statement. I just don't want to fall over. I love shoes and I think they're sexy and gorgeous, but they hurt and you fall over a lot. I'm totally clumsy, especially when I'm on stage because you gotta get into it and sometimes your whole body is involved so you can't trust yourself to stay standing."

McCartney helping launch son's music career

The Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney is helping launch his son James' music career by helping him record a debut album. James has already appeared in two of McCartney's solo albums but he is eager to launch his own solo album, contactmusic.com reported. The 65-year old McCartney said: "I'm actually doing some recording with my son. We're just looking at the idea of him making an album. He's doing it all. He's writing it all, laying it all. It's sensational. But there's nothing set yet. We don't know if it'll work. The plan is for me to just do some recording with him, and it's really exciting. I'm really loving it." James is the son of McCartney and his first late wife Linda.

Nicole finds perfect hideout - a tree

Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman was happy sitting for hours on a tree on the set of her latest movie "Margot at the Wedding" because she considered it to be a perfect hideout and had to be lured down. Kidman confessed she is a child at heart and loved filming the scene where her on-screen sister, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, challenges her to climb a tree, reported contactmusic.com. She said, "I love daydreaming. I spend hours up that tree and when they said, 'You can come down.' I said, 'No no, I'm ok.'"

Hilton site puts up more racy footage

Website Parisexposed.com has reportedly got its hands on some personal material belonging to Paris Hilton after a storage unit auctioned them off and they are putting more footage online.
The site got this stuff at the auction when she could not keep up with the repayments, Thesun.co.uk reported. Some of the footage is reportedly more racy than the recent one that showed her bathing naked in a tub. There is also a personal footage of Hilton where she is seen striping for an unidentified cameraman. Hilton is presently in China to attend the MTV Style awards.

Farrell helps homeless man

Irish actor Colin Farrell helped a homeless man in Toronto earlier this year and is now helping draw attention to a hotline for kids. The 4th annual Abkrakebabra for Childline Day is a hotline for kids, which gives advice on problems. The fast food chain Abrakebebra will donate all their earnings Sunday to the help line, People.com reported. In 2003, Farrell had helped a homeless man named Stress win $2,000 in a contest to bring him to a Toronto station and when he heard about it on the radio he grabbed the first homeless person he saw and took him into the radio station to claim the money. And earlier this year he was back in Toronto for the film festival and he ran into Stress again. This time Farrell took him shopping, gave him $1,000, offered him rent money. But the man declined and he bought food for others in his situation.

Guitarist Townshend is a trained ballet dancer

English rock guitarist Pete Townshend of the band The Who was once trained as a ballet dancer. Townshend, who is famous for his stage antics including along with his band mates destroying their equipment after every performance, said: "I did a short stint as a sort of 'Billy Elliot'. My father wasn't keen and the ballet mistress beat me." The 62-year-old was quoted by mirror.co.uk as saying that the band could have made many more albums but he chose to give priority to his family ahead of his music.

J K Rowling named Entertainer of the Year

Entertainment Weekly has named J K Rowling, the woman with the magical Midas touch, as Entertainer of the Year. The leading US magazine of entertainment and popular culture said the British author, who has sold nearly 400 million copies of her boy-wizard series that's been adapted into a mega successful movie franchise, deserved encomiums for getting "people to tote around her big, old-fashioned printed-on-paper books as if they were the hottest new entertainment devices on the planet." Rowling was in a class by herself on the magazine's list of the year's top 25 entertainers, which was separated by editors into five other categories that evoke school cliques—prodigies, class clowns, most popular, most buzzed-about and valedictorians. The list included George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Will Smith and Angelina Jolie. The Harry Potter industry, Entertainment Weekly said, has generated $15 billion in revenues, out of which $4.49 billion has been grossed by the five Harry Potter films, making it the most lucrative movie franchise in history, zipping past Star Wars and James Bond films this year. The magazine, that claims 11 million readers, has put Rowling on the cover of its latest special issue.

Elizabeth Hurley supports breast cancer awareness

Elizabeth Hurley showed her support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by lighting up Selfridges in pink. The actress, who is Estee Lauder’s Ambassador for Breast Cancer Awareness made a public appearance at Selfridges on Oxford Street recently to meet customers and launched the limited edition Pink Ribbon products by the beauty brand. Hurley lit up London by flicking the switch to turn on a bright pink light that illuminated the famous store throughout the month. The London store is just one of the three Selfridges stores to get the pink light treatment during October. The Birmingham and Manchester Trafford Centre branches of the department store will also be lit up as part of the campaign. The UK events are part of a global initiative which was the brainchild of Evelyn Lauder, Senior vice-president of the brand, who 14 years ago founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation as an independent not for profit organisation dedicated to preventing breast cancer and finding a cure in our lifetime by funding clinical and genetic research worldwide.' Since it’s launch the charity has raised more than $180 million worldwide for breast cancer research. Estee Lauder has launched a range of limited edition Pink Ribbon products to mark this year’s Breast Cancer Care month. These include a Pink Ribbon notebook, jewelled compact and bronzer set and pure colour lipstick in Elizabeth Pink.

Jolie felt exposed in 'Beowulf'

Actress Angelina Jolie says she is shy of her simulated nude scene in the new computer animated film "Beowulf". "I got a little shy. I was really surprised that I felt that exposed. There are certain moments where I felt actually shy - and called home, just to explain that the fun movie that I had done that was digital animation was, in fact, a little different than what we expected," people.com quoted her as saying. She added: "I didn't expect ourselves to come out as much. I didn't expect it to feel as real, and so because of especially the type of character I play, it was kind of funny at first." When asked which body part she liked best she replied, "I love my tail."

Diaz to act in horror flick

Cameron Diaz is set to co-star with James Marsden in the horror film "The Box". "Charlie's Angel" star and Marsden will play an unhappily married couple who one day receive a mysterious box from a stranger, reports ananova.com. If they press a button on the box, they will get a large amount of money but at the same time someone they don't know will die. The movie will be directed by Richard Kelly and is adapted from a story by Richard Matheson.