British actress Emily Blunt is forever grateful to a teacher at her former school - for inspiring her to take to the stage and cure her childhood stutter.

The Devil Wears Prada star suffered a bad stammer as a schoolgirl, but finally overcame her speech impediment when a teacher urged her to take up acting.

She says, "I did have a bad stuttering problem as a child. I'd try to push the words out, but it was so frustrating. My parents took me to speech coaches and relaxation coaches.

"It didn't work. Then one of my teachers at school had a brilliant idea and said, 'Why don't you speak in an accent in our school play?' I distanced myself from me through this character, and it was so freeing that my stuttering stopped when I was onstage. It really was a miracle."

Joe Jonas is at the center of a photo scandal in which he appears to mock Asians - just one month after fellow teen singing sensation Miley Cyrus was forced to apologize for a similar prank.

The 19-year-old Jonas Brothers star, older brother to Cyrus' ex-boyfriend Nick, appears to pull his eyes with his pinky fingers as he strikes a similar pose to the Hannah Montana star in a picture which has leaked online, reports HuffingtonPost.com.

Cyrus, 16, is facing legal action from a group of Asian Pacific Islanders over her own photo controversy after images of the singer and a group of friends pulling the same pose appeared online last month.

She apologized for the photos, but it was rejected by civil rights activists and they are now seeking damages for the offense.

A spokesperson for Jonas was not available for comment as WENN went to press.

For everyone who doubted Kendra Wilkinson's status as a natural blonde,















she's got photographic evidence.

The reality tv star dug up childhood photos and posted them on her blog to combat claims that she's a fake blonde. "Here's proof that I AM originally a NATURAL blonde!!!" she writes.

The bride-to-be, who is looking for a minister to preside over her nuptials to football star Hank Baskett, also wanted fans to see that she hasn't changed much and "to show everyone a little bit about the young KDubs hahaha!"

Even as an autopsy gets underway in New York the day after her death, many questions remain about just what happened on a Quebec mountain that left Natasha Richardson with ultimately fatal,severe brain trauma.

Roughly 1.4 million people in the U.S. suffer from traumatic brain injuries each year, according to the California Brain Injury Association – and 50,000 die from it. A majority of these injuries result from falls just like Richardson's.

"There is no telling what the forces are that were applied to her head," says Dr. Jeff Victoroff, Associate Professor of Neurology at USC's School of Medicine. "People underestimate the enormous amount of physical force that can be generated by nothing more than a standing level fall."

Medical experts say Richardson likely suffered a subdural hemotoma – the breaking of blood vessels inside the brain. Usually, the body responds to such an injury instantly by clotting the blood around the injured area to keep it from bleeding out. So why, presumably, didn't that happen here?

"The speculation that comes first to mind is that there is something wrong with her blood so that it doesn't clot properly," says Dr. Victoroff, adding that pain killers such as Motrin or Nuprin could interfere with natural blood clotting.

Others wonder if Richardson might have suffered an aneurysm, and whether the real damage occurred even before she even fell down the slope.

"You always have to wonder if the fall was the result of something that happened in the brain rather than the cause, like a stroke or a massive brain hemorrhage," says Dr. Neil Martin, Chairman of Neurosurgery at UCLA Medical School. "But arguing against a massive problem like that is that immediately after the fall she seemed to be OK."

Still, says Martin, "It could have been a minor warning leak from an aneurysm and the deterioration an hour later might have been a second massive hemorrhage. It is scary and more than a bit puzzling."

Could She Have Been Saved?

For Richardson's loved ones, the most haunting question is whether she could have been saved had she been treated immediately. According to a spokesperson for the Mont Tremblant ski resort, Richardson was lucid after she fell on a beginner's slope, and declined medical attention until she started complaining of headaches about an hour later.

According to experts, there is no way of knowing, at least until a full CT scan shows the depth and breadth of her injuries. And that information may be revealed when the results of the autopsy are released later on Thursday.

"If the hemorrhage can occur over the surface of the brain, where it can be corrected by surgery if detected early, perhaps yes there could have been another outcome," says Dr. Martin. "At the same time, the injury could have very well occurred deep inside the brain, in which case surgery – or any other treatment for that matter – probably wouldn't have helped."

jennifer Aniston's musiscian beau John Mayer has approached top US jeweller Lorraine Schwartz to custom-make a two milion pounds engagement ring for his girlfriend.

Schwartz has earlier created rings for celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Heidi Klum and Beyonce Knowles.

"Money is no object for John. He is creating a vintage-style classic ring for Jen. He's looking at 18-carat flawless diamond so he won't get much change from 2 million pounds," dailymail.co.uk quoted a source close to the couple saying.

"When he does get down on one knee, he wants to be completely sure he gets the right answer. He knows a ring like that would be hard to refuse," the source added.

Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus is suffering from a heart condition. The pop star/actress reveals in her autobiography "Miles to Go" that she has tachycardia, meaning her heart rate exceeds the range of a normal resting heart rate.

And although the condition isn't life-threatening, Cyrus admits she struggles to deal with the issue.

She writes, "The type of tachycardia I have isn't dangerous. It won't hurt me, but it does bother me. There is never a time onstage when I'm not thinking about my heart."

There's a lot of debate out there about who's hot and who's not. Usually we just wind up talking about those sexy couples that we can't get enough of in Bollywood or Hollywood. But even we have to admit that every once in a while there's a couple that you just can't help but stare at when you see them toge

ther. The fact that two exceptionally attractive people come togeth

er seems kind of unfair, but at least we still get to judge the level of their hotness. So we were sitting around thinking, "Are Bipasha Basu and John Abraham hotter than Brad Pitt and AngelinaJolie?"

They are both undeniably successful couples who have done

well for themselves and joined forces to create an unstoppable force. There are even some similarities, starting with the fact that they're all actors. Also, both couples are unmarried, which is still somewhat culturally frowned upon for Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, more so than it is for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. And there is no denying that both of the people involved that make up these couples are sex symbols in their own right. As for Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, they both seem to be

very health focused and love to exercise. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie seem to be more baby-focused and are notorious for their willingness to continue to adopt, which set off a mini-trend as seen with Madonna.

It's a toss-up and kind of difficult to say that one is better than the o

ther,

or is it? The couples are sexy, young, and taking the Bollywood and Hollywood film industries by storm. So we want to turn over this oh-so difficult question to our readers. Do you think Bipasha Basu and John Abraham are hotter or do you think that no one can match the level of hotness that is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Leave us your comments on these sexy couples.

R&B artist on the rise Bobby Moon is trying to break through into the R&B scene, and he's going to have major R&B star Akon backing him up. The Houston, Texas born Desi released his single "She Got Me High" and is ready to blow up big time. The 27 year old singer/songwriter is definitely looking to proceed forward with new music. He wants to go R&B, but he's definitely staying true to his Desi roots by singing in Hindi on the song.

This will be his first single off his forthcoming album under RCE/Kon Live Distribution. Kon Live Distribution is Akon's R&B label, so the man behind 'Lonely' and 'Don't Matter' and countless other hits will be personally working with Bobby Moon throughout the process. That's a big time figure to be helping you try to break into the R&B /pop world. This will be Bobby Moon's second album and his first one since 2004's 'The Rising.' More often than not, Akon has the Midas touch when it comes to breaking new artists. Two of his biggest finds have been T-Pain and Lady Gaga, so let's hope he has similar success with Bobby Moon so we can see R&B become just a little more Desi.

It's definitely cool to see a Desi like Bobby Moon get the star treatment so he can be a force in R&B. The track record is there so keep your fingers crossed. In the meantime we have a clip of the new song "She Got Me High." Listen to it and let us know what you think? Do you think Akon hooked Bobby Moon up or do you think Bobby Moon needs to go back into the lab to make a better single? Let us know whether you love it or hate it.

"She Got Me High"

Good luck getting Jennifer Aniston to shut her piehole about ex-husband Brad Pitt

. Sheesh.

In a interview for the March 16 issue of Britain’s Hello Magazine

, the Marley & Me star says she still loves Brad, despite the fact that he left her after an alleged affair with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie, who he went on to start a family with.

Jen hopes the pair can be “good friends again” sometime in the future.

“I don’t regret any of that time with Brad and I’m not here to beat myself up about it. They were seven very intense years together and it was beautiful and complicated,” says the actress. “I will love Brad for the rest of my life - you can’t take away good memories. Were there times when I had a little ‘pity party’ for myself? Of course. Who hasn’t done that?”

She adds, “I really do hope that we’ll be good friends again at some point.”

Pamela Anderson strutted her stuff on the catwalk as part of Vivienne Westwood’s Fall/Winter 2009-2010 ready-to-wear show in Paris on Friday. The actress, who is the face of the British designer’s current campaign, showed off three different looks from the upcoming collection before taking a bow with Vivienne herself.

Wait…Amy Winehouse can’t drive?

At 25, Amy Winehouse is looking forward to learning how to drive.

Such her return to the U.K., following an extended vacay on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Amy is looking for different outlets to keep her away from the lure of alcohol and drugs, The Sun reports.

“Learning to drive is top of her list. She wants a cute vintage car to drive around her posh new neighborhood,” an insider says. “It’s great news for her friends and family - she will have to avoid drink and drugs in order to get behind the wheel.”

In an entry on her official Myspace Blog late Friday, the British-born rapper, whose real name is Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, denied a Latina.com scoop which claimed she’d given her tot the odd moniker.

“My baby is not called Ickitt, Pickit or Lickit thank you very much to all the Hollywood press. Hes a baby, he don’t need press!” the new mom wrote in an all-caps.

(That means she’s yelling at us, in case you didn’t know.)

“I didnt release the baby name because I didnt think it was news!!!!” the “Paper Planes” star continued. “But I will be back with something news worthy soon, till then go pick on Apple, Satchel and Moon Unit.”

Miley Cyrus is taking up kickboxing so that she can protect herself in case she ever runs into trouble with a purse snatcher, car-jacker, or an agressive fan with a bad case of B.O. when she’s away from the watchful eye of dad Billy Ray or one of her hired handlers.

We’ve heard that many of you are fans of the insanely-popular Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta, so we already know you’re just dying to know what Southen diva will be replacing demure Season 1 castoff Deshawn Snow.

Well a little birdie tells us that singer-songwriter Kandi Burruss, formerly of the ’90s girl group Xscape, will be the newest Atlanta housewife, joining Kim, Lisa, NeNe, and Sheree on the unscripted drama.

We’ve heard that many of you are fans of the insanely-popular Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta, so we already know you’re just dying to know what Southen diva will be replacing demure Season 1 castoff Deshawn Snow.

Well a little birdie tells us that singer-songwriter Kandi Burruss, formerly ’90s girl group Xscape, will be the newest Atlanta housewife, joining Kim, Lisa, NeNe, and Sheree on the unscripted drama.

Hey, Derbyites: Do you wonder how popular your favorite blog is? Check out the latest LATimes.com traffic report. Last month Gold Derby came in fourth place among the more than 50 blogs here at the Times, clocking 898,618 page views. Thanks for clicking! Oh, yeah, and please keep clicking! And clicking. READERS' REPRESENTATIVE

• Last year Showtime was the first TV network to put sample episodes online for Emmy voters to see. This year it's upping digital innovation by making episodes of "Dexter," "Weeds" and "United States of Tara" accessible via iPhone and iPodTouch. VARIETY

• Looks like "Breaking Bad" will even be badder than ever when it returns to AMC Sunday night after pulling off a dramatic upset victory for Bryan Cranston as best drama actor at last year's Emmy Awards. "How rough can life get for Walt White, a quiet chemistry teacher with a pregnant wife and a handicapped son, who becomes a crystal meth dealer after discovering he is dying of lung cancer?" asks Reuters. "Much, much worse when 'Breaking Bad' begins its second season." TV show "Extra" covered the official premiere. REUTERS / EXTRA

• "'Slumdog Millionaire' is enjoying one of the best Oscar bounces on record," reports Variety. "'Slumdog Millionaire' has crossed the $200 million mark at the worldwide box office, joining an elite group of indie titles to do that kind of business." VARIETY

• The Oscars telecast generated only $72 million in ad sales for ABC — that's a big drop from the $81 million sold last year, according to TNS Media Intelligence. "The web sold 26 minutes of ad time during the kudocast. It filled six minutes and 20 seconds with network promos, the most since 2006," reports Variety. "The tough economy forced ABC to charge $1.4 million per 30-second spot in an effort to sell the inventory. That's comparably less than the $1.7 million it brought in last year per spot." VARIETY

• The poster and trailer to "Public Enemies" are out. Director Michael Mann's flick is due out this summer starring Christian Bale as a saintly FBI agent who hunts down John Dillinger (Johnny Depp). JOBLO

Rockers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been forced to push forward the release of their new album - after the highly-anticipated CD was leaked online.

The Maps musicians were preparing to launch their third studio record It's Blitz in April.

But the group will now make the songs available for download earlier after the new material made its way on to the internet.

Tracks will now become available via download in the U.S. as early as March 10 - a month ahead of the original schedule.

The physical record will land in stores on March 31, instead of the original April 14 launch date.

The band write on their official blog, "The cat's out of the bag after IT'S BLITZ! escaped from our clutches into the big bad world last week. Why should some have and some have-not?

"YYYs have been brimming with nervous excitement in anticipation of releasing this record to the world! Leaks are NO FUN but it's out of our hands."

Two albums! Yes, Eminem is coming out two albums this year! Not only is he going to come out with his long awaited album, 'Relapse,' he's going to come out with 'Relapse 2' this year too. The news comes just as Eminem announces that he'll have a new single and video for the new album on April 7. Keep a look out for that as well as for the video to 'Crack A Bottle.' 'Relapse' finally has an album release date, so circle your calendars for this one: May 19. Save your money, listen to the singles, and come May 19, the album will be here, so stay patient.

"A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year," said Eminem. "I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio in September for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll; we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre. Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all of the best stuff."

This will be Eminem's first non-greatest hits album since 2004's 'Encore' which sold 5 million copies in the US and 11 million worldwide. The rap superstar has sold over

75 million albums worldwide, more than any other rapper in history. So far, the buzz is huge with his first single 'Crack A Bottle' with 50 Cent and Dr. Dre already going to #1 on the Billboard Charts. Ever since Eminem came back out of hiding late last year with his announcement of the album title and his freestyle called 'I'm Having A Relapse,' the countdown towards the album release has started for many fans.

This definitely proves that while Eminem has been out of the pu

bli

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eye for a while, he hasn't stopped working to put out major hits for us this year. Shady Records is definitely going to be active this year, with now two albums from Eminem (I can't stop saying it, two albums!) a possible D12 album, and of course, 50 Cent's long awaited album 'Before I Self-Destruct.' Before you know it, it's going to start sounding a lot like 2003-2004 all over again.

So what do you guys think of two Eminem albums? Do you think that's more Eminem music than you can handle? Are you hyped up about all the new Eminem music that's coming soon? Let us know what you think and drop us a comment.