Sharon’s Global Celebrity Update

So you reckon you know all about your celebrity? You may have to revise that thought.
Some of them barely know their own family history.
Seven of America’s leading stars of movies, television and sports share their journeys into their pasts in NBC’s new TV series Who Do You Think You Are? starting on Friday.
The show takes [...]

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Actress Brittany Murphy had  left her husband out of her will.
Murphy, who passed away, aged 32 on December 20 2009 – left her entire estate to her mother Sharon Murphy, and nothing to British screenwriter Simon Monjack, it has been claimed.
Her husband, Simon is happy with the way his wife’s assets have been divided, insisting [...]

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US actor Andrew Koenig, who starred in the 198Os television comedy Growing Pains, killed himself, his distraught father said on Thursday after police located his body in an isolated area of a park.
“Our son took his own life,” Walter Koenig, who portrayed Lieutenant Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek TV series, told reporters at [...]

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Four of Hollywood’s biggest rising stars,Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron and Twilight co-stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have joined the line-up at the Academy Awards.
Oscar organisers announced yesterday that Hannah Montana star Cyrus, High School Musical co-star Efron and Stewart and Lautner will be presenters at the awards show March 7. They bring some youth [...]

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Actor Andrew Koenig
Andrew Koenig, who co-starred as Boner on the 1980s sitcom  Growing Pains,  was last seen in Vancouver on February 14 after neighbors said he sold all his possessions in Los Angeles.
The 41 year old actor has not been seen since  in Vancouver, British Columbia. If anyone has any information leading to his whereabouts, [...]

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If you think  just Hollywood studios and talent agencies restructured by mergers. Now public relations companies are adopting it Hollywood.
Spin-meisters themselves, whose billings are under pressure and whose star clients’ lives are under ever-increasing scrutiny, are undergoing their own shake-out. Consequently, two different strategies are emerging.
The latest amalgamation being two of New York-basedInterpublic Group of [...]

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Dozens of the biggest names in film and music sang in sombre tones and urged the world to donate to earthquake-stricken Haiti on Friday at a benefit led by actor George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean.
The two-hour telethon, called “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,was shown around the [...]

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Jean Simmons,- one of Hollywood’s- mid-century film icons, has died of lung cancer at age 80.
The actress, who sang with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls; co-starred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas; and played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, died Friday at her home in Santa Monica.
A stunning beauty at only 14, [...]

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“Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief”
Adds New Musical Performances And Celebrity Participants To Superstar Lineup
Beyoncé to Perform in London
Madonna in New York City
Haitian Artist Emeline Michel in Los Angeles
Participants to include: President Bill Clinton, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt, Chris Rock, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart, Julia Roberts, Leonardo [...]

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The winners of the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced tonight at a star-studded ceremony held at
The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. It was hosted by Ricky Gervais.
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