Watson sitting pretty atop best dressed poll

The actress has proved her style credentials since rising to fame by becoming a regular in the front row of fashion shows and acting as muse and model for fashion house Burberry.

And the dramatic pixie crop Watson debuted last year (10) has seemingly boosted her appeal - she has knocked pop singer Cheryl Cole off the top of Glamour's best dressed list.

The Girls Aloud star was pushed into second place, while Twilight actress Kristen Stewart came in third, followed by Cole's fellow The X Factor judge Dannii Minogue and model/TV presenter Alexa Chung.

The top 10 is rounded out by Rihanna, Kate Moss, Blake Lively, Olivia Palermo and Lea Michele.

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Judge clears 'Housewives' firing lawsuit for trial (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? A judge says Nicolette Sheridan's wrongful termination lawsuit over her firing from "Desperate Housewives" should go to trial.

With the actress looking on, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White said Tuesday there were issues a jury should decide about whether Sheridan's character was unfairly eliminated from the hit series.

Sheridan sued ABC and "Housewives" creator and executive producer Marc Cherry in April 2010, claiming he struck her during a fight in September 2008 and she was subjected to sexual and other harassment.

White threw out claims of sex harassment during the hearing, but says Sheridan's claims of battery, wrongful termination and unlawful retaliation can be presented to jurors.

An attorney for ABC and Cherry argued the decision to fire Sheridan was made months before her argument with the producer.

Sheridan said after the hearing, "I'm very happy that I'm being treated fairly."

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Ashley Tisdale, Kaley Cuoco & More Bare All In Allure?s Nude Issue

FIRST PUBLISHED: April 12, 2011 5:27 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES, Calif. --

Ashley Tisdale has officially dropped the teen star image ? along with all her clothes!

The 25-year-old actress is among the stars who are baring all for Allure magazine?s ?Nudes? special issue.

?I?m 25, almost 26, but people think of me as much younger because I look young,? the former ?High School Musical? star and current ?Hellcats? star told the mag. ?Being in this shoot was me saying, ?I?m not just the young girl everybody thinks I am. I?m actually a woman.??

?The Big Bang Theory?s? Kaley Cuoco also gets naked for the mag, something she says she was surprisingly comfortable doing.

?I was way more excited than I ever thought I would be. Which made me realize, I?m more comfortable in my own skin than I thought,? the blonde beauty, who credits yoga for her fit body, told the mag.

R&B singer Keri Hilson, 28, said she went nude for the mag in order to show off her authentic side.

?We do a lot of things to seek validation: I have to get more expensive handbags or fake lashes or fake boobs. This shoot was about dropping all that,? she explained.

?Blue Bloods? actress Bridget Moynihan, 40 ? who also appeared in the racy special issue ? said appearing in the buff is not something she does often, but rather, is something she?s at ease doing (when called upon).

?I never roam around in bikinis, and I am only naked in the privacy of my own home. In this electronic age, it?s not safe to be naked anywhere else, even in locker rooms,? she told Allure. ?I?ve been in the business a long time, so it didn?t really faze me. I was completely comfortable.?

For more of Allure magazine?s Nudes special issue, CLICK HERE!

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The rise of ?infotainment' and its nemesis, ?this isn't news'

Sat Jan 08 07:00AM

By Richard Evans

"This isn't news". Those three words haunt me. I have seen them at least twenty times a day for the past three-and-a-half years. I've even started seeing them in my nightmares, splattered on my walls in Internet blood.

Tuesday was a typical example; we ran a story about David and Victoria Beckham's son, Romeo, being named as one of Britain's best dressed men by GQ magazine. We ran this in our ?Oddly Enough' section based on the fact it's strange for an eight-year-old boy to be considered a fashion icon, even stranger when you consider that he probably doesn't dress himself, and most obviously of all - he's not a man either.����

On Twitter the words were there again. They'd followed me from the comment section of articles onto social media. My tweet was commented on or re-tweeted ten times.� Of those ten, two commentators were unhappy at my decision to post the link. I can be callous like that sometimes if truth be told.

?WHO GIVES A FLYING F***????' and ?U SUCK' were the highlights of one response. While another tried to goad me into early retirement: ?And is this what u call news? Thinking about retirement? Go 4it'.

While I don't normally give much credence to people who write all in capitals or use phrases such as ?go 4it' when they have enough space to write ?go for it' I felt the need to defend myself in this instance. Perhaps it's because those words have been constantly nailed into my brain and I've finally snapped or perhaps it's because I want some of our readers to understand why we run certain stories.

First of all, why should we care what some magazine thinks? We shouldn't necessarily, but the fact is that some publications have carved themselves into authoritative figures in their industries. Forbes magazine is held in high esteem in the financial world, likewise with Which? in the consumer market and so too with GQ on matters of men's fashion. Let me put it this way, we won't be running any stories on what Heat magazine thinks about Sienna Miller's tan lines any time soon but if National Geographic runs a story about a new jungle being discovered, we're interested.

To the criticism of ?this isn't news'. There are two types of news, there?s hard news and there's light news. If readers were pumped full of hard news every day we'd be a nation of very solemn individuals, I can promise you that. That's why it's important to run videos of a deer being rescued or of a man pretending to be a superhero occasionally. Think of it as a morale boost. Of course it's important to run hard news stories too, and they take priority without fail, but without the light stories to balance it out we'd all go crazy.

The rise of ?infotainment' shouldn't be a surprise to anyone by now, it's been steadily progressing in the mainstream media for the last decade or more. Audiences often complain at the dumbing down of news, whether it be online, print or broadcast, but the fact is news outlets just got better at understanding what stories people are more likely to engage with and that's any information organisation's ultimate goal. Simply put, more people watch, click, listen to lighter news than they do with hard news, so media companies started to deliver more of them. A simple case of supply and demand. Infotainment will never replace hard news but it will always be there like a useful sidekick.

The ?this isn't news' army is a tiny proportion of readers, and I'm talking across all publications not just Yahoo!. The behaviour of people who comment on news articles is generally negative, if people are happy with something they usually don't feel the need to say anything. That's just the way we are.

If you don't think a story is newsworthy then don't read it. There is an endless supply of what you may call real news stories. All you have to do is look.

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Comment: Kids and their phones have taken our language hostage

Fri Mar 18 09:32AM

By Richard Evans

Technology has a lot to answer for. It's an unproven scientific fact that every eight seconds a better version of something I already own is unveiled, making me look as old and doddery as Bruce Forsyth trying to read an autocue. If technology was any more humiliating it would bend us all over and have Charlie Sheen snort cocaine off our backsides. Which he would never do, of course. Allegedly.

What's more infuriating is that the only difference between the iSuperNewThing 5000 and your crappy old excuse for a gadget, which may as well be a fridge from the 70s now, is probably that they've put a camera on the letter ?M'. But seeing as we're all effectively just magpies-in-jeans we'll collect these shiny new objects anyway and take them back to our nests and feed worms to them. That's what I do at least. You don't do that? You're a weirdo.

The iPad2 will soon be thrust upon us. This is particularly exasperating to me, an original iPad owner, as I've only just stopped receiving condescending glares from judgemental commuters who assumed I had queued up at the Apple Store on release day. If that wasn't enough there's a third version of the iPad expected later this year and just about every company in existence seems determined to help us overdose on tablets. Do we really need all this new technology rammed down our throats, guilt-tripping us into ?not getting left behind'? All we use these devices for is to look at cats or videos of laughing babies anyway. (You think I'm joking, a video of a baby laughing was the most popular story on Yahoo! UK two weeks ago. See what I'm up against?)

Anyway, all this self-indulgent keyboard slapping has actually been an introduction to what this article is really about. This bit coming up. Now. Two weeks ago I was involved in a heated discussion with a freelance journalist friend of mine. She believes that these rapid advancements in technology are leading us into a downward spiral of talking like imbeciles. LOL, right? It turns out that these are just the sort of lexical spasms that get her - and many others - worked up. ?Our language is being bastardised!' is the usual cry.

It was the invention of mobile phones paired with idle minds and lazy thumbs which saw initialisation of phrases seep into the mainstream. ?OMG', ?ROFL' and ?WTF' are all phrases that were pole-vaulted into popularity by texters and permanently planted there by sites like Twitter where you're limited to using just 140 characters and actually encouraged to communicate like an outpatient.

Inevitably this has started to sneak into people's verbal lexicon too, particularly those dastardly teenagers. I was in a shop recently (true story) when a young girl said ?poss' to me. Assuming she had short-circuited like Johnny 5 I waited for her to finish. But no, she was done. Saying ?possibly' had proved too much of a handful. It is polysyllabic after all.

I understand why people hate the change in language; I'm right there on the picket lines with them. It can be infuriating hearing youngsters morph our language into something resembling Mork and Mindy's vocabulary but the main reason we don't like it is because generally we hate change. Chaucer was chastised in the 14th century for ?ruining' the English language and look at him now. Who knows, perhaps one day we will see an array of Nokia phones buried alongside him in Westminster Abbey accompanied by the scribblings ?Tracy woz ere'.

The English language is evolving, and while we may not like it, we're going to have to lump it. We're helpless, just like every other generation who huffed and puffed as their language changed b4 their eyes.

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Royal Wedding Guest List Revealed; Did The Beckhams Make The Cut?

FIRST PUBLISHED: April 22, 2011 11:48 AM EDT

LONDON, ENGLAND, UK --

When Prince William and Kate Middleton wed in Westminster Abbey next Friday, it will be an illustrious affair, according to the newly revealed guest list.

On Friday, Britain?s The Sun newspaper posted a list of royals, dignitaries and even a small quota of celebrities set to attend the couple?s big day.

It was the Queen?s portion of the guest list that is set to bring in royals from across the globe including Prince Albert of Monaco, the son of the late big screen legend Grace Kelly and her husband, Prince Rainier III. Other royals set to attend are coming from Norway, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Swaziland, Bahrain, Sweden, Spain and Denmark; even one of the world?s richest men, the Sultan of Brunei, will attend.

The Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, as well as a number of additional British political figures will also be in the pews for William and Kate?s big day.

The wedding will have a family feel too, as the brother and nieces of the late Lady Diana, Prince William?s mother, will attend. Di?s brother, Earl Spencer, will support his nephew alongside his daughters, Lady Kitty Spencer, Lady Amelia Spencer and Lady Eliza Spencer.

Beyond Prince William?s friend David Beckham, and the soccer star?s wife, Victoria, who were confirmed, according to The Sun, celebutante and socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, the daughter of Prince Charles? two friends, has also made the list.

The Sun also reported that Gregory Allen, a yoga teacher, made the Middleton family?s guest list, as did Tim Billington, a horse breeder.

Other previously mentioned names who turned up on the guest list included Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry?s on-and-off girlfriend, several of William and Kate?s exes and Holly Branson, the daughter of Virgin head honcho, Sir Richard Branson

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Are Chord Overstreet and Emma Roberts Dating? - Gather Celebs News Channel

by Aida Ekberg

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April 6, 2011

Emma Roberts might be dating Glee star Chord Overstreet! But don't blink or you'll miss it--young celebrity relationships move extremely fast these days.

Last week the Scream 4 star and the golden-haired guy with a golden voice were spotted enjoying a night in NYC together at an event to celebrate the upcoming movie Thor. The two chatted together and Chord even put his arm around Emma at one point. However, while the two certainly make a cute couple, they both definitely seem to have a difficult time settling down--Emma Roberts recently split from her tennis player boyfriend Dathan Kuppin (female celebrities seem to love sports stars of all types these days), while Chord Overstreet was most recently spotted getting sweet with country crooner Taylor Swift, who might just write a song about Chord moving on so swiftly.

It's kind of a shame things between Chord Overstreet and Taylor Swift didn't work out--it would have been great if he could have gotten her to guest star on Glee. However, it's definitely hard to deny that he and Emma Roberts make a cute couple, so fans of celebrity romances better enjoy seeing the two together while it lasts--not all young celebrity relationships are built to last like that of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart seems to be (but if life imitates the art of Glee, Chord and Emma will break up and move on to other people only to get back together sometime in the future). Stay tuned!

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