5:17 PM

Untouched by The Veronicas

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I go ooh ooh, you go ah ah
Lalalala-ahlalala
I can't
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie
I wanna wanna wanna get get get what I want
Don't stop
Gimme gimme gimme what you got got
'Cause I can't wait wait wait any more more more more more
Don't even talk about the consequence
'Cause right now you're the only thing that's making any sense to me
And I don't give a damn what they say, what they think think
'Cause you're the only one who's on my mind
I'll never ever let you leave me
I'll try to stop time forever, never wanna hear you say goodbye (bye)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been goin' crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched-oh
And I need you so much

See you, breathe you, I want to be you
Alalala alalala
You can take take t-take take take time time
To live live the way you gotta gotta live your life
Gimme gimme gimme all of you you
Don't be scared
I'll see you through the loneliness of wanting more a-more more
Don't even think about what's right or wrong, or wrong or right
'Cause in the end it's only you and me and no one else is gonna be around
To answer all the questions left behind
And you and I are meant to be so even if the world falls down today
You've still got me to hold you up up
And I will never let you down (down)

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been goin' crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched-oh, untouched
Untouched-oh, untouched
Alalalala alalalala
Untouched-oh
Alalalala alalalala

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been goin' crazy from the moment I met you

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been goin' crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched
Untouched
Untouched

4:50 PM

World's Most Beautiful People 2009

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TOP 15 OF WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE OF 2009

#1 CHRISTINA APPLEGATE


This year's Most Beautiful star admits that after being diagnosed with breast cancer last March, she had "a rollercoaster of emotions, but there was a calm about what I had to do." The Samantha Who? actress, 37, underwent a double mastectomy, followed by reconstructive surgery. "It's a decision that you made to save your life," she says, noting one positive effect: "I don't have to wear a bra! They don't hang down to my knees like they did before. And the gals look good in tank tops."


#2. HALLE BERRY



When asked what makes her famous face happy, Berry, 42, (who appeared on the Most Beautiful cover in 2003) replies, "My daughter's smile and her eight new teeth, the smell of fresh flowers, hiking as the sun comes up, feeling good about the woman I’ve become and finally getting a complete night of sleep."


#3. 90210 STARS



The stars of TV's sexiest zip code – (from left), Jessica Stroup, 22, AnnaLynne McCord, 21, Jessica Lowndes, 20, and Shenae Grimes, 19 – put their best, freshest faces forward for their PEOPLE shoot. "My mother taught me less is more," says Lowndes. "When I discovered bronzer in tenth grade, I kind of went to town – I looked like an Oompa Loompa!"


#4. CIARA



The R&B star, 23, also went sans makeup at her PEOPLE shoot. "Being beautiful is all in the attitude," she says. "It's about confidence."


#5. ZAC EFRON



The heartthrob told PEOPLE he stays in shape by "backpacking, hiking, surfing, swimming, playing tennis – things that get you active and are also fun." And the 21-year-old avoids junk food – well, usually. "I try not to eat anything that's packaged. Of course, I never succeed."

#6. CHRISTINA AGUILERA


"Being a mom has made me do things I never did before," says the singer, 28, who took the plunge into motherhood with 15-month-old Max. "I'm a total vampire – but Max makes me go out into the sun or to the pool in the middle of the day. He brings out a different side of me that I'm really starting to enjoy."

#7. FREIDA PINTO


An overnight sensation thanks to her turn in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, the former model, 24, says she's taking it all in stride. "The beauty of life is that it takes turns that are sometimes bigger than your wildest dreams," she told Blackbook


#8. CHANNING TATUM



He's had training in martial arts (which he shows off in his new film Fighting), but Tatum says he's a lover, not a fighter. "I'd probably run, more than likely," the 29-year-old told WPIX in New York about how he'd react to a throwdown. Then, referring to his starmaking role in the film Step Up, he joked, "Or I'd be like, 'Wanna dance? Let's have a dance-off!'"

#9. JULIANNE HOUGH


The Dancing with the Stars champ and country singer admits that she likes the revealing outfits she wears on the ABC reality show. "I'm the first to admit it: I like being sexy! I always wear the shorter shorts and my dad's like, 'Cover up!'" the 20-year-old told PEOPLE. "Modesty, that's my biggest downfall."

#10. ROBERT PATTINSON


The Twilight star, 22, says he doesn't quite understand his heartthrob status – or the fuss about his signature tousled do. "I don't get it. It's funny, you look the same for years and no one ever mentions it. Then suddenly it's a big deal."


#11. TAYLOR SWIFT



She's only 19, and this is already her second appearance on PEOPLE's Most Beautiful list! Last year, she posed without makeup, saying "it's important to be comfortable with who you are and go natural once in a while."


#12. MICHELLE OBAMA



The First Lady says growing up in a supportive household helped make her the confident woman she is today. "I had a father and a brother who thought I was beautiful, and they made me feel that way every single day," says Obama, 45. "I grew up with very strong male role models who thought I was smart and fast and funny, so I heard that a lot. I know that there are many young girls who don’t hear it."


#13. MELISSA RYCROFT



After being rejected on The Bachelor, Rycroft, 25, is having the last laugh. She moved on to a Dancing with the Stars gig – and a new boyfriend, an insurance agent named Ty Strickland! "He has been my biggest rock and supporter," she told Ellen DeGeneres.

#14. TRISTAN WILDS


On 90210, he plays good-guy Dixon – a character who gets dissed when telling a girlfriend he loves her. (Her reply: "Thank you." Ouch!) In real life, he's luckier in love, saying that's never happened to him. "Thank goodness, 'cause if it would have, I probably would have cried," the 19-year-old told The CW Source.

#15. LESLIE MANN


The 17 Again actress, 37, is drawn to comedies and funny guys. But there's a catch: "Like Steve Carell; he's super-sexy because he doesn't know how good-looking he is," says Mann. "Cocky nerd is kind of fun – but sexy nerd is not!"

By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:34:00 05/02/2009



GUESTS TURNED on the waterworks big time at the wedding of celebrity couple Ryan Agoncillo and Judy Ann Santos, held in San Juan, Batangas, on April 28, wedding coordinator Rita Neri reported.

“I myself cried,” confessed Neri who’s a veteran of countless weddings. “It’s because Judai and Ryan got their wish and we could all see that their love for each other is so genuine.”

Guest Ces Quesada agreed: “Everyone at the San Juan Nepomuceno Church cried and laughed. Everyone was nervous and excited.”

After the tears, it was time to party—with brunch at Balai Laiya, followed by an evening reception at Balai Anilao. Both resorts are in Batangas.

Although she hardly slept a wink, matron of honor Sharon Cuneta stayed at the brunch party to celebrate her own 13th wedding anniversary (with Sen. Francis Pangilinan) with the newlyweds.

She told the Inquirer that a fund-raising dinner for husband Pangilinan finished at 1 a.m. that same day and she motored straight to Batangas for the 6:30 a.m. rites. She arrived at 4:30 a.m., just enough time to shower and get dolled up, she said.

The ceremony was set on that day and time after consulting astrologer Zenaida Seva. Noel Ferrer, Agoncillo’s manager, kept the identities of the couple secret from Seva.

“He just gave me their birth dates and birth hours. But looking for a lucky date is time-consuming and complicated,” Seva explained.

To expedite the process, Ferrer gave Seva three dates to choose from. “Among the three dates, April 28 was the best and I told them to hold the ceremony after 6 a.m.”

After brunch, the couple rode a pump boat to Anilao—with friends KC Concepcion, Ogie Alcasid and Joyce Bernal, recalled filmmaker Dante Nico Garcia.

“There were four boats: For the couple; Ryan’s family and friends; Judai’s family; and the last one for the camera crew,” Garcia said.

Two-part special

The proceedings were videotaped for a two-part special to be aired on May 17 and 24 on ABS-CBN, said Garcia who’s directing the docus.

During the three-hour boat ride from Laiya to Anilao, the bride slept soundly, related Garcia.

Upon arrival in Anilao, the couple had a ball.

The newlyweds were greeted by Chang Mai lanterns floating in the sea and more white and green flowers, just like in the church.

Ecological theme

Neri said that the church and the Laiya and Anilao receptions were spruced up by florist Robert Blancaflor. “Theme was white and green,” Neri explained. “Very ecological because they love the outdoors.”

The three-layer wedding cake by Penk Ching was decorated with white and green gumamela blooms. “Each layer also featured fondant pictures of Judai and Ryan kissing in three different cities: Pisa, Prague and Paris,” said Neri.

Throughout the night, the band Session Road played reggae tunes, while the Apo Hiking Society sang out old hits.

“Judai’s all-time fave is the Apo’s ‘Wala Nang Hahanapin Pa,’” said Garcia who also acted as the dinner reception host.

In the wee small hours of the morning, Alcasid jammed with the band and played the piano, recalled Garcia.

“We all had fun,” recounted guest Gina Pareño who played Santos’ mom in the movies “Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo” and “Sakal, Sakali, Saklolo.”

Santos’ real-life mom Carol agreed: “I’m so happy for my daughter and son-in-law.”

Neri was also in charge of the Manila reception, held at Le Soufflé Rockwell Makati on Saturday.
“While Batangas was laid-back, Makati was glitzy,” she said.

Expected at the Makati party were Santos’ old ka-love team Piolo Pascual, as well as her so-called rival (on TV) Claudine Barretto and husband Raymart Santiago, among other celebs, said Ferrer.

6:05 PM

Susan Boyle at 22: Early Performance Revealed!

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By Charolotte Triggs

Originally posted Saturday May 02, 2009 02:45 PM EDT

If there was ever any question, she's always had talent. In a 25-year-old video that recently surfaced, a fresh-faced Susan Boyle – just 22 at the time – takes the stage at a local Scottish club looking trim and youthful.



In the clip from Scotland's Daily Record, the Britain's Got Talent star sings "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar and Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" in the Motherwell FC's Fir Park Social Club singing contest. Boyle, now 47, had been a late addition to the local singing team, Coventry Tam O'Shanter, after someone had dropped out.

"I can remember that she was a shy young girl, but also very attractive back then – she turned a few heads when she came into the club," school caretaker Gerry McGuinness, 61, told the Daily Record of her appearance, 10 years before she would take singing lessons. He was there for the performance and dug up an old tape after seeing Boyle on TV more recently.

"Even back then, I don't think anyone expected too much from her because she was so shy, but when she began singing people took notice," he said. “It's great Susan is finally getting some recognition. She is a great singer and it seems right that at some point she would get the credit she deserved."

4:50 PM

Joel Lamangan’s ‘Heavenly Touch’ - Movie Preview

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After the sensational gay-themed movie “Walang Kawala”, Joel Lamangan is at it again with another daring pink film entitled Heavenly Touch.



This new film by Lamangan explores the controversial happenings inside an all-male massage parlor which is run by a syndicate, led by Jeffrey Santos. Frontal nudity king Marco Morales will once again showcase his anatomy together with scandal king Paolo Serrano. Sexy actress Gwen Garci is also in the film as well as newcomer Joash (pronounced as Jo-Ash) Balejado. 19-year-old Joash who is a business management student from Rizal Technological University (TRU) is the winner of 2008 Mr. Lakan male pageant and “Heavenly Touch” will be his fire baptism under the hands of veteran gay director Joel Lamasan…errr…Lamangan. Marco, Paolo and Joash will play the role of masseurs with a predominantly male customers.

5:35 PM

Most Beautiful Man : Mr. May 2009

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Lars Slind

Lars Slind, born 1983, in Arisona, is an American model of Norwegian descent.
Lars studied Japanese in High school and college and has lived in Kyoto, Japan for several years. He later moved back to America after he was done with his internship and worked for "Sumitomo Metal" in America. The job was too many hours so he decided to switch career and pursued modeling and acting.

Slind is a very passionate model who has already made a number of advertising campaigns including "D&G", "Red Nightlife" and "FBO Parts 2008 Calendar". He has also appeared on "MTV Next" and "Clubcrushers".




Slind's other passion is football. He was a scholarship athlete in Football and received back to back league championships in Football and all league recognition at fullback.

As of 2009, Lind lives in West LA, in a Japanese community. A very hardworking young man, he's modeling, bartending, and doing promotions and trying to study Japanese and Tagalog.


7:09 AM

Meet the Hunks of X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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By Sara Hammel

Originally posted Friday May 01, 2009 06:30 AM EDT




It technically may not yet be summer, but the heat is on as X-Men Origins: Wolverine kicks off summer blockbuster season May 1 – thanks to Hugh Jackman's chest, Ryan Reynolds's biceps and smoldering turns from, among others, a TV football player and a Korean movie idol. Here's your guide to the sexy mutants:

NAME: Hugh Jackman
CHARACTER: Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM BEFORE: The first three X-Men films; PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive 2008

PEOPLE's reigning Sexiest Man beefs up for every X-Men role, but this time he took his training even further. The Aussie heartthrob started working out a year before shooting began and stuck to a high-protein diet. "I work out imagining I'm Wolverine," Jackman told Access Hollywood. "Wolverine to me is the guy that when everybody else quits, that's where he begins." The result: lots of bare-chested sceen time showcasing his rippling muscles and a naked scene that reveals (almost) all. His prep work was so successful, says Reynolds, that Jackman, 40, "looked a lot like a guy who was going to make a necklace out of my teeth."

NAME: Liev Schreiber
CHARACTER: Victor Creed, a.k.a. Sabretooth
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM BEFORE: Scream 1-3; CBS's CSI
NEXT UP: Currently filming Salt with Angelina Jolie

The bloodthirsty brother of Jackman's Wolverine, Schreiber's husky-voiced Sabretooth moves like a cat despite his hulking frame. How'd he bulk up for the role of a mutant with super-healing powers, razor-sharp claws and animal-like senses? "Fans [online] said, 'you need to get bigger,'" says Schreiber, 41, who has two sons with actress Naomi Watts. "I did the high protein diet; between [me and Jackman] I think we wiped out an entire gene pool of chickens."

NAME: Ryan Reynolds
CHARACTER: Wade Wilson, a.k.a. Deadpool
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM BEFORE: 2008's Definitely, Maybe; TV's Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
NEXT UP: The Proposal with Sandra Bullock

Not content to be your garden-variety superhero, Reynolds shows off his guns in sleeveless t-shirts while infusing the character with his usual brand of cheeky, poker-faced humor. Deadpool, he says, is "a cross between Commando and Phantom of the Opera by way of Caddyshack." (Huh?) Reynolds trained for countless hours with katana swords to get ready for the role, and no doubt to wife Scarlett Johansson's great relief, escaped some close calls to very personal areas. "You're gonna wanna wear pants for that," Reynolds, 32, deadpans. "I honestly just about lost my 'future legacy' a couple of times."

NAME: Will.i.am
CHARACTER: John Wraith
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM BEFORE: Grooving with his Black Eyed Peas bandmates

Hip-hop star Will.i.am makes no bones about it – going from musician to mutant was a challenge. On the plane to Australia to begin filming, he suddenly realized he was on his own. "I tour with my friends, [and] here I am going for the first time to do the total opposite of what I normally do," he says. But taking on powers of teleportation and joining Team X with the other mutants was great fun for Will.i.am, 34, who told MTV News of Wraith: "He's just a badass who'll whoop [you]."

NAME: Taylor Kitsch
CHARACTER: Remy LeBeau, a.k.a. Gambit
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM BEFORE: NBC's Friday Night Lights
UP NEXT: He's filming The Bang Bang Club with Ryan Philippe

The Canadian hunk, 28, plays a mutant with attitude in the film. But, he says, he had to fake it – for a while, anyway. "When I first got there [I was] nervous," Kitsch says. "And when I ... met [Jackman], it was really great." To get psyched up to play a New Orleans thief with a gift for killer card-throwing, Kitsch turned on his iPod and listened to the bluesy John Lee Hooker "all the time," he says.

NAME: Daniel Henney
CHARACTER: David North, a.k.a. Agent Zero
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM BEFORE: He's a major movie star in Korea; Wolverine is his U.S. breakthrough role

A former model, Michigan native Henney has been nurturing his acting career in Seoul, Korea, for the past few years, where his brooding good looks have given female fans heart palpitations and made him a household name. As lethal marksman Agent Zero, Henney, 29, is ice-cold – and plenty hot – in his relentless pursuit of Wolverine.

7:05 AM

Mariah Carey Cries at Touching Anniversary Tribute

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By Mark Gray

Originally posted Friday May 01, 2009 09:05 AM EDT


Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey Photo by: Splash News OnlineMariah Carey Cries at Touching Anniversary Tribute
Where has the time gone? With smiles on their faces, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon celebrated one year of wedded bliss Thursday in Las Vegas at the Palms Casino Resort.

"It's a very special occasion," Cannon told the crowd at Moon Nightclub, where he was deejaying, "toast to everyone."

After a very private wedding a year ago, the couple decided to do the opposite for their anniversary, celebrating with a nightclub full of people. The couple did, however, dine in a private room at Simon beforehand.

Once inside the club, the couple were greeted with a four-foot birthday cake. And the surprises kept coming – at least for Carey. Unbeknownst to her, Cannon produced a video of the couple's last year, including video of intimate moments.

After the video was shown, Carey was seen crying.

"This is the most amazing person in the world," Cannon said into the microphone about his wife. "I dedicate my life to her daily, and together this union is gonna last forever. She is my rock."

Carey replied: "I have the best man in the whole wide world."

The gushfest continued after a balloon drop and a clubwide toast, which Cannon dedicated to his wife.

1:33 AM

How Did Lady Gaga Become Lady Gaga?

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I am defying all preconceptions we have of pop artists. That's how 23-year-old Lady Gaga sees herself.

But how did the Grammy-nominated singer go from brunette Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta to preconception defying, flashy dressing, platinum blonde superstar Lady Gaga?

Germanotta was born in Yonkers, New York, where she attended a private Catholic girls school, wrote her first piano ballad at age 13, and then won early entrance into New York's prestigious Tisch school for the performing arts.

But Germanotta needed to strike out on her own to become Lady Gaga. She ditched school and threw herself into New York's Lower East Side music scene as a naive, convent-educated teenager.

"I went against all I was brought up to be; I moved out of home, wouldn't take any help from my parents [her internet entrepreneur dad and his business partner wife], and supported myself with waitressing jobs and stripping," she said. "I discovered a real personal freedom through it."

It wasn't long before Germanotta's talent for writing hook-laden melodies came to the attention of major record labels. Just 20, she wrote hits for the Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and New Kids On The Block.

But it was while working with producer Rob Fusari that she got her attention-grabbing stage name. After noting that her singing voice sounded like her hero, Queen's Freddie Mercury, Fusari named her Lady Gaga for the Queen hit "Radio Ga Ga."

While her provocative burlesque pop act Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue was a hit in Manhattan's downtown nightclubs, mainstream showbusiness was nonplussed. When she showed up for auditions with labels and musicals, the usual reaction was utter bewilderment.

"A lot of record labels thought I was too theatrical," she said. "Then, when I auditioned for stage musicals, the producers said I was too pop."

Finally, it was rapper Akon who recognised her singing ability and got her a major deal.

And the rest is Gaga history.

1:26 AM

The Forbes Country List: Taylor Swift's Rapid Rise

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While she's only 19 and hasn't even begun her first tour as a headliner, Taylor Swift has swiftly risen to the number four spot on Forbes magazine's just-published list of estimated top earners in country music for 2009.

Of course, after selling more than 4 million CDs last year--a feat that made her the best-selling solo artist of 2008--t's not really a surprise that Swift made the list, which the business journal puts together by calculating estimates on grosses, merchandise revenue, album sales, and income from endorsement and licensing deals.

With an estimated take-in of $18 million for '09, she ranks behind only Kenny Chesney ($65 million), Rascal Flatts ($60 million), and Toby Keith ($52 million), and ahead of the likes of Brooks & Dunn and Tim McGraw, who are tied for fifth place with $15 million.

What is surprising is the fact that the teenaged Swift has so quickly crashed through the cowboy hat that is Nashville's version of the proverbial glass ceiling. All the others in the above list were also in Forbes' Top Five in 2008, and while much of that is certainly due to country music's longstanding fanbase allegiances to its established acts, it's noteworthy that the only other females on the list are Carrie Underwood and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles. Both of them are tied for eighth with $14 million behind Brad Paisley ($15 million), with "Elder Statesman" Alan Jackson rounding out the Top Ten with an estimated '09 haul of $12 million.

It's also noteworthy that Swift has achieved all this despite being part of a genre whose CD sales fell some 24 percent last year, as country music had the dubious distinction of following only classical music in overall sales drops (the decline for the music industry as whole was 14 percent.)

Still, since the average ticket for a country concert cost far less than comparable acts in rock or pop, the genre is a bit less susceptible to sharp declines in its overall popularity. And those endorsement and merchandising deals, which young Ms. Swift is only first getting a bronco-busting like handle on, are another reason. As veteran industry executive Joe Galante of Sony BMG Nashville points out, country is still regarded as the "music of the people. Marketers are realizing that if you want to reach the mainstream audience--the people that show up for work every day and are raising families--then country needs to be part of the mix."

And, barring undue influence of friends like Miley Cyrus, as long as she can keep the diva demons away, Ms. Swift just might just keep reshaping the moneymaking side of country music's good ol' boy network.

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