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Hollywood hot mama Gwyneth Paltrow tells September’s issue of Harper’s Bazaar she was “horrified” by her post-baby pudge after giving birth to daughter Apple, but with her new son, Moses, her body is “much less frightening.”   “The first time, you are horrified,” the Oscar winner says. “It’s all lovely when you are pregnant. But when you are not pregnant - and you haven’t been for a couple of months and you are still carrying tons of extra weight and everything’s all hanging and sagging - you t

Holy Moses! Apparently not too bored with the U.S.A., actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and her sensitive rocker husband, Chris Martin, are buying in the Hamptons, according to the New York Post.   The five-bedroom, Traditional home includes ocean views, a pool and guest quarters. Unfortunately, there's no mention of a price. However, The Post drops a juicy hint.   Her broker, Gene Stilwell of The Corcoran Group, would not comment on the transaction, but he does have a listing that looks remarkably simi

SHE loves England so much that Gwyneth Paltrow has decided to stay in the country for her summer holiday.   The American actress and renowned Anglophile has asked concierge company Quintessential to book a stately home for her, hubby Chris Martin and their children Apple and Moses to get away from it all.   Still, Gwyn hasn't turned her back on Hollywood excess completely - a helicopter will fly the family in and out of the grounds of the country retreat.   Source - Daily Mirror

SHE loves England so much that Gwyneth Paltrow has decided to stay in the country for her summer holiday.   The American actress and renowned Anglophile has asked concierge company Quintessential to book a stately home for her, hubby Chris Martin and their children Apple and Moses to get away from it all.   Still, Gwyn hasn't turned her back on Hollywood excess completely - a helicopter will fly the family in and out of the grounds of the country retreat.   Source - Daily Mirror

Yes, the halftime show has grown to the point of having critics.   “From giant puppets to rousing tributes to Sept. 11, from Phil Collins to Paul McCartney, the halftime show remains as stodgy as an episode of ‘The Price is Right,’” says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor and past president of the International Popular Culture Association. “Even Janet Jackson’s performance, though it caused much hand wringing, was just another pop star trotted onto the field.”   Maybe, but hundreds

Churchill Downs guards the names of its Kentucky Derby ticket holders so closely that only two executives at the track have access to the entire list, the company has said in court papers.   It considers the roster a trade secret, and its security sentinels scan sites such as eBay to catch people who resell tickets bestowed on them by the track. Then it cuts off their future supply. So how do thousands of tickets get on the Internet sites of ticket brokers across the country?   Some rock bands

Guy Hands’s Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. is telling investors they could earn a rate of return of as much as 58 percent if they provide cash needed to keep lenders from seizing control of EMI Group Ltd, Business Week are reporting today. More discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum here onwards.   The projection includes any recovery of the original equity, which would probably be worthless without the new investment, according to a presentation Terra Firma sent its clients April 27. Th

A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Coldplay's second studio album is 10 years old today! (Sunday). First released on 26th August, 2002 through the label Parlophone in the UK, and a day later on 27th August in the US through Capitol Records, it topped the UK Album Charts upon its first week of release, and became the eighth biggest-selling album in the 21st century in the UK. In the US, it has since been certified four times platinum by the RIAA with sales of over 4,822,000 copies as of March 2012.   A

How many candles? The Coldplay crooner is 31 on Sunday   Birthday present: Chris and Gwynnie may be jumping on the adoption bandwagon so we cleared Madonna's diary for a tête-à-tête. If anyone can give them advice on how not to do it, it's the Queen of Pop.   Celebrate here [thanks Legal Princess & melanieau]    

Guy Berryman turns 30 today.   If you want to say happy birthday to our favourite bassist add your comments here   [thanks Legal Princess]

29 today. Celebrate here   [Thanks WCfan]   Some Will trivia:   Will Champion (born William Champion, 31 July 1978)   Will was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England where his father, Timothy Champion, is professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton. Having two teacher parents led him to be musically inclined. As a youth, his musical influences included Tom Waits and traditional Irish folk music. He grew up playing guitar, but also had experience on the piano, bass, and tin whistle

30 today! Celebrate here [Thanks StephBerryman]   Some Will trivia:   Will Champion (born William Champion, 31 July 1978)   Will was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England where his father, Timothy Champion, is professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton. Having two teacher parents led him to be musically inclined. As a youth, his musical influences included Tom Waits and traditional Irish folk music. He grew up playing guitar, but also had experience on the piano, bass, and tin w

Interesting article from the Hartford Courant covering the views of those who have recently been to a Coldplay show and thought it was too short:   The issue of fan entitlement has come up before, but people crabbing about Coldplay's performance last weekend in Hartford suggests it's time for a refresher.   Some Coldplay adherent are unhappy with just about everything the band did -- or didn't do -- at XL Center last Saturday night: The group didn't play long enough, no one apologized for changi

Coldplay has plenty of reasons to be pompous. The London-based rock band has won seven Grammy awards, and is currently one of the biggest acts in the world. Still, in its Saturday night performance at the Comcast Theatre in Hartford, the group displayed humility and appreciation, genuinely thanking its fans for its current success.   Early on, lead singer Chris Martin promised to give "eight-million percent" effort, because he appraised his last Hartford performance as "less than fantastic." Co

The Daily Star has reported further on Chris Martin wrapped up in a michelin style jacket as he rode around London on his bicycle. Here's their article:   Think it might take a little more than just X&Y to solve this problem. My snaps of Gwyneth and Chris Martin suggest that something isn’t quite right in the Coldplay household. Where’s the wedding ring on the singer’s left hand? And where on earth is teary Gwyneth’s smile? My source said: “They’ve either got the biggest January blues hangov

The world was at the feet of Bradford band Embrace yesterday as their new football anthem went on sale with record shop bosses predicting it would fly off the shelves.   The official England World Cup song, World at Your Feet, made it into this week's top 40 through downloads alone, coming in at number 38,outselling its rivals on day one by two to one. The song has been put out on the Independiente label, which also has hit bands Travis and Gomez on its books, and it is one of the tracks on the

The world was at the feet of Bradford band Embrace yesterday as their new football anthem went on sale with record shop bosses predicting it would fly off the shelves.   The official England World Cup song, World at Your Feet, made it into this week's top 40 through downloads alone, coming in at number 38,outselling its rivals on day one by two to one. The song has been put out on the Independiente label, which also has hit bands Travis and Gomez on its books, and it is one of the tracks on the

Helena Christensen may always be known for her sexy role in Chris Isaak's music video for "Wicked Game," but there may be a new musician in her life these days. According to London's Daily Mail, the 38-year-old supermodel has been cozying up to Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman.   Christensen recently split with actor Jack Huston - Anjelica's nephew. Even though she hasn't been back on the market for long, she may already be on the road to a new relationship. She accompanied Guy and his bandmate, Ch

Danish supermodel Helena Christensen, 39, has split from 29-year-old Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, but has wasted no time in finding herself yet another toy-boy lover, report the Daily Mail.   The statuesque Monsoon model [pictured], has been dating Interpol frontman Paul Banks, also 29, since splitting from Chris Martin's bandmate and I hear the new couple could hardly keep their hands off each other at a party in Monaco last week.   "Helena seemed really proud of her younger man," my mole at

Stars including Demi Moore, Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow have been urged to get a vaccination against Hepatitis A following Ashton Kutcher's 30th birthday party.   The New York City health department has expressed concern after it emerged that a member of staff at Manhattan's Socialista bar was infected with the disease. Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Catherine Keener, Javier Bardem and Lucy Liu are also reported to have attended the bash on February 7.   Other famous names in attendance included Salma

The "Mexican Cell Phone Wave," as invented by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin on Sunday night at Hersheypark Stadium, might have been a flop. But as to the British quartet's quest for big-venue rock domination, these guys may be on to something, reports Lancaster Online.   Martin and company made their debut in Chocolate Town an overwhelming success, performing 23 songs in 90 minutes — pausing only for short breaks between two encore sets.   Borrowing a few live-show tricks from their elders, U2,

It was like a modern-day fairy tale: The sweet-faced British boy who shot to fame with his college rock band and won the heart of icy-blonde Hollywood royalty. But superstardom comes with a price, and now the many nights that Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin have spent away from each other have left friends fearing they could be fighting for their marriage.   “They haven’t seemed close for over a year,” a source tells OK!. “It’s like she never talks about him anymore.” Adds an

Arctic Monkeys may have been flush with the British success of Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — which became the fastest-selling debut album in U.K. history after moving more than 360,000 copies in a single week back in January — but while the album notched the Arctics a very respectable U.S. opening at #24, the band couldn't match the success of two tween-targeting pop collections: the soundtrack to the Disney Channel original movie "High School Musical" and the ninth installmen

We've spent three decades laughing at soft rock and its fluffy-haired fans. So why is it suddenly OK to like it again?   You could argue that the soft rock revival has been with us since the turn of the century. The epic piano ballads of Coldplay and their opportunistic brethren may have their roots in Radiohead's more elegiac moments, but over the years their surfaces have been sanded down and glossed until they sound like something else entirely.   One online encyclopedia's definition claims "

Posted on the forums a few days ago, here is a strange article from Hollywood Today focussing on alleged quotes by Chris Martin with respect to dying early and his Jim Morrisson comparisons. A morbid article, just in time for Halloween 2009!   HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/25/09 — "I think I’ll die at 42", Chris Martin says about what he calls his number. Chris would sign his name ‘Jim Morrison‘ on his mails to me. Jim Morrison being the epitome of rock god, excess, mystic poetry as well a