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Thursday, 20 February 2014

Brit Awards 2014 Red Carpet: PHOTOS

Brit Awards red carpet, 2014.

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Who is your fave?













Imogen Anthony: Kyle Sandilands - Maxim magazine, March 2014

Imogen Anthony.

She's the girlfriend of radio host Kyle Sandilands, from the newly launched KIIS1065 FM radio station, and she's the cover girl for the March 2014 edition of Maxim magazine Australia:


Here's a behind the scenes video clip from the shoot:



For a mini interview with Imogen, click here.

Facebook Buys WhatsApp for $19 Billion

Yes. You read the headline right.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that Facebook has bought the mobile messaging services for a lazy US$19 billion.

Here is the news Mark posted - naturally, via a status update on Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg



I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that their entire team will be joining us at Facebook.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by building services that help people share any type of content with any group of people they want. WhatsApp will help us do this by continuing to develop a service that people around the world love to use every day.

WhatsApp is a simple, fast and reliable mobile messaging service that is used by over 450 million people on every major mobile platform. More than 1 million people sign up for WhatsApp every day and it is on its way to connecting one billion people. More and more people rely on WhatsApp to communicate with all of their contacts every day.

WhatsApp will continue to operate independently within Facebook. The product roadmap will remain unchanged and the team is going to stay in Mountain View. Over the next few years, we're going to work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. We also expect that WhatsApp will add to our efforts forInternet.org, our partnership to make basic internet services affordable for everyone.

WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our community. Facebook Messenger is widely used for chatting with your Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for communicating with all of your contacts and small groups of people. Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve such different and important uses, we will continue investing in both and making them each great products for everyone.

WhatsApp had every option in the world, so I’m thrilled that they chose to work with us. I’m looking forward to what Facebook and WhatsApp can do together, and to developing great new mobile services that give people even more options for connecting.

I've also known Jan for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected. I'm particularly happy that Jan has agreed to join the Facebook board and partner with me to shape Facebook's future as well as WhatsApp's.

Jan and the WhatsApp team have done some amazing work to connect almost half a billion people. I can’t wait for them to join Facebook and help us connect the rest of the world.


Tuesday, 18 February 2014

'Love Child': full episodes - VIDEO

Did you miss 'Love Child'?

Click for the entire episode here.

Says the video description: "Kings Cross, 1969: An ambitious midwife returns from London to uncover a system of forced adoptions at the local hospital. A pregnant country girl, Viv, wakes to find she's been drugged by her parents and sent to a home for unwed mothers."

The first ep is sensational. Highly engaging TV, and with the talented Mandy McElhinney and Jessica Marais (whose face I could watch all day) and a strong storyline, it's a winner.



Did you watch the first ep? What did you think?




'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon': Jimmy's $100 Bet + Evolution of Hip-Hop featuring Will Smith

Okay, this segment is nothing short of awesome!

SO MANY CAMEOS on the first ever 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'.

Now that he's the new host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy collects on his $100 bet with friends like Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Mike Tyson and Sarah Jessica Parker.  Watch:



And here, another segment from the first ep, the evolution of hip-hop dancing, featuring Will Smith:










InStyle magazine, Delta Goodrem - March 2014: VIDEO

Delta Goodrem is the March 2014 cover girl for InStyle magazine Australia. The stunning cover is below (courtesy InStyle):

Shot at a private residence in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, InStyle tells how the LA-based Australian singer looked sleek on arrival at the shoot, in a pair of black, suede, knee-high boots by Christian Louboutin. As the clip below shows, she soon got into the groove, donning the '70s-inspired ensembles the InStyle team had waiting for her (there were - gulp - over 150 pieces to choose from). The singer requested a caffeine hit - a Starbucks iced latte was her caffe' of choice.

Here is the gorgeous behind the scenes clip:



In the magazine (some preview shots courtesy of InStyle, below) Delta talks about marriage, turning 30 in November, 'The Voice', 'The Voice Kids', and probably one of my fave moments of 'vulnerable Delta' in 2003, which I recall so vividly.

George Epaminondas, the journalist who interviewed her, asks a beautiful question: "I want to ask you about that remarkable moment in 2003 when you attended the ARIA awards a month after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. How did you manage that?

Delta replies: "Wearing my little wig… it's hard to talk about that moment in my life without crying. I can transport myself right there , standing there with my family. [She wells up] I can't talk about it, I'm sorry. The extremity of everything that had gone on; my nurse was backstage and here I was collecting all these awards. It's everything you dream about as a kid but then I was fighting for my life as I walked off the stage. I'll never forget the support everyone gave me."

On marriage, Delta says that it's "definitely" important to her… [But] I can't imagine being in a relationship right now. I'm feeling very empowered - I don't need anyone else."

And on the often polar-opposite reactions to Delta during 'The Voice' she says: "At the time, I was devastated, absolutely broken. I never wanted to be controversial. I'm in this for the music."

For more on Delta, pick up a copy of the March issue of InStyle, on sale now.

Here are some divine shots by Carlotta Moye and styled by Katherine Green, courtesy of InStyle. The entire shoot is one of the best, most ethereal and beautiful I have seen. Stunning, and worth being the edition for:





Tina Hutchence: "INXS show isn't accurate"

Since the screening of the INXS telemovie on Channel 7 'INXS: Never Tear Us Apart', Michael Hutchence's sister Tina Hutchence has spoken out on 'A Current Affair', saying the two part series was not accurate.

For the fill interview, click here.

Tina was also on KIIS1065 radio this morning, speaking to Kyle and Jackie O. Link here.