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“Kate Moss’s wedding dress is lovely, understated” links
Charlene Wittstock & Prince Albert are married: did he take her passport?
Olivia Wilde saves humanity in between calls from her agent

“Kate Moss’s wedding dress is lovely, understated” links

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 11:43 AM PDT

Kate Moss's wedding dress is so understated and pretty! I really love it (UPDATE: more photos below) [Pop Sugar]
Duchess Kate's maple leaf style motif. [LaineyGossip]
Anthony Weiner's wife is taking a vacation. She needs one, seriously. [Gawker]
Michael K's "Stay in the car, bitch" story is wonderful. [Dlisted]
I don't know who Melissa Satta is, but she looks nice in a bikini. [Yeeeah]
I totally cosign this - Brad Pitt, beauty & art. [Pajiba]
Beyonce in Harlem, doing good works. [A Socialite Life]
Stephen Colbert's Super-PAC! [PopBytes]
See Mila Kunis & Mark Wahlberg get married - for a film. [Celebuzz]
Are all of those Aaron Carter quotes about Michael Jackson a hoax? [Evil Beet]
Brooke Mueller is out of rehab. Again. [LimeLife]
Completely boring "leaked" video from the set of The Dark Knight Rises. [ICYDK]
Sarah Fergusion's hot mess detailed in a new book. [PopEater]
Lots of True Blood goodies. [ONTD]
This Dominique Strauss-Khan mess is really upsetting me. [Bossip]
I love this photo of Linnocent. [The Blemish]

UPDATE: more photos!

Charlene Wittstock & Prince Albert are married: did he take her passport?

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 10:48 AM PDT

Well, it happened! Charlene Wittstock managed to marry Prince Albert of Monaco in a quiet civil ceremony today in Monte Carlo. Tomorrow is the big church wedding where Charlene will wear her big white dress (I believe it's going to be Armani, right?), but today Charlene just wore a simple, pale blue suit. So, did she ever really try to do a runner? Sources continue to say that she did, and this morning, I spied this headline: "Prince Albert’s lawyer denies Charlene Wittstock had passport confiscated at Nice airport during last-minute attempt to leave principality." Did you hear that? HE TOOK HER PASSPORT. Seriously, this poor girl. This is like an international catastrophe. If I was Charlene, you can bet I would have been calling my embassy and throwing a massive fit.

A former Olympic swimmer from South Africa was officially declared Princess Charlene of Monaco today following her marriage to Prince Albert. Dressed in a sky-blue jacket and skirt, 33-year-old Charlene Wittstock smiled radiantly as she said 'I do' in a civil ceremony in the Royal Palace throne room of the ancient Mediterranean principality.

Her new husband, 53-year-old Albert, looked on proudly in a dark suit and grey tie as he put sensational rumours about his personal life behind him. The French press even compared the nuptials to Britain's Royal Wedding – while lamenting the fact that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had sadly had to decline their invitation to Monte Carlo because they were on an official trip to Canada.

Less respectful Gallic commentators were, meanwhile, suggesting that history's first Princess Charlene might not have the same ring to it as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

Miss Wittstock had, in the words of Le Monde, 'tried to escape' last week – back home to South Africa after learning that Albert may have fathered a third love child. As the mystery deepened, Albert's two love children and their mothers stayed away from today's 40 minute ceremony at the Royal Palace. They are also expected to be absent from the Catholic Church ceremony tomorrow.

Instead French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to join celebrity guests including James Bond star Roger Moore, former supermodel Naomi Campbell, and veteran fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani. Organisers of the £55million celebrations surrounding the wedding – which included a concert by The Eagles last night – hope that it will rival the 1956 wedding of Albert's mother, Hollywood star Grace Kelly, and his father, Prince Rainier.

Philippe Narmino, president of Monaco's Council of State, officiated today, and confirmed that the former Miss Wittstock was now officially a Princess. Before the 5pm ceremony, Mr Narmino said: 'It's the event of my life. Me, who as a magistrate, has dealt with hundreds of divorce dossiers during 27 years, will be marrying a couple for the first time.'

Referring to the Paris news magazine which broke the story about Charlene's attempted flight, and which still stands by it, Albert's lawyer Thierry Lacoste said: 'I heard everything about the child – white, black, who has been born, not yet born - it has to stop, it's I don't know what. There is no child, it's a totally false rumour and absolutely without foundation. It's easy to do your job as a journalist – to check that Charlene did not go to the airport. It's clearly false, she and the prince were around all last week.'

In fact a senior detective from Monaco, who was involved in the later stages of the 'incident' at Nice airport, has confirmed that 'Charlene had her passport confiscated so that the Prince's entourage could persuade her to stay'.

Albert already has two children - six-year-old Alexandre, the son of Nicole Coste, a former Air France air hostess from Togo, and Jazmin, 19, whose mother is Tamara Rotola, an American estate agent. Miss Coste was spotted in Monaco earlier this week, but was said to have been advised to stay away from the wedding to avoid 'media exposure'.

Mr Lacoste infamously issued fierce denials before DNA tests proved Albert was the father of Alexandre and Tamara. Despite his strong denial this time around, Mr Lacoste confirmed that he was taking no action against L'Express. And Christophe Barbier, editor of L'Express and a close friend of French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, said the magazine had no intention of removing the story from its website, saying: 'We stand by our information which was supplied by three different sources.'

Mr Barbier said it was important to give Charlene's attempted return home publicity because of the 'number of crowned heads and representatives of various states that are expected at the marriage'.

Despite such enthusiastic predictions, the guest list for the wedding – which had been shrouded in secrecy until today - revealed that many senior royals who had been expected to attend were not in fact coming.

[From The Mail]

I'm starting to believe that Charlene did in fact try to do a runner, but she was somehow talked back into marrying Albert. Maybe she was promised money, or a completely separate life away from him, or God knows what. I'm also wondering if Charlene is being medicated, or if she's self-medicating… wouldn't you need to take a pill (or a half a dozen) to deal with marrying Albert, this dude who you clearly don't want to be married to?

UPDATE: More photos from today’s balcony kiss. I swear, Charlene looks like she’s wincing.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Olivia Wilde saves humanity in between calls from her agent

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 10:14 AM PDT

I've actually tried to like Olivia Wilde. I gave her a chance, just because she actually seems to have two brain cells furiously rubbing together, and I like that she doesn't come across as the standard-issue starlet. I actually kind of like "Thirteen" on House, but when it comes down to it, Olivia as a person/celebrity is either tedious or outright annoying. First it was the constant references to how she was a princess. Then she dumped her husband for greener pastures, and she's been "spending time" with every dude out there who has a persistent gay rumor (Bradley Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal). And now this interview, in the LA Times Magazine. Ugh. She's involved in a few charities that are working in Haiti, and to her credit, Olivia has put her time and effort where her mouth is. But unfortunately, her mouth still wants you to give her credit for everything she's doing and then some, like she's FHM's Sexiest Humanitarian. This line alone - "I was crouched outside this cholera clinic, sitting on a cinder block talking to my agent on the phone" - we get it, Cockburn. Enough.

She’s universally known as a smouldering brunette, but Olivia Wilde has lightened up for a photo shoot with the LA Times. And the effect is amazing, platinum blonde curls completely transform the 27-year-old House star… to almost beyond the point of recognition. But in the interview, the actress reveals that never she’s quite been what she seems, by talking about her relief work in Haiti.

She told the magazine: ‘I was crouched outside this cholera clinic, sitting on a cinder block talking to my agent on the phone. I was about to help hand out rice at a refugee camp and figure out how our students can build more classrooms, so it was hard for me to be on the ball during that call. But I had to remember that acting is actually my job. Whenever I want to say, 'F–k Hollywood,' I have to remember that the reason I am even useful in Haiti is because I have a job here.’

With huge movies Cowboys & Aliens and The Change-Up coming soon, Wilde should be able to make an even bigger difference in Haiti. She tells the interviewer that she researched her character for John Favreau’s blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens, which co-stars Daniel Craig. She plays Ella, a woman who joins Craig’s mysterious gunslinger to fight off terrifying aliens who invade a western town in the 1800s.

‘I was shocked to see there weren't many strong female characters in western cinema tradition,’ she admitted.

She’s also confirmed that she will stay on for a fifth series of the hit Fox show, alongside Hugh Laurie as the irascible Dr Gregory House.

[From The Mail]

So, in between movie roles and television work, she manages to find time to do charity work, so good for her. How about name-checking the charity instead of making cholera all about you and your career? You know what would have been even more selfless? If she had turned off her phone while she was working in Haiti. But then she wouldn't have had a perfect story to tell which illustrated her selflessness.

Photos courtesy of The Mail & Pacific Coast News.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

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