Russell Crowe has joined the big wheels of Australian motorsport, with the superstar actor today confirmed as the voice of the Bathurst 1000 TV advertising campaign.

The race, to be run at the Bathurst track in New South Wales in October, is the premier event on the Australian car racing calendar, drawing more than 30,000 people.

Crowe is understood to have held talks with the executive chairman of V8 Supercars, Tony Cochrane, as filming wrapped in the UK on Crowe’s latest flick, the Ridley Scott-directed Robin Hood.

Similar gigs could follow, including December’s Telstra 500 V8 race at Sydney Olympic Park, which has drawn controversy for funding and environmental reasons.

The New Zealand-born Crowe is a big fan of sport. He is co-owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league team, which recently brought him grief by dropping out of finals contention, having lost three of its last four games.
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Heather Mills has debuted her new recycled fashion line at a charity event in Los Angeles.

The celebrity activist, who is already launching a vegan café and a frozen foods range, appeared at a star-studded event at the Highlands Nightclub in Hollywood for the Celebrity Catwalk Show to help raise funds and awareness for National Animal Rescue.

And the 41-year-old showed off her Be@1 collection, which restyles and recycles charity shop clothing, drawing huge cheers from an appreciative crowd.

Before she premiered her fashion line, Mills was presented an award for her work for animal rights work, in particular launching a campaign against J. Crew for using fur from China.

But before Mills was handed her prize, she appeared upset by Celebrity Catwalk host D-Ray joking: “This woman has given away limbs” to earn her award.

After he failed to get a response from Mills on stage, the US actor asked “Haven’t you?”

Mills retorted: “Have I what?” before D-Ray said Mills had a sexy accent.

Among the stars to attend the event, which was co-hosted by Girls Next Door star Bridget Marquardt, were Hugh Hefner, The Hills star Stephanie Pratt and American Pie actress Shannon Elizabeth, who helped Mills on the catwalk by modelling some of her clothing.

Every year in Hollywood, top celebrities lend their time and talent by hitting the catwalk for charity, raising funds and awareness for National Animal Rescue.

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The troubled son of Ryan O’Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett is reportedly turning his struggles with drug addiction into a reality TV show.

According to In Touch magazine, Redmond O’Neal, 24, has signed a deal, although the show has yet to be sold to a network.

“Redmond has signed the deal that was brokered for him by his dad,” a friend said. “Ryan will be on the show, too.”

Filming is due to start in four months, after O’Neal’s likely release from a California jail where he is undergoing intense treatment to kick his drug habit.

“Redmond wants to do this to honour his mother,” the pal said. “He really wants to get better to honour her memory.”

Charlie’s Angels star Farrah died in June after losing her long battle with cancer. It is reported O’Neal will only receive his huge inheritance if he is clean of drugs.

“Redmond will be followed by a trainer and a bodyguard who will try to help him get a job and have a real life,” the friend added.

Hangover star Bradley Cooper says he’s obsessed with making his own sound effects during fight training for the much-anticipated movie remake of 1980s action series The A-Team.

The screen hunk will take up the part of smooth-talking con-man Face, while Liam Neeson will play team-leader Hannibal, and UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson will play strongman BA Baracus.

It’s not yet known who will occupy the role of insane pilot Murdoch.

“We’re gonna do the A-Team, the TV version of the A-Team,” Cooper, 34, told US talk show host Conan O’Brien.

“We’ve been doing a lot of crazy weapons and fight training.

“I don’t know about you but when I was a kid all we did was pretend fighting with sound effects, and I can’t get it out of my head.

“I’m making all these noises and people are like ‘what are you doing?’ I can’t not make the noises. Even for the punches.”

Cooper demonstrated his boyish sound effects as O’Brien simulated punching him in the face.

The action flick – produced by the Scott brothers with original series creator Stephen J Cannell and Jules Daly and directed by Joe Carnahan – is due for release in June 2010.

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Mums-to-be Kendra Wilkinson and Kourtney Kardashian want to breastfeed their new babies when they arrive, despite both having breast implants.

Wilkinson, 24, is expecting a baby boy at Christmas with husband Hank Baskett, 26.

She told US weekly online: “I was so scared that I wasn’t going to be able to nurse that when I saw stuff come out of my nipples the other day, I was like, I can breastfeed?

“I asked my doctor, who said, ‘That’s fine, but it’s not milk yet!’”

Both the mums-to-be are due to give birth in December as Kourtney, 30, also recently revealed she is expecting a baby with boyfriend Scott Disick, 23.

Reality star Kardashian, 30, added: “They say usually you can [breastfeed with implants]. I want to.”
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American actor Jerry O’Connell has revealed that he can’t get his twin daughters Charlie and Dolly to stop giggling.

It seems his audiences are not the only ones to find the funny man hilarious.

The 35-year-old star, who is married to actress Rebecca Romijn, 36, said: “I think of myself as a funny guy, but nobody thinks I’m funnier than my daughters.”

The Baby On Board star, who is looking after the girls while his wife is away filming her TV show Eastwick, says his eight-month-old daughters even laugh in his face when he tries to tell them off.

He said: “Whenever I try to scold them, if I’m feeding them and they put their hands in the food bowl, or when they’re pulling each other’s hair, they think it’s the funniest thing in the world.”

Jerry added: “There’s no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.”

As much as O’Connell loves being a father to his twin girls, the actor revealed that he and his wife feel having two children is more than enough.

He said: “My wife said: ‘The factory is closed. That’s not a lie. The factory is closed! You can’t make anything else.’”

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American Idol judge Simon Cowell said that Paula Abdul was the “heart of the show”.

Abdul, 47, recently announced that she will not be returning to the hit US talent show for its ninth season, which will begin airing in January.

However, fellow judge Cowell, 49, said that Abdul will be missed: “She’s taken the decision in her life now. You have to respect her for making the decision.

“I didn’t want to get involved in what was going on because it really wasn’t any of my business but I spoke to her a lot through the whole process. I always thought she was the heart of the show.”

He added to Fox News: “I’m not the heart, I’m not even the brain actually. But she was the heart, so you’ve taken that away so it’s a different show. I’m sad, I am.”

Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner has added further speculation to the rumour he is dating Selena Gomez by saying he hopes he isn’t breaking fans’ hearts.

Lautner, 17, is rumoured to be dating the Wizards Of Waverly Place star but the pair have failed to confirm their romance.

In an interview with Top of the Pops magazine, Lautner was asked about dating Gomez, also 17, and about his legion of fans.

He said: “She’s a great girl. She’s a great friend. I hope I’m not breaking their [fans] hearts.”

Lautner will return to cinema screens later this year when he reprises his role as werewolf Jacob Black in Twilight sequel New Moon.

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Guy Ritchie dines alone as he meets pals Bono, The Edge and Robert Downey Jr and their wives for dinner.

The 40-year-old director, who is rumoured to have a new girlfriend called Mellany Gandara, met up with the Sherlock Holmes actor and U2 stars at the La Petite Maison restaurant in Mayfair, London.

The other three men reportedly brought along their three wives, but Guy cut a lonely figure as he turned up alone.

Bono was joined by his wife Ali Hewson while The Edge was with his wife Morleigh Steingberg and Robert Downey Jr turned up with wife Susan Levin.

Guy, who split from wife Madonna last year, has been spotted out with Mellany on a number of occasions recently sparking rumours they are an item.

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Sex And The City 2 stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Catrall are reportedly arguing before the film has even started shooting.

Kim, 52, is currently getting over her recent split from boyfriend-of-five-years Alan Wyse and Sarah, 44, is reportedly not being supportive.

Sarah recently became a mum again after a surrogate gave birth to her two daughters – Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge.

A source said: “Sarah is too busy to comfort Kim or worry about her problems at the moment, and she basically told her as much.

“Kim has been moping around, feeling sorry for herself and Sarah basically told her to snap out of it and buck up her ideas. Kim didn’t take this too well and there is a very frosty atmosphere between the girls right now.

“They only speak to each other when absolutely necessary. The film producers are hoping this row doesn’t escalate and threaten the entire movie.

“Both actresses are professional but they are two very different people.”

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Heath Ledger’s haunting portrayal of The Joker is drawing fire for promoting a warped view of schizophrenia.

Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for the role he was said to have deeply immersed himself in at the time of his sudden shocking death in January 2008.

But Peter Byrne, a consultant psychiatrist at Newham University Hospital in London, writes that Ledger’s last major feature role in The Dark Knight was a backward step for the mentally ill.

Byrne targeted a mix of violence and humour that came from a misunderstanding of schizophrenia. “Batman describes the Joker as a schizophrenic clown, and when the film’s second hero, Harvey Dent, becomes Two-Face and embraces evil, the familiar stereotype of schizophrenia is activated,” he said.

Byrne explained that the stereotypes were misleading. He said: “The incorrect stereotype in both cases – to a lesser and greater extent – is that schizophrenics have multiple-personality disorder and that the second personality is always evil. This is omnipresent in cinema misrepresentations – the psycho killer is immortal and sadistic, motivated by madness.”

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A video of Grey’s Anatomy actor Eric Dane, who plays “McSteamy” on the show, in compromising positions with his wife Rebecca Gayheart and another woman, has lit up the internet.

The woman who appears with the couple is said to be Kari Ann Peniche, who was crowned Miss Teen USA in 2002 but was stripped of the title after posing for Playboy.

A fan, with the handle Travonfree, tweeted: “How hilarious is the Eric Dane 3 way sex tape? I’m convinced everyone has a sex tape. There’s a lot of anatomy present and it isn’t grey.”

Twitter responders expressed excitement and amusement as the tape surfaced and was posted on Gawker.com.

Another tweeted: “Eric Dane has a sex tape? I think this is the first celebrity sex tape that I actually want to see… Haha …”

Brad Pitt has revealed that he gave up smoking pot when he became a dad.

The Inglourious Basterds star appeared as a guest on satirical chat show Real Time with Bill Maher when the host said Pitt’s role as a stoner in True Romance seemed “right at home”.

Pitt replied: “I certainly had my day. Now it kind of turns me into a doughnut.”

Mayer then talked about a party he attended some years ago with Pitt and how the Fight Club star “rolled the most perfect joints” he had ever seen. Pitt joked in response: “I’m an artist.”

Mayer then pushed Pitt further and asked him why he gave up smoking pot. Pitt said: “I’m a dad now. You want to be alert and my eyes used to glaze over when I did that.”

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Tom Cruise’s son Connor, 14, will join a bristling young cast for the remake of Red Dawn, an action-based movie first filmed in 1984.

Red Dawn tells the story of a group of teens who attempt a putsch in their town when it is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers.

Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas and Edwin Hodge are other newly signed on actors for the MGM/UA project. Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki have been cast, also.

Connor, also the son of actress Nicole Kidman, is taking after his father in signing on for an action movie part. He will play Daryl, the mayor’s son.

Lucas will play Erica, a head cheerleader, while her Australian compatriot Hemsworth has the role of a marine home on leave.

The cast heads off in a few weeks for military training in an undisclosed location. Shooting on the movie will begin in Detroit for a September 24, 2010 release.

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After weeks of speculation regarding the burial site, Michael Jackson has finally been laid to rest. The King of Pop was buried in an unmarked plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills over the weekend. According to a source, the Jackson family and Forest Lawn management are the only people who know the exact location of the grave. The source said “The fear is that thousands of Jackson fans will descend on the cemetery and damage or deface the grave.” If the site is discovered, they already have plans to move the body. It is also being said that the singer has been laid to rest near his grandmother, Martha Bridges, who passed away in 1990.